The 2000 season of the Torneo Descentralizado was the 85th season of the top category of

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. It was played by 12 teams. The national champion was Universitario.

Competition modus

The national championship was divided into two tournaments, the Torneo Apertura and the Torneo Clausura. Each was played on a home-and-away round-robin basis. The winners of each would play for the national title in a play-off, but since the same club had won both tournaments, it automatically won the national championship. Following-season Copa Libertadores berths went to the champion, as well as to each of the half-year tournament's runners-up, who held a play-off as a formality to decide the overall season runners-up. The bottom team on the aggregate table was relegated, while the eleventh place team held a promotion play-off against the winner of the Segunda División (Second Division).

Teams

Before the start of the season, Pesquero relocated from

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and changed its name to Deportivo Wanka.

Torneo Apertura

Torneo Clausura

Final stages

Final

No final for the championship title was contested after Universitario won both the

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tournaments, thus automatically becoming national champions.

Second place play-off

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Aggregate table

Promotion play-off

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Deportivo UPAO remained in Primera División Peruana UPAO would sell their first division spot to Sport Coopsol before the 2001 season.

Top scorers

;37 goals * Eduardo Esidio ( Universitario) ;19 goals * Luis A. Bonnet (

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) ;15 goals * Roberto Holsen ( Alianza Lima) ;13 goals * James Angulo (

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) ;12 goals * Piero Alva (Universitario) * Carlos Juárez ( Sporting Cristal) * Sergio Ibarra ( Deportivo Wanka)

Notes

References

External links

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