Club Atlético Los Andes is an
Argentine
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sports club
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based in the
Lomas de Zamora
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district of
Greater Buenos Aires
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. The
football
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team currently plays in the
Primera B
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, the second division of the
Argentine football league system
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.
The club was founded by a group of young people in 1917, and its name was chosen to commemorate the first balloon flight across the
Andes
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mountain, which had happened in 1916.
Los Andes has had three runs in the
Argentine Primera División
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: the first was in 1961, the second time was between the 1968 and 1971
Metropolitano championship
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s. Los Andes best ever final position was an 8° position overall in
1968 Nacional.
The third run in Primera División was in
2000–01 and lasted only one season: Los Andes finished 19th out of 20 teams and was relegated to
Primera B Nacional
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with the worst points average in the division.
After some seasons in the lower divisions, in 2014 Los Andes returned to B Nacional after winning a championship of the
Primera B Metropolitana
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, but be relegated in the
2018–19 season.
Current squad
Honours
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Primera B Metropolitana
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(2): 1960, 2014
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Primera C
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(3): 1926, 1938, 1957
References
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