Football league season
The 2000 season of the Torneo Descentralizado was the 85th season of the top category of Peruvian football (soccer). It was played by 12 teams. The national champion was Universitario.
Competition modus
The national championship was divided into two 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 play-off, but since the same club had won both tournaments, it automatically won the national championship.
Following-season Copa Libertadores berths went to the champion, as well as to each of the half-year tournament's runners-up, who held a play-off as a formality to decide the overall season runners-up. The bottom team on the aggregate table was relegated, while the eleventh place team held a promotion play-off against the winner of the Segunda División (Second Division).
Teams
Before the start of the season, Deportivo Pesquero relocated from Chimbote to Huancayo and changed its name to Deportivo Wanka.[1]
Locations of the 2000 Primera División teams
Torneo Apertura
Updated to match(es) played on July 2000. Source: https://www.rsssf.org/tablesp/peru00.html
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
Results
Updated to match(es) played on 2000. Source: RSSSF Peru 2000
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Torneo Clausura
Updated to match(es) played on December 2000. Source: https://www.rsssf.org/tablesp/peru00.html
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
Results
Updated to match(es) played on 2000. Source: RSSSF Peru 2000
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Final stages
Final
No final for the championship title was contested after Universitario won both the Apertura and Clausura tournaments, thus automatically becoming national champions.
Second place play-off
Sporting Cristal second place overall
Aggregate table
Updated to match(es) played on December 2000. Source:
[citation needed]Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(O) Play-off winners
Promotion play-off
Top scorers
- 37 goals
- 19 goals
- 15 goals
- 13 goals
- 12 goals
Notes
- ^ UPAO would sell their first division spot to Sport Coopsol before the 2001 season.
References
- ^ "Peru 2000 Primera División". rsssf.org. 16 October 2004. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
External links
- Peru 2000 season Details on RSSSF