Club Atlético Colón

For other football clubs, see Colón.

Club Atlético Colón de Santa Fe (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkluβ aˈtletiko koˈlon]), commonly referred to as Colón de Santa Fe [koˈlon de santa ˈfe], is a sports club from Santa Fe, Argentina. The football team plays in the First Division of the Argentine football league system, the Argentine Primera División.

Colón

Full name	Club Atlético Colón
Nickname(s)	Sabalero (Tarpon Fisher) Sabalé (Tarpon) Negro (Black) Raza (Race)
Founded	May 5, 1905; 117 years ago (1905-05-05) ^[1]
Ground	Estadio B.G. Estanislao López, (Cementerio de los Elefantes),^[2] Santa Fe
Capacity	40,000
Chairman	José Néstor Vignatti
Manager	Marcelo Saralegui
League	Primera División
2021	7th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

It was born as football 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, in honor of an Argentinian leader governor of Provincia de Santa Fe 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 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 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.

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), whose biography was being studied by one of the boys at the time.^[3]

In 1965 Colon won the Primera B title.^[4]

 

The 1965 team that won the Primera B title promoting to Primera División

The first game played by Colón in Primera was v Chacarita Juniors on 6 May 1966. After the first season in the top level Colón finished 16th,^[5] but the following year the structure of Argentine football was changed so as there were two championships each season, the Metropolitano and the Nacional, 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.^[6]

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.^{[citation needed]}

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 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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^[7] In December 1997 Colón defeated Independiente 1–0 to qualify for the Copa Libertadores 1998.^[7] 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 against Universidad de Chile. They subsequently reached the semi-finals where they lost to fellow Argentine side Lanús.^{[citation needed]}

They made their debut in South America's most prestigious club tournament (Copa Libertadores) 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.^{[citation needed]}

In 2003, they qualified for their 3rd different continental competition (Copa Sudamericana), and they defeated Vélez Sársfield before losing to Boca Juniors.^[8]

Stadium

The club's current stadium is the Estadio Brigadier General Estanislao López, which holds 40,000 spectators. The ground was inaugurated in 1946, and received a major renovation starting in 2002.^[2]

Players

Current squad

As of 8 September 2022^[9]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF   ARG Lucas Acevedo 4 DF   ARG Augusto Schott (loan from Talleres) 5 MF   ARG Tomás Moschión 6 DF   ARG Paolo Goltz 7 MF   ARG Mauro Formica 8 MF   ARG Brian Farioli 10 FW   ARG Luis Miguel Rodríguez 12 FW   ARG Ramón Ábila 13 DF   ARG Joaquín Novillo (loan from Belgrano) 14 MF   COL Baldomero Perlaza 15 MF   ARG Juan Sánchez Miño 17 GK   ARG Ignacio Chicco 18 MF   PAR Mario Otazú (loan from Guaireña) 19 FW   ARG Tomás Sandoval 21 DF   ARG Eric Meza

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 FW   ARG Juan Álvarez (loan from Banfield) 23 MF   ARG Christian Bernardi 27 MF   ARG Julián Chicco 28 DF   URU Andrew Teuten 29 MF   ARG Leonel Picco 30 FW   ARG Santiago Pierotti 31 GK   ARG Matías Ibáñez 32 MF   ARG Cristian Vega 33 DF   ARG Facundo Garcés 35 MF   ARG Facundo Farías 36 DF   ARG Gian Nardelli 40 DF   ARG Rafael Delgado 44 GK   ARG Facundo Masuero — FW   ARG Brian Fernández

For recent transfers, see List of Argentine football transfers winter 2018–19.

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player

Managers

•   Antonio Mohamed (2008–10)^[10]
•   Fernando Gamboa (2010–11)^[11]
•   Mario Sciaqua (2011–12)^[12]
•   Roberto Sensini (2012–13)^[13]
•   Rubén Forestello (2013)^[14][15]
•   Diego Osella (2014)^[16][17]
•   Reinaldo Merlo (2014-15)
•   Javier López (2015)
•   Dario Franco (2015-16)
•   Ricardo Johansen (2016)
•   Paolo Montero (2016)
•   Eduardo Domínguez (2017-18)
•   Esteban Fuertes (Interim) (2018)
•   Julio Comesaña (2019)
•   Marcelo Goux (Interim) (2019)
•   Pablo Lavallen (2019)
•   Diego Osella (2020)
•   Eduardo Domínguez (2020-21)
•   Julio César Falcioni (2022)
•   Marcelo Saralegui (2023)

Honours

• Copa de la Liga Profesional (1): 2021
• Primera B (1): 1965

Second Level Cups

• Torneo de Honor ^[a]: 1950^[19]

Notes

1. Tournament organized by the Association in 1950, after the Primera B regular season finished. The tournament was contested by all the teams taking part of the division by then. The trophy was named "Juan Domingo Perón"^[18]

References

1. "Colón de Santa Fe". Soccerway. Perform. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
2. "ESTADIO BRIGADIER GENERAL ESTANISLAO LÓPEZ". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
3. "Historia". Club Atlético Colon. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
4. Argentina second level 1965 on RSSSF
5. Argentina 1966 on RSSSF
6. Osvaldo José Gorgazzi (21 June 2006). "Argentina – First Level 1972". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
7. Ian King (21 January 2011). "Argentina 1996/97". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 31 July 2011.
8. Boca Juniors – Colon : 2–1 Match report from Scorespro.com
9. "Colón squad". Soccerway. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
10. Rex Gowar (21 September 2010). "Soccer-Huracan, Colon follow Independiente by changing coach". Reuters. Thomson Reuters. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
11. Dan Edwards (29 September 2010). . The Argentina Independent. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
12. Rupert Fryer (21 February 2012). . southamericanfootball.co.uk. Archived from the original on 25 February 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
13. "R. Sensini". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
14. "Tras dejar San Martín (SJ), Rubén Forestello es el nuevo técnico de Colón". Canchallena (in Spanish). 29 June 2013.
15. "Mario Sciaqcua asume otra vez como técnico interino en Colón". Canchallena (in Spanish). 8 October 2013.
16. "Diego Osella, nuevo DT de Colón: "Cada partido será una final"". Canchallena (in Spanish). 3 January 2014.
17. "Renunció Diego Osella en Colón". El Litoral (in Spanish). 11 November 2014. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
18. "Argentina: Torneo de Honor 1ra. "B" AFA 1950" by Jose Carluccio at Historia y Futbol website, 17 May 2009
19. Argentina – Second level cups at RSSSF

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