List of Sporting Cristal seasons

This is a list of seasons played by Sporting Cristal in Peruvian and South American football, from 1951 (the year of the club's first participated in the Peruvian Primera División) to the most recent completed season. Sporting Cristal was founded in December, 1951, in the Rímac district by engineer Ricardo Bentín Mujica and his wife Esther Grande de Bentín, owners of the Peruvian brewery Backus and Johnston.

The club has won the Peruvian Primera División twenty times, has finished as Copa Libertadores runner-up once, and has never been relegated from Peru's top division.

This list details the club's achievements in all major competitions, and the top scorers for each season (where the information is available). Top scorers in bold were also the top scorers in the Peruvian Primera División that season.

Key

Key to colors and symbols:

Key to league record

• Season = The year and article of the season
• League = League name
• Pld = Games played
• W = Games won
• L = Games lost
• D = Games drawn
• GF = Goals for
• GA = Goals against
• GD = Goal difference
• Pts = Points
• Pos = Regular season position
• Play-offs = Play-offs position

Key to national cups record

• — = Competition not held or canceled
• DNE = Did not enter
• DNQ = Did not qualify
• QR = Qualifying round
• PR = Preliminary round
• GS = Group stage
• R1 = First round
• R2 = Second round
• R3 = Third round
• R4 = Fourth round
• R5 = Fifth round
• Ro16 = Round of 16
• QF = Quarter-finals
• SF = Semi-finals
• F = Final
• RU = Runners-up
• W = Winners

Seasons

Professional Era (1951-1965)

National Championship Era (1966–present)

Notes

References

Specific

General