River Plate affiliated to the Argentine Football Association in 1905, debuting in the third division against Facultad de Medicina. The boxes they were working with just said "The River Plate" (the name the English gave to the Río de la Plata) and that inscription was taken to name the new club. The name was chosen because of an incident during the construction of Buenos Aires Port: one of the members had seen how the workers of Dique nº 3 left their duties for a while to play a football match. The institution was formed after the merger of two clubs, "Santa Rosa" and "La Rosales", with Leopoldo Bard being elected as its first president. The team that achieved the promotion to first division in 1908Īccording with the club's official version, River Plate was founded on, close to the La Boca neighborhood (later the home of fierce rivals Boca Juniors).
Apart from football, the club hosts a large variety of sports such as athletics, basque pelota, bowls, chess, basketball, handball, cestoball, gymnastics, field hockey, karate, roller hockey, roller skating, swimming, taekwondo, tennis, volleyball, waterpolo, and eSports. River's home stadium, the Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti, nicknamed El Monumental, is the largest in the country. Matches between them are known as Superclásico, and the two teams' rivalry is amongst the most heated in the sport, due to their local and global popularity. River has a fierce rivalry with Boca Juniors. Among other achievements, River Plate is at the top of the list in the All-time Argentine Primera División table, being the Argentine team with most games won, fewest losses, most points accumulated, most goals scored, fewest goals against and best goal difference since the first championship held in 1891, and is first in the Historical table of the Copa Libertadores, being the South American team with most games won. The club placed ninth in the FIFA Club of the Century poll in December 2000, and in 2010, the International Federation of Football History & Statistics also placed River Plate in ninth place in a list of the best teams in the world during the 1990s and 2000s, ranking as the top South American club. In a survey published by the Argentine Football Association in 2016, 6 out of 11 players in the all-time Argentina national squad had played for River Plate. River Plate is the first and only team to simultaneously hold CONMEBOL's three current major international competitions, after winning the 2014 Copa Sudamericana, 2015 Recopa Sudamericana and the 2015 Copa Libertadores. In addition, River Plate's reserve team won the U-20 Copa Libertadores in 2012. Furthermore, the club has also won six tournaments organized by AFA and AUF together: five Copa Dr. River Plate's official international achievements include four Copa Libertadores, one Intercontinental Cup, one Supercopa Sudamericana, one Copa Sudamericana, three Recopa Sudamericana, one Copa Interamericana and one Suruga Bank Championship. Īt international level, River Plate has won 18 titles, with 12 organised by CONMEBOL and other international bodies. Domestic achievements also include 14 national cups, with the 2021 Trofeo de Campeones as the most recent, making River Plate the country's most successful team in domestic competitions with a total of 49 top-division titles.
Although many sports are practiced at the club, River Plate is best known for its professional football team, which has won Argentina's Primera División championship a record of 37 times, its latest title in 2021.
Founded in 1901, the club is named after the English name for the city's estuary, Río de la Plata. Sports club based in the Núñez neighborhood of Buenos Aires. Club Atlético River Plate, commonly known as River Plate, is an Argentine professional