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Club Sportivo Cienciano is a professional football club based in Cusco, Peru that currently plays in the Peruvian Primera División.

Cienciano

Full name	Club Sportivo Cienciano (Cienciano Sport Club)
Nickname(s)	Los Rojos Los Imperiales La Furia Roja Los Cuzqueños El Papá
Founded	8 July 1901; 121 years ago (1901-07-08)
Ground	Inca Garcilaso de la Vega Cusco, Peru
Capacity	42,056
Manager	Gerardo Ameli
League	Liga 1
2021	Liga 1, 6th of 18
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

The club was founded in 1901 by a group of students of the Colegio Nacional Ciencias del Cusco (National Science School of Cusco). They decided to give the club its name based on the word Ciencias, which means "Science".

It gained worldwide recognition after defeating River Plate in the finals of the 2003 Copa Sudamericana and Boca Juniors in the 2004 Recopa Sudamericana.[1] To this day, Cienciano is the only Peruvian club to win an international competition.[2]

History

Beginnings

Cienciano was founded on 8 July 1901 by a group of students from the National School of Science of Cusco (Colegio Nacional Ciencias del Cusco). It participated in several leagues and tournaments of the region.

In 1966 Hector Ladrón de Guevara was the inaugural Cienciano player to be named captain of the Peru national team. In 1972, it began to play in the Peruvian First Division; however, the club was relegated four years later.

In 1988, the FPF invited the club to play in a tournament of the southern region. In 1991, Cienciano won the tournament and in 1992 it once again played in the First Division.

The Golden age (2000–2007)

First League title

In 2001, Cienciano won its first title with the 2001 Torneo Clausura,[3] although it lost the superfinal (played between the winners of the Apertura and Clausura tournaments) to Alianza Lima.

Copa Sudamericana win

In 2003, Cienciano, led by Peruvian coach Freddy Ternero, qualified to the Copa Sudamericana for the first time in its history, after beating Sporting Cristal in an internal qualifying tournament. The team went through every later knockout round as the clear underdog defeating Peru's Alianza Lima, Chile's Universidad Católica, Colombia's Atlético Nacional (once Copa Libertadores champion) and Brazil's Santos (twice Copa Libertadores champion), to get to the finals. Once at the finals the team faced one of the biggest teams in South American football, River Plate of Argentina (twice Copa Libertadores champion). After a 3–3 draw in Buenos Aires, Cienciano went on to win 1–0 in Peru with a free-kick goal by Paraguayan defender Carlos Lugo, which put the aggregate score at 4–3 in its favor to win the final.[4] The game was played at Estadio de la UNSA in Arequipa (home of Cienciano's rivals Melgar, some of whose fans actually attended the match to root for River Plate) because of the insufficient capacity for a CONMEBOL final of the Estadio Garcilaso (which has been expanded since then).[5]

This was the first international championship for a Peruvian team in history; only two other Peruvian teams had advanced to the finals of an international tournament, which was in the Copa Libertadores (Universitario in 1972 and Sporting Cristal in 1997). Both teams were defeated in the finals. The win was considered a severe upset because Cienciano had never been the Peru national champion (the team did win one half-year tournament in 2001 but lost the national championship title through a penalty shootout to the winner of the second tournament, Alianza Lima, in the year in which both celebrated their centenary. The situation was repeated in 2006, but reversed: Cienciano won the second tournament but lost the final to Alianza Lima on aggregate.

Recopa Sudamericana win

After winning the Copa Sudamericana, Cienciano went on to play against Boca Juniors of Argentina, another South American giant, for the 2004 Recopa Sudamericana, this being just one match, much like the UEFA Super Cup, which was disputed between the winners of both South American Cups of the previous season: the Copa Sudamericana and the Copa Libertadores. After a 1–1 draw, Cienciano went on to win the title 4–2 on penalties. The match was played at Lockhart Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.[2][6]

More league titles and superfinal runner-ups

In 2005, the Cusco-based club won the Torneo Apertura, but lost the superfinal to Sporting Cristal. The following year, it won the 2006 Clausura, but lost the superfinal again to Alianza Lima, the same team that had beaten them in the 2001 national championship final.

Relegation and comeback

In 2015, the club was relegated after finishing in the bottom three of the aggregate table. The club was very close to reaching promotion many times, especially in 2018, where the team lost the final game of its 4 team group. In 2019, it was finally promoted back to the first division after winning the 2019 Liga 2.

Rivalries

Cienciano has had a long-standing rivalry with Melgar, Real Garcilaso and Deportivo Garcilaso.

Stadium

Cienciano plays its home games in Estadio Garcilaso de la Vega which is in Cusco. It was named after the Peruvian Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. When first inaugurated in 1950, it had a spectator capacity of 22,000 and had a running track. In 2004, the stadium's capacity was expanded to 42,000, losing its running track, because of Cienciano's success in international tournaments and it would be a venue in the 2004 Copa América. Cienciano shares the stadium with city rivals Deportivo Garcilaso and Cusco FC.

Current squad

As of 3 August, 2022.

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 Juniors Barbieri 2 DF  PER Alexis Cossio 3 DF  PER Koichi Aparicio 4 MF  PER Ángel Romero 5 DF  PER José Racchumick 6 DF  PER Paolo Fuentes 7 DF  PER Josué Estrada 8 MF  ARG Emanuel Ibáñez 9 FW  ARG Danilo Carando 10 MF  ARG Nicolás Rinaldi 11 FW  PER Adrián Ugarriza 12 GK  PER Patrick Zubczuk 13 DF  ARG Carlos Beltrán

No. Pos. Nation Player 14 FW  ARG Facundo Curuchet 16 DF  PER Axel Chávez 19 DF  ARG Luciano Recalde 20 MF  PER Kevin Sandoval 21 MF  PER Erick Perleche 22 MF  PER Sharif Ramírez 23 FW  ECU Fernando Guerrero 25 GK  CHI Miguel Vargas 26 DF  PER Hansell Riojas 29 MF  PER Paulo Rodríguez 31 DF  PER Ayrthon Quintana 32 MF  PER Lenin Checco 37 GK  PER Pedro Trujillo

Honours

National

League

• Peruvian Primera División:

Runner-up (3): 2001, 2005, 2006

• Torneo Apertura:

Winners (1): 2005

Runner-up (2): 2004, 2007

• Torneo Clausura:

Winners (2): 2001, 2006

• Liga 2:

Winners (1) : 2019

• Copa Perú:

Runner-up (1): 1973

Regional

• Liga Departamental del Cusco:

Winners (28): 1903, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1924, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1936, 1944, 1945, 1948, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1972, 1981, 1983

International

• Copa Sudamericana:

Winners (1): 2003

• Recopa Sudamericana:

Winners (1): 2004

Friendly National

• Copa El Gráfico-Perú:

Winners (2): 2004, 2005

• Copa Callao:

Runner-up (1): 2007

Performance in CONMEBOL competitions

• Copa Libertadores: 6 appearances

2002: Round of 16

2004: First Round

2005: Preliminary Round

2006: Second Round

2007: Second Round

2008: Second Round

• Copa Sudamericana: 3 appearances

2003: Winner

2004: Preliminary Round

2009: Round of 16

2022:

• Recopa Sudamericana: 1 appearance

2004: Winner

Notable players

Managers

This section needs to be updated. (September 2021)

See also

• Cienciano in South American football
• Once Caldas, another surprise international competition winner in the same year
• 2003 Cienciano season

References

External links

• Official website

На других языках

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[de] Club Sportivo Cienciano

Der Club Sportivo Cienciano, meist kurz Cienciano genannt, ist ein Fußballverein in der peruanischen Stadt Cusco. Der Klub spielt in der Primera División, der höchsten peruanischen Fußballliga. Größter Erfolg war der Gewinn der Copa Sudamericana 2003.

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- [en] Cienciano

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[ru] Сьенсиано

«Сьенсиа́но» (Club Sportivo Cienciano del Cuzco) — перуанский футбольный клуб из города Куско. Клуб получил всемирную известность в 2003 году, когда сенсационно выиграл второй по значимости турнир Южной Америки — Южноамериканский кубок, обыграв в финале аргентинский «Ривер Плейт». В 2004 году клуб также выиграл Рекопу Южной Америки.

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