Cienciano del Cuzco
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| Full name | Club Sportivo Cienciano (Cienciano Sport Club) |
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| Nickname(s) | Los Rojos, Los Imperiales, La Furia Roja, Los Cuzqueños, El Papá |
| Founded | 8 July 1901 |
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Inca Garcilaso de la Vega Cusco, Peru |
| Capacity | 42,056 |
| Chairman |
 Diego Rebagliati
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| Manager |
Freddy García
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| League | Peruvian Segunda División |
| 2016 | Peruvian Segunda División, 3rd |
| Website | www |
Club Sportivo Cienciano is a professional football club based in Cusco, Peru. The club was founded in 1901 and was originally the team of the Faculty of Science of the University of Cusco (Ciencias meaning science in Spanish), from which it takes its name. It gained worldwide recognition after defeating River Plate from Argentina in the finals of the 2003 Copa Sudamericana and Boca Juniors in the 2004 Recopa Sudamericana.
Cienciano was founded in 1901 by a group of students from the National School of Science of Cusco (Colegio Nacional Ciencias del Cusco). It participated in several leagues and tournaments of the region. In 1966 Hector Ladrón de Guevara (Cututtu) was the first Cienciano player to be named captain of the Peruvian national team. In 1972, it began to play in the Peruvian First Division. However, the club was relegated four years later.
In 1988, the FPF invited the club to play in a tournament of the southern region. In 1991, Cienciano won the tournament and in 1992 it once again played in the First Division. Although the club came close to relegation in 1994, the team remains in the First Division.
In 2003 Cienciano, led by their coach Freddy Ternero, made it for the first time to the Copa Sudamericana, after beating the current Peruvian champion Sporting Cristal in an internal qualifying tournament. It went through every later knockout round arguably as the underdog defeating Peru's Alianza Lima, Chile's Universidad Católica, Colombia's Atlético Nacional (once Copa Libertadores champion) and Brazil's Santos (twice Copa Libertadores champion), to get to the finals. Once at the finals they faced one of the biggest teams in South American football, River Plate of Argentina (twice Copa Libertadores champion). After a 3–3 draw in Buenos Aires, Cienciano went on to win 1–0 on their home game in Peru with a goal from a free kick by Paraguayan defender Carlos Lugo. The game was played in Arequipa (home of Southern Peruvian rivals Melgar, some of whose fans actually attended the match to root for River Plate) because of the insufficient capacity for a CONMEBOL final of the Estadio Garcilaso (which has been expanded since then).
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