2025 Liga 3 (Peru)

Season2025

Dates25 April – 8 November 2025

PromotedSport Huancayo II
Estudiantil CNI

Liga 3
Season	2025
Dates	25 April – 8 November 2025
Champions	Sport Huancayo II (1st title)
Promoted	Sport Huancayo II Estudiantil CNI
Relegated	Sport Bolognesi Juventud Santo Domingo Rauker Diablos Rojos
2026 →

The 2025 Liga 3 (known as the Liga 3 Joma 2025 for sponsorship reasons) was the 1st edition of the third tier of Federación Peruana de Futbol.

Sport Huancayo II won the final against Estudiantil CNI with a 3–2 aggregate score and earned promotion to the 2026 Liga 2.^[1]^[2]

The 2025 Liga 3 format was announced on 10 December, 2024.^[3] The tournament will feature three stages, the Regional Stage, Second Stage and the Play-Offs. In the Regional Stage, the 37 teams will be divided into four groups based on geographical location. The top four teams of these groups will advance to the Second Stage while the bottom placed teams will be relegated to the Copa Perú. In the Second Stage, 16 teams that advanced from the Regional Stage will be divided into four groups of four. The top two teams of each group will advance to the Play-Offs. The finalists will be promoted to the Liga 2.

Teams

Initially, 36 teams were to take part in the league: the 25 best placed teams of each department in the national stage of the 2024 Copa Perú plus the 8 quarter-finalists of the 2024 Torneo de Promoción y Reserva and 3 relegated teams from the 2024 Liga 2.^[4] However, in October 2024, Deportivo Municipal suffered revocation of its Liga 2 license and was relegated to the Liga 3, increasing the amount of teams in the Liga 3 from 36 to 37. ^[5]^[6]

Rauker was disqualified and relegated to the 2026 Copa Perú after accumulating two walkovers (Matchdays 2 and 3).^[7]

Team changes

Promoted from 2024 Copa Perú			Qualified from 2024 Torneo de Promoción y Reserva	Relegated from 2024 Liga 2
Unión Santo Domingo (Amazonas 1) Centro Social Pariacoto (Áncash 1) Defensor José María Arguedas (Apurímac 1) Nacional (Arequipa 1) Nuevo San Cristóbal (Ayacucho 1) Cultural Volante (Cajamarca 1) Amazon Callao (Callao 1) Juventud Alfa (Cusco 1) UDA (Huancavelica 1)	Construcción Civil (Huánuco 1) Juventud Santo Domingo (Ica 1) Deportivo Municipal (Pangoa) (Junín 1) Juventus (La Libertad 1) Deportivo Lute (Lambayeque 1) Pacífico (Lima 1) Estudiantil CNI (Loreto 1) Alto Rendimiento (Madre de Dios 1)	Real San Antonio (Moquegua 1) Ecosem Pasco (Pasco 1) Juventud Cautivo (Piura 1) Diablos Rojos (Puno 1) Deportivo Ucrania (San Martín 1) Patriotas (Tacna 1) Sport Bolognesi (Tumbes 1) Rauker (Ucayali 1)	Universitario II (1st) Melgar II (2nd) Alianza Lima II (Semifinalist) ADT II (Semifinalist) Cienciano II (Quarterfinalist) Sport Boys II (Quarterfinalist) Sport Huancayo II (Quarterfinalist) Universidad César Vallejo II (Quarterfinalist)	Deportivo Municipal (12th, Retired) Carlos Stein (16th) Juan Aurich (Retired) Unión Huaral (Retired)

Stadia and locations

Locations of the 2025 Liga 3 teams in Lima

Amazon Callao FC
Sport Boys II

Locations of the 2025 Liga 3 teams in Callao

Team	City	Stadium^[8]	Capacity^[9]
ADT II	Tarma	Unión Tarma	9,100
Alianza Lima II	Lima	Hugo Sotil	13,773
Alto Rendimiento	Puerto Maldonado	IPD de Puerto Maldonado	2,000
Amazon Callao	Callao	Facundo Ramírez Aguilar	2,000
Carlos Stein	Lambayeque	César Flores Marigorda	7,000
Centro Social Pariacoto	Huaraz	Rosas Pampa	18,000
Cienciano II	Ocongate	Municipal de Ocongate	5,000
Construcción Civil	Huánuco	Heraclio Tapia	25,000
Cultural Volante	Bambamarca	Municipal El Frutillo	5,000
Defensor José María Arguedas	Andahuaylas	Municipal de Talavera	6,500
Deportivo Lute	Lambayeque	César Flores Marigorda	7,000
Deportivo Municipal	Lima	Municipal de Chorrillos	12,000
Deportivo Municipal (Pangoa)	Satipo	Municipal de Mazamari	5,000
Diablos Rojos	Juliaca	Guillermo Briceño Rosamedina	20,030
Deportivo Ucrania	Nueva Cajamarca	IPD de Nueva Cajamarca	12,000
Ecosem Pasco	Cerro de Pasco	Daniel Alcides Carrión	12,000
Estudiantil CNI	Iquitos	Max Augustín	24,576
Juan Aurich	Lambayeque	César Flores Marigorda	7,000
Juventud Alfa	Calca	Thomas Ernesto Payne	8,000
Juventud Cautivo	Sullana	Campeones del 36	12,000
Juventud Santo Domingo	Nasca	Municipal de Nasca	10,000
Juventus	Huamachuco	Municipal de Huamachuco	5,000
Melgar II	Arequipa	CAR - FBC Melgar	–
Nacional	Mollendo	Municipal de Mollendo	5,000
Nuevo San Cristóbal	Kimbiri	Municipal de Kimbiri	5,000
Pacífico	Huacho	Segundo Aranda Torres	11,500
Patriotas	Tacna	Jorge Basadre	19,850
Rauker	Pucallpa	Aliardo Soria Pérez	25,848
Real San Antonio	Moquegua	25 de Noviembre	21,073
Sport Bolognesi	Tumbes	Mariscal Cáceres	12,000
Sport Boys II	Callao	Campolo Alcalde	2,000
Sport Huancayo II	Huancayo	Huancayo	20,000
UDA	Huancavelica	IPD de Huancavelica	8,500
Unión Huaral	Huaral	Julio Lores Colán	6,000
Unión Santo Domingo	Chachapoyas	Gran Kuélap	1,000
Universidad César Vallejo II	Trujillo	César Acuña Peralta	2,000
Universitario II	Lima	Campo Mar - U	–

Torneo Regional

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	USD	JUV	CAU	LUT	AUR	UCV	VOL	STE	BOL
1	Unión Santo Domingo	16	10	2	4	32	19	+13	32	Advance to Second Stage		3–2	1–0	2–1	4–1	1–0	3–0	5–0	5–1
2	Juventus	16	9	2	5	36	22	+14	29		3–1		2–0	4–1	1–0	3–2	1–0	1–0	10–0
3	Juventud Cautivo	16	8	3	5	31	21	+10	27		3–2	4–2		3–1	3–1	1–1	3–1	2–1	7–1
4	Deportivo Lute	16	8	3	5	23	18	+5	27		3–0	2–2	1–0		2–0	0–0	1–0	3–1	1–1
5	Juan Aurich	16	6	4	6	15	16	−1	22		0–0	1–0	2–0	2–0		2–0	2–0	0–0	3–0
6	Universidad César Vallejo II	16	4	5	7	20	21	−1	17		1–1	1–2	1–1	0–2	3–0		1–0	2–0	4–0
7	Cultural Volante	16	5	2	9	15	20	−5	17		0–1	1–1	3–0	2–0	2–0	3–0		2–1	0–3
8	Carlos Stein	16	4	4	8	18	26	−8	16		3–1	4–1	0–3	1–2	1–1	2–2	0–0		2–1
9	Sport Bolognesi (R)	16	4	3	9	17	45	−28	15^[a]	Relegation to Copa Perú	1–2	2–1	1–1	0–3	0–0	3–2	3–1	0–3

Updated to match(es) played on 3 August 2025. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(R) Relegated
Notes:

↑ The Disciplinary Committee declared a 3-point deduction against Club Sport Bolognesi, due to an out-of-line player, in the match on matchday 15, between Sport Bolognesi and Carlos Stein, which ended in a 4-0 victory, but the Disciplinary Committee declared Carlos Stein the winner by 3-0. Therefore, Sport Bolognesi is relegated to the 2026 Copa Perú.

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	UNI	CNI	ALI	HUA	SBA	PAC	PAR	MUN	AMA	JSD
1	Universitario II	18	9	5	4	28	11	+17	32	Advance to Second Stage		0–0	1–2	1–0	1–0	1–1	3–1	3–0	1–1	5–0
2	Estudiantil CNI	18	8	7	3	28	12	+16	31		1–1		0–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	0–0	4–2	4–0	3–0
3	Alianza Lima II	18	8	5	5	32	19	+13	29		1–0	1–1		3–4	3–0	2–2	4–0	1–1	2–0	6–0
4	Unión Huaral	18	8	5	5	24	18	+6	29		1–1	2–1	0–1		2–2	3–0	3–0	2–1	3–2	0–3
5	Sport Boys II	18	8	4	6	22	17	+5	28		1–2	2–1	4–0	1–0		1–1	2–0	2–1	1–0	1–2
6	Pacífico	18	6	8	4	19	18	+1	26		1–0	0–1	2–0	0–0	1–2		1–0	2–1	2–1	2–1
7	Centro Social Pariacoto	18	7	1	10	16	32	−16	22		0–3	2–1	1–5	0–2	1–0	2–1		3–0	0–1	1–0
8	Deportivo Municipal	18	5	4	9	21	27	−6	19		0–3	0–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	5–1		2–3	2–0
9	Amazon Callao	18	5	3	10	16	29	−13	18		1–0	1–4	1–0	0–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	0–2		2–1
10	Juventud Santo Domingo (R)	18	3	4	11	15	39	−24	13	Relegation to Copa Perú	0–2	0–4	1–1	1–1	0–2	1–1	1–3	1–1	3–2

Updated to match(es) played on 3 August 2025. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(R) Relegated

Group 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	UCR	CON	CRI	HUA	ADT	UDA	ECO	MUN	RAU
1	Deportivo Ucrania	16	9	4	3	29	13	+16	31	Advance to Second Stage		1–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	4–1	5–0	2–0	3–0
2	Construcción Civil	16	9	4	3	27	11	+16	31		1–0		3–1	1–1	3–1	3–0	2–0	3–1	3–0
3	Nuevo San Cristóbal	16	10	1	5	30	18	+12	31		0–1	2–1		3–2	0–0	3–0	2–1	2–0	3–0
4	Sport Huancayo II	16	9	3	4	28	17	+11	30		2–0	2–1	2–3		2–0	1–0	3–1	1–1	3–0
5	ADT II	16	8	5	3	26	12	+14	29		3–0	0–0	4–2	2–0		0–0	1–0	3–0	3–0
6	UDA	16	7	4	5	21	19	+2	25		1–1	1–0	1–0	0–1	2–2		2–1	3–2	3–0
7	Ecosem Pasco	16	5	2	9	18	27	−9	17		0–3	1–1	1–2	1–1	2–0	0–3		2–1	3–0
8	Deportivo Municipal (Pangoa)	16	2	3	11	18	32	−14	9		2–2	0–1	1–4	2–3	0–3	1–1	1–2		3–0
9	Rauker (D, R)	16	0	0	16	0	48	−48	0^[a]	Relegation to Copa Perú	0–3	0–3	0–3	0–3	0–3	0–3	0–3	0–3

Updated to match(es) played on 9 August 2025. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(D) Disqualified; (R) Relegated
Notes:

↑ Rauker was disqualified and relegated to the 2026 Copa Perú after accumulating two walkovers (Matchdays 2 and 3).

Group 4

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	DEF	NAC	ALF	MEL	PAT	ALT	CIE	SAN	DIA
1	Defensor José María Arguedas	16	10	3	3	35	19	+16	33	Advance to Second Stage		1–1	0–1	2–1	2–0	1–1	4–0	4–0	3–1
2	Nacional	16	9	5	2	40	19	+21	32		4–2		2–1	0–2	1–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	1–0
3	Juventud Alfa	16	10	2	4	36	15	+21	32		2–0	2–0		2–1	2–1	4–0	0–0	4–2	4–0
4	Melgar II	16	8	2	6	30	21	+9	26		2–3	3–3	2–1		1–0	2–3	3–1	5–0	0–3
5	Patriotas	16	7	1	8	30	18	+12	22		0–1	1–2	3–2	3–0		3–0	4–0	1–0	8–1
6	Alto Rendimiento	16	4	4	8	21	29	−8	16		2–3	1–1	1–1	0–2	2–1		1–0	1–2	7–1
7	Cienciano II	16	4	4	8	19	29	−10	16		2–2	3–3	0–1	0–3	2–1	2–0		3–0	2–2
8	Real San Antonio	16	4	4	8	16	30	−14	16		0–4	1–2	3–0	0–0	1–3	0–0	3–1		1–1
9	Diablos Rojos (D, R)	16	2	3	11	17	64	−47	9	Relegation to Copa Perú	2–3	1–15	0–9	0–3	1–1	4–2	0–3	0–2

Updated to match(es) played on 3 August 2025. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(D) Disqualified; (R) Relegated

Second Stage

In the Second Stage, teams ranked 1st and 2nd in the Regional stage started with 2 and 1 extra points respectively. Points earned during the Regional Stage do not carry over during the Second Stage.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	CNI	USD	CAU	HUA
1	Estudiantil CNI	6	3	1	2	11	5	+6	11	Advance to Quarterfinals		0–1	3–0	3–0
2	Unión Santo Domingo	6	2	1	3	7	8	−1	9	Advance to Quarterfinals	1–1		3–1	1–3
3	Juventud Cautivo	6	3	0	3	7	9	−2	9		2–1	2–1		2–0
4	Unión Huaral	6	3	0	3	6	9	−3	9		1–3	1–0	1–0

Updated to match(es) played on 20 September 2025. Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	UNI	ALI	JUV	LUT
1	Universitario II	6	4	2	0	8	2	+6	16	Advance to Quarterfinals		0–0	2–1	2–0
2	Alianza Lima II	6	2	3	1	6	5	+1	9	Advance to Quarterfinals	1–1		1–0	1–1
3	Juventus	6	2	0	4	6	8	−2	7		0–1	2–0		3–2
4	Deportivo Lute	6	1	1	4	6	11	−5	4		0–2	1–3	2–0

Updated to match(es) played on 20 September 2025. Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	MEL	NAC	UCR	CRI
1	Melgar II	6	6	0	0	13	2	+11	18	Advance to Quarterfinals		2–0	2–0	3–2
2	Nacional	6	2	2	2	11	8	+3	9	Advance to Quarterfinals	0–1		1–1	3–1
3	Deportivo Ucrania	6	0	3	3	4	11	−7	5		0–3	1–1		0–2
4	Nuevo San Cristóbal	6	1	1	4	9	16	−7	4		0–2	2–6	2–2

Updated to match(es) played on 21 September 2025. Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	HUA	DEF	ALF	CON
1	Sport Huancayo II	6	4	0	2	10	7	+3	12	Advance to Quarterfinals		2–0	1–2	1–0
2	Defensor José María Arguedas	6	2	2	2	7	5	+2	10	Advance to Quarterfinals	2–3		0–0	4–0
3	Juventud Alfa	6	2	2	2	5	6	−1	8		1–2	0–0		2–1
4	Construcción Civil	6	2	0	4	5	9	−4	7		2–1	0–1	2–0

Updated to match(es) played on 21 September 2025. Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Playoffs

Quarterfinals

First leg

3 October 2025 (2025-10-03)	Unión Santo Domingo	1–0	Universitario II	Gran Kuélap, Chachapoyas
15:00	Joyce Conde 63' (pen.)			Referee: Wuilder Espinoza

4 October 2025 (2025-10-04)	Alianza Lima II	0–1	Estudiantil CNI	Hugo Sotil, Lima
12:00			José García 23'	Referee: Abimelec Rojas

5 October 2025 (2025-10-05)	Nacional	3–0	Sport Huancayo II	Municipal de Mollendo, Mollendo
15:00	Jean Pierre Valdivia 45+4' 84' 90+8'			Referee: Édson Laura

5 October 2025 (2025-10-05)	Defensor José María Arguedas	2–1	Melgar II	Los Chankas, Andahuaylas
15:00	Sebastián López 47' Ollanta Ttupa 90+5'		Bruno Portugal 61'	Referee: Raúl Pastor

Second leg

11 October 2025 (2025-10-11)	Sport Huancayo II	4–1 (4–2 p)	Nacional	Huancayo, Huancayo
11:00	Juan David Martínez 16', 82', 92+'		Ramiro Benaviente 50'	Referee: Jordan Casas
	Penalties
	Jeremi Espinoza Sergio Barboza Valentino Balbuena Edú Villar Diego Caravaño		Luis Pastor Renato Abarca Jean Pierre Valdivia Ramiro Benavente

12 October 2025 (2025-10-12)	Melgar II	0–0	Defensor José María Arguedas	CAR Melgar, Arequipa
14:00

12 October 2025 (2025-10-12)	Estudiantil CNI	1–1	Alianza Lima II	Max Augustín, Iquitos
15:00	Faber Asprilla 60'		Mauricio Arrasco 23'

13 October 2025 (2025-10-13)	Universitario II	2–0	Unión Santo Domingo	CampoMar U, Lima
11:00	Esteban Cruz 2' 18'			Referee: Mario Quispe

Semifinals

First leg

19 October 2025	Defensor José María Arguedas	0–1	Sport Huancayo II	Los Chankas, Andahuaylas
15:00			Cristian Mendoza 53'	Referee: Anthony Carlos

19 October 2025	Estudiantil CNI	1–0	Universitario II	Max Augustín, Iquitos
15:15	Antonio Acosta 60'			Referee: Abimelec Rojas

Second leg

25 October 2025	Sport Huancayo II	2–1	Defensor José María Arguedas	Huancayo, Huancayo
11:00	Juan Martínez 36' (pen.) 60'		Ollanta Ttupa 68'

27 October 2025	Universitario II	0–0	Estudiantil CNI	CampoMar U, Lima
15:00

Final

The winning team promoted to Liga 2 for the 2026 season.

2 November 2025	Estudiantil CNI	1–2	Sport Huancayo II	Max Augustín, Iquitos
15:15	Ronald Ríos 67'		Juan D. Martínez 44' 48'	Referee: Alexander Blas

8 November 2025	Sport Huancayo II	1–1	Estudiantil CNI	Huancayo, Huancayo
11:00	Cris Huyhua 8'		Antonio Acosta 40'	Referee: Walter Guadalupe

Play-off de Ascenso

The winning team promoted to Liga 2 for the 2026 season.

23 November 2025	Estudiantil CNI	2–1	ANBA Perú	Max Augustín, Iquitos
15:00	Élver Torres 43' 45+5'		Alberto Vela 55'	Referee: Jordi Espinoza

30 November 2025	ANBA Perú	2–1 (2–4 p)	Estudiantil CNI	Guillermo Briceño Rosamedina, Juliaca
15:00	Renny Luque 9' Alberto Vela 45+1' (pen.)		Pablo Labrín 89'
	Penalties
	Pedro Zúñiga Renny Luque Sait Ballesteros Jorge Blanco		Pablo Labrín José Luis García Ronald Rios Antonio Acosta

2025 Liga 3 (Peru)

Teams

Team changes

Stadia and locations

Torneo Regional

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Second Stage

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Playoffs

Quarterfinals

First leg

Second leg

Semifinals

First leg

Second leg

Final

Play-off de Ascenso

See also

References

External links

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