Sport Boys

It was founded on 28 July 1927. Its classic and historic rival is the Atlético Chalaco against whom dispute the Clasico Porteño derby of Callao. They play their home games in Estadio Miguel Grau in Callao, which it also shares with two other clubs in Callao, Academia Cantolao, and Universidad de San Martín de Porres.

Sport Boys

Full name	Sport Boys Association
Nickname(s)	Los Rosados Los Porteños La Misilera Los Olímpicos de Berlín La Academia Porteña La Nube Rosada
Founded	28 July 1927; 96 years ago (1927-07-28)
Ground	Estadio Miguel Grau
Capacity	17,000
Chairman	Johan Vasquez
Manager	Fernando Gamboa
League	Liga 1
2023	Liga 1, 15th of 19
Website	Club website
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Sport Boys is considered the fourth most important club in the history of Peruvian football as they have won 6 national titles and have the largest number of international appearances after the Big 3, Universitario, Sporting Cristal and Alianza Lima, teams of Lima. Its most recent title was in 1984, where it overtook Colegio Nacional Iquitos and qualified for the 1985 Copa Libertadores where it finished in the quarter-finals. They participate in the Peruvian Primera División, the top flight of the Peruvian football league system.

The team's original uniform was striped red and yellow, which was then changed to its current pink and black color scheme.

Foundation

The club was founded on 28 July 1927, by a group of young enthusiasts from El Callao who got together to fulfill the dream of a very important local football fan Gualberto Lizárraga to start a football club. The day before Peru's independence day, 27 July, they held a meeting and at midnight, the group sang the National Anthem. Afterwards, they declared the club founded and named Lizárraga president and unanimously voted for the club name to be Sport Boys Association.

Sport Boys was the first Peruvian football club to feature cheerleaders. Many of them, including Anelhí Arias, Shirley Cherres, and others that have become Peruvian celebrities.

Recent years

The last time Sport Boys became champions of the Primera División Peruana was 1984. Since then they have had a rollercoaster of ups and downs. Some of the ups have been being runners-up in the 1990 and 1991 First Division after having won the Segunda División Peruana to gain promotion. In 1999 the Sport Boys qualified for the Copa CONMEBOL, and in 2001 for the 2001 Copa Libertadores. Since then that team has had more downs than ups by avoiding relegation to the Segunda División Peruana by winning an end of season playoff match that went down to a penalty shootout against José Gálvez in the 2006 season. During 2008 their campaign was worse than the 2007 campaign leaving the Sport Boys in the bottom of the standings for most of the Apertura tournament. Financial issues were also haunting the club in 2008, so severe that they have not been able to pay their players from March 2008. Some players like midfielder Montenegro have had to do taxi work at night to be able to support their families. That year they were relegated to the Segunda División Peruana but on 17 October 2009, after a great season, Sport Boys went on to beat Cobresol 3–2 for the Segunda División Peruana finals to go back into the Primera Division Peruana, where it played for three seasons before been inundated with economical problems, and then finishing 15th during the 2012 season which relegated them back to the Peruvian Segunda Division

Sport Boys returned to the Peruvian Primera División after winning the 2017 Peruvian Segunda División. They placed 14th on the aggregate table on the brink of Relegation but were ahead of the relegation zone by 11 points and again in 2019. The club classified for the 2022 Copa Sudamericana, their first participation in the tournament. They did not advance past the First Round.

Sport Boys has had a long-standing rivalry with Atlético Chalaco, Alianza Lima, Sporting Cristal, Deportivo Municipal, and Universitario.

Sport Boys plays its home games at the Estadio Miguel Grau. It has a capacity of about 17,000. Before this stadium was built, they had to use the 5,000 spectator capacity Telmo Carbajo, a stadium that was in bad condition and unfit to host football matches. It was the first stadium in Callao. Sport Boys were forced to play their games in the Estadio Nacional, where they would be far away from their fans.

National

League

• Peruvian Primera División:
  • Winners (6): 1935, 1937, 1942, 1951, 1958, 1984
  • Runner-up (9): 1938, 1950, 1952, 1959, 1960, 1966, 1976, 1990, 1991
• Peruvian Segunda División:
  • Winners (3): 1989, 2009, 2017

Half-year / Short tournaments

• Torneo Apertura:
  • Runner-up (2): 1998, 2000
• Torneo Regional:
  • Winners (1): 1990-I
  • Runner-up (1): 1991-I
• Torneo Descentralizado:
  • Winners (1): 1984

Regional

• División Intermedia:
  • Runner-up (1): 1932
• Segunda División Provincial de Lima:
  • Winners (1): 1931 Primera Serie
• Tercera División Provincial de Lima:
  • Winners (1): 1930 Zona del Callao

• Copa Libertadores: 6 appearances

1967: First round
1977: Quarter-finals
1985: Quarter-finals
1991: First round
1992: First round
2001: First round

• Copa Sudamericana: 1 appearance

2022: First round

• Copa CONMEBOL: 1 appearance

1999: Quarter-finals

As of 31 January 2024

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   PER Steven Rivadeneyra 2 DF   PER Werner Schuler 3 DF   PER Flavio Alcedo 5 DF   URU Maximiliano Amondarain 6 DF   PER Ayrthon Quintana 7 FW   PER Alexis Huamán 8 MF   ARG Francisco Grahl 9 FW   PER Fabrizio Roca 10 FW   URU Cristian Techera 11 FW   PER Baruj Aburto 12 GK   PER Ismael Quispe 14 MF   PER Carlos Correa 15 MF   PER Arly Benites 17 MF   PER Juan Morales 18 FW   PER Gilmar Rodríguez

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 FW   PER Brandon Palacios 20 MF   COL Jhonnier Montaño 21 MF   ARG Damián Arce 22 MF   PER Jorge Ríos 23 MF   PER Jesús Barco 25 DF   PER Renzo Salazar 27 FW   ARG Pablo Bueno 28 DF   PER Édinson Chávez 29 DF   ARG Facundo Mansilla 30 MF   PER Kevin Peña 31 FW   PER Cristian Carbajal 32 GK   PER Sammy Alfaro 33 FW   PER Joao Villamarín 39 MF   PER Jesús Huamán 40 GK   PER Jeremy Nasar

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