2022 Liga 1 (Peru)

Season2022

Dates4 February – 12 November 2022

ChampionsAlianza Lima (25th title)

RelegatedUniversidad San Martín
Carlos Stein
Ayacucho

Liga 1
Season	2022
Dates	4 February – 12 November 2022
Champions	Alianza Lima (25th title)
Relegated	Universidad San Martín Carlos Stein Ayacucho
Copa Libertadores	Alianza Lima Melgar Sporting Cristal Sport Huancayo
Copa Sudamericana	Universitario Universidad César Vallejo Cienciano Binacional
Matches	346
Goals	937 (2.71 per match)
Top goalscorer	Luis Benítes (19 goals)
Biggest home win	Binacional 5–0 Academia Cantolao (14 February) Ayacucho 5–0 U. San Martín (26 February) Cienciano 5–0 Alianza Atlético (9 April) Alianza Lima 5–0 U. San Martín (26 September)
Biggest away win	U. San Martín 0–4 Universitario (16 July) U. San Martín 1–5 UTC (18 September)
Highest scoring	Sporting Cristal 6–4 Municipal (16 April)
← 2021 2023 →

The 2022 Liga 1 de Fútbol Profesional (known as the Liga 1 Betsson 2022 for sponsorship reasons) was the 106th season of the Peruvian Primera División, the highest division of Peruvian football. A total of 19 teams competed in the season, which began on 4 February and ended on 12 November 2022. The season was originally scheduled to start on 21 January 2022, but the date was pushed back due to the detection of several COVID-19 cases in the participating clubs.^[1]^[2]

Defending champions Alianza Lima won their twenty-fifth league championship in this season, defeating Melgar in the finals after losing the first leg 1–0 and winning the second leg 2–0, for a 2–1 score on aggregate.^[3]

The season was divided into three stages: Torneo Apertura, Torneo Clausura, and the Playoffs.^[4] Both Apertura and Clausura tournaments were played under a single round-robin format with the 19 teams playing each other once. The winners of the Apertura and Clausura stages qualified for the playoffs, as long as they ended the season in the top eight of the aggregate table, along with the top two teams on the aggregate table at the end of the season.

The four teams qualified for the playoffs were to play two double-legged semifinals with the winners playing the finals to decide the national champion, unless any of the following conditions is met:

If one of the Apertura or Clausura tournament winners also ended up in the top two of the aggregate table, they would get a bye to the finals and the remaining two teams would play a semifinal to decide the other finalist.
If both Apertura and Clausura tournament winners ended up placing in the top two of the aggregate table, the semifinals would not be played and both teams would get a bye to the finals.
If one team won both the Apertura and Clausura tournaments, the playoffs would not be played and that team would be declared as champion.

The bottom two teams of the aggregate table at the end of the season were relegated, while the 17th placed team of the aggregate table played the Liga 2 runner-up in a double-legged playoff (Revalidación) to remain in Liga 1.

Teams

Promoted from 2021 Liga 2	Promoted from 2021 Copa Perú	Relegated from 2021 Liga 1
Atlético Grau (1st) Carlos Stein (2nd)	ADT (1st)	Cusco (17th) Alianza Universidad (18th)

Team	Manager	City	Stadium	Capacity^[7]
Academia Cantolao	Alejandro Apud	Callao	Miguel Grau	17,000
ADT	Franco Navarro	Tarma	Unión Tarma	9,100
Alianza Atlético	Mario Viera	Sullana	Campeones del 36	12,000
Alianza Lima	Guillermo Salas (caretaker)	Lima	Alejandro Villanueva	35,938
Atlético Grau	Gustavo Álvarez	Piura	Municipal de Bernal	7,000
Ayacucho	Édgar Ospina	Ayacucho	Ciudad de Cumaná	15,000
Binacional	Wilmar Valencia	Juliaca	Guillermo Briceño Rosamedina	20,030
Carlos A. Mannucci	Jorge Pautasso	Trujillo	Mansiche	25,036
Carlos Stein	Javier Arce	Jaén	Víctor Montoya Segura	9,000
Cienciano	Jesús Cisneros (caretaker)	Cusco	Garcilaso	45,056
Deportivo Municipal	Juan Pajuelo	Lima	Iván Elías Moreno	10,000
Melgar	Pablo Lavallén	Arequipa	Virgen de Chapi	40,370
Sport Boys	Juan Alayo	Callao	Miguel Grau	17,000
Sport Huancayo	Mifflin Bermúdez	Huancayo	Huancayo	20,000
Sporting Cristal	Roberto Mosquera	Lima	Alberto Gallardo	11,600
Universidad César Vallejo	José del Solar	Trujillo	Mansiche	25,036
Universidad San Martín	Orlando Lavalle	Lima	Universidad San Marcos	32,000
Universitario	Carlos Compagnucci	Lima	Monumental	80,093
UTC	Marcelo Grioni	Cajamarca	Héroes de San Ramón	18,000

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Torneo Apertura
Universidad San Martín	José Espinoza	End of caretaker spell	30 October 2021	Pre-season	Juan Luvera	27 January 2022^[8]
Alianza Atlético	Marcelo Vivas	End of contract	30 October 2021	Mario Viera	13 November 2021^[9]
Ayacucho	Walter Fiori	30 October 2021	Alejandro Apud	27 November 2021^[10]
Sport Huancayo	Javier Arce	30 October 2021	Carlos Desio	3 December 2021^[11]
Carlos A. Mannucci	Pablo Peirano	6 November 2021^[12]	Enrique Meza Jr.	7 November 2021^[13]
Atlético Grau	Jesús Oropesa	9 November 2021^[14]	Gustavo Álvarez	9 November 2021^[15]
UTC	Mario Viera	1 December 2021^[16]	Franco Navarro	26 November 2021^[17]
Binacional	Carlos Desio	Signed by Sport Huancayo	3 December 2021^[11]	Wilmar Valencia	26 January 2022^[18]
Universitario	Gregorio Pérez	Resigned	21 January 2022^[19]	Edgardo Adinolfi^[i]	21 January 2022^[20]
Edgardo Adinolfi	Mutual agreement	3 February 2022^[21]	Álvaro Gutiérrez^[ii]	3 February 2022^[22]
Sport Boys	Ytalo Manzo	26 February 2022^[23]	17th	Juan Alayo^[i]	26 February 2022^[24]
Juan Alayo	End of caretaker spell	5 March 2022	12th	Walter Fiori	4 March 2022^[25]
Carlos A. Mannucci	Enrique Meza Jr.	Mutual agreement	7 March 2022^[26]	19th	Mario Saralegui	8 March 2022^[27]
Universidad San Martín	Juan Luvera	5 April 2022^[28]	19th	Víctor Rivera	6 April 2022^[29]
Carlos Stein	Jahir Butrón	8 April 2022^[30]	16th	Tabaré Silva	11 April 2022^[31]
Sport Boys	Walter Fiori	11 April 2022^[32]	18th	Juan Alayo^[iii]	11 April 2022^[32]
Universitario	Álvaro Gutiérrez	18 April 2022^[34]	6th	Jorge Araujo^[i]	18 April 2022^[34]
UTC	Franco Navarro	Sacked	27 April 2022^[35]	15th	Marcelo Grioni	28 April 2022^[36]
Ayacucho	Alejandro Apud	28 May 2022^[37]	18th	Marcelo Vivas	9 June 2022^[38]
Academia Cantolao	Carlos Silvestri	Mutual agreement	2 June 2022^[39]	19th	Guillermo Esteves^[i]	18 June 2022^[40]
Universitario	Jorge Araujo	End of caretaker spell	16 June 2022^[41]	7th	Carlos Compagnucci	16 June 2022^[41]
ADT	Juan Carlos Bazalar	Mutual agreement	27 June 2022^[42]	15th	Franco Navarro^[iv]	27 June 2022^[43]
Academia Cantolao	Guillermo Esteves	End of caretaker spell	2 July 2022	16th	Alejandro Apud	2 July 2022^[44]
Cienciano	Gerardo Ameli	Resigned	2 July 2022^[45]	4th	César Vigevani	2 July 2022^[46]
Torneo Clausura
Melgar	Néstor Lorenzo	Signed by Colombia	6 July 2022^[47]	Pre-tournament	Pablo Lavallén	3 July 2022^[48]
Carlos A. Mannucci	Mario Saralegui	Sacked	28 July 2022^[49]	19th	Jorge Pautasso	29 July 2022^[50]
Ayacucho	Marcelo Vivas	8 August 2022^[51]	17th	Édgar Ospina	8 August 2022^[52]
Sport Huancayo	Carlos Desio	9 August 2022^[53]	14th	Mifflin Bermúdez^[v]	9 August 2022^[53]
Carlos Stein	Tabaré Silva	5 September 2022^[55]	17th	Daniel Valderrama^[i]	5 September 2022^[55]
Alianza Lima	Carlos Bustos	Mutual agreement	11 September 2022^[56]	5th	Guillermo Salas^[i]	11 September 2022^[56]
Deportivo Municipal	Hernán Lisi	12 September 2022^[57]	14th	Juan Pajuelo	13 September 2022^[58]
Carlos Stein	Daniel Valderrama	End of caretaker spell	12 September 2022	18th	Javier Arce	12 September 2022^[59]
Universidad San Martín	Víctor Rivera	Sacked	19 September 2022^[60]	19th	Orlando Lavalle	19 September 2022^[61]
Cienciano	César Vigevani	Mutual agreement	20 October 2022^[62]	13th	Jesús Cisneros^[vi]	21 October 2022^[63]

Torneo Apertura

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Melgar	18	13	2	3	23	11	+12	41	Advance to the Playoffs
2	Sport Huancayo	18	12	4	2	35	18	+17	40
3	Sporting Cristal	18	11	5	2	35	20	+15	38
4	Alianza Lima	18	10	3	5	28	16	+12	33
5	Cienciano	18	9	5	4	37	22	+15	32
6	Binacional	18	10	1	7	24	19	+5	31
7	Universidad César Vallejo	18	8	6	4	25	15	+10	30
8	Alianza Atlético	18	9	3	6	26	27	−1	30
9	Universitario	18	8	4	6	24	19	+5	28
10	Deportivo Municipal	18	7	4	7	30	36	−6	25
11	UTC	18	6	2	10	29	32	−3	20
12	Carlos A. Mannucci	18	5	5	8	19	22	−3	20
13	Atlético Grau	18	4	6	8	20	23	−3	18
14	Sport Boys	18	5	3	10	17	32	−15	18
15	ADT	18	3	7	8	14	24	−10	16
16	Academia Cantolao	18	4	3	11	18	32	−14	15
17	Universidad San Martín	18	4	3	11	21	37	−16	15
18	Carlos Stein	18	3	5	10	18	31	−13	14
19	Ayacucho	18	3	3	12	25	32	−7	12

Source: Liga 1, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals for; 4) Fair play points; 5) Drawing of lots.

Results

Home \ Away	ADT	AAS	ALI	CAG	AYA	BIN	CAN	CAM	STE	CIE	MUN	MEL	SBA	SHU	CRI	UCV	USM	UNI	UTC
ADT		1–2	1–1		0–0						2–3		3–0	1–0	1–1	0–0			1–2
Alianza Atlético			4–2		2–1	2–0		0–0			2–2	0–0	1–2				3–1		1–0
Alianza Lima				1–1	2–0			3–1	5–2	1–0					0–1	2–0			1–0
Atlético Grau	4–1	1–2					1–0			1–2				3–4	0–2	1–1		0–1
Ayacucho				1–2		2–3	1–2	2–2	2–1			0–1		1–1			5–0	1–2	3–2
Binacional	0–1		1–0	1–1			5–0	2–1	3–0	3–2		0–1		1–0				1–0
Academia Cantolao	3–0	1–3	1–2					3–2			0–2	0–1	0–1	0–2			2–2	0–3
Carlos A. Mannucci	1–1			1–0					1–0	0–2				0–1	1–3	0–0		0–0
Carlos Stein	0–0	0–1		1–1			2–1			2–2					1–1	1–2		2–1	2–0
Cienciano	0–0	5–0			3–1		1–0				4–2		4–1		0–1		5–3		3–2
Deportivo Municipal			0–3	1–1	3–2	1–0		1–0	1–1			1–3		0–1		1–4		2–1
Melgar	3–0		1–0	1–0				1–0	3–0	1–0						1–0		2–0
Sport Boys			0–0	2–1	1–0	1–3		1–4	2–1		1–2	0–1		2–3
Sport Huancayo		4–1	2–0						2–1	3–3		3–0			1–0	1–1		2–0
Sporting Cristal		1–0			3–2	1–0	2–2				6–4	2–2	3–0				4–1		3–2
Universidad César Vallejo		3–1			2–1	4–0	0–1			0–0			1–1		2–0		2–0		3–1
Universidad San Martín	2–0		0–1	1–2		0–1		1–3	3–1		1–1	2–0	2–0	1–1
Universitario	2–1	3–1	1–4							1–1			1–1		1–1	3–0	3–0		1–0
UTC				0–0		2–0	2–2	1–2			4–3	3–1	2–1	3–4			3–1

Source: Liga 1, Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Torneo Clausura

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Alianza Lima	18	13	3	2	31	10	+21	42	Advance to the Playoffs
2	Sporting Cristal	18	12	5	1	39	17	+22	41
3	Atlético Grau	18	11	4	3	30	19	+11	37
4	Universitario	18	9	6	3	26	10	+16	33
5	Melgar	18	10	3	5	31	18	+13	33
6	Universidad César Vallejo	18	10	3	5	25	24	+1	33
7	UTC	18	8	4	6	28	24	+4	28
8	Sport Huancayo	18	8	3	7	26	19	+7	27
9	Alianza Atlético	18	8	3	7	23	21	+2	27
10	Binacional	18	8	2	8	28	19	+9	26
11	Cienciano	18	7	4	7	24	23	+1	25
12	ADT	18	6	6	6	25	25	0	24
13	Sport Boys	18	6	3	9	23	31	−8	21
14	Deportivo Municipal	18	5	5	8	20	29	−9	20
15	Academia Cantolao	18	4	7	7	19	22	−3	19
16	Ayacucho	18	3	5	10	16	28	−12	14
17	Carlos A. Mannucci	18	3	4	11	13	33	−20	13
18	Carlos Stein	18	1	3	14	18	43	−25	6
19	Universidad San Martín	18	1	3	14	17	47	−30	6

Source: Liga 1, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals for; 4) Fair play points; 5) Drawing of lots.

Results

Home \ Away	ADT	AAS	ALI	CAG	AYA	BIN	CAN	CAM	STE	CIE	MUN	MEL	SBA	SHU	CRI	UCV	USM	UNI	UTC
ADT				1–1		1–0	2–1	2–1	1–0	0–1		1–1					4–1	1–1
Alianza Atlético	2–2			4–1			3–1		2–1	1–0				1–0	0–2	3–0		2–2
Alianza Lima	2–0	1–0				2–0	0–0				4–1	2–0	3–1	1–0			5–0	0–2
Atlético Grau			1–2		3–0	3–1		2–1	0–0		2–1	2–1	3–0				1–0		3–1
Ayacucho	1–2	2–0	0–1							0–1	1–1		1–1		0–1	0–1
Binacional		2–0			4–1						2–0		3–0		1–1	3–0	4–0		2–0
Academia Cantolao				1–2	1–1	1–0			3–2	3–1					2–2	0–1			0–0
Carlos A. Mannucci		2–2	0–1		0–1	2–1	0–0				1–1	0–1	0–0				3–2		0–2
Carlos Stein			1–2		2–2	2–3		1–2			1–4	0–2	3–2	0–1			1–1
Cienciano			0–2	2–2		1–1		2–0	6–2			2–2		0–1		2–0		1–0
Deportivo Municipal	1–0	0–1					1–0			0–0			2–2		0–3		2–1		1–2
Melgar		0–1			3–0	2–1	3–1				6–2		3–0	1–0	0–1		2–1		1–0
Sport Boys	2–1	2–0					1–0			2–1					3–5	1–2	2–0	0–1	3–0
Sport Huancayo	1–1			1–1	0–1	1–0	1–1	4–0			2–1		3–1				3–2		4–0
Sporting Cristal	4–2		0–0	1–2				4–0	3–2	4–1				4–3		0–0		0–0
Universidad César Vallejo	3–2		3–2	0–1				4–1	3–0		1–1	3–2		2–1				1–0
Universidad San Martín		1–0			3–3		1–3			1–2					1–2	1–1		0–4	1–5
Universitario				2–0	2–1	2–0	1–1	3–0	2–0		0–1	1–1		2–0
UTC	2–2	2–1	1–1		2–1				4–0	2–1					0–2	4–0		1–1

Source: Liga 1, Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Aggregate table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sporting Cristal	36	23	10	3	74	37	+37	79	Advance to Playoffs and qualification for Copa Libertadores second stage
2	Alianza Lima^[a] (C)	36	23	6	7	59	26	+33	77	Advance to Playoffs and qualification for Copa Libertadores group stage
3	Melgar	36	23	5	8	54	29	+25	74
4	Sport Huancayo	36	20	7	9	61	37	+24	67	Qualification for Copa Libertadores first stage
5	Universitario	36	17	10	9	50	29	+21	61	Qualification for Copa Sudamericana first stage^[b]
6	Universidad César Vallejo^[c]	36	18	9	9	50	39	+11	61
7	Cienciano	36	16	9	11	61	45	+16	57
8	Binacional	36	18	3	15	52	38	+14	57
9	Alianza Atlético	36	17	6	13	49	48	+1	57
10	Atlético Grau	36	15	10	11	50	42	+8	55
11	UTC	36	14	6	16	57	56	+1	48
12	Deportivo Municipal^[d]	36	12	9	15	50	65	−15	41
13	ADT	36	9	13	14	39	49	−10	40
14	Academia Cantolao	36	8	10	18	37	54	−17	34
15	Carlos A. Mannucci	36	8	9	19	32	55	−23	33
16	Sport Boys^[e]	36	11	6	19	40	63	−23	32
17	Ayacucho^[f] (R)	36	6	8	22	41	60	−19	27	Qualification for Relegation playoff
18	Universidad San Martín (R)	36	5	6	25	38	84	−46	21	Relegation to Liga 2
19	Carlos Stein^[g] (R)	36	4	8	24	36	74	−38	18	Relegation to Liga 2

Source: Liga 1
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals for; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head goals for; 7) Fair play points; 8) Drawing of lots.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

↑ Alianza Lima were awarded two points for winning the 2022 Torneo de Promoción y Reserva.
↑ Due to the cancellation of the 2022 Copa Bicentenario by the FPF, the spot awarded to its champions (Copa Sudamericana first stage) was passed over to the aggregate table fourth best-placed team not qualified for the Copa Libertadores.^[64]
↑ Universidad César Vallejo were deducted two points as punishment for failing to pay debts.^[65]^[66]
↑ Deportivo Municipal were deducted four points as punishment for failing to pay debts.^[67]
↑ Sport Boys were deducted seven points as punishment for failing to pay debts.^[68]^[69]^[70]^[71]
↑ Ayacucho were awarded one point for ending as Torneo de Promoción y Reserva runners-up.
↑ Carlos Stein were deducted two points as punishment for failing to pay debts.^[72]^[73]

Playoffs

Semi-finals				Finals

Melgar	2	2	4

Sporting Cristal	0	0	0
				Melgar	1	0	1

				Alianza Lima	0	2	2

Semi-final

First leg

2 November 2022

15:00 UTC−5

Melgar	2–0	Sporting Cristal
Iberico 65', 77'	Report

Estadio Monumental de la UNSA, Arequipa

Referee: Bruno Pérez

Second leg

6 November 2022

15:00 UTC−5

Sporting Cristal	0–2	Melgar
	Report	Cuesta 52' Iberico 84'

Estadio Nacional, Lima

Referee: Edwin Ordóñez

Melgar won 4–0 on aggregate and advanced to the finals.

Finals

First leg

9 November 2022

15:00 UTC−5

Melgar	1–0	Alianza Lima
Vílchez 75' (o.g.)	Report

Estadio Monumental de la UNSA, Arequipa

Referee: Michael Espinoza

Second leg

12 November 2022

20:00 UTC−5

Alianza Lima	2–0	Melgar
Vílchez 45+1' Lavandeira 74'	Report

Estadio Alejandro Villanueva, Lima

Referee: Bruno Pérez

Alianza Lima won 2–1 on aggregate.

Relegation playoff

6 November 2022

13:00 UTC−5

Unión Comercio	3–0	Ayacucho
Medrano 49', 64' Sánchez 90+3'	Report

Estadio Carlos Vidaurre García, Tarapoto

Referee: Joel Alarcón

13 November 2022

15:00 UTC−5

Ayacucho	2–1	Unión Comercio
Regalado 45+4', 72'	Report	Zeta 12'

Estadio Ciudad de Cumaná, Ayacucho

Referee: Edwin Ordóñez

Unión Comercio won 4–2 on aggregate and were promoted to Liga 1. Ayacucho were relegated to Liga 2.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Luis Benítes	Sport Huancayo	19
2	Hernán Barcos	Alianza Lima	18
3	Danilo Carando	Cienciano	16
4	Facundo Peraza	UTC	15
	Yorleys Mena	Universidad César Vallejo
	Janio Posito	Binacional
7	Bernardo Cuesta	Melgar	14
8	Rodrigo Salinas	Atlético Grau	13
	Alexis Rojas	Universidad San Martín
	Luis Iberico	Melgar
	Gaspar Gentile	UTC

Source: Futbolperuano.com

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2022 Liga 1 (Peru)

Teams

Team changes

Stadia and locations

Managerial changes

Torneo Apertura

Standings

Results

Torneo Clausura

Standings

Results

Aggregate table

Playoffs

Semi-final

First leg

Second leg

Finals

First leg

Second leg

Relegation playoff

Top scorers

See also

References

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