Club Deportivo Los Chankas

Los Chankas

Full name	Club Deportivo Los Chankas - ANDAHUAYLAS
Nickname(s)	Chankas Guerreros Chankas Chankastasaray
Founded	August 30, 1989; 35 years ago (1989-08-30)
Ground	Estadio Los Chankas
Capacity	10,000
Chairman	Guido Iñigo Peralta
Manager	Pablo Bossi
League	Liga 1
2024	Liga 1, 10th of 18
Home colours Away colours

Club Deportivo Los Chankas CYC, commonly known as Los Chankas, previously called (Cultural Santa Rosa), is a professional Peruvian football from the city of Andahuaylas, in the department of Apurímac. Founded in 1989, it owes its name to the ancient Chanca ethnic group.

It participated in the Copa Perú until 2015, when it reached the round of 16, a merit that allowed it to participate in the Peruvian Segunda División starting in 2016. Since 2024 it has been playing in Primera División, thus becoming the first team from the department of Apurímac in history, that participates in the Liga 1.

Los Chankas was founded on 30 August 1989 under the name Club Deportivo Cultural Santa Rosa, after the Peruvian saint Santa Rosa de Lima. The club would participate in the Liga Distrital de Talavera, the 7th division of the Peruvian football league system. In 1992, the club was runner-up the Liga Departamental del Apurímac, qualifying for the Copa Perú. They would also win the Región IX but was unable to be promoted to the Primera División.

In 2010, Los Chankas won the Liga Provincial de Andahuaylas and was runner-up of the Departamental League, qualifying for the Regional stage of the 2010 Copa Perú but was eliminated by Alianza Unicachi.

In the 2011 Copa Perú, the club qualified to the Regional Stage but was eliminated by Franciscano San Román and José María Arguedas.

In the 2013 Copa Perú, the club qualified to the Regional Stage but was eliminated by Franciscano San Román and Fuerza Minera.

In the 2015 Copa Perú, the club qualified to the National Stage but was eliminated by Sport Ancash in the Round of 16. Despite being eliminated in the Round of 16, the club got invited to the Peruvian Segunda División for the first time.

In the 2015 Segunda División, according to the rules of that year's tournament (played with 12 teams), there was only one relegation, which in theory corresponded to Club San Simó, which finished in 12th place. However, as this club had withdrawn halfway through the championship, the relegation corresponded to the one that finished in 11th place, which was Atlético Minero. And although it was intended to consider a single relegation at the end of the season, the rules had been approved in that way by the Peruvian Football Federation, an entity that in the end rejected the request of the ADFP-SD for a single relegation, relegating the Matucana club.

With this, a promotion spot remained to be defined, and since there were other teams that entered the 2016 season via invitation given based on sporting merits in the 2015 Copa Perú to complete the tournament, inviting Unión Tarapoto and Sport Áncash (and where also the other clubs that had reached the quarter-finals, apart from DIM de Miraflores that had finished 9th, who confirmed their participation for the corresponding instances in Copa Perú 2016), before which the spot was officially given to Club Cultural Santa Rosa, which was the next in order of sporting merit, thus ascending to the Second Division tournament.

In the 2017 season, they managed to improve their participation by finishing in fifth place despite an irregular campaign at the start of the season. In 2018, they failed to improve after finishing in tenth place, despite this they managed to improve their club statistics on goals scored.

In 2019, the Peruvian Second Division tournament would be renamed to Liga 2. At the beginning of the tournament, their participation alongside Sport Rosario and Sport Victoria was unknown, but finally they confirmed their participation and achieved their fourth consecutive participation. The club played in the newly created Copa Bicentenario in 2019, in which they placed last in their group. In Liga 2 in 2020, they finished last but as there was no relegation, they maintained their category.

On August 19, 2021, Cultural Santa Rosa changed its name to Los Chankas - CYC. The letters CYC are the initials of late club president Clodoaldo Yñigo Condori who died as a result of complications from COVID-19 in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru. In the 2021 Copa Bicentenario, the club surprised by eliminating giants Alianza Lima in the First Round but were later eliminated by Unión Comercio.

In the 2024 season, Los Chankas placed second and advanced to the Ligiulla play-off semi-finals. They would defeat Comerciantes and advance to the Ligiulla final, in which the winnersr gets promoted to the Liga 1. On October 27, 2023, Los Chankas gained promotion to Liga 1 for the first time in their history after defeating Alianza Universidad on penalties. Los Chankas became the first team from the Apurímac region to play in the Peruvian First Division.

Under the name Cultural Santa Rosa, the club's home kit was a yellow shirt and greens shorts, with its away kit being a green shirt and yellow shorts. When the club changed its name to Los Chankas, they changed their home kit to an orange and brown-red color scheme, representing the colors of the Chanca culture. Its new away kit would be light blue and blue.

Its first shield would remain until early 2016, when the club was invited to participate in the Peruvian Segunda División, also changing its uniform, and would later have some additional variations in 2021 when the team changed its name to Los Chankas CYC.

Los Chankas' home stadium is Estadio Los Chankas. This stadium, managed by the Provincial Municipality of Andahuaylas, is a source of pride for the local community, as it has a capacity to hold 10,000 spectators. Likewise, the Estadio Los Chankas becomes a meeting and celebration point for sports fans in the Apurímac region. It is also part of a greater sports complex. The stadium consists of three stands. In 2024, the club announced that the construction of the fourth stand after the clubs promotion to the First Division.

As of 28 August 2024

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  PER Michael Sotillo 2 DF  PER Carlos Gamarra 3 DF  PER José Luján 4 DF  PER Ederson Mogollón 5 DF  ECU Kevin Becerra 7 FW  PER José Manzaneda 8 MF  PER Diego Carabaño 10 FW  ECU Abel Casquete 11 FW  COL Carlos López 12 GK  PER Antony Sánchez 13 DF  PER Marlon Ruidías 14 MF  PER Ademar Robles

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 DF  PER Axel Chávez 17 FW  PER Mathías Carpio 18 FW  PER Oshiro Takeuchi 20 MF  PER Diego Temoche 21 FW  ECU Ángel Ledesma 22 FW  ARG Alan Murialdo 24 MF  PER Cristian Mejía 26 DF  PER Ayrthon Quintana 30 GK  ARG Daniel Ferreyra 31 DF  PER Rotceh Aguilar 32 MF  PER Rodrigo Salinas

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