Club Atlético Colón de Santa Fe (), commonly referred to as Colón de Santa Fe , is a
sports club
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from
Santa Fe, Argentina
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. The
football
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team plays in the First Division of the
Argentine football league system, the
Argentine Primera División
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.
It was born as
football
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club and it is the main activity carried out. Also it has other disciplines like basketball, volleyball, hockey, women's football, boxing, futsal and swim.
The stadium named
Estadio Brigadier General Estanislao López
Brigadier General Estanislao López Stadium, popularly known as ''The Elephants Cemetery'', is a football stadium in Santa Fe, Argentina. It was inaugurated in 1946 and is owned and operated by Club Atlético Colón, which is based there.
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, in honor of an Argentinian leader governor of
Provincia de Santa Fe
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between 1818 and 1838, has a capacity for 40000 people. The stadium is nicknamed «El Cementerio de los Elefantes» (Elephant Graveyard).
Joined in the
Argentine Football Association
The Argentine Football Association ( es, Asociación del Fútbol Argentino, ; AFA) is the governing body of football in Argentina based in Buenos Aires. It organises the main divisions of Argentine league system (from Primera División to Torn ...
in 1948 and obtains the first championship in 1965, ascending to First Division.
The institution's most important accomplishment is the championship of First Division
Argentine Primera División
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2021. Also it has the sub-championship in the international
Copa Sudamericana 2019, and the Second Division Trophy Copa de Honor de Primera B "Juan Domingo Perón" in 1950. Finally, as a personal milestone, it has a victory in 1964 against the
Pelé Santos FC
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.
History
The club was founded on 5 May 1905, as "Colón Foot-ball Club" by a group of friends that were enthusiastic about football. It was named after Cristóbal Colón (
Christopher Columbus
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* es, link=no, Cristóbal Colón
* pt, Cristóvão Colombo
* ca, Cristòfor (or )
* la, Christophorus Columbus. (; born between 25 August and 31 October 1451, died 20 May 1506) was a ...
), whose biography was being studied by one of the boys at the time.
In 1965 Colon won the Primera B title.
The first game played by Colón in Primera was v
Chacarita Juniors
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on 6 May 1966. After the first season in the top level Colón finished 16th, but the following year the
structure of Argentine football was changed so as there were two championships each season, the
Metropolitano
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and the
Nacional
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* Banco Nacional, a ...
, with entrance to the latter originally only available to the higher placed Metropolitano teams. Colon did not qualify for the Nacional until 1968, although the squad did then managed a 6th-place finish.
Colón finished 2nd in their group in the
1972 Nacional.
In 1975 the team made a good campaign in the Metropolitano, finishing in 6th place. This got better two years later, when Colón finished 5th in the Metropolitano, although the team then struggled in the Nacional. In 1978 Colón reached the knockout stages of the Nacional but was beaten in the quarter-finals by
Independiente.
Colon was relegated from the Metropolitana in 1981 having won only 6 games that season. It was to take 14 years for Colón to return to the top division (for the
1995–96 season). During the intervening period the team came close to promotion on a number of occasions, and lost Promotion Play-off games in
1988–89 to arch-rivals
Union
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3–0 on aggregate, and in
1992–93 Colón lost the championship play-off, being defeated by
Banfield and then failed to qualify through the secondary play-offs.
After a few mid-table finishes Colón was placed 2nd in the
1997 Clausura tournament, which is team's highest placed finish to date. As
River Plate won both titles that season, a play-off was required between the two runners-up.
In December 1997 Colón defeated Independiente 1–0 to qualify for the
Copa Libertadores 1998
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.
[ In the 2016–17 season, Colón drew an average home league attendance of 25,000.
The institution's greatest sporting achievement was achieved by becoming champion of the Professional League Cup 2021.
]
International competititons
Colon made their South American debut in the Copa CONMEBOL 1997
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against Universidad de Chile
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.
They made their debut in South America's most prestigious club tournament (Copa Libertadores
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) the following season. Their first game in the group stage was a 1–2 home defeat to River Plate, although they were still to qualify for the knockout stages. After beating Olimpia on penalties they were again drawn to play River Plate, but were defeated 5–2 on aggregate in the quarter-final.
In 2003, they qualified for their 3rd different continental competition (Copa Sudamericana
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), and they defeated Vélez Sársfield before losing to Boca Juniors
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.
Stadium
The club's current stadium is the Estadio Brigadier General Estanislao López
Brigadier General Estanislao López Stadium, popularly known as ''The Elephants Cemetery'', is a football stadium in Santa Fe, Argentina. It was inaugurated in 1946 and is owned and operated by Club Atlético Colón, which is based there.
For a lo ...
, which holds 40,000 spectators. The ground was inaugurated in 1946, and received a major renovation starting in 2002.
Players
Current squad
Out on loan
Managers
* Antonio Mohamed
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Mohamed played as a striker, making his senior debut with Huracán in 1988 and being sold to Italian club Fiorentina in 1991. He ne ...
(2008–10)
* Fernando Gamboa
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Playing career
Gamboa started his playing career in 1988 with Newell's Old Boys where h ...
(2010–11)
* Mario Sciaqua (2011–12)
* Roberto Sensini
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(2012–13)
* Rubén Forestello (2013)
* Diego Osella (2014)
* Reinaldo Merlo
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Playing career
Known as ''Mostaza'' (mustard) because of his off-blond hair, Merlo played his entire career for Club Atléti ...
(2014-15)
* Javier López (2015)
* Dario Franco (2015-16)
* Ricardo Johansen
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People Given name
* Ricardo de Araújo Pereira, Portug ...
(2016)
* Paolo Montero (2016)
* Eduardo DomÃnguez (2017-18)
* Esteban Fuertes (Interim) (2018)
* Julio Comesaña (2019)
* Marcelo Goux (Interim) (2019)
* Pablo Lavallen (2019)
* Diego Osella (2020)
* Eduardo DomÃnguez (2020-21)
* Julio César Falcioni (2022)
Honours
*Copa de la Liga Profesional
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(1): 2021
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* Primera B (1): 1965
Second Level Cups
*Torneo de Honor : 1950Argentina – Second level cups
at RSSSF
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Notes
References
External links
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