Copa Peru Los Chankas was founded on August 30, 1989 under the name
Club Deportivo Cultural Santa Rosa, after the Peruvian saint
Santa Rosa de Lima. The club would participate in the
Liga Distrital de Talavera, the 7th division of the
Peruvian football league system. In 1992, the club was runner-up the
Liga Departamental del Apurímac, qualifying for the
Copa Perú. They would also win the
Región IX but was unable to be promoted to the
Primera División. In 2010, Los Chankas won the
Liga Provincial de Andahuaylas and was runner-up of the Departamental League, qualifying for the Regional stage of the
2010 Copa Perú but was eliminated by
Alianza Unicachi. In the
2011 Copa Perú, the club qualified to the Regional Stage but was eliminated by
Franciscano San Román and
José María Arguedas. In the
2013 Copa Perú, the club qualified to the Regional Stage but was eliminated by
Franciscano San Román and
Fuerza Minera. In the
2015 Copa Perú, the club qualified to the National Stage but was eliminated by
Sport Ancash in the Round of 16. Despite being eliminated in the Round of 16, the club got invited to the
Peruvian Segunda División for the first time. In the
2015 Segunda División, according to the rules of that year's tournament (played with 12 teams), there was only one relegation, which in theory corresponded to Club San Simó, which finished in 12th place. However, as this club had withdrawn halfway through the championship, the relegation corresponded to the one that finished in 11th place, which was
Atlético Minero. And although it was intended to consider a single relegation at the end of the season, the rules had been approved in that way by the Peruvian Football Federation, an entity that in the end rejected the request of the ADFP-SD for a single relegation, relegating the Matucana club. With this, a promotion spot remained to be defined, and since there were other teams that entered the
2016 season via invitation given based on sporting merits in the
2015 Copa Perú to complete the tournament, inviting
Unión Tarapoto and
Sport Áncash (and where also the other clubs that had reached the quarter-finals, apart from DIM de Miraflores that had finished 9th, who confirmed their participation for the corresponding instances in Copa Perú 2016), before which the spot was officially given to Club Cultural Santa Rosa, which was the next in order of sporting merit, thus ascending to the Second Division tournament.
Second Division In the
2017 season, they managed to improve their participation by finishing in fifth place despite an irregular campaign at the start of the season. In 2018, they failed to improve after finishing in tenth place, despite this they managed to improve their club statistics on goals scored. In 2019, the Peruvian Second Division tournament would be renamed to Liga 2. At the beginning of the tournament, their participation alongside Sport Rosario and Sport Victoria was unknown, but finally they confirmed their participation and achieved their fourth consecutive participation. The club played in the newly created
Copa Bicentenario in 2019, in which they placed last in their group. In Liga 2 in 2020, they finished last but as there was no relegation, they maintained their category. On August 19, 2021, Cultural Santa Rosa changed its name to
Los Chankas - CYC. The letters CYC are the initials of late club president Clodoaldo Yñigo Condori who died as a result of complications from
COVID-19 in the midst of the
COVID-19 pandemic in Peru. In the
2021 Copa Bicentenario, the club surprised by eliminating giants
Alianza Lima in the First Round but were later eliminated by
Unión Comercio. In the
2024 season, Los Chankas placed second and advanced to the Ligiulla play-off semi-finals. They would defeat
Comerciantes and advance to the Ligiulla final, in which the winnersr gets promoted to the Liga 1. On October 27, 2023, Los Chankas gained promotion to
Liga 1 for the first time in their history after defeating
Alianza Universidad on penalties. Los Chankas became the first team from the
Apurímac region to play in the
Liga 1. == Kit and crest ==