Ferro Carril Oeste

Ferro Carril Oeste
Full nameClub Ferro Carril Oeste
Nickname(s)Ferro
Verdolaga
Oeste
Founded28 July 1904; 120 years ago (1904-07-28)
GroundRicardo Etcheverry,
Caballito, Buenos Aires
Capacity24,442
ChairmanDaniel Pandolfi
ManagerJuan Sara
LeaguePrimera Nacional
2023Primera Nacional Zone B, 8th
Websiteferrocarriloeste.org.ar

Club Ferro Carril Oeste, known simply as Ferro Carril Oeste or familiarly, Ferro, is an Argentine sports club from the neighbourhood of Caballito, Buenos Aires. Although many activities are hosted by the club, Ferro is mostly known for its football team, which plays in the Primera Nacional, the second division of the Argentine football league system.

Apart from football, Ferro Carril Oeste hosts a wide variety of sports that can be practised at the club, such as athletics, basketball, baseball, futsal, handball, field hockey, swimming, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, volleyball.[1] and, since 2001, professional boxing shows, including world championship boxing contests.[2]

As its name indicates, the club had railway origins, being founded in 1904 by employees of the Buenos Aires Western Railway. The club had its glory days in the 1980s, having won numerous titles in several sports disciplines, being also recognised by Unesco as a model institution. Ferro Carril Oeste had 50,000 members by those years.[3]

  1. ^ "Deportes federados", club website Archived 29 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 21 December 2012
  2. ^ "BoxRec: Venue". Archived from the original on 19 June 2022. Retrieved 19 June 2022.
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