Estudiantes de Río Cuarto

Asociación Atlética Estudiantes, also known as Estudiantes de Río Cuarto, is a sports institution in Argentina, in the city of Río Cuarto, province of Córdoba. Its headquarters are at Avenida España 251. It was founded on 21 September 1912 by a group of students of the Colegio Nacional No. 1, hence its name. Its most important activity is football, in which on 5 May 2019 it was champion of the Torneo Federal A and was promoted to the Primera Nacional, the second tier of Argentine football, in which the club currently plays. Other disciplines such as basketball, tennis and artistic gymnastics are also practised.

In 1912 the Colegio Nacional No. 1 was inaugurated, and its students formed in 1912 the Centro de Estudiantes y Biblioteca Bernardino Rivadavia. In 1938 the football stadium was inaugurated under the name Estadio Ciudad de Río Cuarto; it currently has a capacity for 11,000 spectators, making it the largest stadium in the interior of Córdoba.

Estudiantes has managed to reach the top category of football, playing the 1983 Nacional, the 1984 Nacional and the 1985 Nacional. On 15 January 2021 the team lost the final for promotion to the top category of Argentine football on a penalty shoot-out against Sarmiento de Junín. On 31 January 2021, the team played the final of the Primera Nacional play-off against Platense, in a second attempt to gain promotion to the top flight. The Río Cuarto team lost that chance of promotion because, although the match ended 1–1 in regulation time, it failed to win the penalty shoot-out (4–2).

Its traditional rival is Club Sportivo y Biblioteca Atenas.