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| Full name | Club Atlético Talleres | ||
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| Nickname(s) | La T (The T) Matadores (The Killers) Albiazules (The Blue and White) | ||
| Founded | 12 October 1913; 111 years ago (1913-10-12) | ||
| Ground | Estadio Mario Alberto Kempes[1] | ||
| Capacity | 57,000 | ||
| Owner | 74,262 partners[2] | ||
| Chairman | Andrés Fassi | ||
| Manager | Alexander Medina | ||
| League | Primera División | ||
| 2024 | 2nd | ||
| Website | clubtalleres.com.ar | ||
 Current season | |||
Club Atlético Talleres (Spanish pronunciation:[ˈkluβaˈtletikotaˈʎeɾes];lit. 'Workshops Athletic Club'), mostly known simply asTalleres ([taˈʃeɾes] inRioplatense accent and[taˈʒeɾes] or[taˈjeɾe] inCordobés accent;lit. 'Workshops'), is anArgentine professionalsports club based in the city ofCórdoba.
The institution is mostly known for itsfootball team, which currently plays in theArgentine Primera División. Talleres was three times runner-up of the First Division (1977, 2023, and 2024), and two times runner-up of theCopa Argentina (2020 and 2022).
They won an international tournament in 1999, theCopa Conmebol (now Copa Sudamericana). "La T" participated in many recent editions of theCopa Sudamericana as well as theCopa Libertadores, the highest level football competition in South America, in which they reached the Quarter-Finals in 2022.
"La T" also invests actively on its Academy, which has nurtured a number of well-known footballers:José Luis Cuciuffo,Daniel Willington,Luis Antonio Ludueña [es],Luis Galván, andVictorio Ocaño, in previous years; andJavier Pastore,Julio Buffarini,Cristian Pavón, andEmanuel Reynoso in recent years.
Galván, as well asMiguel Oviedo andJosé Daniel Valencia (the three of them playing for Talleres), were part of the squad that leadArgentina's national team to win the1978 FIFA World Cup.
Talleres women's team plays in thePrimera División A and is one of the most winning teams in the country.Florencia Pianello [es] is the all-time scorer taking into account both men's and women's divisions of the club.[3]
Talleres' main rival isBelgrano: Their rivalry is known as"elclásico cordobés". Talleres won 96 matches, while their rival won 76 times, in official games. Both teams also share derbies withInstituto andRacing, two other important teams of the city.
Talleres is among the teams with the highest number of spectators per match in the world.[4][5]
The club was founded in 1913 as "Atlético Talleres Central Córdoba" by workers of theCórdoba Central Railway, with support from the company. Apart from Atlético Talleres, one of the clubs affiliated to "Federación Cordobesa de Fútbol" (Córdoba Football Federation) was Olimpo, formed by young players participating in second and third divisions.
In 1913 Olimpo was expelled after their players were involved in a riot in disagreement with some referee decisions. After Olimpo beat Atlético Talleres in a friendly match, the club executives encouraged the merger of both clubs with the aim of adding Olimpo players to their team. In 1914, the merger was fulfilled keeping the name "Talleres Central Córdoba". In 1914 Talleres joined the Córdoba local league.
Under this name, Talleres Central Córdoba won the 1915 and 1916 championships. The following year the club was forced to change its name after some incidents in a match that caused player Horacio Salvatelli to be arrested. When some days later Talleres did not allow its players to a local combined, the body expelled the club from the league. Nevertheless, Talleres would rejoined the league in 1918 under the condition to change its name so the club was registered as "Club Atlético Talleres", also winning the championship that same year. Apart from its name, Talleres had to modify the date of foundation (to 12 October 1913) to register as a legal entity.
In 1931 the club was given a land in "Barrio Jardín" to build its own stadium. The project was carried out by engineers Allende Posse and Agenor Villagra, at a cost of $70,000. The stadium was inaugurated on 12 October 1931, with a friendly match between Talleres and Uruguayan sideRampla Juniors. The stadium would be refurbished in 1951 to host a maximum of 18,000 spectators.
In 1969 the team played for the first time in theArgentine Primera División in theNacional Championship. During the 1970s, the heyday of the Córdoba local league in the national scene, they participated several times in theNacional championship, in 1976 Luis Ludueña was the championship top scorer with 12 goals, in the1977 Nacional Championship Talleres finished in second place, losing toIndependiente the finals on the away goals rule, and in 1978 José Reinaldi scored 18 goals and was the championship top scorer. Talleres contributed three players to the Argentine squad that won the 1978 FIFA World Cup, with Talleres' captainLuis Galván as a starter in the final as a center back.Miguel Oviedo andJose Daniel Valencia were substitutes. The '78 WC team featured several other prominent players that got their start in the golden era of the Córdoba local league, such asMario Kempes andOsvaldo Ardiles, both atInstituto Atletico Central Cordoba in the early-1970s.
Starting in 1980, Talleres became a regular of theMetropolitano championship and finished inthird place.
Talleres played in theArgentine Primera División until the1993 Torneo Clausura when Talleres was relegated to thePrimera B Nacional. Talleres was promoted toArgentine Primera División after the 1993–94 championship, but was again related after a poor performance in1994–95 season. The following season, the club finished first during theClausura tournament of the Second Division but lost the Championship toHuracán de Corrientes.
In 1998, during a game (later remembered by fans as "The Final of the Century", Talleres won its first Argentine title, the 1997/98Primera B Nacional championship on penalty kick shootout against all-time rivalBelgrano de Córdoba, earning them a promotion to the First Division.[6] Next year the club won its first and only international title, the1999 Copa CONMEBOL (the precursor of the currentCopa Sudamericana)[7][8][9][10][11][12][13] againstCSA fromBrazil.
The following season, Talleres' good performance in first division qualified the team to play the 2001Copa Mercosur and the2002 Copa Libertadores, being the first and only team from Córdoba to qualify for those continental tournaments. Talleres reached the round of 16 in the Mercosur, only to lose againstGremio. In Copa Libertadores, Talleres had a poor performance, being eliminated in the first stage.
Despite finishing in third place during theTorneo Clausura tournament of the2003–04 season and qualifying for the Copa Libertadores again, Talleres was relegated, due to poor results in the previous 2 seasons, after losing toArgentinos Juniors in the promotion/relegation play-off. By Argentine rules, the team lost its Libertadores bid because of this.
In 2008–09 Talleres was dismissed again, this time to theTorneo Argentino A via the point average system despite finishing in 12th place of 20 teams inPrimera B Nacional.
On 15 November 2010, theIFFHS produced a report on the top 200 teams in the American continent from 2001 to that date. Talleres was No. 130, the highest position for a Córdoba Province team in the ranking.
In May 2013, Talleres was promoted toPrimera B Nacional after defeatingSan Jorge by 1–0.[14] Later, Talleres returned to the third division but it was promoted in 2015, and, in 2016, after 12 years Talleres earned the promotion to First Division. They achieved so by not losing any match in the whole tournament, being the first time to accomplish this in Argentine football.[15]
During those years, Talleres has become famous for its good Reserves and Academy divisions. Talleres won the national Reserves Tournament two times in a row in 2016-17 and 2017-18.
In 2019, Talleres played theCopa Libertadores again. In 2021, Talleres playedCopa Sudamericana. After an outstanding performance inCopa Argentina, in which "la T" reached the final, and thenational league, in which it finished in the third position, Talleres returned once again toCopa Libertadores for the next year.
Talleres made its best performance yet at2022 Copa Libertadores, by reaching the Quarter-finals. However, the poor performance at the national league left the club with no international participation for 2023. For the second year in a row, Talleres was runner-up inCopa Argentina, losing the final 0-1 toPatronato.
The club has also sold players to important clubs in Europe in that time, in a historical context in which most clubs that sell players directly to UEFA teams are mostly the ones of Buenos Aires. Some of them wereNahuel Bustos,Piero Hincapié,Facundo Medina,Andrés Cubas andRamón Sosa.[16] Many of them got to play in their national teams.
Other footballers that were capped to play for their country after their time in Talleres includeJulio Buffarini andMateo Retegui; whileAlan Franco,Matías Catalán,Miguel Navarro, andDiego Valoyes were capped while they were part of the club.
Between 2023 and 2024, Talleres finished in the second position of the Primera División two times in a row. This allowed the club to be considered one of the best South American clubs of the last decades and secured consecutive berths for playing Copa Libertadores.
The C.A. Talleres colours are specified on club's statute, they are dark blue and white. Along its history, other colors have been used for alternate kits such as yellow, orange, bordeaux, grey, black, red, among others.[17]
The badge has had more than 20 different designs on several records through 100 years of existence of the club, with no precise details about its shape or colors.[17]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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| Type | Competition | Titles | Winning years |
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| National (Cups) | Supercopa Internacional | 1 | |
| International | Copa Conmebol | 1 |
Titles won in lower divisions:
Talleres' women's team, also known asLas Matadoras, plays in theCampeonato de Fútbol Femenino. They joined the national tournaments in 2022, after having played for 10 years in the local league.
Some of their historical players include Florencia Pianello, Yamila Cazón,Paulina Gramaglia, Carolina López, Eliana Capdevila, and Brisa Jara.
In their first season playing at thePrimera C, third tier fo Argentine women's football, they got the promotion after reaching the second position, right afterSan Luis. Two years later, they got the promotion to Primera A, the highest level in women's national football, after winning the championship ofPrimera B.
Talleres' 2024 season was historic: "Las Matadoras" never lost a match out of the 22 they have played, having won 21 of them and only drawing in the last game.
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