Cienciano

The Club Sportivo Cienciano, usually abbreviated Cienciano, is a football club from the Peruvian city of Cusco. The club plays in the Primera División Peruana, the highest Peruvian football league.

History

The club was founded as a university team in 1901. The first members were students at the Colegio Nacional Ciencias del Cusco. Initially, the club took part, especially at regional championships and competitions. In 1973 Cienciano first part in the national title competitions. As a ninth of eighteen is placed inside the protected midfield. For the championship round at that time lacked eight points, up to the first relegation zone there were still seven points difference. In the following year saw a solid season. For the 1975 season, the team found, however, in the basement table again. As the third last one was lucky that it was decided before the season that after this season stay only two teams. But two years later, you could not avert the threatened descent. With only six wins from thirty games, the last rank was the consequence. In two relegation matches against Deportivo Municipal, the team still had the opportunity to save the disappointing season. After you won a game and lost the second, a third meeting at a neutral venue had to bring the decision. CS Cienciano lost and thus finally rose from. Between 1978 and 1983 the team played so second-rate. Only for playing time in 1984 was followed by the return. In the league, now reformed, but succeeded in the first year after the comeback in the South Zone no good showing. In 1986, this should be better than the club moved into the second round of the championship games. There, however, one was eliminated already in the first round against Deportivo Municipal. Three years later, the club made ​​it to the quarter-finals. After a 0-2 home defeat, the 2-1 win was not enough in the second leg against Universitario de Deportes in order to advance to the semifinals. After re- reformation of the League for the 1992 season Cienciano moved as the sixth of sixteen teams in the qualifying round to participate in the Copa Libertadores one. However, the association failed. Henceforth CS Cienciano was often near the top teams in the league. Nevertheless, but mostly remained behind Alianza Lima, Universitario de Deportes and Sporting Cristal

As the first and only club from Peru Cienciano won in 2003, the Copa Sudamericana ( in the final against River Plate), the second most important competition in the South American club football. Followed in 2004 with the victory against Boca Juniors winning the South American Super Cup, Recopa Sudamericana of.

The team carries their games at the Estadio Garcilaso de la Vega in Cusco.

Well-known former players

• Peru Santiago Acasiete (Current Peruvian national team )
• Paraguay Carlos Lugo ( Current national player of Paraguay )
• Colombia Jaime Alfonso Ruiz ( Colombian national team )
• Peru Junior Ross ( active in Germany for FSV Frankfurt)