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 (1913-01-24)
Ground	Estadio Bautista Gargantini
Capacity	24,000
Chairman	Daniel Vila
Manager	Martín Cicotello
League	Primera División
2023	1st
Home colours Away colours Third colours

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

• Primera Nacional:
  • Winners (1): 2023
• Torneo Argentino A:
  • Winners (2): 1999, 2006–07

Players

Current squad

Current squad of Independiente Rivadavia as of 23 April 2024 (edit)
Sources: Argentine Soccer

No. Position Player 1 ARG GK Mariano Monllor 32 ARG GK Gonzalo Marinelli ARG GK Agustín Lastra 2 ARG DF Bruno Bianchi 3 ARG DF Emmanuel Mas 4 ARG DF Álvaro Dionisio 6 ARG DF Mauro Maidana 14 ARG DF Nehuén Paz 15 ARG DF Mateo Ortale 16 ARG DF Tobías Ostchega 23 ARG DF Francisco Petrasso 24 ARG DF Rufino Lucero 25 PAR DF Fernando Arce 29 ARG DF Luciano Abecasis 41 ARG DF Matías Ruiz Díaz 42 ARG DF Tomás Palacios 5 ARG MF Gastón Gil Romero 8 SYR MF Ezequiel Ham

No. Position Player 11 ARG MF Diego Tonetto 18 ARG MF Julián Ascacíbar 19 ARG MF Antonio Napolitano 20 ARG MF Juan Manuel Vázquez 28 ARG MF Francisco Maidana 35 ARG MF Joaquín Arzura 36 USA MF Joel Soñora 44 ARG MF Federico Moreno 7 ARG FW Victorio Ramis 9 ARG FW Franco Di Santo 10 ARG FW Matías Reali 13 ARG FW Juan Cavallaro 22 ARG FW Federico Castro 27 ARG FW Juan Zeballos 31 ARG FW Mauricio Asenjo 39 ARG FW Emiliano Saliadarre 43 ARG FW Fabrizio Sartori

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 (2014-2015)
• Pablo Quinteros (2015-2016)
• Felipe Canedo (2016)
• Daniel Cordoba (2016)
• Martin Astudillo (2016-2017)
• Alfredo Berti (2017)
• José Romero (2017)
• Pablo de Muner (2017)
• Gabriel Gómez (2017-2019)
• Luciano Theiler (2019)
• Matías Minich (2019-2020)
• Marcelo Straccia (2020-2021)
• Gabriel Gómez (2021-2022)
• Ever Demalde (2022-2023)
• Alfredo Berti (2023)
• Rodolfo de Paoli (2023-2024)
• Martín Cicotello (2024-now)

External links

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