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The most successful Argentine club, with 74 official titles and a global fanbase.
Club Atlético Boca Juniors (CABJ) is an Argentine professional sports club based in La Boca, a neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. The club is best known for its men's professional football team which, since its debut in Primera División in 1913, has always played in the top division.
Quick Facts
- Competition type
- Domestic Cup (Historical)
- Organizer
- Argentine Football Association (AFA)
- Boca juniors titles
- 2
- Second boca title won
- 1923
- Era of dominance
- Early 1920s
Lore & Background
Boca Juniors has won 74 official titles, the most by any Argentine club. National titles include 35 Primera División championships and 17 domestic cups. Internationally, Boca has won 22 major titles, with 18 organised by CONMEBOL and the rest organised jointly by the Argentine and Uruguayan Associations. The club's international achievements also include one Tie Cup, one Copa de Honor Cousenier, and two Copa Escobar-Gerona, organized jointly by AFA and AUF together.
Reader's Guide
Boca Juniors' home stadium is the Estadio Alberto J. Armando, better known colloquially as La Bombonera. The club has a fierce rivalry with River Plate, and matches between them are known as the Superclásico. As of January 2023, Boca Juniors ranked first among the clubs with the most members in Argentina, with 315,879.
Did You Know?
- Boca Juniors was founded on 3 April 1905 by a group of boys, sons of Italian immigrants from Genoa.
- The club's first manager was Irish immigrant Patrick McCarthy, who taught the fundamentals of football to the founders.
- Boca Juniors was named by the IFFHS as the top South American club of the first decade of the 21st century (2001–2010).
- The club's colors (blue and gold) are said to have been adopted from the flag of a Swedish ship named Drottning Sophia.
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