.

MundoAndino Home : Andes Peru Andes Travel: Peru culture, lodging, travel, and tours

Primera Division Peruana 2002

The 2002 season of the Primera Division Peruana, the top category of Peruvian football (soccer), was played by 12 teams. The national champion was Sporting Cristal.

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 4 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 best of the other teams in the aggregate table. The two bottom teams on the aggregate table were to be relegated, but a playoff had to be played between the 10th and 11th teams since both obtained the same number of points (goal difference did not count as a tie-breaker).

Results

Torneo Apertura

Apertura title playoff

----

----

----
Universitario Apertura 2002 winners
To Copa Libertadores 2003

Torneo Clausura

Final playoff

No final playoff was played since the Apertura winners Universitario did not finish in the Clausura's top 4, while Sporting Cristal won the Clausura after placing third in the Apertura.

----
SPORTING CRISTAL
2002 National Champions - 14th title

Aggregate table

Relegation playoff

----

----

----
Juan Aurich relegated to Copa Peru

Promotion

Union Huaral and Atletico Universidad promoted to Primera Division 2003

*Union Huaral won the Segunda Division (Second Division) 2002, a second-level league for teams in the Lima area.

*Atletico Universidad (Arequipa) won the Copa Peru 2002 after defeating Atletico Grau (Piura) in the two-legged final .

Top scorers

;24 goals

Luis Artime (FBC Melgar)

;22 goals

Sergio Ibarra (Alianza Atletico)

;18 goals

German Carty (Cienciano)

Antonio Serrano (Sport Boys)

;15 goals

Ernesto Zapata (Cienciano)

External links

Peru 2002 season Details on RSSSF

Didn't find what you were looking for.
Need more information for your travel research or homework?
Ask your questions at the forum about Primera Division Peruana or help others to find answers.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Primera Division Peruana 2002


Disclaimer - Privacy Policy - 2009