Club Atlético Colón
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| Full name | Club Atlético Colón |
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| Nickname(s) | Los Sabaleros |
| Founded | 1905 |
| Ground |
Estadio B.G. Estanislao López, (Cementerio de los Elefantes), Santa Fe |
| Capacity | 47,000 |
| Chairman | José Nestor Viganatti |
| Manager | Eduardo Domínguez |
| League | Primera División |
| 2016 | 8° place |
| Website | Club home page |
Club Atlético Colón (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.
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.
In 1965 Colon won the Primera B title.
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, 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.
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.
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