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1959 Peruvian Primera División
The 1959 season of the Peruvian Primera División, the top category of Peruvian football, was played by 10 teams. The national champions were Universitario. At the end of the regular season (home and away matches) teams were split in 2 groups of 5 teams: top 5 played for the title and bottom 5 played for the relegation. Teams carried their regular season records and played an additional round (4 further matches). Sporting Cristal won a play-off against Ciclista Lima to determine 5th place in the first stage. Teams Team changes Stadia locations League table First stage Results Teams play each other once, either home or away. All matches were played in Lima and Callao. Liguilla Final Liguilla Descenso See also * 1959 Campeonato de Apertura * 1959 Peruvian Segunda División External links Peru 1959 seasonat RSSSF The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (''RSSSF'') is an international organisation dedicated to collecting statistics about association foot ...
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Peruvian Primera División
The Peru First Division (; known simply as ''First Division'', and Liga 1 Te Apuesto for sponsorship reasons), officially known as Liga 1, is the top flight of association football in Peru. It has been referred to as Torneo Descentralizado since 1966 until 2019, when the first teams residing outside the Lima Province, Lima and Callao provinces were invited to compete in the 1912 Liga Peruana de Football, inaugural league national competition. The main sponsor is the sports betting company Te Apuesto. As of the 2025 Liga 1 (Peru), 2025 season, there are 19 teams in the division of a league that operates on a system of promotion and relegation determined at the end of the season with the Peruvian Segunda División, Segunda División (Liga 2). Seasons run from February to December, with each team playing 38 matches, 18 in the Apertura and 18 in the Clausura. The league is organized by Professional Football Sports Association, Asociación Deportiva de Fútbol Profesional () (ADFP). ...
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Ciclista Lima
Ciclista Lima Association is a Peruvian football club, playing in the city of Lima. It is the second-oldest club in Peru. The club was founded 1896 and plays in the Copa Perú, which is the third division of the Peruvian league. History The club was the 1944, 1946, 1949, and 1993 Segunda División Peruana champion. The club played at the highest level of Peruvian football on several occasions since 1927. However, they only played Torneo Descentralizado on three occasions, from 1994 Torneo Descentralizado until 1996 Torneo Descentralizado when the club was relegated to the Peruvian Segunda División. In the 1997 Segunda División Peruana, the club was relegated to the Copa Perú. Notable players Honours Senior titles Performance in CONMEBOL competitions *Copa CONMEBOL: 1 appearance ::1995: First Round See also *List of football clubs in Peru This is a non-exhaustive list of football (soccer), football clubs in Peru with the current 19 first division teams, 15 seco ...
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1959 In South American Football Leagues
Events January * January 1 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 – Soviet lunar probe Luna 1 is the first human-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reaches the vicinity of Earth's Moon, where it was intended to crash-land, but instead becomes the first spacecraft to go into heliocentric orbit. * January 3 ** Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state. ** The southernmost island of the Maldives archipelago, Addu Atoll, declares its independence from the Kingdom of the Maldives, initiating the United Suvadive Republic. * January 4 ** In Cuba, rebel troops led by Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos enter the city of Havana. ** Léopoldville riots: At least 49 people are killed during clashes between the police and participants of a meeting of the ABAKO Party in Léopoldville in the Belgian Congo. * January 6 – The International Maritime Organization is inaugurated. * January 7 – The United States re ...
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