Binacional

Founding

The club was founded on 18 December 2010, by the mayor of the Desaguadero District, Juan Carlos Aquino, under the name Club Deportivo Binacional de Desaguadero. The district is close to the Peru–Bolivia border and thus was called Binacional, or Bi-national in English.

Copa Perú

The club debuted in the Liga Superior de Puno of the 2011 Copa Perú tournament and finished fourth in the standings with 14 points.

The following year, the club finished second in the Liga Superior de Puno with 21 points and advanced to the Departmental Stage where it also finished second, thus allowing them to advance to the Regional Stage. Binacional became the Region VIII champions after finishing the first of its group and beating Alfonso Ugarte from Puno in the regional finals on penalties after a 0–0 draw. They proceeded to play in the National Stage. In the Round of 16, Binacional defeated Deportivo CREDICOOP from Tacna on penalties after an aggregate score of 3–3. However, the Peruvian Football Federation's Justice Court retired the team from the tournament.

Binacional repeated a similar campaign in 2013. The club qualified to the Regional Stage and finished the first of its group of Region VIII. In the National Stage, they faced San Simón from Moquegua in the Round of 16. They won the first leg 1–0 but lost the second leg 0–2, thus eliminating them from the tournament with an aggregate score of 1–2. San Simón eventually advanced to the finals and would go on to win the tournament.

In 2014, Binacional reached the Regional Stage for the third year in a row. They finished third of their group with 7 points, behind Unión Alto Huarca from Cusco and Unión Fuerza Minera from Puno and were not able to advance to the National Stage. Later on, Fuerza Minera would become the runner-up of the tournament.

The Copa Perú restructured its format for the 2015 season. This year Binacional was eliminated in the Departmental Stage after Policial Santa Rosa from Puno defeated them on a 1–2 aggregate score.

Binacional switched its locality to the Paucarpata District in the Arequipa Region in 2016, on the orders of the club president, Juan Carlos Aquino. The team purchased the playing rights of Escuela Municipal de Paucarpata, who participated in the Liga Distrital de Paucarpata. As part of the merger, the club changed its official name to Escuela Municipal Deportivo Binacional.

That year, Binacional started its campaign winning 8 out of 9 games of the Liga Distrital de Paucarpata, scoring 70 goals and finishing first place in the standings with Luis 'Puchito' Flores as head coach. It then surpassed the Regional and Departmental stages without difficulty to reach the National Stage as Arequipa Region's runner-up. In this stage, the team won 4 games and tied 2 to finish second in the overall league standings of 50 participants and thus qualifying to the Round of 16. In this round, Binacional faced against Octavio Espinosa from Ica, winning the first leg 2–1 and the second leg 3–1 to advance to the quarter-final with an aggregate score of 5–2. Then, the team beat Carlos Orellana, also from Ica, with a 6–4 global score after winning 6–3 on the first leg of this round and losing 0–1 in the second leg, allowing them to play the final group stage or La Finalísima in Lima as one of the four best Peruvian amateur teams. It surprisingly lost 1–0 in the first match of this stage to the eventual fourth-place team Racing from Huamachuco. The second game was against eventual champion Sport Rosario from Huaraz which it lost 2–3 with an own goal by Carlos Aspilcueta at the 73rd minute. The team finished 3rd overall after beating Deportivo Hualgayoc by 1–0 and thus preventing it from winning the tournament.

Promotion to first division

Binacional had a great start to its 2017 campaign by qualifying to the departmental stage of the Copa Perú and winning all of its matches to qualify to the National Stage. In the first round of this stage, the team won four games, tied one, and lost one and placed twelfth in the standings out of 50 teams. This allowed them to play the second round where they faced against León de Huánuco for a spot in the Round of 16. Binacional won both legs, 3–1 away in Huánuco and 8–1 at home in Arequipa for a global score of 11–2.

In the Round of 16, Binacional faced against the Lima Region champion, Defensor Laure Sur. They won the first leg 4–0 and lost the second leg 1–2, thus advancing to the quarter-finals with a global score of 5–2. Then, they played against Ica Region representative Unión San Martín. The teams tied in the first leg with a score of 1–1 but Binacional was able to win on the second leg 4–1 and to reach La Finalísima once again. Their first game was a 4–1 victory against José Carlos Mariátegui from Tarapoto. It then tied 1–1 against tournament favorite Atlético Grau from Piura. This left both Atlético Grau and Binacional with the same number of points going into the last matchday. On the last matchday, Binacional won 1–0 against Estudiantil CNI from Iquitos and Atletico Grau was able to defeat José Carlos Mariátegui. However, Binacional managed a better goal difference of +5 compared to Grau's +3. As such, El Poderoso won the tournament and promotion to the 2018 Torneo Descentralizado.

Professional era

Deportivo Binacional debuted in the Peruvian first division in the first tournament of the season, the 2018 Torneo de Verano. The first match for the recently promoted club was a 0–2 loss against Cantolao. The next matchday saw the team beat Unión Comercio 2–1 in Moyobamba, in which Milton Benítez scored the first goal for Binacional and an own goal from Comercio's defender secured the club's first victory in Peruvian first division. At the end of the tournament, Binacional had won 5 matches, tied 6, and lost 3 to finish third of its group with 21 points.

Before the start of the 2018 Torneo Apertura, the team temporarily moved to Moquegua's Estadio 25 de Noviembre in an effort to attract more fans. By the end of the Torneo Apertura, the club was undefeated at this new location, winning 5 matches and tying 3. Binacional finished eighth in the standings with 23 points. Then, the team had a rough start in the 2018 Torneo Clausura which resulted in the release of head coach Luis 'Puchito' Flores. He was replaced by Mario Flores ahead of matchday 8 of the tournament, when the team was sitting at the bottom of the league table. Binacional managed to finish the tournament thirteenth in the standings with 17 points. In the aggregate table, the team placed eighth with 59 points and gained a berth for the 2019 Copa Sudamericana.