Club Atlético Colón

The club was founded on 5 May 1905, as "Colón Foot-ball Club" by a group of friends that were enthusiastic about football. It was named after Cristóbal Colón (Christopher Columbus), whose biography was being studied by one of the boys at the time. In 1965 Colon won the Primera B title.

The first game played by Colón in Primera was v Chacarita Juniors on 6 May 1966. After the first season in the top level Colón finished 16th, but the following year the structure of Argentine football was changed so as there were two championships each season, the Metropolitano and the Nacional, with entrance to the latter originally only available to the higher placed Metropolitano teams. Colon did not qualify for the Nacional until 1968, although the squad did then managed a 6th-place finish. Colón finished 2nd in their group in the 1972 Nacional. In 1975 the team made a good campaign in the Metropolitano, finishing in 6th place. This got better two years later, when Colón finished 5th in the Metropolitano, although the team then struggled in the Nacional. In 1978 Colón reached the knockout stages of the Nacional but was beaten in the quarter-finals by Independiente. Colon was relegated from the Metropolitana in 1981 having won only 6 games that season. It was to take 14 years for Colón to return to the top division (for the 1995–96 season). During the intervening period the team came close to promotion on a number of occasions, and lost Promotion Play-off games in 1988–89 to arch-rivals…

Senior titles

Other titles

Titles won in lower divisions:

Primera División B (1): 1965

Regional

Liga Santafesina de Football (7): 1913, 1914, 1916, 1918, 1923, 1924, 1925 Federación Santafesina de Football (3): 1922, 1929, 1930 Liga Santafesina de Fútbol (5): 1937, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947 Torneo Preparación de la Liga Santafesina de Fútbol (1): 1936

Friendly

Torneo de Honor (1): 1950