🔝 An incredible rise: Platense sets a world record | OneFootball

Club Atlético Platense has become the first team in the world to need less time to go from the third division to being crowned Primera champions, make its international debut, and place among the eight best teams on the continent.

A meteoric rise in eight years

Only eight years and three months passed between its departure from the B Metropolitana and its recent qualification for the Copa Libertadores quarterfinals. During that span, the "Squid" won the national title and pulled off an unprecedented feat in the history of global sports.

It surpasses a 1963 record

With this achievement, the Argentine club surpassed the historic mark set by England's Ipswich Town, which in 1963 reached the European Cup round of 16 six years after playing in the third tier.

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