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2016 Copa Perú

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Season
  
2016

Dates
  
1 Feb 2016 – 10 Oct 2016

Location
  
Peru

Champions
  
Sport Rosario

Champion
  
Sport Rosario

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Similar
  
2015 Copa Perú, 2016 Peruvian Segunda, 2016 Torneo Descentralizado, 2013 Copa Perú, 2015 Torneo Descentralizado

The 2016 Peru Cup season (Spanish: Copa Perú 2016), the largest amateur tournament of Peruvian football, started in February.

Contents

This edition has featured a change, with the elimination of the Regional Stage and the inclusion of participants from all the Regions of Peru in the National Stage. Under the new format, the tournament has four stages. The first three stages are played as mini-league round-robin tournaments, and the fourth stage is played under POT System intellectual property of the MatchVision company.

The 2016 Peru Cup started with the District Stage (Spanish: Etapa Distrital) in February. The next stage was the Provincial Stage (Spanish: Etapa Provincial) which started in June. The tournament continued with the Departmental Stage (Spanish: Etapa Departamental) in July. The National Stage (Spanish: Etapa Nacional) starts in September. The winner of the National Stage will be promoted to the First Division and the runner-up will be promoted to the Second Division.

Departmental stage

Departmental Stage: 2016 Ligas Departamentales del Peru and 2016 Ligas Superiores del Peru

The following list shows the teams that qualified for the National Stage.

National stage

In 2015 the National Stage has grown to 50 teams, and the new National Stage, designed by MatchVision, is played under Regional using the POT System, with all the Regions of Peru will have representated. The National Stage starts in the first week of September.

This phase features the 50 teams that qualified from the Departmental Stage. Each team plays 3 games at home and 3 games away, for a total of 6 games against 3 different geographical rivals. The departmental stage winners only play against departmental runner-ups, and vice versa. All the teams are positioned in one general table. After 6 matches, the team in places 1 to 8 are qualified directly to the Round of 16, while the teams in places 9 to 24 will play the Repechage phase. The teams in places 25 to 50 are eliminated.

The winner of the National Stage will be promoted to the 2017 Torneo Descentralizado and the runner-up of the National Stage will be promoted to the 2017 Peruvian Segunda División.

League table

Updated to games played on 2016.
Source: ADFP-SD - official site
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored; 4) head-to-head record; 5) drawing of lots
(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.

Final group stage

The final group stage, colloquially known as La Finalísima, will be played by the four semifinalist at the Estadio Nacional in Lima. The team with the most points will be declared the winner and be promoted to the 2017 Torneo Descentralizado. The runner-up will be promoted to the 2017 Peruvian Segunda División. The draw for this stage of the tournament took place 30 November 2016 at the Peruvian Football Federation's headquarters.

References

2016 Copa Perú Wikipedia