1981 Torneo Descentralizado

Torneo Descentralizado
Season 1981
Champions Melgar
1st Primera División title
Relegated Torino
Copa Libertadores Melgar
Municipal
Top goalscorer Jose Carranza (15 goals)
1980
1982

The 1981 Torneo Descentralizado was the sixty-fifth season of Peruvian football. A total of 16 teams competed in the tournament. The season was divided into two phases. Melgar won its first national title and become the first club outside of the Lima Region to win the title.

Format

The national league was divided into two phases. The first phase divided the sixteen teams into groups. Each team was placed into one of four groups depending on the region where the club was located. This dubbed regional tournament was contested in this season because the Peru national football team was using domestic players in preparation for the 1982 World Cup Qualifiers. In order to reduce the impact of the absence of these key players in the national league, the regional tournament was played in which the winner contested the second berth to the 1982 Copa Libertadores against the Descentralizado runner-up. The second phase of the league was the Descentralizado in which all sixteen teams competed in single league table and its winner was crowned national champion while its runner-up faced the first phase winner for the second berth of the Copa Libertadores.

Teams

Team City Stadium Capacity Field
Alfonso Ugarte Puno Enrique Torres Belón 20,000 Grass
Alianza Lima Lima Alejandro Villanueva35,000 Grass
Asociación Deportiva Tarma Tarma Unión Tarma 9,000 Grass
Atlético Chalaco Callao Miguel Grau 15,000 Grass
Colegio Nacional Iquitos Iquitos Max Augustín 24,000 Grass
Coronel Bolognesi Tacna Jorge Basadre 19,850 Grass
Juan Aurich Chiclayo Elías Aguirre 24,500 Grass
Junín Huancayo Huancayo 20,000 Grass
León de Huánuco Huánuco Heraclio Tapia 15,000 Grass
Melgar Arequipa Mariano Melgar 20,000 Grass
Municipal Lima Nacional 45,750 Grass
Sport Boys Callao Miguel Grau 15,000 Grass
Sporting Cristal Lima Nacional 45,750 Grass
Torino Talara Campeonísimo8,000 Grass
Unión Huaral Huaral Julio Lores Colan10,000 Grass
Universitario Lima Nacional 45,750 Grass

Torneo Regional

The Torneo Regional was divided into 4 groups. The groups of the North, South and Central had its group winners advance to a Provincial final group where the top two advanced to the semifinals of the regional tournament. In the Metropolitan group, the top two advanced directly to the semifinals.

Group stage

The North, Central, and South followed these rules:

North group

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
1 Juan Aurich 4 2 1 1 4 40 5
2 Torino 4 1 2 1 6 5+1 041
3 Colegio Nacional Iquitos 4 1 1 2 3 41 3

1Torino appealed Juan Aurich's qualification to the next round.

Central group

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
1 Asociación Deportiva Tarma 6 4 1 1 13 7+6 9
2 León de Huánuco 6 3 2 1 9 8+1 8
3 Unión Huaral 6 1 2 3 7 92 4
4 Junín 6 1 1 4 5 105 3

South group

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
1 Melgar 4 2 1 1 8 6+2 5
2 Coronel Bolognesi 4 2 0 2 5 4+1 4
3 Alfonso Ugarte 4 1 1 2 4 73 3

Metropolitan group

This group had special rules. Matches ending in draws were decided by a penalty shootout.

In addition, the top two of this group advanced to the semifinals.

Pos Team Pld W SW SL L GF GA GD Pts
1 Alianza Lima 1061031310+320
2 Universitario 1052031310+319
3 Municipal 106013138+518
4 Sport Boys 1031151215-311
5 Atlético Chalaco 103016812-49
6 Sporting Cristal 1021251014-48

Provincial Final

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
1 Melgar 2 2 0 0 4 2+2 4
2 Asociación Deportiva Tarma 2 0 1 1 2 31 1
3 Torino 2 0 1 1 2 31 1

Knockout phase

  Semifinals Finals
                         
 Municipal 3 0 3  
 Asociación Deportiva Tarma 0 1 1  
     Municipal 0 1 1
   Universitario 0 1 1
 Universitario 2 0 2
 Melgar 0 1 1  

Play-off

Torneo Descentralizado

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 Melgar 30 16 8 6 39 22+17 40 1982 Copa Libertadores
2 Universitario 30 16 7 7 48 30+18 39 Copa Libertadores play-off
3 Alianza Lima 30 16 4 10 51 33+18 36
4 Alfonso Ugarte 30 14 8 8 43 32+11 36
5 León de Huánuco 30 10 13 7 30 300 33
6 Atlético Chalaco 30 10 12 8 38 30+8 32
7 Sport Boys 30 9 12 9 41 37+4 30
8 Junín 30 11 6 13 39 456 28
9 Sporting Cristal 30 8 12 10 30 388 28
10 Colegio Nacional Iquitos 30 9 9 12 35 405 27
11 Municipal 30 8 11 11 33 418 27
12 Coronel Bolognesi 30 10 6 14 29 356 26
13 Juan Aurich 30 6 14 10 21 3312 26
14 Asociación Deportiva Tarma 30 9 7 14 27 314 25
15 Unión Huaral 30 7 10 13 28 4416 24
16 Torino 30 10 3 17 34 4511 23 1982 Copa Perú

Copa Libertadores play-off

Libertadores play-off
 Municipal 2 0 2
 Universitario 1 1 2

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