Argentina · Buenos Aires (Núñez)
River Plate
Club Atlético River Plate
Millonarios, El Más Grande
River Plate is a Buenos Aires club founded on 25 May 1901 in the La Boca neighbourhood, and since 1938 it has played at the Estadio Monumental, in the Núñez area.
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The club
- Name
- River Plate
- Full name
- Club Atlético River Plate
- Nickname
- Millonarios, El Más Grande
- Founded
- May 25, 1901
- City
- Buenos Aires (Núñez)
- Country
- Argentina
- Official website
- riverplate.com
- Colors
- #FFFFFF, #E30613
- Competitions
- Liga Profesional (1909–2010)
- Copa Libertadores (1966–2025)
- Intercontinental Cup (1986–1996)
- Copa Interamericana (1987)
- Supercopa Libertadores (1988–1997)
- Recopa Sudamericana (1997–2019)
- Copa Sudamericana (since 2002)
- Copa Argentina (since 2011)
- Primera Nacional (2011)
- Liga Profesional (since 2012)
- FIFA Club World Cup (2015–2025)
- In the archive
- 2 crests · 21 shirts
Current crest
Since 2022
Shirts
1910s
1920s
1930s
1950s
1960s
2000s
Club history
River Plate is a Buenos Aires club founded on 25 May 1901 in the La Boca neighbourhood, and since 1938 it has played at the Estadio Monumental, in the Núñez area. It wears a white shirt crossed by a red sash and is the club with the most Primera División titles in Argentina. It has won four Copa Libertadores titles (1986, 1996, 2015 and 2018) and the 1986 Intercontinental Cup.
The full story is for premium members
## Born in La Boca River Plate was officially founded on 25 May 1901 in La Boca, next to the port of Buenos Aires, through the merger of two neighbourhood clubs: Santa Rosa and La Rosales. Its first president was Leopoldo Bard. The name comes from the English way of referring to the Río de la Plata: according to the most widespread account, the founders read it on crates at the port. The shirt was all white until, during a carnival, some players tied a red ribbon across it; that is how the red sash was born. Some historians argue that the club was actually founded in 1904.
The fans
Its supporters are known as «millonarios» (millionaires), a nickname born from the record signings of Carlos Peucelle and Bernabé Ferreyra in the early 1930s. Rivals have called them «gallinas» (chickens) since the 1966 Copa Libertadores final, lost to Peñarol after leading 2-0. Its great derby is the Superclásico against Boca Juniors, which was already played in River's Libertadores debut in 1966. It is one of the clubs with the most members in the world, with more than 350,000.
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