Sport Áncash
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| Full name | Club Sport Áncash |
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| Nickname(s) | La Amenaza Verde, Los Verdes, El Ancash |
| Founded | 1967 |
| Ground | Estadio Rosas Pampa, Huaraz |
| Capacity | 18,000 |
| Chairman |
 José Mallqui
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| Manager |
 Orlando Maltese
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| League | Peruvian Segunda División |
| 2016 | Runner-up |
Club Sport Áncash is a Peruvian football club, playing in the city of Huaraz. Sport Áncash was founded on April 22, 1967. The team plays its home games at Rosas Pampa stadium.
The club was founded in 1960 by a group of young men from Huaraz and Chacas in Ancash. The team was named Sport Áncash after the street where many of the players lived which disappeared after the 1970 Ancash earthquake. The club was re-established on April 22, 1967 as Club Deportivo Comunitario Laboral Sport Áncash by one of the local labor unions. The club played for many years in the liga distrital de Huaraz. For many years after the earthquake the club was owned by various state and union organizations until 2004 when the future congressman José Mallqui took over as club president.
The club would reach some national recognizion when it reached the national stage of the 1976 Copa Perú. During the first years of the Copa Perú the six regional champions played a round robin tournament in Lima in which the team with the most points was promoted to the Peruvian Primera División. In 1976 Sport Áncash qualified to the final round robin. It reached the last game tied in points against Coronel Bolognesi. They would go on to loose 2–0 and with that loose its chances of reaching the Torneo Descentralizado. Sport Áncash would reach the regional stage in 1998 and 1999 but would not qualify to the national stage until 2000. During the 2000 Copa Perú, the club faced Atletico Grau. They would loose their away game 1–0 and win at home 0–3. Because only points and not goals were taken into consideration a play-off game was played on neutral ground in Lima where the club lost 3–1.
In 2004 under the leadership of José Mallqui as president and Tito Chumpitaz as coach, Sport Áncash would win the Copa Perú and make it to the Peruvian Primera División for the first time. Sport Áncash and Jose Gálvez both classified to the regional stage that year as departamental champion and runner-up respectively. Even though they were both seeded into different groups they played each other in the regional final which Sport Áncash won by 1–0. Both teams would also qualify to the national stage were they met again in the quarterfinals. Jose Gálvez won the first leg 4–1 and Sport Áncash the second 3–2. In a neutral play-off in Lima, Sport Áncash beat its departamental rival 1–0 to reach the semifinals. In the semifinals they defeat Sport Alfonso Ugarte with a global score of 3–2. In the finals they defeated one of the oldest teams in the country, Deportivo Municipal, who had qualified as the 2004 Peruvian Segunda División runner-up. Because the Peruvian Segunda División was only played by Lima clubs at the time the Peruvian Football Federation took its promotion berth and had the winner and runner-up automatically qualify to the Copa Perú national stage. The first leg was played in Huaraz and the second in the Estadio Nacional in Lima. Sport Áncash won by a global score of 4–1 and was promoted to the 2005 Torneo Descentralizado season.
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