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 also play 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 the auspices 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.