1936 Summer Olympics Peru played in the
1936 edition of the
Olympic Games in Berlin, but it was with the
A team.
1960 Summer Olympics After 24 years, Peru once again qualified for the football tournament at the
1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome with their U-23 football team. It defeated
Uruguay in the two-leg play-off round by 6–0 in
Lima and then by 3–2 in
Montevideo. The five play-off winners faced each other in a special tournament held in Lima in April 1960.
Los Incas finished third ahead of
Mexico and
Suriname and thus qualified for the tournament in Rome. In their first match of the tournament, Peru started out with a surprise as
Angel Uribe scored a 1st-minute goal against
France. Peru would go on to lose 2–1 against the French, and were later beaten by
Hungary in a result of 6–2, with only
Alberto Ramírez scoring goals for the
Blanquirroja. Their last match was against
India, which was a comfortable 3–1 score in favor of the Peruvians with goals by
Nicolas Nieri and
Thomas Iwasaki. Peru has not qualified again to the tournament since 1960, but were close to qualifying again in the 1964 and 1980
CONMEBOL Men Pre-Olympic Tournaments.
2015 Pan American Games An official multi-sport event squad was created once again for the first time since the 1960 Summer Olympics in 2015 for Peru's first participation in the Pan American football tournament held in
Canada. Peru had qualified to this tournament once before in 2007.
CONMEBOL only accepted to play with Under-17 teams that year (qualified through the
2007 South American Under-17 Football Championship), since the Under-20 teams had to participate in the
U-20 World Cup at the same time. Peru declined to participate because the
Under-17 team preferred to play friendlies in Asia in preparation of the
U-17 World Cup, so
Bolivia took its place. Thus Peru qualified once again in 2015 via the
2015 South American U-20 Championship. That year the top three teams in the
final stage of the tournament qualified to the
2016 Olympic tournament and the bottom three to the 2015 Pan American tournament of which Peru finished 5th. The team's first game was against
Panama on July 12. Panama put themselves ahead via
Jorman Aguilar at the beginning of the first half. Peru then equalized the score through a goal by
Gonzalo Maldonado twelve minutes later. The deadlock was broken in the 90th minute when
Elsar Rodas committed a foul against the Panamanian
Cecilio Waterman who was awarded a penalty that was converted by
Fidel Escobar for a final score of 2–1. The second game was against
Brazil with a final score of 4–0 with goals of
Luan,
Clayton,
Rômulo, and
Dodô. This was enough to mathematically eliminate Peru out of the tournament before its third game against
Canada. During that game
Elsar Rodas scored the first and then
Manjrekar James scored an
own goal in the second half for a final 0–2 against the locals.
2019 Pan American Games Peru qualified to the 2019 tournament as host. It lost its first game by 2–0 against
Uruguay. Peru's second game was against
Honduras who scored two goals in
injury time of the game for a 2–2 draw. Peru's two goals were scored by
Kevin Quevedo and
Jordan Guivin. On the last match day, Uruguay defeated Honduras by 3–0 which would qualify Peru the second round of the tournament if it was able to defeat Jamaica. In the end Jamaica defeated Peru with two goals in the second half, relegating Peru to the 7th place match against
Ecuador. There, a final score of 1–1 forced both teams to decide the match in penalties which Peru won by 4–2 to finish 7th of eight teams. ==Bolivarian Games==