Club Universitario de Deportes

Club Universitario de Deportes, known as Universitario or simply the U, is a professional multi-sport club based in Lima, Peru, best known for its football team. It was founded on 7 August 1924 as Federación Universitaria by students and professors of the National University of San Marcos, and was forced to take its present name in 1931. The football team has played in the Peruvian top division since its debut in 1928, has never been relegated, and has won 29 first-division titles, the most of any Peruvian club, with a first title in 1929 and a first treble in 2000. In 1972 it became the first Peruvian club to reach the final of the Copa Libertadores. It plays at the 80,093-seat Estadio Monumental, opened in 2000 and the largest stadium in Peru, and its great rival is Alianza Lima in the Peruvian Clásico. The club also fields basketball, volleyball, futsal and women's football teams and has table tennis and chess sections.