1998 Torneo Descentralizado

Torneo Descentralizado
Season	1998
Dates	15 February 1998 –; 23 December 1998
Champions	Universitario; 22nd Primera División title
Runner up	Sporting Cristal
Relegated	Lawn Tennis
Copa Libertadores	Universitario; Sporting Cristal
Copa CONMEBOL	Sport Boys
Copa Merconorte	Alianza Lima; Sporting Cristal; Universitario
Top goalscorer	Nílson (25 goals)
	← 1997 1999 →

The 1998 season of the Torneo Descentralizado was the 83rd season of the top category of Peruvian football (soccer). It was played by 12 teams. The national champion was Universitario.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The national championship was divided into two half-year tournaments, the Torneo Apertura and the Torneo Clausura. Each was played on a home-and-away round-robin basis. The winners of each would play for the national title in a playoff. If the same club had won both tournaments, it would have won the national championship automatically.

Following-season Copa Libertadores berths went to the winner of each tournament, while the runners-up played for a Copa CONMEBOL spot. The bottom team on the aggregate table was relegated, while the eleventh place held a relegation/promotion playoff against the winner of the Segunda División (Second Division).

Teams

Team changes

Promoted from 1997 Segunda División	Promoted from 1997 Copa Perú	Relegated from 1997 Primera División
Lawn Tennis (1st)	Juan Aurich (1st)	Alcides Vigo (11th) Atlético Torino (12th) José Gálvez (13th) La Loretana (14th)

Stadia locations

Alianza Lima
Lawn Tennis
Municipal
Sporting Cristal
Universitario
Sport Boys

Locations of the 1998 Primera División teams

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity
Alianza Atlético	Sullana	Campeones del 36	8,000
Alianza Lima	Lima	Alejandro Villanueva	35,000
Cienciano	Cuzco	Garcilaso	42,056
Deportivo Municipal	Lima	Nacional	45,750
Deprotivo Pesquero	Chimbote	Manuel Rivera Sanchez	25,000
Juan Aurich	Chiclayo	Elías Aguirre	24,500
Lawn Tennis	Lima	Nacional	45,750
Melgar	Arequipa	Mariano Melgar	20,000
Sport Boys	Callao	Miguel Grau	18,000
Sporting Cristal	Lima	San Martín de Porres	17,000
Unión Minas	Cerro de Pasco	Daniel Alcides Carrión	8,000
Universitario	Lima	Teodoro Lolo Fernández	15,000

Torneo Apertura

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Universitario	22	11	10	1	40	18	+22	43	Copa Libertadores 1999 First stage
2	Sport Boys	22	11	6	5	38	23	+15	39	1999 Copa CONMEBOL playoff
3	Sporting Cristal	22	10	7	5	40	20	+20	37
4	Unión Minas	22	11	4	7	33	29	+4	37
5	Deportivo Pesquero	22	9	6	7	35	21	+14	33
6	Alianza Lima	22	9	6	7	35	21	+14	33
7	Juan Aurich	22	7	8	7	27	25	+2	29
8	Alianza Atlético	22	6	8	8	33	26	+7	26
9	Cienciano	22	6	7	9	24	27	−3	25
10	Melgar	22	7	2	13	20	36	−16	23
11	Deportivo Municipal	22	6	4	12	23	48	−25	22
12	Lawn Tennis	22	3	2	17	16	49	−33	11

Updated to match(es) played on July 1998. Source: https://www.rsssf.org/tablesp/peru98.html
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Results

Home \ Away	AAS	ALI	CIE	MUN	PES	JA	LTF	MEL	SBA	CRI	MIN	UNI
Alianza Atlético		4–2	3–3	3–1	2–3	2–2	1–1	4–1	1–0	1–3	3–3	0–0
Alianza Lima	1–0		2–0	7–0	0–1	2–1	3–0	2–0	3–0	0–0	6–0	0–0
Cienciano	1–0	4–0		0–0	3–1	1–0	1–2	2–0	0–0	2–1	0–0	1–1
Deportivo Municipal	0–1	2–0	1–1		2–4	1–0	3–0	2–1	1–3	0–3	2–3	2–2
Deportivo Pesquero	3–1	2–2	3–0	2–1		1–3	3–0	3–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	0–0
Juan Aurich	2–1	2–2	1–1	1–2	0–0		2–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	4–0	1–1
Lawn Tennis	1–2	0–1	1–0	0–1	1–2	0–1		1–2	1–2	0–4	2–0	0–5
Melgar	2–1	1–0	2–1	4–0	0–0	0–0	2–1		0–1	2–0	1–2	0–1
Sport Boys	2–2	0–0	3–1	5–0	4–0	3–1	3–3	1–0		1–0	4–1	3–3
Sporting Cristal	0–0	1–1	3–2	3–0	2–1	2–2	5–0	7–1	1–0		2–1	1–1
Unión Minas	0–0	1–0	2–0	3–0	4–1	1–0	4–1	2–0	2–0	2–0		1–1
Universitario	5–1	2–1	1–0	2–2	2–1	3–0	2–0	3–0	1–2	2–1	2–1

Updated to match(es) played on 1998. Source: RSSSF Peru 1998
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Torneo Clausura

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sporting Cristal (A, O)	22	13	3	6	41	23	+18	42	Copa Libertadores 1999 First stage
2	Alianza Lima (A)	22	11	9	2	35	17	+18	42	1999 Copa CONMEBOL playoff
3	Sport Boys	22	12	6	4	24	12	+12	42
4	Universitario	22	8	10	4	32	22	+10	34
5	Cienciano	22	7	9	6	23	20	+3	29^[a]
6	Deportivo Pesquero	22	7	8	7	20	20	0	29
7	Melgar	22	8	5	9	26	33	−7	29
8	Juan Aurich	22	6	8	8	24	27	−3	26
9	Alianza Atlético	22	6	6	10	24	30	−6	24
10	Unión Minas	22	6	6	10	22	30	−8	24
11	Lawn Tennis	22	6	4	12	20	38	−18	22
12	Deportivo Municipal	22	3	4	15	24	43	−19	13

Updated to match(es) played on December 1998. Source: https://www.rsssf.org/tablesp/peru98.html
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(A) Advance to a further round; (O) Play-off winners
Notes:

↑ Cienciano were docked 1 points for fielding 4 foreign players in Round 3.

Results

Home \ Away	AAS	ALI	CIE	MUN	PES	JA	LTF	MEL	SBA	CRI	MIN	UNI
Alianza Atlético		1–1	2–0	2–0	0–0	1–1	2–1	2–2	0–0	2–3	3–0	1–1
Alianza Lima	4–2		4–1	2–1	2–1	2–1	1–1	2–0	3–1	0–2	0–0	1–0
Cienciano	2–0	0–0		4–1	2–0	1–0	4–0	0–0	0–0	2–1	0–0	0–0
Deportivo Municipal	0–1	1–1	1–2		0–3	1–1	1–2	5–1	0–1	2–1	2–3	1–1
Deportivo Pesquero	2–0	0–0	0–0	2–1		2–1	0–1	0–0	0–0	1–1	3–0	2–2
Juan Aurich	2–0	0–0	2–2	1–1	1–0		4–1	3–2	0–4	2–1	2–1	1–1
Lawn Tennis	2–0	1–5	2–0	0–2	1–2	0–0		2–1	0–1	1–1	3–1	0–2
Melgar	2–1	1–2	3–2	1–0	2–0	1–0	3–1		2–0	0–1	3–1	0–3
Sport Boys	1–0	0–0	2–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	0–0	3–0		2–0	2–1	1–1
Sporting Cristal	3–2	1–1	1–0	7–2	0–1	3–1	2–1	3–0	2–0		4–2	2–0
Unión Minas	0–1	2–1	0–0	2–1	3–0	1–1	2–0	0–0	0–1	1–0		2–2
Universitario	3–1	0–3	1–1	3–1	1–1	1–0	4–0	2–2	3–0	0–2	1–0

Updated to match(es) played on 1998. Source: RSSSF Peru 1998
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Clausura title play-off

16 December 1998

20:00

Sporting Cristal	1–0	Alianza Lima
Andrés Mendoza 42'

Estadio Nacional, Lima

Attendance: 40,698

Referee: Gilberto Hidalgo

Sporting Cristal Clausura 1998 winners
To Copa Libertadores 1999
(Alianza Lima to Copa CONMEBOL playoff)

Copa CONMEBOL play-off

20 December 1998

11:30

Sport Boys	0–1	Alianza Lima
		Juan Saavedra 74'

Estadio Miguel Grau, Callao

Attendance: 800

Referee: Juan Mondoñedo

22 December 1998

15:30

Alianza Lima	2–0	Sport Boys
Carlos Basombrío 6' Facundo Gareca 29'

Estadio Alejandro Villanueva, Lima

Attendance: 1,500

Referee: Francisco Núñez

Alianza Lima to 1999 Copa CONMEBOL
(Alianza Lima later declined their spot in favor of Sport Boys)

Title play-off

20 December 1998

15:30

Sporting Cristal	2–1	Universitario
Nilson Esidio 30' Andrés Mendoza 40'		Luis Guadalupe 62'

Estadio Nacional, Lima

Attendance: 28,809

Referee:

Gustavo Méndez

23 December 1998

20:00

Universitario	2–1	Sporting Cristal
Roberto Farfán 41' 55'		Andrés Mendoza 74'
Penalties
Gustavo Grondona César Casas Gustavo Falaschi Luis Guadalupe Eduardo Esidio	4–2	Javier Ferreira Jorge Soto Roger Serrano Germán Carty

Estadio Nacional, Lima

Attendance: 38,459

Referee:

José Luis da Rosa

Aggregate table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sport Boys	44	23	12	9	62	35	+27	81	1999 Copa CONMEBOL
2	Sporting Cristal	44	23	10	11	81	43	+38	79	1999 Copa Libertadores and 1999 Copa Merconorte
3	Universitario (C)	44	19	20	5	72	40	+32	77	1999 Copa Libertadores and 1999 Copa Merconorte
4	Alianza Lima	44	20	15	9	70	38	+32	75	1999 Copa Merconorte
5	Deportivo Pesquero	44	16	14	14	53	49	+4	62
6	Unión Minas	44	17	10	17	55	60	−5	61
7	Juan Aurich	44	13	16	15	51	52	−1	55
8	Cienciano	44	13	16	15	47	47	0	54^[a]
9	Melgar	44	15	7	22	46	69	−23	52
10	Alianza Atlético	44	12	14	18	57	66	−9	50
11	Deportivo Municipal (O)	44	9	8	27	47	91	−44	35	Qualification for Promotion/relegation play-off
12	Lawn Tennis (R)	44	9	6	29	36	87	−51	33	Relegation to 1999 Segunda División

Updated to match(es) played on December, 1999. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:

↑ Cienciano were docked 1 points for fielding 4 foreign players in Round 3.

Promotion/relegation play-off

The promotion/relegation play-off was a two-legged series played by the team placing 11th in the 1998 Primera División, Deportivo Municipal and the 1998 Segunda División champion Hijos de Yurimaguas.

20 December 1998

15:00

Deportivo Municipal	4–1 (a.e.t.)	Hijos de Yurimaguas
Ronald Baroni 34' 100' 113' Paolo Maldonado 119'		Benjamín Rodríguez 64'

Estadio Nacional, Lima

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: José Arana

Deportivo Municipal remained in Primera División

Top scorers

25 goals

Nelson Esidio (Sporting Cristal)

19 goals

Martín Reyes (Juan Aurich)

17 goals

Roberto Farfán (Universitario)
Sergio Ibarra (Sport Boys)

16 goals

Andrés Gonzales (Deportivo Pesquero)
Jorge Soto (Sporting Cristal)

References

External links

Peru 1998 season Details on RSSSF

[table_hth_CIE0.14248548873816-4] Cienciano were docked 1 points for fielding 4 foreign players in Round 3.

[table_hth_CIE0.51821320015854-5] Cienciano were docked 1 points for fielding 4 foreign players in Round 3.

[1] Rsssf.org Peru 1998

[2] A 22 años de un agónico título

[3] Universitario de Deportes: un día como hoy, hace 20 años, derrotó a Sporting Cristal para coronarse campeón

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Teams

Team changes

Stadia locations

Torneo Apertura

Standings

Results

Torneo Clausura

Standings

Results

Clausura title play-off

Copa CONMEBOL play-off

Title play-off

Aggregate table

Promotion/relegation play-off

Top scorers

References

See also

External links