Quilmes Atlético Club is an Argentine sports club based in the Quilmes district of Greater Buenos Aires. Quilmes is one of the oldest clubs of Argentina still competing in official tournaments, having been founded in 1887. Its football squad currently plays in the Primera División, the top division of the Argentine football league system.

The origins of the club can be found at the “Quilmes and Polo Club”, an institution founded by British immigrants about 1880. In 1887 the club changed its name to “Quilmes Rovers Athletic Club” with a football team formed entirely by British people. That team took part in the second edition of Argentine Primera División championship held in 1893.

On 5 November 1897, promoting an initiative by priest J.T. Stevenson, the “Quilmes Cricket Club” is founded. The club changed its name to “Quilmes Athletic Club” in 1901, the year that Quilmes registered to Argentine Association Football League (former Argentine Football Association).

By the time that Quilmes was founded, the only club existing in Quilmes was the Quilmes Lawn Tennis Club. Guillermo Morgan was named president, becoming the first chairman of the recently created institution. During its first years, Quilmes did not admitted non-British members. The club represented to the huge British community that worked at Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway. At the beginning of its existence, the main sport practised at Quilmes was cricket, and club’s colors were crimson and blue.

In March 1898 Quilmes Cricket Club added football as sport. In 1901 the club also changed its colors, adopting the England national football team’s, white shirt with blue collar and shorts. By the first years of 20th century the club began to admit Argentine members, following the example of the other institution of the city, Argentino de Quilmes, which had been founded as a reaction to British rules for memberships. Unlike Quilmes CC, Argentino was opened to receive Argentine members.

 

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The club settled on 5 November 1887 as the date of its foundation, considering Quilmes and Polo Club (then Quilmes Rovers AC) as its predecessor. Nevertheless, Argentine football historian Jorge Gallego stated the original institution founded in 1887 was dissolved and the Quilmes Cricket Club was in fact a completely new institution, not related with other clubs previously founded in the city of Quilmes.

Quilmes was the first team (amongst the one that are still active) to face legendary Alumni, in 1901. Alumni beat Quilmes 1-0 and 3-1, keeping its supremacy until 1906 when Quilmes achieved its first victory, defeating Alumni 4-2.

In 1912 Quilmes won its first title, the Primera División championship. The team was formed by many British players that had played for Alumni, dissolved one year before. The team remained in the top division of football until 1937, when it was relegated along with Argentinos Juniors to the second division.

Quilmes finally got the long-awaited promotion to Primera in 2002-03 season, after leaving behind Argentinos Juniors with scores of 1-0 and 0-0.

After two good campaigns in primera, Quilmes qualified to play the 2005 Copa Libertadores. The team passed the first stage although it was soon eliminated. Quilmes would be later relegated to Nacional B, but the squad returned to the top division in 2009-10 season along with Olimpo and All Boys. Just one year later Quilmes was again relegated to the second division, where the team has remained since.

On June 2012 Quilmes returned to Primera División, after being placed 2nd in Primera B Nacional. The Cervecero defeated Guillermo Brown de Puerto Madryn 2-0 in the last fixture totalizing 72 points, therefore promoting after champion River Plate.

 

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