Independiente Rivadavia

Club Sportivo Independiente Rivadavia (mostly known simply as Independiente Rivadavia) is a football club from Mendoza, Argentina. The team currently plays in Argentine Primera División, the first major league in Argentine Football league system.

Independiente Rivadavia

Full name	Club Sportivo Independiente Rivadavia
Nickname(s)	Lepra, El Azul.
Founded	24 January 1913; 111 years ago (1913-01-24)
Ground	Estadio Bautista Gargantini
Capacity	24,000
Chairman	Daniel Vila
Manager	Alfredo Berti
League	Primera División
2023	1st
Website	independienterivadavia.com.ar
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Independiente Rivadavia played in the Argentine Primera in 1968, 1973, 1977, 1979–80 and 1982, when the team reached the quarter-finals of the National Championship. That year Independiente was eliminated in the play-offs by the team that would later reach the Championship, Ferro Carril Oeste.

History

In 2023, Independiente Rivadavia promoted to Liga Profesional for the first time in history from 2024 season after defeating Almirante Brown 0–2 and Champions of Primera Nacional.

Honours

National

• Primera Nacional
  • Winners (1): 2023
• Torneo Argentino A
  • Winners (2): 1998-99, 2006–07

Regional

• Federación Mendocina de Football
  • Winners (4): 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916
• Unión Mendocina de Football
  • Winners (4): 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920
• Copa Competencia 1917-1921
  • Winners (4): 1917, 1918, 1919 1920
• Primera A de Liga Mendocina
  • Winners (25): 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1932, 1935, 1936, 1938, 1940, 1945, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1967, 1970, 1972, 1976, 1978, 1992-93, 1993-94, 2007 (formativa), 2010
• Primera B de Liga Mendocina
  • Winners (1): 1998
• Copa Competencia
  • Winners (5): 1924, 1925, 1926, 1929, 1932

Players

Current squad

Current squad of Independiente Rivadavia as of 17 September 2024 (edit)
Sources: Argentine Soccer

No. Position Player 1  ARG GK Ezequiel Centurión 32  ARG GK Gonzalo Marinelli  ARG GK Agustín Lastra 2  ARG DF Bruno Bianchi 3  ARG DF Imanol Segovia 5  ARG DF Esteban Burgos 14  ARG DF Luciano Gómez 15  ARG DF Mateo Ortale 16  ARG DF Tobías Ostchega 20  ARG DF Nahuel Gallardo 23  ARG DF Francisco Petrasso 25  ARG DF Federico Milo 29  ARG DF Luciano Abecasis 40  PAR DF Iván Villalba 41  ARG DF Matías Ruiz Díaz 42  ARG DF Sheyko Studer 6  ARG MF Agustín Mulet 8  SYR MF Ezequiel Ham

No. Position Player 10  ARG MF Gonzalo Álvez 11  ARG MF Diego Tonetto 17  ARG MF Lautaro Ríos 18  ARG MF Julián Ascacíbar 19  ARG MF Antonio Napolitano 24  ARG MF Luis Sequeira 26  ARG MF Franco Romero 28  ARG MF Gonzalo Ríos 36  USA MF Joel Soñora 7  ARG FW Victorio Ramis 9  PAR FW Jorge Sanguina 13  ARG FW Juan Cavallaro 22  COL FW Sebastián Villa 31  ARG FW Mauricio Asenjo 36  PAR FW Fredy Vera 39  PAR FW Fernando Romero 43  ARG FW Fabrizio Sartori  ARG FW Federico Castro

Manager: Martín Cicotello

Former players

Main category: Independiente Rivadavia footballers

Managers

• Juan Carlos Murúa (1983–85)
• Claudio "Turco" García
• Darío Felman (2003–04)
• Roque Alfaro (2006)
• Roberto Trotta (2006–07), (2007–08)
• Fernando Quiroz (2009–10)
• Jorge Luis Ghiso (2010)
• Roberto Trotta (2013–14)
• Ricardo Rodriguez (2014)
• Daniel Garnero (2014–15)
• Pablo Quinteros (2015–16)
• Felipe Canedo (2016)
• Daniel Cordoba (2016)
• Martin Astudillo (2016–17)
• Alfredo Berti (2017)
• José Romero (2017)
• Pablo de Muner (2017)
• Gabriel Gómez (2017–2019)
• Luciano Theiler (2019)
• Matías Minich (2019–20)
• Marcelo Straccia (2020–21)
• Gabriel Gómez (2021–22)
• Ever Demalde (2022–23)
• Alfredo Berti (2023)
• Rodolfo de Paoli (2023–24)
• Martín Cicotello (2024–present)

References

External links

• Independiente Rivadavia on Twitter
• Official website (archived 8 July 2007)

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