2021 Liga 2 (Peru)

The 2021 Liga 2 season was the 76th edition of the second tier of Federación Peruana de Futbol. The season play started on 19 May 2021 and ended on 15 October 2021.

Liga 2

Season	2021
Dates	19 May – 15 October 2021
Champions	Atlético Grau (1st title)
Promoted	Atlético Grau Carlos Stein
Top goalscorer	Santiago Pallares Sergio Almirón (14 goals each)
← 2020 2022 →

On August 19, 2021, Cultural Santa Rosa changed its name to Los Chankas.

Competition format

The season was divided into three stages: Fase 1, Fase 2 and the Playoffs.^[1]

The Fase 1 and Fase 2 were played under the same format, a single round-robin with the 12 teams playing each other once for a total of 22 games (11 for each stage). Points earned during the Fase 1 did not carry over during the Fase 2, however, points earned in both stages generated a final aggregate table. The winners of the Fase 1 and Fase 2 stages qualified to the playoffs, as long as they were among the top six teams of the aggregate table.

The playoffs were to be contested by the winners of Fase 1 and Fase 2, as well as the top two teams of the aggregate table, which would play two semifinals with the winners playing the final to decide the champion who would be promoted to 2022 Liga 1. If the Fase 1 or Fase 2 winners also ended up in the top two of the aggregate table, they would get a bye to the finals. However, in case a team won both stages of the competition, the playoffs would not be played and that team would be declared as champion.

Teams

Team changes

Relegated from 2020 Liga 1	Promoted to 2020 Liga 1
Atlético Grau (18th) Carlos Stein (19th) Deportivo Llacuabamba (20th)	Alianza Atlético (1st)

Stadia and locations

Santa Rosa

Sport Chavelines

Llacuabamba

Santos

Atlético Grau

Comerciantes Unidos

Unión Comercio

Coopsol
Unión Huaral

Carlos Stein
Juan Aurich
Pirata

Locations of the 2021 Liga 2 teams

Team	City
Atlético Grau	Piura
Carlos Stein	Olmos
Comerciantes Unidos	Cutervo
Cultural Santa Rosa	Andahuaylas
Deportivo Coopsol	San Vicente de Cañete
Deportivo Llacuabamba	Parcoy
Juan Aurich	Chiclayo
Pirata	Olmos
Santos	Nasca
Sport Chavelines	Pacasmayo
Unión Comercio	Nueva Cajamarca
Unión Huaral	Huaral

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the whole tournament was played in four stadiums:

Stadium	City
Universidad San Marcos	Lima
Villa Deportiva Nacional
Iván Elías Moreno
Miguel Grau	Callao

Fase 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sport Chavelines	11	7	2	2	28	16	+12	23	Advance to Title Playoff
2	Atlético Grau	11	6	3	2	18	10	+8	21
3	Unión Comercio	11	4	4	3	18	12	+6	16
4	Juan Aurich	11	4	4	3	12	11	+1	16
5	Deportivo Llacuabamba	11	4	4	3	21	22	−1	16
6	Carlos Stein	11	3	6	2	15	14	+1	15
7	Santos	11	4	3	4	15	16	−1	15
8	Cultural Santa Rosa	11	3	5	3	18	17	+1	14
9	Comerciantes Unidos	11	4	2	5	15	20	−5	14
10	Deportivo Coopsol	11	3	4	4	11	15	−4	13
11	Unión Huaral	11	2	3	6	12	20	−8	9
12	Pirata	11	0	4	7	17	27	−10	4

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

Results

Home \ Away	STE	CAG	CHA	COM	COO	LLA	CST	JA	PIR	SAN	UCO	HUA
Carlos Stein		1–2			1–1	3–2			1–1			1–2
Atlético Grau					2–0		0–0		2–1	4–1		1–0
Sport Chavelines	3–4	2–2			1–0	4–2			3–2		2–1
Comerciantes Unidos	0–1	1–0	1–5			1–2		1–2			1–1
Deportivo Coopsol				0–1			2–0	1–0		1–0	0–4	1–1
Deportivo Llacuabamba		2–2			2–2		1–1		4–3			4–3
Cultural Santa Rosa	1–1		0–3	2–2				3–4		3–0
Juan Aurich	1–1	0–2	1–1			0–0			2–0		2–1
Pirata				2–3	3–3		2–3			2–2	0–3	1–1
Santos	1–1		2–1	4–2		0–1		0–0
Unión Comercio	0–0	2–1				3–1	2–2			0–2
Unión Huaral			1–3	1–2			0–3	1–0		1–3	1–1

Updated to match(es) played on 2020. Source: Liga 2 - official site
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Fase 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Unión Huaral	11	7	2	2	24	13	+11	23
2	Unión Comercio	11	6	3	2	22	12	+10	21
3	Carlos Stein	11	6	1	4	16	11	+5	19
4	Atlético Grau	11	5	3	3	21	14	+7	18
5	Los Chankas[a]	11	5	3	3	18	13	+5	18
6	Deportivo Llacuabamba	11	5	2	4	12	13	−1	17
7	Sport Chavelines	11	4	4	3	21	18	+3	16
8	Deportivo Coopsol	11	4	1	6	16	19	−3	13
9	Juan Aurich	11	2	6	3	21	20	+1	12
10	Pirata	11	3	2	6	16	28	−12	11
11	Santos	11	2	2	7	9	19	−10	8
12	Comerciantes Unidos	11	1	3	7	10	26	−16	6

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

1. On August 19, 2021, Cultural Santa Rosa changed its name to Los Chankas.

Results

Home \ Away	STE	CAG	CHA	COM	COO	LLA	CST	JA	PIR	SAN	UCO	HUA
Carlos Stein			1–2	3–2			1–0	0–2		3–0	0–0
Atlético Grau	2–0		2–2	4–0		0–0		1–3			2–1
Sport Chavelines				1–1			2–5	3–2		3–0		1–2
Comerciantes Unidos					1–2		0–2		3–3	2–1		0–3
Deportivo Coopsol	1–4	0–2	0–0			0–1			5–2
Deportivo Llacuabamba	2–1		2–5	2–0				2–1		0–2	0–2
Los Chankas		3–1			3–0	0–0			1–3		0–3	2–2
Juan Aurich				1–1	1–2		1–1			2–2		3–3
Pirata	0–2	1–6	2–1			0–2		2–2
Santos		0–0			1–4		0–1		2–0		0–1	1–3
Unión Comercio			1–1	4–0	2–1			3–3	4–2			1–3
Unión Huaral	0–1	4–1			2–1	2–1			0–1

Updated to match(es) played on 2020. Source: Liga 2 - official site
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Aggregate table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sport Chavelines	22	11	6	5	49	34	+15	39	Advance to Title Playoff
2	Atlético Grau	22	11	6	5	39	24	+15	39
3	Unión Comercio	22	10	7	5	40	24	+16	37	Advance to Revalidación
4	Carlos Stein	22	9	7	6	31	25	+6	34
5	Deportivo Llacuabamba	22	9	6	7	33	35	−2	33
6	Los Chankas[a]	22	8	8	6	36	30	+6	32
7	Unión Huaral	22	9	5	8	36	33	+3	32
8	Juan Aurich	22	6	10	6	33	31	+2	28
9	Deportivo Coopsol	22	7	5	10	27	34	−7	26
10	Santos	22	6	5	11	24	35	−11	23
11	Comerciantes Unidos	22	5	5	12	25	46	−21	20
12	Pirata	22	3	6	13	33	55	−22	15

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

1. On August 19, 2021, Cultural Santa Rosa changed its name to Los Chankas.

Title Playoff

9 October 2021

19:30

Sport Chavelines	1–2	Atlético Grau
Matías Sen 50' (pen.)		Mario Ceballos 4' Delio Ojeda 77'

Estadio San Marcos

Referee: Bruno Pérez

Revalidación

Quarterfinals

5 October 2021

11:30

Carlos Stein	2–1	Deportivo Llacuabamba
Rodin Quiñones 29' 78'		Andrés López 83' (o.g.)

Estadio San Marcos

Referee: Pablo López

5 October 2021

15:00

Unión Comercio	2–1	Los Chankas
Edis Ibargüen 7' Sergio Almirón 90+5' (pen.)		Luis Machado 27'

Estadio San Marcos

Referee: Edwin Ordoñez

Semifinals

9 October 2021

16:30

Unión Comercio	0–0	Carlos Stein
Penalties
Sergio Almirón Julián Muñoz Edis Ibargüen Mario Velarde Félix Uculmana Cristian Neira Carlos Mosquera Maelo Reátegui Dustin Rengifo	6–7	Víctor Salas Stefano Brundo Mario Ramírez Brandon Palacios José Cotrina Josimar Vargas Gibson Fuentes Luis Valverde Josimar Atoche

Estadio San Marcos

Referee: Augusto Menéndez

Final

15 October 2021

15:00

Sport Chavelines	1–2	Carlos Stein
Matías Sen 73' (pen.)		Víctor Salas 38' Brandon Palacios 69'

Estadio San Marcos

Referee: Kevin Ortega

Promotion playoff

4 November 2021

15:00

Carlos Stein	0–1	Binacional
		Johan Arango 55'

Estadio Monumental, Lima

Referee: Michael Espinoza

7 November 2021

15:00

Binacional	0–1	Carlos Stein
	Report	Maximiliano Freitas 77'
Penalties
Camilo Mancilla Carlos Caraza Andy Polar Anthony Rosell	2–4	Víctor Salas Maximiliano Freitas Mario Ramírez Rodin Quiñones Andrés López

Estadio Monumental, Lima

Referee: Edwin Ordóñez

Tied 1–1 on aggregate, Carlos Stein won on penalties and were promoted to Liga 1.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Club	Goals
1	Santiago Pallares	Atlético Grau	14
2	Sergio Almirón	Unión Comercio	14
3	Matías Sen	Sport Chavelines	13
4	Andy Pando	Los Chankas	12
5	Santiago Córdoba	Juan Aurich	12
6	Kevin Serna	Los Chankas	11
7	Edis Ibargüen	Unión Comercio	11
8	Pedro Bautista	Comerciantes Unidos	10
9	Accel Campos	Pirata	10
10	Rolando Díaz	Unión Huaral	10

See also

• 2021 Liga 1
• 2021 Copa Bicentenario
• 2021 Copa Perú
• 2021 in Peruvian football