Sport Boys

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; 94 years ago
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

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.

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

:

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:

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