Club Sport Huancayo, more commonly known as Sport Huancayo, is a Peruvian professional football club based in Huancayo, Junín. It was founded in 2008 by Raúl Rojas and Édgar Araníbar. The club has been playing in the Peruvian Primera División. the top tier of the Peruvian football league system, since 2009, having gained promotion after winning the 2008 Copa Perú. Sport Huancayo plays their home games at Estadio Huancayo, which can seat 20,000 spectators.
History
Founding
On February 7, 2007, Huancaína Sport Club was founded by the initiative of a beer company led by Raúl Rojas and Édgar Araníbar, which purchased the playing rights of Club Escuela de Fútbol Huancayo, who was at that time playing in the Liga Distrital de El Tambo. In 2008, the club changed its name to Sport Huancayo to better identify themselves with the city of Huancayo, where the club is based in.[1]
In the 2009 Torneo Descentralizado, the club was fourth place and qualified to the 2010 Copa Sudamericana, with the successful coach Cristóbal Cubilla. Sport Huancayo got eliminated in the Second Stage of the Copa Sudamericana.
In 2016, the coach Diego Umaña took charge of the team.[6] In the Copa Sudamericana the club was eliminated in the second round, after losing to Sol de America.[7] Since 2016, the club qualified for every Copa Sudamericana edition up until 2021. In 2018, they eliminated Unión Española in the first stage of the Copa Sudamericana, then they were eliminated by Caracas FC. In the newly created, 2019 Copa Bicentenario, Sport Huancayo reached the final and lost to Atlético Grau on penalties. Their best result in the Sudamericana was in 2020, where they reached the Round of 16. In the 2022 Liga 1 the club placed fourth in the league and qualified for the Copa Libertadores for second time for the 2023 season. They got eliminated by Club Nacional of Paraguay in the qualifying stage.
Stadium
Sport Huancayo's home stadium is Estadio Huancayo. The stadium is also home to Deportivo Junín. It was constructed in 1962 and owned by the Instituto Peruano de Deporte. It has a capacity of 20,000.
This is a partial list of the last five seasons completed by Sport Huancayo. For the full season-by-season history, see List of Sport Huancayo seasons.
^Since 1966, play-off games have been used as a tie breaker between teams tie on points for promotion or relegation or as a post-season stage to decide the national championship. Whenever they have occurred, the club's position on that stage is shown in this column.
^Sport Huancayo lost to Sporting Cristal in the Torneo de Verano finals.
^The Copa Bicentenario was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
References
^Romero, Kenny (7 February 2012). "Antes de ser matador" [Before being the Matador] (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 21 May 2021. Retrieved 12 August 2020.