page_title: Alumni Athletic Club
section_title: Records and facts
hierarchical_section_title: Alumni Athletic Club / Records and facts
caption_attribution_description: English: Former players of Argentine football team, "Alumni A.C.", reunited for a friendly match played at River Plate stadium. Alumni had been dissolved in 1913.
context_page_description: Alumni Athletic Club, or simply Alumni, was an Argentine football team active during the first years of the sport in that country. Although officially founded in 1898, the team had been formed in 1893 when a group of students from the Buenos Aires English High School joined Alexander Watson Hutton to form a team in order to participate in the championship organized by the Argentine Association Football League.
  The squad was active until 1911 and was disbanded in 1913 due to internal problems. During its run in Primera División, Alumni achieved 10 domestic league championships and many national and international cups, becoming one of the most important clubs in the history of Argentine football.
context_section_description: The first Argentine football team to defeat a British squad, South Africa (affiliated to the English Association and composed of white players, with most of them of British origins) in 1906.
  The first club to win three or more consecutive championships in three different times: 1900–1903; 1905–1907; 1909–1911.
  Eliseo Brown was the Argentine Primera División top scorer four consecutive times: 1906 (8 goals), 1907 (24), 1908 (19) y 1909 (17).
  The first Rioplatense club which won the Primera División, the Tie Cup and the Copa de Honor Cousenier within the same year (1906). The club also won the Copa de Honor Municipalidad de Buenos Aires, totaling 4 titles (all the tournaments contested).
  In 1904, football club Barracas Central adopted the red and white uniform colors as a tribute to Alumni. Other clubs that took the red and white colors honoring Alumni were Estudiantes de La Plata in 1906, Unión de Santa Fe and now defunct Boca Alumni (both in 1907).
  The traditional Uruguay national football team light blue color was adopted after River Plate F.C. wore a jersey that color when defeated Alumni 2–1, on 10 April 1910. Until then Uruguay had worn several shirt models.
  The Club Atlético Alumni, located in Villa María, Córdoba, Argentina, choose not only its name but its color to honour the legacy of Alumni.
  Alumni never played against Boca Juniors (due to the club abandoned official competitions in 1911, while Boca Juniors debuted in Primera División in 1913), Independiente (1912) or San Lorenzo (1915).
caption: Players of Alumni in a match of "Liga de Veteranos" on 15 July 1923, more than ten years after its dissolution
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