Club Atlético Acassuso is an Argentine

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headquartered in

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. The club is mostly known for its

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team, which currently plays in

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, the regionalised third division of the

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. Acassuso has its own stadium in the

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district, the club plays its home venues at Sportivo Italiano stadium.

History

The club was established as "Villa Acassuso Football Club" on 7 September 1922, by a group of football enthusiasts from Villa Acassuso in

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. At the end of 1923 the team began to participate in the third division of

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(a dissident league formed in 1919), winning the title and promoting to the upper division that same year. In 1923 the club also built its first field because of a donation by Don Ernesto de las Carreras. The field was located on Márquez Avenue and Haedo in San Isidro and was inaugurated on November 4. Two years later the club changed its name to "Club Atlético Acassuso". The name also honored Domingo de Acassuso, founder of San Isidro partido. Acassuso obtained a place in the official

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league because many of the major clubs had left to form a breakaway professional league,

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. Therefore, Acassuso played in the first division, although the squad finished in the last positions before the league was disbanded in

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. That participation was its only spell in the top division. Playing at the third division, Acassuso won another title in 1937, therefore promoting to

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. In 1946 the team was near to promote to the top level, Primera División, but lost to

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which finally achieved promotion to the first division. In 1946 the team was relegated and its field was expropriated by the Municipality. Soon after the club got a land on De las Carreras Avenue and Camino de la Legua and established there. Nevertheless, that new land would be also expropriated. In 1977 the Municipality of San Isidro gave the club a land on Santa Rita street to build a new stadium. It was opened in 1983 under the name "Estadio La Quema". In 2007 the club was promoted to

after winning both the Apertura 2006 and Clausura 2007 of

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. Acassuso had a great 2017-18 season, finishing 3rd in the table and qualifying to the playoffs, where they were eliminated in the quarter-finals. The following season was also a good season for the club, finishing 5th in the table and qualifying to the playoffs again, but being eliminated at the first hurdle again, this time by

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3-2 on aggregate.

Players

Current squad

Honours

* División Intermedia (1): 1928 *

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(1): 1923 *

(2): 1937, 2006–07 *

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(2): 1971, 2000–01

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Acassuso Acassuso is a locality in the San Isidro "partido" of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is about 16 kilometres north of the city of Buenos Aires, between Olivos and San Isidro. It borders on the River Plate where an approximately 10 hectare ...

1922 establishments in Argentina Football clubs in Buenos Aires Province San Isidro Partido {{Argentina-footyclub-stub