1973 Copa Perú Explained

Competition:Copa Perú
Season:1973
Winners:Sportivo Huracán
League Topscorer:José Valenza (4)
Prevseason:1972
Nextseason:1975

The 1973 Copa Perú season (Spanish; Castilian: Copa Perú 1973), the promotion tournament of Peruvian football.

In this tournament, after many qualification rounds, each one of the 24 departments in which Peru is politically divided qualified a team. Those teams, plus the team relegated from First Division on the last year, enter in two more rounds and finally 6 of them qualify for the Final round, staged in Lima (the capital).

Three teams were promoted to play in 1973 First Division. Although finishing in last place, CNI was promoted as the Peruvian government issued a decree stating that the oriental zone of the country (from where |CNI came) should have a team in First Division.

Finalists teams

The following list shows the teams that qualified for the Final Stage.

DepartmentTeamLocation
AncashSider PerúAncash
ArequipaSportivo HuracánArequipa
CuscoCiencianoCusco
IcaOctavio EspinosaIca
LambayequeDeportivo PucaláChiclayo
LoretoCNIIquitos

Final stage

Final group stage

Round 5

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