Club y Biblioteca Mariano Moreno is an

Argentine Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, s ...

sports club sited in the Moreno district of the homonymous partido in

Greater Buenos Aires Greater Buenos Aires ( es, Gran Buenos Aires, GBA), also known as the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area ( es, Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires, AMBA), refers to the urban agglomeration comprising the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and the adjac ...

. Although other sports are practised at the club, Mariano Moreno is mostly known for its rugby union team, which currently plays in Primera División A, the second division of the

Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires The Buenos Aires Rugby Union ( es, "Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires"), usually referred as URBA, is the Argentine governing body that organises and controls the rugby union in the Buenos Aires Province (including the main district, Buenos Aires a ...

league system. Apart from rugby, other sports practised at the club are field hockey, gymnastics, and tennis.

History

Mariano Moreno was founded on August 30, 1915. The club's name was chosen as a tribute to lawyer and journalist

Mariano Moreno Mariano Moreno (; September 23, 1778March 4, 1811) was an Argentine lawyer, journalist, and politician. He played a decisive role in the Primera Junta, the first national government of Argentina, created after the May Revolution. Moreno was b ...

, who played a decisive role in the Primera Junta, the first Government of Argentina. Mariano Moreno has a strong rivalry with Los Matreros, the other team from the Zona Oeste of the

. The club's best campaign was in 2010 when Mariano Moreno promoted to the Grupo I (the first division of the Torneo de la URBA), after defeating Club San Andrés de Benavídez. T The team lasted there only one season so in 2011 Mariano Moreno was relegated to second division after finishing 15 in Zona Reubicación. In 2012 the club won the Grupo II championship."Mariano Moreno es el monarca del Grupo II"
Rugbytime, 10 November 2012

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