Albion F.C.

The Albion Football Club, short Albion, is a football club from Montevideo in Uruguay.

History

The club was founded on June 1, 1891 under the name Football Asociation and is the oldest pure football club in the country. In the year it took place on August 2 and August 25, instead of two friendlies against the Montevideo Cricket Club, which is lost with 1:3 and 0:6. Then you changed the club name to the currently valid. On 15 and August 16, 1896 completed games against the Retiro Belgrano Athletic Club and Athletic Club are listed, which they won in Buenos Aires with 4:1 or 5:3. Then took to the game against the Argentine capital club Lobos Athletic Club probably the first international football match on Uruguayan soil instead.

Albion that his encounters fought out in the early phase of the club's history in Punta Carretas, played first-class in the years 1900 to 1905. This one was one of the four founding members of La Liga. In 1900 the club also won the Erstaustragung the Copa Competencia. In that year, the team of the club placed in the league in the second place the final table of the Primera División. In the table ranked in the following years each on the 5th Place. In the season 1902 Albion introduced the only team left the dots against the bottom club Triunfo. After not the Primera División belonged in the years 1906 and 1907, the club returned to the season of 1908 back to the upper house of the Uruguayan football. In that year they finished sixth out of ten teams. However, although only the last table INTREPIDO is run as losers, Albion came in 1908 since the last time in club history in La Liga on. In 1913 Albion played on barrialer league level. On May 3, 1914 it was involved in the founding of the League Universitaria de Deportes. This was done by a team known as William Poole. 1924 reported the association for the extra, but not stepped up to the end. From 1931 to then played back on barrialer level before 1942 again was part of the extra and this time also took part there. On 1 June 1953, the team of the club was revived. You won the Torneo unbeaten Preparation range of ON. Then we went to under the umbrella which was founded on July 29, 1953 Federación Uruguaya de Fútbol amateur. Within this comprehensive four leagues and consisting of more than 60 clubs association you won the championship in 1953 and 1954. The games wore Albion at that time on the field of Aeródromo Boiso Lanza. In the 1970s they played in the league Universitaria de Fútbol and was commissioned in 1976 for a short time for one year a merger with Miramar in the Primera B a. In that time the team was called Albion Miramar.

The team of the club plays in the Segunda División amateur. The matches will take place in the Parque " Dr. Enrique Falco Lichtemberger ".

Achievements

  • Copa Competencia 1900
  • Uruguayan Vice Champion 1900

Coach

  • To 24 January 2012: Adrián Malvarez
  • From January 25, 2012: José Ignacio Ordóñez ( interim coach )
  • Leonardo Blanco

Other divisions

Cricket, baseball, tennis, basketball and judo are other sports that have also been carried on in conjunction.

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