Chacarita Juniors

Football club

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| Club website

Home colours

Away colours

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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.

## History

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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.

Chacarita in 1924, when winning the División Intermedia title

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.

The 1969 Torneo Metropolitano champions

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]

## Kit evolution

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1906

1920–present

1931(1)

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

## Nickname

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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.

## Stadium

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Main article: Estadio de Chacarita Juniors

View of a goal zone grandstand in 2009

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]

## Players

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### Current squad

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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.

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-- | 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
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-- | 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

### Out on loan

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

| No. | Pos. | Nation  | Player

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### Former players

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Main category: Chacarita Juniors footballers

## Managers

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* Ernesto Duchini (1939–43)
* Alfio Basile (1975–76)
* Carlos Cavagnaro (1988)
* Héctor Rivoira (1997–00)
* Reinaldo Merlo (1998–99)
* Osvaldo Sosa (2000–02)
* Néstor Craviotto (2003)
* Nestor Clausen (2004–05)
* Héctor Rivoira (2005–07), (2011)
* Dalcio Giovagnoli (2008)
* Ricardo Zielinski (2008–09)
* Fernando Gamboa (2009–10)
* Mauro Navas (2010)
* Felipe De la Riva (2011–12)
* Carlos Navarro Montoya (2013)
* Carlos Fabián Leeb (2013–14)

## Honours

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

## References

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1. ^ Estadio de Chacarita Juniors on Estadios de Argentina
2. ^ Zmag.org Archived 7 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine
3. ^ "Un equipo de Primera" (in Spanish). Diario Olé. 8 June 2009. Archived from the original on 11 June 2009. Retrieved 16 March 2010.
4. ^ "En un final para el infarto, Chicago se quedó con el ascenso y condenó a Chacarita" Archived 1 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Clarín, 30 June 2012
5. ^ El Nacimiento de una Pasión: Historia de los Clubes de Fútbol, Alejandro Fabbri, editorial Capital Intelectual (2006) – ISBN 987-1181-83-3
6. ^ a b Chacarita anuncia inauguración del nuevo estadio Archived 20 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
7. ^ "Chacarita Juniors squad". Soccerway. 9 August 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2017.

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chacarita Juniors.

* Official website
* Chacarita Juniors on X
* Gloriosa Tricolor

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Chacarita Juniors - current squad

* Brambatti
* Losas
* Salort
* Alvacete
* Berra
* Formica
* Lacunza
* Manchot
* Masuero
* Rosso
* Benavídez
* Blanco
* Fernández
* Fredes
* R. González
* J. González
* Hoyos
* Nelle
* Perdomo
* Piñeyro
* Del Col
* Maidana
* Chávez
* Godoy
* Méndez
* Parra
* Russo
* Tévez
* Peña
* Manager: Centrone

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Chacarita Juniors – managers

* Duchini (1939–43)
* Basile (1975–76)
* Cavagnaro (1988)
* Guerra (1993–94)
* Rivoira (1997–98)
* Merlo (1998–99)
* Rivoira (1999–2000)
* Córdoba (2000)
* Sosa (2000–02)
* Craviotto (2003)
* Clausen (2004–05)
* Rivoira (2005–07)
* Giovagnoli (2008)
* Zielinski (2008–09)
* Gamboa (2009–10)
* Navas (2010)
* Zuccarelli (2010–11)
* Rivoira (2011)
* De La Riva (2011–12)
* Navarro Montoya (2013)
* Leeb (2013–14)
* Biggeri (2015)
* Gamboa (2015–16)
* Coyette (2016–17)
* Marabottoc (2017)
* Pena (2018)
* Vivaldo (2018)
* Pisano (2019)
* Bianco (2019–20)
* Biaggio (2020)
* Aldirico (2021)
* Arias (2021–22)
* Venturellic (2022)
* Centrone (2022)
* Venturellic (2022)
* Biggeri (2022–)

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