Club Atlético River Plate, known also as River Plate or simply River, is an Argentine sports club best known for its football team, established in 1901. Its home base is the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Núñez, and it plays at the Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti. It's the 9th soccer club in the All-Time Club World Ranking and the 1st in America, according to the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) The club was also regarded 6 times as the best soccer club in the world in the monthly Club World Ranking of IFFHS"River Plate" is sometimes used as the English name for the Río de la Plata, the river on which Buenos Aires sits. It is believed that, in the club's early days, one of the founders (Martínez) observed sailors playing impromptu football games in the port of Buenos Aires next to crates marked "The River Plate", hence the club name.
