Categoría Primera A 2010

Liga Postobón 2010
master	Apertura: Junior Finalización: Once Caldas
Copa Libertadores - Group Stage	Junior , Once Caldas
Copa Libertadores - First Round	Deportes Tolima
Copa Sudamericana	Deportivo Cali , Santa Fe , La Equidad
Cup winners	Deportivo Cali
Relegation ↓	Envigado FC (1-0 and 2-0 against Deportivo Pasto )
Relegated	Cortuluá
Teams	18th
Games	356 + 2 relegation games
Gates	952  (ø 2.67 per game)
Top scorer	Apertura: Carlos Bacca ( Junior ) and Carlos Rentería ( La Equidad ) Finalización: Wilder Medina ( Deportes Tolima ) and Dayro Moreno ( Once Caldas )
← Categoría Primera A 2009 Categoría Primera A 2011 →
Categoría Primera B 2010 ↓

The Categoría Primera A 2010 was a season consisting of Apertura and Finalización of the highest Colombian league in men's football . The Apertura was the seventy-first and the Finalización the seventy-second edition of the Colombian Championship. Climber was Cortuluá .

Master of Apertura became Junior (sixth title) and Master of Finalización was Once Caldas (fourth title). Direct relegation was Cortuluá , while Envigado FC had to play the relegation and won it against Deportivo Pasto .

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 2010 season, Apertura and Finalización .

Medellin Envigado Barranquilla Cartagena Tunja Manizales Bogotá Neiva Cúcuta Armenia Ibagué Cali Pereira Cartago Tuluá Palmira

Venues of the Categoría Primera A 2010

team	city	Department	Stadion	first season in Primera A
America de Cali	Cali Tuluá	Valle del Cauca	Pascual Guerrero Doce de Octubre	1948
Atlético Huila	Neiva	Huila	Guillermo Plazas Alcid	1993
Atlético Nacional	Medellin	Antioquia	Atanasio Girardot	1948
Boyacá Chicó	Tunja	Boyacá	La Independencia	2004
Cortuluá	Tuluá	Valle del Cauca	Doce de Octubre	1994
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 Palmira	Valle del Cauca	Pascual Guerrero Deportivo Cali	1948
Deportivo Pereira	Pereira Cartago	Risaralda Valle del Cauca	Hernán Ramírez Villegas Alfonso López	1949
Envigado FC	Envigado	Antioquia	Polideportivo Sur	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

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 four teams qualified for the semi-finals, which was followed by the final.

League phase

table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Deportes Tolima	18th	10	4th	4th	036:220	+14	34
2.	Independiente Medellin (M)	18th	9	6th	3	029:170	+12	33
3.	Junior	18th	9	5	4th	028:170	+11	32
4th	La Equidad	18th	9	4th	5	029:250	+4	31
5.	Deportivo Cali	18th	9	3	6th	028:200	+8	30th
6th	Santa Fe (P)	18th	9	3	6th	025:230	+2	30th
7th	Boyacá Chicó	18th	8th	5	5	025:240	+1	29
8th.	Atlético Nacional	18th	9	1	8th	028:240	+4	28
9.	Real Cartagena	18th	8th	4th	6th	024:260	−2	28
10.	Once Caldas	18th	7th	4th	7th	032:280	+4	25th
11.	Atlético Huila	18th	6th	6th	6th	030:260	+4	24
12.	Envigado FC	18th	6th	5	7th	023:300	−7	23
13.	Cúcuta Deportivo	18th	5	5	8th	014:210	−7	20th
14th	Millonarios	18th	5	4th	9	022:290	−7	19th
15th	Deportivo Pereira	18th	4th	6th	8th	023:280	−5	18th
16.	America de Cali	18th	4th	4th	10	018:280	−10	16
17th	Cortuluá (N)	18th	4th	3	11	019:320	−13	15th
18th	Deportes Quindío	18th	4th	2	12	009:220	−13	14th

	Participation in the quarter-finals
(M)	Master Finalización 2009: Independiente Medellín
(N)	Newcomer from the Categoría Primera B 2009 : Cortuluá
(P)	Cup winner 2009: Santa Fe

Final round

Semifinals

The games were played from May 19 to 23, 2010.

Team # 1	total	Team # 2	First leg	Return leg
La Equidad	3: 3 (3: 1 iE)	Deportes Tolima	2: 2	1: 1
Junior	3: 2	Independiente Medellin	3: 1	0: 1

Team # 1 played their first game at home.

final

05/26/2010	Bogotá	La Equidad	-	Junior	1: 0 (1: 0)
06/02/2010	Barranquilla	Junior	-	La Equidad	3: 1 (2: 0)
With this Junior 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.	Carlos Bacca	Junior	12
	Carlos Rentería	La Equidad
3.	Franco Arizala	Deportes Tolima	11
	Giovanni Moreno	Atlético Nacional
	Fernando Uribe	Once Caldas
6th	Luis Muriel	Deportivo Cali	09

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.	Deportes Tolima	18th	11	3	4th	035:150	+20	36
2.	Once Caldas	18th	11	3	4th	034:260	+8	36
3.	Santa Fe (P)	18th	10	5	3	026:130	+13	35
4th	Atlético Nacional	18th	10	3	5	025:230	+2	33
5.	Deportes Quindío	18th	9	4th	5	025:200	+5	31
6th	Atlético Huila	18th	8th	6th	4th	028:240	+4	30th
7th	Cúcuta Deportivo	18th	8th	4th	6th	024:180	+6	28
8th.	La Equidad	18th	8th	4th	6th	023:230	± 0	28
9.	Deportivo Cali	18th	6th	8th	4th	031:230	+8	26th
10.	America de Cali	18th	7th	4th	7th	025:230	+2	25th
11.	Independiente Medellin	18th	5	9	4th	022:220	± 0	24
12.	Millonarios	18th	6th	4th	8th	025:250	± 0	22nd
13.	Boyacá Chicó	18th	5	6th	7th	016:260	−10	21st
14th	Junior (M)	18th	2	10	6th	021:280	−7	16
15th	Real Cartagena	18th	3	6th	9	017:280	−11	15th
16.	Cortuluá (N)	18th	3	4th	11	014:300	−16	13
17th	Deportivo Pereira	18th	0	9	9	012:220	−10	09
18th	Envigado FC	18th	1	6th	11	019:320	−13	09

	Participation in the semi-final groups
(M)	Master Apertura 2010: Junior
(N)	Newcomer from the Categoría Primera B 2009 : Cortuluá
(P)	Cup winner 2009: Santa Fe

Semi-final phase

Group A

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Deportes Tolima	6th	3	2	1	011: 900	+2	11
2.	Santa Fe	6th	3	1	2	008: 600	+2	10
3.	Atlético Huila	6th	2	1	3	009:100	−1	07th
4th	La Equidad	6th	1	2	3	004: 700	−3	05

Group B

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Once Caldas	6th	4th	1	1	014: 700	+7	13
2.	Cúcuta Deportivo	6th	2	3	1	007: 600	+1	09
3.	Deportes Quindío	6th	2	0	4th	007:120	−5	06th
4th	Atlético Nacional	6th	1	2	3	009:120	−3	05

final

December 15, 2010	Ibagué	Deportes Tolima	-	Once Caldas	2: 1 (1: 1)
December 19, 2010	Manizales	Once Caldas	-	Deportes Tolima	3: 1 (1: 0)
Once Caldas became the 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.	Wild medina	Deportes Tolima	16
	Dayro Moreno	Once Caldas
3.	Wilson Carpintero	Cúcuta Deportivo	14th
4th	Fernando Uribe	Once Caldas	13
5.	Martin Morel	Deportivo Cali	11
6th	Yovanny Arrechea	Millonarios	10
	Jorge Perlaza	Deportes Tolima
	Carlos Rodas	Deportes Quindío

Overall table

For the Reclasificación , all games of the 2010 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.	Deportes Tolima	46	25th	11	10	088:520	+36	86
2.	Once Caldas	44	23	8th	13	084:640	+20	77
3.	Santa Fe	42	22nd	9	11	059:420	+17	75
4th	La Equidad	46	19th	12	15th	061:600	+1	69
5.	Atlético Nacional	42	19th	6th	17th	061:600	+1	63
6th	Atlético Huila	42	16	13	13	067:600	+7	61
7th	Independiente Medellin	38	15th	15th	8th	053:420	+11	60
8th.	Cúcuta Deportivo	42	15th	12	15th	045:450	± 0	57
9.	Deportivo Cali	36	15th	11	10	059:430	+16	56
10.	Junior	40	13	15th	12	052:480	+4	54
11.	Deportes Quindío	42	15th	6th	21st	041:540	−13	51
12.	Boyacá Chicó	36	13	11	12	041:500	−9	50
13.	Real Cartagena	36	11	10	15th	041:550	−14	43
14th	Millonarios	36	11	8th	17th	047:540	−7	41
15th	America de Cali	36	11	8th	17th	043:510	−8	41
16.	Envigado FC	36	7th	11	18th	042:620	−20	32
17th	Cortuluá	36	7th	7th	22nd	033:620	−29	28
18th	Deportivo Pereira	36	4th	15th	17th	035:500	−15	27

	Participation in the group stage of the Copa Libertadores 2011 : Junior (Master Apertura) and Once Caldas (Master Finalización)
	Participation in the qualification for the Copa Libertadores 2011 : Deportes Tolima
	Participation in the Copa Sudamericana 2011 : Deportivo Cali (cup winner), Santa Fe and La Equidad

Relegation table

For the relegation table, the series back and forth in 2008, 2009 and 2010 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 Cortuluá , while Envigado FC had to play the relegation against the second in the Categoría Primera B , Deportivo Pasto .

Pl.	society	Sp.	T	GT	Diff.	Pt.	Prom.
18th	Cortuluá	108	128	167	−37	118	1,093
17th	Envigado FC	108	138	167	−29	123	1,139
16.	Deportivo Pereira	108	126	137	−11	128	1,185
15th	Real Cartagena	108	136	160	−24	133	1,231
14th	America de Cali	108	146	146	0	133	1,231
13.	Cúcuta Deportivo	108	98	112	−14	134	1,241
12.	Millonarios	108	136	135	0+1	136	1,259
11.	Deportes Quindío	108	120	140	−20	137	1,269
10.	Atlético Huila	108	148	151	0−3	146	1,352
9.	Once Caldas	108	152	151	0+1	152	1,407
8th.	Atlético Nacional	108	126	129	0-3	156	1,444
7th	Boyacá Chicó	108	144	146	0−2	156	1,444
6th	Junior	108	162	130	+32	161	1,491
5.	Deportivo Cali	108	161	134	+27	162	1,500
4th	Independiente Medellin	108	148	119	+29	164	1,519
3.	La Equidad	108	132	119	+13	169	1,565
2.	Santa Fe	108	145	118	+27	173	1,602
1.	Deportes Tolima	108	159	126	+33	179	1,657

	Participation in the relegation games against the runner-up in the Categoría Primera B: Envigado FC
	Relegation to the Categoría Primera B : Cortuluá

Relegation

12/11/2010	Pasto	Deportivo Pasto	-	Envigado FC	0: 1
12/14/2010	Envigado	Envigado FC	-	Deportivo Pasto	2-0

Envigado FC won both games against Deportivo Pasto and stayed in the top division.

Web links

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

Remarks

1. ↑ The Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero was rebuilt for the U-20 World Cup in 2011 , so América de Cali played its home games in Tuluá in the Torneo Finalización.
2. ↑ Deportivo Cali moved to the Torneo Finalización in the newly built own stadium in Palmira.
3. ↑ The Estadio Hernán Ramírez Villegas was rebuilt for the 2011 U-20 World Cup , so Deportivo Pereira played its home games in Cartago in the Torneo Finalización.