2011 Torneo Descentralizado

The 2011 Torneo Descentralizado de Fútbol Profesional (known as the 2011 Copa Movistar for sponsorship reasons) was the ninety-fifth season of Association Peruvian football. A total of 16 teams competed in the tournament, with Universidad de San Martín as the defending champion. The Torneo Descentralizado began on 12 February and concluded on 14 December with the victory of Juan Aurich over Alianza Lima in the penalty kicks of the final Play-off, giving Juan Aurich its debut Peruvian title.

Torneo Descentralizado

Season	2011
Dates	12 February 2011 – 14 December 2011
Champions	Juan Aurich 1st Primera División title
Relegated	Alianza Atlético CNI
Copa Libertadores	Juan Aurich Alianza Lima Sport Huancayo
Copa Sudamericana	Universidad San Martín León de Huánuco Unión Comercio Inti Gas
← 2010 2012 →

Competition modus

The sixteen teams played a round-robin home-and-away round for a total of 30 matches each. The teams that finish in first and second place played in the Play-off to determine the season champion. The teams that place fifteenth and sixteenth were relegated. The Torneo de Promoción y Reserva was played alongside the Descentralizado with the reserve teams of each first division team. The champion of the reserve competition will award its senior team 2 points while the runner-up will award 1 point. Between the fifteenth and sixteenth round, there was a two-month recess for the Peru national football team's participation in the 2011 Copa América. During the recess, the Torneo Intermedio knock-out competition was played. In this competition all sixteen first division teams in addition to some Segunda División teams and amateur teams competed. All international competition berths were distributed via the league table with the first three teams qualifying to the Copa Libertadores and the subsequent three teams qualifying to the Copa Sudamericana.^[1]

Teams

José Gálvez and Total Chalaco finished the 2010 season in 15th and 16th place, respectively, in the aggregate table and thus were relegated to the Segunda División. They were replaced by the champion of the 2010 Segunda División, Cobresol and the champion of the 2010 Copa Perú, Unión Comercio.

Team changes

Promoted from 2010 Segunda División	Promoted from 2010 Copa Perú	Relegated from 2010 Primera División
Cobresol (1st)	Unión Comercio (1st)	José Gálvez (15th) Total Chalaco (16th)

Stadia locations

Cobresol

Juan Aurich

Unión Comercio

Melgar

Alianza Atlético

CNI

Cienciano

Inti Gas

León de Huánuco

Sport Huancayo

U. César Vallejo

Alianza Lima
Universitario
Sporting Cristal
Sport Boys
U. San Martín

Locations of the 2011 Primera División teams

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity[2]
Alianza Atlético	Sullana	Miguel Grau (Piura)	25,000
Alianza Lima	Lima	Alejandro Villanueva	35,000
Cienciano	Cusco	Garcilaso	40,000
Cobresol	Moquegua	25 de Noviembre	25,000
CNI	Iquitos	Max Augustín	24,000
Inti Gas	Ayacucho	Ciudad de Cumaná	15,000
Juan Aurich	Chiclayo	Elías Aguirre	24,500
León de Huánuco	Huánuco	Heraclio Tapia	15,000
Melgar	Arequipa	Virgen de Chapi	40,217
Sport Boys	Callao	Miguel Grau	17,000
Sport Huancayo	Huancayo	Huancayo	20,000
Sporting Cristal	Lima	San Martín de Porres	18,000
Unión Comercio	Nueva Cajamarca	IPD de Moyobamba	12,000
Universidad César Vallejo	Trujillo	Mansiche	25,000
Universidad San Martín	Lima	San Martín de Porres	18,000
Universitario	Lima	Monumental	80,093

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Pre-season changes
Unión Comercio	Leonardo Morales	End of contract		N/A	Hernán Lisi
Cienciano	Sergio Ibarra	Resigned		N/A	Marcelo Trobianni
Alianza Atlético	Teddy Cardama	End of contract		N/A	Roque Alfaro
Cobresol	Freddy García	End of contract		N/A	Teddy Cardama
Sporting Cristal	Víctor Rivera	End of contract		N/A	Guillermo Rivarola
Melgar	Carlos Jurado	End of contract		N/A	Claudio Techera
First Stage changes
Universidad César Vallejo	Benjamín Navarro	End of contract	December 2010	N/A	Víctor Rivera	16 December 2010
Juan Aurich	Juan Reynoso	Resigned	30 December 2010	N/A	Diego Umaña	5 January 2011
Sporting Cristal	Guillermo Rivarola	Sacked	19 April 2011	9th	Juan Reynoso	21 April 2011
Unión Comercio	Hernán Lisi	Mutual agreement	12 May 2011	10th	Gustavo Buena	19 May 2011
Melgar	Claudio Techera	Sacked	16 May 2011	15th	Wilmar Valencia	2 May 2011
Alianza Atlético	Roque Alfaro	Sacked	17 May 2011	16th	Roberto Arrelucea	19 May 2011
Sport Boys	Miguel Company	Sacked	10 June 2011	13th	Agustín Castillo	10 June 2011
Alianza Lima	Gustavo Costas	Resigned	18 July 2011	1st	Miguel Ángel Arrué (interim)	19 July 2011
Unión Comercio	Gustavo Buena	Sacked	22 July 2011	10th	Julio César Uribe	27 July 2011
Cienciano	Marcelo Trobianni	Sacked	29 August 2011	5th	Carlos Jurado	11 September 2011
CNI	Marcial Salazar	Resigned	26 September 2011	15th	Jorge Giordano	27 September 2011
Sporting Cristal	Juan Reynoso	Resigned	22 November 2011	15th	Francisco Melgar (interim)	23 September 2011

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Juan Aurich	30	15	11	4	46	21	+25	57[a]	2012 Copa Libertadores Second Stage and Championship Play-offs
2	Alianza Lima	30	16	7	7	44	25	+19	57[b]
3	Sport Huancayo	30	15	5	10	49	33	+16	50	2012 Copa Libertadores First Stage
4	Universidad San Martín	30	13	8	9	43	24	+19	47	2012 Copa Sudamericana First Stage
5	León de Huánuco	30	14	4	12	37	30	+7	46
6	Unión Comercio	30	13	6	11	48	42	+6	45
7	Inti Gas	30	12	8	10	42	41	+1	44
8	Cienciano	30	12	4	14	42	46	−4	40
9	Cobresol	30	9	12	9	31	40	−9	39
10	Sporting Cristal	30	10	8	12	30	34	−4	38
11	Sport Boys	30	10	6	14	26	49	−23	36
12	Melgar	30	9	7	14	37	44	−7	34
13	Universidad César Vallejo	30	9	7	14	32	42	−10	34
14	Universitario	30	8	10	12	25	35	−10	34
15	Alianza Atlético	30	10	3	17	24	41	−17	33	2012 Segunda División
16	CNI	30	9	6	15	35	44	−9	30[c]

Updated to match(es) played on 21 November 2011. Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored; 4) head-to-head record.
Notes:

1. Juan Aurich obtained 1 point as 2011 Torneo de Promoción y Reserva runner-up.
2. Alianza Lima obtained 2 points as 2011 Torneo de Promoción y Reserva champion.
3. Colegio Nacional Iquitos were deducted 3 points for maintaining debts with 3 former players.

Results

Home \ Away	AAS	ALI	CIE	COB	CNI	MEL	IGD	JA	LEÓ	SBA	CRI	SHU	UCO	UCV	USM	UNI
Alianza Atlético		0–2	3–1	1–2	2–1	2–1	3–0	1–1	1–0	1–2	2–1	0–2	1–0	0–1	1–2	3–0[a]
Alianza Lima	1–0		2–0	0–0	1–0	2–0	4–2	1–0	2–1	3–0	0–0	0–2	4–1	2–1	0–0	0–0
Cienciano	4–0	0–1		5–0	1–2	2–3	2–1	2–1	1–0	3–0	0–1	1–0	2–2	1–0	3–2	3–0
Cobresol	0–1	0–5	0–0		3–1	2–1	3–1	1–1	1–1	2–2	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–2	0–0	1–1
CNI	2–0	3–0[b]	0–2	2–2		1–3	0–1	0–1	2–3[c]	3–0[d]	2–1	1–3	0–0	1–0	3–1	1–1
Melgar	0–1	3–2	0–4	1–2	0–0		2–2	1–1	1–0	0–1	2–1	2–2	1–2	3–0	0–1	0–0
Inti Gas	1–0[e]	0–2	2–2	3–0	4–0	2–0		0–0	1–0	3–1	2–0	1–2	1–0	3–0	2–0	0–0
Juan Aurich	2–1	2–0	5–0	2–1	2–2	1–1	3–0		2–0	2–2	2–1	1–0	3–2	2–0	1–0	1–0
León de Huánuco	4–0	2–0	4–0	0–1	1–3	1–0	1–2	2–1		1–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	3–1	1–0	2–0
Sport Boys	0–0	0–5	2–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	3–1	0–5	1–1		0–1	0–3[f]	1–3	1–1	1–0	2–0
Sporting Cristal	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–2	0–0	0–2	0–2	3–0[g]		3–0	2–1	2–1	0–4	3–0[h]
Sport Huancayo	3–0	0–2	2–2	1–5	3–1	4–1	2–2[i]	0–0	1–0	3–0	3–0		3–1	3–0	2–0	1–0
Unión Comercio	2–0[c]	0–0	3–1	3–0[j]	3–0	1–2	3–2	1–1	5–1	0–0	1–0	2–1		5–2	2–1[c]	3–2
Universidad César Vallejo	0–0	1–1	2–0	3–0[k]	3–0	2–1	3–3	1–0	0–1	1–2	1–0	2–0	1–1		0–2	0–0
Universidad San Martín	4–0	4–0[l]	2–0	0–0	1–0	2–2	5–0	1–1[l]	0–0	1–0	1–1[l]	2–1	5–1	2–1		0–0
Universitario	1–0	2–1	5–0[l]	0–1	0–3[m]	0–3[n]	0–0[l]	0–0	2–1	2–1	1–2[l]	2–1	3–0	2–2[o]	1–0

Updated to match(es) played on 21 November 2011. Source: ADFP.org.pe
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

1. Match between Alianza Atlético and Universitario was voided by the FPF. The original match result was a 0–0 draw. A 3–0 win was recorded in favor of Alianza Atlético.^[3]
2. Match between Colegio Nacional Iquitos and Alianza Lima was voided by the FPF. The original match result was a 0–1 in favor of Alianza Lima. A 3–0 win was recorded in favor of Colegio Nacional Iquitos.
3. Match was played in Estadio Carlos Vidaurre García.
4. Match between Colegio Nacional Iquitos and Sport Boys was voided by the FPF. The original match result was a 1–1 draw. A 3–0 win was recorded in favor of Colegio Nacional Iquitos.^[3]
5. Match was played in Estadio Municipal de Huanta.
6. Match not played. A 3–0 win was awarded to Sport Huancayo^[3]
7. Match between Sporting Cristal and Sport Boys was voided by the FPF. The original match result was a 1–1 draw. A 3–0 win was recorded in favor of Sporting Cristal.^[3]
8. Match between Universitario and Sporting Cristal was voided by the FPF. The original match result was a 0–0 draw. A 3–0 win was recorded in favor of Sporting Cristal.^[4]
9. Match played in Estadio Mariscal Castilla del Tambo.
10. Match between Unión Comercio and Cobresol was voided by the FPF. The original match result was a 1–1 draw. A 3–0 win was recorded in favor of Unión Comercio.^[5]
11. Match between Universidad César Vallejo and Cobresol was voided by the FPF. The original match result was a 1–0 win for U. César Vallejo. The match result was extended to a 3–0 win for U. César Vallejo.^[3]
12. Match was played at Estadio Miguel Grau in Callao.
13. Match between Universitario and Colegio Nacional Iquitos was voided by the FPF. The original match result was a 2–0 in favor of Universitario. A 3–0 win was recorded in favor of Colegio Nacional Iquitos.^[3]
14. Match not played. A 3–0 win was awarded to FBC Melgar^[3]
15. Match was played in Estadio Nacional.

Play-off

The finals (also known as the Play-off) of the 2011 season were played between the two best placed teams of the league table. The club with the most points on the aggregate table choose which leg they play as the home team. They also choose the venue of the third match in case both teams are tied on points after the second leg. The first leg was played on 8 December and the second leg on 11 December.

8 December 2011

16:00

First leg

Juan Aurich	1–2	Alianza Lima
Zúñiga 51'	Report	Arroé 20' Bazán 46'

Estadio Elías Aguirre

Attendance: 19,229

Referee: George Buckley

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11 December 2011

16:00

Second leg

Alianza Lima	0–1	Juan Aurich
	Report	Zúñiga 63'

Estadio Alejandro Villanueva

Attendance: 29,846

Referee: Victor Hugo Carrillo

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14 December 2011

16:30

Third leg

Juan Aurich	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Alianza Lima
	Report
Penalties
Sheput Balbuena Ciciliano	3–1	González Soto Trujillo Vílchez

Estadio Nacional

Attendance: 29,213

Referee: Victor Hugo Rivera

Tied 2–2 on aggregate. Juan Aurich won 3–1 on penalties.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Luis Tejada	Juan Aurich	17
2	Humberto Osorio	Inti Gas	16
	Roberto Jiménez	Unión Comercio	16
4	Irven Ávila	Sport Huancayo	14
	Roberto Ovelar	Alianza Lima	14
6	Sergio Ibarra	Cienciano	11
7	Johan Fano	Universitario	10
	Claudio Velásquez	Cobresol	10
	Julio Caicedo	Cobresol	10
10	Antonio Meza Cuadra	Melgar	9

• Source: ADFP.org.pe^{[permanent dead link]}
• Last updated: To games played in Round 30