Primera División Peruana 2008

Primera División Peruana
Season	2008
Champions	Universidad San Martín; 2nd Primera División title
Relegated	Sport Boys; Atlético Minero
Copa Libertadores	Universitario de Deportes (Group stage); Universidad San Martín (Group stage); Sporting Cristal (Preliminary round)
Copa Sudamericana	Cienciano (First round); Alianza Atlético (Preliminary round)
Top goalscorer	Miguel Ximénez (32)
Biggest home win	Universidad San Martín de Porres 5-0 Alianza Lima; (2008-05-21); Atlético Minero 5-0 Sport Boys; (2008-08-06); José Gálvez FBC 5-0 Sport Boys; (2008-09-14)
Biggest away win	Coronel Bolognesi 0-4 Alianza Atlético; (2008-08-06)
Highest scoring	Coronel Bolognesi 4–4 Sport Ancash; (2008-12-14)
Total goals	460
Average goals/game	2.56
Longest winning run	9 - Universitario de Deportes (Apr 30-Jul 2)
Longest unbeaten run	15 - Universitario de Deportes (Apr 9-Jul 13)
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The 2008 season of the Primera División Peruana, the top category of Peruvian football (soccer), will be played with 14 teams. The tournament started on February 17. At first, the tournament was to be played with 14 teams. Then in December 2007, the FPF unanimously voted that the tournament be played with 13 teams.^[1]^[2] In January 2008, the FPF reconsidered their decision after an appeal made by the ADFP and a 14th team was promoted.^[3]

The national championship is divided into two half-year tournaments, the Torneo Apertura and the Torneo Clausura. Each is played on a home-and-away round-robin basis. The winners of each will play for the national title in a playoff, but each team has to finish in the top 7 in both tournaments to earn the right to play the final; if the same club wins both tournaments, it will win the national championship automatically. Following-season Copa Libertadores berths go to each half-year tournament winner, and the best of the other teams in the aggregate table. The next best two teams earn berths for the Copa Sudamericana. The bottom two teams in the aggregate table are relegated.

With regard to foreign players, Peruvians teams are limited to three players without Peruvian citizenship per game. For each game, the team presents a list of 18 players; 11 on the field and 7 on the bench. In that list, no more than 3 players can be foreign players. Peruvian teams must also have its U-20 players (born after 1989) accumulate at least 1,170 minutes of game time.

[edit] Summary

Univesitario won the Apertura title after 6 years of failing to win a half-year tournament. They won the title with 50 points, a ten-point lead, and had four games left to be played. Sporting Cristal was the other team close to winning the title, however they had three games left to play and would have been unable to reach Universitario. Universitario had a 15-game undeafeated streak and a 9-game winning streak. In the Clausura Universitario did surprisingly worse and finished 11th. They lost four games at home and failed to finish in the top 7 to contest the national title. U. San Martin finished third in the Apertura and won the Clausura with three games to spare. They achieved their second national title after only four years of existence. This is the first time since 1958 where the big three were not able to win the title for two consecutive years.

Alianza Lima experienced a terrible season because they were close to being relegated this season. Every team, with the exception of José Gálvez, gained points playing at their home ground and they had also lost several home games. Fortunately, Alianza Lima remained in the First Division. Sport Boys saved itself from relegation two years ago, however this year they could not. They were the worst team of the year and won very few games. Problems arose in the club as the players were not paid for many months. This led to a sorrowful year for the fans of Sport Boys. They may be denied playing in the second division if they do not pay off their debt.

[edit] Teams

The locations of the current teams of the first division.

Team	City	Stadium^[4]	Capacity^[5]	Field
Alianza Atlético	Sullana	Campeones del 36^[6]	8,000	Grass
Alianza Lima	Lima	Alejandro Villanueva^[7]	35,000	Grass
Atlético Minero	Matucana	Municipal de Matucana^[8]	5,000	Grass
Cienciano	Cuzco	Garcilaso	42,056	Grass
Coronel Bolognesi	Tacna	Jorge Basadre	19,850	Grass
FBC Melgar	Arequipa	Mariano Melgar	20,000	Grass
José Gálvez FBC	Chimbote	Manuel Rivera Sanchez^[9]	25,000	Artificial
Juan Aurich	Chiclayo	Elias Aguirre	24,500	Artificial
Sport Áncash	Huaraz	Rosas Pampa	8,000	Grass
Sport Boys	Callao	Miguel Grau	15,000	Grass
Sporting Cristal	Lima	San Martin de Porres	18,000	Grass
Universidad César Vallejo	Trujillo	Mansiche	25,000	Artificial
Universidad San Martín	Lima	San Martin de Porres	18,000	Grass
Universitario de Deportes	Lima	Monumental^[7]	80,093	Grass
Lima clubs^[10]	Lima	Nacional	45,574	Artificial

[edit] Apertura

Main article: Apertura 2008 (Peru)

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Universitario	26	16	7	3	40	21	+19	55	2009 Copa Libertadores Second Stage
2	Sporting Cristal	26	15	4	7	46	32	+14	49
3	U. San Martín	26	11	10	5	40	20	+20	43
4	Cienciano	26	12	5	9	37	28	+9	41
5	Coronel Bolognesi	26	10	8	8	33	28	+5	38
6	Alianza Atlético	26	10	4	12	28	28	0	34
7	U. César Vallejo	26	9	7	10	26	32	−6	34
8	Juan Aurich	26	9	6	11	27	30	−3	33
9	José Gálvez	26	7	9	10	26	32	−6	30
10	F.B.C. Melgar	26	7	9	10	18	25	−7	30
11	Alianza Lima	26	7	8	11	27	32	−5	29
12	Sport Áncash	26	9	2	15	25	36	−11	29
13	Sport Boys	26	7	8	11	23	42	−19	27¹
14	Atlético Minero	26	6	7	13	26	36	−10	25

Updated to games played on June 25, 2008
Source: Peruvian Football Apertura 2008
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored.
1. Sport Boys were deducted 2 points for failing to pay a former manager.
P = Position; Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points;
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (Q) = Qualified to respective phase of tournament; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.

[edit] Clausura

Main article: Clausura 2008 (Peru)

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	U. San Martín	26	15	6	5	41	20	+21	51	2009 Copa Libertadores Second Stage
2	Sporting Cristal	26	14	3	9	36	25	+11	45
3	Sport Áncash	26	12	7	7	39	29	+10	43
4	F.B.C. Melgar	26	11	7	8	35	34	+1	40
5	Cienciano	26	11	6	9	34	30	+4	39
6	Alianza Atlético	26	10	8	8	35	25	+10	38
7	U. César Vallejo	26	11	5	10	35	32	+3	38
8	Atlético Minero	26	9	10	7	32	26	+6	37
9	José Gálvez	26	10	7	9	42	38	+4	37
10	Alianza Lima	26	11	1	14	38	36	+2	34
11	Universitario	26	8	10	8	31	32	−1	34
12	Juan Aurich	26	8	5	13	24	34	−10	29
13	Coronel Bolognesi	26	7	5	14	34	51	−17	26
14	Sport Boys	26	1	8	17	18	54	−36	11

Updated to games played on December 14, 2008
Source: [1]
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored.
P = Position; Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points;
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (Q) = Qualified to respective phase of tournament; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.

UNIVERSIDAD SAN MARTÍN DE PORRES
2008 National Champions - Second title

[edit] Aggregate table

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	U. San Martín (C)	52	26	16	10	81	42	+39	94	2009 Copa Libertadores Second Stage
2	Sporting Cristal	52	29	7	16	82	57	+25	94	2009 Copa Libertadores First Stage
3	Universitario	52	24	17	11	71	53	+18	89	2009 Copa Libertadores Second Stage
4	Cienciano	52	23	11	18	71	57	+14	80	2009 Copa Sudamericana Preliminary Round
5	Alianza Atlético	52	20	12	20	63	53	+10	72	2009 Copa Sudamericana Preliminary Round
6	Sport Áncash	52	21	9	22	64	65	−1	72
7	U. César Vallejo	52	20	12	20	61	64	−3	72
8	F.B.C. Melgar	52	18	16	18	53	59	−6	70
9	José Gálvez	52	17	16	19	68	70	−2	67
10	Coronel Bolognesi	52	17	13	22	67	79	−12	64
11	Alianza Lima	52	18	9	25	62	71	−9	63
12	Juan Aurich (O)	52	17	11	24	51	64	−13	62
13	Atlético Minero	52	15	17	20	58	62	−4	62	Relegation to Segunda División Peruana
14	Sport Boys	52	8	16	28	40	97	−57	38	Relegation to Segunda División Peruana

Updated to games played on December 14, 2008
Source: Peruvian Football
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored.
P = Position; Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points;
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (Q) = Qualified to respective phase of tournament; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.

[edit] 12th/13th place playoff

December 17, 2008	Atlético Minero	1–2	Juan Aurich	Estadio Alejandro Villanueva, Lima
	Portillo 26'		Chará 19' Zegarra 35'	Estadio Alejandro Villanueva, Lima

[edit] International competitions

Team	Copa Libertadores 2008	Copa Sudamericana 2008
Cienciano	Eliminated in group stage	—
Coronel Bolognesi	Eliminated in group stage	—
Universidad San Martín	Eliminated in group stage	—
Sport Ancash	—	Eliminated in round of 16
Universitario de Deportes	—	Eliminated in preliminary round

[edit] References

^ "Descentralizado 2008 se jugará con trece equipos". futbolperuano.com. http://www.peru.com/futbol/AutoNoticias/FutbolPortada/2007/12/27/DetalleNoticia98921.asp. Retrieved on 2007-12-28.
^ "Torneo del 2008 se jugaría con 14 equipos". Futbolperuano.com. http://www.peru.com/futbol/AutoNoticias/FutbolPortada/2007/11/27/DetalleNoticia97773.asp. Retrieved on 2007-11-27.
^ "El torneo peruano se jugará con 14 equipos". futbolperuano.com. http://www.peru.com/futbol/AutoNoticias/FutbolPortada/2008/01/10/DetalleNoticia99271.asp. Retrieved on 2008-01-10.
^ Most stadiums are owned by the Instituto Peruano del Deporte (IPD).
^ "Peru". fussballtempel.net. http://www.fussballtempel.net/conmebol/PER.html. Retrieved on 2008-02-02.
^ Owned by the municipality of Sullana.
^ ^a ^b Stadium is owned by club.
^ Used Estadio Huancayo during the Apertura.
^ Owned by the municipality of Chimbote.
^ Used as back-up stadium for most clubs in Lima when their stadium is unfit to host a game.

[edit] External links

Peru 2008 season at RSSSF
Peruvian Football League News (Spanish)

[0] "Descentralizado 2008 se jugará con trece equipos". futbolperuano.com. http://www.peru.com/futbol/AutoNoticias/FutbolPortada/2007/12/27/DetalleNoticia98921.asp. Retrieved on 2007-12-28.

[1] "Torneo del 2008 se jugaría con 14 equipos". Futbolperuano.com. http://www.peru.com/futbol/AutoNoticias/FutbolPortada/2007/11/27/DetalleNoticia97773.asp. Retrieved on 2007-11-27.

[2] "El torneo peruano se jugará con 14 equipos". futbolperuano.com. http://www.peru.com/futbol/AutoNoticias/FutbolPortada/2008/01/10/DetalleNoticia99271.asp. Retrieved on 2008-01-10.

[3] Most stadiums are owned by the Instituto Peruano del Deporte (IPD).

[4] "Peru". fussballtempel.net. http://www.fussballtempel.net/conmebol/PER.html. Retrieved on 2008-02-02.

[5] Owned by the municipality of Sullana.

[owner-6] Stadium is owned by club.

[7] Used Estadio Huancayo during the Apertura.

[8] Owned by the municipality of Chimbote.

[9] Used as back-up stadium for most clubs in Lima when their stadium is unfit to host a game.

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Primera División Peruana 2008

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[edit] Teams

[edit] Apertura

[edit] Clausura

[edit] Aggregate table

[edit] 12th/13th place playoff

[edit] International competitions

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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