Godoy Cruz Antonio Tomba
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| Full name | Club Deportivo Godoy Cruz Antonio Tomba |
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| Nickname(s) |
Tomba Expreso ("Express") Bodeguero ("Wine-Producer") |
| Founded | 1 June 1921 |
| Ground |
Estadio Feliciano Gambarte, Godoy Cruz, Mendoza |
| Capacity | 21,774 |
| Chairman | José Eduardo Mansur |
| Manager | Lucas Bernardi |
| League | Primera División |
| 2016 | 2° of Zona 1 |
| Website | Club home page |
Club Deportivo Godoy Cruz Antonio Tomba, known simply as Godoy Cruz, is an Argentine sports club from Godoy Cruz, Mendoza. The club is best known for its football team, that plays in the Primera División, the top level of the Argentine football league system.
Other activities practised at Godoy Cruz are basketball, team handball, field hockey, tennis and volleyball.
Godoy Cruz was born as an institution in 1921. It all started when a group of friends, gathered in the "Victoria Bar" (located opposite the departmental square at that time), decided to found a club, taking advantage of the boom at the time . Thus was born on 1 June 1921, the Club Sportivo Godoy Cruz with the novice presidency of Don Romero Garay.
The club was founded on 21 June 1921 under the name sportivo Godoy Cruz, and changed to its current name on 25 April 1930 after the fusion with Deportivo Bodega Antonio Tomba. In 1959, Godoy Cruz' stadium, the [Estadio Feliciano Gambarte], was constructed. The stadium is nicknamed La Bodega (Spanish for "wine cellar") and holds 21,000 people.
Godoy Cruz played in the regional league for several years before reaching the national level. The club won the Mendoza first division championship in 1944, 1947, 1950, 1951, 1954, 1968, and also in 1989 and 1990 that qualified to play in the defunct Torneo del Interior national-level tournament.
Winning the Torneo del Interior in 1994, Godoy Cruz reached the Primera B Nacional (Argentine second division) that year. After more than ten years in the second division, the club was finally promoted to the Primera División in 2006, after winning the 2005–06 season of the Primera B Nacional, defeating Nueva Chicago in the final.
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