2003 Torneo Descentralizado

Torneo Descentralizado
Season	2003
Champions	Alianza Lima 20th Primera División title
Copa Libertadores	Alianza Lima Sporting Cristal Cienciano
Copa Sudamericana	Alianza Atlético Coronel Bolognesi
Top goalscorer	Luis Alberto Bonnet (20)
← 2002 2004 →

The 2003 Torneo Descentralizado (known as the Copa Cable Mágico for sponsorship reasons) was the eighty-seventh season of top-flight Peruvian football. A total of 12 teams competed in the tournament, with Sporting Cristal as the defending champion. Alianza Lima won its twentieth Primera División title after beating Sporting Cristal in the final playoff.

Changes from 2002

Structural changes

Starting in the 2003 season, half-year champions had to finish in the top six of each tournament to dispute the national title instead of the top four. A Copa Sudamericana qualifying round was disputed between the top four of the Torneo Clausura. No relegation took place at the end of the season due to a player's strike during the Clausura. The player's strike also caused an international qualifying round be played between the top five of the aggregate table who had not already qualified to an international tournament for 2004.

Promotion and Relegation

Juan Aurich and Coopsol Trujillo finished the 2002 season in 11th and 12th place, respectively, on the three-season average table and thus were relegated to their regional leagues. They were replaced by the champion of the 2002 Copa Perú Atlético Universidad and the 2002 Segunda División champion Unión Huaral.

Teams

Melgar
A. Universidad

Coronel Bolognesi

Alianza Lima
Sporting Cristal
Universitario
Sport Boys

Locations of the 2003 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
Atlético Universidad	Arequipa	Monumental UNSA	45,000	Grass
Cienciano	Cuzco	Garcilaso	42,056	Grass
Coronel Bolognesi	Tacna	Jorge Basadre	19,850	Grass
Estudiantes de Medicina	Ica	José Picasso Peratta	8,000	Grass
Melgar	Arequipa	Mariano Melgar	20,000	Grass
Sport Boys	Callao	Miguel Grau	18,000	Grass
Sporting Cristal	Lima	San Martín de Porres	15,000	Grass
Unión Huaral	Huaral	Julio Lores Colan	10,000	Grass
Universitario	Lima	Monumental	80,093	Grass
Wanka	Huancayo	Huancayo	20,000	Grass

Torneo Apertura


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sporting Cristal	22	15	4	3	50	20	+30	49	2004 Copa Libertadores Group Stage
2	Alianza Lima	22	14	4	4	40	20	+20	46	2003 Copa Sudamericana qualifying round
3	Coronel Bolognesi	22	9	8	5	30	22	+8	35
4	Cienciano	22	10	4	8	31	22	+9	34
5	Sport Boys	22	8	7	7	34	28	+6	31
6	Alianza Atlético	22	7	8	7	29	28	+1	29
7	Unión Huaral	22	8	5	9	28	40	−12	29
8	Universitario	22	7	7	8	32	35	−3	28
9	Melgar	22	5	7	10	20	30	−10	22
10	Estudiantes de Medicina	22	6	3	13	23	35	−12	21
11	Wanka	22	4	7	11	22	31	−9	19
12	Atlético Universidad	22	4	6	12	25	43	−18	18

Updated to games played on June, 2003.
Source: Peruvian Football Apertura 2003
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Copa Sudamericana 2003 qualifying

First leg

Cienciano v Sporting Cristal

6 July 2003

Cienciano	1 – 1	Sporting Cristal
Lugo 90' (pen.)		Junior 80'

Estadio Garcilaso, Cusco

Alianza Lima v Coronel Bolognesi

6 July 2003

Alianza Lima	0 – 0	Coronel Bolognesi

Estadio Alejandro Villanueva, Lima

Second leg

Coronel Bolognesi v Alianza Lima

9 July 2003

Coronel Bolognesi	1 – 2	Alianza Lima

Estadio Jorge Basadre, Tacna

Sporting Cristal v Cienciano

9 July 2003

Sporting Cristal	1 – 2	Cienciano

Estadio Nacional, Lima

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

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.


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Alianza Lima	15	10	4	1	29	9	+20	34	2004 Copa Libertadores Group Stage
2	Alianza Atlético	15	8	5	2	25	13	+12	29
3	Sporting Cristal	15	7	6	2	29	18	+11	27
4	Sport Boys	15	8	3	4	27	17	+10	27
5	Coronel Bolognesi	15	8	1	6	24	18	+6	25
6	Melgar	15	7	1	7	26	22	+4	22
7	Unión Huaral	15	6	3	6	12	17	−5	21
8	Cienciano	14	4	3	7	17	20	−3	15
9	Atlético Universidad	14	4	3	7	10	18	−8	15
10	Universitario	15	3	4	8	12	21	−9	13
11	Wanka	15	3	4	8	11	24	−13	13
12	Estudiantes de Medicina	15	1	3	11	10	35	−25	6

Updated to games played on November, 2003.
Source: Peruvian Football Apertura 2003
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

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.

Alianza Lima v Sporting Cristal

31 January 2004
Final

Alianza Lima	2 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Sporting Cristal
Silva 31' Farfán 91'		Soto 27'

Estadio Nacional, Lima

Title

Primera División Peruana 2003 Champion
Alianza Lima 20th title

Aggregate table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Alianza Lima	37	24	8	5	69	29	+40	80	2004 Copa Libertadores Group Stage
2	Sporting Cristal	37	22	10	5	79	38	+41	76	2004 Copa Libertadores Group Stage
3	Coronel Bolognesi	37	17	9	11	54	50	+4	60	2004 Copa Libertadores qualifying group
4	Sport Boys	37	16	10	11	61	45	+16	58
5	Alianza Atlético	37	15	13	9	54	41	+13	58
6	Unión Huaral	37	14	8	15	40	57	−17	50	2004 Copa Libertadores qualifying preliminary
7	Cienciano	36	14	7	15	48	42	+6	49	2004 Copa Libertadores qualifying preliminary
8	Melgar	37	12	8	17	46	52	−6	44
9	Universitario	37	10	11	16	44	56	−12	41
10	Atlético Universidad	36	8	9	19	35	61	−26	33
11	Wanka	37	7	11	19	33	55	−22	32
12	Estudiantes de Medicina	37	7	6	24	10	35	−25	27

2004 international 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.

Qualifying preliminary

Unión Huaral v Cienciano

22 January 2004
First leg

Unión Huaral	2 – 2	Cienciano
Meza Cuadra 5' Vegas 49' (pen.)		Carty 39' Ibarra 76'

Estadio Julio Lores Colan, Huaral

Cienciano v Unión Huaral

25 January 2004
Second leg

Cienciano	2 – 0	Unión Huaral
Carty 2' Ibarra 80'

Estadio Garcilaso, Cusco

Qualifying group


Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Cienciano	2	2	0	3	0	+3	6	Copa Libertadores 2004 Preliminary Round
2	Alianza Atlético	2	1	1	1	1	0	3	2004 Copa Sudamericana Preliminary Phase
3	Coronel Bolognesi	2	0	2	0	3	−3	0	2004 Copa Sudamericana Preliminary Phase
4	Sport Boys	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew

Updated to games played on November 2003.
Source:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Alianza Atlético v Coronel Bolognesi

29 January 2004
Round 1

Alianza Atlético	1 – 0	Coronel Bolognesi
García 56' (pen.)

Estadio Nacional, Lima

Cienciano v Alianza Atlético

1 February 2004
Round 2

Cienciano	1 – 0	Alianza Atlético
Balbín 89'

Estadio Nacional, Lima

Coronel Bolognesi v Cienciano

4 February 2004
Round 3

Coronel Bolognesi	0 – 2	Cienciano
		Acasiete 21' Carty 26'

Estadio Nacional, Lima

Top goalscorers

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 de Deportes)

14 goals

Carlos Orejuela (Sport Boys)

External links

Peru 2003 season Details on RSSSF

Torneo Descentralizado de Fútbol Profesional

2016 clubs	Alianza Atlético Alianza Lima Ayacucho Comerciantes Unidos Juan Aurich La Bocana Melgar Municipal Real Garcilaso Sport Huancayo Sporting Cristal Unión Comercio Universidad César Vallejo Universidad San Martín Universidad Técnica de Cajamarca Universitario

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Champions Torneo de Promoción y Reserva

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