Club Atlético Tigre

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Tigre
Escudo del Club Tigre.svg
Full name Club Atletico Tigre
Nickname(s) Matadores
Founded 3 August 1902; 113 years ago (1902-08-03)[1]
Ground Coliseo de Victoria, Victoria, Buenos Aires
Ground Capacity 26,282[1]
Chairman Rodrigo Molinos
Manager Gustavo Alfaro
League Primera División
2014 Final 13th
Website Club home page

Club Atlético Tigre (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkluβ aˈtletiko ˈtiɣɾe]) is an Argentine sports club from Victoria, Buenos Aires. The club is mostly known for its football team, which currently plays in Argentine Primera División.

History[edit]

The club was founded on 3 August 1902 in the city of Tigre.[2] The team debuted at Argentine Primera División in 1915, playing its first match against Argentino de Quilmes, losing by 3–1. Tigre finally finished 18th of 25 teams.

Tigre would last in Primera División during all the amateur era. When football became professional in Argentina many teams were relegated but Tigre remained in the top division. The squad's first professional match was on 31 May 1931, playing against San Lorenzo de Almagro in the Viejo Gasómetro stadium. The first win came in the 3rd fixture when Tigre defeated Racing Club by 1–0.

the 1945 team that won the Primera B title, returning them to the Primera División.

The 14th fixture (played on August, 30) was the debut of legendary striker Bernabé Ferreyra, which scored all the goals in the 4–1 victory over Quilmes. Ferreyra soon became an outstanding scorer playing for Tigre (before being traded to River Plate).

In 1935 Tigre began to built its stadium in Victoria and that same year the team was relegated to the second division (then named "Segunda de Ascenso") along with Quilmes, returning the next year to the first division. That year Tigre also opened its stadium in Victoria.

In 1937 Juan Marvezzi (Tigre's all-time top scorer) arrived to the club. He would score 116 goals over 173 matches between 1937 and 1943.

In 1945 Tigre won the second division championship (Segunda Division).They won the tournament again in 1953, although by then it was known as Primera B.[3]

The 1953 that won another promotion to Primera that same year

After some seasons alternating promotions and relegations to the second division, in 1970 Tigre was relegated to Primera C Metropolitana, the third division of the Argentine football league system, returning to Primera B two years after, with a record of 21 matches without receiving any goal. Goalkeeper Pepe achieved a record of 906 minutes unbeaten.

In 1979 Tigre returned to Primera División, with Juan Carlos Lorenzo as the sports director.

In 1986 the Argentine league system is restructured and Tigre got a place in the Primera B Nacional which became the second division of Argentine football. Five years later Tigre was relegated to Primera B Metropolitana (now the third division), returning to Nacional B in 1995 defeating Argentino de Rosario 2–1 in the third match (after two tied games).

Tigre won the 2004 Primera B Metropolitana Apertura defeating Platense 2–0 in Vicente López Partido. During that season, a goalkeeper (Cristian Campestrini) scored a goal for Tigre for the first time in club's history, during a match against Ferro Carril Oeste.

Tigre also won the next tournament (2005 Clausura) proclaiming bi-champion and promoting directly to Primera B Nacional.


At the end of 2006 Diego Cagna was hired as coach replacing Caruso Lombardi (who had left to coach Argentinos Juniors, recommended by Diego Maradona), being his first experience as coach in first division. With Cagna on the bench, Tigre remained 13 consecutive matches unbeaten during the Clausura tournament. In the 2005 Apertura the team finished 3rd. In the 2007 Clausura Tigre qualified to play the "Torneo Reducido", which won, giving it the chance to play with a team of Primera División (Nueva Chicago) in order to dispute a vacant place at the top level of Argentine football.

Tigre defeated Nueva Chicago 1–0 and 2–1, returning to Primera after 27 years. Some of its most relevant players were goalkeeper Daniel Islas, Alexis Ferrero, Diego Castaño and Leandro Lázzaro. During the second final game, hundreds of Chicago's hooligans jumped into the field without being stopped by the police (although there were 200 police man in the stadium), taking off the uniforms to players and then attacking Tigre's supporters which were peacefully celebrating their return to Primera División. The violent acts continued outside the stadium, where the hooligans of both teams clashed and a fan of Tigre, Marcelo Cejas, was killed.

Tigre disputed the 2007 Apertura achieving some resounding results such as the 4–1 victory over River Plate apart from the wins over Racing (3–2) and Boca Juniors (2–1). At the end of the tournament, Tigre finished 2nd (Lanús was the champion), which was club's best campaign ever in the top category.

In 2008 Apertura Tigre made the best campaign of its history, sharing the 1st place with Boca Juniors and San Lorenzo with 39 points at the end of the season. Therefore, those teams had to play a mini-tournament in order to proclaim a champion, which would finally be Boca Juniors. Although Tigre defeated Boca 1–0, the Xeneize won the title due to its best goal average. During the regular season, Tigre achieved some highlights, beating all the most popular teams: Boca Juniors (3–2), River Plate (3–1), Independiente (1–0), San Lorenzo (1–0), Huracán (3–0), and former champion Lanús (3–0).

In 2009 Tigre made its first appearances in an international club competition playing two games in Copa Sudamericana 2009, having been defeated by San Lorenzo in the first round due to the away goals rule.

In 2012 Tigre reached the final of the 2012 Copa Sudamericana, and faced São Paulo. The match, however, went unfinished, due to Tigre (who were at a 0–2 deficit by the end of the first half in the second leg) refusing to return for the second half as they claimed of security problems at halftime. Therefore, São Paulo were declared champions.[4]

Kit evolution and rare models[edit]

The first jersey worn by Tigre was blue with white collar.

Between 1911 and 1919, Tigre began to wear a red and blue vertical stripes jersey (similar to San Lorenzo's and used in seen in the pictures of the 1945 and 1953 champion teams). Tigre would wear this pattern in 1945, when winning the Primera B title promoting to Primera División.

Other models were a blue jersey with a red "T" on the chest (worn during Tigre's run on Primera División in 1980), and the blue with red sleeves (used for just one match in 1979).[5]

1902–11, 1919–40
1911–19, 1945
1940–present
1960s
1967–68
1979 (1)
1980
1996–97
2005–06

Stadium[edit]

Their home stadium is the Estadio José Dellagiovanna.[1]

Players[edit]

Current squad[edit]

Current squad of Club Atlético Tigre as of July 26, 2015 (edit)
Sources: Official website and Argentine Soccer

No. Position Player
1  ARG GK Javier García
2  ARG DF Erik Godoy
3  ARG DF Juan Carlos Blengio
4  URU MF Jorge Marcelo Rodríguez
5  ARG MF Joaquín Arzura
6  ARG DF Leandro González Pirez
7  ARG FW Carlos Luna
8  ARG MF Martín Galmarini
9  ARG FW Federico González
10  ARG MF Lucas Wilchez
11  ARG MF Kevin Itabel
12  ARG GK Fernando Lugo
13  ARG MF Alberto Stegman
14  ARG FW Alexis Castro
15  ARG FW Lucas Janson
16  ARG MF Horacio Orzán
No. Position Player
17  ARG DF Santiago Izaguirre
18  ARG MF Agustín Pelletieri
19  COL FW Sebastián Rincón
20  ARG MF Facundo Sánchez
21  ARG DF Mariano Echeverría
22  ARG GK Sebastián D'Angelo
23  ARG FW Leandro Garate
24  ARG DF Ignacio Bonadío
25  ARG DF Nicolás Pantaleone
26  ARG MF Lucas Menossi
27  COL FW José Erick Correa
28  ARG FW Jerónimo Morales Neumann
29  ARG MF Mario Paglialunga
31  ARG GK Alexis Bonet
33  URU DF Ernesto Goñi

Manager: Gustavo Alfaro

Out on loan[edit]

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

No. Position Player

Former players[edit]

Managers[edit]

Honours[edit]

1912 FAF, 1945, 1953, 1979, 2004–05

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "CA Tigre". Soccerway. Global Sports Media. Retrieved 16 June 2013. 
  2. ^ "Historia del Club Atlético Tigre" (in Spanish). Club Atletico Tigre. Retrieved 16 June 2013. 
  3. ^ Mariano Buren (15 July 2011). "Argentina – Coaches of Championship Teams – Second Level". RSSSF. Retrieved 16 June 2013. 
  4. ^ "Copa Sudamericana: Row at Tigre and Sao Paulo final". BBC. 13 December 2012. Retrieved 16 June 2013. 
  5. ^ Historia de la Camiseta – Official website

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