1980 Torneo Descentralizado


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
Alfonso UgartePunoEnrique Torres Belón20,000Grass
Alianza LimaLimaAlejandro Villanueva35,000Grass
ADTTarmaUnión Tarma9,000Grass
Atlético ChalacoCallaoMiguel Grau15,000Grass
Atlético TorinoTalaraCampeonísimo8,000Grass
CNIIquitosMax Augustín24,000Grass
Coronel BolognesiTacnaJorge Basadre19,850Grass
Deportivo JunínHuancayoHuancayo20,000Grass
Deportivo MunicipalLimaNacional45,750Grass
Juan AurichChiclayoElías Aguirre24,500Grass
Juventud La PalmaHuachoSegundo Aranda Torres12,000Grass
MelgarArequipaMariano Melgar20,000Grass
Sport BoysCallaoMiguel Grau15,000Grass
Sporting CristalLimaNacional45,750Grass
Unión HuaralHuaralJulio Lores Colan10,000Grass
UniversitarioLimaNacional45,750Grass

First stage

Final Group

Relegation Group

Relegation play-off