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2002 Torneo Descentralizado

Field	Value
competition	Torneo Descentralizado
season	2002
dates	22 February 2002 –
15 December 2002
winners	Sporting Cristal
14th Primera División title
runners-up	Universitario
relegated	Juan Aurich
Coopsol Trujillo
continentalcup1	Copa Libertadores
continentalcup1 qualifiers	Sporting Cristal
Universitario
Alianza Lima
continentalcup2	Copa Sudamericana
continentalcup2 qualifiers	Alianza Lima
Cienciano
league topscorer	Luis Fabián Artime (24 goals)
prevseason	2001
nextseason	2003

15 December 2002 14th Primera División title | runners-up = Universitario Coopsol Trujillo Universitario Alianza Lima Cienciano

The 2002 Torneo Descentralizado was the 86th season of the top category of Peruvian football (soccer). It was played by 12 teams. The national champion was Sporting Cristal.

Competition modus

The national championship was divided into two and 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, but a team had to finish in the top 4 in both tournaments to earn the right to play the final. If the same club had won both tournaments, it would have won the national championship automatically.

Following-season Copa Libertadores berths went to each half-year tournament winner, and the best-placed team in the aggregate table. The two bottom teams on the aggregate table were relegated, but a playoff had to be played between the 10th- and 11th-placed teams since both obtained the same number of points (goal difference did not count as a tie-breaker).

Teams

Team changes

Promoted from
2001 Copa Perú	Relegated from
2001 Primera División
Coronel Bolognesi (1st)	Unión Minas (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
Coronel Bolognesi	Tacna	Jorge Basadre	19,850	Grass
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
Universitario	Lima	Monumental	80,093	Grass

Torneo Apertura

League table

Results

Apertura playoff

Torneo Clausura

Results

Final playoff

No final playoff was played since the Apertura winner Universitario did not finish in the Clausura's top 4, while Sporting Cristal won the Clausura after placing third in the Apertura.

Aggregate table

Relegation play-off

R. Miñán

E. Salazar J. Montenegro H. Veloyes

Top scorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	ARG Luis Artime	Melgar	24
2	ARG Sergio Ibarra	Alianza Atlético	22
3	PER Germán Carty	Cienciano	18
PER Antonio Serrano	Sport Boys	18
5	URU Ernesto Zapata	Cienciano	15

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