Club Atlético Tiro Federal Argentino
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Club Atlético Tiro Federal Argentino (mostly known just as Tiro Federal or Tiro Federal de Rosario) is an Argentine
Argentina
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 sports club from the city of Rosario, province of Santa Fe
Santa Fe Province
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, whose football
Football (soccer)
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 team currently plays in Primera B Nacional Argentina
Primera B Nacional Argentina
Primera B Nacional is the second most important category of Argentine football organized by the Argentine Football Association.It is played by teams from all over the country...

, the Argentine 2nd division.

Founded on March 29, 1905, they were one of the founding members of the Rosario amateur league in 1907, which they won in 1920, 1925 and 1926. In 1944, they joined the AFA
Argentine Football Association
The Argentine Football Association is the governing body of football in Argentina. It organises the Argentine football league and the Argentina national football team. It is based in Buenos Aires...

 (the national football association), 13 years after the professionalization of the game, where they competed in the second division, but they were relegated to the third after a restructure of the national leagues in 1949. In 1962 Tiro Federal withdrew their team 12 rounds before the end of the competition and was expelled from AFA. Tiro then returned to play in the Rosario league, but then financial problems made the club leave the local league.

Businessman Carlos Dávola took over the management of the club at the end the 1990s, and started a very ambitious plan. In 1997 Tiro won the local second division, and then the first division in 1999, 2000 and 2001. At the same time it participated in Torneo Argentino B
Torneo Argentino B
Torneo Argentino B is one of two leagues that form the regionalised fourth level of the Argentine football league system. Clubs in Torneo Argentinos B come from all over Argentina....

 (the regionalized fourth division) in the 1998–99 season, achieving the second place to win promotion to Torneo Argentino A
Torneo Argentino A
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.

After winning the Clausura 2003 tournament of Torneo Argentino A, Tiro reached Nacional B (national second division), and the next season they won the Apertura 2004 of that league, obtaining a wonderful present for its 100th birthday: the right to play in the Primera División Argentina
Primera División Argentina
The Primera División is a professional football league in Argentina. It is the country's premier football division and is at the top of the Argentine football league system. Contested by twenty clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Primera B Nacional. The season runs...

.

At the end of their first tournament in the First Division, in the 2005 season, Tiro Federal ended 19th out of 20 teams. However, one of their players, Javier Cámpora
Javier Cámpora
Javier Edgardo Cámpora is an Argentine Footballer who plays for Huracán.- Career :He is a striker who has played professional football in Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Mexico and Aris Thessaloniki FC in Greece....

, ended as the top scorer of the tournament.

On April 8, 2006, Tiro Federal was relegated to the Second Division.

At the end of 2010-2011 season, after four years in the Argentina 2nd division, Tiro federal relegated to the Torneo Argentino A, the 3rd division in Argentina, due to bad place in the relegation table.

Stadium

Tiro Federal's stadium is located at the Ludueña neighborhood of Rosario. Known as "El Fortín de Ludueña" (Ludueña's Fortress), the stadium doesn't comply with regulations for first division matches. It currently plays at the Club Real Arroyo Seco's stadium in the nearby city of Arroyo Seco
Arroyo Seco, Santa Fe
Arroyo Seco is a city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It has about 24,000 inhabitants according to the . Its name is the same as a neighbouring creek...

, and for specially important matches, at Newell's Old Boys
Newell's Old Boys
Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys is an Argentine sports club based in Rosario. The club was founded on November 3, 1903, and is named after Isaac Newell, one of the pioneers of Argentine football...

's stadium
Estadio Newell's Old Boys
Estadio Marcelo Bielsa is Newell's Old Boys' multi-use stadium in Rosario, Argentina. It didn't have any official name until December 22, 2009, when it was named after the former manager of the club Marcelo Bielsa. Until then it was simply called El Coloso del Parque , and this remained as the...

.

Current squad

As of September 21, 2010.
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