Global InformationBoca Juniors information
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| Full name | Club Atlético Boca Juniors | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Xeneize (Genoese) Azul y Oro (Blue and Gold) La Mitad Más Uno (Half plus One) | |||
| Short name | Boca | |||
| Founded | 3 April 1905 | |||
| Ground | La Bombonera | |||
| Capacity | 57,200[1] | |||
| Chairman | Juan Román Riquelme | |||
| Manager | Diego Martínez | |||
| League | Primera División | |||
| 2023 | 7th | |||
| Website | Club website | |||
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Club Atlético Boca Juniors (Spanish pronunciation: [kluβ aˈtletiko ˈβoka ˈʝunjoɾs]) is an Argentine professional sports club based in La Boca, a neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. The club is best known for its professional football team which, since its promotion in 1913, has always played in the Argentine Primera División. The team has won 74 official titles, the most by any Argentine club.[2][3] National titles won by Boca Juniors include 35 Primera División championships,[4][5] and 17 domestic cups.[6] Boca Juniors also owns an honorary title awarded by the Argentine Football Association for their successful tour of Europe in 1925.[7][8]
Internationally, Boca Juniors has won a total of 22 major titles,[9][10][11] with 18 organised by CONMEBOL[12] and the rest organised jointly by the Argentine and Uruguayan Associations. Consequently, Boca is ranked third in the world in terms of number of complete international titles, after Real Madrid (32) and Egyptian side Al Ahly (25).[13] Boca Juniors' international achievements also include one Tie Cup,[14] one Copa de Honor Cousenier,[15] and two Copa Escobar-Gerona,[16] organized jointly by AFA and AUF together. Their success usually has the Boca Juniors ranked among the IFFHS's Club World Ranking Top 25, which they have reached the top position six times (mostly during the coaching tenure of Carlos Bianchi).[17] Boca was named by the IFFHS as the top South American club of the first decade of the 21st century (2001–2010).[18] It was designated by FIFA as the twelfth best Club of the Century, in December 2000, occupying the same place as Liverpool of England, Inter of Italy, or Benfica of Portugal, among others. Boca Juniors is also known to be one of the most popular football clubs in Argentina, along with River Plate.[19][20]
Boca Juniors has a fierce rivalry with River Plate and matches between them are known as the Superclásico. It is the most heated rivalry in Argentina and one of the biggest in the world, as the clubs are the two most popular in the country. Boca's home stadium is Estadio Alberto J. Armando, which is colloquially known as La Bombonera. The youth academy has produced many Argentine internationals such as Oscar Ruggeri, Sebastián Battaglia, Nicolás Burdisso, Carlos Tevez, Éver Banega, Fernando Gago, Leandro Paredes, and Nahuel Molina, who have played or are playing for top European clubs.
In addition to men's football, Boca Juniors has professional women's football and basketball teams. Other (amateur) activities held in the club are: bocce, boxing, chess, field hockey, futsal, artistic and rhythmic gymnastics, handball, martial arts (judo, karate, and taekwondo), swimming, volleyball, weightlifting, and wrestling.[21] As of January 2023, Boca Juniors ranked first among the clubs with the most members in Argentina, with 315,879.[22][23]
- ^ "El retoque en el aforo de la Bombonera que se estrenará en Boca-Platense". 18 August 2023.
- ^ Ranking de campeones argentinos: así quedó la tabla histórica después del título de Boca, La Nación, 7 Mar 2020
- ^ Boca se adueñó de la Superliga y estiró la distancia con River en la tabla histórica de títulos, Infobae, 7 Mar 2020
- ^ Campeones de la Primera División on AFA website
- ^ En la tabla histórica de títulos, Boca acortó más distancias, Clarín, 9 May 2018
- ^ Copas Nacionales – Ganadores on AFA website (retrieved 4 November 2015)
- ^ "Boca: Campeón de Honor" Archived 18 October 2015 at the Wayback Machine on TN, 27 September 2011
- ^ "Cuando Boca se hizo Boca", Clarín, 3 April 2013
- ^ 38 Campeones de Fútbol Argentino by Diego Estévez – Ediciones Continente – ISBN 9789507543692
- ^ Independiente vs. Boca: quién tiene más títulos internacionales by Oscar Barnade, Clarín, 8 August 2018
- ^ Cuadro total de títulos oficiales Archived 25 June 2017 at the Wayback Machine on Revisionismo del Fútbol, retrieved 29 June 2019
- ^ Las competiciones oficiales de la CONMEBOL on Conmebol website, 19 Ago 2015
- ^ International Cups Trivia by Karel Stokkermans on the RSSSF, 6 June 2019
- ^ Cup Tie Archived 17 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine on RSSSF
- ^ Honor Cup Archived 17 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine on RSSSF
- ^ Copa de Confraternidad Escobar – Gerona Archived 8 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine on RSSSF
- ^ "IFFHS Club World rankings statistics". Iffhs.de. Retrieved 5 May 2013.
- ^ "South America's Club of the 1st Decade of the 21st Century (2001–2010)". IFFHS.de. Retrieved 15 February 2011.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ "Deportes amateur" at club website
- ^ La AFA reveló el ranking de los clubes con más socios: ¿Quiénes lideran la tabla? at noticias.net, 27 Jan 2023
- ^ Boca, el club con mayor asistencia y cantidad de socios del 2022 at TyC, 28 Jan 2023