2018 Peruvian promotion play-offs

The 2018 Peruvian promotion play-offs or Cuadrangular de Ascenso 2018 was held in December 2018 with all games being played at Estadio Miguel Grau, Callao. The play-offs determined the third and fourth team to be promoted to the Torneo Descentralizado following that tournament's expansion. The teams place 2nd and 3rd in the 2018 Peruvian Segunda División and 2018 Copa Perú took part in the promotion play-offs. The top two placed team in the play-offs gained promotion in the 2019 Torneo Descentralizado and the bottom two qualified to the 2019 Peruvian Segunda División.^[1]

2018 Peruvian promotion play-off

Season	2018
Promoted	Carlos A. Mannucci Alianza Universidad
Matches played	6
Goals scored	17 (2.83 per match)
Highest scoring	Cienciano 3–2 Santos (December 15)
2019 →

Background

The Peruvian Football Federation took control of the local domestic league from the Professional Football Sports Association, the tournament organizers, in 2018 and announced that the Peruvian first division tournament would be re-branded for 2019. With this re-branding, the tournament was expand from 16 to 18 teams. At the beginning of the 2018 season, it was announced that the teams that finished 2nd and 3rd in the bottom two tiers of the Peruvian football league system would compete on the promotion play-offs at the end of the year to decide which two teams would receive the expansion slots.^[2]

Road to the play-offs

Segunda División

See also: 2018 Peruvian Segunda División

Liguilla

	Quarterfinals							Semifinals							Final
								1	Universidad César Vallejo (s)	1	2	3
								6	Juan Aurich	3	0	3
	4	Unión Huaral	1	2	3
	6	Juan Aurich	3	1	4
															1	Universidad César Vallejo	1	3	4
															2	Carlos A. Mannucci	1	1	2
	2	Carlos A. Mannucci	1	5	6
	8	Atlético Grau	1	2	3
								2	Carlos A. Mannucci	0	5	5
								3	Cienciano	2	2	4
	3	Cienciano	1	3	4
	7	Alianza Atlético	1	0	1

Third-place play-off

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Juan Aurich	3–4	Cienciano	2–1	1–3

Carlos A. Mannucci and Cienciano advanced to the promotion play-offs.

Copa Perú

See also: 2018 Copa Perú

Final group stage

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Pirata	3	2	0	1	11	3	+8	6	2019 Liga 1
2	Alianza Universidad	3	2	0	1	8	4	+4	6	Promotion Play-off
3	Santos	3	1	0	2	5	10	−5	3
4	UDA	3	1	0	2	2	9	−7	3

Source: Dechalaca.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) draw.

Alianza Universidad and Santos advanced to the promotion play-offs.

Promotion play-offs

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Carlos A. Mannucci	3	2	1	0	5	3	+2	7	2019 Liga 1
2	Alianza Universidad	3	1	2	0	5	3	+2	5
3	Cienciano	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4	2019 Liga 2
4	Santos	3	0	0	3	3	7	−4	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) draw.

Alianza Universidad	1–1	Cienciano
Conde 77'	Report	Sen 35'

11 December 2018 (2018-12-11)

16:00 PET (UTC-05:00)

Estadio Miguel Grau, Callao

Referee: Micke Palomino

Santos	1–2	Carlos A. Mannucci
Romero 88'	Report	Lagos 61' Naranjo 90+2'

11 December 2018 (2018-12-11)

18:00 PET (UTC-05:00)

Estadio Miguel Grau, Callao

Referee: Renzo Castañeda

Cienciano	3–2	Santos
Ross 45' Sen 53' 61'		Coronado 16' 42'

15 December 2018 (2018-12-15)

13:30 PET (UTC-05:00)

Estadio Miguel Grau, Callao

Referee: Jesús Cartagena

Carlos A. Mannucci	2–2	Alianza Universidad
Noronha 10' 42'		Portilla 26' Durán 63'

15 December 2018 (2018-12-15)

15:30 PET (UTC-05:00)

Estadio Miguel Grau, Callao

Referee: Miguel Santiváñez

Alianza Universidad	2–0	Santos
Encinas 15' Durán 38'

18 December 2018 (2018-12-18)

16:00 PET (UTC-05:00)

Estadio Miguel Grau, Callao

Referee: Augusto Menéndez

Carlos A. Mannucci	1–0	Cienciano
Lagos 49'

18 December 2018 (2018-12-18)

18:00 PET (UTC-05:00)

Estadio Miguel Grau, Callao

Referee: Kevin Ortega

See also

• 2019 Torneo Descentralizado
• 2018 Peruvian Segunda División
• 2018 Copa Perú