Talleres de Córdoba

Talleres

Full name	Club Atlético Talleres
Nickname(s)	La T (The T) Albiazul (Blue and white) Matador (Killer) Tallarín (Tagliatelle)
Founded	12 October 1913; 111 years ago (1913-10-12)
Ground	Estadio Mario Alberto Kempes[1]
Capacity	57,000
Chairman	Andrés Fassi
Manager	Alexander Medina
League	Primera División
2023	2nd
Website	https://www.clubtalleres.com.ar/
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Club Atlético Talleres (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkluβ aˈtletiko taˈʎeɾes]; lit. 'Workshops Athletic Club'), mostly known simply as Talleres [taˈʃeɾes] in Rioplatense accent and [taˈʒeɾes] or [taˈjeɾes] in Cordobés accent; lit. 'Workshops') or (Talleres de Córdoba [taˈʎeɾes ðe ˈkoɾðoβa]; Córdoba Workshops), is an Argentine professional sports club based the city of Córdoba.

The institution is mostly known for its football team, which currently plays in the Argentine Primera División. Although it was never a first division champion, it was runner-up in 1977 and has an international trophy from 1999.

Talleres is well known for being one of the best teams outside Buenos Aires, having participated in numerous international tournaments. "La T" also invests actively on its Academy, which has nurtured a number of well-known footballers: José Luis Cuciuffo, Daniel Willington, Luis Antonio Ludueña, Luis Galván, and Victorio Ocaño, in previous years; and Javier Pastore, Julio Buffarini, Cristian Pavón, and Emanuel Reynoso in recent years.

Talleres' main rival is Belgrano: Their rivalry is known as "el clásico cordobés".

The club was founded in 1913 as "Atlético Talleres Central Córdoba" by workers of the Córdoba Central Railway, with support from the company. Apart from Atlético Talleres, one of the clubs affiliated to "Federación Cordobesa de Fútbol" (Córdoba Football Federation) 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 12 October 1913) 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 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 (later remembered by fans as "The Final of the Century", Talleres won its first Argentine title, the 1997/98 Primera B Nacional championship on penalty kick shootout against all-time rival Belgrano de Córdoba, earning them a promotion to the First Division.^[2] Next year the club won its first and only international title, the 1999 Copa CONMEBOL (the precursor of the current Copa Sudamericana)^{[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]} 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.^[10] 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.^[11]

In 2019, Talleres played once again the Copa Libertadores. In 2021, Talleres played Copa Sudamericana. After a very good 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 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 participations for 2023. For the second year in a row, Talleres was runner-up in Copa Argentina, losing the final 0-1 to Patronato.

In the last years, Talleres was famous for their good Reserves and Academy divisions. Talleres won the national Reserves tournament two times in a row in 2016-17 and 2017-18. The club has also sold players to important clubs in Europe, in a 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.^[12]

Notes

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.^[13]

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.^[13]

As of 31 August 2024.^[14]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 3 DF  ARG Lucas Suárez 4 DF  CHI Matías Catalán 5 DF  COL Kevin Mantilla 6 DF  ARG Juan Rodríguez 7 MF  ARG Matías Galarza 8 MF  PAR Matías Galarza (on loan from Vasco da Gama) 9 FW  ARG Federico Girotti 10 MF  ARG Rubén Botta 11 FW  ARG Valentín Depietri 13 DF  ARG Alex Vigo 14 FW  ARG Alejandro Martínez 15 DF  PAR Blas Riveros 16 DF  VEN Miguel Navarro (on loan from Colorado Rapids) 17 GK  ARG Lautaro Morales (on loan from Lanús)

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 FW  ARG Ramiro Ruiz Rodríguez (on loan from Atlético Tucumán) 20 MF  ARG Franco Moyano 22 GK  ARG Guido Herrera (captain) 23 MF  ARG Matías Esquivel (on loan from Mamelodi Sundowns) 25 FW  ARG Cristian Tarragona 26 MF  ARG Marcos Portillo 27 MF  COL Juan Portilla 28 MF  ARG Juan Portillo 29 DF  ARG Gastón Benavídez 30 MF  CHI Ulises Ortegoza 32 FW  CHI Bruno Barticciotto 33 GK  ARG Joaquín Blázquez 34 FW  ARG Sebastián Palacios 38 MF  ARG Gustavo Albarracín

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  ARG Ian Escobar (at San Miguel until 31 December 2024) — DF  ARG Augusto Schott (at Newell's Old Boys until 31 December 2024) — DF  ARG Sheyko Studer (at Independiente Rivadavia until 31 December 2025) — MF  ARG Gonzalo Álvez (at Independiente Rivadavia until 31 December 2024) — MF  ARG Maximiliano Gatani (at Estudiantes de Río Cuarto until 31 December 2024) — MF  ARG Fernando Juárez (at Platense until 31 December 2024) — MF  ARG Luis Sequeira (at Independiente Rivadavia until 31 December 2025) — MF  ARG Carlos Villalba (at Platense until 31 December 2024) — FW  COL Luis Angulo (at Central Córdoba (SdE) until 30 June 2025) — FW  ARG Diego Barrera (at Juárez U23 until 30 June 2025) — FW  COL Emerson Batalla (at Allianza until 31 December 2024)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  ARG Exequiel Beltramone (at Chacarita Juniors until 31 December 2024) — FW  ARG Nahuel Bustos (at San Lorenzo until 30 June 2025) — FW  ARG Bruno Juncos (at Colón until 31 December 2024) — FW  ARG Ignacio Lago (at Colón until 31 December 2024) — FW  ARG Mauro Ortiz (at Nueva Chicago until 31 December 2024) — FW  BRA Guilherme Parede (at Kashima Antlers until 31 December 2024) — FW  ARG David Romero (at Unión La Calera until 31 December 2024) — FW  ARG Agustin Venezia (at Deportivo Cuenca until 30 June 2025) — FW  ARG Luciano Viano (at Arsenal de Sarandí until 31 December 2024) — FW  ARG David Zalazar (at Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP) until 31 December 2024)

• Primera B Nacional
  • Winners (2): 1997–98, 2016
• Torneo Federal A
  • Winners (1): 2015
• Torneo Argentino A
  • Winners (1): 2012–13

• Copa Conmebol
  • Winners (1): 1999

• Liga Cordobesa de Fútbol
  • Winners (27): 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
• Campeonato Preparación LCF
  • Winners (11): 1937, 1938, 1940, 1942, 1944, 1946, 1950, 1951, 1952, 2011, 2013
• Campeonato Clausura LCF
  • Winners (6): 1960, 1964, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978
• Campeonato Apertura LCF
  • Winners (4): 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979
• Campeonato Competencia LCF
  • Winners (3): 1960, 1963, 1966
• Campeonato Sidral LCF
  • Winners (2): 1932, 1933
• Campeonato Iniciación LCF
  • Winners (2): 1960, 1963
• Campeonato de la Bandera
  • Winners (1): 1915
• Campeonato Vélez Sarsfield
  • Winners (1): 1916
• Copa de la Bandera
  • Winners (1): 1917
• Copa Gath y Chaves
  • Winners (1): 1925
• Campeonato de Honor
  • Winners (1): 1933
• Campeonato Béccar Varela
  • Winners (1): 1934
• Campeonato Clasificación LCF
  • Winners (1): 1969
• Campeonato Zonal LCF
  • Winners (1): 1974

• Copa Hermandad (1): 1977

• Victory:
  • Primera División – 8–2 v Mariano Moreno in 1982.^[15]
  • Primera B Nacional – 6–0 v Huracán Corrientes in 1997.^[16]
  • En el Torneo Argentino A – 5–1 a Estudiantes de Río Cuarto en 2010.^[17]
  • Copa Argentina – 4–1 v General Paz Juniors in 2011.
  • Liga Cordobesa de Fútbol – 10–0 v Sportivo Belgrano in 1951.^[18]
• Defeat:
  • Primera División – 0–12 v Argentinos Juniors in 1986.^[19]
  • 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.^[20]
  • 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

• It has the fourth longest unbeaten streak worldwide.^[21][22]
• It has the third unbeaten streak in AFA tournaments, after Midland and Boca Juniors.^[23][24]
• Talleres won the 2016 Primera B Nacional unbeaten and it is the only team in Argentina that could achieve this performance.^[25]
• 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.^[26]
• There were attendances of more than 60000 people even in third division' matches.^[27][28]
• 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.^[29]
• It was one of the clubs with the highest attendance in 2024.^[30]

• Official website (in Spanish)