Club Deportivo Ferrocarril General Mitre, or simply Ferrocarril Mitre, is an Argentine sports club located in the Miguelete district of General San Martín Partido, Greater Buenos Aires.
Ferrocarril Mitre is mostly known for its men's and women's field hockey teams, who took part in the Torneo Metropolitano organized by the Buenos Aires Hockey Association.Guia de Clubes at AHBA website The male team is the most successful club in Provincial hockey with 18 titles won to date.Campeones de Primera División at HSRA website The club also hosts the practise of handball, association football,Club Ferrocarril Mitre – football blog golf and tennis.Club Ferrocarril Mitre at iGlobal website
Ferrocarril Mitre's main rival is San Fernando.
History The club was founded by British immigrants as "Club Central Argentino de Migueletes", then changing its name to "Ferrocarril Central Argentino" (for the Central Argentine Railway, one of the lines that served the suburban area of Buenos Aires Province).
With the nationalization of the railways in Argentina in 1948,"General Perón and the nationalisation of railways in Argentina", Magazine of The Friends of The National Archives, Vol. 23, N° 1 Apr 2012 all the lines changed their names to honor notable presidents of the country. The "Central Argentino" was renamed "Ferrocarril General Bartolomé Mitre" in honor of military officer and historian Bartolomé Mitre,British-Owned Railways in Argentina – Their Effect on Economic Nationalism, 1854–1948, by Winthrop R. Wright, University of Texas Press, London, 1974 – and the club changed its name as well.
The men's team was finalist in the 2013 Torneo Metropolitano after defeating San Fernando"Con gol de oro, Mitre ganó el clásico en la semi", HockeyMobile.com but then Mitre would lose the championship at the hands of Banco Provincia."Hockey (M): Banco Provincia venció a Mitre y se consagró tricampeón", ESPN.com, 10 Nov 2013"Banco Provincia Campeón del torneo masculino de Buenos Aires", HockeyClub , 11 Nov 2013
The women's team was about to be relegated in 2013, but they defeated San Isidro Club by 1–0, remaining in the first division."Mitre ganó, se salvó y condenó a SIC al descenso" on HockeyMobile, 26 Oct 2013
Titles Men Torneo Metropolitano (18): 1941, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1952, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1968, 1972, 1974, 1989, 1993, 1998, 2010 "Mitre lo ganó en el escritorio", Cancha Llena.com, 11 Dec 2010"Mitre fue campeón sin jugar", El Sol , 14 Dec 2010 Women Torneo Metropolitano (3): 1990, 1994, 1995
Bibliography Historia del Hockey en Argentina on HSRA website: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, by Eric Weil, Aug 2011
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