Club Atlético Fénix
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| Full name | Club Atlético Fénix |
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Cuervos Blanquinegro Águila Albinegro |
| Founded | 25 April 1948 |
| Ground | Estadio Carlos Barraza, Pilar, Buenos Aires Province |
| Capacity | 10,000 |
| Chairman | Carlos Alberto Vazquez |
| Manager | svampa |
| League | Primera B |
| 2015 | 12° |
| Website | Club home page |
Club Atlético Fénix is an Argentine football club from Pilar, Buenos Aires Province. The team currently plays in the Primera B Metropolitana, the regionalised third division of the Argentine football league system. In 2013, Fénix won the playoff series after defeating Deportivo Español in the second game by 2–1. The first match had finished 1–1 thereby the squad promoted to the upper division, Primera B Metropolitana.
The club was established on 25 April 1948 by a group of boys met at the bar owned by Guillermo García in Palermo district of Buenos Aires. The boys played football competing in local leagues and decided to found their own club, which was named "Club Atlético, Social y Deportivo Fénix".
The name was chosen because of the bar where the boys used to met had been destroyed by fire in 1947. Despite the terrible accident, the bar reopened soon later, being compared with the Phoenix, "by arising from the ashes of its predecessor". "Fénix" is the Spanish translation for Phoenix.
In 1955 the club rented a land in the Colegiales neighborhood, where Fénix built its first headquarters and venue. One year later the club changed its name to current "Club Atlético Fénix".
Fénix affiliated to Argentine Football Association in 1959 and began to play the Torneo de Aficionados (current Primera D). In 1963 the team promoted by the first time, and built its current headquarters in the Concepción Arenal street of Chacarita neighborhood. In 1965 Fénix was near to promote to Primera B Metropolitana but lost the playoff to Almirante Brown by 1–0.
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