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Club Sporting Cristal is a Peruvian football team. Based in the Rmac District, in the

department of Lima, it plays in the professional league known as the Peruvian First

Division. Founded on November 16, 1926 in the Rimac District given its approval to the

merger and Snuff Sporting merging with the brewery and make way for the birth of the

Sporting Cristal on December 13, 1955. The team's original name was Sporting

Tabaco, but it was renamed after being purchased by a local beer production

company. Sporting Cristal has won the league title 15 times, and it is the Peruvian

team with the third most National titles. All its titles have been won in the professional

era.

It is one of the most popular football teams in Peru, along with Universitario de

Deportes and Alianza Lima; it is the youngest of the three. In 1997, it became the

second Peruvian football club to reach the final of the Copa Libertadores, an

international competition.

Sporting Cristal plays home games at the Estadio San Martin de Porres, but they alsoplay at the Estadio Nacional. They also use the Estadio Nacional when playing

international competitions, such as Copa Libertadores or Copa Sudamericana.

The Sporting Cristal is a Peruvian sports institution, located in the city of Lima, whose

main activity is football.

It was founded on December 13, 1955 in the historic district of Rimac, under theauspices of the Corporation Backus and Johnston Brewery and thanks to Ricardo

Bentin recognized Mujica effort Esther Grande de Bentin and, business of the

company. The club was called Crystal as this is the preferred product name of the

brewery. It is for this reason it is known popularly as "all beer" or "brewers."

It is regarded as one of the three Peruvian soccer for their various sporting

achievements. Play in the First Division Cup in Peru since 1956, which came after

merging with an old club called Sporting Snuff, which was based also on the Rimac.

Since then it has always played in the First Division, and never dropped. Sports

reporters and his own supporters say the Sporting Cristal is a club that was "born

champion," endorsed by obtaining his first degree in the same year his first

appearance in the top flight, being so far the only Peruvian club to get this

achievement.

Sporting Cristal has won 15 national titles, all in the professional era, making it the

second club with the most titles in the professionalism and the third counting was

Amateur titles (time when the club did not exist) . It is also the Peruvian club in Copa

Libertadores more shares.

According to several surveys conducted several years ago, Sporting Cristal is the third

club with the most supporters in the country after Alianza Lima and Universitario de

Deportes, the parties dispute also called Peruvian football classic.

The club carries out various sports to football. Teams of basketball, volleyball, football,

tennis, squash, bowls, among others.

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