Defensores de Cambaceres

Defensores de Cambaceres

Full name	Club Defensores de Cambaceres
Nickname(s)	Camba, El Rojo
Founded	October 12, 1921
Ground	Estadio Defensores de Cambaceres Ensenada, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Capacity: 8,500)
League	Primera C Metropolitana
2010-11	15th
Home colours Away colours

Club Defensores de Cambaceres is a football club from the city of Ensenada, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. The team currently plays in Primera C Metropolitana, which is the regionalised fourth tier of the Argentine Football Association.

The club was founded in 1921 with the name Club Social y Deportivo Defensores de Cambaceres, and the kit color (red) was chosen as a homage to Independiente, one of the most important teams of Argentina.

Defensores has never played at the national level in Argentine football, but it only affiliated to the AFA in 1957. The squad has been promoted to the regional 3rd division (Primera B Metropolitana) several times, but has never made it further up the pyramid.

Titles

• Primera C: 2

1990/91, 1998/99

• Primera D: 2

1959, 1976

• Liga Amateur Platense: 11 ⁽¹⁾

1927, 1929, 1931, 1934, 1935, 1939, 1941, 1944, 1946, 1950, 1956^[1]

⁽¹⁾ This is a Regional football league which includes teams from La Plata, Berisso, Ensenada, Magdalena and Punta Indio districts, all of them located in the Buenos Aires Province. It currently has 25 teams affiliated.^[1]

Notable former players

• José Luis Calderón
• Óscar Alcides Mena
• Manuel Pellegrina
• Pablo Sebastián Casado
• César Luis González
• Javier Rossi

See also

• List of football clubs in Argentina
• Argentine football league system

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Liga Amateur Platense - Wikipedia Spanish site

External links

• Revista Tribuna Roja (fan site) (Spanish)