Blooming

Club Social, Cultural y Deportivo Blooming, known simply as Blooming, is a sports institution based in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. It was founded on 1 May 1946 and currently competes in the Primera División of Bolivia. It is one of the most important clubs in the country.

It plays its home matches at the Estadio Ramón Aguilera Costas, which has a capacity of 38,700 spectators, making it the second-largest stadium in the country. Its name is a reference to the "Floreciente (Blooming in English) juventud cruceña" (the blooming youth of Santa Cruz). The colours that identify the club are sky blue and white. Its main nickname is «La Academia» ("The Academy"); likewise, owing to the neighbourhood where the club was born, its members and supporters are known as «Pascaneros del casco viejo».

Nationally, the club was crowned champion of the Primera División on 5 occasions. It also won 1 Copa Simón Bolívar title. In the Asociación Cruceña de Fútbol it won 6 titles (5 in the amateur era and 1 in the professional era). Internationally, it is one of the three Bolivian teams to have reached the semi-finals of the Copa Libertadores de América, and the second to do so, in 1985; in total it has played in the tournament on 7 occasions, and it also has 8 appearances in the Copa Sudamericana and 1 in the Copa Merconorte.

The team occupies fourth place in the all-time table of the Primera División. It is also the sixth club that has played the most tournaments, with a total of 62, behind only Jorge Wilstermann, The Strongest, San José and Club Bolívar. It is also one of the clubs that went the longest without being relegated from the Primera División, with 18 years from 1977 to 1995, behind only San José (22) and Jorge Wilstermann (33).

Its classic rival is Oriente Petrolero, against whom it plays the so-called «Super clásico cruceño», considered one of the most important derbies in the country; this derby is ranked 49th in the ranking of the 50 best derbies in the world, compiled by the English magazine FourFourTwo.