Independiente

Club Atlético Independiente, popularly known as Independiente or by its initials CAI, is an Argentine sports institution from the city of Avellaneda in Buenos Aires Province, in the south of Greater Buenos Aires (GBA). It was founded on 1 January 1905 by a group of young employees of the Club Maipú who favoured independence. Men's football is its most prominent discipline, with its first team competing in the Argentine Primera División, although other sports are also practised at amateur and semi-professional level.

It plays its home matches at the stadium called Libertadores de América, which has a capacity of 42,069 spectators. The colour that identifies the team is red, which has been used in its kit since 1908.

It is one of the most decorated and historically renowned clubs in Argentina, South America and the world. Domestically, El Rojo holds 16 league titles and 9 cups, for a total of 25 national titles. Internationally, the team has achieved the record of seven Copa Libertadores titles, and is the only club to win four consecutive finals, between 1972 and 1975. It is also the record winner of the Copa Interamericana (3), the Supercopa Sudamericana (2) and the Copa Sudamericana (2), sharing the latter two records with Cruzeiro and Boca Juniors respectively. According to a statistical study conducted by the IFFHS in 2009, it was the second most successful South American team of the 20th century.

Its greatest sporting achievements came in 1973 and 1984, when it was crowned Intercontinental Cup champion by defeating the representatives of the European Champion Clubs' Cup: Juventus of Italy and Liverpool of England respectively. Thanks to these conquests it belongs to the select group of only 29 teams in the world that have won the highest club football championship at world level, among more than 300,000 clubs recognised by FIFA.

Since the AFA introduced the "proportional vote" in 1937, Independiente has been considered one of the five big clubs of Argentine football, together with Boca Juniors, River Plate, San Lorenzo and Racing Club. With the last of these it plays the traditional "Clásico de Avellaneda".