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Estadio Alberto José Armando
Alternate: La Bombonera

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Boca Juniors vs Godoy Cruz
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Established
1940 (84 years old)

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57,000

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Argentina

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La Boca, Buenos Aires

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06 Nov Boca Juniors home team badge - Away Team Badge Godoy Cruz
20 Nov Boca Juniors home team badge - Away Team Badge Union
01 Dec Boca Juniors home team badge - Away Team Badge Gimnasia LP
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Past Events
27 Oct Boca Juniors home team badge 1 - 1home team badge Deportivo Ri
07 Oct Boca Juniors home team badge 1 - 0home team badge Argentinos J
21 Sep Boca Juniors home team badge 0 - 1home team badge River Plate
01 Sep Boca Juniors home team badge 2 - 1home team badge Rosario Cent
18 Aug Boca Juniors home team badge 3 - 2home team badge San Lorenzo
16 Aug Boca Juniors home team badge 1 - 0home team badge Cruzeiro
04 Aug Boca Juniors home team badge 1 - 1home team badge Barracas Cen
31 Jul Boca Juniors home team badge 3 - 0home team badge Banfield
25 Jul Boca Juniors home team badge 1 - 0home team badge Independient
14 Jun Boca Juniors home team badge 1 - 0home team badge Velez Sarsfi


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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, since it was promoted in 1913, has always played in the Argentine Primera División.

Boca Juniors is the most successful football team of Argentina, with an overall of more than 60 official titles to date, including its most recent championship, the 2011-12 Copa Argentina. Domestic titles won by Boca Juniors include 30 Primera División championships, and 12 National cups

Internationally, the team has won 18 international titles recognized by FIFA, second in the world for number of international titles won, together with A.C. Milan and Real Madrid C.F., holding eighteen titles each, and behind Al Ahly SC with twenty international titles. Other international titles won by Boca Juniors include Rioplatenses competitions Tie Cup, Copa de Honor Cousenier and Copa Escobar-Gerona, organized by Argentine and Uruguayan Associations together.

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. Boca Juniors is also known to be the most popular football club in Argentina, due to its fanbase being composed of approximately 46% of the total population of the country.

Boca has always had a fierce rivalry with River Plate, due to both clubs were established in La Boca. Matches between them 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 Oscar Ruggeri, Sebastián Battaglia, Nicolás Burdisso, Carlos Tevez, Éver Banega, and Fernando Gago, who have played or are playing for top European clubs.

In addition to football, Boca Juniors also has professional basketball and volleyball teams. Other (amateur) activities held in the club are: athletics, futsal, artistic and rhythmic gymnastics, martial arts (judo, karate and taekwondo), swimming, weightlifting and wrestling.
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