Boca Juniors Reserves and Academy are the reserve and youth academy teams of Boca Juniors. Boca Juniors reserve team plays in the "Primera División de Reserva", the reserve division of Primera División. Home matches are played at the "Boca Juniors Training Center", inaugurated in 2017 and sited in Ezeiza, Buenos Aires. The Boca Juniors reserves are the team with the most Torneo de Reserva championships with 20 titles,^[2] since the squad was established in 1910.^[3]

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Boca Juniors

Full name	Club Atlético Boca Juniors
Nickname(s)	Xeneizes (Genoese), Azul y Oro (Blue and Gold), La Mitad Más Uno (Half plus One)
Founded	1910; 114 years ago (1910) (Reserve teams)
Ground	Centro de Entrenamiento Boca Juniors, Ezeiza
Capacity	1,000
Chairman	Jorge Amor Ameal
Manager	Silvio Rudman[1]
Website	Club website
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Some of the most notable players from the youth divisions include Américo Tesoriere, Pedro Calomino, Alfredo Garasini, Ernesto Lazzatti, Natalio Pescia, Mario Boyé, Antonio Rattín, Ángel Clemente Rojas (regarded by many supporters as the greatest idol in club's history), Alberto Tarantini, Roberto Mouzo, Oscar Ruggeri, Diego Latorre, Fernando Gago, Carlos Tevez, and Leandro Paredes. On the other side, Sebastián Battaglia is the most winning player in club's history with 19 titles won (17 as player and 2 as manager).

According to the International Centre for Sports Studies, Boca Juniors is the club which trained the largest number of professional players worldwide, having trained 78 footballers. The statistic took 285 clubs from 15 different leagues.^[4]

Known as "The Boca Factory", Boca Juniors youth divisions contains teams from under-8 to under-20 level. They participate in Argentina's youth leagues organized by the Argentine Football Association. In 1996 Mauricio Macri (who had been elected president of the club one year later) stated that rather than buy players for huge money only to put too much expectation on them and watch them under-perform, they wanted to create their own stars. Therefore, Boca hired two very influential figures; one was Bernardo Griffa, a leading expert of youth in Argentina who had created a successful scouting network at Newell's Old Boys.^[5] The second was Ramón Maddoni,^[6] the king of 'baby football' (indoor six-a-side football for 5–12 year olds), who had a long career at Club Parque at the moment of being hired by Boca Juniors.^[7][8]

Since then, Boca's academy has brought through, and also sold, more than 350 homegrown players from all age categories. From the list of the 350 players, more than 130 of the academy graduates would play around the world, including in Argentina, Spain, Italy, England and many others in places ranging from Germany and the Netherlands to China and Israel. More than 35 leagues contain players that were raised and developed by the Boca academy system. The players are taught the same formation (4–3–1–2) from early on to the first-team. This makes fitting into the first-team far easier for a young player. Boca's under-20 team were regular participants in the Under-20 Copa Libertadores and other international youth football tournaments.^[9][10]

Boca Juniors won their first U-20 Copa Libertadores in 2023 after defeating Ecuadorian team Independiente del Valle 2–0 in the final at Estadio La Portada.^[11]

Note: Player's career in Boca Juniors' senior squad is indicated in brackets:

Notes

• Bernardo Gandulla (1947–1978) ^[13]
• Ernesto Grillo (1966–?) ^[13][14]
• Jorge Griffa (1995–2003) ^[15]
• Norberto Madurga^[16]

Other former club players that have coached the reserve teams include Rolando Schiavi, Sebastián Battaglia, Hugo Ibarra, and Mauricio Serna.^[17]