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Liga de Ascenso Femenina
Founded	2018; 7 years ago
Country	Peru
Confederation	CONMEBOL
Number of clubs	Variable
Level on pyramid	2
Promotion to	Primera División Femenina
Current champions	Real Áncash ; (2024)
Most championships	Biavo; Melgar ; Real Áncash (1)
	Current: 2024 season

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.

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.

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 as the second division:^[14]^[15]

(In bracket, title count):

Ed.	Season	Champion	Runner-up
Copa Perú Femenina (2022)
1	2022	Melgar (1)	Defensores de Ilucán
Liga de Ascenso Femenina (2023–present)
2	2023	Biavo (1)	UNSAAC
3	2024	Real Áncash (1)	Flamengo

Titles by club

Rank	Club	Titles	Runners-up	Seasons won	Seasons runner-up
1	Biavo	1	—	2023	—
	Melgar	1	—	2022	—
	Real Áncash	1	—	2024	—

Titles by region

Region	Nº of titles	Clubs
Áncash	1	Real Áncash (1)
Arequipa	1	Melgar (1)
San Martín	1	Biavo (1)

List of Regional champions

Season	Región I	Región II	Región III	Región IV	Región V	Región VI	Región VII	Región VIII
Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol Femenino (2008–2017)
2015	UNP	Cambios Lázaro	CGTP	Universitario	CN Inca Huiracocha	Unión Mercedes	Internacional	Retamozo
2016	UNP	Juventud Talentos		Universitario	Ramiro Villaverde	UDA	Majes	Angelu Lucrecia
2017	San Juan de Chota	Juventud Talentos	Juan Velazco Alvarado	JC Sport Girls	Ramiro Villaverde	Full Díaz	Sporting Unión Arequipa	Deportivo Educación
Copa Perú Femenina (2018–2019)
2018	Juventus Ferreñafe	FC Barca	Amazon Sky	JC Sport Girls	Nueva Sociedad	Ayacucho	Municipalidad de Majes	Real Unchiña
2019	Juventus Ferreñafe	Deportivo Talentos	Amazon Sky	Universitario	Flamengo	Real Victoria	Stella Maris	Angelu Lucrecia
Liga de Ascenso Femenina (2022)
2022	Real Chachapoyas	Defensores del Ilucán	Sporting Victoria	Colmillo Comas	Ramiro Villaverde	Diosdado Franco Luján	Melgar	Atlético Andahuaylas