Chacarita Juniors

Chacarita Juniors

Full name	Club Atlético Chacarita Juniors
Nickname(s)	Funebreros (Undertakers) Tricolor (Three-color)
Founded	1 May 1906; 118 years ago (1906-05-01)
Ground	Estadio de Chacarita Juniors, Villa Maipú, San Martín
Capacity	19,000 [1]
Chairman	Néstor Di Pierro
Manager	Anibal Biggeri
League	Primera Nacional
2023	Primera Nacional Zone B, 2nd
Website	chacaritajuniors.com.ar
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Club Atlético Chacarita Juniors (usually known simply as Chacarita) is an Argentine football club headquartered in Villa Crespo, Buenos Aires, while the stadium is located in Villa Maipú, General San Martín Partido of Greater Buenos Aires.

The squad currently plays in Primera Nacional, the second division of the Argentine football league system.

The club was founded on 1 May 1906, in an anarchist Library^[2] on the boundary between the Villa Crespo and Chacarita neighbourhoods. After a short period of institutional crisis, the club was re-opened in 1919.

The football squad promoted to Primera División in 1924, and continued playing at the top level after football became professional in 1931.

In 1940 Chacarita was relegated to the second division, but it lasted only one season. The team then moved to the General San Martín Partido in Greater Buenos Aires, next to the autonomous city of Buenos Aires.

In 1956 Chacarita was relegated to the second division again, and won that championship the following year returning to Primera División. After 10 consecutive years at the top level, Chacarita won its only first division title, the 1969 Metropolitano championship.

In the following years the team performed badly and was relegated all the way down to the 3rd division in 1980. In 1984 Chacarita came back to the first division, but because of hooliganism by some of its fans, the club was punished with a suspension for a month and a loss of 10 points; having missing those points, Chacarita could not avoid a new relegation to the second division.

After a long tenure in lower divisions (including the Primera C), Chacarita came back to the top division in 1999, where the team remained until 2004 Torneo Clausura, when it was relegated to the Primera B Nacional.

In the 2008–09 season the club finished 2nd, after a 1–0 victory against Platense, with a goal scored in the last seconds of the match. This victory secured Chacarita a return to Primera División after five years of being relegated.^[3]

At the end of 2011–12 season, Chacarita finished 20th and therefore the Funebreros had to play two matches against Nueva Chicago (winner of Primera B Metropolitana's Torneo Reducido) to avoid being relegated to the lower division. Nueva Chicago won the series (1–0 and 1–1) and Chacarita was subsequently relegated.^[4]

1906

1920–present

1931(1)

⁽¹⁾ Used during the 1931 championship as a tribute to club's first jersey.^[5]

The team got the nickname of Funebreros ("Undertakers") because its ground was near the La Chacarita Cemetery. The red color in its jersey (apart from black and white) is a reference to its socialist origins.

Chacarita's stadium was reopened on 30 January 2011, after its closure for a total rebuilt (which consisted in replacing the old wood seats for the more modern cement structures, according to safety regulations) since May 2008. As part of the celebration for the reopening, the club organized a friendly match between Chacarita and Argentinos Juniors (which ended 0–0). For this special event only 13,260 seats were available. Once the remodelling is totally finished, the stadium will be able to host an attendance of 35,000.^[6]

The new stadium was erected in the same location where the old one was, in the Villa Maipú neighborhood, General San Martín Partido. The last game played by Chacarita before the remodelling had been on 21 October 2005, during a match for the Primera B Nacional championship. The rival was Tigre (which has a strong rivalry with Chacarita) and El Funebrero won 3–0.^[6]

As of 11 July 2022.^[7]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  ARG Gaston Brambatti — GK  ARG Federico Losas — GK  ARG Germán Salort — DF  ARG Juan Alvacete — DF  ARG Tomás Berra — DF  ARG Lautaro Formica — DF  ARG Leandro Lacunza — DF  ARG Alejandro Manchot — DF  ARG Abel Masuero — DF  ARG Federico Rosso — DF  ARG Facundo Tallarico — MF  ARG Exequiel Benavídez — MF  ARG Ricardo Blanco — MF  ARG Tobías Fernández — MF  ARG Hernán Fredes — MF  ARG Juan Cruz González — MF  ARG Rodrigo González

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  ARG Enzo Hoyos — MF  ARG Saúl Nelle — MF  ARG Luciano Perdomo — MF  ARG Agustín Piñeyro — MF  ARG Mariano Del Col (loan from Fassano) — MF  ARG Gonzalo Groba — FW  ARG Nahuel Maidana (loan from Ferro) — FW  ARG Nicolás Chávez — FW  ARG Santiago Godoy (loan from Racing Club) — FW  ARG José Méndez — FW  ARG Facundo Parra — FW  ARG Ignacio Russo (loan from Racing Club) — FW  ARG Mauricio Tévez — FW  VEN Ronaldo Peña (loan from UCV) — FW  ARG Ariel López — FW  ARG Elías Alderete

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

• Primera División (1): 1969 Metropolitano
• Primera División B (3): 1941, 1959, 1993–94
• División Intermedia (1): 1924

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