1971 Copa Perú

Football league season
Copa Perú
Season1971
ChampionsMelgar
Matches played15
Goals scored46 (3.07 per match)
Top goalscorerLuis Ponce Arroé (7)
Highest scoringUnión Tumán 4–3 Cienciano
Only National Stage taken into consideration
1970
1972

The 1971 Copa Perú season (Spanish: Copa Perú 1971), the promotion tournament of Peruvian football.

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 de 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 (the capital).

Three teams were promoted to play in 1971 First Division.

Finalists teams

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

Department Team Location
Ancash José Gálvez Ancash
Arequipa Melgar Arequipa
Cusco Cienciano Cusco
Lima Social Huando Huaral
Lambayeque Unión Tumán Tumán
Loreto CNI Iquitos

Final stage

Final group stage

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion
1 Melgar 5 3 2 0 13 4 +9 8 Promoted to 1971 Torneo Descentralizado
2 Unión Tumán 5 3 1 1 8 6 +2 7
3 José Gálvez 5 3 1 1 6 7 −1 7
4 CNI 5 2 2 1 9 6 +3 6
5 Cienciano 5 1 0 4 8 9 −1 2
6 Social Huando 5 0 0 5 2 14 −12 0
Source: [citation needed]

Round 1

CNI v Cienciano
25 April 1971 CNI 3–0 Cienciano Nacional, Lima
Melgar v José Gálvez
25 April 1971 Melgar 5–1 José Gálvez Nacional, Lima
Unión Tumán v Social Huando
25 April 1971 Unión Tumán 1–0 Social Huando Nacional, Lima

Round 2

José Gálvez v CNI
28 April 1971 José Gálvez 2–2 CNI Nacional, Lima
Unión Tumán v Cienciano
28 April 1971 Unión Tumán 4–3 Cienciano Nacional, Lima
Melgar v Social Huando
28 April 1971 Melgar 5–1 Social Huando Nacional, Lima

Round 3

José Gálvez v Cienciano
2 May 1971 José Gálvez 1–0 Cienciano Nacional, Lima
CNI v Social Huando
2 May 1971 CNI 2–1 Social Huando Nacional, Lima
Melgar v Unión Tumán
2 May 1971 Melgar 1–1 Unión Tumán Nacional, Lima

Round 4

José Gálvez v Social Huando
5 May 1971 José Gálvez 1–0 Social Huando Nacional, Lima
Unión Tumán v CNI
5 May 1971 Unión Tumán 2–1 CNI Nacional, Lima
Melgar v Cienciano
5 May 1971 Melgar 1–0 Cienciano Nacional, Lima

Round 5

Cienciano v Social Huando
8 May 1971 Cienciano 5–0 Social Huando Nacional, Lima
Melgar v CNI
8 May 1971 Melgar 1–1 CNI Nacional, Lima


 Copa Perú
1971 winners 
Melgar
First title

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  • (in Spanish) Copa Peru 1971
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