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The Peruvian Football League is divided into two divisions. The Primera División and the Segunda División. There are 12 teams in the Primera División and 12 in the Segunda División. The Primera División runs from February to December and the Segunda División runs from April to November.
Primera División
The Primera división tournament is called the Descentralizado, as many teams from outside the province of Lima (the capital city) take part in it. The Descentralizado is divided into two blocks: the Torneo Apertura and the Torneo Clausura.
The Torneo Apertura runs from february to june. It consists of a round robin tournament in which the 12 teams play each other twice, once at home and once away, for a total of 22 matches. Teams get 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and none for a loss. The team finnishing at the top of the table at the end of the tournament is the champion and qualifies for the the followin year's Copa Libertadores as well as to the final of the Peruvian championship in December, to be played against the champion of the Torneo Clausura.
The Torneo Clausura runs from july to december and follow the exact same format as the Torneo Apertura. The champion of the Clausura qualifies for the following year's Copa Libertadores and to the final of the Peruvian championship to be played against the Apertura champion. In the event of a team winning both tournaments, that team is declared as the Natinal Champion for that year. For a team to be eligible into the final match, it has to end at least sixth in both the Apertura and the Clausura. Otherwise the champion of the other tournament (Apertura or Clausura) is declared as the National Champion for that year.
Apart from the two teams that qualify automatically for the Copa Libertadores as champions of the Apertura and the Clausura, the third Peruvian representative is decided by the overall year's table, which includes the performance of the teams over the two tournaments. The best tram in this table apart from the two champions qualifies for the Copa Libertadores while the fourth and fifth placed teams qualify for the Copa Sudamericana.
The team finishing last in the overall year's table is relegated to the Segunda División.
Segunda División
The Segunda División consists of twelve teams. Most of them are from or around Lima. In fact, all of them were from Lima, but from the 2006 season there are five provincial teams that have been included so as to expand the tournament. In this tournament, each team plays all of the other teams twice, once at home and once away, for a total of 22 matches in a season.
The teams that finish in the first four positions of the table at the end of the season, qualify for a final round to decide which team is promoted to the Primera División. In this tournament 2 bonus points are awarded for the team that finished first in the regular season and 1 bonus point for the team that finished second. The third and fourth teams start at zero.
The two teams that finish at the bottom of the table at the end of the regular season are relegated to the Copa Perú, the third and lowest level of football in Peru. The Copa Perú is not part of the Peruvian Football League, as it has teams of an amateur level. The champion and rummer-up of the Copa Perú take the places left by the two relegated teams from the Segunda División.
Primera División Teams
Club Alianza Lima (Lima)
Club ALianza Atlético (Sullana)
Club Sportivo Cienciano (Cuzco)
Club Coronel Bolognesi (Tacna)
Universidad San Martín de Porres (Lima)
Club José Galvez (Chimbote)
Club Melgar (Arequipa)
Club Sport Ancash (Huaraz)
Club Sport Boys Asociación (Callao)
Club Sporting Cristal (Lima)
Club Unión Huaral (Huaral)
Club Universitario de Deportes (Lima)
Segunda División teams
Olímpico Somos Perú (Lima)
Deportivo Aviación (Lima)
Universidad San Marcos (Lima)
Deportivo Municipal (Lima)
La Peña Sporting Club (Lima)
América Cochahuayco (Lima)
Defensor Villa del Mar (Lima)
Deportivo Curibamba (Andahuaylas)
César Vallejo (Trujillo)
Alfonso Ugarte (Puno)
UTC (Cajamarca)
Atlético Minero (Huarochirí)
[edit] Sources
http://www.peru.com/futbol/
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