Peru II Division - Copa Peru

 

Second Division – Copa Peru. In this tournament after many qualification rounds, each one of the 24

departments in which Peru is politically divided, qualify a team. Those teams  
plus the team relegated from First Division on the last year, enter in two more 
rounds and finally 6 of them qualify for the Final round, staged in Lima. All depends on the standpoint: the records for 1971 should be 1970, unless Copa Peru was played before the First Division season started – the winners played in the 1971 top league season. If both competitions were played at the same time, such thing would not have been possible. And to confuse even more everything there was 'proper' Second Division, which winner was promoted to  Campeonato Descentralizado in 1972. 
                     
   
Finalists teams (Note: After each team name, between brackets is the name of the
city and department from which each team comes from): 
   
Cienciano (Cusco, Cusco)
Colegio Nacional (Iquitos, Loreto)
José Gálvez (Chimbote, Ancash)
Melgar Foot-Ball Club (Arequipa, Arequipa)
Social Deportivo Huando (Huaral, Lima)
Unión Tumán (Tumán, Lambayeque)
FINAL TABLE
                                Pts - P - W - D - L - GF - GA
1. Melgar FBC .................   8 - 5 - 3 - 2 - 0 - 13 -  4   [Promoted]
Standing from left: Ricardo Zúñiga, Humberto Giuria, Felipe La Rosa, ?, NN.
Front: Florencio La Rosa, ?, Alfonso Vilela, Capurro, Mario Catalá, Andrade. 
2. Unión Tumán ................   7 - 5 - 3 - 1 - 1 -  8 -  6   [Promoted]
Standing from left: Germán Ostolaza, Hipólito Estrada, Jesús Rodríguez, Sebastián Mantilla, José Arias, Arturo Costa.
Front: Rodomiro del Solar, Guillermo Ostolaza, Alejandro Luces, Luis Palomino, Wilfredo Palacios.
3. José Gálvez ................   7 - 5 - 3 - 1 - 1 -  6 -  7   [Promoted]
Back row from left: Enrique Corrales, Luis Jimenez, Roberto Céspedes, Dante Morales, Guillermo Rengifo, José Arenas.
Crouching: "Mitrón" Cáceres, Jorge Jaico, Antonio Medina, Fernando del Aguila, César Cortéz.
4. Colegio Nacional ...........   6 - 5 - 2 - 2 - 1 -  9 -  6
Back row from left: Luis Cuba, Héctor Berríos, Juvenal Anaya, Néstor Del Castillo, ?, José Carrión.
Front: Olazábal, Humberto Castañeda, Nilo Castañeda, ?, ?.
5. Cienciano ..................   2 - 5 - 1 - 0 - 4 -  8 -  9 
6. Social Deportivo Huando ....   0 - 5 - 0 - 0 - 5 -  2 - 14


Topscorer: Luis Ponce-Arroé (Melgar Foot-Ball Club), 7 goals

Note: Three teams were promoted as First Division was increased from 14 to 16
      teams in... 1971.