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1937 Peruvian Primera División

football league season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ2953566 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1937 season of the Peruvian Primera División, the top category of Peruvian football, was played by 10 teams. The national champions were Sport Boys.

The whole tournament was played in two stadiums:

Format

In this season, the results of a reserve teams league were added as bonus points.

From 1931 until 1942 the points system was W:3, D:2, L:1, walkover:0.

Teams

Team changes

Stadia and Locations

Torneo Primeros Equipos

Standings

Results

Teams play each other once, either home or away. All matches were played in Lima.

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The public source identifies “1937 Peruvian Primera División” as football league season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Peruvian, Primera and División.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1937, 1931, 1942—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Peruvian, Primera and División providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2953566. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1937, 1931 and 1942.

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This entry incorporates text from “1937 Peruvian Primera División” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.