San Martín de Tucumán

San Martín (Tucumán)

Full name	Club Atlético San Martín
Nickname(s)	Los Cirujas, El Santo
Founded	November 2, 1909
Ground	Estadio La Ciudadela, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina
Capacity	28,000[1]
Chairman	Roberto Sagra
Manager	Favio Orsi & Sergio Gómez
League	Argentine Primera Nacional
2018–19	25th (Relegated)
Home colours Away colours

Club Atlético San Martín (mostly known as San Martín de Tucumán) is an Argentine sports club founded in 1909 and based in the city of San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán Province. The club is notable for its football team, which currently plays in the Argentine Primera B Nacional, the second division of the Argentine football league system.

Other sports practised at the club are field hockey, handball, martial arts, rugby union, swimming, tennis and volleyball.

History

San Martin played every season in the Nacional championship between 1968 and 1985. El Santo has also played 3 seasons in the Argentine Primera División, in 1988–89, 1991–92 and in 2008–09.

The club's most notable victory was a 6–1 win over Boca Juniors in La Bombonera on November 20, 1988. After playing the 2008–09 season in Argentina's First Division, San Martín was relegated to Primera B Nacional. In 2011, after losing the Promoción, San Martín was relegated again to a lower division, the Torneo Argentino A.

Current squad

As of 24 February 2020^[2]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK ARG Juan Jaime 4 DF ARG Rodrigo Moreira 7 FW ARG Gonzalo Rodríguez 12 GK ARG Patricio Albornoz 14 GK ARG Pedro Fernández 20 DF ARG Lucas Diarte 24 DF ARG Nahuel Menéndez 25 DF ARG Gustavo Abregú 27 FW ARG Luciano Pons 29 FW ARG Lucas González 30 MF ARG Emiliano Purita (on loan from San Lorenzo) 34 DF ARG Juan Orellana — GK ARG Ignacio Arce (on loan from Unión Santa Fe) — DF ARG Emiliano Amor (on loan from Vélez Sarsfield)

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF ARG Pier Barrios — DF ARG Abel Luciatti — DF ARG Germán Voboril — MF ARG Mauro Bellone — MF ARG Nicolás Castro — MF ARG Matías Fissore — MF URU Ignacio González — MF ARG Gonzalo Gutiérrez — MF ARG Juan Mercier — MF ARG Claudio Mosca — FW ARG Ramiro Costa — FW ARG Matías Gómez (on loan from Gimnasia LP) — FW ARG Juan Imbert — FW ARG Sebastián Matos

Titles

National

• Copa Gral. P. Ramírez (1): 1944
• Primera B Nacional (1): 2007–08
• Torneo Argentino B (1): 2005
• Torneo Argentino C (1): 1988

Regional

• Federación Tucumana de Fútbol (20): 1919, 1923, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1947, 1949, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1976
• Liga Tucumana de Fútbol (7): 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1987, 2004
• Copa Competencia (7): 1921, 1922, 1936, 1940, 1947, 1948, 1964
• Copa de Honor (12): 1922, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1955, 1965, 1973, 1974
• Copa de Preparación (1): 1975

References

External links

• San Martín de Tucumán on Twitter