Talleres de Córdoba
Club Atlético Talleres is an Argentine sports club from the city of Córdoba. The institution is mostly known for its football team, which currently plays in the Argentine Primera División. Talleres' main rival is Belgrano: Their rivalry is known as "el clásico cordobés".
In field hockey, the club is affiliated to amateur Córdoba Field Hockey Federation, where its teams compete.
History
The club was founded in 1913 as Atlético Talleres Central Córdoba by workers of the Córdoba Central Railway, with support from the company. In 1914 Talleres joined the Córdoba local league.In 1969 the team played for the first time in the Argentine Primera División in the Nacional Championship. During the 1970s, the heyday of the Córdoba local league in the national scene, they participated several times in the Nacional championship, in 1976 Luis Ludueña was the championship top scorer with 12 goals, in the 1977 Nacional Championship Talleres finished in second place, losing to Independiente the finals on the away goals rule, and in 1978 José Reinaldi scored 18 goals and was the championship top scorer. Talleres contributed three players to the Argentine squad that won the 1978 FIFA World Cup, with Talleres' captain Luis Galván as a starter in the final as a center back. Miguel Oviedo and Jose Daniel Valencia were substitutes. The '78 WC team featured several other prominent players that got their start in the golden era of the Córdoba local league, such as Mario Kempes and Osvaldo Ardiles, both at Instituto Atletico Central Cordoba in the early-1970s.
Starting in 1980, Talleres became a regular of the Metropolitano championship and finished in third place.
Talleres played in the Argentine Primera División until the 1993 Torneo Clausura when Talleres was relegated to the Primera B Nacional. Talleres was promoted to Argentine Primera División after the 1993–94 championship, but was again related after a poor performance in 1994–95 season. The following season, the club finished first during the Clausura tournament of the Second Division but lost the Championship to Huracán de Corrientes.
In 1998, during a game against CSA from Brazil.
The following season, Talleres' good performance in first division qualified the team to play the 2001 Copa Mercosur and the 2002 Copa Libertadores, being the first and only team from Córdoba to qualify for those continental tournaments. Talleres reached the round of 16 in the Mercosur, only to lose against Gremio. In Copa Libertadores, Talleres had a poor performance, being eliminated in the first stage.
Despite finishing in third place during the Torneo Clausura tournament of the 2003–04 season and qualifying for the Copa Libertadores again, Talleres was relegated, due to poor results in the previous 2 seasons, after losing to Argentinos Juniors in the promotion/relegation play-off. By Argentine rules, the team lost its Libertadores bid because of this.
In 2008–09 Talleres was dismissed again, this time to the Torneo Argentino A via the point average system despite finishing in 12th place of 20 teams in Primera B Nacional.
On 15 November 2010, the IFFHS produced a report on the top 200 teams in the American continent from 2001 to that date. Talleres was No. 130, the highest position for a Córdoba Province team in the ranking.
In May 2013, Talleres was promoted to Primera B Nacional after defeating San Jorge by 1–0. Later, Talleres returned to the third division but it was promoted in 2015, and, in 2016, after 12 years Talleres earned the promotion to First Division.
In 2019, Talleres played once again the Copa Libertadores.
Colours and badge
The colours are specified on Talleres' by-law. These are blue and white. The badge has a simple and traditional design and it has the same colours of the shirt.Home kit
Away kit
Players
Current squad
Out on loan
Honours
National
League
- Copa Hermandad : 1977
- Primera B Nacional : 1996, 1997–98, 2016
- Torneo Federal A : 2012–13, 2015
International
- Copa Conmebol : 1999
Regional
- Liga Cordobesa de Fútbol : 1915, 1916, 1918, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1934, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1944, 1945, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1958, 1960, 1963, 1969, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979
Records
All-time records
- Victory:
- * Primera División – 8–2 v Mariano Moreno in 1982.
- * Primera B Nacional – 6–0 v Huracán Corrientes in 1997.
- * En el Torneo Argentino A – 5–1 a Estudiantes de Río Cuarto en 2010.
- * Copa Argentina – 4–1 v General Paz Juniors in 2011.
- * Liga Cordobesa de Fútbol – 10–0 v Sportivo Belgrano in 1951.
- Defeat:
- * Primera División – 0–12 v Argentinos Juniors in 1986.
- * Primera B Nacional – 0–4 v Central Córdoba in 1993 and Almirante Brown in 2007.
- * Torneo Argentino A – 1–5 v Guillermo Brown in 2011.
- * Copa Argentina – 0–2 v Defensa y Justicia in 2016.
- Most goals scored overall – 163, Miguel Antonio Romero
- Most appearances overall – 502, Luis Galván
- Most goals scored on AFA tournaments – 75, Mario Bevilacqua
- Most appearances on AFA tournaments – 366, Miguel Oviedo
- Most goals scored on international tournaments – 5, Pablo Cuba
- Most appearances on international tournaments – 20, Mario Cuenca and Julián Maidana
- Goalkeeper's most unbeaten streak – 701 minutes, Guido Herrera
Other records
- It has the fourth longest unbeaten streak worldwide.
- It has the third unbeaten streak in AFA tournaments, after Midland and Boca Juniors.
- Talleres won the 2016 Primera B Nacional unbeaten and it is the only team in Argentina that could achieve this performance.
- It is the only team in Córdoba that played Copa Libertadores.
- Along with Racing and Godoy Cruz, they are the non-porteños teams which had the best performance on Primera División, finishing in the 2nd place once each.
- It is the non-porteño team which contributed the most in giving players to the Argentina national football team for the FIFA World Cup.
- It has one of the biggest virtual communities of Argentina.
- There were attendances of more than 60000 people even in third division' matches.
- Along with América Mineiro, they are the only teams that were never defeated in an U-20 Copa Libertadores match.
- It reached the 36th position in the Club World Ranking.