Liga de Ascenso Femenina (Perú)

The Liga de Ascenso Femenina (formerly known as Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol Femenino and Copa Perú Femenina) is currently the second level league competition for women's football in Peru that officially started in 2009. Until 2019 it was the top tournament of Peruvian Primera División Femenina whose winner qualified for the Copa Libertadores de Fútbol Femenino, the South American Champions League. The competition is organised by the Peruvian Football Federation.

Liga de Ascenso Femenina
Founded2018 (2018)
CountryPeru
ConfederationCONMEBOL
Number of teamsVariable
Level on pyramid2
Promotion toPrimera División Femenina
Current championsMelgar
(2022)
Most championshipsMelgar
Universitario (1)
Current: 2023

In 2020, the main tournament was renamed as Liga Femenina while the Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol Femenino served as the basis for structuring the second level league competition that was designated as Copa Perú Femenina.[1][2]

History

Metropolitan women's football championship

Like the men's tournament, the Peruvian Primera División Femenina began on a regional and amateur basis. On 1996[3][4] the Peruvian female football competitions started with the creation of the "Campeonato Metropolitano de Fútbol Femenino" (Metropolitan women's football championship) organized by the Peruvian Football Federation and played with sport clubs from Lima and Callao. The champion of the first edition was the team of Club Universitario. On 2000 the club Sporting Cristal became three-time champion by getting the titles of 1998, 1999 and 2000.[5] Later, the team of Club Universitario equaled that record by getting the 2001, 2002 and 2003 titles.[6]

Women's football national championship

On 2008 the Peruvian Football Federation modified the competition scheme in order to give it a national scope, setting the tournament in three fases: provincial, regional and national. With this new competition format, the tournament was renamed as "Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol Femenino" (women's football national championship), and incorporated the former tournament (Campeonato Metropolitano de Fútbol Femenino) as the Region IV (Lima & Callao) of its regional stage.

Regional stage Departamentos
Region I Amazonas, Lambayeque, Piura, Tumbes
Region II Áncash, Cajamarca, La Libertad, San Martín
Region III Loreto, Ucayali
Region IV Lima, Callao
Region V Huánuco, Junín, Pasco
Region VI Ayacucho, Huancavelica, Ica
Region VII Arequipa, Moquegua, Tacna
Region VIII Apurímac, Cusco, Madre de Dios, Puno

Since 2009 the champion qualifies for the Copa Libertadores Femenina.[7] the first champion under this new format was the team of White Star. That same year, the Peruvian Football Federation and the FIFA agreed to incorporate representatives of the Women's football Championship into the FPF Bases Assembly, thus granting them greater participation in the decisions of the governing body of Peruvian football[8] On 2012 the team of JC Sport Girls became three-times champion,[9] while on 2016 the team of Club Universitario de Deportes won the tri-championship for the second time.[10] As of 2017, the Peruvian Football Federation decided to accommodate its calendar to that of Conmebol so that the local women's tournaments would not intersect with the development of the Copa Libertadores Femenina. Until that time, the tournament schedule had no relation to the annual calendar; that is, the national championship of one year was defined the following year.

Further information: Peruvian Liga Femenina

Liga de Ascenso Femenina

The Copa Perú Femenina was renamed for 2023 as the Liga de Ascenso Femenina. This tournament will begin in Departmental Stage I and will end in National Stage III, in the month of November 2023. Another change to this competition is that it will only grant 2 places to the 2024 Liga Femenina.[11]

Format

In the current format, which was adopted in 2008, the champions of the 9 regional leagues meet each other over one week and play out a national champion. The nine teams are put into three groups of three. Each team then has two matches. The group winners and best runners-up meet in the semi-finals. Those as well as the final is contested over one leg only.[12] In 2012 the final tournament consisted of eight regional champions and four teams from the capital.[13] It is played around October of the year.

List of champions

Below is the list of champions:[14][15]

As First Division Tournament
Ed. Season Champion Runner-up
1
2018[16]Municipalidad de Majes[17]JC Sport Girls
2
2019Universitario[18][19]Amazon Sky

As Second Division Tournament
Ed. Season Champion Runner-up
–
2020Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
–
2021
3
2022MelgarDefensores de Ilucán
4
2023

Titles by club
Club Winners Winning years
Universitario12019
Melgar12022
Municipalidad de Majes12018

Titles by region
Region Nº of titles Clubs
Arequipa 2 Melgar (1), Municipalidad de Majes (1)
Lima 1 Universitario (1)

References
  1. "COMUNICADO" (in Spanish). Peruvian Football Federation. 14 February 2020.
  2. "RESOLUCION No. 014-FPF-2020" (PDF) (in Spanish). Peruvian Football Federation. February 2020.
  3. "Perú: se inicia el campeonato Metropolitano Femenino" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 10 May 2014.
  4. "¿Y Universitario? Así va el palmarés del fútbol femenino con el bicampeonato de Alianza Lima" (in Spanish). libero.pe. 8 October 2022.
  5. "Club Sporting Cristal Femenino" (in Spanish). Sporting Cristal. 16 December 2018.
  6. «Vivian Ayres fue pieza importante para que Universitario obtuviera los títulos de fútbol femenino en 1996, 1997, 2001, 2002 y 2003, tiempos en el que se consolidó como la goleadora histórica del club crema»."Universitario: Vivian Ayres, nueva DT del equipo de futsal" (in Spanish). peru.com. 14 October 2022.
  7. "Se inicia Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol Femenino 2015" (in Spanish). Peruvian Football Federation. April 15, 2016. Archived from the original on October 22, 2017.
  8. «2) a) The parties present agree with the integration in the FPF Bases Assembly of representatives of the 2nd Division clubs, in the process of becoming professional from 2010, of the referees' association, of the coaches' association, of the championship of women's football and futsal league »."Acta de la Reunión FIFA-FIFPRO-Federación Peruana de Futbol, Zurich 10 y 11 de setiembre 2009" (PDF) (in Spanish). Peruvian Football Federation. 17 October 2022.
  9. "JC Sport Girls campeón del Campeonato Nacional de Perú" (in Spanish). feminafutbol.com. 23 December 2017.
  10. "Universitario de Deportes tricampeón nacional de fútbol femenino" (in Spanish). rpp.pe. 27 January 2017.
  11. Liga de Ascenso Femenina 2023
  12. "2011 tournament schedule". Fpf.org.pe. 28 September 2011. Retrieved 17 October 2011.
  13. maribel. "Deportivo Huanca presente en la final nacional del fútbol femenino". Prensa Regional Tu Diario más Importante de la Región Ancash. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  14. "White Star se coronó campeón del Fútbol Femenino". Archived from the original on February 1, 2010. Retrieved January 25, 2014.
  15. "隆Campeonas!". JC Sport Girls. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  16. "MAJES DE AREQUIPA SE QUEDÓ CON LA COPA PERÚ FEMENINA 2018" (in Spanish). FPF. 20 December 2018.
  17. "Municipalidad de Majes se corona campeón nacional de fútbol femenino" (in Spanish). deporteaqp.blogspot.com. 20 December 2018.
  18. "Dossier Universitario Femenino" (PDF) (in Spanish). universitario.pe. 2021.
  19. [...]Novoa is now a member of Peru's national team and captain of Universitario, the country's national champion[...] "In Peru, women's soccer is blossoming from the ground up". The Athletic. 1 April 2020.
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