Club Deportivo Asociación Estadio La Unión, commonly known as Deportivo AELU or simply AELU, is a

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vian

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club, playing in the city of

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History

The Asociación Estadio La Unión was founded 1982 by the

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community of

. The AELU, as popularly is known, was the 1987 Segunda División Peruana champion. The club has played at the highest level of Peruvian football on four occasions, from

1988 Torneo Descentralizado The 1988 Torneo Descentralizado, the top tier of Peruvian football was played by 37 teams in the format of Regional Tournaments. The national champion was Sporting Cristal. Teams Team changes Stadia locations Torneo Regional Región Metro ...

until

1991 Torneo Descentralizado The 1991 Torneo Descentralizado, the top tournament of Peruvian football, was played by 41 teams in the format of Regional Tournaments, whose winner advanced to national finals. The national champion was Sporting Cristal. Teams Team changes St ...

when it was relegated. In the

1993 Segunda División Peruana The General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its calendar advanced 24 hours to th ...

, the club was relegated to

Copa Perú The Copa Perú is a association football, football tournament in Peru and the fourth-highest division of the Peruvian football league system. Despite its name, it is not entirely an elimination-cup competition involving all Peruvian clubs, but ra ...

. The club returned in the

1997 Segunda División Peruana Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy S-300 missile system, Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot S-300 cr ...

until

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

Honours

National

Peruvian Segunda División The Peruvian Second Division (; known simply as ''Second Division'', and Liga 2 Caja Cusco for sponsorship reasons), officially known as Liga 2, is the second-highest division in the Peruvian football league system. Founded in 1943, it is a profess ...

: 1 ::Winners (1): 1987 ::Runner-up (3): 1984, 1986,

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

Regional

* Liga Departamental de Lima: ::Winners (1): 1996 * Liga Provincial de Lima: ::Winners (1): 1996 * Liga Distrital de Pueblo Libre: ::Winners (12): 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024 ::Runner-up (3): 2011, 2013, 2025

History

Honours

National

Regional

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