Clásico Paceño

[5] The criteria that were used to show the great rivalry between both teams has to do with the time of existence of the classic, the number of games, the importance of duels, the public they carry, the repercussion national and international and even a historical account of the episodes of violence.

The Aurinegro won all the competitions organized in the following decade (1916-I, 1916-II, 1917, 1922, 1923, 1923, 1924, 1925, there were no tournaments between 1918 and 1921), while their rival would enter a frank decline that would end in their disappearance at the beginning of the 1930s.

The team's supporters, sponsored by the Higher University of San Andrés, began to grow thanks to this, recruiting most of the fans from the Colegio Militar.

The Strongest-Universitario rivalry is the longest lasting in Bolivian football history and spanned almost five decades, with The Strongest winning 14 championships and Universitario 2.

Paradoxically, the greatest achievement in Universitario's history came in 1969, when they won the newly established "Campeonato Nacional" (national championship), after which the team went into a rapid and precipitous institutional decline, which culminated in their losing their status the following year.

In 1925 the Club Bolívar was founded, the rapid decline of Universitario and the runners-up finishes achieved by the celestes, in 1927 (after Nimbles) and 1930 (after The Strongest), encouraged the fans to define the new clásico paceño.

Thus, the first derby as such (when Universitario had ceased to be the other big team in La Paz) was played on 24 April 1932, when Bolivar won by the narrowest of margins.