en 2001 Torneo Descentralizado

Torneo Descentralizado
Season	2001
Dates	17 February 2001 –; 29 December 2001
Champions	Alianza Lima; 19th Primera División title
Relegated	Unión Minas
Copa Libertadores	Alianza Lima; Cienciano; Sporting Cristal
Top goalscorer	Jorge Ramírez (21)
	← 2000 2002 →

The 2001 Torneo Descentralizado, was the 85th season of the top category of Peruvian football (soccer). It was played by 12 teams. The national champion was Alianza Lima.

Competition modus

The national championship was divided into two 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 tournament played for the national title in a two-legged final. Should the same team have won both tournaments, they would have been automatic champions.

Qualification to CONMEBOL's Copa Libertadores was won by each tournament winner and the winner of a play-off between the teams that placed second in each tournament. The bottom team on the aggregate table was relegated, while the eleventh placed team played a relegation/promotion play-off against the winner of the Segunda División (Second Division).

Teams

Team changes

Promoted from 2000 Copa Perú	Relegated from 2000 Primera División
Estudiantes de Medicina (1st)	Deportivo Municipal (12th)

Stadia locations

Alianza Lima
Sporting Cristal
Universitario
Sport Boys

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Locations of the 2001 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
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
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	Sporting Cristal (A)	22	13	7	2	46	18	+28	46	2002 Copa Libertadores play-off
2	Alianza Lima (A, O)	22	13	7	2	42	19	+23	46	Copa Libertadores 2002 First stage
3	Melgar	22	10	5	7	45	30	+15	35
4	Cienciano	22	11	2	9	43	28	+15	35
5	Sport Boys	22	9	4	9	36	40	−4	31
6	Juan Aurich	22	9	3	10	24	39	−15	30
7	Alianza Atlético	22	9	3	10	24	39	−15	30
8	Universitario	22	8	5	9	29	30	−1	29
9	Coopsol Trujillo	22	7	4	11	38	48	−10	25
10	Unión Minas	22	7	2	13	30	39	−9	23
11	Estudiantes de Medicina	22	5	5	12	25	53	−28	20
12	Deportivo Wanka	22	4	6	12	27	36	−9	18

Updated to match(es) played on July 2001. Source: https://www.rsssf.org/tablesp/peru01.html
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(A) Advance to a further round; (O) Play-off winners

Results

Home \ Away	AAS	ALI	CIE	WAN	EST	MEL	JA	SBA	COO	CRI	MIN	UNI
Alianza Atlético		2–2	2–0	3–1	1–0	2–1	2–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	2–1	0–1
Alianza Lima	4–0		3–1	4–0	3–0	1–0	3–0	3–1	1–0	2–1	2–0	1–0
Cienciano	2–0	1–0		4–2	4–1	1–2	5–2	6–0	5–0	1–1	3–0	0–0
Deportivo Wanka	4–1	1–1	1–2		0–1	1–1	1–1	4–0	2–1	1–1	1–3	2–0
Estudiantes de Medicina	0–2	1–1	2–0	0–0		2–2	1–2	1–1	3–2	0–0	2–3	2–1
Melgar	6–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	6–0		1–2	2–1	5–1	0–3	4–2	2–0
Juan Aurich	1–1	2–3	1–3	2–1	3–1	3–2		3–1	2–1	0–2	4–2	1–1
Sport Boys	2–1	3–0	3–2	1–1	3–0	3–1	3–0		3–2	0–0	3–2	5–2
Coopsol Trujillo	3–1	1–1	2–1	3–2	7–3	4–2	3–2	1–1		1–4	2–1	2–2
Sporting Cristal	5–0	1–1	2–1	2–1	7–2	2–2	1–0	2–0	4–1		3–1	1–2
Unión Minas	1–0	1–3	0–1	2–1	4–1	1–1	0–0	3–0	1–0	0–1		1–3
Universitario	2–0	2–2	3–0	2–0	1–2	0–2	1–2	3–2	0–0	1–2	2–1

Updated to match(es) played on 2001. Source: RSSSF Peru 2001
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Apertura play-off

July 1, 2001

Alianza Lima	2–1	Sporting Cristal
Quinteros 45+1' Holsen		Ferrari

Estadio Nacional, Lima

Alianza Lima Apertura 2001 winners
To 2002 Copa Libertadores
(Sporting Cristal to Copa Libertadores play-off)

Torneo Clausura

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Cienciano (A, O)	22	14	3	5	39	30	+9	45	Copa Libertadores 2002 First stage
2	Estudiantes de Medicina (A)	22	14	3	5	35	26	+9	45	2002 Copa Libertadores play-off
3	Sporting Cristal	22	14	2	6	44	25	+19	44
4	Alianza Atlético	22	11	3	8	25	24	+1	36
5	Sport Boys	22	9	5	8	29	31	−2	32
6	Universitario	22	8	7	7	29	24	+5	31
7	Deportivo Wanka	22	8	4	10	22	27	−5	28
8	Melgar	22	8	2	12	30	31	−1	26
9	Coopsol Trujillo	22	6	7	9	35	35	0	25
10	Alianza Lima	22	4	9	9	25	28	−3	21
11	Unión Minas	22	5	5	12	27	42	−15	20
12	Juan Aurich	22	3	6	13	22	39	−17	15

Updated to match(es) played on December 2001. Source: https://www.rsssf.org/tablesp/peru01.html
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(A) Advance to a further round; (O) Play-off winners

Results

Home \ Away	AAS	ALI	CIE	WAN	EST	MEL	JA	SBA	COO	CRI	MIN	UNI
Alianza Atlético		2–1	2–0	1–0	0–1	2–1	3–1	3–1	0–0	2–1	3–2	0–0
Alianza Lima	1–2		0–0	2–1	1–2	0–1	3–0	2–0	2–2	0–0	1–0	1–1
Cienciano	2–0	4–2		2–1	4–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	4–2	4–1	2–1	1–0
Deportivo Wanka	1–0	0–0	2–3		0–2	1–0	3–0	2–1	1–4	1–0	1–0	2–0
Estudiantes de Medicina	2–0	2–2	2–1	0–2		1–2	1–0	2–1	1–0	1–2	2–1	1–0
Melgar	1–0	4–4	1–2	4–1	0–1		2–0	1–2	1–2	0–3	1–2	2–0
Juan Aurich	2–3	2–1	1–1	0–0	2–3	0–1		0–1	1–1	0–1	4–2	1–1
Sport Boys	2–0	1–1	2–2	4–1	2–1	1–0	0–2		2–1	1–0	1–1	2–2
Coopsol Trujillo	0–1	0–0	4–0	0–0	3–4	1–4	2–2	1–2		3–1	5–2	2–2
Sporting Cristal	3–0	1–0	4–0	1–0	1–1	4–3	1–0	4–2	1–2		8–3	1–0
Unión Minas	1–1	1–0	0–1	1–1	1–3	1–1	2–2	2–0	2–0	1–3		1–0
Universitario	1–0	2–1	4–1	2–1	1–1	2–0	5–2	1–1	2–0	1–3	2–0

Updated to match(es) played on 2001. Source: RSSSF Peru 2001
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Clausura play-off

December 19, 2001

Cienciano	1–0	Estudiantes de Medicina
E. Zapata

UNSA Stadium,
Arequipa

Cienciano Clausura 2001 winners
To 2002 Copa Libertadores
(Estudiantes to Copa Libertadores play-off)

Copa Libertadores play-off

December 23, 2001

Estudiantes de Medicina	4–3	Sporting Cristal
Carty 12' 30' 54' 82'		Bonnet 86' 87' Soria 93'

Estadio José Picasso Peratta, Ica

December 26, 2001

Sporting Cristal	3–0	Estudiantes de Medicina
Soria 2' Soto 14' Julinho 43'

Estadio Nacional, Lima

Sporting Cristal to 2002 Copa Libertadores

Season finals

December 22, 2001

Alianza Lima	3–2	Cienciano
Sáenz 20' Soto 57' Farfán 90'		C. Cumapa 29' E. Zapata 35' (pen.)

Estadio Alejandro Villanueva, Lima

December 26, 2001

Cienciano	1–0	Alianza Lima
R. Rodríguez 83'
Penalties
Luis Molina Martín García Cristian García Ernesto Zapata	2–4	José Soto Henry Quinteros Roger Serrano Roberto Holsen Waldir Sáenz

Estadio Garcilaso, Cusco

Aggregate table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sporting Cristal	44	27	9	8	90	43	+47	90	Copa Libertadores 2002 First stage
2	Cienciano	44	25	5	14	82	58	+24	80
3	Alianza Lima	44	17	16	11	67	47	+20	67
4	Alianza Atlético	44	20	6	18	49	63	−14	66
5	Estudiantes de Medicina	44	19	8	17	60	79	−19	65
6	Sport Boys	44	18	9	17	65	71	−6	63
7	Melgar	44	18	7	19	75	61	+14	61
8	Universitario	44	16	12	16	58	54	+4	60
9	Coopsol Trujillo	44	13	11	20	73	83	−10	50
10	Deportivo Wanka (A)	44	12	10	22	49	63	−14	46	Qualification for promotion play-off
11	Juan Aurich (A, O)	44	12	10	22	56	78	−22	46
12	Unión Minas	44	12	7	25	57	81	−24	43	Relegation to 2002 Copa Perú

Updated to match(es) played on December 2001. Source: https://www.rsssf.org/tablesp/peru01.html
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(A) Advance to a further round; (O) Play-off winners