About
Club Atlético Chacarita Juniors are an Argentine professional football (soccer) club from Villa Maipú, San Martín in the Buenos Aires Province currently playing in the Argentine second division.
The team, eternal rival of Club Atlético Atlanta, got the nickname of Funebreros ("Undertakers") because their ground was near the La Chacarita Cemetery. Chacarita still sports red and black uniforms, a reference to its anarchist origins.
The club was founded on May 1st, 1906, in an Anarchist Library on the border between the Villa Crespo and Chacarita neighbourhoods, and after a short period of institutional crisis, the club was re-opened in 1919.
The team reached the amateur first division in 1924, and continued playing in the first division after the professionalisation of football in 1931.
Again, in 1956, Chacarita were relegated to the second division , only to conquer the Second Division Championship of 1959. After 10 consecutive years in the first division, Chacarita won its only first division title, the Metropolitano 1969.
But in the following years the team performed badly and were relegated all the way down to the 4th division in 1980. In 1984 they came back to the first division, but because of Hooliganism by some of Chacarita's fans, the club were suspended for a month and lost 10 points; missing those points, the club couldn't help relegation back to the second division.
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