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Peruvian national football team

Peru
Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s) La Blanquirroja
(The White and Red)
Los Incas
(The Incas)
Association Peruvian Football Federation
Confederation CONMEBOL
(South America)
Head coach Ricardo Gareca
Captain Paolo Guerrero
Most caps Roberto Palacios (128)
Top scorer Paolo Guerrero (32)
Home stadium Estadio Nacional
FIFA code PER
FIFA ranking
Current 14 Increase 1 (6 July 2017)
Highest 14 (July 2017)
Lowest 91 (September 2009)
Elo ranking
Current 15 Steady(5 July 2017)
Highest 12 (June 1978)
Lowest 75 (May 1994)
First international
 Peru 0–4 Uruguay 
(Lima, Peru; 1 November 1927)
Biggest win
 Peru 9–1 Ecuador 
(Bogotá, Colombia; 11 August 1938)
Biggest defeat
 Brazil 7–0 Peru 
(Santa Cruz, Bolivia; 26 June 1997)
World Cup
Appearances 4 (first in 1930)
Best result Top 8, 1970 (Quarterfinals) & 1978 (Round 2)
Copa América
Appearances 29 (first in 1927)
Best result Winners, 1939 and 1975
CONCACAF Gold Cup
Appearances 1 (first in 2000)
Best result Third (shared), 2000

The Peru national football team has represented Peru in international football since 1927. Organised by the Peruvian Football Federation (FPF), it is one of the 10 members of FIFA's South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL). The Peruvian team's performance has been inconsistent; it enjoyed its most successful periods in the 1930s and the 1970s. The team plays most of its home matches at the Estadio Nacional in Lima, the country's capital.

Peru has won the Copa América twice and qualified for FIFA World Cup finals four times; it also participated in the 1936 Olympic football competition. It has longstanding rivalries with Chile and Ecuador. The team is well known for its white shirts adorned with a diagonal red stripe, which combine Peru's national colours. This basic design has been used continuously since 1936, and gives rise to the team's common Spanish nickname, la Blanquirroja ("the white-and-red").

The Peruvian national team took part in the inaugural FIFA World Cup in 1930 and enjoyed victories in the 1938 Bolivarian Games and the 1939 Copa América, with goalkeeper Juan Valdivieso and forwards Teodoro Fernández and Alejandro Villanueva playing important roles. Peruvian football's successful period in the 1970s brought it worldwide recognition; the team then included the forward partnership of Hugo Sotil and Teófilo Cubillas, often regarded as Peru's greatest player, and defender Héctor Chumpitaz. This team qualified for three World Cups and won the Copa América in 1975. Peru last reached the World Cup finals in 1982.


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