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| Full name | Alumni Athletic Club | |
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| Founded | 3 October 1898 [note 1] | |
| Dissolved | 1913 | |
| Ground | (none) | |
| League | Primera División | |
| 1911 | 1st (champion) | |
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Alumni Athletic Club, or simply Alumni, was an Argentine football team active during the first years of the sport in that country. Although officially founded in 1898, the team had been formed in 1893 when a group of students from the Buenos Aires English High School joined Alexander Watson Hutton (considered the "father" of Argentine football)[2] to form a team in order to participate in the championship organized by the Argentine Association Football League (then Argentine Football Association, which had been created that year).
The squad was active until 1911 and was disbanded in 1913 due to internal problems. During the years Alumni was active, the team won a total of 22 titles, including 15 domestic titles (10 Primera División championships and 5 national cups). At international level, Alumni won 7 titles, becoming one of the most important clubs in the history of Argentine football.[3]
- ^ Alumni, el club fantasma del fútbol argentino by Oscar Barnade, Clarín, 21 June 2019
- ^ "Lomas marcó el rumbo", Clarín, 2001-07-15
- ^ "Alumni: en el nombre del fútbol" on Clarín, 2003-04-21
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