Independiente Rivadavia

Independiente Rivadavia

Full name	Club Sportivo Independiente Rivadavia
Nickname(s)	Lepra, El Azul.
Founded	24 January 1913 (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

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 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)

External links

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