Banfield

Club Atlético Banfield is a sports institution based in the locality of Banfield, Buenos Aires Province. It was founded on 21 January 1896 by residents of that town who were British (mostly English, and some Scottish) and Irish, and its main activity is professional football. It currently plays in the Superliga Argentina.

In 2009 it won its first and only professional title in the top division, being crowned champion of the 2009 Torneo Apertura. It won one official national cup during the amateur era (the Copa de Honor Municipalidad de Buenos Aires, won in 1920) and 10 titles in the Segunda División.

Its two greatest idols are Julio Falcioni, head coach in four spells at the club, where he placed it in the top positions, qualifying it for international cups and leading it to the championship. He achieved qualification for the club's first participations in the continental cups (Sudamericana and Libertadores) played in the 2004/05 season, leaving the team in 5th place in the Copa Libertadores de América, and later won the first league title of the professional era in the 2009 Apertura, among other achievements; and Garrafa Sánchez, a professional player who played in the classic playmaker position and was the leading figure in the promotion to the Primera División in 2001, and who also played the club's first continental cups.

It plays Lanús in the so-called Clásico del Sur, considered a modern classic in Argentine football and, thanks to the good results of both in recent years, also considered one of the most attractive classics in the Primera División. It also maintains rivalries with Los Andes, Temperley, Talleres (RdE) and Quilmes.

In October 2018, with the assumption of office of Lucía Barbuto, the club became the first in the history of the Argentine Primera División to elect a woman as president.