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| Full name | Club Cienciano (Cienciano Club) | |||
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| Nickname(s) | El Papá de América La Furia Roja Escuadrón Rojo Conjunto Incaico Elenco Colegial Los Imperiales Rojos | |||
| Founded | 8 July 1901 | |||
| Ground | Estadio Garcilaso | |||
| Capacity | 45,056 | |||
| Chairman | Sergio Ludeña | |||
| Manager | Óscar Ibáñez | |||
| League | Liga 1 | |||
| 2023 | Liga 1, 10th of 19 | |||
| Website | Club website | |||
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Club Cienciano, more commonly known as Cienciano, is a Peruvian professional football club based in Cusco, that currently plays in the Peruvian Primera División. It gained worldwide recognition after defeating River Plate in the finals of the 2003 Copa Sudamericana and Boca Juniors in the 2004 Recopa Sudamericana.[1] The club plays their home games at Estadio Garcilaso which has a capacity of 45,000. The club shares the stadium with other clubs from Cusco, Cusco FC and Deportivo Garcilaso.
The club was founded in 1901 by a group of students of the Colegio Nacional Ciencias del Cusco. They decided to give the club its name based on the word Ciencias, which means "Science". The club is nicknamed El Papá de América, the Father of America. It has a large, longstanding rivalry with FBC Melgar of Arequipa known as El Clasico del Sur. Its mascot is a donkey.
To this day, Cienciano is the only Peruvian club to win an international competition.[2] Despite being the only club from Peru to win two international tournaments, they have yet to win the Peruvian Primera División. Cienciano has won 1 Copa Sudamericana and Recopa Sudamericana, 1 Peruvian Segunda División and the Torneo Apertura 2005 and Torneo Clasura in 2001 and 2006.
- ^ "Los once de los Andes". elperuano.pe (in Spanish). 13 December 2015. Archived from the original on 13 September 2021. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
- ^ "Cienciano conmemoró 15 años del título de la Recopa Sudamericana 2004". americadeportes (in Spanish). 8 September 2019. Archived from the original on 13 September 2021. Retrieved 13 September 2021.