| Liga Femenina | |
| Pixels: | 300px |
| Country: | Peru |
| Confed: | CONMEBOL |
| Founded: | [1] |
| Teams: | 14 |
| Relegation: | Liga de Ascenso Femenina |
| Levels: | 1 |
| Confed Cup: | Copa Libertadores Femenina |
| Champions: | Universitario |
| Season: | 2023 |
| Most Successful Club: | Universitario (10 titles) |
| Tv: | Movistar |
| Current: | 2024 season |
The Primera División Femenina officially named Liga Femenina (currently known as Liga Femenina Pluspetrol 2023 for sponsorship reasons),[2] is the top tournament of women's association football in Peru, organized by the Peruvian Football Federation through its Women's Football Commission. The competition, as an official tournament, was created in 1996 under de name of "Campeonato Metropolitano de Fútbol Femenino" (Metropolitan women's football championship), followed by the "Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol Femenino" (Peruvian women's football championship) which was renamed later as "Copa Femenina"[3] [4] and currently is designated as "Liga Femenina". The champion qualifies to the Copa Libertadores Femenina.
Like the men's tournament, the Peruvian Primera División Femenina began on a regional and amateur basis. On 1996[5] [6] the Peruvian female football competitions started with the creation of the "Campeonato Metropolitano de Fútbol Femenino" (Metropolitan women's football championship) organized by the Peruvian Football Federation and played with sport clubs from Lima and Callao. The champion of this first edition was the team of Club Universitario who repeated the achievement the following year, resulting in the first two-time championship. On 1999 the Sporting Cristal also became two-time champion by getting the titles of 1998 and 1999. Later, the team of Club Universitario obtained the first three-time championship in the history of Peruvian women's soccer by winning the 2001, 2002 and 2003 titles.[7]
On 2008 the Peruvian Football Federation modified the competition scheme to give it a national scope, setting the tournament in three fases: provincial, regional and national. With this new competition format, the tournamente was renamed as "Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol Femenino" (women's football national championship), and incorporated the former tournament (Campeonato Metropolitano de Fútbol Femenino) as the Region IV (Lima & Callao) of its regional stage.
| Region I | Amazonas, Lambayeque, Piura, Tumbes | |
| Region II | Áncash, Cajamarca, La Libertad, San Martín | |
| Region III | Loreto, Ucayali | |
| Region IV | Lima, Callao | |
| Region V | Huánuco, Junín, Pasco | |
| Region VI | Ayacucho, Huancavelica, Ica | |
| Region VII | Arequipa, Moquegua, Tacna | |
| Region VIII | Apurímac, Cusco, Madre de Dios, Puno |
Since 2009 the champion qualifies for the Copa Libertadores Femenina.[8] the first champion under this new format was the team of White Star. That same year, the Peruvian Football Federation and the FIFA agreed to incorporate representatives of the Women's football Championship into the FPF Bases Assembly, thus granting them greater participation in the decisions of the governing body of Peruvian football[9] On 2012 the team of JC Sport Girls became three-times champion,[10] while on 2016 the team of Club Universitario de Deportes won the tri-championship for the second time.[11] As of 2017, the Peruvian Football Federation decided to accommodate its calendar to that of Conmebol so that the local women's tournaments would not intersect with the development of the Copa Libertadores Femenina. Until that time, the tournament schedule had no relation to the annual calendar; that is, the national championship of one year was defined the following year.
In 2020 the Peruvian Football Federation decides to professionalize women's football for which it issues Resolution No. 014-2020-FPF[12] that provides for "strengthening the traditional National System of Women's football Championships, hereinafter referred to as FPF Liga Femenina".[13] The first season was expected to take place in 2020,[14] but was delayed until 2021 due to COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, this new format was resumed and it was played under the name of FPF Liga Femenina and under the auspices of the private television network Movistar TV.[15] In the 2021 and 2022 seasons the title was won by the Alianza Lima club, while in 2023 it was won by Universitario, which thus achieved its tenth championship.
Currently, the season is played in two stages: First stage and Final stage (Playoffs). The First stage is played under a single round-robin format with the 13 teams playing each other once. The Final stage is contested by teams ranked 1st to 6th in the First stage, with teams ranked 1st and 2nd directly qualified for semifinals and teams ranked 3rd to 6th qualified for a previous qualifying round or repechage to reach the semifinals. Winners of semifinals play the final to decide the national champion.
| Team | City | Stadium | Capacity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alejandro Villanueva | 35,000 | ||
| Biavo | 18,000 | ||
| Mansiche | 25,000 | ||
| Defensores del Ilucán | 12,000 | ||
| Killas | Andrés Bedoya Díaz | 10,000 | |
| 60,000 | |||
| Alberto Gallardo | 18,000 | ||
| Mansiche | 25,000 | ||
| Monumental | 80,093 | ||
| UNSAAC | 42,056 | ||
| width=px | Ed. | width=60px | Season | width=220px | Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Universitario[17] | ||||
| 1997 | Universitario | ||||
| 1998 | Sporting Cristal[18] | ||||
| 1999 | Sporting Cristal | ||||
| 2000 | Sport Coopsol[19] [20] [21] | ||||
| 2001 | Universitario | ||||
| 2002 | Universitario | ||||
| 2003 | Universitario | ||||
| 2004 | JC Sport Girls | ||||
| 2005 | No Tournament[22] | ||||
| 2006 | JC Sport Girls | ||||
| 2007 | No Tournament | ||||
| width=px | Ed. | width=60px | Season | width=220px | Champion | width=200px | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | White Star[23] | Estudiantes Universitarios | |||||
| 2009 | Universidad Particular de Iquitos[24] | Universidad San Antonio de Abad | |||||
| 2010[25] | JC Sport Girls[26] | River San Borja | |||||
| 2011 | Electro Oriente[27] | ||||||
| 2012[28] | Internacional | ||||||
| 2013[29] | Real Maracaná | Internacional | |||||
| 2014[30] [31] | Alfredo Vargas Guerra | ||||||
| 2015[32] | CGTP | ||||||
| 2016[33] | Ramiro Villafuerte | ||||||
| 2017[34] | Deportivo Educación | ||||||
| width=px | Ed. | width=60px | Season | width=220px | Champion | width=200px | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018[35] | Municipalidad de Majes[36] | JC Sport Girls | |||||
| Universitario[37] | Amazon Sky |
| width= | width=60px | Season | width=220px | Champion | width=200px | Runner-up | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | |||||||
| Alianza Lima | ||||||||
| scope=col | Club | scope=col | Titles | scope=col | Seasons won |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 1996, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2023 | ||||
| 6 | 2004, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2017 | ||||
| 2 | |||||
| 2 | 1998, 1999 | ||||
| 1 | 2000 | ||||
| 1 | 2008 | ||||
| Universidad Particular de Iquitos | 1 | 2009 | |||
| Real Maracaná | 1 | 2013 | |||
| Municipalidad de Majes | 1 | ||||
| width= | width=60px | Season | width=180px | Top scorer | width=180px | Top scorer's club | width=100px | Goals | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Sport Boys | 18 | |||||||
| 2006 | 29 | ||||||||
 Sabrina Ramírez | 20 | ||||||||
| Adriana Lúcar | 23 | ||||||||
| Luz Campoverde | 18 | ||||||||
| Adriana Lúcar | 17 | ||||||||
| Adriana Lúcar | 20 | ||||||||