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2011–12 In Argentine Football
2011–12 season of Argentine football is the 121st season of competitive football in Argentina. Clubs national leagues Men's Primera División *Apertura champion: Boca Juniors (30th title) **Top scorer: Rubén Ramírez (12 goals) *Clausura champion: Arsenal (1st title) **Top scorer: Carlos Luna (12 goals) *International qualifiers: **2012 Copa Libertadores: Boca Juniors, Vélez Sársfield, Lanús, Godoy Cruz, Arsenal **2013 Copa Libertadores: Arsenal **2012 Copa Sudamericana: Independiente, Racing, Tigre, Argentinos Juniors, Colón *Relegated: Banfield, Olimpo Source: RSSSF Primera B Nacional *Champion: River Plate (1st title) **Top scorer: Gonzalo Castillejos (26 goals) *Promoted: River Plate, Quilmes *Relegated: Guillermo Brown, Chacarita Juniors, Desamparados, Atlanta Source: RSSSF Primera B Metropolitana *Champion: Sarmiento (3rd title) **Top scorer: Ángel Vildozo (21 goals each) *Promoted: Sarmiento, Nueva Chicago *Relegated: General Lamadrid, Spor ...
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Argentine Primera División
The Primera División (; ), known officially as Liga Profesional de Fútbol, or Torneo Betano for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Argentina and the highest level of the Argentine football league system. Organised by the Argentine Football Association (AFA), it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Primera B Nacional, Primera Nacional (Second Division), with the teams placed lowest at the end of the season being relegated. Argentina held its first championship in 1891 Argentine Primera División, 1891,''Historia del Fútbol Amateur en la Argentina'', by Jorge Iwanczuk. Published by Autores Editores (1992) - making it the first country outside the United Kingdom to establish a football league. The Football League had debuted in England in 1888, followed by the Scottish and Irish leagues in 1890. In the early years, only teams from Buenos Aires Province, Buenos Aires, Greater Buenos Aires, La Plata and Rosario, Argentina, Ros ...
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Club Atlético Lanús
Club Atlético Lanús () is an Argentina, Argentine sports club based in Lanús, a city of the Buenos Aires Province. Founded in 1915, the club's main sports are association football, football and basketball. In both sports, Lanús plays in Argentina's top divisions: Argentine Primera División, Primera División (football) and Liga Nacional de Básquet (basketball). Domestic football major titles won by the club include two Argentine Primera División, Primera División championships, the 2016 Copa Bicentenario, Copa Bicentenario and one Supercopa Argentina. At international level, Lanús has won one Copa CONMEBOL, and one Copa Sudamericana. The so-called "Southern Classic" ("Clásico del Sur"), considered a modern classic in Argentine football, is contested against Club Atlético Banfield, ''Banfield'', and thanks to the good results of both in recent years it is also considered one of the most attractive clásicos of Primera División. Apart from football, Lanús hosts many o ...
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Quilmes Atlético Club
Quilmes Atlético Club () is an Argentine sports club based in the Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Quilmes district of Greater Buenos Aires. Established in 1887 (although the date of foundation is still under dispute), Quilmes is the oldest club of Argentina still competing in championships organised by the Argentine Football Association. Quilmes' association football, football team currently plays in Primera Nacional, the second division of the Argentine football league system. In the top division of Argentine football, Quilmes has won three titles, including two Argentine Primera División, Primera División championships and one Copa de Honor Municipalidad de Buenos Aires, Copa de Honor MCBA. Quilmes also won five second division titles. The club also has a Quilmes Atlético Club (women's football), women's football team, competing at the third division. Apart from football, Quilmes' main sport is field hockey, which both teams, women's and men's, have won many titles at their respe ...
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Gonzalo Castillejos
Gonzalo Rubén Castillejos (born 5 March 1986 in Leones) is an Argentine footballer, who plays as a forward. Club career Rosario Central Castillejos, begun his playing career with Rosario Central of the Argentine Primera División. He made his debut on 31 August 2007 in a 1–1 home draw with Olimpo. He scored his first goal for the club on 8 September 2009 in a 2–1 home win against River Plate. Lanús In January 2010, the striker signed for Lanús, that paid around 2 million US dollars. He scored two goals on his debut to help Lanús to come back to win 3–2 against Huracán on their opening fixture of the 2010 Clausura. The next weekend he scored one goal versus Boca Juniors, but his team lost 1–3 that night. On 7 April Lanús was losing 0–1 against Chacarita Juniors, but Castillejos scored 2 goals in the last 4 minutes of the match.
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RSSSF
The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (''RSSSF'') is an international organisation dedicated to collecting statistics about association football. The foundation aims to build an exhaustive archive of football-related information from around the world. Website The RSSSF website contains football-related statistics in the form of lists without commentary and it is maintained by volunteer contributors. It is considered one of "the most complete" publicly available statistical football databases in the world, and has virtually every piece of historical information. This enterprise, according to its founders, was created in January 1994 by three regulars of the Big 8 (Usenet)#Hierarchies, Rec.Sport.Soccer (RSS) Usenet newsgroup: Lars Aarhus, Kent Hedlundh, and Karel Stokkermans. It was originally known as the "North European Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation", but the geographical reference was dropped as its membership from other regions grew. The RSSSF has members and con ...
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Club Olimpo
Club Olimpo, usually referred to as Olimpo de Bahía Blanca, is an Argentine sports club based in the city of Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires Province. The club was founded October 15th, 1910. Its primary activity is soccer. The club is recognized in Argentina's highest soccer league. In basketball the club participated in the Torneo Nacional de Ascenso until the 2016/2017 season, stopping due to economic problems. Olimpo is considered one of the most recognized and important institutions in southern Argentina due to the history, championships won, infrastructure, large number of sports, representation of the city of Bahía Blanca, and for its fan base. Throughout the history of the club, their basketball team has stood out. Olimpo won the Campeonato Argentino de Clubes twice, 1974 and 1978. Until 1984, Club Olimpo participated in the highest category for argentine basketball and participated in a sub-tournament of the Liga Nacional in 1986. Club Olimpo´s basketball is recognized f ...
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Club Atlético Banfield
Club Atlético Banfield is an Argentine sports club based in the Banfield, Buenos Aires, Banfield city of Greater Buenos Aires. It was founded on 21 January 1896, by the British–origin inhabitants of that city (mostly English people, English, some Scottish people, Scots and Irish people, Irish). The club is mostly known for its association football, football teams, that currently competes in Argentine Primera División, Primera División, the top division of the Argentine football league system. In 2009 Banfield obtained their first Primera División title after winning the 2009–10 Argentine Primera División season, 2009 Apertura. Banfield had previously achieved a list of Argentine football national cups, national cup title in 1920, when the club won the Copa de Honor Municipalidad de Buenos Aires after beating Boca Juniors 2–1. The club also won 10 titles in Second Division. The so-called "Southern Classic" ("Clásico del Sur"), considered a modern classic in Argentine ...
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Club Atlético Colón
Club Atlético Colón de Santa Fe (), commonly referred to as Colón de Santa Fe , is a sports club from Santa Fe, Argentina. The football team plays in the second Division of the Argentine football league system, the Primera Nacional. It was born as a football club, which today still remains its main activity. It also has other disciplines like basketball, volleyball, hockey, women's football, boxing, futsal and swimming. The stadium, named Estadio Brigadier General Estanislao López in honor of an Argentinian leader governor of Provincia de Santa Fe between 1818 and 1838, has a capacity for 40000 people. It is nicknamed «El Cementerio de los Elefantes» (Elephant Graveyard). The club joined the Argentine Football Association in 1948 and obtained its first championship in 1965, ascending to the First Division. The club's most important accomplishment is its First Division Argentine Primera División championship in 2021. It has also come runner up in the international C ...
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Asociación Atlética Argentinos Juniors
Asociación Atlética Argentinos Juniors is an Argentine sports club based in La Paternal, Buenos Aires. The club is mostly known for its football team, which currently plays in the Argentine Primera División, and was recognized as one of the most important football teams of South America by FIFA. It is one of the eight Argentine first division teams that have won the Copa Libertadores. The continental trophy was won in the club's first entry to the contest, in 1985. Nevertheless the most remarkable sign of Argentinos Juniors has been the talented players emerged from its youth divisions, with Diego Maradona as the greatest example of all. This earned the club the nickname ''semillero del mundo'' ("seedbed of the world"). As a result, it has been described as "one of Argentina's most distinctive football clubs". History Early years The club was founded in the Villa Crespo neighbourhood of Buenos Aires on 14 August 1904, by a group of anarchist boys that were part of club "M ...
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Club Atlético Tigre
Club Atlético Tigre is an Argentine professional football club located in Victoria, Buenos Aires. Tigre currently plays in the Primera División, the top level of the Argentine football league system, having secured promotion as the 2021 Primera Nacional champion. Its name comes from Tigre, the city in which it was founded. Since its foundation in 1902, the club's colors have been blue and red. Due to its history, Tigre is considered as the most important club in the northern area of Buenos Aires. Tigre plays its home venues at Estadio José Dellagiovanna (named after its first president), which has a capacity of 26,282 spectators. History On 3 August 1902, a group of twelve young men led by José Dellagiovanna, met at his house in Partido de las Conchas (former name of Tigre Partido) with the purpose of establishing a sports club. The name given to the recently formed institution was "Club Atlético Juventud del Tigre", with Dellagiovanna elected as its first president ...
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Racing Club De Avellaneda
Racing Club () is a professional Football club (association football), football club based in Avellaneda, Argentina. They compete in the Argentine Primera División, Primera División, the top tier of Argentine football league system, Argentine football. Founded in 1903, the club joined the Argentine Football Association two years later and played its home matches at Estadio Racing Club, Alsina y Colón, the current site of its stadium, El Cilindro. Historically, it is regarded as one of the ''Big Five (Argentine football), Big Five'' of Football in Argentina, Argentine football. Though mainly a football club, Racing also hosts other sports such as artistic gymnastics, basketball, beach soccer, boxing, chess, field hockey, futsal, handball, martial arts, roller skating, tennis, and volleyball. The club has won the Primera División 18 times, including an unmatched streak of seven consecutive titles—five of them unbeaten—between 1913 Argentine Primera División, 1913 and 1919 A ...
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Club Atlético Independiente
() is an Argentine professional sports club, which has its headquarters and stadium in Avellaneda, a city of the Buenos Aires Province. The club is best known for its Association football, football team, which plays in the Argentine Primera División, Primera División and is considered one of Big Five (Argentine football), Argentina's ''Big Five'' football clubs. Independiente was officially founded on 1 January 1904 as Independiente Foot-Ball Club, although the institution had been formed on 4 August 1904. Originally from Monserrat, Buenos Aires, Monserrat, a neighbourhood of Buenos Aires city, the club moved to Crucecita in 1907 and then to Avellaneda in 1928. The association football, football team achieved promotion to the Argentine Primera División for the first time in 1912 Argentine Primera División, 1911, and has participated there ever since, except for the 2013–14 Primera B Nacional, 2013–14 season, when they were relegated. Inaugurated in 2009, the Estadio Libe ...
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