Vélez Sarsfield

Club Atlético Vélez Sársfield is an Argentine sports club best known for its football team, based in the Liniers neighborhood of western Buenos Aires . The Club is also frequently referred to as The Fort. Its home stadium is the Jose Amalfitani Stadium, in the borough of Liniers. Velez have won the Argentine Primera six times and 5 international cups. It was founded in 1910 in the Floresta neighborhood, next to the Ferrocarril del Oeste railroad station Vélez Sársfield, named after the 1869 drafter of the Argentine Civil Code Dalmacio Vélez Sársfield (since 1944 the station has been renamed Floresta). The club first participated in the amateur first division league in 1919 (runners-up), and has been a professional first division fixture since the advent of professionalism in 1931 . Relegated only once, in 1941, it returned to the first division in 1943 . The club clinched their first professional title in the year 1968, after beating River Plate and Racing Club . After that title, the club spent 25 years without silverware until 1993 when the won the Clausura Tournament. The nineties were the most successful period in Velez's history. In that spell, they won domestic cups and international cups. Their international summit was when they defeated AC Milan in the European-South American Cup in Japan in the year 1994. Velez clinched their last Argentine title in the year 2005 when they won the Clausura tournament