By florida 
Okay so yesterday I’m scrolling through football Twitter when somebody mentions Peru Liga 1 schedule might be dropping soon. Boom. Instantly knew I needed that schedule stashed somewhere easy.
First thought? Google search. Obvious, right? Typed something like “Peru Liga 1 2024 calendar dates official site”. Ha! What a joke. Page after page of last season’s news or some betting sites guessing dates. Got exactly zero actual schedule listings. Total waste of ten minutes hitting “next page”.
Alright, Plan B: Check the actual league federation website. Don’t ask me why I didn’t start there. Went searching for their homepage. Found it eventually. Looks… functional? Navigated around. Fixtures section? Found it! Clicked excitedly. Big fat “Coming Soon” message mocking me. Seriously? Announced but not actually published yet. Classic.
So me being me, decided to get prepared anyway. Figured I’d build my own tracker so when the dates finally drop, I just slot ’em in. Opened a plain old Google Sheet – called it “Football Fixtures – Liga Peru”. Looks boringly empty right now.
Went for a super simple layout:
- Column A: Matchday Number
- Column B: Date
- Column C: Time (better include timezone!)
- Column D: Home Team
- Column E: Away Team
- Column F: Venue (if I can find it)
Stared at the blank grid. Realized I need the team names! Back to the federation site I go. Thank goodness they have a “Teams” section. Listed all 18 current Liga 1 teams. Started copying them manually:
- Alianza Lima
- Universitario
- Melgar…
- You get the drill. Copypasta mess for a few minutes.
Hoped to maybe find a CSV file or something. Nope. All manual. Made sure spelling was correct. Last thing I need is messing up names later. Double-checked.
Stumbled back onto the Fixtures page later while making lunch. Still nothing! Ugh. Meanwhile, totally forgot I left my phone on the table while chopping onions. Dog stepped on my tablet somehow? Next thing I know, the tablet screen lights up – Federation site refreshed itself somehow while locked. AND WHAT DO I SEE?
A giant PDF link! Labeled “Fixture Completo”. Legit jumped, nearly dropped my sandwich. Clicked it like it was burning. There it was! The whole season schedule laid out in PDF glory. Dates! Times! Teams! All of it!
My actual process:
- Downloaded that PDF fast.
- Opened my blank Google Sheet.
- Started transferring data. Matchday 1: Teams, date, time. Repeat. And repeat. And repeat.
- Got through the first three matchdays. My eyes started glazing over. So many games!
- Paused. Remembered I wanted Venues too. Back to PDF. Sparse venue info. Noted what I could find.
- Got distracted by the sheer work. Said “Screw it” and just focused on dates, times, teams for now. Venues can come later.
Took me a solid hour just to get the first half of the season entered. Felt tedious, man. Like transcribing a phone book. But hey, mission mostly accomplished. Now I’ve got my own little fixture list sitting pretty in Sheets. Can sort it by date, find my team Alianza Lima’s games instantly. Way better than relying on some messy news site. Just gotta check back for official changes now and then.
Would I call this clean? Nah. But it’s mine. And it works. For now.