Talleres de Córdoba

Club Atlético Talleres is a sports institution based in the city of Córdoba, Argentina. Its main activity is football, and hockey, volleyball, handball, artistic roller skating, karate, futsal and basketball are also practised at the institution. It was founded on 12 October 1913 and takes part in the Argentine Primera División.

With origins linked to the English who worked in the railway workshops (talleres), its founder Tomás Lawson decided to take for its colours the vertical purple and white stripes of his former English club Blackburn Rovers, now changed to blue and white. Its first name was Atlético Talleres Central Córdoba, which was changed to the current one in 1917.

Its stadium, the Francisco Cabasés, better known as La Boutique de Barrio Jardín, is located at Av. Pablo Richieri 1595. It has a capacity of 18,000 spectators and is currently used for training sessions of the senior squad and some matches of the Reserve category. Owing to its large following, the team plays its home matches at the Estadio Mario Alberto Kempes.

Its record attendance is 62,000 spectators, against San Jorge on the day of the promotion from Federal A to the B Nacional. Next come the crowds against Brown de Agrogué and Unión de Aconquija with 60,000 spectators. In commemorative friendly matches it also filled the whole of the Kempes stadium, as occurred in the match for the 99th anniversary of the institution's founding against Nacional of Montevideo and the Centenary match against Pachuca.

It is the only one of the indirectly affiliated clubs of the AFA that has won an international cup, the 1999 Copa Conmebol. Among that branch of institutions, it is also: the one that has played the most matches in the Primera División (1,039), the one that has earned the most points (1,118) in that category, the first to play the Copa Libertadores (the only one from Córdoba, in 2002), and it played the 2001 Copa Mercosur.

To date, it is the Córdoba institution with the most official titles won, with a total of 61; made up of 54 Liga Cordobesa crowns (those of the "Tallerito" are not counted), five in the AFA, one of Conmebol and one of the short-lived Liga del Interior.

Its classic rival is Club Atlético Belgrano and, together with it, it plays the Clásico cordobés.

In 2014, after 10 years of private management, the club returned to its members and on 16 November the elections were held that resulted in the election of Andrés Fassi as president. At present, the club belongs to its more than 30,000 members and is the Córdoba sports institution with the most active members and the seventh in the country.