Instituto de Córdoba

Instituto Atlético Central Córdoba, better known as Instituto de Córdoba or simply Instituto, is a football sports club in the city of Córdoba, Argentina, founded on 8 August 1918. Its football team currently plays in the Primera Nacional, the second division of Argentine football.

Its football activity began in 1919, with its affiliation to the Liga Cordobesa de Fútbol, starting in the second division. To this day, the team has won 12 federation titles, 8 of them in the first division.

In 1973, it began its long run in the AFA Torneos Nacionales. Since then, it has accumulated 23 participations in the first division (counting the Campeonatos Nacionales) and 25 participations in the B Nacional, currently holding 27th place in the all-time tables of each category respectively. It is the club with the most matches played in the second category of Argentine football.

Its stadium is the Juan Domingo Perón, located in the Barrio Alta Córdoba and with a capacity for 26,000 spectators.

Its traditional rival is Club Atlético Racing from the same city, and it also maintains great rivalries with the other two important clubs in the city, Belgrano and Talleres (C).

The club was crowned champion twice in the AFA, both titles won in the B Nacional, in the 1998/99 and 2003/04 tournaments.

In June 2015, the basketball team was crowned champion of the Torneo Nacional de Ascenso, the national second division, achieving promotion and a return to the Liga Nacional de Básquet after 29 years. In the second half of 2018, it won the South American runner-up title.