Supercopa Argentina 2019 vs Boca Juniors

Lore & Background

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.

Reader's Guide

The team has won 74 official titles, the most by any Argentine club. National titles won by Boca Juniors include 35 Primera División championships, and 17 domestic cups. Boca Juniors also owns an honorary title awarded by the Argentine Football Association for their successful tour of Europe in 1925. Internationally, Boca Juniors has won 22 major titles, with 18 organised by CONMEBOL and the rest organised jointly by the Argentine and Uruguayan Associations.

Did You Know?

• Boca Juniors was founded on 3 April 1905 by a group of boys who were sons of Italian immigrants from Genoa.
• The club's home stadium is the Estadio Alberto J. Armando, better known colloquially as La Bombonera.
• Boca Juniors ranked first among the clubs with the most members in Argentina, with 315,879 as of January 2023.
• The club's first jersey colour was a white shirt with thin black vertical stripes, later replaced by light blue, then striped, before adopting the definitive blue and gold.