Sport Boys Association, commonly referred to as Sport Boys or simply Boys, is a Peruvian football club based in the port city of Callao. 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. It 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 Universitario, Sporting Cristal and Alianza Lima, teams of Lima.

Sport Boys

Full name	Sport Boys Association
Nickname(s)	Los Rosados Los Porteños La Misilera Los Olímpico de Berlín La Academia Porteña La Rosada La Nube Rosada
Founded	28 July 1927; 95 years ago (1927-07-28)
Ground	Estadio Miguel Grau
Capacity	17,000
Chairman	Johan Vasquez
Manager	Ytalo Manzo
League	Liga 1
2021	Liga 1, 7th of 18
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

History

The club was founded on July 28, 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, July 27, 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.

The team's original uniform was striped red and yellow.

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 October 17, 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

Kit evolution

1927 Old First kit, 2008–09 Away

1927–Present Home

1927–07, 2010–1? Away

Rivalries

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

Stadium

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.

Honours

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

• Torneo Apertura:

Runner-up (2): 1998, 2000

• Torneo Regional:

Winners (1): 1990-I

Runner-up (1): 1991-I

• Peruvian Segunda División:

Winners (3): 1989, 2009, 2017

• División Intermedia:

Runner-up (1): 1932

Performance in CONMEBOL competitions

• 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

Current squad

As of 6 March 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 Patricio Álvarez 2 DF  PER José Bolívar 4 DF  COL Cristian Flórez 5 DF  PER Junior Huerto (on loan from Sporting Cristal) 6 DF  PER Rodrigo Cuba 7 MF  PER Tarek Carranza 8 MF  PER Luis Alberto Ramírez 9 FW  ARG Alexis Blanco 10 MF  PER Jesús Chávez 11 FW  PER Diego Saffadi 12 GK  PER Giacomo Gambetta 13 DF  PER Renzo Revoredo 14 MF  PER Claudio Torrejón 15 MF  PER Xavi Moreno 16 MF  PER Piero Vivanco

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 DF  PER Luis Garro 18 MF  PER Mario Palomino 19 FW  ARM Mauro Guevgeozián 20 DF  COL Edy Rentería 22 DF  PER Sergio Ayaucán 23 MF  PER Jesús Barco 24 MF  PER Eduardo Uribe 25 FW  PER Víctor Bazán 27 MF  PER Jhilmar Lobatón 28 DF  PER Álvaro Valer 30 FW  PER Jostin Alarcón 32 MF  ARG Luciano Nieto 33 MF  PER Matías Pacheco 34 FW  PER Baruj Aburto 35 GK  PER Ismael Quispe

Technical staff

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Notable players

Managers

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sport Boys Association.

Official websites

• Official Website
• Sport Boys on Facebook
• Sport Boys on Twitter
• Sport Boys' channel on YouTube

Non-official websites

• Fan Website
• Fan Website
• Fan Website
• Fan Website
• Vamos Boys.com Fan Website

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