1972 Torneo Descentralizado

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

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

Locations of the 1972 Primera División teams

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity	Field
Alianza Lima	Lima	Nacional	45,750	Grass
Carlos A. Mannucci	Trujillo	Mansiche	24,000	Grass
Defensor Arica	Lima	Nacional	45,750	Grass
Defensor Lima	Lima	Nacional	45,750	Grass
Grau	Piura	Miguel Grau (Piura)	25,000	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
Municipal	Lima	Nacional	45,750	Grass
SIMA	Callao	Miguel Grau	15,000	Grass
Sport Boys	Callao	Miguel Grau	15,000	Grass
Sporting Cristal	Lima	Nacional	45,750	Grass
Torino	Talara	Campeonísimo	8,000	Grass
Unión Tumán	Tumán	Eugenio Zapata Mingoya	8,000	Grass
Universitario	Lima	Nacional	45,750	Grass

First stage

Metropolitan group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sporting Cristal	14	8	4	2	21	13	+8	20	Final Group
2	Defensor Lima	14	8	3	3	28	16	+12	19
3	Sport Boys	14	4	7	3	28	22	+6	15
4	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	SIMA	14	2	5	7	16	24	−8	9

Regional group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	José Gálvez	14	8	4	2	18	11	+7	20	Final Group
2	Unión Tumán	14	7	6	1	23	13	+10	20
3	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	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

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	Final Group
2	Defensor Lima	30	16	8	6	60	35	+25	40
3	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	Grau	30	11	7	12	38	47	−9	29
8	José Gálvez	30	8	12	10	32	34	−2	28
9	SIMA	30	6	16	8	33	37	−4	28
10	Melgar	30	12	3	15	38	43	−5	27
11	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

Final group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
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	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

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SPORTING CRISTAL
1972 National Champions - 5th title

External links

• Peru 1972 season at RSSSF