Boxing team

Platense

Club · Argentina · Liga Profesional Argentina

«Calamar»

257 Matches

77 wins

94 draws

86 losses

239–271 Goals

−32 Difference

0.9 Scored per game

Form L D W L W L

Club Atlético Platense did not start there. It was founded on 25 May 1905 in Recoleta, and the name itself came from a bet: a group of young men staked 445 pesos on a horse called Gay Simón, running for the Platense stud, and used the winnings to set up the club. The original strip borrowed the stable's red and black, but it was later swapped for white and brown, copying the jacket and cap of the jockey who rode Gay Simón to that win — colours the club has kept ever since, and the reason it's nicknamed Calamar. That name has its own story: a journalist once wrote that the players moved "like a squid in its ink" on a pitch the river regularly flooded with mud.

The ground moved with the club more than once — a square in Recoleta first, then two sites in Núñez — before relegation to the second division in 1971 forced Platense out altogether. It took until 1979 to settle in Florida, where the Estadio Ciudad de Vicente López, holding 28,530, has been home since.

Platense spent long stretches outside the top division, and its honours board reads like a record of climbing back: Primera B in 1976 and 2006, Primera B Metropolitana in 2018, and a 2021 promotion play-off won on penalties against Estudiantes de Río Cuarto that ended 22 years away from the elite. A Copa de la Liga final defeat to Rosario Central on penalties followed in 2023. Then, in 2025, the club won the Apertura, beating Huracán in the final for its first-ever national championship, and finished runner-up in that year's Trofeo de Campeones.

The academy's best-known graduate left almost before anyone noticed him: David Trezeguet came through Platense's youth ranks from the age of eight, played five games for the first team in 1994, and was sold to Monaco.

Latest results

Fixtures and results

20 Sep	Liga Profesional Argentina	Newell’s Old Boys H	0:1	L
15 Sep	CONMEBOL Libertadores	Fluminense A	2:1	W
12 Sep	Liga Profesional Argentina	Estudiantes de La Plata A	1:2	L
8 Sep	CONMEBOL Libertadores	Fluminense H	2:0	W
4 Sep	Liga Profesional Argentina	Deportivo Riestra H	1:1	D
31 Aug	Liga Profesional Argentina	Defensa y Justicia A	0:1	L

Standing

Liga Profesional Argentina

Group stage · Apertura - Group A

#	Team	M	W	D	L	Goals	Pts
10	Defensa y Justicia	16	4	7	5	18:21	19
11	Gimnasia M.	16	5	4	7	14:22	19
12	Platense	16	3	7	6	10:15	16
13	Central Cordoba de Santiago	16	4	4	8	11:21	16
14	Newell’s Old Boys	16	3	6	7	15:27	15

Full table

Team statistics

matches counted in total: 257

257 Matches

77 wins

94 draws

86 losses

239–271 Goals

−32 Difference

0.9 Scored per game

Match outcomes matches counted in total: 257

77 94 86

wins draws losses

Scored and conceded last matches

scored — above the line conceded — below the line

Metric	Total	Home	Away
Matches	257	129	128
Scored	239	119	120
Conceded	271	113	158
Scored per game	0.9	0.9	0.9
Conceded per game	1.1	0.9	1.2
Difference	−32	+6	−38

Key players

by appearances over the last year

Bautista Merlini Midfielder 35 Matches

Mateo Mendieta Defender 35 Matches

Álvaro Agustín Lagos Defender 35 Matches

Juan Carlos Gauto Forward 35 Matches

Nicolás Sebastián Sumavil Goalkeeper 34 Matches

Franco Zapiola Yamartino Midfielder 34 Matches

Guido Mainero Midfielder 34 Matches

Tomás Ariel Silva Defender 34 Matches

Squad of Platense

by appearances over the last year

Number	Player	Position	Age	Matches
18	Bautista Merlini	Midfielder	31	35
34	Mateo Mendieta	Defender	22	35
4	Álvaro Agustín Lagos	Defender	24	35
33	Juan Carlos Gauto	Forward	22	35
22	Nicolás Sebastián Sumavil	Goalkeeper	26	34
10	Franco Zapiola Yamartino	Midfielder	25	34
7	Guido Mainero	Midfielder	31	34
3	Tomás Ariel Silva	Defender	23	34
25	Juan Ignacio Saborido	Defender	28	34
24	Martín Barrios do Santos	Midfielder	27	34
31	Víctor Leandro Cuesta	Defender	37	30
43	Nicolás Retamar	Midfielder	27	29
13	Ignacio José Luis Vázquez	Defender	29	28
23	Leonardo Matías Heredia	Midfielder	30	28
6	Eugenio Rajo	Defender		27
5	Iván Alejandro Gómez	Midfielder		26
17	Felipe Bussio	Midfielder	22	25
99	Gonzalo Lencina	Forward		24
27	Santiago Dalmasso	Midfielder	22	22
20	Matías Nahuel Borgogno	Goalkeeper	28	22
26	Pablo Ferreira	Midfielder	21	21
38	K. Ingenthron	Defender		20
15	Franco Maximiliano Amarfil	Midfielder		20
9	T. Nasyf	Forward		18
21	Augusto Diego Lotti	Forward		17
28	Manuel Tucker	Forward		14
30	Juan Cozzani	Goalkeeper	27	12
11	Nicolás Federico López Alonso	Forward	32	12
16	Gastón Alberto Togni	Forward	29	10
32	Santiago Quiros	Defender	23	10
19	Héctor Bobadilla	Forward	25	8
47	Benjamin Bosc	Forward	21	7
29	Franco Minerva	Midfielder		5
20	Luciano Giménez Alanda	Forward	26	5
79	Bruno Christian Sepúlveda	Forward	34	4
15	M. Amarfil	Midfielder		4
16	Mauro Luna	Midfielder	27	4
41	Thiago Currado	Defender		3
1	Brian Bustos	Goalkeeper		1
35	Demian Troya	Midfielder		1