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Rugby team

Sporting Cristal

Club · Peru · Primera División

«The Brewers»

293 Matches
155 wins
70 draws
68 losses
540–338 Goals
+202 Difference
1.8 Scored per game
Form D 8 Aug · Away Universitario · 1:1 W 16 Aug · Home Sport Huancayo · 4:1 L 21 Aug · Away Alianza Atlético · 1:3 W 26 Aug · Home Sport Huancayo · 4:1 L 30 Aug · Away Sport Boys · 0:1 W 6 Sep · Home Cultural Santa Rosa · 5:0

The men who put the club together sold beer. Richard Bentín Mujica and his wife, Esther Grande de Bentín, held shares in the Backus and Johnston brewery, and in December 1955 they turned a side named Sporting Tobago into something with their product's name on it: Sporting Cristal . So did the sky blue and white.

Winning began almost at once. The first Peruvian championship arrived in 1956, the second in 1961, and from there the titles came in runs rather than singly: five in a row through the mid-1960s, then a stretch from 1979 to the end of the 1990s in which Cristal were champions more often than not. Twenty league titles in total. The most recent came in 2020.

The one that got away is the 1997 Copa Libertadores. Cristal reached the final and lost it.

Home is the Estadio Alberto Gallardo in the Rímac district, open since 1961 and, in its way, a record of changing safety rules: it once held 21,000 and now takes 11,600.

Rímac sits across the river from the centre, which puts Cristal within a short journey of both the clubs they measure themselves against. Universitario de Deportes and Alianza Lima are the other two of the capital's big three, and the matches between them are the clásicos. Alianza's ground is in La Victoria, Universitario's out in Ate.

Latest results

All matches
6 Sep Primera División Cultural Santa Rosa H 5:0 W
30 Aug Primera División Sport Boys A 0:1 L
26 Aug League Cup Sport Huancayo H 4:1 W
21 Aug Primera División Alianza Atlético A 1:3 L
16 Aug Primera División Sport Huancayo H 4:1 W
8 Aug Primera División Universitario A 1:1 D

Standing

Primera División

Group stage · Primera Division: Apertura

# Team M W D L Goals Pts
10 ADT 17 5 5 7 22:21 20
11 Sport Boys 17 5 5 7 15:19 20
12 Sporting Cristal 17 5 4 8 28:30 19
13 UTC 17 4 6 7 21:26 18
14 UCV Moquegua 17 5 3 9 17:24 18
Full table

Team statistics

matches counted: 293
293 Matches
155 wins
70 draws
68 losses
540–338 Goals
+202 Difference
1.8 Scored per game
Season results matches counted: 293
155wins: 155 · 52% 70draws: 70 · 23% 68losses: 68 · 23%
wins draws losses
Scored and conceded last matches
8 Aug · Away Universitario · 1:1
16 Aug · Home Sport Huancayo · 4:1
21 Aug · Away Alianza Atlético · 1:3
26 Aug · Home Sport Huancayo · 4:1
30 Aug · Away Sport Boys · 0:1
6 Sep · Home Cultural Santa Rosa · 5:0
scored — above the line conceded — below the line
Metric Total Home Away
Matches 293 148 145
Scored 540 300 240
Conceded 338 135 203
Scored per game 1.8 2.0 1.7
Conceded per game 1.2 0.9 1.4
Difference +202 +165 +37

Key players

by appearances over the last year
Diego Mauricio Enríquez Gutiérrez Goalkeeper 37 Matches Cesar Bautista Goalkeeper 37 Matches Maxloren Castro Midfielder 35 Matches Gerald Martin Távara Mogollón Midfielder 35 Matches Irven Beybe Ávila Acero Forward 35 Matches Ian Wisdom Midfielder 35 Matches Cristiano Defender 34 Matches Leandro Sosa Defender 33 Matches

Squad of Sporting Cristal

by appearances over the last year
Number Player Position Age Matches
1 Diego Mauricio Enríquez Gutiérrez Goalkeeper 37
33 Cesar Bautista Goalkeeper 37
23 Maxloren Castro Midfielder 35
25 Gerald Martin Távara Mogollón Midfielder 35
11 Irven Beybe Ávila Acero Forward 35
26 Ian Wisdom Midfielder 35
90 Cristiano Defender 34
8 Leandro Sosa Defender 33
19 Víctor Yoshimar Yotún Flores Midfielder 33
5 Rafael Julián Lutiger Vidalón Defender 33
16 Luis Iberico Midfielder 31
18 Juan Cruz González Defender 30
20 Miguel Araujo Defender 29
14 Cristian Benavente Bristol Forward 29
21 K. Cableos Midfielder 27
7 Santiago Emanuel González Puga Midfielder 26
32 Leonardo Javier Díaz Laffore Defender 26
55 BR Gustavo Cazonatti Midfielder 30 25
27 Gabriel Santana Pinto Midfielder 24
15 PE Alejandro Jesus Pósito Olazábal Defender 21 23
9 Felipe dos Reis Pereira Vizeu do Carm Forward 22
96 Luis Alfonso Abram Ugarelli Defender 20
41 João Cuenca Defender 15
28 Diego Otoy Forward 14
97 Mateo Rodriguez Forward 12
22 Michael Ryan Hoyos Forward 10
29 Hernán Barcos Forward 10
44 Gerson Castillo Midfielder 8
37 Fabrizio Lora Defender 8
40 Hair Moretti Forward 7
10 Christofer Gonzáles Crespo Midfielder 7
77 Juan Manuel Cuesta Forward 5
4 Anderson Villacorta Defender 5
2 Duam Ballumbrosio Defender 4
34 Carlos Del Valle Midfielder 4
42 Jose Melian Forward 3
6 Agustín Álvarez Wallace Midfielder 2
46 Jean Lara Midfielder 1
17 Carlos Salgado Defender 1

Fixtures of Sporting Cristal

Honours of Sporting Cristal

  • Primera División del Perú 1956, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020 42
  • Copa Bicentenario 2021 1