Ferro Carril Oeste
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.
| Full name | Club Ferro Carril Oeste | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Ferro Verdolaga Oeste | ||
| Founded | 28 July 1904 | ||
| Ground | Ricardo Etcheverry, Caballito, Buenos Aires | ||
| Capacity | 24,442 | ||
| Chairman | Daniel Pandolfi | ||
| Manager | Juan Sara | ||
| League | Primera Nacional | ||
| 2023 | Primera Nacional Zone B, 8th | ||
| Website | Club website | ||
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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. and, since 2001, professional boxing shows, including world championship boxing contests.
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.