San_Lorenzo_de_Almagro_(women)
San Lorenzo de Almagro (women)
Football club
San Lorenzo de Almagro Femenino is the women's football section of the San Lorenzo de Almagro sports club based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. They currently play in the Campeonato de Fútbol Femenino, the first division of women's football in Argentina.
| Full name | Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Las Santitas[1] Ciclón[2] Cuervas[3] | |||
| Founded | 16 December 1993; 30 years ago (1993-12-16) | |||
| Ground | Estadio Pedro Bidegain, Flores, Buenos Aires | |||
| Capacity | 47,964 | |||
| Chairman | Horacio Arreceygor [es] | |||
| Manager | Nicolás Basualdo | |||
| League | Campeonato de Fútbol Femenino | |||
| 2023 | 8th | |||
| Website | Club website | |||
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Las Santitas, as its players are called, are one of the more successful women's football teams in Argentina. Within its recorded history, they have won three Primera División titles (2008 Apertura, 2015 and 2021 Apertura). In 2008 San Lorenzo become the first club other than Boca Juniors and River Plate to win a title.[4] They were also the first Argentine team to play in Copa Libertadores Femenina in 2009, its male counterpart having achieved the same in Copa Libertadores in 1960.
San Lorenzo are one of the only four clubs to be champion of the first division, along with Boca, River and UAI Urquiza.
On 12 April 2019, San Lorenzo became the first Argentine women's football club with professional status.[5] In total, 15 women became the first professional women's footballers in Argentina: Eliana Medina, Debora Molina, Sindy Ramírez, Cecilia López, Florencia Coronel, Federica Silvera, Milagros Vargas, Maricel Pereyra, Rocío Vázquez, Rocío Correa, Lavinia Antequera, Vanina Preininger, Ariana Álvarez, Florencia Salazar and Macarena Sánchez.
Current squad
- As of July 2023 [6]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Notable players
FIFA World Cup participants
List of players that were called up for a FIFA Women's World Cup while playing for San Lorenzo de Almagro. In brackets, the tournament played:
Florencia Quiñones (2007)- Florencia Mandrile (2007)
- Analía Almeida (2007)
- Campeonato de Fútbol Femenino (3): 2008 Apertura, 2015, 2021 Apertura
- "Las Santitas se coronaron campeonas". TyCSports. Archived from the original on 18 February 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
- "Independiente-San Lorenzo: el Ciclón ganó un gran clásico de visitante y sigue siendo escolta - 20.11.2016 - LA NACION". LA NACION. 20 November 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
- "San Lorenzo volvió a ser dueño de los terrenos donde estaba el "Viejo Gasómetro"". analisisdigital.com.ar. 14 December 2016. Archived from the original on 16 December 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
- "Fútbol Femenino / San Lorenzo de Almagro". C. A. San Lorenzo (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 August 2023.
- "San Lorenzo firma primeros contratos de fútbol femenino". AP News (in Spanish). 12 April 2019. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
- "Plantel Fútbol Femenino". San Lorenzo de Almagro. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
