Ligas Superiores del Peru

Ligas Superiores del Peru

Country	Peru
Founded	2009
Number of teams	Variable
Level on pyramid	5
Promotion to	Regional Stage
Relegation to	Ligas Provinciales
2014 season

The Ligas Superiores are one of two leagues that form part of the Departamental Stage in the Copa Perú of the Peruvian Football Federation (FPF) football league system. The other league at level are the Ligas Departamentales.

A transcendental step is given in the Copa Perú with the official establishment of the Ligas Superiores, that already last year were disputed experimentally in some departments.

Format

The Ligas Superiores will group to a select group of clubs of each department, that will be faced only among itself and will throw a champion and a runner-up that will agree directly, for now, to play a home run against the clubs that remain first and second in the Ligas Departamentales.

History

The Ligas Superiores was created officially in 2009. For the 2009, they were nine the Departmental Federations that have determined to adopt them: Arequipa, Ayacucho, Cajamarca, Huánuco, Lambayeque, Pasco, Piura, Puno and Tumbes.

In 2010, the departament of Cusco and Callao adopt their Liga Superior and the Departmental Federation of Ayacucho decided the suspension of the Liga Superior de Ayacucho for this season 2010 by the lack of participants and because the tournament has lost the force of previous seasons due to the good actions of Inti Gas Deportes in the Primera División Peruana.

List of Champions

Liga Superior de Ancash

Liga Superior de Arequipa

Liga Superior de Ayacucho

Liga Superior de Cajamarca

Liga Superior del Callao

Liga Superior de Cusco

Liga Superior de Huánuco

Liga Superior de Lambayeque

Liga Superior de Pasco

Liga Superior de Piura

Liga Superior de Puno

Liga Superior de Tumbes

See also

• List of football clubs in Peru
• Peruvian football league system

External links

• Ligas Superiores (Spanish)