1936 Torneo Extraordinario de la División de Honor

The local football season was divided into three phases during 1936. In the first phase, a series of friendly matches were played, both at the domestic and international level. In the second phase, the Peruvian national team took part in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. In the third phase, the first-ever División de Honor championship was supposed to be held, a plan that ultimately never materialized.

After the Peruvian footballers returned from Europe, it was expected that the clubs would reach an agreement for the official competition to begin. However, time passed without any concrete decision being made to start the tournament.

Thus, on October 31, the Peruvian Football Federation definitively agreed that the Official Championship would not be played.

With little expectation of seeing football in Lima, and after the Peruvian national team departed for Buenos Aires to participate in the 1937 South American Championship, an initiative emerged during the first week of December within the División de Honor to stage a tournament among its eight member clubs, despite the fact that many of the capital’s leading players would be absent due to their call-ups to the Peru national team.

Several formats were considered for the competition, including the possibility of forming a single team made up of players from Alianza Lima, Universitario and Sport Boys, as it was believed that these clubs might struggle to field a competitive XI given that many of their best players were with the national team. In the end, this idea was abandoned, as the three clubs reorganized their squads and opted to rely on players from their reserve teams.

The tournament also included Sporting Tabaco, Telmo Carbajo, Sportivo Tarapacá Ferrocarril, Atlético Chalaco and Sucre

The lightning tournament kicked off on December 20, 1936, and ran until January 17, 1937, with a total of nine matches played.