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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:About Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Coord Шаблон:Infobox rugby team Belgrano Athletic Club is an Argentine amateur sports club from Belgrano, Buenos Aires. One of Argentina's oldest institutions still in existence, Belgrano was one of the four clubs that founded the Argentine Rugby Union in 1899.[1] The senior team currently competes at Top 12, the first division of the Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires league system.

Belgrano Athletic was one of the most prominent teams during the first years of football in Argentina, having won three domestic league titles, one national cup and two international cups. Belgrano's arch-rival during those years was Alumni, also from Belgrano neighborhood.[2] Belgrano disaffiliated from the Argentine Association in late 1910s, focusing on rugby union and other sports. Football is no longer practised at the club.[3]

Belgrano's field hockey team currently takes part of Metropolitano championships organised by the Buenos Aires Hockey Association.

The club's facilities are divided between two locations: its main building (Sede Virrey del Pino) sited in Belgrano and another one located in Pilar (Anexo Pinazo).[4]

Apart from the sports mentioned above, several activities are practised at the club nowadays, such as bowls, contract bridge, cricket, squash, swimming, and tennis.[5]

History

The beginning: Football

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The 1902 Belgrano football team

There are records of a football match played by the members of the "Club Inglés de Belgrano" in 1894, where Belgrano Athletic Club was officially founded on 17 August 1896.

Belgrano AC participated in the Primera División from 1896 to 1916. The squad won three league titles in 1899, 1904 and 1908, and also won a number of other tournaments including domestic cup Copa de Honor and international competitions Tie Cup (in 1900) and Copa de Honor Cousenier (1907).

Belgrano Athletic played one of the earliest football rivalries against Belgrano neighbours Alumni, the most successful team of Argentine until its dissolution in 1911. Both teams were so strong that they won all of the thirteen league titles contested between 1899 and 1911 (that was the last year of Alumni football team competing in Argentine league, being officially dissolved in 1913).[6]

Belgrano AC would achieve a historic victory over River Plate, defeating the Millonario 10–1 in 1912. That was the worst defeat of River Plate in club's history.[7]

Despite being one of the most notable football teams during the first years of that sport in Argentina, Belgrano was relegated from the Argentine Primera División, along with Quilmes in 1916.[8]

Belgrano never returned to the first division, and the club later disaffiliated from the Argentine Association, focusing on the practise of other sports, mainly rugby union.[9][2]

Rugby union

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The Belgrano Athletic rugby union team that won its first championship in 1907

Belgrano Athletic rugby union team is one of the most successful teams in the Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires, having won a total of 10 provincial titles.[10] In 1899, along with club Buenos Aires, Lomas, Flores[11] and Rosario AC, Belgrano became a founding member of the "River Plate Rugby Championship", the origin of today's Argentine Rugby Union.[1]

The first title obtained in rugby union was in 1907, playing 16 matches with 13 victories, 1 drew and only 2 lost. The team scored 233 points and only received 29 at the end of the tournament. That same year the club built the stadium's grandstands (commonly made of woods by the time) with a capacity of 600. In 1909 the Government of Argentina approved the statute (rules) of the club.[12] Its main rivals are Belgrano district's other big club, Alumni. In 2016, Belgrano won its 11° URBA championship after 48 years without league titles. Belgrano defeated former champion Hindú at the final, played in San Isidro.[13][14]

Field hockey

Belgrano is founding member of the Argentine Hockey Association, established in 1908. The club has more than 400 registered female players that are part of 25 teams. Club teams play their home matches at the two artificial turf pitches in Sede Pinazo, while the Virrey del Pino Field is used only for training sesions.[15]

Team image

Uniform evolution

It is believed that the first Belgrano A.C. football squad wore black (or dark grey) and gold shirts, as they were depicted in early team photos. In 1907 the club adopted the Buenos Aires and Rosario Railway corporate colors (red, green and silver) as most of the club members were employees of that company. In 1919 Belgrano A.C. changed its colors again, adopting the brown (specifying "chocolate" tone according to the statute of that time) and gold of the FC Central Argentino's coaches.[16]

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Football

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Rugby

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Venue

Шаблон:Main Belgrano's home venue (popularly known as "Virrey del Pino" because of its location on Virrey del Pino and Superí streets in Belgrano) host rugby and cricket match. After some time playing on Pampa and Melián streets, the club acquired that land in 1902 to two of its members, Charles Dickinson (who was also a notable footballer of the club)[17] and Roberts.

The first grandstands were built with wood from surplus railway material. By 1910, the field had an official grandstand, with roof,[18] named "Donald Forester", which has remained up to present days.[19]

Honours

Cricket

  • Primera División (45): 1902–03, 1905–06, 1906–07, 1907–08, 1908–09, 1910–11, 1911–12, 1914–15, 1918–19, 1923–24, 1925–26, 1926–27, 1928–29, 1929–30, 1931–32, 1932–33, 1953–54, 1954–55, 1955–56, 1958–59, 1961–62, 1965–66, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1991–92, 1997–98, 2001–02, 2005–06, 2010–11, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23 [20]

Football

Domestic

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International

Rugby union

  • Torneo de la URBA (11): 1907, 1910, 1914, 1921, 1936, 1940, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1968, 2016

Field hockey

Women's

Notable athletes

Notes

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References

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External links

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  1. 1,0 1,1 "Hechos históricos de la Unión" at UAR website
  2. 2,0 2,1 Trece décadas (1891-2016). El otro Belgrano campeón by Oscar Barnade on Clarín, 26 Oct 2016
  3. Historia Marrón: la última conquista de Belgrano en fútbol on BAC
  4. Sedes on BAC website
  5. Deportes – Belgrano AC official site Шаблон:Webarchive
  6. "Alumni: en el nombre del fútbol", Clarín, 2003-04-24
  7. Шаблон:Cite web
  8. "Asociacion Argentina de Football – 1916", RSSSF Шаблон:Webarchive
  9. 1946. CINCUENTENARIO DEL BELGRANO ATHLETIC CLUB on El Gráfico (originally published in 1946)
  10. Todos Los Campeones de La URBA Шаблон:In lang
  11. Fundación del River Plate Rugby Union Championship on Atlético del Rosario website, 10 Apr 2019
  12. "Belgrano y Alumni en sus comienzos"
  13. "Belgrano rompió el maleficio: tras 48 años es campeón del torneo de la URBA al vencer a Hindú", La Nación, 15 Oct 2016
  14. "Histórico: Belgrano Athletic venció a Hindú y vuelve a ser campeón tras 48 años", Minuto Uno, 15 Oct 2016
  15. Hockey overview on BAC
  16. "Hoy celebramos 115 años" – Belgrano AC official blog
  17. Caras y Caretas, 31 Aug 1912
  18. "Belgrano" on Viejos Estadios
  19. Estadio de Belgrano Athletic on Estadios de Argentina
  20. Primera División (campeones) on Cricket Argentina website
  21. Campeones del Fútbol Argentino on AFA website, 13 Jul 2015
  22. Colección 100 años de fútbol – Historia ilustrada del fútbol uruguayo, Franklin Morales
  23. Historia Del Fútbol Amateur En La Argentina, Jorge Iwanczuk (1992)
  24. Шаблон:Cite web
  25. El fútbol curioso, Clarín, 26 Dec 1998
  26. Se fue Arturo Forrester, El Gráfico, 1959
  27. "Belgrano y Alumni en sus comienzos"
  28. Belgrano Athletic 1 – Boca Juniors 1 (match chronicle) on Historia de Boca
  29. Argentina - Five or More Goals Scored by One Player in a Match on the RSSSF
  30. Alumni on Scots Football Worldwide
  31. De la pileta del Belgrano Athletic a la Alemania nazi on La Nación, 2 Aug 2016
  32. LAS MEJORES: JEANETTE CAMPBELL by Martín Estévez on El Gráfico, 18 Nov 2014
  33. Lisandro Arbizu: “Fue muy fuerte ser capitán de Los Pumas” on Córdoba XV, 4 Aug 2020
  34. Magui Aicega: “Le di todo al hockey, y el hockey me dio todo”, interview to Aicega on BAC
  35. La verdad de Charo Lucchetti on La Capital (Rosario)
  36. Perfil de Rosario Lucchetti on ESPN.ar