Alianza Atlético

The Club Alianza Atletico Sullana is a football club from Sullana in Peru. Currently the club plays in the highest national class, the Primera División Peruana.

General

The home jersey of Alianza is predominantly white with thin dark blue stripes. The pants are also dark blue, while the pieces are completely white. The dominant color of the Away jersey is blue. The jersey also has a yellow thick transom.

History

Only in 1988, the club rose in the Primera División Peruana on. At a national title, it was enough to date but not yet. Between 1928 and 1986, Alianza was 35 times the Liga de Sullana, the regional championship win. For the 1989 season the team won against eight other teams and thus won the North Zone Championship. In order for the team for the first round championship matches qualified. In five games Alianza won twice and also reached two more draws. In the deciding match against Sporting Cristal, the team lost 2-0 and became the only runner-up. For the return round championship is qualified again, but could not reach a better result. The following year the club failed to first round in the zone league sports Pacífico. In the second part of the season but first place was leveled again. After disappointing launched in 1991, ranged round to the back 29 points for the second success in the North Zone Championship. But as in previous years, the club was not good enough in the final matches.

After changing the game mode for the 1992 season of national championship was played in a common league. For Alianza handed it to the first year after the merger of the leagues only to eleventh place. One year later, was assured by late in the league. In 1994 the club had to shake a long time but was able to avoid relegation. For season 1995, Alianza earned a safe mid-table, moved the following year, but again close to the relegation zone. As one of the first round and seventh round to the back even finished fourth in 1997, the team qualified for the first time in five years for the Masters round. But with just one win and two draws was determined at the end only fifth place. A guarantor for this season was striker Ricardo Zegarra, who scored seventeen goals and thus scorer in the first division was. Although Alianza reached 1998, only the fourth from last, but had a total of fifty points for fifteen more than the first relegated Deportivo Municipal. Between 1999 and 2003, Alianza sat firmly in the upper third of the table.

For the second half of 2003 was even enough for runner-up title. In the overall standings was the team's fifth and had the first time the chance to qualify for the Copa Libertadores. In the playoff games but the club failed to Club Sportivo Cienciano, and so it was enough for the first participation only at the Copa Sudamericana. In the first international competitive match in club history, the team met the league rivals Coronel Bolognesi and the Colombian representative Atlético Junior. But from four games you could only choose one for themselves. Thus Alianza retired early from the competition. In 2005, the club managed once again to earn the participation in the Copa Sudamericana. Against the Peruvian team Universitario de Deportes sat down still on penalties by, and in the next game you put after a 2-0 first-leg victory against CD Universidad Católica of Chile the course for the next round.

But with a clear 0:5 defeat in the return leg was again after the second opponent closing. 2005, 2006 and 2007, Alianza again had more problems in the league, and you missed any participation in an international competition. It was not until 2008, when it was sixth after each round-trip round, it passed in the accounts for fifth place. With 72 points, they had just as much as sports Áncash and CD Universidad César Vallejo, was better placed because of the clear goal difference. In the first round of the Copa Sudamericana 2009, the team met with the representatives Deportivo Anzoategui venezualischen SC. 2-1 after two games, the club moved into the next round where they met Fluminense Rio de Janeiro. After a respectable 2-2 draw in the first match Alianza retired after a 1:4 in Brazil.

Stadium

The club plays its home games at the Estadio Campeones del 36, Sullana from. The multi-purpose stadium was built in 2000 and can accommodate 8,000 guests. There are plans to expand it.

Achievements

• Primera División Peruana Clausura: 2003

• North Zone Championship / first round: 1989
• North Zone Championship / second round: 1990, 1991

Former notable players

(Selection)

• Peru Piero Alva (Current Peruvian national team )
• Peru Francisco De Paula Bazán (Current Peruvian national team, active, inter alia, for Anorthosis Famagusta and Olympiakos Nicosia in Europe)
• Paraguay Edgar Benítez (Current Paraguayan national team )
• Peru Leao Butrón (Current Peruvian national team )
• Gambia Yankuba Ceesay ( Current national player of the Gambia )
• Peru Miguel Mostto (Current Peruvian national team, including active in Europe for Barnsley FC )
• Peru Percy Olivares ( in Germany 1 FC Nuremberg active)
• Peru Emerson Panigutti ( in Europe, among others active for Olympiakos Nicosia)
• Peru Nelinho Quina ( in Europe, among others active for KVC Westerlo )
• Colombia Jaime Alfonso Ruiz ( among others active in Europe for KVC Westerlo )
• Peru Johan Sotil ( in Europe, among others active for KVC Westerlo )

Alianzas coach

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