2000 Torneo Descentralizado

Torneo Descentralizado
Season	2000
Dates	5 February 2000 –; 12 December 2000
Champions	Universitario; 24th Primera División title
Relegated	Deportivo Municipal
Copa Libertadores	Universitario; Sporting Cristal; Sport Boys
Copa Merconorte	Alianza Lima; Sporting Cristal; Universitario
Top goalscorer	Eduardo Esidio (37)
	← 1999 2001 →

The 2000 season of the Torneo Descentralizado was the 85th season of the top category of Peruvian football (soccer). It was played by 12 teams. The national champion was Universitario.

Competition modus

The national championship was divided into two tournaments, the Torneo Apertura and the Torneo Clausura. Each was played on a home-and-away round-robin basis. The winners of each would play for the national title in a play-off, but since the same club had won both tournaments, it automatically won the national championship.

Following-season Copa Libertadores berths went to the champion, as well as to each of the half-year tournament's runners-up, who held a play-off as a formality to decide the overall season runners-up. The bottom team on the aggregate table was relegated, while the eleventh place team held a promotion play-off against the winner of the Segunda División (Second Division).

Teams

Before the start of the season, Deportivo Pesquero relocated from Chimbote to Huancayo and changed its name to Deportivo Wanka.^[1]

Team changes

Promoted from 1999 Copa Perú	Relegated from 1999 Primera División
Deportivo UPAO (1st)	I.M.I. (12th)

Stadia locations

Alianza Lima
Municipal
Sporting Cristal
Universitario
Sport Boys

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Locations of the 2000 Primera División teams

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity	Field
Alianza Atlético	Sullana	Campeones del 36	8,000	Grass
Alianza Lima	Lima	Alejandro Villanueva	35,000	Grass
Cienciano	Cuzco	Garcilaso	42,056	Grass
Deportivo Municipal	Lima	Nacional	45,750	Grass
Deportivo UPAO	Trujillo	Mansiche	24,000	Grass
Deportivo Wanka	Huancayo	Huancayo	20,000	Grass
Juan Aurich	Chiclayo	Elías Aguirre	24,500	Grass
Melgar	Arequipa	Mariano Melgar	20,000	Grass
Sport Boys	Callao	Miguel Grau	15,000	Grass
Sporting Cristal	Lima	San Martín de Porres	18,000	Grass
Unión Minas	Cerro de Pasco	Daniel Alcides Carrión	8,000	Grass
Universitario	Lima	Monumental	80,093	Grass

Torneo Apertura

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Universitario	22	13	7	2	39	20	+19	46	Copa Libertadores 2001 First stage
2	Sport Boys	22	11	6	5	36	25	+11	39	Copa Libertadores 2001 First stage
3	Melgar	22	10	6	6	39	27	+12	36
4	Cienciano	22	10	6	6	31	30	+1	36
5	Alianza Lima	22	9	7	6	23	22	+1	34
6	Unión Minas	22	10	3	9	28	23	+5	33
7	Alianza Atlético	22	8	6	8	28	27	+1	30
8	Sporting Cristal	22	7	7	8	40	31	+9	28
9	Deportivo Wanka	22	6	6	10	21	32	−11	24
10	Juan Aurich	22	3	11	8	21	30	−9	20
11	Deportivo UPAO	22	4	7	11	24	39	−15	19
12	Deportivo Municipal	22	2	6	14	24	48	−24	12

Updated to match(es) played on July 2000. Source: https://www.rsssf.org/tablesp/peru00.html
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Results

Home \ Away	AAS	ALI	CIE	MUN	UPAO	WAN	MEL	JA	SBA	CRI	MIN	UNI
Alianza Atlético		1–0	3–2	6–2	3–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–3
Alianza Lima	0–1		3–1	2–0	2–1	2–2	1–1	3–1	1–0	0–0	2–0	0–2
Cienciano	2–1	0–0		3–3	2–1	2–0	1–2	1–0	1–1	2–2	1–0	2–1
Deportivo Municipal	1–1	1–1	0–1		2–0	3–1	1–4	1–1	0–0	0–4	2–2	1–5
Deportivo UPAO	1–0	1–1	0–1	4–2		1–1	2–1	1–1	1–4	1–0	0–2	0–0
Deportivo Wanka	1–2	0–1	1–3	1–0	1–0		4–2	1–0	0–1	3–1	1–1	1–0
Melgar	2–0	2–0	0–0	3–2	0–0	3–0		3–0	4–0	3–1	1–0	0–0
Juan Aurich	0–0	2–2	2–2	1–0	1–1	1–1	3–2		0–2	3–3	1–1	1–2
Sport Boys	1–1	4–0	2–3	3–1	3–3	3–1	4–2	1–0		1–0	1–0	1–1
Sporting Cristal	3–1	0–1	4–0	2–1	8–3	3–0	0–0	1–1	0–1		3–0	3–3
Unión Minas	2–0	0–1	2–0	1–0	2–1	2–0	4–2	1–0	2–0	4–1		1–2
Universitario	1–0	2–0	2–1	2–1	2–1	0–0	4–2	1–1	2–2	2–0	2–0

Updated to match(es) played on 2000. Source: RSSSF Peru 2000
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Torneo Clausura

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Universitario	22	17	3	2	55	23	+32	54	Copa Libertadores 2001 First stage
2	Sporting Cristal	22	15	5	2	48	24	+24	50	Copa Libertadores 2001 First stage
3	Cienciano	22	10	5	7	47	28	+19	35
4	Melgar	22	10	3	9	33	28	+5	33
5	Alianza Atlético	22	9	5	8	36	24	+12	32
6	Deportivo Wanka	22	9	5	8	36	34	+2	32
7	Unión Minas	22	9	4	9	33	37	−4	31
8	Alianza Lima	22	7	7	8	36	33	+3	28
9	Sport Boys	22	6	7	9	25	25	0	25
10	Juan Aurich	22	4	5	13	22	50	−28	17
11	Deportivo Municipal	22	3	7	12	24	43	−19	16
12	Deportivo UPAO	22	4	3	15	19	50	−31	15

Updated to match(es) played on December 2000. Source: https://www.rsssf.org/tablesp/peru00.html
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Results

Home \ Away	AAS	ALI	CIE	MUN	UPAO	WAN	MEL	JA	SBA	CRI	MIN	UNI
Alianza Atlético		3–2	4–1	3–2	1–2	2–0	0–0	2–1	2–1	1–2	4–0	1–1
Alianza Lima	2–1		2–1	0–0	1–1	3–0	4–1	1–1	0–0	1–2	4–0	0–1
Cienciano	5–0	2–0		4–0	2–0	4–2	5–2	7–1	1–1	3–1	0–1	2–3
Deportivo Municipal	1–1	2–3	1–1		1–0	5–4	1–0	1–3	0–0	0–4	3–3	1–2
Deportivo UPAO	2–4	1–5	0–2	0–0		3–1	0–2	1–1	0–3	2–4	3–2	2–3
Deportivo Wanka	2–0	3–2	2–0	4–1	2–0		1–0	4–0	2–0	1–1	0–0	0–0
Melgar	3–1	2–0	1–1	1–0	2–1	4–0		2–1	2–1	1–2	1–2	2–0
Juan Aurich	1–5	1–1	0–0	3–2	0–1	1–1	1–0		0–1	0–7	4–2	1–2
Sport Boys	0–0	2–2	1–2	0–0	4–0	2–0	1–3	2–1		0–1	2–0	0–2
Sporting Cristal	1–1	1–1	3–2	3–2	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	2–1		4–2	2–2
Unión Minas	3–0	4–1	1–1	1–0	4–0	0–1	2–1	3–1	2–2	1–2		2–1
Universitario	2–0	4–1	2–1	3–1	5–0	6–2	3–2	5–0	3–1	3–2	2–0

Updated to match(es) played on 2000. Source: RSSSF Peru 2000
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Final stages

Final

No final for the championship title was contested after Universitario won both the Apertura and Clausura tournaments, thus automatically becoming national champions.

Second place play-off

December 12, 2000

Sporting Cristal	2–1	Sport Boys
Silva Hidalgo		Lobatón

Estadio Nacional, Lima

Sporting Cristal second place overall

Aggregate table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Universitario	44	30	10	4	94	43	+51	100	2001 Copa Libertadores First stage and 2001 Copa Merconorte
2	Sporting Cristal	44	22	12	10	88	55	+33	78	2001 Copa Libertadores First stage and 2001 Copa Merconorte
3	Cienciano	44	20	11	13	78	58	+20	71
4	Melgar	44	20	9	15	72	55	+17	69
5	Sport Boys	44	17	13	14	61	50	+11	64	2001 Copa Libertadores First stage
6	Unión Minas	44	19	7	18	61	60	+1	64
7	Alianza Lima	44	16	14	14	59	55	+4	62	2001 Copa Merconorte
8	Alianza Atlético	44	17	11	16	64	61	+3	62
9	Deportivo Wanka	44	15	11	18	53	67	−14	56
10	Juan Aurich	44	7	16	21	43	80	−37	37
11	Deportivo UPAO (O)	44	8	10	26	43	89	−46	34	Qualification for promotion play-off
12	Deportivo Municipal	44	5	13	26	48	91	−43	28	Relegation to 2001 Segunda División

Updated to match(es) played on December 2000. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(O) Play-off winners

Promotion play-off

December 13, 2000

Deportivo UPAO	3–1	Deportivo Aviación

Estadio Nacional, Lima

Deportivo UPAO remained in Peruvian Primera División^{[note 1]}

Top scorers

37 goals

Eduardo Esidio (Universitario)

19 goals

Luis A. Bonnet (Cienciano)

15 goals

Roberto Holsen (Alianza Lima)

13 goals

James Angulo (Sport Boys)

12 goals

Piero Alva (Universitario)
Carlos Juárez (Sporting Cristal)
Sergio Ibarra (Deportivo Wanka)

Notes

^ UPAO would sell their first division spot to Sport Coopsol before the 2001 season.

References

^ "Peru 2000 Primera División". rsssf.org. 16 October 2004. Retrieved 8 December 2011.

External links

Peru 2000 season Details on RSSSF

[2] UPAO would sell their first division spot to Sport Coopsol before the 2001 season.

[1] "Peru 2000 Primera División". rsssf.org. 16 October 2004. Retrieved 8 December 2011.

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