2019 Liga 2 (Peru)

The 2019 Liga 2 season was the 74th edition of the second tier of Federación Peruana de Futbol. The season play started in April 2019 and ended on 1 December 2019.

Liga 2

Season	2019
Dates	19 May – 30 November 2019
Champions	Cienciano
Relegated	Sport Loreto Los Caimanes Sport Victoria
Matches played	126
Goals scored	378 (3 per match)
Top goalscorer	Ronal Huaccha (19 goals)
Biggest home win	Atlético Grau 6–0 Cultural Santa Rosa (21 September)
Biggest away win	Comerciantes Unidos 0–4 Deportivo Coopsol (28 July) Sport Loreto 0–4 Juan Aurich (10 November) Santos 0–4 Deportivo Coopsol (20 November)
Highest scoring	Sport Loreto 3–6 Atlético Grau (18 August)
← 2018 2020 →

Competition modus

The season has two phases: a home-and-away round-robin phase and a liguilla (league). The team with the most points at the end of the first phase will be crowned 2019 Liga 2 champions and will be promoted to the 2020 Liga 1. The teams who finished 2nd through 7th in the round-robin phase qualify to the liguilla which qualifies two teams to the 2019 Peruvian promotion play-offs. Seeds 4 through 7 play each other. The winners then play the teams in 2nd and 3rd place for a place in the promotion play-offs.^[1]

Teams

Before the season, the clubs Deportivo Hualgayoc and Sport Rosario were relegated to the Copa Perú for outstanding debts with the SAFAP.

Sport Victoria was disabled mid-season and relegated to the Copa Perú for outstanding debts with the SAFAP.

Team changes

Promoted from 2018 Cuadrangular de Ascenso	Relegated from 2018 Primera División	Promoted to 2019 Liga 1	Relegated to 2019 Copa Perú	Relegated to 2021 Copa Perú
Santos (4th)	Sport Rosario (15th) Comerciantes Unidos (16th)	Universidad César Vallejo (1st) Carlos A. Mannucci (CA - 1st)	Alfredo Salinas (14th) Serrato Pacasmayo (15th)	Deportivo Hualgayoc (Retired)

Stadia and locations

Cienciano

Santa Rosa

Sport Loreto

Sport Victoria

Santos

Comerciantes Unidos

Alianza Atlético

Coopsol
Unión Huaral

Juan Aurich
Los Caimanes

Grau

Locations of the 2019 Liga 2 teams

Team	City	Stadium[2]	Capacity[3]
Alianza Atlético	Sullana	Campeones del 36	5,000
Atlético Grau	Piura	Municipal de Bernal	7,000
Cienciano	Cusco	Garcilaso	40,000
Comerciantes Unidos	Cutervo	Juan Maldonado Gamarra	12,000
Cultural Santa Rosa	Andahuaylas	Los Chankas	10,000
Deportivo Coopsol	Chancay	Rómulo Shaw Cisneros	3,000
Juan Aurich	Chiclayo	César Flores Marigorda	7,000
Los Caimanes	Puerto Etén	Municipal de la Juventud	2,000
Santos	Nasca	Municipal de Nasca	10,000
Sport Loreto	Pucallpa	Aliardo Soria	25,000
Sport Victoria	Ica	José Picasso Peratta	8,000
Unión Huaral	Huaral	Julio Lores Colan	10,000

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Cienciano	22	14	2	6	56	26	+30	44	2020 Liga 1
2	Alianza Atlético	22	13	4	5	45	21	+24	43	Advance to Liguilla Semifinals
3	Juan Aurich	22	13	3	6	35	24	+11	42
4	Atlético Grau	22	13	2	7	52	30	+22	41	Advance to Liguilla Quarterfinals
5	Santos	22	12	5	5	29	21	+8	41
6	Deportivo Coopsol	22	12	3	7	39	27	+12	39
7	Comerciantes Unidos	22	10	3	9	32	32	0	33
8	Unión Huaral	22	8	7	7	30	29	+1	31
9	Cultural Santa Rosa	22	9	3	10	25	33	−8	30
10	Sport Loreto	22	5	3	14	27	46	−19	15[a]	Relegation to 2021 Copa Perú
11	Los Caimanes	22	2	2	18	21	54	−33	5[b]
12	Sport Victoria[c]	22	2	1	19	9	56	−47	7	Withdrew from league and relegation to 2021 Copa Perú

Source: Liga 2 - official site
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) draw.
Notes:

1. Sport Loreto was docked a total of 3 points for outstanding debts with the SAFAP.
2. Los Caimanes was docked a total of 3 points for outstanding debts with the SAFAP.
3. Sport Victoria was disabled mid-season and relegated to the Copa Perú for outstanding debts with the SAFAP.

Results

Home \ Away	AAS	CIE	COO	COM	CST	CAG	JA	CAI	SAN	LOR	VIC	HUA
Alianza Atlético		3–1	4–1	4–1	2–0	2–0	3–1	3–0	3–0	3–0	3–0	2–0
Cienciano	2–0		5–2	4–1	3–0	4–0	3–1	5–0	4–2	4–2	3–0	0–0
Deportivo Coopsol	1–0	2–1		1–0	0–1	0–0	1–1	3–0	1–2	3–0	3–0	3–0
Comerciantes Unidos	3–1	2–1	0–4		4–1	2–0	1–0	2–1	3–0	2–1	3–0	0–1
Cultural Santa Rosa	1–1	2–1	2–1	3–1		2–1	1–0	3–1	0–1	0–1	3–0	2–2
Atlético Grau	3–1	2–1	4–1	3–1	6–0		3–0	3–2	1–1	4–1	3–0	4–0
Juan Aurich	1–1	2–4	3–1	0–0	1–0	2–0		3–1	2–1	2–1	2–1	2–1
Los Caimanes	1–2	2–3	0–3	1–1	1–3	2–5	1–2		0–0	1–0	3–0	1–2
Santos	1–1	2–1	1–1	2–0	2–0	2–0	0–2	1–0		3–0	1–0	2–1
Sport Loreto	1–0	0–2	2–4	2–0	0–0	3–6	0–4	5–1	0–1		3–3	2–2
Sport Victoria	0–3	0–3	1–2	0–3	2–1	0–3	0–3	2–1	0–3	0–3		0–3
Unión Huaral	3–3	1–1	0–1	2–2	2–0	3–1	0–1	4–1	1–1	1–0	1–0

Updated to match(es) played on 2 November 2019. Source: Liga 2 - official site
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Liguilla

Quarterfinals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Comerciantes Unidos	3–5	Atlético Grau	3–2	0–3
Deportivo Coopsol	5–0	Santos	1–0	4–0

Semifinals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Deportivo Coopsol	2–1	Alianza Atlético	1–0	1–1
Atlético Grau	4–3	Juan Aurich	4–1	0–2

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Club	Goals
1	Ronal Huaccha	Atlético Grau	19
2	Enzo Borges	Comerciantes Unidos	13
3	Victor Perlaza	Alianza Atlético	12
4	Jair Cordova	Juan Aurich	10
	José Cuero	Cienciano
6	Steven Aponzá	Atlético Grau	9
7	Ronaille Calheira	Cultural Santa Rosa	8
8	Junior Viza	Unión Huaral	8
	Óscar Franco	Cienciano
10	Jorge Ramírez	Alianza Atlético	7

Promotion play-off

This section is transcluded from 2019 Peruvian promotion play-offs. (edit | history)

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Atlético Grau	3	1	2	0	2	0	+2	5	2020 Liga 1
2	Deportivo Llacuabamba	3	1	2	0	3	2	+1	5
3	Deportivo Coopsol	3	1	1	1	5	3	+2	4	2020 Liga 2
4	Sport Chavelines	3	0	1	2	1	6	−5	1

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) draw.

See also

• 2019 Liga 1
• 2019 Copa Perú