Primera División Peruana 2003

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The 2003 season of the Primera División Peruana, the top category of Peruvian football (soccer), was played by 12 teams. The national champion was Alianza Lima.

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, but a team had to finish in the top 6 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 third spot was supposed to go to the best of the other teams in the aggregate table. Due to a players strike that stopped the tournament short, a small qualifying tournament was staged after the strike was called off, giving the remaining berth to the winner, and two Copa Sudamericana 2004 berths to the second and third placed teams. No teams were relegated in order to expand the league to 14 teams.

Two-legged qualifying playoffs for the Copa Sudamericana 2003 were also played by the top four teams in the Apertura shortly after the end of the half-year tournament.

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[edit] Results

[edit] Torneo Apertura

Position Team Played Wins Draws Losses Scored Conceded Points Notes
1 Sporting Cristal 22 15 4 3 50 20 49 Apertura winners, to Copa Libertadores 2004
To Copa Sudamericana 2003 qualifying
2 Alianza Lima 22 14 4 4 40 20 46 To Copa Sudamericana 2003 qualifying
3 Coronel Bolognesi 22 9 8 5 30 22 35 To Copa Sudamericana 2003 qualifying
4 Cienciano 22 10 4 8 31 22 34 To Copa Sudamericana 2003 qualifying
5 Sport Boys 22 8 7 7 34 28 31
6 Alianza Atlético 22 7 8 7 29 28 29
7 Unión Huaral 22 8 5 9 28 40 29
8 Universitario 22 7 7 8 32 35 28
9 FBC Melgar 22 5 7 10 20 30 22
10 Estudiantes 22 6 3 13 23 35 21
11 Deportivo Wanka 22 4 7 11 22 31 19
12 Atlético Universidad 22 4 6 12 25 43 18

[edit] Copa Sudamericana 2003 qualifying playoffs

 

Cienciano and Alianza Lima qualified to the Copa Sudamericana 2003, which Cienciano went on to win.

[edit] Torneo Clausura

A strike by professional players cut the Clausura short. Most matches of Rounds 16 and 17 were played with under-20 and amateur players, but were later annulled. These are not included in the table below.

Position Team Played Wins Draws Losses Scored Conceded Points Notes
1 Alianza Lima 15 10 4 1 29 9 34 Clausura leaders, to Copa Libertadores 2004
2 Alianza Atlético 15 8 5 2 25 13 29
3 Sporting Cristal 15 7 6 2 29 18 27
4 Sport Boys 15 8 3 4 27 17 27
5 Coronel Bolognesi 15 8 1 6 24 18 25
6 FBC Melgar 15 7 1 7 26 22 22
7 Unión Huaral 15 6 3 6 12 17 21
8 Cienciano 14 4 3 7 17 20 15
9 Atlético Universidad 14 4 3 7 10 18 15
10 Universitario 15 3 4 8 12 21 13
11 Deportivo Wanka 15 3 4 8 11 24 13
12 Estudiantes 15 1 3 11 10 35 6

[edit] Final playoff

While not officially the Clausura champions because of the strike, Alianza Lima was leading the tournament, as well as the aggregate table, so a final playoff against the Apertura winners Sporting Cristal was held in January 2004, once the strike was called off.

January 31, 2004
Alianza Lima 2–1
(AET)		 Sporting Cristal Estadio Nacional,
Lima
R. Silva 33'
J. Farfán 91'		 J. Soto 27'
ALIANZA LIMA
2003 National Champions - 20th title

[edit] Aggregate table

Position Team Played Scored Conceded Points Notes
1 Alianza Lima 37 69 29 80 Clausura leaders, to Copa Libertadores 2004
2 Sporting Cristal 37 79 38 76 Apertura winners, to Copa Libertadores 2004
3 Coronel Bolognesi 37 54 50 60 To Copa Libertadores 2004 qualifying
4 Sport Boys 37 61 45 58 To Copa Libertadores 2004 qualifying
5 Alianza Atlético 37 54 41 58 To Copa Libertadores 2004 qualifying
6 Unión Huaral 37 40 57 50 To Copa Libertadores 2004 qualifying
7 Cienciano 36 48 42 49 To Copa Libertadores 2004 qualifying
8 FBC Melgar 37 46 52 44
9 Universitario 37 44 56 41
10 Atlético Universidad 36 35 61 33
11 Deportivo Wanka 37 33 55 32
12 Estudiantes 37 33 70 27

[edit] Copa Libertadores 2004 qualifying

After the strike was called off in January 2004, it was decided that, since the tournament had not been completed, a qualifying tournament would decide the allocation of the third Peruvian berth for the Copa Libertadores 2004. The tournament was to include four teams, in principle from the third to the sixth teams according to the aggregate table. But since Cienciano had played one match less and would have surpassed Unión Huaral had they won it, a preliminary playoff was held between them. Sport Boys withdrew from the tournament in disagreement with the decision. Had the Clausura Rounds 16 and 17 not been annulled, the team would have been third in the aggregate table, and could have claimed the remaining berth. Also, some teams saw the tournament as a way to favor Cienciano, who had just won the Copa Sudamericana 2003, to give them a chance at representing Peru at the Copa Libertadores.

Position Team Played Wins Draws Losses Scored Conceded Points Notes
1 Cienciano 2 2 0 0 3 0 6 To Copa Libertadores 2004
2 Alianza Atlético 2 1 0 1 1 1 3 To Copa Sudamericana 2004
3 Coronel Bolognesi 2 0 0 2 0 3 0 To Copa Sudamericana 2004

[edit] Promotion

  • Sport Coopsol and Universidad César Vallejo promoted to Primera División 2004
    • Sport Coopsol won the Segunda División (Second Division) 2003, a second-level league for teams in Lima. Universidad San Martín de Porres bought the franchise before the 2004 season, taking the spot in the Primera División.
    • César Vallejo (Trujillo) won the Copa Perú 2003 after defeating Deportivo Educación (Abancay) in the three-legged final (3-1 win at home, 0-1 loss away and 4-0 win in Lima).

[edit] Top scorers

20 goals
19 goals
17 goals
15 goals
14 goals

[edit] External link

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