Meetings total 197 | ||
Latest meeting 28 April 2013, Cristal 4–0 Universitario All-time series Universitario:72Empates:63Cristal:62 | ||
The Universitario–Sporting Cristal rivalry is a major rivalry in Peruvian football. Both clubs are those who got more titles since they began to dispute the Torneo Decentralizado from 1966, this succession of titles made a great rivalry exist between both clubs.
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The clashes between the two teams generate buzz in the crowd, because in each of the matches that were played, always prevailed and good quality football each of his players. From the first classic played in 1956, which ended tied 2-2 with goals from Daniel Ruiz twice to the cream while Roberto Martinez and Enrique Vargas scored for the celestial', the two clubs have met in 196 opportunities in official meetings, Universitario has achieved 72 victories, while Sporting Cristal has 61 wins.
Rivalry
One of the main reasons for the enmity between the two clubs is due to a series of transfers of footballers emblematic Universitario to Sporting Cristal, starting in the year of 1959 with the signing of Alberto Terry and subsequently signings Héctor Chumpitaz, Eleazar Soria, Percy Rojas, Héctor Bailetti, Juan Carlos Oblitas and Oswaldo Ramírez in 1977. Another cause of this great rivalry between cream and celestial is the amount of international participation that both clubs have been in official tournaments organized by the Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol, where Universitario Peruvian all over disputed continental cups, with 38 occasions, followed by Sporting Cristal with 33 occasions. To this should be added the popularity of both clubs, as several polls put both teams in the top of preferences along with Alianza Lima.
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