2018 Copa Perú

Copa Perú
Season	2018
Champions	Pirata
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The 2018 Peru Cup season (Spanish: Copa Perú 2018), the largest amateur tournament of Peruvian football, started in February.

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 intellectual property of the MatchVision company.

The 2018 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: and

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

Department	Team	Location
Amazonas	Bagua Grande	Utcubamba
Amazonas	Alipio Ponce Vásquez	Chachapoyas
Ancash	Sport Ancash	Huaraz
Ancash	Academia Sipesa	Santa
Apurímac	Andahuaylas	Apurímac
Apurímac	Retamoso	Abancay
Arequipa	Sportivo Huracán	Arequipa
Arequipa	Social Corire	Castilla
Ayacucho	San Cristóbal	Huamanga
Ayacucho	Sport Huanta	Huanta
Cajamarca	ADA	Jaén
Cajamarca	Las Palmas	Chota
Callao	AEB	Ventanilla
Callao	Alfredo Tomassini	Ventanilla
Cusco	Deportivo Garcilaso	Cusco
Cusco	Robles	Calca
Huancavelica	UDA	Huancavelica
Huancavelica	Caminos	Huancavelica
Huánuco	Alianza Universidad	Huánuco
Huánuco	León de Huánuco	Huánuco
Ica	Sport Marino	Ica
Ica	Santos	Nasca
Junín	Huamantanga	Jauja
Junín	Escuela JTR	Huancayo
La Libertad	Racing	Sánchez Carrión
La Libertad	El Inca	Virú

Department	Team	Location
Lambayeque	Carlos Stein	Chiclayo
Lambayeque	Pirata	Chiclayo
Lima	Venus	Huaura
Lima	Defensor Laure Sur	Chancay
Loreto	Estudiantil CNI	Iquitos
Loreto	Caballo Cocha	Mariscal Castilla
Madre de Dios	Deportivo Maldonado	Puerto Maldonado
Madre de Dios	MINSA	Tambopata
Moquegua	Credicoop San Cristóbal	Mariscal Nieto
Moquegua	Hijos del Altiplano y del Pacífico	Ilo
Pasco	San Agustín	Daniel Alcides Carrión
Pasco	Deportivo Municipal (Yanahuanca)	Daniel Alcides Carrión
Piura	Atlético Torino	Talara
Piura	UD Parachique	Sechura
Puno	Alfonso Ugarte	Puno
Puno	Credicoop San Román	Juliaca
San Martín	Unión Tarapoto	San Martín
San Martín	Bellavista	Bellavista
Tacna	Unión Alfonso Ugarte	Tacna
Tacna	Juventud Locumba	Jorge Basadre
Tumbes	UNT	Tumbes
Tumbes	Ferrocarril	Zarumilla
Ucayali	Colegio Comercio	Coronel Portillo
Ucayali	Deportivo Municipal (Aguaytía)	Padre Abad

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 represented. The National Stage starts in the first week of September.

In 2017 the same format continues, without the authorization of MatchVision.

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 runners-up, 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 2019 Torneo Descentralizado and the runner-up of the National Stage will be promoted to the 2019 Peruvian Segunda División.

Tie-breaking criteria[]

The ranking of teams in the Unique Table is based on the following criteria:
1. Number of Points
3. Goal difference
4. Number of goals scored
5. Better performance in away matches based on the following criteria:
        1. Number of Away Points
        3. Goal Difference in away games
        4. Number of goals scored in away games
6. Number of First-Half points: considering the half-time results as the final results
6. Drawing of lots

League table[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	UDA	6	6	0	0	13	3	+10	18	Round of 16
2	Sportivo Huracán	6	5	1	0	22	6	+16	16
3	Pirata	6	5	0	1	18	6	+12	15
4	Credicoop San Cristóbal	6	5	0	1	13	7	+6	15
5	Sport Marino	6	4	2	0	12	2	+10	14
6	Alfonso Ugarte	6	4	2	0	21	4	+17	14
7	Unión Alfonso Ugarte	6	4	2	0	14	4	+10	14
8	Retamoso	6	4	1	1	9	5	+4	13
9	Venus	6	4	1	1	13	6	+7	13	Second Round
10	Santos	6	4	1	1	15	5	+10	13
11	Huamantanga	6	4	1	1	10	4	+6	13
12	Atlético Torino	6	4	1	1	10	6	+4	13
13	Deportivo Garcilaso	6	4	0	2	9	6	+3	12
14	Defensor Laure Sur	6	4	0	2	20	4	+16	12
15	Las Palmas	6	4	0	2	14	7	+7	12
16	Unión Tarapoto	6	3	2	1	15	8	+7	11
17	Credicoop San Román	6	3	2	1	14	4	+10	11
18	Bellavista	6	3	2	1	12	7	+5	11
19	Deportivo Municipal (Yanahuanca)	6	3	2	1	6	5	+1	11
20	Carlos Stein	6	3	1	2	13	7	+6	10
21	León de Huánuco	6	3	2	1	11	4	+7	10
22	Alianza Universidad	6	2	4	0	12	8	+4	10
23	Sport Huanta	6	3	1	2	6	3	+3	10
24	Andahuaylas	6	3	0	3	4	5	−1	9
25	UD Parachique	6	2	3	1	10	9	+1	9	Ligas Distritales
26	Racing	6	2	3	1	13	5	+8	9
27	Estudiantil CNI	6	2	3	1	4	3	+1	9
28	Caballo Cocha	6	2	3	1	9	11	−2	9
29	Robles	6	3	0	3	14	5	+9	9
30	El Inca	6	2	2	2	13	10	+3	8
31	ADA	6	2	2	2	6	10	−4	8
32	Academia Sipesa	6	2	2	2	10	13	−3	8
33	Ferrocarril	6	1	3	2	7	14	−7	6
34	Colegio Comercio	6	1	2	3	6	14	−8	5
35	Bagua Grande	6	1	2	3	8	13	−5	5
36	San Agustín	6	1	1	4	3	15	−12	4
37	Sport Ancash	6	1	1	4	10	19	−9	4
38	Caminos	6	1	0	5	4	12	−8	3
39	Deportivo Municipal (Aguaytía)	6	0	3	3	5	8	−3	3
40	Alfredo Tomassini	6	1	0	5	6	17	−11	3
41	AEB	6	1	0	5	4	17	−13	3
42	MINSA	6	1	0	5	7	23	−16	3
43	Deportivo Maldonado	6	1	0	5	4	23	−19	3
44	Juventud Locumba	6	0	1	5	5	13	−8	1
45	Hijos del Altiplano y del Pacífico	6	0	1	5	4	18	−14	1
46	Social Corire	6	0	1	5	5	21	−16	1
47	San Cristóbal	6	0	1	5	5	12	−7	1
48	Escuela JTR	6	0	1	5	4	14	−10	1
49	UNT	6	0	1	5	4	15	−11	1
50	Alipio Ponce Vásquez	6	0	1	5	7	17	−10	1

Updated to match(es) played on 2018. 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

Second Round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Andahuaylas	3–4	Venus	3–0	0–4
Sport Huanta	2–5	Santos	2–3	0–2
Alianza Universidad	3–1	Huamantanga	2–0	1–1
León de Huánuco	1–2	Atlético Torino	1–1	0–1
Carlos Stein	4–4	Deportivo Garcilaso (s)	4–0	0–4
Deportivo Municipal (Yanahuanca)	5–6	Defensor Laure Sur	3–0	2–6
Bellavista	3–4	Las Palmas	3–1	0–3
Credicoop San Román	7–1	Unión Tarapoto	4–1	3–0

Round of 16[]

Round of 16					Quarterfinals					Semifinals	Champion & Runner-Up

1	UDA	1	5	6

17	Credicoop San Román	1	0	1
					1	UDA (a)	2	1	3

					15	Las Palmas	3	0	3
15	Las Palmas	3	1	4

2	Sportivo Huracán	0	2	2
										UDA

										Pirata
14	Defensor Laure Sur	2	2	4

3	Pirata (s)	2	2	4
					3	Pirata	0	5	5

					4	Credicoop San Cristóbal	3	1	4
4	Credicoop San Cristóbal (s)	1	2	3

13	Deportivo Garcilaso	2	1	3
											Pirata

											Alianza Universidad
5	Sport Marino	0	2	2

12	Atlético Torino	3	0	3
					12	Atlético Torino	1	1	2

					22	Alianza Universidad	2	1	3
22	Alianza Universidad (a)	2	1	3

6	Alfonso Ugarte	0	3	3
										Alianza Universidad

										Santos
7	Unión Alfonso Ugarte	1	2	3

10	Santos	3	2	5
					10	Santos	1	1	2

					9	Venus	0	1	1
9	Venus	1	2	3

8	Retamoso	0	2	2

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Credicoop San Román	1–6	UDA	1–1	0–5
Las Palmas	4–2	Sportivo Huracán	3–0	1–2
Deportivo Garcilaso	3–3	Credicoop San Cristóbal (s)	2–1	1–2
Atlético Torino	3–2	Sport Marino	3–0	0–2
Defensor Laure Sur	4–4	Pirata (s)	2–2	2–2
Alianza Universidad (a)	3–3	Alfonso Ugarte	2–0	1–3
Santos	5–3	Unión Alfonso Ugarte	3–1	2–2
Venus	3–2	Retamoso	1–0	2–2

Quarterfinals[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Las Palmas	3–3	UDA (a)	3–2	0–1
Credicoop San Cristóbal	4–5	Pirata	3–0	1–5
Alianza Universidad	3–2	Atlético Torino	2–1	1–1
Santos	2–1	Venus	1–0	1–1

Final group stage[]

Moments before the start of the game between Santos FC and Alianza Universidad at Estadio Nacional

The final group stage, colloquially known as La Finalísima, will be played by the four semifinalist at the Estadio Nacional. The team with the most points will be declared the winner and be promoted to the 2019 Torneo Descentralizado.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Pirata	3	2	1	11	3	+8	6	2019 Liga 1
2	Alianza Universidad	3	2	1	8	4	+4	6	Promotion Play-off
3	Santos	3	1	2	5	10	−5	3	Promotion Play-off
4	UDA	3	1	2	2	9	−7	3

Source: Dechalaca.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) draw.

24 November 2018 (2018-11-24)	Pirata	4–0	Santos	showEstadio Miguel Grau, Callao
13:30 PET (UTC-05:00)	9', 58' 65' 77'	Report		Referee: Miguel Santiváñez

24 November 2018 (2018-11-24)	Alianza Universidad	0–1	UDA	showEstadio Miguel Grau, Callao
15:30 PET (UTC-05:00)		Report	45+1'	Referee: Diego Haro

28 November 2018 (2018-11-28)	Pirata	1–3	Alianza Universidad	showEstadio Miguel Grau, Callao
13:30 PET (UTC-05:00)	58'	Report	37', 39' 55'	Referee: Kevin Ortega

28 November 2018 (2018-11-28)	Santos	3–1	UDA	showEstadio Miguel Grau, Callao
15:30 PET (UTC-05:00)	1', 48' 74'	Report	82'	Referee: Augusto Menéndez

2 December 2018 (2018-12-02)	Santos	2–5	Alianza Universidad	showEstadio Nacional, Lima
14:00 PET (UTC-05:00)	45+1' 47'	Report	17', 33' 50' 68', 90'	Referee: Joel Alarcón

2 December 2018 (2018-12-02)	Pirata	6–0	UDA	showEstadio Nacional, Lima
16:00 PET (UTC-05:00)	5' 43', 45' 71' Perleche 78', 80'	Report		Referee: Diego Haro

Promotion Play-off[]

Pos	Team v	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Carlos A. Mannucci	3	2	1	0	5	3	+2	7	2019 Liga 1
2	Alianza Universidad	3	1	2	0	5	3	+2	5	2019 Liga 1
3	Cienciano	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4	2019 Liga 2
4	Santos	3	0	0	3	3	7	−4	0	2019 Liga 2

Source:^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) draw.