Club Honor y Patria
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| Full name | Club Honor y Patria |
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| Nickname(s) | Isleños |
| Founded | 1 May 1911 |
| Dissolved | c. 1934 |
| Ground | Crámer and Tacuarí, Bernal, Buenos Aires |
| League | Primera B |
| 1934 | 10° |
Club Honor y Patria was an Argentine football club sited in Bernal, Greater Buenos Aires. The institution was the first club from that city to have played in Primera División, the first level of Argentine football league system, although it lasted only one season in the division.
Other clubs from Bernal (such as Club Bernal and Estudiantes) played at intermediate divisions.
The club was established on May 1, 1911, with a football team formed by Italian immigrants that had arrived to Bernal from La Boca and nicknamed los Isleños. The club had its field on Tacuarí and Cramer streets, adopting the blue and red as its colors, playing with a vertical stripes jersey.
In 1922 Honor y Patria registered with Asociación Amateurs de Football, a dissident body that had been established in 1919 to organise its own championships.
In 1926, Honor y Patria won its first official title, División Intermedia (Second Division) championship after beating San Telmo in a three games series. The team had finished 1st of Section B, with 14 victories over 16 games played while San Telmo had finished 1st of Section A, with a record of 15–18. On January 16, 1927, Honor y Patria defeated San Telmo by 2–1 in the third game played at River Plate stadium, after the previous matches ended in a tie (1–1 and 0–0). The line-up that won the championship was: Tauziet; J.Denda, González; Rizzone, Devescui, Aragón; N. Denda, Tizano, Olivari, Pendola, Figueroa. González scored both goals for Honor y Patria.
"The victory achieved by Club Honor y Patria of Bernal v. San Telmo in the match played at River Plate on Sunday the 16th, was well deserved. Yes, dear readers, I consider and affirm that the eleven of Club Honor y Patria is a better team -in terms of technique and sportsmanship- than San Telmo due to the first matches ended in a tie only because the team from Bernal's bad luck to score a goal..."
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