The tournament had ten participants that season and AtlĂ©tico Nacional was 6th with seven victories, four draws and seven defeats. The first game was played between AtlĂ©tico Nacional and Alianza Lima with a 2â2 draw. The first leg, played in , saw Olimpia shoot ahead 2â0 on goals by and. AtlĂ©tico Nacional joined the professional league for its first edition in. In the , the team was eliminated by in the quarterfinals with an aggregate score of 3â2.
The revival had actually started after the 1970 season, with the hiring of manager José Curti and the signing of midfielder Jorge Hugo Fernåndez. Archived from on 29 January 2017. They were into the knockout rounds. Atlético Nacional won its first league title in. Atlético Nacional qualified to the as the champion of the 2016 Copa Libertadores, representing South America in the competition. In 2016, Atlético Nacional was ranked by as the best football club in the world, becoming the first South American club, and the first outside Europe, to receive the honor.
Despite AtlĂ©tico Nacional won its sixteenth league championship in the , Reinaldo Rueda left his post as manager on 21 June 2017, being replaced by manager. The group was comprised by , and. The club's main nickname, Verdolagas was coined early in the club's history. PeriĂłdico El Colombiano, MedellĂn, Colombia. The result was a 1â0 defeat with a 119-minute free kick goal from.
Some referees were threatened in the league and even in the Copa Libertadores, for which banned Colombian clubs from the , with the exception of Nacional who was admitted as champion of the previous edition. The team also won the first edition of the , defeating with an aggregate score of 6â1. Determined to break their stranglehold, the club made a significant change in 1987. That year, Nacional won its first title, beating with an aggregate score of 2â0. However, on November 28, two days before the first leg, crashed in Cerro Gordo, , just a few miles from , with the Chapecoense team on board. The colors of the team are derived from the flags of the and the city of.
Position Player 1 on loan from 2 3 Cristian Moya 5 Andrés Felipe Perea 7 8 9 10 on loan from 11 Neyder Moreno 12 13 14 Jean Luca Rivera No. Our level of play took off. Nickname s Los Verdolagas The Green-goers , El Verde The Green , Rey de Copas King of Cups , El Verde de la Montaña The Green from the Mountains , El Verde Paisa The Green , El Siempre Verde The Evergreen Founded 7 March 1947 ; 72 years ago 1947-03-07 Ground , Colombia Capacity 40,043 Owner Chairman Juan David Pérez Manager League 5th First stage 4th, Group B Semifinals Website Club Atlético Nacional S. The club is one of only three teams to have played in every first division tournament in the country's history, the other two teams being and. In the Torneo Finalización, the team was seventh, qualifying to the next round. Nacional got the third place after beating Mexican , who lost against in the Semifinals. Archived from on 23 December 2007.
In the semifinals, Nacional faced Paraguayan , who had eliminated two Colombian sides in the previous rounds, the winner of the and. In the second leg, in , Nacional got a 3â1 victory. Nacional reached the finals of the Copa Libertadores for the first time since , where they won their second cup, the very first Colombian squad to win the competition multiple times, in a 2â1 aggregate victory against. In the 1980s, Nacional was linked to the. Nacional is also credited as the best Colombian team in club tournaments and ranks 3rd in Copa Libertadores' official club ranking.
The plant blooms a diminutive yellow, white or red flower; the white variety is the most common in the region, giving the color scheme to the team. The team won both matches, the first a 2â0 win in the with a brace of , who was bought by Nacional after becoming the top goalscorer of the with 19 goals in 21 matches with , and was playing his first match with the team. The club was created to promote sports in the city, especially football and basketball. In the round of 16, Nacional eliminated Paraguayan club. The next year, Nacional won for the second time the two tournaments of the league, Apertura and FinalizaciĂłn. It is located in the west of the city and has a capacity of 45,943 spectators.
It was based on UniĂłn Indulana Foot-Ball Club, an amateur club from the Liga Antioqueña de FĂștbol, the local amateur football league. After the tournament ended, Osorio left the team after getting signed by , being replaced by , who previously managed the and got them to the , where they were third in a group conformed by , and the latter also was taken to the World Cup in by himself. Finals, second leg' starting lineup The start of 2016 brought a second title, beating , thus qualifying for the. Nacional came back and got the victory with a hat-trick from Borja, who became the goalscorer of the tournament with six goals. It was inaugurated on 19 March 1953 in a friendly tournament between Nacional, , and.
The current owner, , officially acquired the team in 1996. In this round, Nacional faced of Bolivia. In 1989, the domestic league season was cancelled due to the on October 1. The first match was played in. In the , Nacional was eliminated in the quarterfinals at the hands of.
The team began its participation in the semifinals, facing Japanese team , who defeated Nacional 3â0. The participation of Nacional in the began on 11 August, facing Peruvian club at in for the first stage. As champion of the Copa Libertadores, Nacional also played the 1989 against , winner of the. In 2011, AtlĂ©tico Nacional won their eleventh championship after beating over two legs in the finals of the Apertura tournament, but in the following year, Nacional was 12th in the Torneo Apertura and failed to qualify to the next round, while in the Copa Libertadores they were knocked out by in the round of 16. These financial problems and occasional returns to the club's policy of only signing Colombian players hampered results, and the club failed to win another title for nineteen years.