| Full name | Belgrano Athletic Club | ||
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| Union | Unión Argentina de Rugby | ||
| Founded | August 17, 1896 | ||
| Location | Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
| Ground(s) | Belgrano | ||
| President | Gonzalo Piñero | ||
| League(s) | Torneo de la URBA | ||
| 2011 | 5th | ||
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Belgrano Athletic Club is an amateur sports club from the Belgrano neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. One of Argentina's oldest institutions still in existence, Belgrano is one of the four clubs that founded the Argentine Rugby Union.
Belgrano currently has competitive teams in rugby union, field hockey, tennis, squash, cricket, bowls and swimming.
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The clubs facilities are divided between two locations: its main building is located in Belgrano, and the other site is located in Pilar. The facilities at the main site include a regulation rugby union pitch, a field hockey pitch, twelve tennis courts, an olympic size swimming pool and a football pitch. The site in Pilar has three full size rugby pitches, six youth pitches another hockey pitch and another swimming pool.
There are records of a football match played by the members of the "Club Inglés de Belgrano" in 1894. Belgrano Athletic Club was officially founded on August 17, 1896, as a multi sports club. Its football team played in the Primera División for the first time in 1896.
Belgrano AC participated in the Argentine football league between 1896 and 1916 during the amateur era, their first participation came in 1896. The squad won three league titles in 1899, 1904 and 1908, and also won a number of other tournaments including the Tie Cup in 1900 and the Copa de Honor Cousenier in 1907.
Belgrano Athletic played one of the earliest football rivalries in Argentine football against Belgrano neighbours Alumni. Both teams were so strong that they won all of the thirteen league titles contested between 1899 and 1911.
Belgrano was relegated from the Argentine Primera División in 1916.
Belgrano Athletic rugby union team is one of the most successful teams in the Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires. The team has won a total of 10 provincial titles. [1]
In 1899, along with Buenos Aires FC, Lomas and Rosario, the club would become a founding member of "The River Plate Rugby Union", the origin of today's Argentine Rugby Union.
Its main rivals are Belgrano district's other big club, Alumni.
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| Establishment | 1912 (first recorded match) |
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| As of 22 October 2011 Source: Ground profile |
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The first recorded cricket match held on the clubs cricket ground came when the Northern Suburbs and the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1912.[2] First-class cricket was first played there in 1927 when Argentina played the Marylebone Cricket Club. Five further first-class matches were played there, the last of which saw Argentina play Sir TEW Brinckman's XI in 1938.[3] Still in use to the present day, the ground held matches in the South American Championships and the Americas Championships in recent times, as well as hosting matches in the 2009 ICC World Cricket League Division Three.[2]
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