Football club
Sport Boys
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| Full name
| Sport Boys Association
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| Nickname(s)
| Los Rosados
Los Portenos
La Misilera
Los Olimpicos de Berlin
La Academia Portena
La Nube Rosada
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| Founded
| 28 July 1927
; 96 years ago
(
1927-07-28
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| Ground
| Estadio Miguel Grau
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| Capacity
| 17,000
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| Chairman
| Johan Vasquez
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| Manager
| Fernando Gamboa
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| League
| Liga 1
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| 2023
| Liga 1, 15th of 19
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| Website
| Club website
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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
Atletico Chalaco
against whom dispute the
Clasico Porteno
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 Martin 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. It won the first title in the professional era of the First Division.
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They currently participate in the
Peruvian Primera Division
, 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. Sport Boys was the first Peruvian football club to feature
cheerleaders
. Many of them, including Anelhi Arias, Shirley Cherres, and others that have become Peruvian celebrities.
History
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Foundation
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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 Lizarraga 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 Lizarraga president and unanimously voted for the club name to be
Sport Boys Association
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Golden age
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Sport Boys in 1950
The team participated in the Provincial League of Lima and Callao from 1929 to 1932 (Third Champion 1930, Second 1931 and runner-up in the Intermediate Division 1932), managing to ascend to the first category of national football, called the Honor Division at that time. A few years after being promoted to the
Peruvian Primera Division
, Sport Boys won their first national league, winning the
1935 Peruvian Primera Division
undefeated and having a lead of eight points. Two years later, Sport Boys won the First Division again in 1937. The club were runners-up of the tournament the year after, losing to
Universitario
. They went five years without a single trophy, but won the national league again in 1942.
In 1951, Sport Boys won their first national league titles in the professional era, and their fourth overall. A year earlier, they were runners-up in the tournament. In 1958, Sport Boys appointed
Marcos Calderon
as the clubs coach. He would bring Sport Boys to win their fifth title in 1958, and became coach of the
Peru national team
In the 1970s, bringing the team to win the
1975 Copa America
. In 1952, Sport Boys got second place in the First Division.
After finishing second place in the
1966 Torneo Descentralizado
, Sport Boys qualified for the new created
Copa Libertadores
in 1967 for the first time but was eliminated in the first round. The club won their last First Division title in 1984 and has since not won any. Before 1984, the club came second in the First Division five times, in 1952, 1959, 1960, 1966 and 1976. As a result of winning the
1985 Torneo Descentralizado
, Sport Boys qualified for the Copa Libertadores once again in
1985
. This was the clubs best run in an international tournament, reaching the Quarter-finals. They previously reached the quarter-finals in 1977, after finishing second in the
1976 Torneo Descentralizado
.
Downfall
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Sport Boys was going through an economic crisis and a long drought of titles. The club was relegated to the
Peruvian Segunda Division
in 1987 and stayed for two years, until they won the 1989 tournament and got promoted back to the First Division. They won the Torneo Regional in 1990 and qualified for the
1991 Copa Libertadores
. Sport Boys qualified for the next edition as well. They were eliminated in the first round in both editions.
Sport Boys against Sporting Cristal in 2023
Recent years
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The last time Sport Boys became champions of the
Primera Division 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 Division 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 Division Peruana
by winning an end of season playoff match that went down to a penalty shootout against
Jose Galvez
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 Division Peruana
but on 17 October 2009, after a great season, Sport Boys went on to beat
Cobresol
3?2 for the
Segunda Division 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 Division
after winning the
2017 Peruvian Segunda Division
. 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.
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Kit and crest
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The pink shirt is perhaps the most characteristic symbol of the Sport Boys of
callao
. After the club was founded, back in 1927, it was decided that the Boys' shirt would have red and yellow vertical stripes. However, in 1929, after the first championship in which the club participated - a children's tournament organized by the Raimondi Intellectual Club of La Victoria - it was decided to change the color of the uniform, adopting the pink jacket. And it has never been changed since then. However, the model of the shirt changed over the years, but not the colors that represent the club. The year 1981 was characterized by the club wearing a completely pink outfit, a uniform that was also used in some games in 1973, 1986, 2009 and 2010.
Due to the peculiarity of the shirt color, the club has rarely used an alternate jersey. In 1989 against Juventud Progreso, who also wore pink, they used an alternative yellow shirt for the first time. Then in 2004 they wore a black uniform in some games as a protest for having been stripped of the third place in the Copa Libertadores. They also wore black in 2010. In 2008 and 2014 they wanted to remember the club's original colors and adopted, as an alternative shirt, one with yellow and red vertical stripes that was used for the only time on matchday 16 of the Second Division. 2014 in
Huacho
against the Pacific, because both clubs have the starting uniform of the same color.
1927
Old First kit, 2008?09 Away
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Stadium
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Estadio Miguel Grau
Sport Boys plays its home games at the
Estadio Miguel Grau
. It has a capacity of about 17,000. The stadium is named after the Peruvian war hero of the
War of the Pacific
,
Miguel Grau Seminario
. The stadium shares the same name as another, larger stadium in
Piura
, the birthplace of Miguel Grau Seminario. Sport Boys shares Estadio Miguel Grau with
Academia Cantolao
,
Deportivo Municipal
, and
Club Deportivo Universidad de San Martin de Porres
.
Before this stadium was built, they had to use the 5,000 spectator capacity, Estadio Telmo Carbajo, a stadium that was in bad condition and unfit to host football matches. It was the first stadium constructued in
Callao
. Sport Boys were forced to play their games in the
Estadio Nacional
, where they would be far away from their fans.
Supporters
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Fans of Sport Boys at Estadio Miguel Grau
The pink team's ''barras'' had their formal beginning in 1966 when, at the initiative of Isaac Lastres after a championship match, a group of fans decided to group together forming the "Vamos Boys" bar. This barra was traditionally located in the west stand of stadiums. Some time later a group of fans separated from it, creating the team's second bar called "Somos Boys", which was located in the east stand.
The third barra of the pink team is called "Juventud Rosada", formed by the new generation of Sport Boys fans. It was founded on August 20, 1991 at the initiative of a group of twenty boys, gathered in the Isabel la Catolica park, near the municipality of Bellavista. Following the tradition marked by the "Vamos Boys" bar, it is also characteristic of the "Pink Youth" to be very well organized, encourage the team for 90 minutes without stopping and accompany them to their presentations in the provinces. Its traditional location is in the south popular tribune. The club is the among most popular in
Callao
and competes for supporters with rivals
Atletico Chalaco
and
Deportivo Municipal
.
Rivalries
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Sport Boys has had a long-standing rivalry with
Atletico Chalaco
,
Alianza Lima
,
Sporting Cristal
,
Deportivo Municipal
, and
Universitario
.
The Clasico Porteno, or Clasico Chalaco, is the most important classic in Callao and is played between the two most important clubs in the Constitutional Province of Callao,
Atletico Chalaco
and Sport Boys. This derby was played regularly in the
Peruvian Primera Division
, until Atletico Chalaco was relegated to the
Copa Peru
. The first official match was played on June 6, 1937, by the Amateur Tournament (ANA), Sport Boys and Atletico Chalaco. The game corresponded to the second date of the Division of Honor, which was the name that the highest division took from that year on. Since 1932, Leon Porteno had only participated in the Callao League and after winning it in 1935 it was invited, along with runner-up Telmo Carbajo, to be part of the aforementioned Honor Division of 1937 (in 1936 there was no tournament due to Peruvian participation in the
Berlin Summer Olympics
). In that tournament, among other teams that came from the First Division, there was Sport Boys, champion of 1935, whom they had not faced before because La Misilera debuted in the highest category only in 1933.
Current squad
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- 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.
Technical staff
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Honours
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Senior titles
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Other titles
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Titles won in lower divisions:
Performance in CONMEBOL competitions
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- 1967
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First round
- 1977
: Quarter-finals
- 1985
: Quarter-finals
- 1991
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First round
- 1992
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First round
- 2001
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First round
- 2022
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First round
- 1999
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Quarter-finals
Notable players
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Managers
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References
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External links
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- Official websites
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Former
teams
| Amateur era, 1912?1950
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Professional era, 1951?
present
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| Seasons
| Amateur era, 1912?1950
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| Lima & Callao
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Professional era, 1951?
present
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| National
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