Season 2004 Start date 2004 End date December 29, 2004 | Top goalscorer Gabriel Garcia (35) Location Peru | |
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Champions Alianza Lima
21st Primera División title Copa Libertadores Alianza Lima
Sporting Cristal
Cienciano Copa Sudamericana Alianza Atlético
Universitario Relegated Deportivo Wanka, Estudiantes de Medicina People also search for 2003 Torneo Descentralizado | ||
The 2004 Torneo Descentralizado (known as the Copa Cable Mágico for sponsorship reasons) was the eighty-eighth season of Peruvian football. A total of 14 teams competed in the tournament, with Alianza Lima as the defending champion. Alianza Lima won its twenty-first Primera División title after beating Sporting Cristal in the final playoff.
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Structural changes
The number of teams for the 2004 season grew from 12 to 14. The relegation system was re-introduced but the system was determined by a points per match average. The qualification for the Copa Sudamericana was determined by the aggregate table instead of the Torneo Apertura playoffs. Due to a structure change in the Copa Libertadores, only two teams will qualify directly to the group stage (the half-year champions) and the best-placed non-champion will have to play in the first stage.
Promotion and relegation
No teams were relegated from the 2003 season and thus the number of teams grew from 12 to 14. Segunda División champion Sport Coopsol and Copa Perú 2003 champion U. César Vallejo were promoted.
Torneo Apertura
Updated to games played on May, 2004.
Source: Peruvian Football Apertura 2004
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Torneo Clausura
Updated to games played on December, 2004.
Source: Peruvian Football Clausura 2004
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
1. Deportivo Wanka were docked 3 points for failing to pay players.
2. Grau-Estudiantes withdrew from tournament, lost last 4 games by w.o.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Aggregate table
Updated to games played on December, 2004.
Source: FIFA Standings
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
1. Deportivo Wanka were docked 3 points for failing to pay players.
2. Grau-Estudiantes withdrew from tournament, lost last 4 games by w.o.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.