Categoría Primera A 2015

League Águila 2015
master	Apertura: Deportivo Cali Finalización: Atlético Nacional
Copa Libertadores - Group Stage	Deportivo Cali , Atlético Nacional
Copa Libertadores - First Round	Independiente Santa Fe (2015 Copa Sudamericana winner)
Copa Sudamericana	Independiente Santa Fe (defending champion), Junior (cup winner), Atlético Nacional (Superliga winner) Independiente Medellín , Deportes Tolima
Cup winners	Junior
Relegated	Cúcuta Deportivo , Uniautónoma FC
Teams	20th
Games	428  (of which 428 played)
Gates	973  (ø 2.27 per game)
Top scorer	Apertura: Fernando Uribe ( Millonarios ) Finalización: Jefferson Duque ( Atlético Nacional )
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The Categoría Primera A 2015 , named after a sponsor Liga Águila , is a season of the highest Colombian league in men's football consisting of Apertura and Finalización . The Apertura is the eighty-first and the Finalización the eighty-second edition of the Colombian Championship. The aperture started on January 31st and ended on June 7th, 2015. The finalización started on July 10th, 2015.

Acting Master is Independiente Santa Fe . The newcomer is Jaguares de Córdoba . Two other promoted teams were determined in a separate promotion round, in which eight traditional teams of the second division took part. Cúcuta Deportivo and Cortuluá were able to prevail. This increases the league to 20 teams.

In the Apertura Deportivo Cali won the final against Independiente Medellín and became champions for the ninth time. Atlético Nacional won the back series on penalties against Junior and became the Colombian record champions with their fifteenth title.

As the first relegated five game days before the end of the back series, the promoted Cúcuta Deportivo , who was relegated to the second division for the fourth time in the club's history. One game day later, Uniautónoma FC , the second relegated team, was confirmed, who had only secured relegation last year.

mode

Two champions are determined, one for each half series. Every semi-series champion is automatically qualified for the Copa Libertadores . A third place is awarded to the club that has the highest after adding up all the points and goals from phases 1 and 2 of the first and second semi-series championships. Should a club win both semi-series championships, the second participant in the Libertadores will be selected using the same procedure as the third participant. Two participants in the Copa Sudamericana will be determined according to the same scheme as the third Libertadores participant: the two clubs that stand behind him in the overall annual ranking are qualified. A third club is determined by the cup competition and a fourth by the Superliga de Colombia . Two direct relegated to the Categoría Primera B are determined by a separate relegation table, which is determined from the average of the past three seasons. There is no longer any relegation.

In both phases, all 20 teams play against each other in league mode, in addition there is a game day with Clásicos , on which games with a derby character are played. The first eight teams qualify for the quarter-finals, followed by the semi-finals and finals. In the draw for the quarter-finals, the teams in places one to four are in the first lottery pot and a team in places five to eight is drawn. They also have home rights in the second leg.

Promotion lap

Eight traditional teams from the second division took part in the promotion round. The promotion round took place in Bogotá, in the stadiums Metropolitano de Techo and El Campín . The teams were drawn into two groups. In each group, all teams played against each other once. Both group winners, Cúcuta Deportivo and Cortuluá , qualified directly.

Group A

table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Cúcuta Deportivo	3	2	1	0	008: 300	+5	07th
2.	Deportes Quindío	3	2	1	0	006: 400	+2	07th
3.	Atlético Bucaramanga	2	0	0	2	000: 300	−3	00
4th	Real Cartagena	2	0	0	2	001: 500	−4	00

	Promotion to the first division

January 14, 2015
Deportes Quindío	1-0	Atlético Bucaramanga	Estadio Metropolitano de Techo
Cúcuta Deportivo	3-0	Real Cartagena	Estadio Metropolitano de Techo
17th January 2015
Real Cartagena	1: 2	Deportes Quindío	Estadio Metropolitano de Techo
Atlético Bucaramanga	0: 2	Cúcuta Deportivo	Estadio Metropolitano de Techo
20th January 2015
Real Cartagena	called off	Atlético Bucaramanga
Cúcuta Deportivo	3: 3	Deportes Quindío	Estadio Metropolitano de Techo

Group B

table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Cortuluá	3	1	2	0	004: 200	+2	05
2.	Unión Magdalena	3	1	2	0	001-000	+1	05
3.	America de Cali	3	0	2	1	002: 300	−1	02
4th	Deportivo Pereira	3	0	2	1	002: 400	−2	02

	Promotion to the first division

January 15, 2015
Deportivo Pereira	0-0	Unión Magdalena	El Campín
America de Cali	1: 1	Cortuluá	El Campín
January 18, 2015
Unión Magdalena	1-0	America de Cali	El Campín
Cortuluá	3: 1	Deportivo Pereira	El Campín
January 21, 2015
Unión Magdalena	0-0	Cortuluá	El Campín
Deportivo Pereira	1: 1	America de Cali	El Campín

Attendees

The following clubs take part in the two half-series of the 2015 season, Apertura and Finalización .

Medellin Envigado Barranquilla Barrancabermeja Floridablanca Tunja Manizales Bogotá Neiva Armenia iba gué Palmira Pasto Pereira Rionegro Montería Cúcuta Tuluá Girardot Cartagena

Venues of the Liga Águila 2015

team	city	Department	Stadion	first season in Primera A
Águilas Doradas 1	Pereira Rionegro Medellin	Risaralda Antioquia Antioquia	Ramírez Villegas Alberto Grisales Atanasio Girardot	2011
Alianza Petrolera	Barrancabermeja Floridablanca	Santander	Villa Zapata 2 Gómez Hurtado	2013
Atlético Huila	Neiva Armenia Girardot	Huila Quindío Cundinamarca	Plazas Alcid 3 Centenario Luis A. Duque	1993
Atlético Nacional	Medellin	Antioquia	Atanasio Girardot	1948
Boyacá Chicó	Tunja Bogotá DC	Boyacá Bogotá	Independencia 4 Techo	2004
Cortuluá	Tuluá	Valle del Cauca	Doce de Octubre	1994
Cúcuta Deportivo	Cúcuta	North of Santander	General Santander	1950
Deportes Tolima	Ibagué Bogotá DC	Tolima Bogotá	Murillo Toro 5 Techo / El Campín	1955
Deportivo Cali	Cali / Palmira 6	Valle del Cauca	Deportivo Cali	1948
Deportivo Pasto	Pasto	Nariño	Departamental Libertad	1999
Envigado FC	Envigado	Antioquia	Polideportivo Sur	1992
Independiente Medellin	Medellin	Antioquia	Atanasio Girardot	1948
Independiente Santa Fe	Bogotá DC	Bogotá	El Campín	1948
Jaguares de Cordoba	Montería Cartagena	Cordoba Bolívar	M. de Montería 6 Jaime Morón	2015
Junior	Barranquilla	Atlántico	Metropolitano	1948
La Equidad	Bogotá DC	Bogotá	Techo	2007
Millonarios	Bogotá DC	Bogotá	El Campín	1948
Once Caldas	Manizales	Caldas	Palogrande	1948
Patriotas	Tunja Bogotá DC	Boyacá Bogotá	Independencia 4 Techo	2012
Uniautónoma FC	Barranquilla	Atlántico	Metropolitano	2014
1Águilas Doradas moved from Pereira to Rionegro during the Hinserie. The club also played a home game in Medellín. 2 Alianza Petrolera played its home games in Floridablanca until mid-April due to renovation work on the stadium in Barrancabermeja. 3 Atlético Huila evaded because of renovation work on the stadium in Neiva from the final phase of the Apertura to Armenia and from September to Girardot. 4th Boyacá Chicó and Patriotas evaded because of renovation work on the stadium in Tunja at the beginning of the return series to Bogotá. 5 Deportes Tolima moved to Bogotá between April and November due to renovation work on the stadium in Ibagué. 6th Deportivo Cali is based in Cali, but the Estadio Deportivo Cali is located in the neighboring city of Palmira 7th Jaguares had to play its last home game in Cartagena because the lighting installations in their own stadium did not meet the requirements.

Aperture

League phase

table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Atlético Huila	20th	12	5	3	033:220	+11	41
2.	Envigado FC	20th	10	6th	4th	021:130	+8	36
3.	Deportivo Cali	20th	10	5	5	036:240	+12	35
4th	Independiente Medellin	20th	10	5	5	031:220	+9	35
5.	Millonarios	20th	9	7th	4th	036:230	+13	34
6th	Atlético Nacional	20th	10	4th	6th	033:240	+9	34
7th	Deportes Tolima (P)	20th	9	6th	5	029:160	+13	33
8th.	Junior	20th	9	6th	5	027:160	+11	33
9.	Independiente Santa Fe (M)	20th	8th	7th	5	029:190	+10	31
10.	Águilas Doradas	20th	8th	6th	6th	023:160	+7	30th
11.	Patriotas	20th	7th	6th	7th	017:180	−1	27
12.	La Equidad	20th	6th	8th	6th	021:210	± 0	26th
13.	Once Caldas	20th	5	8th	7th	029:320	−3	23
14th	Cortuluá (N)	20th	5	6th	9	022:250	−3	21st
15th	Jaguares de Córdoba (N)	20th	5	6th	9	021:320	−11	21st
16.	Alianza Petrolera	20th	3	11	6th	017:220	−5	20th
17th	Boyacá Chicó	20th	3	8th	9	016:290	−13	17th
18th	Cúcuta Deportivo (N)	20th	2	9	9	016:330	−17	15th
19th	Uniautónoma FC	20th	3	6th	11	013:300	−17	15th
20th	Deportivo Pasto	20th	2	3	15th	011:440	−33	09

	Participation in the quarter-finals
(M)	Master Finalización 2014 : Santa Fe
(P)	Cup winner 2014 : Deportes Tolima
(N)	Newcomers from the Categoría Primera B : Jaguares de Córdoba, Cúcuta Deportivo, Cortuluá

Final round

Quarter finals

The first legs were played on May 20 and 21, 2015 and the second legs on May 23 and 24, 2015.

Team # 1	total	Team # 2	First leg	Return leg
Atlético Nacional	3: 4	Deportivo Cali	3: 3	0: 1
Deportes Tolima	5: 3	Atlético Huila	2: 1	3: 2
Junior	0: 4	Medellin	0: 3	0: 1
Millonarios	6: 3	Envigado FC	4-0	2: 3

Team # 1 played their first game at home.

Semifinals

The first legs were played on May 27 and 28, 2015 and the second legs on May 31, 2015.

Team # 1	total	Team # 2	First leg	Return leg
Millonarios	3: 3 (3: 4 iE)	Deportivo Cali	3: 2	0: 1
Deportes Tolima	1: 3	Medellin	0-0	1: 3

Team # 1 played their first game at home.

final

The first leg was played on June 3, 2015 in Cali and the second leg on June 7, 2015 in Medellín.

Team # 1	total	Team # 2	First leg	Return leg
Deportivo Cali	2: 1	Medellin	1-0	1: 1

Team # 1 plays the first game at home.

List of goalscorers

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

Pl.	player	team	Gates
1.	Fernando Uribe	Millonarios FC	15th
2.	Harold Preciado	Deportivo Cali	13
3.	Marco Pérez Murillo	Deportes Tolima	10
4th	Jonathan Copete	Atlético Nacional	9
	Carlos Ibargüen	Cortuluá
6th	Martín Arzuaga	Jaguares de Cordoba	8th
	Rafael Borré	Deportivo Cali
	Jhony Cano	Atlético Huila
	Juan Fernando Caicedo	Independiente Medellin
	Hernán Hechalar	Independiente Medellin
	Miguel Ángel Murillo	Deportivo Cali
	Carlos Rentería	Patriotas

Finalización

League phase

table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Atlético Nacional	20th	14th	3	3	033: 700	+26	45
2.	Junior	20th	11	3	6th	031:230	+8	36
3.	Deportes Tolima (P)	20th	10	5	5	023:140	+9	35
4th	Independiente Medellin	20th	10	5	5	023:180	+5	35
5.	Once Caldas	20th	9	7th	4th	025:140	+11	34
6th	Alianza Petrolera	20th	9	6th	5	018:120	+6	33
7th	Deportivo Cali (M)	20th	9	5	6th	030:280	+2	32
8th.	Independiente Santa Fe	20th	8th	7th	5	026:150	+11	31
9.	Patriotas	20th	9	4th	7th	024:190	+5	31
10.	Deportivo Pasto	20th	9	3	8th	025:260	−1	30th
11.	Millonarios	20th	7th	7th	6th	020:160	+4	28
12.	La Equidad	20th	8th	4th	8th	022:270	−5	28
13.	Envigado FC	20th	6th	7th	7th	018:180	± 0	25th
14th	Águilas Doradas	20th	5	9	6th	017:160	+1	24
15th	Cortuluá (N)	20th	6th	6th	8th	020:200	± 0	24
16.	Uniautónoma FC	20th	6th	4th	10	018:260	−8	22nd
17th	Boyacá Chicó	20th	4th	5	11	010:290	−19	17th
18th	Atlético Huila	20th	3	7th	10	012:280	−16	16
19th	Cúcuta Deportivo (N)	20th	3	3	14th	015:370	−22	12
20th	Jaguares de Córdoba (N)	20th	2	4th	14th	018:350	−17	10

	Participation in the quarter-finals
(M)	Champion Apertura 2015: Deportivo Cali
(P)	Cup winner 2014 : Deportes Tolima
(N)	Newcomers from the Categoría Primera B : Jaguares de Córdoba, Cúcuta Deportivo, Cortuluá

Final round

Quarter finals

The first legs were played on November 28 and 29, 2015 and the second legs on December 5 and 6, 2015.

Team # 1	total	Team # 2	First leg	Return leg
Once Caldas	2: 4	Deportes Tolima	1-0	1: 3
Independiente Santa Fe	3: 4	Junior	2: 1	1: 3
Deportivo Cali	1: 3	Atlético Nacional	0-0	1: 3
Alianza Petrolera	0: 6	Independiente Medellin	0: 2	0: 4

Team # 1 played their first game at home.

Semifinals

The first legs will be played on December 10, 2015 and the second legs on December 13, 2015.

Team # 1	total	Team # 2	First leg	Return leg
Deportes Tolima	0: 2	Junior	0: 1	0: 1
Independiente Medellin	1: 2	Atlético Nacional	1-0	0: 2

Team # 1 played their first game at home.

final

First leg

pairing	Junior - Atlético Nacional
Result	2: 1 (2: 0)
date	December 16, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. ( UTC-5 )
Stadion	Estadio Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez , Barranquilla
referee	Wilson Lamouroux
Gates	1-0 Roberto Ovelar (14th) 2-0 Edinson Toloza (22nd) 2-1 Yimmi Chará (67th)
Junior	Sebastián Viera , Iván Vélez , William Tesillo , Andrés Correa , Juan Domínguez , Gustavo Cuéllar , Guillermo Celis , Vladimir Hernández (from 72nd Juan David Pérez ), Jarlan Barrera (from 76th Luis Narváez ), Roberto Ovelar , Édison Toloza Trainer: Alexis Mendoza
Atlético Nacional	Franco Armani , Daniel Bocanegra , Óscar Murillo , Alexis Henríquez , Farid Díaz , Alexander Mejía (from 46th Sebastián Pérez ), Macnelly Torres (from 46th Marlos Moreno ), Alejandro Bernal , Alejandro Guerra , Yimmi Chará , Jefferson Duque (from 68. Jonathan Copete ) Trainer: Reinaldo Rueda
yellow cards	none - Sebastián Pérez, Alejandro Bernal

Return leg

pairing	Atlético Nacional - Junior
Result	1: 0 (1: 0), 3: 2 i. E.
date	December 20, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. ( UTC-5 )
Stadion	Estadio Atanasio Girardot , Medellín
referee	Gustavo Murillo
Gates	1-0 Marlos Moreno (1st) penalty shoot-out: Armani saves against Noguera Viera 0-1 against Bocanegra Luis Narváez 1: 1 Yimmi Chará 1: 2 Roberto Ovelar 2: 2 Alejandro Guerra Celis shoots 3-2 Sebastián Pérez Armani saves against Cuéllar
Atlético Nacional	Franco Armani , Gilberto García (from 77th Daniel Bocanegra ), Óscar Murillo , Alexis Henríquez , Farid Díaz , Sebastián Pérez , Alexander Mejía (from 88th Alejandro Bernal ), Macnelly Torres (from 65th Alejandro Guerra ) Yimmi Chará , Marlos Moreno , Jefferson Duque Trainer: Reinaldo Rueda
Junior	Sebastián Viera , Iván Vélez , Andrés Correa , William Tesillo , Juan Domínguez , Luis Narváez , Guillermo Celis , Gustavo Cuéllar , Vladimir Hernández (from 90th Félix Noguera ), Édison Toloza (from 59th Juan David Pérez ), Roberto Ovelar Trainer: Alexis Mendoza
yellow cards	Alexis Henríquez, Gilberto García, Sebastián Pérez, Alexander Mejía, Luis Narváez - Andrés Correa, Juan David Pérez

List of goalscorers

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

Pl.	player	team
1.	Jefferson Duque	Atlético Nacional	15th
2.	Harold Preciado	Deportivo Cali	12
3.	Juan Fernando Caicedo	Independiente Medellin	9
	Roberto Ovelar	Junior
5.	Jonathan Gomez	Deportivo Pasto	8th
	Vladimir Hernández	Junior
7th	Johan Arango	Once Caldas	7th
	Andrés Felipe Ibargüen	Deportes Tolima
9.	Jean Carlos Blanco	La Equidad	6th
	Carlos Henao	Patriotas
	Carlos Ibargüen	Cortuluá
	Wilson Morelo	Independiente Santa Fe
	Luis Páez	Águilas Doradas
	Michael Rangel	Millonarios FC

Overall table

For the Reclasificación , all games of the 2015 season, both the league and the final phase, are added up in order 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.	Atlético Nacional	48	27	9	12	076:390	+37	90
2.	Independiente Medellin	50	26th	12	12	069:450	+24	90
3.	Junior	48	24	9	15th	066:480	+18	81
4th	Deportivo Cali	48	22nd	13	13	076:620	+14	79
5.	Deportes Tolima	48	22nd	12	14th	061:400	+21	78
6th	Millonarios	44	18th	14th	12	065:450	+20	68
7th	Independiente Santa Fe	42	17th	14th	11	058:380	+20	65
8th.	Envigado FC	42	17th	13	12	042:370	+5	64
9.	Once Caldas	42	15th	15th	12	056:490	+7	60
10.	Patriotas	40	16	10	14th	041:370	+4	58
11.	Atlético Huila	42	15th	12	15th	048:550	−7	57
12.	Águilas Doradas	40	13	15th	12	040:320	+8	54
13.	La Equidad	40	14th	12	14th	043:480	−5	54
14th	Alianza Petrolera	42	12	17th	13	035:400	−5	53
15th	Cortuluá	40	11	12	17th	042:450	−3	45
16.	Deportivo Pasto	40	11	6th	23	036:700	−34	39
17th	Uniautónoma FC	40	9	10	21st	031:560	−25	37
18th	Boyacá Chicó	40	7th	13	20th	026:580	−32	34
19th	Jaguares de Cordoba	40	7th	10	23	039:670	−28	31
20th	Cúcuta Deportivo	40	5	12	23	031:700	−39	27
As of December 16, 2015

	Participation in the Copa Libertadores 2016 and the Copa Sudamericana 2016 : Santa Fe (winner of the Copa Sudamericana 2015), Atlético Nacional (master finalización and winner of the Superliga)
	Participation in the group stage of the Copa Libertadores 2016 : Deportivo Cali (Master Apertura)
	Participation in the Copa Sudamericana 2016 : Junior (cup winner), Independiente Medellín, Deportes Tolima
	Relegation to the Categoría Primera B : Cúcuta Deportivo, Uniautónoma FC

Relegation table

For the relegation table, the back and forth series of the years 2013, 2014 and 2015 are added together. The total number of points is divided by the number of games played in the league phase and extrapolated.

Pl.	society	Sp.	T	GT	Diff.	Pt.	Prom.
20th	Cúcuta Deportivo	112	97	166	−69	96	0.857
19th	Uniautónoma FC	112	97	152	−55	106	0.946
18th	Jaguares de Cordoba	112	109	164	−55	110	0.982
17th	Cortuluá	112	108	141	−33	114	1,017
16.	Boyacá Chicó	112	116	156	−40	115	1,026
15th	Deportivo Pasto	112	121	164	−43	130	1,160
14th	Patriotas	112	111	134	−23	137	1,223
13.	La Equidad	112	116	132	−16	140	1,250
12.	Atlético Huila	112	136	147	−11	143	1,276
11.	Alianza Petrolera	112	108	130	−22	145	1,294
10.	Envigado FC	112	116	122	0−6	148	1,321
9.	Deportes Tolima	112	144	128	+16	163	1,455
8th.	Independiente Medellin	112	151	129	+22	168	1,500
7th	Águilas Doradas	112	131	113	+18	169	1,508
6th	Once Caldas	112	152	114	+38	170	1,351
5.	Deportivo Cali	112	160	133	+27	172	1,517
4th	Millonarios	112	159	118	+41	174	1,553
3.	Junior	112	150	124	+25	176	1,571
2.	Independiente Santa Fe	112	159	105	+54	184	1,642
1.	Atlético Nacional	112	186	99	+87	211	1,883

Relegation to the Categoría Primera B : Cúcuta Deportivo, Uniautónoma FC

Web links

• Official website of the Dimayor

Individual evidence

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3. ↑ Uniautónoma FC vuelve a la Primera B. El Heraldo, October 29, 2015, accessed on November 1, 2015 . 
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