1980 Torneo Descentralizado Explained

Competition:Torneo Descentralizado
Season:1980
Dates:11 April 1980–
8 February 1981
Winners:Sporting Cristal
5th Descentralizado title
7th Primera División title
Relegated:Juventud La Palma
Continentalcup1:Copa Libertadores
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers:Sporting Cristal
Atlético Torino
League Topscorer:Oswaldo Rámirez (18 goals)
Prevseason:1979
Nextseason:1981

The 1980 Torneo Descentralizado was the sixty-fourth season of Peruvian football. A total of 16 teams competed in the tournament. The season was divided into two phases. Sporting Cristal won its seventh first division title and fifth national title.

Format

The first stage of the tournament involves all sixteen teams playing against each other, once at home and once away. When this stage concluded, the top four teams advanced to an end-of-season playoff phase known as the Liguilla to determine the national champion. Relegation was determined by the bottom four teams of the first stage in a four-team group. The fourth-placed team was relegated and the third-placed team played a promotion/relegation playoff with the 1980 Copa Perú runner-up. The teams carried their first stage results into the Liguilla and relegation group except the sixteenth placed team which were docked 2 points for placing last.

Teams

TeamCityStadiumCapacityField
20,000 Grass
La Victoria, LimaAlejandro Villanueva35,000 Grass
9,000 Grass
15,000Grass
Campeonísimo8,000 Grass
24,000 Grass
19,850 Grass
20,000 Grass
45,750 Grass
24,500Grass
12,000Grass
20,000 Grass
15,000Grass
45,750 Grass
Julio Lores Colan10,000 Grass
45,750 Grass

First stage

Results

Liguilla Final

Results

Liguilla Descenso

Relegation play-off

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