Cienciano
Association football club in Peru / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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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; 122 years ago (1901-07-08) | |||
Ground | Inca Garcilaso de la Vega Cusco, Peru | |||
Capacity | 42,056 | |||
Chairman | Sergio Ludeña | |||
Manager | Óscar Ibáñez | |||
League | Liga 1 | |||
2023 | Liga 1, 10th of 19 | |||
Website | Club website | |||
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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".
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] To this day, Cienciano is the only Peruvian club to win an international competition.[2]