Boca Juniors Quiz Questions and Answers

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Round 1

  1. What are Boca Juniors' traditional home colours?
  2. Boca Juniors contest the Superclásico, Argentine football's fiercest derby, against which club?
  3. In which city are Boca Juniors based?
  4. Boca Juniors won the Copa Libertadores four times in which decade?
  5. Which Argentine legend returned to Boca Juniors in 1995 and finished his playing career there?
  6. Which No. 10 became Boca's modern idol, winning the Copa Libertadores with them in 2000, 2001 and 2007?
  7. Which forward emerged at Boca in the early 2000s before playing for West Ham, Manchester United and Manchester City?
  8. Boca Juniors beat which European giant 2-1 in Tokyo to win the 2000 Intercontinental Cup?
  9. Which striker is Boca Juniors' all-time leading scorer, with 236 goals?
  10. Which coach masterminded Boca's golden era, winning the Copa Libertadores in 2000, 2001 and 2003?
Answers — round 1
  1. Blue with a yellow band — The horizontal band across a dark shirt is one of football's most recognisable kits, and the club has worn a version of it since the early 1900s.
  2. River Plate — Both clubs began life around the dockside barrio of La Boca before the rivals moved north to Núñez; the fixture routinely tops lists of the world's most intense derbies.
  3. Buenos Aires — Their home sits in a working-class dockside barrio in the south of Argentina's capital, close to the mouth of the Riachuelo.
  4. The 2000s — Under two different coaches Boca reached five continental finals in that ten-year span and won four of them.
  5. Diego Maradona — After a spell at Newell's Old Boys and a 15-month doping ban, he played on at La Bombonera until 1997 — a second stint following his first in 1981-82.
  6. Juan Román Riquelme — Between his two Boca eras he spent five years in Spain, and he was named South American Footballer of the Year in 2001.
  7. Carlos Tevez — He was named South American Footballer of the Year three years running from 2003, and returned to Boca twice more, in 2015 and 2018.
  8. Real Madrid — Roberto Carlos pulled a goal back for the reigning European champions, but Boca had already struck twice inside the opening six minutes.
  9. Martín Palermo — He scored both goals in the 2000 Intercontinental Cup final and passed Roberto Cherro's long-standing club mark of 221.
  10. Carlos Bianchi — Nicknamed 'El Virrey', he had already won the 1994 edition with Vélez Sarsfield and is the only coach to lift the trophy four times.

Round 2

  1. Boca won the 2000 Copa Libertadores final on penalties against which Brazilian club?
  2. Which Mexican club did Boca beat on penalties to retain the Copa Libertadores in 2001?
  3. Boca beat which Brazilian club 5-1 on aggregate in the 2003 Copa Libertadores final?
  4. Which Brazilian club did Boca beat 5-0 on aggregate in the 2007 Copa Libertadores final?
  5. Boca won the 2003 Intercontinental Cup on penalties against which European champions?
  6. Which Boca Juniors club president of the 1990s and 2000s later became President of Argentina?
  7. Boca Juniors are the only club to have won back-to-back Copa Sudamericana titles — in which two consecutive years?
  8. In January 2005 Boca sold their young star — the reigning South American Footballer of the Year — to which Brazilian club in a then-record deal for South American football?
  9. In 2002 Boca sold their iconic No. 10 playmaker to which European club?
  10. Which Boca midfielder was sold to a Spanish giant for around €20 million in a move that took effect in January 2007?
Answers — round 2
  1. Palmeiras — The tie finished 2-2 at La Bombonera and goalless at the Morumbí; Boca then converted four spot-kicks in the shootout.
  2. Cruz Azul — The Mexican side were invited guests in the South American competition and lost the shootout 3-1 after the tie finished level.
  3. Santos — A rematch of the 1963 decider: Boca won 2-0 at home and 3-1 at the Morumbí to seal a fifth continental crown.
  4. Grêmio — Boca won 3-0 at La Bombonera and 2-0 in Porto Alegre; it remains their most recent continental title.
  5. AC Milan — The Italians missed three of their four spot-kicks in Yokohama after the game had finished 1-1 following extra time.
  6. Mauricio Macri — He ran the club through its most successful decade before entering politics, becoming the capital's mayor in 2007 and taking national office in 2015.
  7. 2004 and 2005 — They came through a two-legged final against a Bolivian side in the first, then won a shootout against Mexican opposition in the second.
  8. Corinthians — The buyers, then bankrolled by the MSI investment fund, paid a reported $22 million and won the Brasileirão that season.
  9. Barcelona — He struggled under Louis van Gaal, who called him a 'political signing', and was later loaned on to Villarreal.
  10. Fernando Gago — The deep-lying playmaker was billed as the next Fernando Redondo, and returned to Boca in 2013.

Round 3

  1. Which Colombian goalkeeper won the Copa Libertadores with Boca in both 2000 and 2001?
  2. The second leg of the 2018 Copa Libertadores final — an all-Argentine affair — was relocated abroad to which stadium?
  3. Which former Boca winger returned as manager and won back-to-back league titles in 2016-17 and 2017-18?
  4. Boca's 2019-20 Argentine league title was clinched on the final matchday under which returning coach?
  5. Which player is the most decorated in Boca Juniors' history, with 17 titles?
  6. Which Colombian club beat Boca on penalties in the 2004 Copa Libertadores final?
  7. Which Mexican club did Boca beat on penalties in the 2005 Copa Sudamericana final?
  8. Which coach led Boca to an unbeaten Apertura title in 2011?
  9. Boca have won which South American super-cup a record four times, in 1990, 2005, 2006 and 2008?
  10. Who scored Boca's goal in the second leg of the 2018 Copa Libertadores final in Madrid?
Answers — round 3
  1. Óscar Córdoba — He spent 1997 to 2001 at the club, making 118 appearances, and was picked in the South American team of the year in 2000 and 2001.
  2. Santiago Bernabéu — CONMEBOL moved the game to Madrid in December 2018 after Boca's team bus was attacked before the original date.
  3. Guillermo Barros Schelotto — Known as 'El Mellizo', he had won four Copa Libertadores as a Boca player and was named MLS MVP with Columbus Crew in 2008.
  4. Miguel Ángel Russo — He had won the 2007 Copa Libertadores in his first spell; Boca overhauled the leaders on the last day in March 2020, days before the pandemic halted Argentine football.
  5. Sebastián Battaglia — The defensive midfielder collected silverware across two spells between 1998 and 2013, and later managed the club.
  6. Once Caldas — The side from Manizales won the shootout after a goalless first leg and a 1-1 draw in Colombia, denying Boca back-to-back titles.
  7. Pumas UNAM — Both legs finished 1-1 and Boca took the shootout 4-3 to hold on to the trophy.
  8. Julio César Falcioni — Boca went through all 19 matches of that tournament without defeat and conceded only six goals along the way.
  9. Recopa Sudamericana — The one-off tie pits the continent's two main club champions against each other; no club has lifted it more often than Boca.
  10. Darío Benedetto — He put Boca ahead just before half-time, but the game was level after 90 minutes and two extra-time goals turned the tie.

Round 4

  1. Which Boca player was the joint-top scorer of the 2003 Copa Libertadores, with nine goals?
  2. Which goalkeeper, nicknamed 'El Pato', won three Copa Libertadores titles with Boca between 2000 and 2003?
  3. Which centre-back did Boca sell to Roma in 2000 for around €20 million?
  4. Between 1998 and 1999 Boca set an Argentine record by going unbeaten in how many consecutive domestic matches?
  5. Which Boca player equalised in the 2007 FIFA Club World Cup final, a game Boca went on to lose 4-2?
  6. Which Spanish club did Boca sell midfielder Éver Banega to in January 2008?
Answers — round 4
  1. Marcelo Delgado — He shared the golden boot with Brazil's Ricardo Oliveira and scored in both legs of the final.
  2. Roberto Abbondanzieri — He was at the club from 1996 to 2006 before joining Getafe, where he won the Zamora Trophy as La Liga's best goalkeeper.
  3. Walter Samuel — Nicknamed 'Il Muro' in Italy, he went on to spend nine seasons at Inter after leaving the Giallorossi.
  4. 40 — The streak ran from the 1998 Clausura into the 1999 Clausura and broke a mark of 39 held by Racing Club since the 1960s.
  5. Rodrigo Palacio — He struck within a minute of the opener in Yokohama; Pablo Ledesma added a late consolation and Kaká took the Golden Ball.
  6. Valencia — The teenager moved to Spain in a big-money deal and only later became a three-time Europa League winner with Sevilla.

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