Colón de Santa Fe

Club Atlético Colón, also known as Colón de Santa Fe or simply Colón, is a club from the city of Santa Fe. Its first men's football team competes in the Superliga Argentina.

It was born as a football club, and football has been the main activity carried out at professional level since 1913, when it affiliated to the Liga Regional Santafesina de Foot-Ball. It also has an alternative team made up of amateur players that has competed in the Liga Santafesina de Fútbol since 1948. Today other disciplines are also practised, such as basketball, volleyball, women's hockey, women's football, boxing, futsal and swimming, all on an amateur basis.

Its headquarters, stadium and sports facilities are located in the city of Santa Fe, in the Centenario neighbourhood, at the intersection of Juan José Paso and Bulevar Zavalla streets.

The club has a training complex called "Ciudad Fútbol", a boarding house for youth-team players from other regions of Argentina called "Casa Fútbol" - both located at km 154 of the Rosario-Santa Fe motorway - and a 4-star hotel called "Hotel De Campo Colón" situated at km 157 of that motorway.

The football stadium has a capacity of 25,000 seated spectators and more than 40,000 people in total. It bears the name Estadio Brigadier General Estanislao López, in honour of the Argentine caudillo who was governor of the Province of Santa Fe between 1818 and 1838, and is also popularly known as "El Cementerio de los Elefantes" ("The Elephants' Graveyard").

The club affiliated to the AFA in 1948, and in 1965 it won its first championship, obtaining promotion to the Primera División and thus becoming the first team from Santa Fe to reach the top category of Argentine football, having been relegated to the Segunda División only twice (1981 and 2014). In addition, Colón was the first team in the city to take part in international cups.

Among the institution's sporting achievements are: the runners-up place in the 2019 Copa Conmebol Sudamericana, the Copa de Honor de Primera B "Juan Domingo Perón" (a second-division cup) in 1950, the Argentine Segunda División championship in 1965, the runners-up place in the Argentine Primera División in 1997 and participation in 7 Conmebol international cups (Copa Conmebol 1997, Copa Libertadores 1998, Copa Sudamericana 2003, Copa Libertadores 2010, Copa Sudamericana 2012, Copa Sudamericana 2018 and Copa Sudamericana 2019). In addition, as a personal milestone for the club, there is the remembered victory in 1964 (in a friendly match) over Pelé's Santos FC, which held a record of 43 matches unbeaten and was Intercontinental double champion at the time, and the 2012/13 reserve tournament title.