Club Atlético Rosario Central is a sports club based in Rosario, Argentina, that plays in the Argentine Primera División. The club was officially founded on December 24, 1889, by a group of railway workers, taking its name from the British-owned Central Argentine Railway company. One of the oldest Argentine and Latin American teams, it is considered a pioneer in its hometown and the only one of current Santa Fe province teams to have won an international title organised by CONMEBOL, the Copa Conmebol, won by the club in 1995.
Football team of 1903, wearing the squared red and white shirt
Rosario Central posing with its first national cup won, the Copa de Competencia La Nación in 1913
Central won its second promotion to Primera División in 1951
Rosario Central team that won its first league title, 1971 Nacional
Rosario is the largest city in the central Argentine province of Santa Fe. The city, located 300 km (186 mi) northwest of Buenos Aires on the west bank of the Paraná River, is the third-most populous city in the country, and is also the most populous city in Argentina that is not a capital. With a growing and important metropolitan area, Greater Rosario has an estimated population of 1,750,000 as of 2020. One of its main attractions includes the neoclassical, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco architecture that has been preserved in hundreds of residences, houses and public buildings.
From top, left to right: aerial view of Rosario Center District, Rosario Board of Trade, National Flag Memorial, Clemente Álvarez Emergency Hospital, Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary, Oroño Boulevard, Rosario City Hall, Perpetuo Socorro Church, and Rosario-Victoria Bridge
Rosario port area in 1888
Rosario's old Customs Office, on Belgrano Avenue
National Flag Memorial, downtown Rosario