1972 Torneo Descentralizado

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1972 Torneo Descentralizado - Wikipedia

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Torneo Descentralizado
Season	1972
Dates	1 April 1972– 4 January 1973
Champions	Sporting Cristal
Relegated	Carlos A. Mannucci Defensor Arica
1973 Copa Libertadores	Sporting Cristal Universitario
← 1971 1973 →

The 1972 Torneo Descentralizado, the top category of Peruvian football, was played by 16 teams. The season was divided into 3 stages. The first stage was contested in two groups: Metropolitan (teams from Lima and Callao) and Regional (teams from the rest of the country); each group winner qualified for the Championship Group. The second stage was the Descentralised (league tournament); the top 4 qualified for the Championship Group and the bottom 2 were relegated. Championship Group was contested by 6 teams in Lima; neither team carried their previous records. The national champion was Sporting Cristal.

Teams

Team changes

Promoted from 1971 Segunda División	Promoted from 1972 Copa Perú	Relegated from 1971 Primera División
Deportivo SIMA (1st)	Atlético Grau (1st) León de Huánuco (2nd)	ADO (14th) Octavio Espinosa (15th) Porvenir Miraflores (15th)

Stadia locations

Grau

Torino

León de Huánuco

Juan Aurich
Unión Tumán

Mannucci

José Gálvez

Melgar

Alianza Lima
Defensor Arica
Defensor Lima
SIMA
Municipal
Sporting Cristal
Sport Boys
Universitario

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Locations of the 1972 Primera División teams

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity	Field
Alianza Lima	La Victoria, Lima	Nacional	45,750	Grass
Atlético Grau	Piura	Miguel Grau (Piura)	25,000	Grass
Atlético Torino	Talara	Campeonísimo	8,000	Grass
Carlos A. Mannucci	Trujillo	Mansiche	24,000	Grass
Defensor Arica	Breña, Lima	Nacional	45,750	Grass
Defensor Lima	Breña, Lima	Nacional	45,750	Grass
Deportivo Municipal	Cercado de Lima	Nacional	45,750	Grass
Deportivo SIMA	Callao	Miguel Grau	15,000	Grass
José Gálvez	Chimbote	Manuel Rivera Sánchez	25,000	Artificial
Juan Aurich	Chiclayo	Elías Aguirre	24,500	Grass
León de Huánuco	Huánuco	Heraclio Tapia	15,000	Grass
Melgar	Arequipa	Mariano Melgar	20,000	Grass
Sport Boys	Callao	Miguel Grau	15,000	Grass
Sporting Cristal	Rímac, Lima	Nacional	45,750	Grass
Unión Tumán	Tumán	Eugenio Zapata Mingoya	8,000	Grass
Universitario	Breña, Lima	Nacional	45,750	Grass

Torneo Preliminar

Grupo Metropolitano

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sporting Cristal	14	8	4	2	21	13	+8	20	Liguilla Final
2	Defensor Lima	14	8	3	3	28	16	+12	19
3	Sport Boys	14	4	7	3	28	22	+6	15
4	Deportivo Municipal	14	5	4	5	19	18	+1	14
5	Universitario	14	4	5	5	17	17	0	13
6	Alianza Lima	14	5	2	7	18	28	−10	12
7	Defensor Arica	14	2	6	6	16	25	−9	10
8	Deportivo SIMA	14	2	5	7	16	24	−8	9

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Grupo Regional

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	José Gálvez	14	8	4	2	18	11	+7	20	First place play-off
2	Unión Tumán	14	7	6	1	23	13	+10	20	First place play-off
3	Atlético Torino	14	6	5	3	19	13	+6	17
4	Melgar	14	6	3	5	23	18	+5	15
5	Juan Aurich	14	4	7	3	26	23	+3	15
6	Atlético Grau	14	4	3	7	24	24	0	11
7	Carlos A. Mannucci	14	3	2	9	13	29	−16	8
8	León de Huánuco	14	2	2	10	12	27	−15	6

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

First place play-off

José Gálvez

1–0

Unión Tumán

Torneo Descentralizado

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Alianza Lima	30	17	7	6	55	26	+29	41	Liguilla Final
2	Defensor Lima	30	16	8	6	60	35	+25	40
3	Deportivo Municipal	30	16	8	6	45	30	+15	40
4	Universitario	30	12	11	7	61	34	+27	35
5	Juan Aurich	30	15	5	10	55	44	+11	35
6	Sporting Cristal	30	11	10	9	41	34	+7	32
7	Atlético Grau	30	11	7	12	38	47	−9	29
8	José Gálvez	30	8	12	10	32	34	−2	28
9	Deportivo SIMA	30	6	16	8	33	37	−4	28
10	Melgar	30	12	3	15	38	43	−5	27
11	Atlético Torino	30	10	7	13	35	47	−12	27
12	Unión Tumán	30	8	10	12	40	41	−1	26
13	Sport Boys	30	9	8	13	38	45	−7	26
14	León de Huánuco	30	7	12	11	33	47	−14	26
15	Carlos A. Mannucci	30	7	10	13	30	53	−23	24	1973 Copa Perú
16	Defensor Arica	30	4	8	18	24	61	−37	16	1973 Copa Perú

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Liguilla Final

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sporting Cristal	5	3	2	0	6	3	+3	8	1973 Copa Libertadores
2	Universitario	5	2	3	0	10	7	+3	7	1973 Copa Libertadores
3	Deportivo Municipal	5	1	3	1	8	7	+1	5
4	José Gálvez	5	0	4	1	5	6	−1	4
5	Alianza Lima	5	0	3	2	4	7	−3	3
6	Defensor Lima	5	0	3	2	3	6	−3	3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Top scorers

Player	Nationality	Goals	Club
Francisco Gonzales	Peru	20	Defensor Lima
Vinha de Souza	Brazil	20	Sporting Cristal

External links

Peru 1972 season at RSSSF

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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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