Alianza Lima

Founded on 15 February 1901 by working-class teenagers from the old Chacaritas quarter of Lima and named after the Alianza stables where the first matches were played, it is the oldest club still in the Peruvian first division. One of the three big clubs of Peruvian football, it has won twenty-five national championships and reached the Copa Libertadores semi-finals in 1976 and 1978. Its entire first team was killed in December 1987 when the navy aircraft bringing the squad home crashed into the sea off Ventanilla.