Boca Juniors

Boca Juniors

Full name	Club Atlético Boca Juniors
Nickname(s)	Xeneizes (Genoese) Azul y Oro (Blue and Gold) La Mitad Más Uno (Half plus One)
Founded	3 April 1905 (1905-04-03)
Ground	La Bombonera La Boca, Buenos Aires
Capacity	54,000
Chairman	Jorge Amor Ameal
Manager	Miguel Ángel Russo
League	Superliga Argentina
2020–21	1st (Champion)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Club Atlético Boca Juniors (Spanish pronunciation: [kluβ aˈtletiko ˈβoka ˈʝunjoɾs]) is professional football club in La Boca, a neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. They play their home games at La Bombonera.

Boca Juniors and River Plate have an intense rivalry, and matches between them are sometimes very heated. Matches between them are known as the Superclásico, and both teams are from Buenos Aires.

Current squad

As of 15 February 2021

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK Argentina Esteban Andrada 2 DF Argentina Lisandro López 3 DF Argentina Emmanuel Mas 4 DF Argentina Julio Buffarini 5 DF Peru Carlos Zambrano 6 DF Argentina Marcos Rojo 7 FW Argentina Cristian Pavón 8 MF Colombia Edwin Cardona (on loan from Tijuana) 9 FW Argentina Ramón Ábila 10 FW Argentina Carlos Tevez (captain) 11 MF Argentina Eduardo Salvio 13 GK Argentina Javier García 14 MF Argentina Nicolás Capaldo 16 MF Argentina Aaron Molinas 17 GK Argentina Agustín Rossi 18 DF Colombia Frank Fabra 19 FW Argentina Mauro Zárate

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 MF Argentina Gonzalo Maroni 21 MF Colombia Jorman Campuzano 22 FW Colombia Sebastián Villa 23 MF Argentina Diego González 24 DF Argentina Carlos Izquierdoz 25 MF Argentina Agustín Almendra 27 FW Argentina Franco Soldano (on loan from Olympiacos) 28 GK Argentina Manuel Roffo 29 DF Argentina Leonardo Jara 30 FW Argentina Exequiel Zeballos 33 MF Argentina Alan Varela 34 FW Argentina Agustín Obando 35 DF Argentina Renzo Giampaoli 36 MF Argentina Cristian Medina 37 DF Argentina Agustín Sández 38 FW Argentina Luis Vázquez

Honours

International

• Club World Cup (3): 1977, 2000, 2003
• Copa Libertadores (6): 1977, 1978, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007
• Copa Sudamericana (2): 2004, 2005
• Recopa Sudamericana (4): 1990, 2005, 2006, 2008
• Supercopa Sudamericana (1): 1989
• Copa de Oro (1): 1993
• Copa Master de Supercopa (1): 1992
• Tie Cup (1): 1919
• Copa de Honor Cousenier (1) : 1920
• Copa de Confraternidad Escobar-Gerona (2): 1945, 1946

National

League

• Primera División (34): 1919, 1920, 1923, 1924, 1926, 1930, 1931 LAF, 1934 LAF, 1935, 1940, 1943, 1944, 1954, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1969 Nacional, 1970 Nacional, 1976 Metropolitano, 1976 Nacional, 1981 Metropolitano, 1992 Apertura, 1998 Apertura, 1999 Clausura, 2000 Apertura, 2003 Apertura, 2005 Apertura, 2006 Clausura, 2008 Apertura, 2011 Apertura, 2015, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2019–20

National cups

• Supercopa Argentina (1): 2018
• Copa Diego Armando Maradona (1): 2020
• Copa Argentina (3): 1969, 2012, 2015
• Copa de Competencia Jockey Club (2): 1919, 1925
• Copa Dr. Carlos Ibarguren (5): 1919, 1923, 1924, 1940, 1944
• Copa Estímulo (1): 1926
• Copa de Competencia Británica George VI (1): 1946

Related pages

• List of Argentine football teams