Primera División Peruana 1993

The 1993 season of the Primera División Peruana, the top category of Peruvian football (soccer), was played by 16 teams. The national champions were Universitario de Deportes.

The 1993 season was played with a regular season tournament played on a home-and-away round-robin basis followed by a Liguilla post-season. The winners of the regular season were crowned national champions and qualified for the Copa Libertadores 1994. The second place team qualified for the Liguilla post-season with a bonus point while the teams that placed third to eighth contested a playoff round. Three teams from the playoff round qualified for the Liguilla and the winners Alianza Lima qualified for the Copa Libertadores. The bottow two teams were relegated and the third-to-last team played a relegation playoff with the Copa Peru runners-up at the end of the regular season. A second season known as the Intermediate Tournament was played to determine which team obtained the Copa CONMEBOL berth. However, the winners Deportivo Municipal declined to play the Copa CONMEBOL 1994 and the berth went to the Liguilla runners-up Sporting Cristal.

Results

Regular season

Liguilla playoff

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Lima

Promotion

*Ciclista Lima and Juan Aurich-Cañaña were promoted to the Primera División Peruana 1994.
**Ciclista Lima were the winners of the Segunda División Peruana 1993.
**Juan Aurich-Cañaña were the winners of the Copa Peru 1993.

International competitions

*Copa Libertadores 1993:Universitario de Deportes - first place in Group 1 with 9 points; lost to Barcelona SC in round of 16.:Sporting Cristal - second place in Group 1 with 7 points; beat El Nacional in round of 16; lost to América de Cali in quarterfinals.
*Copa CONMEBOL 1993:Deportivo Sipesa - beat Emelec in round of 16; lost to Atlético Mineiro in quarterfinals.

External links

* [http://www.rsssf.com/tablesp/peru93.html RSSSF Peru 1993 by Carlos Manuel Nieto Tarazona, José Luis Pierrend, Eli Schmerler]