2018 Categoría Primera B season

Torneo Águila
Season 2018
Dates 10 February – 30 November 2018
Matches played 232
Goals scored 554 (2.39 per match)
Top goalscorer Feiver Mercado
(22 goals)
Biggest home win U. Magdalena 5–0 Dep. Quindío
(12 August)
Biggest away win Barranquilla 1–4 Real Santander
(7 April)
Universitario 0–3 U. Magdalena
(6 May)
Bogotá 0–3 Valledupar
(12 May)
Atlético 0–3 Cúcuta Deportivo
(20 May)
Bogotá 0–3 Fortaleza
(11 August)
Bogotá 0–3 U. Magdalena
(8 September)
Atlético 0–3 Tigres
(10 September)
Highest scoring U. Magdalena 5–2 Universitario
(30 September)
← 2017
2019 →
All statistics correct as of 10 October 2018.

The 2018 Categoría Primera B season (officially known as the 2018 Torneo Águila season for sponsorship reasons) is the 29th season since its founding as Colombia's second division football league. The competition started on 10 February and is scheduled to conclude on 30 November.

Format

For this season, the league will return to the 'one tournament per year' format. The season will consist of three stages. In the first stage, the 16 clubs will play each other twice, once at home and once away. Similar to the 2018 Primera A season, the extra matches against a regional rival will not be played. The top eight teams after the thirty rounds will advance to the semifinal round where they will be sorted into two groups of four and will play a double round-robin tournament group stage, with the top team of each group qualifying to the finals. The winner of the finals will be crowned as the season champions and will also earn promotion to the Categoría Primera A for the 2019 season. The season runner-up will have to play the best team in the aggregate table (other than the champion) on a home-and-away basis for the second promotion berth. In case the season runner-up also ends up as the best team in the aggregate table, it will also be promoted and the promotion play-off will not be played.[1]

Teams

16 teams are expected to take part, fourteen of them returning from last season plus Cortuluá and Tigres, who were relegated from the 2017 Primera A. The former will return to the second tier after 3 years while the latter returned after one season in the top flight. Both teams replaced Boyacá Chicó and Leones who earned promotion at the end of the last season.

Club Home city Stadium Capacity
Atlético Cali Pascual Guerrero 33,130
Barranquilla Barranquilla Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez 49,692
Bogotá Bogotá Metropolitano de Techo 8,000
Cortuluá Tuluá Doce de Octubrea 16,000
Cúcuta Deportivo Cúcuta General Santander 42,901
Deportes Quindío Armenia Centenario 20,716
Deportivo Pereira Pereira Hernán Ramírez Villegas 30,297
Fortaleza Cota Municipal de Cota 4,000
Llaneros Villavicencio Manuel Calle Lombana 15,000
Orsomarso Palmira Francisco Rivera Escobar 9,000
Real Cartagena Cartagena Jaime Morón León 16,068
Real Santander Floridablanca Álvaro Gómez Hurtado 9,000
Tigres Bogotá Metropolitano de Techo 8,000
Unión Magdalena Santa Marta Sierra Nevada 16,000
Universitario Popayán Ciro López 5,000
Valledupar Valledupar Armando Maestre Pavajeau 11,000

a: Cortuluá used the Estadio Pascual Guerrero in Cali instead of the Estadio Doce de Octubre in Tuluá as home stadium during the first half of the season.

First stage

Standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Cúcuta Deportivo (A) 29 20 8 1 49 16 +33 68 Advance to the semifinals
2 Unión Magdalena (A) 29 16 9 4 52 22 +30 57
3 Deportivo Pereira (A) 29 14 8 7 41 31 +10 50
4 Real Cartagena (A) 29 12 8 9 38 33 +5 44
5 Valledupar (A) 29 10 11 8 39 36 +3 41
6 Cortuluá (A) 29 10 11 8 38 40 −2 41
7 Deportes Quindío 29 10 10 9 27 32 −5 40
8 Llaneros 29 9 12 8 32 31 +1 39
9 Fortaleza 29 9 10 10 36 35 +1 37
10 Tigres (E) 29 7 13 9 30 34 −4 34
11 Barranquilla (E) 29 8 10 11 33 42 −9 34
12 Universitario (E) 29 8 9 12 36 44 −8 33
13 Atlético (E) 29 7 8 14 28 39 −11 29
14 Orsomarso (E) 29 7 7 15 20 30 −10 28
15 Bogotá (E) 29 7 7 15 29 49 −20 28
16 Real Santander (E) 29 3 9 17 26 40 −14 18
Updated to match(es) played on 10 October 2018. Source: Dimayor, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) Goal difference, 3) Goals for, 4) Away goals for, 5) Away goals against, 6) Drawing of lots
(A) Advance to a further round; (E) Eliminated.

Results

Home \ Away ATL BAR BOG COR CUC QUI PER FOR LLA ORS RCA RSA TIG MAG UPO VAL
Atlético — 1–1 0–1 0–0 0–3 3–3 2–3 0–1 1–0 0–0 2–0 2–1 0–3 1–2 1–2 1–1
Barranquilla 1–1 — 3–3 3–1 1–1 0–1 2–2 1–0 1–1 3–0 2–0 1–4 3–2 1–2 0–0 0–1
Bogotá 1–2 4–0 — 2–0 1–2 2–1 1–1 0–3 2–1 2–1 2–1 1–1 0–3 1–3 0–3
Cortuluá 1–1 1–2 3–2 — 1–2 2–1 3–2 1–0 0–0 1–0 0–2 2–0 0–1 1–1 4–2
Cúcuta Deportivo 1–1 3–0 3–0 — 3–1 2–1 1–1 2–1 4–0 1–1 1–0 1–1 1–0 3–0 1–0
Deportes Quindío 2–1 1–0 2–1 1–1 0–1 — 0–2 1–1 3–0 1–0 1–2 1–0 1–1 1–0 0–0 0–0
Deportivo Pereira 1–0 3–0 1–1 2–2 0–1 3–0 — 1–0 1–1 1–1 1–0 2–1 3–1 0–0 2–0
Fortaleza 0–0 0–0 1–1 0–0 1–0 1–2 — 1–1 1–0 1–2 2–0 3–2 2–2 2–1 2–2
Llaneros 2–1 0–1 1–1 1–1 1–2 2–0 2–1 — 2–1 1–1 2–2 1–0 2–1 1–0 3–1
Orsomarso 0–1 3–1 1–0 0–1 0–2 0–1 4–1 2–1 2–0 — 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 2–0 2–0
Real Cartagena 3–1 2–1 4–0 4–2 0–2 3–3 1–2 1–1 2–2 1–0 — 0–0 1–1 3–2 1–0
Real Santander 0–1 1–2 1–1 0–1 0–0 0–0 1–2 4–1 1–3 1–0 0–1 — 1–1 2–2 1–2 1–2
Tigres 0–2 1–1 1–0 1–2 0–0 0–1 1–0 1–3 1–1 1–0 2–1 1–1 — 0–0 1–0 2–2
Unión Magdalena 2–1 1–0 3–0 1–1 2–1 5–0 3–1 2–1 0–0 2–0 2–1 3–1 — 5–2 4–0
Universitario 3–2 0–0 2–0 2–2 1–2 0–0 0–0 1–3 1–0 3–0 0–1 3–1 1–1 0–3 — 2–2
Valledupar 2–0 4–1 2–0 2–2 2–3 0–0 0–1 3–1 0–0 1–1 1–0 1–0 3–3 1–0 3–3 —
Updated to match(es) played on 10 October 2018. Source: Dimayor, Soccerway
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Semifinals

The eight teams that will advance to the Semifinals will be sorted into two groups of four teams. The winners of each group will advance to the finals.

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification CUC A2 A3 A4
1 Cúcuta Deportivo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to Finals —
2 A2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
3 A3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
4 A4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
First match(es) will be played on 20 October 2018. Source: Dimayor
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) First stage position.

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification MAG B2 B3 B4
1 Unión Magdalena 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to Finals —
2 B2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
3 B3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
4 B4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
First match(es) will be played on 20 October 2018. Source: Dimayor
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) First stage position.

Top goalscorers

As of 10 October 2018
Rank Name Club Goals
1 Colombia Feiver Mercado Cortuluá 22
2 Colombia Ricardo Márquez Unión Magdalena 18
3 Colombia Diego Herazo Valledupar 16
4 Colombia Jonathan Agudelo Cúcuta Deportivo 12
Colombia Wilson España Universitario
6 Colombia Henry Castillo Bogotá 10
Colombia Yorleys Mena Deportivo Pereira
Colombia Jhonier Viveros Unión Magdalena
9 Colombia Sebastián Acosta Fortaleza 9
Colombia Néstor Arenas Real Santander
Colombia Jorge Obregón Real Cartagena
Colombia Juan José Salcedo Real Cartagena

Source: Soccerway

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Balance de la Asamblea Extraordinaria de la Dimayor" (in Spanish). Dimayor.com. 12 December 2017.
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