1999 Torneo Descentralizado

The 1999 season of the Torneo Descentralizado was the 84th season of the top category of Peruvian football (soccer). It was played by 12 teams. The national champion was Universitario.

Torneo Descentralizado

Season	1999
Champions	Universitario 23rd Primera División title
Relegated	I.M.I.
Copa Libertadores	Universitario Alianza Lima Sporting Cristal
Copa Merconorte	Alianza Lima Sporting Cristal Universitario
Top goalscorer	Ysrael Zúñiga (32)
← 1998 2000 →

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. If the same club had won both tournaments, it would have won the national championship automatically.

Following-season Copa Libertadores berths went to the champion, as well as to the best other team in the aggregate table. The bottom team on the aggregate table was relegated, while the eleventh place held a promotion play-off against the winner of the Segunda División (Second Division).

Teams

Team changes

Promoted from 1998 Copa Perú	Relegated from 1998 Primera División
I.M.I. (1st)	Lawn Tennis (12th)

Stadia locations

Alianza Atlético

Juan Aurich

Unión Minas

IMI

Pesquero

Cienciano

Melgar

Alianza Lima
Municipal
Sporting Cristal
Universitario
Sport Boys

Locations of the 1999 Primera División teams

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity	Field
Alianza Atlético	Sullana	Campeones del 36	8,000	Grass
Alianza Lima	Lima	Alejandro Villanueva	35,000	Grass
Cienciano	Cuzco	Garcilaso	42,056	Grass
Deportivo Municipal	Lima	Nacional	45,750	Grass
Deportivo Pesquero	Chimbote	Manuel Rivera Sanchez	25,000	Grass
I.M.I.	Talara	Campeonísimo	8,000	Grass
Juan Aurich	Chiclayo	Elías Aguirre	24,500	Grass
Melgar	Arequipa	Mariano Melgar	20,000	Grass
Sport Boys	Callao	Miguel Grau	15,000	Grass
Sporting Cristal	Lima	San Martín de Porres	18,000	Grass
Unión Minas	Cerro de Pasco	Daniel Alcides Carrión	8,000	Grass
Universitario	Lima	Nacional	45,750	Grass

Torneo Apertura

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Universitario	22	15	5	2	35	15	+20	50	Copa Libertadores 2000 First stage
2	Alianza Lima	22	14	4	4	51	20	+31	46
3	Sporting Cristal	22	11	8	3	50	23	+27	41
4	Cienciano	22	10	5	7	32	25	+7	35
5	Melgar	22	9	6	7	35	27	+8	33
6	Sport Boys	22	7	9	6	29	30	−1	30
7	Unión Minas	22	6	7	9	29	29	0	25
8	Alianza Atlético	22	6	7	9	25	38	−13	25
9	Deportivo Municipal	22	5	6	11	22	36	−14	21
10	I.M.I.	22	5	4	13	22	55	−33	19
11	Juan Aurich	22	4	6	12	21	38	−17	18
12	Deportivo Pesquero	22	2	9	11	18	43	−25	15

Updated to match(es) played on July 1999. Source: https://www.rsssf.org/tablesp/peru99.html
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Results

Home \ Away	AAS	ALI	CIE	MUN	PES	IMI	MEL	JA	SBA	CRI	MIN	UNI
Alianza Atlético		2–1	4–2	1–1	2–1	6–0	1–1	5–1	2–2	0–0	2–2	0–2
Alianza Lima	2–0		2–1	3–0	7–0	5–0	5–0	3–1	1–0	3–2	4–1	0–1
Cienciano	1–0	2–1		2–0	3–0	2–1	0–0	4–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	0–0
Deportivo Municipal	1–1	1–1	0–1		1–2	3–2	3–2	2–0	1–1	1–4	1–1	2–3
Deportivo Pesquero	2–2	0–0	3–3	0–1		0–1	0–2	2–2	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–1
I.M.I.	0–2	2–4	4–1	2–0	2–2		1–1	2–1	1–2	1–1	1–0	0–3
Melgar	3–1	1–2	2–0	1–1	3–0	4–0		2–0	4–0	1–3	2–1	3–2
Juan Aurich	2–0	1–1	2–1	1–3	3–0	1–1	0–0		1–0	1–2	2–2	0–0
Sport Boys	4–2	0–1	2–1	2–0	0–0	4–0	3–2	2–1		3–3	1–1	0–0
Sporting Cristal	4–1	2–2	1–1	2–0	5–0	6–1	3–1	3–0	1–1		4–1	1–1
Unión Minas	4–0	1–2	0–1	3–0	2–1	4–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–0		1–2
Universitario	2–1	2–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	3–0	1–0	2–1	4–0	0–2	2–1

Updated to match(es) played on 1999. Source: RSSSF Peru 1999
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Torneo Clausura

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Alianza Lima	22	14	5	3	47	18	+29	47	Copa Libertadores 2000 First stage
2	Universitario	22	12	6	4	44	24	+20	42
3	Sport Boys	22	11	6	5	32	25	+7	39
4	Sporting Cristal	22	11	5	6	46	31	+15	38
5	Melgar	22	11	3	8	44	30	+14	36
6	Unión Minas	22	7	7	8	43	39	+4	28
7	Alianza Atlético	22	7	6	9	36	28	+8	27
8	Cienciano	22	7	9	6	27	27	0	27[a]
9	Juan Aurich	22	8	3	11	26	32	−6	27
10	Deportivo Pesquero	22	4	8	10	17	38	−21	20
11	Deportivo Municipal	22	5	3	14	20	54	−34	18
12	I.M.I.	22	1	7	14	12	52	−40	10

Updated to match(es) played on December 1999. Source: https://www.rsssf.org/tablesp/peru99.html
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
Notes:

1. Cienciano lost 3 points in Round 13 win over Sporting Cristal for fielding an ineligible player.

Results

Home \ Away	AAS	ALI	CIE	MUN	PES	IMI	MEL	JA	SBA	CRI	MIN	UNI
Alianza Atlético		1–2	2–0	5–0	4–0	7–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	1–3	1–1	2–5
Alianza Lima	1–0		2–1	4–0	1–0	4–0	1–0	2–1	1–1	2–1	7–1	0–0
Cienciano	0–0	2–1		2–0	0–0	3–0	2–1	3–0	1–1	2–0	2–2	2–2
Deportivo Municipal	2–1	1–6	2–1		1–1	2–0	2–3	0–1	1–2	1–3	3–2	0–1
Deportivo Pesquero	0–0	0–4	1–1	0–1		3–2	2–0	0–2	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–2
I.M.I.	0–2	1–1	0–0	0–0	1–1		2–2	0–1	0–0	0–2	4–3	0–0
Melgar	2–0	2–1	2–0	4–2	5–2	2–0		4–0	2–0	1–1	5–1	2–0
Juan Aurich	3–1	0–1	3–0	1–1	0–1	3–1	3–0		5–2	1–1	1–1	0–1
Sport Boys	1–1	2–1	2–1	3–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	2–0		2–1	4–0	1–0
Sporting Cristal	3–2	2–2	1–3	6–0	2–1	4–0	3–2	2–1	2–1		5–1	2–2
Unión Minas	2–2	0–0	1–1	7–0	4–0	4–0	1–1	3–0	3–0	3–0		3–0
Universitario	2–0	2–3	2–2	1–0	5–0	6–1	4–2	2–0	3–1	2–1	2–0

Updated to match(es) played on 1999. Source: RSSSF Peru 1999
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season finals

Universitario	3–0	Alianza Lima
R. Farfán 10' Esidio 49' del Solar 73'

December 15, 1999

First leg

Estadio Nacional, Lima

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Alianza Lima	1–0	Universitario
Mafla 45'

December 20, 1999

Second leg

Estadio Alejandro Villanueva, Lima

Aggregate table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Alianza Lima	44	28	9	7	98	38	+60	93	2000 Copa Libertadores and 2000 Copa Merconorte
2	Universitario	44	27	11	6	79	39	+40	92
3	Sporting Cristal	44	22	13	9	96	54	+42	79
4	Melgar	44	20	9	15	79	57	+22	69
5	Sport Boys	44	18	15	11	61	55	+6	69
6	Cienciano	44	17	14	13	59	52	+7	65
7	Unión Minas	44	13	14	17	72	68	+4	53
8	Alianza Atlético	44	13	13	18	71	66	+5	52
9	Juan Aurich	44	12	9	23	47	70	−23	45
10	Deportivo Municipal	44	10	9	25	42	90	−48	39
11	Deportivo Pesquero (O)	44	6	17	21	35	81	−46	35	Qualification for promotion play-off
12	I.M.I.	44	6	11	27	34	107	−73	29	Relegation to 2000 Copa Perú

Updated to match(es) played on December 1999. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(O) Play-off winners

Promotion play-off

Deportivo Pesquero	2–2	América Cochahuayco
Espinoza 60' Silvera 61'		Carrión 45' Ibarra 72'
Penalties
Luis Molina José Espinoza Wilmer Ricardi Juan Manuel Olivares Carlos Silvera	4–3	Juan Iriarte Giancarlo Sarnia Roberto Valenzuela José Laurie John Galliquio

December 18, 1999

Estadio Nacional, Lima

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Deportivo Pesquero remained in Primera División

Top scorers

32 goals

• Ysrael Zúñiga (FBC Melgar)

24 goals

• Harry Castillo (Unión Minas)

22 goals

• Waldir Sáenz (Alianza Lima)

19 goals

• Roberto Holsen (Alianza Atlético, Sporting Cristal)
• Claudio Pizarro (Alianza Lima)

External links

• Peru 1999 season Details on RSSSF