Primera División Peruana 2003

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The 2003 season of the Primera División Peruana, the top category of Peruvian football (soccer), was played by 12 teams. The national champion was Alianza Lima.

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 6 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 third spot was supposed to go to the best of the other teams in the aggregate table. Due to a players strike that stopped the tournament short, a small qualifying tournament was staged after the strike was called off, giving the remaining berth to the winner, and two Copa Sudamericana 2004 berths to the second and third placed teams. No teams were relegated in order to expand the league to 14 teams.

Two-legged qualifying playoffs for the Copa Sudamericana 2003 were also played by the top four teams in the Apertura shortly after the end of the half-year tournament.

Contents 1 Results 1.1 Torneo Apertura 1.1.1 Copa Sudamericana 2003 qualifying playoffs 1.2 Torneo Clausura 1.3 Final playoff 1.4 Aggregate table 1.5 Copa Libertadores 2004 qualifying 1.5.1 Preliminary playoff 1.5.2 Round-robin playoffs 1.6 Promotion 1.7 Top scorers 2 International competitions 3 External links

[edit] Results

[edit] Torneo Apertura

Position	Team	Played	Wins	Draws	Losses	Scored	Conceded	Points	Notes
1	Sporting Cristal	22	15	4	3	50	20	49	Apertura winners, to Copa Libertadores 2004 To Copa Sudamericana 2003 qualifying
2	Alianza Lima	22	14	4	4	40	20	46	To Copa Sudamericana 2003 qualifying
3	Coronel Bolognesi	22	9	8	5	30	22	35
4	Cienciano	22	10	4	8	31	22	34
5	Sport Boys	22	8	7	7	34	28	31
6	Alianza Atlético	22	7	8	7	29	28	29
7	Unión Huaral	22	8	5	9	28	40	29
8	Universitario	22	7	7	8	32	35	28
9	FBC Melgar	22	5	7	10	20	30	22
10	Estudiantes	22	6	3	13	23	35	21
11	Deportivo Wanka	22	4	7	11	22	31	19
12	Atlético Universidad	22	4	6	12	25	43	18

[edit] Copa Sudamericana 2003 qualifying playoffs

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Cienciano	3 – 2	Sporting Cristal	1 – 1	2 – 1
Alianza Lima	2 – 1	Coronel Bolognesi	0 – 0	2 – 1

Cienciano and Alianza Lima qualified to the Copa Sudamericana 2003, which Cienciano went on to win.

[edit] Torneo Clausura

A strike by professional players cut the Clausura short. Most matches of Rounds 16 and 17 were played with under-20 and amateur players, but were later annulled. These are not included in the table below.

Position	Team	Played	Wins	Draws	Losses	Scored	Conceded	Points	Notes
1	Alianza Lima	15	10	4	1	29	9	34	Clausura leaders, to Copa Libertadores 2004
2	Alianza Atlético	15	8	5	2	25	13	29
3	Sporting Cristal	15	7	6	2	29	18	27
4	Sport Boys	15	8	3	4	27	17	27
5	Coronel Bolognesi	15	8	1	6	24	18	25
6	FBC Melgar	15	7	1	7	26	22	22
7	Unión Huaral	15	6	3	6	12	17	21
8	Cienciano	14	4	3	7	17	20	15
9	Atlético Universidad	14	4	3	7	10	18	15
10	Universitario	15	3	4	8	12	21	13
11	Deportivo Wanka	15	3	4	8	11	24	13
12	Estudiantes	15	1	3	11	10	35	6

[edit] Final playoff

While not officially the Clausura champions because of the strike, Alianza Lima was leading the tournament, as well as the aggregate table, so a final playoff against the Apertura winners Sporting Cristal was held in January 2004, once the strike was called off.

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January 31, 2004	Alianza Lima	2–1 (AET)	Sporting Cristal	Estadio Nacional, Lima
	R. Silva 33' J. Farfán 91'		J. Soto 27'

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ALIANZA LIMA
2003 National Champions - 20^th title

[edit] Aggregate table

Position	Team	Played	Scored	Conceded	Points	Notes
1	Alianza Lima	37	69	29	80	Clausura leaders, to Copa Libertadores 2004
2	Sporting Cristal	37	79	38	76	Apertura winners, to Copa Libertadores 2004
3	Coronel Bolognesi	37	54	50	60	To Copa Libertadores 2004 qualifying
4	Sport Boys	37	61	45	58
5	Alianza Atlético	37	54	41	58
6	Unión Huaral	37	40	57	50
7	Cienciano	36	48	42	49
8	FBC Melgar	37	46	52	44
9	Universitario	37	44	56	41
10	Atlético Universidad	36	35	61	33
11	Deportivo Wanka	37	33	55	32
12	Estudiantes	37	33	70	27

[edit] Copa Libertadores 2004 qualifying

After the strike was called off in January 2004, it was decided that, since the tournament had not been completed, a qualifying tournament would decide the allocation of the third Peruvian berth for the Copa Libertadores 2004. The tournament was to include four teams, in principle from the third to the sixth teams according to the aggregate table. But since Cienciano had played one match less and would have surpassed Unión Huaral had they won it, a preliminary playoff was held between them. Sport Boys withdrew from the tournament in disagreement with the decision. Had the Clausura Rounds 16 and 17 not been annulled, the team would have been third in the aggregate table, and could have claimed the remaining berth. Also, some teams saw the tournament as a way to favor Cienciano, who had just won the Copa Sudamericana 2003, to give them a chance at representing Peru at the Copa Libertadores.

[edit] Preliminary playoff

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Unión Huaral	2 – 4	Cienciano	2 – 2	0 – 2

[edit] Round-robin playoffs

Team #1	Score	Team #2
Alianza Atlético	1 – 0	Coronel Bolognesi
Cienciano	1 – 0	Alianza Atlético
Coronel Bolognesi	0 – 2	Cienciano

Position	Team	Played	Wins	Draws	Losses	Scored	Conceded	Points	Notes
1	Cienciano	2	2	0	0	3	0	6	To Copa Libertadores 2004
2	Alianza Atlético	2	1	0	1	1	1	3	To Copa Sudamericana 2004
3	Coronel Bolognesi	2	0	0	2	0	3	0

[edit] Promotion

• Sport Coopsol and Club Deportivo Universidad César Vallejo promoted to Primera División 2004
  • Sport Coopsol won the Segunda División (Second Division) 2003, a second-level league for teams in Lima. Universidad San Martín de Porres bought the franchise before the 2004 season, taking the spot in the Primera División.
  • César Vallejo (Trujillo) won the Copa Perú 2003 after defeating Deportivo Educación (Abancay) in the three-legged final (3-1 win at home, 0-1 loss away and 4-0 win in Lima).

[edit] Top scorers

20 goals

• Luis A. Bonnet (Sporting Cristal)

19 goals

• Pedro García (Alianza Atlético)

17 goals

• Sergio Ibarra (Estudiantes, Unión Huaral, Cienciano)

15 goals

• Paul Cominges (Universitario)

14 goals

• Carlos Orejuela (Sport Boys)

[edit] International competitions

• Copa Libertadores 2002

Universitario de Deportes - third place in Group 6 with 7 points; eliminated.

Sporting Cristal - third place in Group 2 with 7 points; eliminated.

Alianza Lima - fourth place in Group 4 with 5 points; eliminated

• Copa Sudamericana 2002

Alianza Lima - eliminated in Peru Preliminary Round by Cienciano.

Cienciano - beat Alianza Lima in Peru Preliminary Round; beat U. Catolica of Chile in Peru-Chile Preliminary Round; beat Santos FC of Brazil in quarterfinals; beat Atlético Nacional of Colombia in semifinals; beat River Plate of Argentina in final; first-time winner.

[edit] External links

• Peru 2003 season Details on RSSSF

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