Villa Dálmine

At the end of the 1950s the "Dálmine SAFTA" factory, sited in the city of Campana, Buenos Aires Province, founded a social club with the purpose of allowing its employees to practice sports. The club was named "Villa Dálmine", and established its first location on Chiclana street in that city. The color adopted for the club was violet, therefore the club and its fans have been familiarly called "El Viola" (an expression derived from the word "violeta" in Spanish) since then. In 1960, Dálmine joined Liga Campanense de Fútbol with a team mostly formed by workers and administrative employees of the company. One year later, Villa Dálmine became affiliated with Torneo de Aficionados (currently Primera D), becoming champion that same year, and subsequently was promoted to the upper division, Primera C. The team scored the most goals and received the fewest goals during that season.

That first champion was coached by José "Perico" Marante and the most frequent line-up was: Masuelli, Gutiérrez, Coronel, Dopazo, Chiarle, Monteiro, Burián, Menéndez, Montero, Cesáreo, Torello and Moyano. Most of those players were professionals unlike Primera D players, who usually are amateur and they had other jobs to make a living. In 1963, two years after promoting to Primera C, Villa Dálmine won another title, promoting to Primera B Metropolitana. Because two teams had finished the season sharing the first position with 52 points each, a playoff series had to be played in order to determine a…

Primera B (1): 1988–89 Primera C (3): 1963, 1975, 1982, 1995–96, 2011–12 Primera D (2): 1961