Club Champagnat is a sports club

Sports club

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 club from Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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, Argentina

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. The club is mostly known for its rugby union

Rugby union

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 team, which is member of the Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires

Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires

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 (URBA).

History

The club was founded on November 30, 1956 by the Colegio Champagnat school, though it had already participated in 1954 of rugby union junior tournaments organized by the Unión Argentina de Rugby

Unión Argentina de Rugby

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In 1958 Champagnat won the third division tournament and ascended to second division, where it played until 1970. Due to a restructure of the leagues, Champagnat started the 1971 season in first division, but the club was relegated to second division in 1981, promoted to first in 1983, and then back to second in 1984. In 1993 the team won again the second division tournament, and since then has never left the first division.

The Champagnat school was founded in 1914 by the Marist Brothers

Marist Brothers

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. Besides the rugby team, the club supports several other ativities including polo

Polo

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, football

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 and field hockey

Field hockey

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External links

• Official site (in Spanish
  Spanish language
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• Colegio Champagnat (in Spanish)