2002 Torneo Descentralizado

The 2002 Torneo Descentralizado was the 86th season of the top category of Peruvian football (soccer). It was played by 12 teams. The national champion was Sporting Cristal.

Torneo Descentralizado

Season	2002
Dates	22 February 2002 – 15 December 2002
Champions	Sporting Cristal 14th Primera División title
Relegated	Juan Aurich Coopsol Trujillo
Copa Libertadores	Sporting Cristal Universitario Alianza Lima
Copa Sudamericana	Alianza Lima Cienciano
Top goalscorer	Luis Fabián Artime (24)
← 2001 2003 →

Competition modus

The national championship was divided into two and half-year 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 playoff, but a team had to finish in the top 4 in both tournaments to earn the right to play the final. If the same club had won both tournaments, it would have won the national championship automatically.

Following-season Copa Libertadores berths went to each half-year tournament winner, and the best-placed team in the aggregate table. The two bottom teams on the aggregate table were relegated, but a playoff had to be played between the 10th- and 11th-placed teams since both obtained the same number of points (goal difference did not count as a tie-breaker).

Teams

Team changes

Promoted from 2001 Copa Perú	Relegated from 2001 Primera División
Coronel Bolognesi (1st)	Unión Minas (12th)

Stadia locations

Alianza Atlético

Juan Aurich

Coopsol Trujillo

Estudiantes

Wanka

Cienciano

Melgar

Coronel Bolognesi

Alianza Lima
Sporting Cristal
Universitario
Sport Boys

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Locations of the 2002 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
Coopsol Trujillo	Trujillo	Mansiche	24,000	Artificial
Coronel Bolognesi	Tacna	Jorge Basadre	19,850	Grass
Deportivo Wanka	Huancayo	Huancayo	20,000	Grass
Estudiantes de Medicina	Ica	José Picasso Peratta	8,000	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
Universitario	Lima	Monumental	80,093	Grass

Torneo Apertura

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Universitario (O)	22	15	2	5	30	17	+13	47	Copa Libertadores 2003 First stage
2	Alianza Lima	22	14	5	3	43	23	+20	47	Qualification for 2002 Copa Sudamericana
3	Sporting Cristal	22	11	5	6	43	32	+11	38
4	Cienciano	22	9	7	6	33	31	+2	34
5	Alianza Atlético	22	10	3	9	37	26	+11	33
6	Juan Aurich	22	7	7	8	29	25	+4	28
7	Melgar	22	6	9	7	36	43	−7	27
8	Sport Boys	22	7	4	11	29	37	−8	25
9	Coopsol Trujillo	22	6	6	10	28	32	−4	24
10	Coronel Bolognesi	22	6	5	11	27	39	−12	23
11	Estudiantes de Medicina	22	4	7	11	25	28	−3	19
12	Deportivo Wanka	22	5	4	13	23	40	−17	19

Updated to match(es) played on August 26, 2009. Source: https://www.rsssf.org/tablesp/peru02.html
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(O) Play-off winners

Results

Home \ Away	AAS	ALI	CIE	BOL	WAN	EST	MEL	JA	SBA	COO	CRI	UNI
Alianza Atlético		1–2	1–0	3–0	5–0	4–1	3–3	3–0	0–2	3–2	0–1	0–0
Alianza Lima	0–1		5–1	2–0	3–2	2–1	2–1	1–1	3–1	0–1	5–1	1–0
Cienciano	1–0	2–1		2–1	2–1	3–3	1–1	0–0	3–0	3–2	1–0	2–0
Coronel Bolognesi	3–2	0–0	3–2		3–3	1–1	1–1	3–2	3–2	1–2	1–3	0–0
Deportivo Wanka	1–0	0–0	2–3	0–1		2–0	2–1	3–1	3–0	0–0	1–1	1–2
Estudiantes de Medicina	1–2	1–1	0–0	2–3	1–0		4–0	1–1	2–2	2–0	0–0	0–1
Melgar	1–1	2–3	3–3	3–2	1–0	3–1		0–0	1–0	4–1	4–4	1–0
Juan Aurich	3–1	2–2	2–0	1–0	4–0	1–2	3–0		3–1	1–1	2–1	1–2
Sport Boys	0–2	2–3	3–2	1–0	2–0	3–0	4–4	1–0		1–3	1–0	0–1
Coopsol Trujillo	0–2	1–2	0–0	2–1	6–0	3–0	0–0	1–1	1–1		0–3	0–3
Sporting Cristal	4–3	2–4	2–2	4–0	2–1	3–1	4–0	1–0	1–1	2–1		0–1
Universitario	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	3–1	4–2	1–0	2–1	2–1	3–4

Updated to match(es) played on 30 January 2012. Source: RSSSF Peru 2002
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Apertura playoff

26 June 2002

First leg

Universitario	1–0	Alianza Lima
Vilallonga 57'

Estadio Monumental, Lima

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7 July 2002

Second leg

Alianza Lima	0–0	Universitario

Estadio Mansiche, Trujillo

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Universitario Apertura 2002 winners
To Copa Libertadores 2003

Torneo Clausura

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sporting Cristal	22	13	7	2	46	18	+28	46	Copa Libertadores 2003 First stage
2	Alianza Lima	22	13	6	3	40	18	+22	42
3	Alianza Atlético	22	11	6	5	40	18	+22	36
4	Cienciano	22	11	3	8	50	44	+6	36
5	Estudiantes de Medicina	22	9	5	8	36	29	+7	32
6	Sport Boys	22	7	8	7	28	24	+4	29
7	Deportivo Wanka	22	7	8	7	30	35	−5	29
8	Coronel Bolognesi	22	8	4	10	24	29	−5	28
9	Melgar	22	6	7	9	25	33	−8	25
10	Juan Aurich	22	5	5	12	20	35	−15	20
11	Universitario	22	4	7	11	27	36	−9	19
12	Coopsol Trujillo	22	3	4	15	18	51	−33	13

Updated to match(es) played on August 26, 2009. Source: https://www.rsssf.org/tablesp/peru02.html
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
Notes:

Results

Home \ Away	AAS	ALI	CIE	BOL	WAN	EST	MEL	JA	SBA	COO	CRI	UNI
Alianza Atlético		2–2	4–0	1–0	4–0	1–0	3–2	1–1	0–0	2–0	0–3	2–1
Alianza Lima	2–2		4–2	3–0	0–0	1–0	3–1	3–0	1–1	3–1	0–0	3–2
Cienciano	4–1	2–1		2–1	4–1	3–0	4–1	3–1	3–1	1–1	2–3	5–2
Coronel Bolognesi	3–2	0–0	1–2		1–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	0–2	0–1	2–3	2–1
Deportivo Wanka	1–1	3–1	3–3	1–0		4–2	1–1	1–1	4–1	3–2	0–0	1–3
Estudiantes de Medicina	2–0	0–2	4–2	1–1	1–1		3–0	4–1	1–1	9–1	1–1	1–0
Melgar	0–1	0–2	2–1	1–1	2–0	2–0		0–0	2–2	2–0	2–2	1–0
Juan Aurich	0–1	0–2	2–1	1–0	0–2	0–1	3–1		0–0	3–1	5–2	1–2
Sport Boys	1–2	1–0	2–1	0–1	2–2	0–1	2–2	4–0		2–1	0–0	4–0
Coopsol Trujillo	2–4	0–3	2–2	0–4	0–1	2–3	1–1	1–0	1–0		0–3	1–1
Sporting Cristal	2–0	0–2	5–0	5–1	2–0	4–1	2–0	3–0	2–0	2–0		1–1
Universitario	0–0	1–2	2–3	2–2	4–1	1–1	1–2	0–0	0–2	2–0	1–1

Updated to match(es) played on 2002. Source: RSSSF Peru 2002
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Final playoff

No final playoff was played since the Apertura winner Universitario did not finish in the Clausura's top 4, while Sporting Cristal won the Clausura after placing third in the Apertura.

Aggregate table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Alianza Lima	44	27	11	6	83	41	+42	89	2003 Copa Libertadores First stage
2	Sporting Cristal	44	24	12	8	89	18	+71	84
3	Cienciano	44	20	10	14	83	75	+8	70	2003 Copa Sudamericana Preliminary Phase
4	Alianza Atlético	44	21	9	14	71	52	+19	69
5	Universitario	44	19	9	16	57	53	+4	66	2003 Copa Libertadores First stage
6	Sport Boys	44	14	12	18	57	61	−4	54
7	Melgar	44	12	16	16	61	67	−6	52
8	Estudiantes de Medicina	44	13	12	19	61	67	−6	51
9	Coronel Bolognesi	44	14	9	21	51	68	−17	51
10	Juan Aurich (A)	44	12	12	20	49	60	−11	48	Relegation to 2003 Copa Perú
11	Deportivo Wanka (A, O)	44	12	12	20	53	75	−22	48
12	Coopsol Trujillo	44	9	10	25	46	83	−37	37	Relegation to 2003 Copa Perú

Updated to match(es) played on August 26, 2009. Source: https://www.rsssf.org/tablesp/peru02.html
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(A) Advance to a further round; (O) Play-off winners
Notes:

Relegation play-off

11 December 2002

Juan Aurich	2–1	Deportivo Wanka
A. Torres 55' R. Miñán 70'		E. Torrealva 63'

Estadio Elías Aguirre, Chiclayo

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15 December 2002

Deportivo Wanka	4–0	Juan Aurich
M. Ruiz 3' E. Salazar 40' J. Montenegro 52' H. Veloyes 92'

Estadio Huancayo, Huancayo

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Juan Aurich relegated to Copa Perú

Top scorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Luis Artime	Melgar	24
2	Sergio Ibarra	Alianza Atlético	22
3	Germán Carty	Cienciano	18
	Antonio Serrano	Sport Boys	18
5	Ernesto Zapata	Cienciano	15

External links

• Peru 2002 season Details on RSSSF