2025 Unión de Santa Fe season

Unión de Santa Fe
2025 season
President	Luis Spahn
Manager	Kily González; (until 14 April); Leonardo Madelón; (from 27 April)
Primera División	Pre-season
Copa Argentina	Pre-season
Copa Sudamericana	Group stage

The 2025 season is the 117th for Club Atlético Unión de Santa Fe and their 13th consecutive season in the Primera División. The club will also take part in the Copa Argentina and Copa Sudamericana.

Squad

Players

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	ARG	Matías Tagliamonte
3	DF	ARG	Claudio Corvalán (captain)
7	FW	ARG	Franco Fragapane
8	MF	SYR	Ezequiel Ham
10	MF	ARG	Lionel Verde
13	DF	ARG	Valentín Fascendini
14	DF	ARG	Bruno Pittón
16	MF	ARG	Mauricio Martínez (on loan from Rosario Central)
18	FW	ARG	Lucas Gamba
19	FW	ECU	José Angulo
20	MF	ARG	Mateo Del Blanco


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
22	DF	ARG	Francisco Gerometta
24	DF	ARG	Rafael Profini
25	GK	URU	Thiago Cardozo
26	DF	ARG	Juan Pablo Ludueña
28	MF	ARG	Mauro Pittón
30	FW	ARG	Jerónimo Dómina
32	DF	ARG	Nicolás Paz
34	DF	ARG	Franco Pardo
35	DF	ARG	Lautaro Vargas
40	GK	ARG	Lucas Meuli
—	MF	ARG	Julián Palacios
—	DF	ARG	Gastón Arturia

Transfers In

Pos.	Player	Transferred from	Fee	Date	Source
MF	Ezequiel Ham	Independiente Rivadavia	Free	4 January 2025
FW	José Enrique Angulo	Delfín	Free	7 January 2025
GK	Thiago Cardozo	Peñarol	Free	13 January 2025
FW	Cristian Tarragona	Talleres	Free	12 June 2025	^[2]
FW	Tomás González	Ferro	Loan return	18 June 2025
DF	Emiliano Álvarez	Cerro	Free	8 July 2025
DF	Maizon Rodríguez	Juventud de Las Piedras	Free	22 July 2025	^[3]

Transfers Out

Pos.	Player	Transferred to	Fee	Date	Source
FW	Tomás González	Ferro	Loan	15 January 2025
FW	Adrián Balboa	Racing	€776,000	17 January 2025
MF	Ezequiel Ham	Atlético Goianiense	Contract terminated	11 June 2025	^[4]
FW	Tomás González	Arsenal de Sarandí	Loan	19 June 2025
FW	José Enrique Angulo	Emelec	Contract terminated	20 June 2025^{[note 1]}	^[5]
GK	Thiago Cardozo	Belgrano	Loan	4 July 2025	^[6]
MF	Lionel Verde	CSKA Moscow	Loan	30 July 2025	^[7]

Exhibition matches

11 January 2025

Unión

1–3

Universidad Católica

17 January 2025

Unión

2–1

Atlético Tucumán

Competitions

Overall record

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Record
Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Primera División	25 January 2025		Matchday 1	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	!—
Copa Argentina				0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	!—
Copa Sudamericana	2 April 2025		Group stage	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	!—
Total				0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	!—

Source: Competitions

Primera División

Torneo Apertura

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
11	Central Córdoba (SdE)	16	5	3	8	21	22	−1	18
12	Belgrano	16	3	8	5	13	23	−10	17
13	Aldosivi	16	4	3	9	18	28	−10	15
14	Banfield	16	3	5	8	14	19	−5	14
15	Unión	16	3	5	8	11	17	−6	14

Source: AFA

Results by round

Round	1
Ground	A
Result
Position

Source:
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

25 January 2025 1	Estudiantes	3–1	Unión	La Plata
19:15 UTC−3	Palacios 8' Burgos 11' Ascacíbar 21'	Report	Verde 80'	Stadium: Estadio Jorge Luis Hirschi

29 January 2025 (2025-01-29) 2	Unión	1–1	Boca Juniors	Santa Fe
19:15 UTC−3	Fragapane 90+1'	Report	Saracchi 4'	Stadium: 15 de Abril Referee: Pablo Echavarría

3 February 2025 3	Tigre	1–0	Unión	Victoria
19:15 UTC−3	Paz 42'	Report		Stadium: Estadio José Dellagiovanna

7 February 2025 (2025-02-07) 4	Unión	0–1	Argentinos Juniors	Santa Fe
22:15 UTC−3			Oroz 6'	Stadium: Estadio 15 de Abril

13 February 2025 (2025-02-13) 5	Unión	0–0	Instituto	Santa Fe
22:15 UTC−3		Report		Stadium: Estadio 15 de Abril

17 February 2025 6	Huracán	1–0	Unión	Buenos Aires
--:-- UTC−3	Miljevic 51' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Estadio Tomás Adolfo Ducó

1 March 2025 (2025-03-01) 7	Unión	1–0	Gimnasia	Santa Fe
21:30 UTC−3	Verde 81'	Report		Stadium: Estadio 15 de Abril

10 March 2025 8	Independiente Rivadavia	2–0	Unión	Mendoza
21:15 UTC−3	Sequeira 38' (pen.), 55'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Bautista Gargantini

17 March 2025 (2025-03-17) 9	Unión	3–1	Banfield	Santa Fe
21:30 UTC−3	Ezequiel Ham 45+2' Estigarribia 79' Díaz 90+4'	Report	Adoryan 49'	Stadium: Estadio 15 de Abril

16 March 2025 10	Unión	0–1	Racing	Santa Fe
21:00 UTC−3			Martínez 59'	Stadium: Estadio 15 de Abril

27 March 2025 11	Aldosivi	2–1	Unión	Mar del Plata
15:30 UTC−3	Torres 18' Leiva 73'	Report	Gamba 89'	Stadium: Estadio José María Minella

6 April 2025 12	Unión	1–0	Central Córdoba	Santa Fe
15:30 UTC−3	Gamba 30'	Report		Stadium: Estadio 15 de Abril

14 April 2025 13	Defensa y Justicia	0–0	Unión	Gobernador Costa
--:-- UTC−3		Report		Stadium: Estadio Norberto "Tito" Tomaghello

18 April 2025 14	Unión	1–1	Newell's Old Boys	Santa Fe
21:30 UTC−3	Gamba 11'	Report	González 16'	Stadium: Estadio 15 de Abril

28 April 2025 15	Barracas Central	2–1	Unión	Buenos Aires
15:00 UTC−3	Candia 43' Bruera 86'	Report	Palacios 33'	Stadium: Estadio Claudio Chiqui Tapia

2 May 2025 16	Unión	1–1	Belgrano	Santa Fe
18:00 UTC−3	Gamba 38'	Report	Fernández 1'	Stadium: Estadio 15 de Abril

Torneo Clausura

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
2	Estudiantes (LP)	5	3	0	2	7	6	+1	9	Advance to round of 16
3	Huracán	5	3	0	2	4	5	−1	9
4	Unión	5	2	2	1	6	2	+4	8
5	Belgrano	5	2	2	1	5	2	+3	8
6	Defensa y Justicia	5	2	2	1	5	3	+2	8

Updated to match(es) played on 17 August 2025. Source: AFA

Matches

14 July 2025 1	Unión	1–0	Estudiantes	Santa Fe
21:15 UTC−3	Martínez 21'	Report		Stadium: Estadio 15 de Abril

18 July 2025 (2025-07-18) 2	Boca Juniors	1–1	Unión	Buenos Aires
19:30 UTC−3	Di Lollo 85'	Report	Tarragona 64'	Stadium: La Bombonera Referee: Nazareno Arasa

25 July 2025 3	Unión	0–0	Tigre	Santa Fe
21:15 UTC−3		Report		Stadium: Estadio 15 de Abril

10 August 2025 4	Argentinos Juniors	1–0	Unión	Buenos Aires
20:00 UTC−3	Lescano 44'	Report		Stadium: Diego Armando Maradona

15 August 2025 5	Instituto	0–4	Unión	Córdoba
19:00 UTC−3		Report	Pittón 8', 33' Estigarribia 11' Martínez 18'	Stadium: Estadio Monumental Presidente Perón

Copa Argentina

5 March 2025 Round of 64	Unión	3–1	Colegiales	San Nicolás de los Arroyos
19:15	Dómina 37' Estigarribia 52' Verde 90+3'	Report	Cardozo 13' (o.g.)	Stadium: Único de San Nicolás Referee: Bryan Ferreyra

28 June 2025 Round of 32	Rosario Central	0–0 (1–3 p)	Unión	San Nicolás de los Arroyos
13:00		Report		Stadium: Único de San Nicolás Referee: Darío Herrera
	Penalties
	Malcorra Módica Duarte Sández		Martínez Pittón Estigarribia Verde

Round of 16	Unión	v	River Plate
		Report

Copa Sudamericana

Group stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Mushuc Runa	6	5	1	0	12	4	+8	16	Advance to round of 16
2	Palestino	6	3	0	3	9	9	0	9	Advance to knockout round play-offs
3	Cruzeiro	6	1	2	3	5	7	−2	5
4	Unión	6	1	1	4	2	8	−6	4

Source: CONMEBOL
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Away goals scored; 5) CONMEBOL ranking.

1 April 2025 (2025-04-01) 1	Unión	1–0	Cruzeiro	Santa Fe
19:00 UTC−3	Díaz 90+4'	Report		Stadium: Estadio 15 de Abril Attendance: 10,811^[8] Referee: Andrés Matonte (Uruguay)

9 April 2025 (2025-04-09) 2	Palestino	2–0	Unión	Santiago, Chile
18:00 UTC−4	Carrasco 12' (pen.) Marabel 90+6'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos^{[note 2]} Referee: Carlos Benítez (Paraguay)

23 April 2025 (2025-04-23) 3	Mushuc Runa	3–0	Unión	Riobamba, Ecuador
21:00 UTC−5	Orejuela 3' Caicedo 52' Penilla 90+1'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Olímpico Fernando Guerrero^{[note 3]} Referee: Augusto Menéndez (Peru)

7 May 2025 (2025-05-07) 4	Unión	1–2	Palestino	Santa Fe
19:00 UTC−3	Gamba 49'	Report	Marabel 84', 88'	Stadium: Estadio 15 de Abril Referee: Derlis López (Paraguay)

13 May 2025 (2025-05-13) 5	Unión	0–1	Mushuc Runa	Santa Fe
21:30 UTC−3		Report	Caicedo 45+1'	Stadium: Estadio 15 de Abril Referee: Yender Herrera (Venezuela)

28 May 2025 (2025-05-28) 6	Cruzeiro	0–0	Unión	Belo Horizonte, Brazil
21:30 UTC−3		Report		Stadium: Mineirão Referee: Blas Romero (Paraguay)

Notes

^ The announcement date of his signing with Emelec.
^ Palestino play their home matches at Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos, Santiago instead of their regular stadium Estadio Municipal de La Cisterna, Santiago which did not meet CONMEBOL requirements.
^ Mushuc Runa play their home matches at Estadio Olímpico Fernando Guerrero, Riobamba (originally scheduled at Estadio Banco Guayaquil, Quito instead of their regular stadium Estadio COAC Mushuc Runa, Ambato which did not meet CONMEBOL requirements.^[9]

References

^ Argentina, Cadena 3. "Un conocido vuelve: Unión oficializó el retorno de Leonardo Madelón como DT - Noticias". Cadena 3 Argentina.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ "Cristian Tarragona tiene nuevo club: Será refuerzo de un equipo de la Liga Profesional - TyC Sports". 12 June 2025.
^ "Unión oficializó la contratación de Maizon Rodríguez, su sexta cara nueva".
^ "No sigue: Ezequiel Ham rescindió su contrato con Unión y seguirá su carrera en Brasil". 11 June 2025.
^ "Emelec sigue activo en el mercado de pases: Fichó al Tin Angulo para reforzar el ataque". 20 June 2025.
^ "Thiago Cardozo ya es jugador de Belgrano de Córdoba". 4 July 2025.
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^ "Unión (SF) 1-0 Cruzeiro (1 de abr, 2025) Placar Final" (in Brazilian Portuguese). ESPN. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
^ "Mushuc Runa confirmó que Riobamba seguirá siendo la sede para la Copa Sudamericana" [Mushuc Runa confirmed that Riobamba will continue being the venue for the Copa Sudamericana] (in Spanish). Ecuavisa. 19 March 2025. Retrieved 27 March 2025.

[5] The announcement date of his signing with Emelec.

[Palestino-10] Palestino play their home matches at Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos, Santiago instead of their regular stadium Estadio Municipal de La Cisterna, Santiago which did not meet CONMEBOL requirements.

[Mushuc_Runa-12] Mushuc Runa play their home matches at Estadio Olímpico Fernando Guerrero, Riobamba (originally scheduled at Estadio Banco Guayaquil, Quito instead of their regular stadium Estadio COAC Mushuc Runa, Ambato which did not meet CONMEBOL requirements.^[9]

[1] Argentina, Cadena 3. "Un conocido vuelve: Unión oficializó el retorno de Leonardo Madelón como DT - Noticias". Cadena 3 Argentina.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[2] "Cristian Tarragona tiene nuevo club: Será refuerzo de un equipo de la Liga Profesional - TyC Sports". 12 June 2025.

[3] "Unión oficializó la contratación de Maizon Rodríguez, su sexta cara nueva".

[4] "No sigue: Ezequiel Ham rescindió su contrato con Unión y seguirá su carrera en Brasil". 11 June 2025.

[6] "Emelec sigue activo en el mercado de pases: Fichó al Tin Angulo para reforzar el ataque". 20 June 2025.

[7] "Thiago Cardozo ya es jugador de Belgrano de Córdoba". 4 July 2025.

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[9] "Unión (SF) 1-0 Cruzeiro (1 de abr, 2025) Placar Final" (in Brazilian Portuguese). ESPN. Retrieved 2 April 2025.

[11] "Mushuc Runa confirmó que Riobamba seguirá siendo la sede para la Copa Sudamericana" [Mushuc Runa confirmed that Riobamba will continue being the venue for the Copa Sudamericana] (in Spanish). Ecuavisa. 19 March 2025. Retrieved 27 March 2025.

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