Talleres de Córdoba


Club Atlético Talleres, mostly known simply as Talleres, is an Argentine professional sports club based in the city of Córdoba.
The institution is mostly known for its football team, which currently plays in the Argentine Primera División. Talleres was three times runner-up of the First Division, and two times runner-up of the Copa Argentina.
They won an international tournament in 1999, the Copa Conmebol. "La T" participated in many recent editions of the Copa Sudamericana as well as the Copa Libertadores, the highest level football competition in South America, in which they reached the Quarter-Finals in 2022.
"La T" also invests actively on its Academy, which has nurtured a number of well-known footballers: José Luis Cuciuffo, Daniel Willington,, Luis Galván, and Victorio Ocaño, in previous years; and Javier Pastore, Julio Buffarini, Cristian Pavón, and Emanuel Reynoso in recent years.
Galván, as well as Miguel Oviedo and José Daniel Valencia, were part of the squad that lead Argentina's national team to win the 1978 FIFA World Cup. Other players that made it to their national teams include Mateo Retegui, Facundo Medina, Piero Hincapié, Ramón Sosa, and Guido Herrera.
[Talleres de Córdoba, Argentina|Córdoba (women)|Talleres women's team] plays in the Primera División A and is one of the most winning teams in the country. is the all-time scorer taking into account both men's and women's divisions of the club. Academy-graduated players who made it to Argentina's national team include Catalina Primo and Paulina Gramaglia.
Talleres' main rival is Belgrano: Their rivalry is known as "el clásico cordobés". Talleres won 96 matches, while their rival won 76 times, in official games. Both teams also share derbies with Instituto and Racing, two other important teams of the city.
Talleres is among the teams with the highest number of spectators per match in the world.
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History

The club was founded in 1913 as "Atlético Talleres Central Córdoba" by workers of the Córdoba Central Railway, with support from the company. They were mostly English, among which there was their founder, Thomas Lawson. They took their blue and white colours from Blackburn Rovers F.C., the club that Lawson supported in England. Apart from Atlético Talleres, one of the clubs affiliated to "Federación Cordobesa de Fútbol" was Olimpo, formed by young players participating in second and third divisions.
In 1913 Olimpo was expelled after their players were involved in a riot in disagreement with some referee decisions. After Olimpo beat Atlético Talleres in a friendly match, the club executives encouraged the merger of both clubs with the aim of adding Olimpo players to their team. In 1914, the merger was fulfilled keeping the name "Talleres Central Córdoba". In 1914 Talleres joined the Córdoba local league.
Under this name, Talleres Central Córdoba won the 1915 and 1916 championships. The following year the club was forced to change its name after some incidents in a match that caused player Horacio Salvatelli to be arrested. When some days later Talleres did not allow its players to a local combined, the body expelled the club from the league. Nevertheless, Talleres would rejoined the league in 1918 under the condition to change its name so the club was registered as "Club Atlético Talleres", also winning the championship that same year. Apart from its name, Talleres had to modify the date of foundation to register as a legal entity.
In 1931 the club was given a land in "Barrio Jardín" to build its own stadium. The project was carried out by engineers Allende Posse and Agenor Villagra, at a cost of $70,000. The stadium was inaugurated on 12 October 1931, with a friendly match between Talleres and Uruguayan side Rampla Juniors. The stadium would be refurbished in 1951 to host a maximum of 18,000 spectators.
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 Football in Argentina|Argentine Primera División|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. They achieved so by not losing any match in the whole tournament, being the first time to accomplish this in Argentine football.
During those years, Talleres has become famous for its good Reserves and Academy divisions. Talleres won the national Reserves Tournament two times in a row in 2016-17 and 2017-18.
In 2019, Talleres played the Copa Libertadores again. In 2021, Talleres played Copa Sudamericana. After an outstanding performance in Copa Argentina, in which "la T" reached the final, and the national league, in which it finished in the third position, Talleres returned once again to Copa Libertadores for the next year.
Talleres made its best performance yet at 2022 Copa Libertadores, by reaching the Quarter-finals. However, the poor performance at the national league left the club with no international participation for 2023. For the second year in a row, Talleres was runner-up in Copa Argentina, losing the final 0-1 to Patronato.
The club has also sold players to important clubs in Europe in that time, in a historical context in which most clubs that sell players directly to UEFA teams are mostly the ones of Buenos Aires. Some of them were Nahuel Bustos, Piero Hincapié, Facundo Medina, Andrés Cubas and Ramón Sosa. Many of them got to play in their national teams.
Other footballers that were capped to play for their country after their time in Talleres include Julio Buffarini and Mateo Retegui; while Alan Franco, Matías Catalán, Miguel Navarro, and Diego Valoyes were capped while they were part of the club.
Between 2023 and 2024, Talleres finished in the second position of the Primera División two times in a row. This allowed the club to be considered one of the best South American clubs of the last decades and secured consecutive berths for playing Copa Libertadores.

Presidents

' - Thomas Lawson
  • ' - Cipriano Sánchez' - Adolfo Hannel
  • ' - Enrique France' - Romulo Canale
  • ' - Enrique Guillaume' - Juan Finlay
  • ' - Thomas Lawson' - Enrique Guillaume
  • ' - Juan Carlos O'Brien' - Antonio Estela
  • ' - Félix Bottini' - Enrique France
  • ' - César Pieri' - Alfredo Barissone
  • ' - Juan Dellacua' - Abel Pereyra
  • ' - Alberto Bernis Sales' - Miguel Tobler
  • ' - José León Chercoles' - Miguel Tobler
  • ' - Francisco Pérez Maciel' - Miguel Tobler
  • ' - Ángel Peralta' - Luis Zapata
  • ' - Carlos Molina' - Edgardo Pérez Cortés
  • ' - Félix Curtino' - Enrique Carratala
  • ' - Félix Curtino' - Aníbal Grecco
  • ' - Pedro Ballester' - Vicente Rossella
  • ' - Arturo Carrasco Gómez' - Edgardo Álvarez Vocos
  • ' - Félix Curtino' - Alfredo Arocena
  • ' - Edgardo Álvarez Vocos' - Rodolfo Berardo
  • ' - Luis Teco' - Abrahan Litvak
  • ' - Avelino Guirales' - Miguel Srur
  • ' - Fernando Rencoret' - Amadeo Nuccetelli
  • ' - Rogelio Egea' - Miguel Macias
  • ' - Egidio Heyd' - Bernabé Muttoni
  • ' - Miguel Srur' - Rafael Lascano
  • ' - Victor Szumik' - Rolando Martin
  • ' - Carlos Dossetti' -
  • ' - Andrés Fassi
;Notes

Managers

Colours and badge

Colours

The C.A. Talleres colours are specified on club's statute, they are dark blue and white. Along its history, other colors have been used for alternate kits such as yellow, orange, bordeaux, grey, black, red, among others.

Badge

The badge has had more than 20 different designs on several records through 100 years of existence of the club, with no precise details about its shape or colors.

Honours

Senior titles

TypeCompetitionTitlesWinning years
National
Supercopa Internacional1
InternationalCopa Conmebol1

Other titles

Titles won in lower divisions:

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, 1979Campeonato Preparación LCF : 1937, 1938, 1940, 1942, 1944, 1946, 1950, 1951, 1952, 2011, 2013Campeonato Clausura LCF : 1960, 1964, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978Campeonato Apertura LCF : 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979Campeonato Competencia LCF : 1960, 1963, 1966Campeonato Sidral LCF : 1932, 1933Campeonato Iniciación LCF : 1960, 1963Campeonato de la Bandera : 1915Campeonato Vélez Sarsfield : 1916Copa de la Bandera : 1917Copa Gath y Chaves : 1925Campeonato de Honor : 1933Campeonato Béccar Varela : 1934Campeonato Clasificación LCF : 1969Campeonato Zonal LCF : 1974

Friendly

  • Copa Hermandad : 1977

Records

All-time records

Victory:

Other records

Women's team

Talleres' women's team, also known as Las Matadoras, plays in the Campeonato de Fútbol Femenino. They joined the national tournaments in 2022, after having played for 10 years in the local league.
Some of their historical players include Florencia Pianello, Yamila Cazón, Paulina Gramaglia, Carolina López, Eliana Capdevila, and Brisa Jara.
In their first season playing at the Primera C, third tier fo Argentine women's football, they got the promotion after reaching the second position, right after San Luis. Two years later, they got the promotion to Primera A, the highest level in women's national football, after winning the championship of Primera B.
Talleres' 2024 season was historic: "Las Matadoras" never lost a match out of the 22 they have played, having won 21 of them and only drawing in the last game.