1995 Torneo Descentralizado

The 1995 Torneo Descentralizado was the 80th season of Peruvian football. A total of 16 teams competed in the tournament. The season began on March 4 and concluded on December 27 with the victory of Universitario de Deportes over Alianza Lima for the second berth to the 1996 Copa Libertadores. Sporting Cristal successfully defended its national title after finishing 12 points ahead of Alianza Lima and Universitario.

Torneo Descentralizado

Season	1995
Champions	Sporting Cristal 12th Primera División title
Relegated	Unión Huaral León de Huánuco
Copa Libertadores	Sporting Cristal Universitario
Copa CONMEBOL	Alianza Lima
Top goalscorer	Julinho (23)
← 1994 1996 →

Changes from 1994

• Torneo Apertura was removed; Torneo Descentralizado immediately began and played on a home-and-away basis between the 16 clubs.
• The Octagonal was played at the end of the season with the 8 best-placed teams of the first phase.
• In the Octagonal, the 8 clubs played a further 14 rounds to determine the national champion and the berths to the Copa Libertadores and Copa CONMEBOL.

Teams

Team changes

Promoted from 1994 Segunda División	Promoted from 1994 Copa Perú	Relegated from 1994 Primera División
Unión Huaral (1st)	Atlético Torino (1st)	Carlos A. Mannucci (15th) Defensor Lima (16th)

Stadia locations

Alianza Atlético

Torino

Unión Minas

Aurich–Cañaña

Sipesa

Cienciano

Melgar

León  de  Huánuco

Unión Huaral

Alianza Lima
Ciclista Lima
Municipal
San Agustín
Sporting Cristal
Universitario
Sport Boys

Locations of the 1995 Primera División teams

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity
Alianza Atlético	Sullana	Campeones del 36	8,000
Alianza Lima	Lima	Alejandro Villanueva	35,000
Atlético Torino	Talara	Campeonísimo	8,000
Aurich–Cañaña	Chiclayo	Elías Aguirre	24,500
Ciclista Lima	Lima	Nacional	45,750
Cienciano	Cusco	Garcilaso	42,056
Deportivo Municipal	Lima	Nacional	45,750
Deportivo Sipesa	Chimbote	Manuel Gómez Arellano	25,000
León de Huánuco	Huánuco	Heraclio Tapia	15,000
Melgar	Arequipa	Mariano Melgar	20,000
San Agustín	Lima	Nacional	45,750
Sport Boys	Callao	Telmo Carbajo	5,000
Sporting Cristal	Lima	San Martín de Porres	18,000
Unión Huaral	Huaral	Julio Lores Colan	10,000
Unión Minas	Cerro de Pasco	Daniel Alcides Carrión	8,000
Universitario	Lima	Nacional	45,750

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sporting Cristal	30	21	5	4	76	27	+49	68	Octogonal Final
2	Alianza Lima	30	22	1	7	53	20	+33	67
3	Universitario	30	19	6	5	54	26	+28	63
4	Cienciano	30	16	5	9	39	33	+6	53
5	Deportivo Sipesa	30	13	11	6	51	22	+29	50
6	Melgar	30	13	8	9	41	39	+2	47
7	Deportivo Municipal	30	11	8	11	43	40	+3	41
8	San Agustín	30	11	7	12	38	42	−4	40
9	Sport Boys	30	10	9	11	31	31	0	39
10	Alianza Atlético	30	10	5	15	35	52	−17	35
11	Aurich–Cañaña	30	7	11	12	39	46	−7	32
12	Unión Minas	30	9	5	16	37	51	−14	32
13	Ciclista Lima	30	7	11	12	30	44	−14	32
14	Atlético Torino	30	6	7	17	16	45	−29	25
15	Unión Huaral	30	5	8	17	27	50	−23	23	Relegation to the 1996 Segunda División
16	León de Huánuco	30	2	9	19	15	57	−42	15	Relegation to the 1996 Copa Perú

Source: RSSSF

Results

Home \ Away	AAS	ALI	TOR	AUR	CIC	CIE	MUN	SIP	LEO	MEL	AGU	SBA	CRI	HUA	MIN	UNI
Alianza Atlético		0–2	1–1	2–1	2–1	0–1	4–5	0–0	2–0	4–1	3–2	2–1	2–1	0–2	2–1	1–1
Alianza Lima	1–0		1–0	2–0	2–0	3–0	3–1	2–1	3–2	1–0	3–1	1–0	0–1	2–0	6–0	6–3
Atlético Torino	1–1	1–0		2–3	1–3	0–1	1–0	0–4	0–0	0–0	1–2	0–4	0–2	2–1	2–0	0–1
Aurich–Cañaña	4–1	2–1	0–0		1–2	1–2	2–2	1–1	6–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–1	2–2	2–1	2–2
Ciclista Lima	3–0	0–1	0–1	0–0		1–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–1
Cienciano	1–2	1–0	2–0	1–0	5–1		2–0	1–0	1–1	1–2	1–0	2–0	4–4	3–1	3–1	2–0
Deportivo Municipal	1–0	0–1	3–1	4–1	5–0	2–0		0–0	2–1	3–0	1–2	2–2	0–2	1–0	3–2	0–2
Deportivo Sipesa	3–0	1–0	0–1	2–1	2–0	2–0	0–0		6–0	5–0	4–1	3–0	2–2	1–0	3–0	1–2
León de Huánuco	0–0	0–3	0–0	2–0	1–2	0–0	1–3	1–1		0–1	1–1	0–2	1–3	2–0	1–1	0–3
Melgar	2–0	1–1	5–0	2–2	4–1	1–2	0–0	0–0	0–0		2–0	3–0	2–1	3–1	3–1	0–5
San Agustín	2–1	1–2	4–1	1–0	2–2	0–1	2–1	2–2	2–0	2–1		1–1	0–3	1–0	3–0	0–1
Sport Boys	2–0	0–1	1–0	0–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	3–0	1–2	2–1		0–2	3–0	2–1	1–2
Sporting Cristal	4–1	2–1	3–0	6–2	3–2	6–0	3–1	3–2	3–0	4–0	3–0	4–0		3–3	5–1	0–0
Unión Huaral	2–1	0–2	1–0	1–1	4–2	1–1	1–1	2–4	2–0	0–1	1–1	0–2	0–1		0–0	0–3
Unión Minas	4–0	2–1	2–0	2–0	2–1	2–0	2–1	0–0	3–0	1–3	1–2	0–1	0–0	4–0		1–2
Universitario	2–3	0–1	0–0	1–2	0–0	2–1	5–1	2–0	3–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	2–1	2–1	4–1

Updated to match(es) played on 1995. Source: RSSSF Peru 1995
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Octogonal Final

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sporting Cristal (C)	44	29	9	6	98	32	+66	96	Qualification to the 1996 Copa Libertadores group stage
2	Universitario	44	25	9	10	70	37	+33	84[a]
3	Alianza Lima	44	26	6	12	70	32	+38	84[a]	Qualification to the 1996 Copa CONMEBOL first round
4	Cienciano	44	21	8	15	58	55	+3	71
5	Deportivo Sipesa	44	18	14	12	71	39	+32	68
6	Deportivo Municipal	44	17	11	16	64	62	+2	62
7	Melgar	44	17	11	16	52	57	−5	62
8	San Agustín	44	14	11	19	53	72	−19	53

Source: RSSSF
(C) Champions
Notes:

1. Universitario and Alianza Lima–tied on points–played on extra match to determine the runners-up of the season.

Results

Home \ Away	ALI	CIE	SIP	MUN	MEL	AGU	CRI	UNI
Alianza Lima		0–1	3–0	0–1	1–1	4–1	2–2	0–0
Cienciano	1–0		1–1	4–1	1–1	6–0	0–0	1–0
Deportivo Sipesa	0–0	6–0		2–1	2–0	2–0	0–0	1–0
Deportivo Municipal	0–3	3–2	2–1		1–0	5–3	0–1	2–2
Melgar	3–1	2–0	2–1	1–3		0–0	0–1	1–0
San Agustín	1–1	2–0	3–1	1–1	2–0		1–4	1–1
Sporting Cristal	1–1	3–0	3–2	1–0	2–0	4–0		0–1
Universitario	0–1	3–2	2–1	1–1	3–0	1–0	2–0

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: 1995
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Extra match

Alianza Lima	0 – 1	Universitario
		Martínez 85'

27 December 1995

Estadio Nacional, Lima

Referee: Tejada

Universitario qualified for the 1996 Copa Libertadores.

External links

• RSSSF Peru 1995 by Carlos Manuel Nieto Tarazona