Categoría Primera A 2016

Liga Águila 2016
master	Apertura: Independiente Medellín Finalización: Independiente Santa Fe
Copa Libertadores - Group Stage	Independiente Medellín , Independiente Santa Fe , Atlético Nacional
Copa Libertadores - First Round	Millonarios FC , junior
Copa Sudamericana	Deportivo Cali , Patriotas Boyacá , Deportes Tolima , Rionegro Águilas
Cup winners	Atlético Nacional
Relegated	Fortaleza FC , Boyacá Chicó FC
Teams	20th
Games	428  (of which 428 played)
Gates	1031  (ø 2.41 per game)
Top scorer	Apertura: Miguel Borja ( Cortuluá ) Finalización: Ayron del Valle ( Millonarios FC )
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The Categoría Primera A 2016 , named after a sponsor Liga Águila , was a season of the highest Colombian league in men's football consisting of Apertura and Finalización . The Apertura is the eighty-third and the Finalización the eighty-fourth of the Colombian Championship. The aperture began on January 29, 2016 and ended on June 19, 2016. The finalización began on July 1, 2016 and ended on December 18, 2016.

The newcomers are Atlético Bucaramanga and Fortaleza FC .

Apertura champion was Independiente Medellín after beating Junior in the final . In the Finalización Independiente Santa Fe was able to prevail in the final against Deportes Tolima .

Fortaleza FC was the first to be relegated four games before the end. Two game days later, Boyacá Chicó FC was also relegated.

mode

The mode remained unchanged compared to the previous year. Two champions were determined, one for each half series. Every semi-series champion was automatically qualified for the Copa Libertadores . Two more places were awarded to the clubs that were highest after adding up all the points and goals in phases 1 and 2 of the first and second semi-series championships. If a club had won both semi-series championships, the second participant in the Libertadores would have been selected using the same procedure. Three participants in the Copa Sudamericana were determined according to the same scheme as the third Libertadores participant: the three clubs that were behind this in the overall annual ranking are qualified. A fourth club is determined by the cup competition . A new rule was that neither club could qualify for both competitions. Two direct relegated to the Categoría Primera B were determined by a separate relegation table, which was determined from the average of the past three seasons.

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

Attendees

The following clubs took part in the two half-series of the 2016 season, Apertura and Finalización . Águilas Doradas changed its name to Rionegro Águilas.

Medellin Envigado Itagüí Barranquilla Barrancabermeja Tunja Manizales Bogotá Neiva Armenia Ibagué Palmira Cali Pasto Rionegro Montería Tuluá Bucaramanga Floridablanca

Venues of the Liga Águila 2016

team	city	Department	Stadion	first season in Primera A
Alianza Petrolera	Barrancabermeja	Santander	Villa Zapata	2013
Atlético Bucaramanga	Bucaramanga Floridablanca	Santander	Alfonso López 1 Gómez Hurtado	1949
Atlético Huila	Neiva Ibagué Armenia	Huila Tolima Quindío	Plazas Alcid 2 Murillo Toro Centenario	1993
Atlético Nacional	Medellín Itagüí	Antioquia	A. Girardot 3 Ciudad de Itagüí	1948
Boyacá Chicó	Tunja	Boyacá	Independencia	2004
Cortuluá	Tuluá	Valle del Cauca	Doce de Octubre	1994
Deportes Tolima	Ibagué	Tolima	Murillo Toro	1955
Deportivo Cali	Palmira 4 Cali	Valle del Cauca	Deportivo Cali Pascual Guerrero	1948
Deportivo Pasto	Pasto	Nariño	Libertad	1999
Envigado FC	Envigado	Antioquia	Polideportivo Sur	1992
Fortaleza FC	Bogotá DC	Bogotá	Techo El Campín 5	2014
Independiente Medellin	Medellin	Antioquia	Atanasio Girardot	1948
Independiente Santa Fe	Bogotá DC	Bogotá	El Campín 6 Techo	1948
Jaguares de Cordoba	Montería	Cordoba	Jaraguay	2015
Junior	Barranquilla	Atlántico	Metropolitano	1948
La Equidad	Bogotá DC	Bogotá	Techo	2007
Millonarios	Bogotá DC	Bogotá	El Campín 6 Techo	1948
Once Caldas	Manizales	Caldas	Palogrande	1948
Patriotas	Tunja	Boyacá	Independencia	2012
Rionegro Águilas	Rionegro	Antioquia	Alberto Grisales	2011
1 Because of renovation work on their own stadium, Bucaramanga avoided most of the games in Floridablanca. 2 Due to an accident during renovation work on his own stadium, Huila had to move to Ibagué and Armenia from September. 2 Nacional played a home game in Itagüí because the stadium in Medellín could not be used for a concert due to construction work. 4thDeportivo Cali is based in Cali, but the Estadio Deportivo Cali is located in the neighboring city of Palmira. Deportivo Cali played a game at the Estadio Pascual Guerrero. 5 Fortaleza played a home game at the larger Estadio El Campín. 6th Santa Fe and Millonarios played individual games in the Estadio Metropolitano de Techo due to renovations.

Aperture

League phase

table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Independiente Medellin	20th	11	7th	2	033:170	+16	40
2.	Atlético Nacional (M)	20th	12	3	5	042:200	+22	39
3.	Millonarios	20th	11	4th	5	030:170	+13	37
4th	Independiente Santa Fe	20th	11	4th	5	028:180	+10	37
5.	Junior (P)	20th	10	7th	3	028:200	+8	37
6th	Rionegro Águilas	20th	10	4th	6th	030:230	+7	34
7th	Deportivo Cali	20th	9	5	6th	035:280	+7	32
8th.	Cortuluá	20th	8th	7th	5	029:230	+6	31
9.	Patriotas	20th	8th	5	7th	022:230	−1	29
10.	Once Caldas	20th	7th	5	8th	026:220	+4	26th
11.	Deportivo Pasto	20th	5	9	6th	019:230	−4	24
12.	Deportes Tolima	20th	7th	3	10	025:320	−7	24
13.	Atlético Bucaramanga (N)	20th	3	14th	3	021:270	−6	23
14th	Jaguares de Cordoba	20th	6th	5	9	016:290	−13	23
15th	Envigado FC	20th	4th	7th	9	021:220	−1	19th
16.	Atlético Huila	20th	5	4th	11	018:260	−8	19th
17th	La Equidad	20th	4th	7th	9	020:300	−10	19th
18th	Boyacá Chicó	20th	3	8th	9	017:280	−11	17th
19th	Alianza Petrolera	20th	4th	5	11	024:380	−14	17th
20th	Fortaleza FC (N)	20th	4th	3	13	016:340	−18	15th

	Participation in the quarter-finals
(M)	Champion Finalización 2015 : Atlético Nacional
(P)	Cup winner 2015 : Junior
(N)	Newcomers from the Primera B category : Atlético Bucaramanga, Fortaleza FC

Final round

Quarter finals

The first legs were played on June 1 and 2, 2016 and the second legs on June 4 and 5, 2016.

Team # 1	total	Team # 2	First leg	Return leg
Cortuluá	3: 2	Independiente Santa Fe	2: 1	1: 1
Rionegro Águilas	2: 2 (4: 5 on account)	Atlético Nacional	1: 1	1: 1
Deportivo Cali	2: 3	Medellin	2: 1	0: 2
Junior	4: 4 (4: 2 i. E.)	Millonarios	2-0	2: 4

Team # 1 plays the first game at home.

Semifinals

The first legs were played on June 8 and 9, 2016 and the second legs on June 11 and 12, 2016.

Team # 1	total	Team # 2	First leg	Return leg
Cortuluá	3: 3 (7: 8 on behalf)	Medellin	1: 2	2: 1
Junior	1: 1 (4: 2 i.E.)	Atlético Nacional	1: 1	0-0

Team # 1 played their first game at home.

final

First leg

pairing	Junior - Independiente Medellín
Result	1: 1 (1: 1)
date	June 15, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. ( UTC-5 )
Stadion	Estadio Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez , Barranquilla
spectator	35,000
referee	Nicolás Gallo
Gates	1-0 Jorge Aguirre (20th) 1: 1 Juan David Cabezas (27th)
Junior	Sebastián Viera , Iván Vélez , Jorge Enrique Arias (from 46th Deivy Balanta ), Alexis Pérez , Juan Guillermo Domínguez , James Sánchez , Luis Narváez , Vladimir Hernández , Jorge Aguirre (from 75th Leiner Escalante ), Jarlan Barrera , Roberto Ovelar (from 69. Édison Toloza ) Coach: Alexis Mendoza
Independiente Medellin	David González , Andrés Mosquera Guardia , Juan Camilo Saiz , Hernán Pertuz , Marlon Piedrahita (from 83rd William Parra Sinisterra ), John Édison Hernández , Juan David Cabezas , Luis Tipton , Christian Marrugo , Luis Carlos Arias (from 61st Hernán Hechalar ), Leonardo Fabio Castro (from 79th Mauricio Molina ) Coach: Leonel Álvarez
yellow cards	James Sánchez, Alexis Pérez - Luis Tipton, John Édison Hernández

Return leg

pairing	Independiente Medellín - Junior
Result	2: 0 (1: 0)
date	June 19, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. ( UTC-5 )
Stadion	Estadio Atanasio Girardot , Medellín
referee	Harold Perilla
Gates	1: 0 Christian Marrugo (35th) 2: 0 Christian Marrugo (90th + 3 ')
Independiente Medellin	David González , Juan Camilo Saiz , Hernán Pertuz , Marlon Piedrahita , John Édison Hernández , Juan David Cabezas , Luis Tipton , Christian Marrugo , Luis Carlos Arias (from 75th Mauricio Molina ), Juan Fernando Caicedo (from 65th William Parra Sinisterra ), Leonardo Fabio Castro (from 87th Andrés Mosquera Guardia ) Coach: Leonel Álvarez
Junior	Sebastián Viera , Iván Vélez , Deivy Balanta , Alexis Pérez , Juan Guillermo Domínguez , James Sánchez , Luis Narváez , Vladimir Hernández , Jorge Aguirre (from 75th Leiner Escalante ), Jarlan Barrera (from 87th century Vásquez ), Édison Toloza Trainer: Alexis Mendoza
yellow cards	John Édison Hernández, Leonardo Fabio Castro, Mauricio Molina - Vladimir Hernández, Édison Toloza, Leiner Escalante, Luis Narváez

List of goalscorers

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

Pl.	player	team	Gates
1.	Miguel Borja	Cortuluá	19th
2.	Vladimir Hernández	Junior	13
3.	Luis Páez	Rionegro Águilas	12
	Sergio Esteban Romero	Alianza Petrolera
5.	Leonardo Fabio Castro	Independiente Medellin	10
6th	Orlando Berrío	Atlético Nacional	8th
	Óscar Estupiñán	Once Caldas
	Edis Ibargüen	Patriotas Boyacá
	Harold Preciado	Deportivo Cali
10.	Andrés Felipe Ibargüen	Atlético Nacional	7th
	Stalin Motta	La Equidad
	Michael Rangel	Millonarios
	Luis Manuel Seijas	Independiente Santa Fe
	Macnelly Torres	Atlético Nacional
	Mateus Uribe	Deportes Tolima

Finalización

League phase

table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Atlético Nacional	20th	9	10	1	032:190	+13	37
2.	Deportivo Cali	20th	10	4th	6th	025:170	+8	34
3.	Deportes Tolima	20th	8th	9	3	025:160	+9	33
4th	Independiente Santa Fe	20th	9	6th	5	022:150	+7	33
5.	Independiente Medellin (M)	20th	9	6th	5	031:260	+5	33
6th	Millonarios	20th	10	3	7th	028:230	+5	33
7th	Atlético Bucaramanga (N)	20th	9	5	6th	026:190	+7	32
8th.	Patriotas	20th	9	5	6th	023:190	+4	32
9.	Envigado FC	20th	9	5	6th	023:200	+3	32
10.	Alianza Petrolera	20th	8th	6th	6th	022:170	+5	30th
11.	Junior (P)	20th	7th	7th	6th	025:270	−2	28
12.	Rionegro Águilas	20th	7th	5	8th	023:280	−5	26th
13.	Once Caldas	20th	7th	4th	9	025:240	+1	25th
14th	La Equidad	20th	5	8th	7th	024:270	−3	23
15th	Jaguares de Cordoba	20th	6th	5	9	016:200	−4	23
16.	Atlético Huila	20th	6th	5	9	018:270	−9	23
17th	Fortaleza FC (N)	20th	5	5	10	020:280	−8	20th
18th	Deportivo Pasto	20th	5	5	10	019:280	−9	20th
19th	Cortuluá	20th	3	5	12	022:340	−12	14th
20th	Boyacá Chicó	20th	4th	2	14th	018:330	−15	14th
As of November 20, 2016

	Participation in the quarter-finals
(M)	Master Apertura 2016: Independiente Medellín
(P)	Cup winner 2015 : Junior
(N)	Newcomers from the Primera B category : Atlético Bucaramanga, Fortaleza FC

Final round

Quarter finals

The first legs were played on November 26 and 27, 2016 and the second legs on December 3 and 4, 2016.

Team # 1	total	Team # 2	First leg	Return leg
Atlético Bucaramanga	3: 2	Deportivo Cali	2: 1	1: 1
Independiente Medellin	1: 4	Independiente Santa Fe	1: 2	0: 2
Patriotas Boyacá	2: 2 (0: 3 in good condition)	Deportes Tolima	1: 2	1-0
Millonarios FC	2: 4	Atlético Nacional	2: 1	0: 3

Team # 1 played their first game at home.

Semifinals

The first legs were played on December 7th and 8th and the second legs on December 11th, 2016.

Team # 1	total	Team # 2	First leg	Return leg
Independiente Santa Fe	5: 1	Atlético Nacional	1: 1	4-0
Atlético Bucaramanga	2: 2 (2: 4 on behalf)	Deportes Tolima	1-0	1: 2

Team # 1 played their first game at home.

final

The first leg was played on December 14th and the second leg on December 18, 2016. In the first leg in Ibagué , neither team could gain an advantage. The game ended 0-0. In the second leg, Santa Fe was able to prevail 1-0 and thus won the ninth championship.

Team # 1	total	Team # 2	First leg	Return leg
Deportes Tolima	0: 1	Independiente Santa Fe	0-0	0: 1

Team # 1 plays the first game at home.

First leg

pairing	Deportes Tolima - Independiente Santa Fe
Result	0-0
date	December 14, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. ( UTC-5 )
Stadion	Estadio Manuel Murillo Toro , Ibagué
spectator	25,000
referee	Nicolás Gallo ( Caldas )
Gates	no
Deportes Tolima	Joel Silva , Didier Delgado , Fainer Torijano , Sergio Mosquera , Danovis Banguero , Gabriel Gómez , Luis Alejandro Paz , Cleider Alzate (from 84th Víctor Aquino ), Armando Vargas (from 74th Deinner Quiñónez ), Marco Pérez Murillo (from 68th Jáder Obrian ), Ángelo Rodríguez Coach: Alberto Gamero
Independiente Santa Fe	Leandro Castellanos , José Moya , Héctor Urrego , William Tesillo , Sebastián Salazar , Yeison Gordillo , Juan Daniel Roa , Leyvin Balanta , Jonathan Gómez (from 85.Baldomero Perlaza ), Anderson Plata (from 72. Jonathan Agudelo ), Humberto Osorio Trainer: Gustavo Costas
yellow cards	Didier Delgado, Armando Vargas - Sebastián Salazar, Yeison Grdillo, Leyvin Balanta

Return leg

pairing	Independiente Santa Fe - Deportes Tolima
Result	1: 0 (1: 0)
date	December 18, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. ( UTC-5 )
Stadion	Estadio Nemesio Camacho "El Campín" , Bogotá
spectator	34,000
referee	Wilmar Roldán ( Antioquia )
Gates	1-0 Héctor Urrego (11th)
Independiente Santa Fe	Leandro Castellanos , Héctor Urrego , William Tesillo , José Moya , Sebastián Salazar , Yeison Gordillo , Juan Daniel Roa , Leyvin Balanta , Jonathan Gómez (from 86th John Fredy Salazar ), Humberto Osorio (from 76th Omar Sebastián Pérez ), Anderson Plata ( from 90. Javier López Rodríguez ) Coach: Gustavo Costas
Deportes Tolima	Joel Silva , Víctor Giraldo , Sergio Mosquera , Fainer Torijano , Danovis Banguero , Luis Alejandro Paz , Gabriel Gómez , Didier Delgado , Deinner Quiñónez , Cleider Alzate (from 46. Víctor Aquino ), Ángelo Rodríguez Trainer: Alberto Gamero
yellow cards	Sebastián Salazar, Jonathan Gómez - none
References	none - Sergio Mosquera

List of goalscorers

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

Pl.	player	team	Gates
1.	Ayron del Valle	Millonarios FC	12
2.	Diego Álvarez Sánchez	Patriotas Boyacá	11
3.	Darío Rodríguez Parra	Atlético Bucaramanga	10
4th	Luis Páez	Rionegro Águilas	9
	Ángelo Rodríguez	Deportes Tolima
6th	Michael Rangel	Junior	8th
7th	Jown Cardona	Cortuluá	7th
	Omar Duarte	Atlético Huila
	Christian Marrugo	Independiente Medellin
	Carlos Peralta	La Equidad
	Anderson Plata	Independiente Santa Fe

Overall table

For the Reclasificación , all games of the 2016 season, both the league and the final phase, are 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.	Independiente Santa Fe	48	24	13	11	062:380	+24	85
2.	Atlético Nacional	48	22nd	18th	8th	082:490	+33	84
3.	Independiente Medellin	48	23	14th	11	074:530	+21	83
4th	Millonarios	44	23	7th	14th	064:480	+16	76
5.	Junior	46	18th	17th	11	059:550	+4	71
6th	Deportivo Cali	44	20th	10	14th	064:510	+13	70
7th	Patriotas Boyacá	42	18th	10	14th	047:440	+3	64
8th.	Deportes Tolima	46	17th	13	16	054:530	+1	64
9.	Rionegro Águilas	42	17th	11	14th	055:530	+2	62
10.	Atlético Bucaramanga	44	14th	20th	10	052:500	+2	62
11.	Cortuluá	44	13	13	18th	057:620	−5	52
12.	Once Caldas	40	14th	9	17th	051:460	+5	51
13.	Envigado FC	40	13	12	15th	044:420	+2	51
14th	Alianza Petrolera	40	12	11	17th	046:550	−9	47
15th	Jaguares de Cordoba	40	12	10	18th	032:490	−17	46
16.	Deportivo Pasto	40	10	14th	16	038:510	−13	44
17th	La Equidad	40	9	15th	16	044:570	−13	42
18th	Atlético Huila	40	11	9	20th	036:530	−17	42
19th	Fortaleza FC	40	9	8th	23	036:620	−26	35
20th	Boyacá Chicó	40	7th	10	23	033:610	−28	31
As of December 18, 2016

	Participation in the group stage of the Copa Libertadores 2017 : Independiente Medellín (Master Apertura), Santa Fe (Master Finalización), Atlético Nacional (Copa Libertadores 2016 winner)
	Participation in the qualification for Copa Libertadores 2017 : Millonarios FC, Junior
	Participation in the Copa Sudamericana 2017 : Deportivo Cali, Patriotas Boyacá, Deportes Tolima, Rionegro Águilas
	Relegation to the Categoría Primera B : Boyacá Chicó, Fortaleza FC

Relegation table

For the relegation table, the league phases of the back and forth series of 2014, 2015 and 2016 are added up. Newcomers receive the number of points of the last team not relegated from the previous year.

Pl.	society	Sp.	T	GT	Diff.	Pt.	Prom.
20th	Fortaleza FC	116	114	183	−69	111	0.956
19th	Boyacá Chicó	116	103	157	−54	112	0.965
18th	Deportivo Pasto	116	117	170	−53	121	1,043
17th	Jaguares de Cordoba	116	110	170	−60	121	1,051
16.	Cortuluá	116	128	155	−27	125	1,077
15th	Atlético Bucaramanga	116	125	167	−42	131	1,129
14th	La Equidad	116	120	153	−35	137	1,181
13.	Atlético Huila	116	129	147	−18	145	1,250
12.	Alianza Petrolera	116	121	133	−12	154	1,327
11.	Envigado FC	116	128	117	+11	160	1,379
10.	Patriotas	116	125	133	0−8	164	1,413
9.	Once Caldas	116	156	126	+30	165	1,422
8th.	Deportes Tolima	116	143	131	+12	170	1,465
7th	Rionegro Águilas	116	137	127	+10	171	1,474
6th	Deportivo Cali	116	167	144	+23	180	1,551
5.	Millonarios	116	163	122	+41	185	1,594
4th	Junior	116	150	123	+27	189	1,629
3.	Independiente Santa Fe	116	153	96	+57	193	1,663
2.	Independiente Medellin	116	173	134	+39	194	1,672
1.	Atlético Nacional	116	201	104	+97	218	1,879

Relegation to the Categoría Primera B : Fortaleza FC, Boyacá Chicó

Web links

• Official website of the Dimayor

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Así se jugarán la Liga, Copa y Torneo Águila en el 2016. caracol.com.co, November 24, 2015, accessed on December 1, 2015 . 
2. ↑ El Cali muy cerca de la Libertadores (Spanish)
3. ↑ Cambio de nombre a Rionegro Águilas (Spanish)
4. ↑ table. In: rsssf.com. RSSSF, accessed July 5, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Tolima y Santa Fe defraudaron en la primera final: igualaron 0-0 (Spanish)
6. ↑ Santa Fe, campeón justo y con lo justo de Liga: venció 1-0 al Tolima (Spanish)
7. ↑ table. In: rsssf.com. RSSSF, accessed July 5, 2020 .