The Peruvian Second Division (Peruvian Segunda División in Spanish), officially known as the Liga 2 (Ligue 2) of Peru is the second-highest division in the Peruvian football league system. It is a professional and promotional division organized by the Peruvian Football Federation. The winners and Ligiulla winners get promoted to the Peruvian Primera División. The bottom two teams get relegated to the Copa Perú, which will be later changed to relegation to the Peruvian Tercera División. After years of changing numbers of clubs, as of 2024 the league includes 18 clubs.

Before the current Liga 2, there was the Peruvian Segunda División, which was the second division of Peruvian football from 1912 to 1925. It allowed promotion to the Peruvian Primera Division for the starting seasons. It was not a professional tournament. In the inagural 1912 season, the Peruvian Segunda Division and Primera Division were put together with 8 teams each. It was dissolved in 1925 after the Peruvian Football Federation was formed and would later be replaced by the Peruvian Segunda Division, now known as the Liga 2, in 1936. Despite being founded in 1936, the Peruvian Segunda Division did not have its first season up until 1943, where Atlético Telmo Carbajo of Callao won the tournament.

For decades after it was first formed in 1936, only clubs from the Department of Lima participated in the annual tournament where the winner gets promoted to the Copa Perú. From 1988 to 1990, the winner got promoted to the Torneo Metropolitano Regional. It was not until 1992 when Peruvian football federation expanded the tournament to other regions, expanding it to the Department of Ica and Callao with a total of 12 teams.

In 2006, the Peruvian Segunda Division was moved up to the second tier, where the winner gets promotion to the First Division. As a result, the Copa Peru was moved down to the third tier, where is currently stands. In that same year, the Peruvian Football Federation expanded the league to all 25 regions of Peru. The Copa Peru will be moved down to the fourth tier and be replaced by the newly created Peruvian Tercera División in 2025. In that same year, the Peruvian Football Federation expanded the league to all 25 regions of Peru.

In 2013, the tournament was expanded from 12 to 14 teams as a plan to make it more competitive. In the same decade, many current giants of Peru such as Sport Boys, Universidad César Vallejo and others obtained promotion to the Liga 1, where some still stand to this day. Multiple other expansions and reductions of teams were made and the league was originally set to be 16 teams but reduced to 14 because of financial issues.

In 2019, the Peruvian Football Federation announced the creation of the Peruvian Tercera División, which will replace the Copa Peru as the third tier, moving the Copa Peru down to the fourth tier. This had the relegated teams of the Liga 2 move down to the Liga 3. Liga 2 teams also participate in the national tournament, the Copa Bicentenario along with the teams from the Liga 1. For the 2024 season, the Liga 2 was expanded to 18 teams, the same as the Liga 1. A new format was made which would split the 18 teams into two groups known as the Zona Norte and Zona Sur, based on the northern and southern locations of the clubs. The top six teams in each group would advance to the group stage, with the other three being placed in the relegation group. Two teams will be promoted to the First Division and two relegated to the newly created Third Division.

Since 2006, the winner of the tournament is promoted to the First Division, while the last two teams are relegated from the tournament to the Departamental Stage of the Copa Perú. Their places are taken by the two relegated clubs from the First Division, and the team that finishes second place in the Copa Perú. From 2018 to 2023, the Liga 2 would adopt a new format, where the top ranking team throughout the whole season would win the tournament and be automatically promoted, and the next six teams compete in a bracket Ligiulla stage, with the winner also being promoted.

After the expansion to 18 for the 2024 season, the format was changed to multiple stages. The first stage known as the Regional Stage would split the 18 teams into two groups of nine, called the Zona Norte and Zona Sur, based in the north and the south. The top six of each zone would advance to the Group Stage and bottom three into the Relegation Group. In the Group Stage, the 12 teams will be split into two groups of six with the top three teams advance to the Ligiulla stage, with the top team of each group in the semi-finals and rest in quarter-finals. The finalists of the Ligiulla stage will be promoted to the first division and the winners winning the league. In the relegation group, each team will play in a round-robin format. The lowest ranked team of each group gets relegated to the Liga 3.^[1]

The Segunda División has received numerous criticisms, chiefly due to the lack of stability in the process of competition and promotion, and the lack of professionalism.^[2]

Currently, 18 clubs participate in Liga 2. There are currently no teams from the Lima Metropolitan area with all clubs representing cities from the country's interior. The number of clubs has fluctuated season by season from 10 to 18 teams participating in the tournament.

Ciclista Lima, Unión Huaral, Deportivo Municipal, Guardia Republicana, Mariscal Sucre, Unión Callao, Telmo Carbajo, Sport Boys, Unión Gonzáles Prada, and Carlos Concha trail behind with 3 titles. Universidad César Vallejo, Total Clean, Cobresol, José Gálvez, Los Caimanes, and Comerciantes Unidos are the only clubs outside the metropolitan area of Lima to have won a Segunda Division championship. In addition, Alianza Lima, Atlético Chalaco, Centro Iqueño, Defensor Lima, Municipal, Mariscal Sucre, San Agustín, Sport Boys, and Unión Huaral are the only teams that have been champions of the First and Second Division.

Since the Second Division became a nation-wide tournament in 2006, 20 of the 25 regions have had representative teams in the Segunda División/Liga 2. The only five regions that have never had a representative are Amazonas, Huancavelica, Madre de Dios, Pasco, and Tumbes.

Stadia and Locations

Santos

Comerciantes

Unión Huaral

Binacional

Coopsol

San Marcos

Llacuabamba

Carlos Stein
Juan Aurich

Juan Pablo II
Pirata

UCV Moquegua

Alianza Universidad

Cantolao
D. Municipal
U. San Martín

Ayacucho

ADA

Locations of the 2024 Liga 2 teams

More information Team, City ...

Team	City	Stadium[5]	Capacity[6]
Academia Cantolao	Callao	Miguel Grau	17,000
ADA	Jaén	Víctor Montoya Segura	9,000
Alianza Universidad	Huánuco	Heraclio Tapia	25,000
Ayacucho	Ayacucho	Ciudad de Cumaná	12,000
Binacional	Juliaca	Guillermo Briceño Rosamedina	20,030
Carlos Stein	Ferreñafe	Carlos Samamé Cáceres	6,000
Comerciantes	Iquitos	Max Augustín	24,576
Deportivo Coopsol	Ventanilla	Municipal Facundo Ramírez Aguilar	5,000
Deportivo Llacuabamba	Otuzco	Municipal de Otuzco	18,000
Deportivo Municipal	Lima	Iván Elías Moreno	10,000
Juan Aurich	Ferreñafe	Carlos Samamé Cáceres	6,000
Juan Pablo II College	Chongoyape	Municipal de la Juventud	2,000
Pirata	Chongoyape	Municipal de la Juventud	2,000
San Marcos	Huari	Rosas Pampa	18,000
Santos	Nasca	Municipal de Nasca	10,000
Unión Huaral	Chancay	Rómulo Shaw Cisneros	3,000
UCV Moquegua	Moquegua	25 de Noviembre	21,000
Universidad San Martín	Lima	Iván Elías Moreno	10,000

Close

Peruvian Segunda División had amateur status since its foundation until 1987. In the course of this era, Telmo Carbajo, Ciclista Lima, Unión Callao, Carlos Concha and Mariscal Sucre shared the most titles. The first run from 1943 to 1987 featured clubs only from Lima and Callao. In 1988 the league obtained professional status and in 2006 expanded the league to the entire nation, beginning the Segunda División Nacional.

• For the period 1912–1925, see Peruvian Segunda División (1912–1925).
• For the period 1926–1934, see Peruvian División Intermedia (1926–1940).
• For the period 1935–1940, see Ligas Provinciales de Lima y Callao.
• For the period 1941, see Liga Regional de Lima y Callao (1941–1950).
• For the period 1973, see Liguilla de Ascenso a Segunda División (Perú).
• For the period 1975–1982, see Liga Mayor de Fútbol de Lima.

• Peruvian football league system
• Copa Perú
• Ligas Departamentales del Peru
• Ligas Superiores del Peru
• Ligas Distritales del Peru