Oruro Royal is the oldest Bolivian
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
club from
Oruro
Oruro (Hispanicized spelling) or Uru Uru is a city in Bolivia with a population of 264,683 (2012 calculation), about halfway between La Paz and Sucre in the Altiplano, approximately above sea level.
It is Bolivia's fifth-largest city by populat ...
. The club plays in the Oruro Primera A, one of the third-division regional leagues. Oruro Royal was founded on 26 May 1896 by the English workers hired by the Bolivian Government to build the national railways, becoming the first Bolivian football squad. It plays its home games at the
Estadio Jesús Bermúdez
The Estadio Jesús Bermúdez is a multi-purpose stadium in Oruro, Bolivia. It is currently used mostly for football matches and also sometimes for athletics. The stadium has a capacity of 33,000 people, and is the home stadium of Club San José. ...
.
The first squad is composed of: ''Felipe Niño de Guzmán, Zenón Eizaguirre, Luís Aguirre, Augusto Gunther, Alberto Aguirre, Luís Vásquez, Ricardo Martínez, Telésforo Ross, Rafael Vásquez, Hans Geberber and Ernesto Galzin''.
Association football clubs established in 1896
Football clubs in Bolivia
1896 establishments in Bolivia
Railway association football teams
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