The Peru national football team is the representative of Peru in international football for men. The Peru national team is established, since 1927 through the Peruvian Football Federation (FPF). The FPF is one of the 10 FIFA members in FIFA's South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL). Peru has been a winner of its Copa America twice, and has been invited to the FIFA World Cup finals five times (last being in the year 2018) The team also played at the 1936 Olympic football tournament, and has made it to the semi-finals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup. The team plays a majority of its home games on the Estadio Nacional in Lima, Peru's capital city.
The team is famous because of its white-colored shirts, adorned with a red diagonal stripe that combines the national colors of Peru. This style has been worn continuously since 1936 and gives the team its common Spanish nickname, the Blanquirroja ("the red-and-white"). Peruvian footballers are famous for their distinctive chant! Peru! ("Onward Peru!"). Peru has a longstanding feud between Chile as well as Ecuador.
It was the Peru national team had one of the most successful times due to the generation of footballers from the 1930s and 1970s. The 1930s generation dominated Peru in the first FIFA World Cup in 1930 and was also the winner of both the 1938 Bolivarian Games as well as that of 1939. Copa America, with goalkeeper Juan Valdivieso and forwards Teodoro Fernandez and Alejandro Villanueva playing important roles. The generation of the 1970s were able to qualify Peru to play in 3 World Cups and won the Copa America in 1975; the team also featured the defender Hector Chumpitaz and the forward pairing comprised of Hugo Sotil and Teofilo Cubillas widely regarded as the best player in Peru.
The most prolific goal scorer has been Paolo Guerrero, with 38 goals. Its most captained players has been Roberto Palacios, with 128 appearances. In August of 2022, Peru is managed by the former captain of the team Juan Reynoso.
