The club was part of the National University of San Marcos and its last participation in a football league was in the 2011 Peruvian Segunda División.

Previously, the team had won five editions of the National Sporting University Games (Juegos Deportivos Universitarios Nacionales).

[1] The football team of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, nicknamed The Lions, debuted in 2001.

Previously, the football team had won five editions of the National Sporting University Games (Juegos Deportivos Universitarios Nacionales).

The football team inspired the formation of a sports club (club deportivo) with its first president the teacher of the Faculty of Economic Sciences, César Díaz Lima, and its first manager Nicolás Nieri, former player of Sporting Cristal.