1981 Torneo Descentralizado

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 the Lima Region to win the title.

Torneo Descentralizado

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

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

CNI

ADT

Torino

León de Huánuco

Coronel Bolognesi

Alfonso Ugarte

Junín

Unión Huaral

Juan Aurich

Melgar

Alianza Lima
Atlético Chalaco
Municipal
Sporting Cristal
Sport Boys
Universitario

Locations of the 1981 Primera División teams

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity	Field
Alfonso Ugarte	Puno	Enrique Torres Belón	20,000	Grass
Alianza Lima	Lima	Alejandro Villanueva	35,000	Grass
ADT	Tarma	Unión Tarma	9,000	Grass
Atlético Chalaco	Callao	Miguel Grau	15,000	Grass
Atlético Torino	Talara	Campeonísimo	8,000	Grass
CNI	Iquitos	Max Augustín	24,000	Grass
Coronel Bolognesi	Tacna	Jorge Basadre	19,850	Grass
Deportivo Junín	Huancayo	Huancayo	20,000	Grass
Deportivo Municipal	Lima	Nacional	45,750	Grass
Juan Aurich	Chiclayo	Elías Aguirre	24,500	Grass
León de Huánuco	Huánuco	Heraclio Tapia	15,000	Grass
Melgar	Arequipa	Mariano Melgar	20,000	Grass
Sport Boys	Callao	Miguel Grau	15,000	Grass
Sporting Cristal	Lima	Nacional	45,750	Grass
Unión Huaral	Huaral	Julio Lores Colan	10,000	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:

• 2 points were given for a win;
• 1 point for a draw;
• No points for a loss.

North group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Juan Aurich	4	2	1	1	4	4	0	5
2	Atlético Torino	4	1	2	1	6	5	+1	4[lower-alpha 1]
3	CNI	4	1	1	2	3	4	−1	3

Source:
Notes:

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

Central group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	ADT	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	9	−2	4
4	Deportivo Junín	6	1	1	4	5	10	−5	3

Source:

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	7	−3	3

Source:

Metropolitan group

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

• 3 points were given for a win;
• 2 points were given for a win after a penalty shootout;
• 1 point for a draw;
• No points for a loss or loss after 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	10	6	1	0	3	13	10	+3	20
2	Universitario	10	5	2	0	3	13	10	+3	19
3	Deportivo Municipal	10	6	0	1	3	13	8	+5	18
4	Sport Boys	10	3	1	1	5	12	15	-3	11
5	Atlético Chalaco	10	3	0	1	6	8	12	-4	9
6	Sporting Cristal	10	2	1	2	5	10	14	-4	8

• Alianza Lima did not advance to the semifinals due to a parallel reserve tournament that was favorable to Universitario (champion) and Deportivo Municipal (runner-up).

Provincial Final

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Melgar	2	2	0	0	4	2	+2	4
2	ADT	2	0	1	1	2	3	−1	1
3	Atlético Torino	2	0	1	1	2	3	−1	1

Source:

Knockout phase

	Semifinals							Finals
	Deportivo Municipal		3	0	3
	ADT		0	1	1
								Deportivo Municipal		0	1	1
								Universitario		0	1	1
	Universitario		2	0	2
	Melgar		0	1	1

• No winner in finals after two matches. Play-off was contested to determine winner.

Play-off

1981

Deportivo Municipal	1–0	Universitario

Estadio Nacional

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	30	0	33
6	Atlético Chalaco	30	10	12	8	38	30	+8	32
7	Sport Boys	30	9	12	9	41	37	+4	30
8	Deportivo Junín	30	11	6	13	39	45	−6	28
9	Sporting Cristal	30	8	12	10	30	38	−8	28
10	CNI	30	9	9	12	35	40	−5	27
11	Deportivo Municipal	30	8	11	11	33	41	−8	27
12	Coronel Bolognesi	30	10	6	14	29	35	−6	26
13	Juan Aurich	30	6	14	10	21	33	−12	26
14	ADT	30	9	7	14	27	31	−4	25
15	Unión Huaral	30	7	10	13	28	44	−16	24
16	Atlético Torino	30	10	3	17	34	45	−11	23	1982 Copa Perú

Source:

Copa Libertadores play-off

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

• No winner after two matches. Play-off was contested to determine winner.

1982

Deportivo Municipal	3–2	Universitario

Estadio Nacional

External links

• RSSSF Peru 1981