Deportivo Español

The beginnings

The club is a social, cultural and sporting organisation founded on 12 October 1956 by a group of Spaniards living in Argentina, under the name Club Deportivo Español de Buenos Aires. The date was specially selected to commemorate the Spanish National day. The aim was to bring together under a single footballing body all those passionate about the game who were of Spanish origin or descendants of those immigrants who, alongside other significant communities, had contributed so much to the development of Argentina. Its first headquarters were in the basement of "Bar La Mezquita" in Buenos Aires, and barely a year after its creation it already had approximately two thousand members, which led to the move in 1957 to the Centro Ribadumia premises. Its first president was Luis Soler Camino.

Entering to AFA competitions

In 1957 affiliated to the Argentine Football Association (AFA) and the football team began to participate in the fourth division ("Tercera de Ascenso", equivalent to Torneo Promocional Amateur) chaining a meteoric promotion row in the upper tiers. Just a year after joining the AFA Español won the amateur championship promoting to "Segunda de Ascenso" (today Primera C) and only 3 years after, Español won the league being promoted to the second-tier league Primera B (Nacional was introduced in the 80'). Amid this successes, the team embraced a tour to Spain, where they played teams as Pontevedra, Real Oviedo, Espanyol de Barcelona,…