Club Deportivo Universidad de San Martín de Porres S.A., commonly known as Club Deportivo USMP, is a Peruvian football club based in the city of Lima. The club was founded in 2004 as a joint stock company, the first in Peru. In just their first season, the club began playing in the Peruvian top-flight, the Torneo Descentralizado, after they bought the promotional place of the 2003 Segunda División winners, Sport Coopsol. The team obtained their first Descentralizado title in 2007, the second in 2008 and their third in 2010.

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Universidad de San Martín

Full name	Club Deportivo Universidad de San Martín de Porres S.A.
Nickname(s)	Los Albos (The Whites) Los Santos (The Saints)
Founded	21 January 2004; 20 years ago (2004-01-21)
Ground	Estadio Miguel Grau
Capacity	17,000
President	Raúl Bao García
Manager	Duilio Cisneros
League	Liga 2
2023	Liga 2, 7th
Website	Club website
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The name comes from the Universidad de San Martín de Porres, a university in Lima.

In the 2004 Apertura, Universidad San Martin's results were poor. They accumulated 10 points and were positioned last on the table. Although the club managed to win 47 points and reached second place in the Clausura. In total, San Martin was placed 12th with 57 points. On the relegation table they placed eleventh, remaining in the first division. The following season, they did better and placed fourth, qualifying for the 2006 Copa Sudamericana. Although they were eliminated in the preliminary round, they won their first international game by defeating Bolognesi in a home game 3–2 but were eliminated because of the away goals rule. In 2006, they placed 6th on the aggregate table and did not qualify for any international tournament.

The beginning of the 2007 season smiled upon the "Santos". They won the Apertura for the first time after defeating Cienciano 2–1 in Cuzco, qualifying for the 2008 Copa Libertadores. Despite not finishing in the top 6 places in the Clausura tournament, thereby not fulfilling the condition to qualify for the national title playoff, the Clausura winners Coronel Bolognesi had not satisfied the condition in the Apertura either, so no playoff was played and San Martín were awarded the national title on the basis of its better aggregate record throughout the season.

In the 2009 Copa Libertadores, San Martin became the first Peruvian team to pass the group stage since 2004, eliminating River Plate of Argentina, Nacional of Paraguay, Nacional of Uruguay, and would lose in the round of 16 to Grêmio of Brazil 1–5 on aggregate.

On 12 December 2010, at Estadio Monumental, Universidad San Martin defeated León de Huánuco in Peru's two-legged final that gave Universidad San Martín the domestic championship.

On 20 February 2012, the club Universidad San Martín, for extra-sporting issues, announced their definitive retirement from the local tournament and professional football.^[1]

On 14 March 2012, the club Universidad San Martín returned to the local tournament and professional football.

• Universidad San Martín's badge, 2004–2022

U. San Martin currently do not own a stadium. Therefore, they play in the different stadiums of Lima. They have used the Estadio Nacional and Estadio Alejandro Villanueva in the past. Today they choose the Estadio Miguel Grau which it shares with Sport Boys and Academia Cantolao. San Martin, however, are known to favor Universitario's stadium, Estadio Monumental "U". The stadium they choose mostly depends on how many people are expected to attend a game.

As of 13 April 2023

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

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No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  PER Alessandro Cavagna 2 DF  PER Aldo Cura 3 DF  PER Gino Roque 4 MF  PER Erick Noriega 5 DF  PER Janpierr Cano 6 MF  PER Rinaldo Cruzado 7 FW  PER Héctor Bazán 8 MF  PER Jorge Molina 9 FW  PER Jiries Salem 10 FW  PER Luis Acuy 11 FW  ARG Gonzalo Verón 12 GK  PER Sebastián Sotelo 13 DF  PER Gliden Dubois 14 MF  PER Matias Pacheco 15 MF  PER Fernando Melgar 16 DF  PER Piero Huaroto 17 FW  PER Jorge Urteaga 18 FW  PER Austing Arteaga 19 DF  PER Ivan Chumpitaz 20 DF  PER Deyair Reyes

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 GK  PER Pedro Ynamine 23 DF  PER Oscar Vasquez 24 DF  PER Diego Del Castillo 25 MF  PER Gabriel Delgado 26 FW  PER Snayder Laines 27 MF  PER Junior Viza 28 FW  ARG Maximiliano Zarate 29 FW  PER Damián Ísmodes 30 MF  PER José Soto 32 FW  PER Sebastian Cornejo 33 DF  PER Rodrigo Vargas 34 DF  PER Carlos Miranda 35 FW  PER David Valiente 36 DF  PER Polo Castillo 37 FW  PER Homali Ruiz 68 MF  PER Jair Tiznado 80 FW  PER Emerson Alvarado - GK  PER Ian Schimitschek - GK  PER Eliot Chipana - DF  PER Joaquin Coronel

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