Sport Boys

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
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
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. 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 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.

History[edit]

Foundation[edit]

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[edit]

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.

Kit evolution[edit]

1927
Old First kit, 2008–09 Away

1927–Present
Home

1927–07, 2010–1?
Away

Rivalries[edit]

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

Stadium[edit]

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[edit]

National[edit]

League[edit]

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[edit]

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

Regional[edit]

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

Performance in CONMEBOL competitions[edit]

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[edit]

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