Categoría Primera A 2009

Copa Mustang 2009
master	Apertura: Once Caldas Finalización: Independiente Medellín
Copa Libertadores - Group Stage	Once Caldas , Independiente Medellín
Copa Libertadores - First Round	Junior
Copa Sudamericana	Santa Fe , Deportes Tolima , Atlético Huila
Cup winners	Santa Fe
Relegation ↓	Deportivo Pereira (2-1 and 3-2 against Atlético Bucaramanga )
Relegated	Deportivo Pasto
Teams	18th
Games	376 + 2 relegation games
Gates	971  (ø 2.58 per game)
Top scorer	Apertura: Teófilo Gutiérrez ( Junior ) Finalización: Jackson Martínez ( Independiente Medellín )
← Categoría Primera A 2008 Categoría Primera A 2010 →
Categoría Primera B 2009 ↓

The Categoría Primera A 2009 , named after a sponsor Copa Mustang 2009 , was a season consisting of Apertura and Finalización of the highest Colombian league in men's football . The Apertura was the sixty-ninth and the Finalización the seventieth edition of the Colombian Championship. Climber was Real Cartagena .

Champion Apertura was Once Caldas (third title) and master of Finalización was Independiente Medellin (fifth title). Direct relegation was Deportivo Pasto , while Deportivo Pereira had to play the relegation and won it against Atlético Bucaramanga .

mode

Two champions were determined, one for each half series. Every semi-series champion was automatically qualified for the Copa Libertadores . A third place was awarded to the club which, after adding up all the points and goals in phases 1 and 2 of the first and second semi-series championships, was the highest. Should a club win both semi-series championships, the second participant in the Libertadores would be selected using the same procedure as the third participant. Two participants in the Copa Sudamericana were determined according to the same scheme as the third Libertadores participant: the two clubs that were behind this in the overall annual ranking were qualified. A third club was determined by the cup competition . A direct relegation to the Categoría Primera B was determined by a separate relegation table, which was determined from the average of the past three seasons. The second last played a relegation against the second in the second division.

Attendees

The following clubs took part in the two half-series of the 2009 season, Apertura and Finalización .

Medellin Envigado Barranquilla Cartagena Tunja Manizales Bogotá Neiva Cúcuta Armenia Ibagué Cali Pereira Pasto

2009 Copa Mustang venues

team	city	Department	Stadion	first season in Primera A
America de Cali	Cali	Valle del Cauca	Pascual Guerrero	1948
Atlético Huila	Neiva	Huila	Guillermo Plazas Alcid	1993
Atlético Nacional	Medellin	Antioquia	Atanasio Girardot	1948
Boyacá Chicó	Tunja	Boyacá	La Independencia	2004
Cúcuta Deportivo	Cúcuta	North of Santander	General Santander	1950
Deportes Quindío	Armenia	Quindío	Centenario	1952
Deportes Tolima	Ibagué	Tolima	Manuel Murillo Toro	1955
Deportivo Cali	Cali	Valle del Cauca	Pascual Guerrero	1948
Deportivo Pasto	Pasto	Nariño	Departamental Libertad	1999
Deportivo Pereira	Pereira	Risaralda	Hernán Ramírez Villegas	1949
Envigado FC	Envigado Medellín	Antioquia	Polideportivo Sur Atanasio Girardot 1	1992
Independiente Medellin	Medellin	Antioquia	Atanasio Girardot	1948
Junior	Barranquilla	Atlántico	Metropolitan Roberto Meléndez	1948
La Equidad	Bogotá DC	Bogotá	Metropolitan de Techo	2007
Millonarios	Bogotá DC	Bogotá	El Campín	1948
Once Caldas	Manizales	Caldas	Palogrande	1948
Real Cartagena	Cartagena	Bolívar	Jaime Morón León	1971
Santa Fe	Bogotá DC	Bogotá	El Campín	1948
1Envigado FC played their home games in the back series at the Estadio Atanasio Girardot in Medellín, as their own stadium was rebuilt for the South American Games in 2010.

Aperture

In the first phase, all 18 teams played against each other in league mode, in addition there was a game day with Clásicos , where games with a derby character were played. The first eight teams qualified for the final round, which consisted of two groups of four, the two winners of which determined the champions.

League phase

table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Deportes Tolima	18th	10	2	6th	021:160	+5	32
2.	Junior	18th	9	4th	5	030:180	+12	31
3.	Cúcuta Deportivo	18th	9	4th	5	016:140	+2	31
4th	Boyacá Chicó	18th	8th	6th	4th	024:220	+2	30th
5.	Deportivo Cali	18th	8th	5	5	023:170	+6	29
6th	La Equidad	18th	8th	5	5	020:180	+2	29
7th	Envigado FC	18th	8th	5	5	022:240	−2	29
8th.	Once Caldas	18th	7th	7th	4th	023:140	+9	28
9.	Deportes Quindío	18th	7th	4th	7th	023:230	± 0	25th
10.	Real Cartagena (N)	18th	7th	4th	7th	023:240	−1	25th
11.	America de Cali (M)	18th	7th	3	8th	024:210	+3	24
12.	Deportivo Pereira	18th	7th	3	8th	026:250	+1	24
13.	Atlético Huila	18th	7th	3	8th	021:260	−5	24
14th	Santa Fe	18th	5	6th	7th	020:250	−5	21st
15th	Millonarios	18th	3	8th	7th	016:200	−4	17th
16.	Deportivo Pasto	18th	4th	5	9	012:170	−5	17th
17th	Atlético Nacional	18th	3	7th	8th	016:250	−9	16
18th	Independiente Medellin	18th	2	5	11	018:290	−11	11

	Participation in the group stage
(M)	Master Finalización 2008 : América de Cali
(N)	Newcomers from the Categoría Primera B 2008 : Real Cartagena

Group stage

Group A

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Once Caldas	6th	3	1	2	011:100	+1	10
2.	La Equidad	6th	2	3	1	005: 400	+1	09
3.	Deportes Tolima	6th	2	2	2	004: 400	± 0	08th
4th	Boyacá Chicó	6th	1	2	3	004: 600	−2	05

Group B

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Junior	6th	2	3	1	011: 600	+5	09
2.	Deportivo Cali	6th	2	3	1	008: 700	+1	09
3.	Cúcuta Deportivo	6th	1	3	2	006: 900	−3	06th
4th	Envigado FC	6th	1	3	2	005: 800	−3	06th

final

06/24/2009	Manizales	Once Caldas	-	Junior	2: 1 (1: 0)
06/28/2009	Barranquilla	Junior	-	Once Caldas	1: 3 (1: 2)
With this, Once Caldas became the master of the aperture.

List of goalscorers

If the number of hits is the same, the players are sorted alphabetically.

Pl.	player	team	Gates
1.	Teófilo Gutiérrez	Junior	16
2.	Johan Fano	Once Caldas	13
3.	Pablo Batalla	Deportivo Cali	10
	Roberto Gamarra	Cúcuta Deportivo
5.	Wilson Carpintero	La Equidad	09
	Adrian Ramos	America de Cali

Finalización

In the first phase, all 18 teams played against each other in league mode, in addition there was a game day with Clásicos , where games with a derby character were played. The first eight teams qualified for two semi-final groups. In the second phase, four teams each played in two groups with home and away games from two finalists who determined the champions.

League phase

table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Independiente Medellin	18th	12	2	4th	029:180	+11	38
2.	Santa Fe	18th	8th	6th	4th	031:240	+7	30th
3.	Atlético Huila	18th	8th	6th	4th	027:240	+3	30th
4th	Deportivo Pereira	18th	7th	8th	3	021: 900	+12	29
5.	Deportes Tolima	18th	8th	5	5	025:230	+2	29
6th	Junior	18th	8th	3	7th	035:250	+10	27
7th	Atlético Nacional	18th	6th	9	3	021:190	+2	27
8th.	Real Cartagena (N)	18th	7th	6th	5	030:300	± 0	27
9.	Millonarios	18th	6th	8th	4th	024:200	+4	26th
10.	Deportivo Pasto	18th	7th	5	6th	024:250	−1	26th
11.	Boyacá Chicó	18th	6th	6th	6th	032:310	+1	24
12.	Deportivo Cali	18th	6th	4th	8th	030:320	−2	22nd
13.	Deportes Quindío	18th	6th	3	9	022:310	−9	21st
14th	La Equidad	18th	2	11	5	017:240	−7	17th
15th	Once Caldas (M)	18th	4th	5	9	023:350	−12	17th
16.	Cúcuta Deportivo	18th	3	6th	9	015:200	−5	15th
17th	Envigado FC	18th	2	7th	9	035:420	−7	13
18th	America de Cali	18th	1	10	7th	020:290	−9	13

	Participation in the semi-final groups
(M)	Master Apertura 2009: Once Caldas
(N)	Newcomers from the Categoría Primera B 2008 : Real Cartagena

Group stage

Group A

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Independiente Medellin	6th	4th	2	0	012: 600	+6	14th
2.	Junior	6th	2	3	1	007: 500	+2	09
3.	Deportivo Pereira	6th	1	2	3	009:110	−2	05
4th	Real Cartagena	6th	1	1	4th	005:110	−6	04th

Group B

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Atlético Huila	6th	3	2	1	008: 500	+3	11
2.	Atlético Nacional	6th	3	1	2	010: 700	+3	10
3.	Santa Fe	6th	2	1	3	006:110	−5	07th
4th	Deportes Tolima	6th	1	2	3	009:100	−1	05

final

December 16, 2009	Neiva	Atlético Huila	-	Independiente Medellin	0: 1 (0: 0)
December 20, 2009	Medellin	Independiente Medellin	-	Atlético Huila	2: 2 (0: 1)
This made Independiente Medellín Master of the Finalización.

List of goalscorers

If the number of hits is the same, the players are sorted alphabetically.

Pl.	player	team	Gates
1.	Jackson Martínez	Independiente Medellin	18th
2.	Teófilo Gutiérrez	Junior	14th
3.	Giovanni Moreno	Atlético Nacional	13
4th	Iván Velásquez	Atlético Huila	11
5.	Sergio Herrera	Deportivo Cali	10
	Omar Sebastián Pérez	Santa Fe
7th	Carlos Bacca	Junior	09
	Johan Fano	Once Caldas
	José Nájera	Real Cartagena

Overall table

For the Reclasificación , all games of the 2009 season, both the league phase and the final round, were added up to determine the other participants in addition to the respective champions of the semi-series in the continental competitions.

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Junior	50	21st	13	16	085:590	+26	76
2.	Deportes Tolima	48	21st	11	16	059:530	+6	74
3.	Independiente Medellin	44	19th	10	15th	062:550	+7	67
4th	Atlético Huila	44	18th	12	14th	058:580	± 0	66
5.	Once Caldas	44	16	13	15th	062:610	+1	61
6th	Deportivo Cali	42	16	12	14th	061:560	+5	60
7th	Boyacá Chicó	42	15th	14th	13	060:590	+1	59
8th.	Deportivo Pereira	42	15th	13	14th	056:450	+11	58
9.	Santa Fe	42	15th	13	14th	057:600	−3	58
10.	Real Cartagena	42	15th	11	16	058:650	−7	56
11.	La Equidad	42	12	19th	11	042:460	−4	55
12.	Atlético Nacional	42	12	17th	13	047:510	−4	53
13.	Cúcuta Deportivo	42	13	13	16	045:430	+2	52
14th	Envigado FC	42	11	15th	16	037:740	−37	48
15th	Deportes Quindío	36	13	7th	16	062:540	+8	46
16.	Millonarios	36	9	16	11	040:400	± 0	43
17th	Deportivo Pasto	36	11	10	15th	036:420	−6	43
18th	America de Cali	36	8th	13	15th	044:500	−6	37

	Participation in the group stage of the Copa Libertadores 2010 : Once Caldas (Master Apertura) and Independiente Medellín (Master Finalización)
	Participation in qualifying for the Copa Libertadores 2010 : Junior
	Participation in the Copa Sudamericana 2010 : Santa Fe (cup winner), Deportes Tolima and Atlético Huila

Relegation table

For the relegation table, the back and forth series of the years 2007, 2008 and 2009 are added together. The total number of points is divided by the number of games played in the league phase and extrapolated. Direct relegated was Deportivo Pasto , while Deportivo Pereira had to play the relegation against the second in the Categoría Primera B , Atlético Bucaramanga .

Pl.	society	Sp.	T	GT	Diff.	Pt.	Prom.
18th	Deportivo Pasto	108	107	120	−13	131	1,212
17th	Deportivo Pereira	108	120	133	−13	133	1,231
16.	Real Cartagena	108	136	155	−19	135	1,250
15th	Envigado FC	108	141	152	−11	135	1,250
14th	Deportes Quindío	108	129	147	−18	136	1,259
13.	Atlético Huila	108	131	151	−20	137	1,268
12.	Once Caldas	108	133	144	−11	138	1,277
11.	America de Cali	108	151	145	0+6	145	1,342
10.	Millonarios	108	133	126	0+7	145	1,342
9.	Santa Fe	108	133	133	0	150	1,388
8th.	Cúcuta Deportivo	108	120	107	+13	154	1,425
7th	La Equidad	108	128	117	+11	157	1,453
6th	Junior	108	154	139	+15	157	1,453
5.	Deportivo Cali	108	153	131	+22	158	1,462
4th	Independiente Medellin	108	152	136	+16	161	1,490
3.	Deportes Tolima	108	141	135	0+6	162	1,500
2.	Boyacá Chicó	108	143	130	+13	163	1,509
1.	Atlético Nacional	108	133	114	+19	165	1,527

	Participation in the relegation games against the runner-up in the Categoría Primera B: Deportivo Pereira
	Relegation to the Categoría Primera B : Deportivo Pasto

Relegation

12/02/2009	Bucaramanga	Atlético Bucaramanga	-	Deportivo Pereira	1: 2
December 17, 2009	Pereira	Deportivo Pereira	-	Atlético Bucaramanga	3: 2

Deportivo Pereira won both games against Atlético Bucaramanga and remained in the first division.

Web links

• Official website of the Dimayor
• Official website of the Liga Postobón

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Envigado solo podrá jugar un partido del torneo Finalización en su estadio (Spanish). FútbolRed, July 8, 2009, accessed April 15, 2014 .