Club Atlético Boca Juniors is an Argentine sports club based in the La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires. Although many activities are hosted by the club, Boca Juniors is mostly known for its professional football team, which currently plays in the Argentine Primera División.
Boca Juniors is one of the most successful football teams in Argentina, and one of the most successful in the world, having won more than 50 official titles to date, including its most recent championship, the 2011 Copa Argentina. Domestic titles won by Boca Juniors include 30 Primera División championships, two Copa Argentina, two Copa de Competencia Jockey Club, 5 Copa Dr. Carlos Ibarguren and one Copa Estímulo (AAF), among other titles. Internationally, the team has won 18 international titles, a record shared with A.C. Milan although Boca also won two international titles during the amateur era, the Tie Cup in 1919 and the Copa de Honor Cousenier in 1920, those tournaments created before CONMEBOL was established. Boca Juniors’ international trophy haul includes six Copa Libertadores, 4 Recopa Sudamericana, three Intercontinental Cups, 2 Copa Sudamericana, 1 Copa Oro, 1 Supercopa Sudamericana, 1 Supercopa Masters, one Tie Cup and one Copa de Honor Cousenier. Boca Juniors is also one of only eight teams to have won CONMEBOL’s treble (the others being Olimpia, São Paulo, Independiente, Vélez Sársfield, Cruzeiro, Internacional and LDU Quito). Their success usually has Boca 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). Boca was also named by the IFFHS as the top South American club of the first decade of the 21st century (2001–2010). Boca is currently ranked 6th.
The club was founded on 3 April 1905 by five Italian immigrants. Boca has always had a fierce rivalry with River Plate, also from Buenos Aires. Matches between the two clubs are known as the Superclásico and are one of the most heated rivalries in Argentina and the world as both 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 Nicolás Burdisso, Carlos Tévez, Éver Banega, and Fernando Gago, who have played or are playing for top European clubs.
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Ricardo Lavolpe was chosen to be the coach succeeding Basile. In the 2006 Apertura the team made a good campaign but at the end of the season finished with the same number of points as Estudiantes de La Plata, so both teams had to play a match in order to proclaim a new champion. Estudiantes defeated Boca 2–1 in Vélez Sársfield stadium and Lavolpe resigned as the coach.
The next coach was Miguel Ángel Russo and Juan Román Riquelme returned to the club. Boca Juniors won the 2007 Copa Libertadores defeating Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense in the finals (3–0 in Buenos Aires and 2–0 in Porto Alegre). Riquelme (who scored 8 goals) was considered to be the best player of the tournament by journalists and experts. As the South American champion, Boca went to Tokyo to dispute the FIFA Club World Cup but was defeated by AC Milan 4–2.
Carlos Ischia was appointed as coach after Russo’s departure, obtaining the 2008 Recopa Sudamericana (against Arsenal de Sarandí). On the other hand, Boca was eliminated by Fluminense (which would be the runner up) in the 2008 Copa Libertadores semi-finals. At the end of that year Boca obtained a new title, the 2008 Apertura. That season ended with Boca, San Lorenzo and Tigre in equal 1st position so a play-off tournament had to be contested among those 3 teams in order to proclaim a new champion. Boca won that tournament and became new Argentine champion. That same season Boca’s arch-rival River Plate finished the last for the first time in its history.
Boca finished 14th (over 19 teams) in the 2009 Clausura and Ischia was dismissed by the club (although the managers said he had resigned) and Basile was called to start his second run as coach. Nevertheless, after finishing 11th in the 2009 Apertura, Basile left the club.
For the 2010 Clausura the team was coached firstly by Abel Alves and then by Roberto Pompei, who were working with the youth teams when they were appointed to coach the first division team. Boca finished 16th so the club decided to hire Claudio Borghi (who had won a title coaching Argentinos Juniors the last season) as team’s new coach, but he left the club after 14 matches, due to the bad results obtained. Roberto Pompei was designed to be the coach until the end of the Apertura. Boca finished in 12th position.
In January 2011, Boca hired Julio Falcioni who had won a title coaching Banfield in 2009. The team did not have a good campaign in the Clausura, although Boca won the Superclásico (the last played before River was relegated to the second division) finishing 7th. In the last fixture (when Boca played against Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata) Martín Palermo, the all-time top scorer, retired.
For the 2011 Apertura, Boca acquired goalkeeper Agustín Orión and veteran centre back Rolando Schiavi, who returned after his tenure at Newell’s Old Boys. After three years without any achievements, Boca was proclaimed champion after remaining unbeaten at the end of the season, with 12 victories and 7 draws. The team also conceded the fewest goals (only 6 in 19 matches disputed) which set a record for short tournaments in Argentina (after Clausura and Apertura championships were established in 1991).
In 2012, Boca reached the final of Copa Libertadores de America, but lost to Corinthians.
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