# 2001 Torneo Descentralizado

The 2001 Torneo Descentralizado, was the 85th season of the top category of Peruvian football (soccer). It was played by 12 teams. The national champion was Alianza Lima.

## Competition modus

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 tournament played for the national title in a two-legged final. Should the same team have won both tournaments, they would have been automatic champions.
Qualification to CONMEBOL's Copa Libertadores was won by each tournament winner and the winner of a play-off between the teams that placed second in each tournament. The bottom team on the aggregate table was relegated, while the eleventh placed team played a relegation/promotion play-off against the winner of the Segunda División (Second Division).

## Teams
### Team changes

| Promoted from 2000 Copa Perú | Relegated from 2000 Primera División |
| Estudiantes de Medicina (1st) | Deportivo Municipal (12th) |

### Stadia locations

| Team | City | Stadium | Capacity | Field |
| Alianza Atlético | Sullana | Campeones del 36 | 8,000 | Grass |
| Alianza Lima | Lima | Alejandro Villanueva | 35,000 | Grass |
| Cienciano | Cuzco | Garcilaso | 42,056 | Grass |
| Coopsol Trujillo | Trujillo | Mansiche | 24,000 | Artificial |
| Deportivo Wanka | Huancayo | Huancayo | 20,000 | Grass |
| Estudiantes de Medicina | Ica | José Picasso Peratta | 8,000 | Grass |
| Juan Aurich | Chiclayo | Elías Aguirre | 24,500 | Grass |
| Melgar | Arequipa | Mariano Melgar | 20,000 | Grass |
| Sport Boys | Callao | Miguel Grau | 15,000 | Grass |
| Sporting Cristal | Lima | San Martín de Porres | 18,000 | Grass |
| Unión Minas | Cerro de Pasco | Daniel Alcides Carrión | 8,000 | Grass |
| Universitario | Lima | Monumental | 80,093 | Grass |

## Torneo Apertura

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Sporting Cristal (A) | 22 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 46 | 18 | +28 | 46 | 2002 Copa Libertadores play-off |
| 2 | Alianza Lima (A, O) | 22 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 42 | 19 | +23 | 46 | Copa Libertadores 2002 First stage |
| 3 | Melgar | 22 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 45 | 30 | +15 | 35 | |
| 4 | Cienciano | 22 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 43 | 28 | +15 | 35 | |
| 5 | Sport Boys | 22 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 36 | 40 | −4 | 31 | |
| 6 | Juan Aurich | 22 | 9 | 3 | 10 | 24 | 39 | −15 | 30 | |
| 7 | Alianza Atlético | 22 | 9 | 3 | 10 | 24 | 39 | −15 | 30 | |
| 8 | Universitario | 22 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 29 | 30 | −1 | 29 | |
| 9 | Coopsol Trujillo | 22 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 38 | 48 | −10 | 25 | |
| 10 | Unión Minas | 22 | 7 | 2 | 13 | 30 | 39 | −9 | 23 | |
| 11 | Estudiantes de Medicina | 22 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 25 | 53 | −28 | 20 | |
| 12 | Deportivo Wanka | 22 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 27 | 36 | −9 | 18 | |

### Results

| Home \ Away | AAS | ALI | CIE | WAN | EST | MEL | JA | SBA | COO | CRI | MIN | UNI |
| Alianza Atlético | | 2–2 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–1 |
| Alianza Lima | 4–0 | | 3–1 | 4–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 |
| Cienciano | 2–0 | 1–0 | | 4–2 | 4–1 | 1–2 | 5–2 | 6–0 | 5–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 |
| Deportivo Wanka | 4–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 2–0 |
| Estudiantes de Medicina | 0–2 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | | 2–2 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 2–3 | 2–1 |
| Melgar | 6–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 6–0 | | 1–2 | 2–1 | 5–1 | 0–3 | 4–2 | 2–0 |
| Juan Aurich | 1–1 | 2–3 | 1–3 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 3–2 | | 3–1 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 4–2 | 1–1 |
| Sport Boys | 2–1 | 3–0 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 3–0 | | 3–2 | 0–0 | 3–2 | 5–2 |
| Coopsol Trujillo | 3–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 7–3 | 4–2 | 3–2 | 1–1 | | 1–4 | 2–1 | 2–2 |
| Sporting Cristal | 5–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 7–2 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 4–1 | | 3–1 | 1–2 |
| Unión Minas | 1–0 | 1–3 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | | 1–3 |
| Universitario | 2–0 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 2–1 | |

### Apertura play-off
## Torneo Clausura

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Cienciano (A, O) | 22 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 39 | 30 | +9 | 45 | Copa Libertadores 2002 First stage |
| 2 | Estudiantes de Medicina (A) | 22 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 35 | 26 | +9 | 45 | 2002 Copa Libertadores play-off |
| 3 | Sporting Cristal | 22 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 44 | 25 | +19 | 44 | |
| 4 | Alianza Atlético | 22 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 25 | 24 | +1 | 36 | |
| 5 | Sport Boys | 22 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 29 | 31 | −2 | 32 | |
| 6 | Universitario | 22 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 29 | 24 | +5 | 31 | |
| 7 | Deportivo Wanka | 22 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 22 | 27 | −5 | 28 | |
| 8 | Melgar | 22 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 30 | 31 | −1 | 26 | |
| 9 | Coopsol Trujillo | 22 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 35 | 35 | 0 | 25 | |
| 10 | Alianza Lima | 22 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 25 | 28 | −3 | 21 | |
| 11 | Unión Minas | 22 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 27 | 42 | −15 | 20 | |
| 12 | Juan Aurich | 22 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 22 | 39 | −17 | 15 | |

### Results

| Home \ Away | AAS | ALI | CIE | WAN | EST | MEL | JA | SBA | COO | CRI | MIN | UNI |
| Alianza Atlético | | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 0–0 |
| Alianza Lima | 1–2 | | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 |
| Cienciano | 2–0 | 4–2 | | 2–1 | 4–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 4–2 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 |
| Deportivo Wanka | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–3 | | 0–2 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 1–4 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 |
| Estudiantes de Medicina | 2–0 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 0–2 | | 1–2 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 |
| Melgar | 1–0 | 4–4 | 1–2 | 4–1 | 0–1 | | 2–0 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 2–0 |
| Juan Aurich | 2–3 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–3 | 0–1 | | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 4–2 | 1–1 |
| Sport Boys | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–2 | | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 |
| Coopsol Trujillo | 0–1 | 0–0 | 4–0 | 0–0 | 3–4 | 1–4 | 2–2 | 1–2 | | 3–1 | 5–2 | 2–2 |
| Sporting Cristal | 3–0 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 4–3 | 1–0 | 4–2 | 1–2 | | 8–3 | 1–0 |
| Unión Minas | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–3 | | 1–0 |
| Universitario | 1–0 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 5–2 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–3 | 2–0 | |

### Clausura play-off
## Aggregate table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Sporting Cristal | 44 | 27 | 9 | 8 | 90 | 43 | +47 | 90 | Copa Libertadores 2002 First stage |
| 2 | Cienciano | 44 | 25 | 5 | 14 | 82 | 58 | +24 | 80 | Copa Libertadores 2002 First stage |
| 3 | Alianza Lima | 44 | 17 | 16 | 11 | 67 | 47 | +20 | 67 | Copa Libertadores 2002 First stage |
| 4 | Alianza Atlético | 44 | 20 | 6 | 18 | 49 | 63 | −14 | 66 | |
| 5 | Estudiantes de Medicina | 44 | 19 | 8 | 17 | 60 | 79 | −19 | 65 | |
| 6 | Sport Boys | 44 | 18 | 9 | 17 | 65 | 71 | −6 | 63 | |
| 7 | Melgar | 44 | 18 | 7 | 19 | 75 | 61 | +14 | 61 | |
| 8 | Universitario | 44 | 16 | 12 | 16 | 58 | 54 | +4 | 60 | |
| 9 | Coopsol Trujillo | 44 | 13 | 11 | 20 | 73 | 83 | −10 | 50 | |
| 10 | Deportivo Wanka (A) | 44 | 12 | 10 | 22 | 49 | 63 | −14 | 46 | Qualification for promotion play-off |
| 11 | Juan Aurich (A, O) | 44 | 12 | 10 | 22 | 56 | 78 | −22 | 46 | |
| 12 | Unión Minas | 44 | 12 | 7 | 25 | 57 | 81 | −24 | 43 | Relegation to 2002 Copa Perú |

### Promotion play-off
## Top scorers
### 21 goals

* Jorge Ramírez (Wanka)

### 19 goals

* Paul Cominges (Estudiantes de Medicina)

### 18 goals

* Johan Fano (Unión Minas, Sport Boys)

### 17 goals

* Jorge Soto (Sporting Cristal)

### 16 goals

* Luis A. Bonnet (Sporting Cristal)
* Pedro Ascoy (Juan Aurich)