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The Athletic Club Banfield is an Argentine football club, located in the village of Banfield, the party of Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires province. Founded in 1896 by residents of the town of British origin (mostly English and some Scottish and Irish) and plays in the Primera Division Argentina.
History Origin and foundation of the club
Banfield Athletic Club is one of the oldest football clubs in Argentina. In the second half of the 1880s, many Anglo families settled in the village of Banfield, located 14 miles south of the city of Buenos Aires. These families, their homes in the style of English villas and Victorian social dynamics, gave the suburb had a distinctly British.
The glorious history began on January 21, 1896, when a group of professionals and English merchants resident in Banfield decided to found a club which they named the village. This name answered to the railroad station, established in 1873 in honor of Edward Banfield, first manager of the company's Great Southern Railway. Leading the group of founders were Daniel Kingsland and George Burton, former president and vice. Kingsland was an exporter of cattle in Britain and an accountant Burton graduated from Cambridge.
The club began as an institution to fulfill a social role up of sport and as the opening match on 26 January a meeting was held in cricket, sport fan who was President Kingsland.
club's first pitch was a field for grazing located two blocks north of the railway station, next to the tracks on the east side.
Stadium Main article: Estadio Florencio Sola
Florencio Sola The stadium was built in 1940 and named after former president of the institution in the most glorious period in its history: Don Florencio "Lencho" Sola.
To celebrate its opening was a match against Independiente, in which the team Avellaneda won 1:0, with goals from Arsenio Erico. At this stage the drill won a record 39 matches unbeaten from 1950 to 1953. The stadium was considered advanced for its time because it was the first club of so-called "kids" on concrete stands have, even before some of the big teams.
is situated on the corner of Peña and Arenales in the city of Banfield. It recently opened a new area 2 trays with plates, boxes, wardrobes and radio and TV booths, which extended its capacity to almost 40,000 spectators.
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