The 1996 Copa Perú season (Spanish: Copa Perú 1996), the promotion tournament of Peruvian football. In this tournament after many qualification rounds, each one of the 24 departments in which Peru is politically divided, qualify a team. Those teams plus the team relegated from First Division are divided in 6 groups by geographical proximity and each group winner goes to the Final round, staged in Lima (the capital). The champion was promoted to 1997 Torneo Descentralizado.