Club Atlético Lanús
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| Full name | Club Atlético Lanús |
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| Nickname(s) | Granate |
| Founded | 3 January 1915 |
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Estadio Ciudad de Lanús, Lanús, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina |
| Capacity | 47,027 |
| Chairman | Nicolás Russo |
| Manager | Jorge Almirón |
| League | Primera División |
| 2016 | 1° (Champion) |
| Website | Club home page |
Club Atlético Lanús (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkluβ aˈtletiko laˈnus]) is an Argentine sports club from the Lanús district of Greater Buenos Aires. Founded on 3 January 1915, the club's main sports are football and basketball. In both sports, Lanús plays in Argentina's top divisions: Primera División (football) and Liga Nacional de Básquet (basketball). In football, Lanús has won five major championships in its history: the 1996 Copa CONMEBOL (the predecessor of the current Copa Sudamericana), the 2007 Apertura, the 2013 Copa Sudamericana, the 2016 Argentine Primera División, and the 2016 Bicentenario national cup.
Apart from football, Lanús hosts many other sports such as athletics, gymnastics, martial arts, handball, field hockey, roller skating, swimming, tennis, volleyball and weightlifting. The club has a futsal team in Colombia.
In 1854 Anacarsis Lanus arrived from France and acquired the lands where the city of Lanús is placed nowadays. Two institutions were named "Lanús" by that time. One of them was Lanús Athletic Club, which took part of the 1897 Argentine Primera División championship although the club then abandoned the tournament. The other club was Lanús United (predecessor of current Club Atlético Lanús) which participated in the Copa de la Confederación Argentina in 1913 and 1914.
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