1999 Torneo Descentralizado

(Redirected from Primera División Peruana 1999) Football league season

Torneo Descentralizado
Season	1999
Champions	Universitario 23rd Primera División title
Relegated	I.M.I.
Copa Libertadores	Universitario Alianza Lima Sporting Cristal
Copa Merconorte	Alianza Lima Sporting Cristal Universitario
Top goalscorer	Ysrael Zúñiga (32)
← 1998 2000 →

The 1999 season of the Torneo Descentralizado was the 84th season of the top category of Peruvian football (soccer). It was played by 12 teams. The national champion was Universitario.

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 would play for the national title in a playoff. If the same club had won both tournaments, it would have won the national championship automatically.

Following-season Copa Libertadores berths went to the champion, as well as to the best other team in the aggregate table. The bottom team on the aggregate table was relegated, while the eleventh place held a promotion play-off against the winner of the Segunda División (Second Division).

Teams

Team changes

Promoted from 1998 Copa Perú	Relegated from 1998 Primera División
I.M.I. (1st)	Lawn Tennis (12th)

Stadia locations

Alianza Lima
Municipal
Sporting Cristal
Universitario
Sport Boys class=notpageimage| Locations of the 1999 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 Pesquero	Chimbote	Manuel Rivera Sanchez	25,000	Grass
I.M.I.	Talara	Campeonísimo	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	Nacional	45,750	Grass

Torneo Apertura

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Universitario	22	15	5	2	35	15	+20	50	Copa Libertadores 2000 First stage
2	Alianza Lima	22	14	4	4	51	20	+31	46
3	Sporting Cristal	22	11	8	3	50	23	+27	41
4	Cienciano	22	10	5	7	32	25	+7	35
5	Melgar	22	9	6	7	35	27	+8	33
6	Sport Boys	22	7	9	6	29	30	−1	30
7	Unión Minas	22	6	7	9	29	29	0	25
8	Alianza Atlético	22	6	7	9	25	38	−13	25
9	Deportivo Municipal	22	5	6	11	22	36	−14	21
10	I.M.I.	22	5	4	13	22	55	−33	19
11	Juan Aurich	22	4	6	12	21	38	−17	18
12	Deportivo Pesquero	22	2	9	11	18	43	−25	15

Updated to match(es) played on July 1999. Source: https://www.rsssf.org/tablesp/peru99.html
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Results

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

Updated to match(es) played on 1999. Source: RSSSF Peru 1999
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	Alianza Lima	22	14	5	3	47	18	+29	47	Copa Libertadores 2000 First stage
2	Universitario	22	12	6	4	44	24	+20	42
3	Sport Boys	22	11	6	5	32	25	+7	39
4	Sporting Cristal	22	11	5	6	46	31	+15	38
5	Melgar	22	11	3	8	44	30	+14	36
6	Unión Minas	22	7	7	8	43	39	+4	28
7	Alianza Atlético	22	7	6	9	36	28	+8	27
8	Cienciano	22	7	9	6	27	27	0	27
9	Juan Aurich	22	8	3	11	26	32	−6	27
10	Deportivo Pesquero	22	4	8	10	17	38	−21	20
11	Deportivo Municipal	22	5	3	14	20	54	−34	18
12	I.M.I.	22	1	7	14	12	52	−40	10

Updated to match(es) played on December 1999. Source: https://www.rsssf.org/tablesp/peru99.html
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
Notes:

Cienciano lost 3 points in Round 13 win over Sporting Cristal for fielding an ineligible player.

Results

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

Updated to match(es) played on 1999. Source: RSSSF Peru 1999
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season finals

December 15, 1999First leg

Universitario	3–0	Alianza Lima
R. Farfán 10' Esidio 49' del Solar 73'

Estadio Nacional, Lima

December 20, 1999Second leg

Alianza Lima	1–0	Universitario
Mafla 45'

Estadio Alejandro Villanueva, Lima

Aggregate table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Alianza Lima	44	28	9	7	98	38	+60	93	2000 Copa Libertadores and 2000 Copa Merconorte
2	Universitario	44	27	11	6	79	39	+40	92
3	Sporting Cristal	44	22	13	9	96	54	+42	79
4	Melgar	44	20	9	15	79	57	+22	69
5	Sport Boys	44	18	15	11	61	55	+6	69
6	Cienciano	44	17	14	13	59	52	+7	65
7	Unión Minas	44	13	14	17	72	68	+4	53
8	Alianza Atlético	44	13	13	18	71	66	+5	52
9	Juan Aurich	44	12	9	23	47	70	−23	45
10	Deportivo Municipal	44	10	9	25	42	90	−48	39
11	Deportivo Pesquero (O)	44	6	17	21	35	81	−46	35	Qualification for promotion play-off
12	I.M.I.	44	6	11	27	34	107	−73	29	Relegation to 2000 Copa Perú

Updated to match(es) played on December 1999. Source:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(O) Play-off winners

Promotion play-off

December 18, 1999

Deportivo Pesquero	2–2	América Cochahuayco
Espinoza 60' Silvera 61'		Carrión 45' Ibarra 72'
Penalties
Luis Molina José Espinoza Wilmer Ricardi Juan Manuel Olivares Carlos Silvera	4–3	Juan Iriarte Giancarlo Sarnia Roberto Valenzuela José Laurie John Galliquio

Estadio Nacional, Lima

Deportivo Pesquero remained in Primera División

Top scorers

32 goals

Ysrael Zúñiga (FBC Melgar)

24 goals

Harry Castillo (Unión Minas)

22 goals

Waldir Sáenz (Alianza Lima)

19 goals

Roberto Holsen (Alianza Atlético, Sporting Cristal)
Claudio Pizarro (Alianza Lima)

External links

Peru 1999 season Details on RSSSF

Liga 1

2025 teams

Former
teams

Amateur era, 1912–1950
Lima & Callao	Alianza Frigorífico Atlético Peruano Circolo Sportivo Italiano Hidroaviación Jorge Chávez Jorge Chávez (C) Juan Bielovucic Lima Cricket Sáenz Peña Sport Inca Sport José Gálvez Sport Progreso Sportivo Tarapacá Unión Buenos Aires Unión Miraflores

Professional era, 1951–present

National

Seasons

Amateur era, 1912–1950
Lima & Callao	1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921
Lima & Callao	1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950

Professional era, 1951–present
Lima & Callao	1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965
National	1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

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