Brown (Adrogué)

Full name	Club Atlético Brown
Nickname(s)	Tricolor
Founded	3 March 1945 (1945-03-03)
Ground	Estadio Lorenzo Arandilla Adrogué, Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina
Capacity	4,500
Chairman	Adrián Vairo
Manager	Pablo Vicó
League	Primera Nacional
2023	Primera Nacional Zone B, 9th
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Club Atlético Brown (mostly known as Brown de Adrogué) is an Argentine football club from the Adrogué neighborhood in Greater Buenos Aires. The team currently plays in Primera B Nacional, the second division of the Argentine football league system.

History

The team that won the Primera D title in 1980

The club was formed in 1945 as a multidisciplinary sports club. Brown, which has never played in Primera División, reached its highest league position in the 1999–00 season, finishing in 1st place in Primera B Metropolitana tournament, but could not promote to Primera B Nacional, being defeated in the play-off semi-final.

In June 2013, Brown won the play-off series defeating Almagro at the finals by penalty shoot-out. Therefore the squad promoted to the upper division, Primera B Nacional, for the first time in the history of the club.

Brown de Adrogué won its second title in 2015, the Primera B Metropolitana championship, therefore the squad promoted to the second division, Primera B Nacional. In September 2018, Brown achieved its most important victory to date, when the squad eliminated Independiente from the Copa Argentina after beating them by penalty shoot-out.^[1]

Players

Current squad

As of 29 June 2022

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  ARG Federico Díaz — GK  ARG Horacio Ramírez — DF  ARG Nicolás Arrechea — DF  ARG Luciano Balbi — DF  ARG Mauro Bazán — DF  ARG Ariel Kippes — DF  ARG Emiliano Mayola — DF  ARG Enzo Ortiz — DF  ARG Nahuel Rodríguez — DF  ARG Ayrton Sánchez — DF  ARG Leonardo Zaragoza — MF  ARG Lucas Algozino — MF  ARG Alexis Castaño — MF  ARG Elías Contreras (loan from Independiente) — MF  ARG Hernán Da Campo

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  ARG Marcos Giménez — MF  ARG Julián Giménez — MF  ARG Jacobo Mansilla — MF  ARG Gonzalo Miceli — MF  ARG Matías Noble — MF  COL Juan Diego Ospina (loan from Medellín) — MF  ARG Matías Sánchez — FW  ARG Mateo Acosta — FW  ARG Oscar Belinetz — FW  ARG Franco Benítez (loan from Argentinos) — FW  ARG Juan Mendoza — FW  ARG Juan Román Pucheta (loan from Argentinos) — FW  ARG Rodrigo Sayavedra

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  ARG Alejandro Gómez (at Comunicaciones until 31 December 2022) — FW  ARG Facundo Bruera (at Gimnasia y Tiro until 31 December 2022)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  ARG Joel Martínez (at Gimnasia y Tiro until 31 December 2022)

Honours

• Primera D (1): 1980
• Primera B (1): 2015

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Club Atlético Brown.

• C.A. Brown on Facebook
• Club website Archived 2012-04-16 at the Wayback Machine
• La Hora Tricolor