Categoría Primera B 2009

Copa Premier 2009
master	Cortuluá
Climbers	Cortuluá
Relegation ↑	Atlético Bucaramanga (1: 2 and 2: 3 against Deportivo Pereira )
Teams	18th
Games	360 + 2 relegation games
Gates	893  (ø 2.48 per game)
Top scorer	Apertura: Humberto Osorio ( Atlético Bucaramanga ), Óscar Rodas ( Juventud Soacha ) and Francisco Villalba ( Cortuluá ) Finalización: Erwin Carrillo ( Patriotas ) and Marlón Díaz Chacón ( Atlético Bucaramanga )
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The Categoría Primera B 2009 , officially named Copa Premier after a sponsor , was the twentieth season of the second Colombian division in men's football , which consisted of Apertura and Finalización . It started on January 31, 2009 and ended on November 29. Last year's champions were Real Cartagena . Atlético Bucaramanga was relegated from the first division .

Master was Cortuluá , which could rise to the first division. The runner-up Atlético Bucaramanga lost in the relegation against Deportivo Pereira .

mode

In Apertura and Finalización , all teams were initially drawn into two groups of nine teams each. In each group all teams played against each other twice in league mode, in addition each team played against a team from the other group. In each group, the first four teams qualified for the final round, which consisted of two groups of four teams each. The two group winners each played a semi-series champion.

The two semi-series champions qualified for the final, in which the master and direct climber was determined. The runner-up played a relegation against the penultimate in the first division. There was no relegation from the second division.

Attendees

The following clubs took part in the two half-series of the 2009 season, Apertura and Finalización . Córdoba FC moved from Cereté to Sincelejo and was renamed Atlético de la Sabana . Girardot FC moved to Palmira and was renamed Deportes Palmira . Bajo Cauca FC had already returned to Itagüí after the first half of the preseason and was renamed Itagüí Ditaires . Expreso Rojo moved from Fusagasugá to Zipaquirá , Dépor FC from Jamundí to Cali and Real Santander from Floridablanca to the neighboring town of Bucaramanga .

Barranquilla Bucaramanga Palmira Bogotá Zipaquirá Soacha Sincelejo Rionegro Cali Santa Marta Itagüí Valledupar Villavicencio Barrancabermeja Tuluá Tunja

Venues of the Copa Premier 2009

team	city	Stadion	capacity
Academia FC	Bogotá	Compensar	4500
Alianza Petrolera	Barrancabermeja	Daniel Villa Zapata	8000
Atlético Bucaramanga	Bucaramanga	Alfonso López	28,000
Atlético de la Sabana	Sincelejo	Arturo Cumplido Sierra	5000
Barranquilla FC	Barranquilla	Romelio Martínez	20,000
Bogotá FC	Bogotá	Alfonso López Pumarejo	15,000
Centauros Villavicencio	Villavicencio	Manuel Calle Lombana	15,000
Cortuluá	Tuluá	Doce de Octubre	16,000
Dépor Aguablanca	Cali	Olímpico Pascual Guerrero	45.195
Deportes Palmira	Palmira	Francisco Rivera Escobar	9000
Deportivo Rionegro	Rionegro	Alberto Grisales	9000
Expreso Rojo	Zipaquirá	Municipal Los Zipas	2000
Itagüí Ditaires	Itagüí	Ciudad de Itagüí	12,000
Juventud Soacha	Soacha	Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento	8000
Patriotas	Tunja	La Independencia	20,000
Real Santander	Bucaramanga	Alfonso López	28,000
Unión Magdalena	Santa Marta	Eduardo Santos	23,000
Valledupar FC	Valledupar	Armando Maestre Pavajeau	10,000

Aperture

First phase

Group A

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Atlético Bucaramanga (A)	18th	12	2	4th	028:160	+12	38
2.	Itagüí Ditaires	18th	10	5	3	027:140	+13	35
3.	Deportivo Rionegro	18th	10	5	3	020:130	+7	35
4th	Unión Magdalena	18th	7th	7th	4th	023:160	+7	28
5.	Atlético de la Sabana	18th	7th	4th	7th	018:230	−5	25th
6th	Real Santander	18th	6th	5	7th	020:170	+3	23
7th	Valledupar FC	18th	5	7th	6th	018:190	−1	22nd
8th.	Barranquilla FC	18th	4th	4th	10	016:240	−8	16
9.	Alianza Petrolera	18th	0	5	13	011:300	−19	05

Group B

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Patriotas	18th	7th	7th	4th	022:180	+4	28
2.	Cortuluá	18th	7th	6th	5	023:180	+5	27
3.	Expreso Rojo	18th	7th	6th	5	019:170	+2	27
4th	Deportes Palmira	18th	7th	6th	5	018:170	+1	27
5.	Bogotá FC	18th	7th	4th	7th	014:160	−2	25th
6th	Academia FC	18th	6th	6th	6th	018:220	−4	24
7th	Juventud Soacha	18th	6th	5	7th	024:220	+2	23
8th.	Centauros Villavicencio	18th	5	4th	9	020:270	−7	19th
9.	Dépor FC	18th	3	4th	11	015:250	−10	13

	Participation in the semi-final phase
(A)	Relegated from the Categoría Primera A : Atlético Bucaramanga

Semi-final phase

Group A

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Cortuluá	6th	5	1	0	007: 200	+5	16
2.	Deportivo Rionegro	6th	3	1	2	010: 600	+4	10
3.	Deportes Palmira	6th	1	1	4th	006:100	−4	04th
4th	Atlético Bucaramanga	6th	1	0	5	003: 700	−4	03

	Participation in the finals

Group B

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Itagüí Ditaires	6th	3	2	1	006: 300	+3	11
2.	Expreso Rojo	6th	2	3	1	005: 300	+2	09
3.	Patriotas	6th	1	3	2	005: 700	−2	06th
4th	Unión Magdalena	6th	1	2	3	004: 700	−3	05

	Participation in the finals

final

06/15/2009	Tuluá	Cortuluá	-	Itagüí Ditaires	3: 1 (2: 0)
06/20/2009	Itagüí	Itagüí Ditaires	-	Cortuluá	2: 0 (0: 0), 5: 6 i. E.
With this, Cortuluá 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.	Humberto Osorio	Atlético Bucaramanga	11
	Óscar Rodas	Juventud Soacha
	Francisco Villalba	Cortuluá
4th	Walter Franco	Unión Magdalena	8th
	Sergio Esteban Romero	Real Santander
6th	Erwin Carrillo	Patriotas	6th
	Pablo Jaramillo	Cortuluá
	José Largacha	Juventud Soacha
	Óscar Londoño	Itagüí Ditaires
	Yessi Mena	Itagüí Ditaires

Finalización

First phase

Group A

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Itagüí Ditaires	18th	9	6th	3	028:200	+8	33
2.	Atlético Bucaramanga (A)	18th	9	5	4th	037:210	+16	32
3.	Bogotá FC	18th	7th	7th	4th	028:170	+11	28
4th	Real Santander	18th	7th	7th	4th	022:210	+1	28
5.	Patriotas	18th	7th	3	8th	023:240	−1	24
6th	Barranquilla FC	18th	6th	5	7th	020:210	−1	23
7th	Deportes Palmira	18th	6th	1	11	019:280	−9	19th
8th.	Valledupar FC	18th	6th	1	11	014:270	−13	19th
9.	Dépor FC	18th	4th	6th	8th	021:250	−4	18th

Group B

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Centauros Villavicencio	18th	9	4th	5	027:170	+10	31
2.	Unión Magdalena	18th	8th	6th	4th	034:190	+15	30th
3.	Atlético de la Sabana	18th	8th	6th	4th	029:210	+8	30th
4th	Deportivo Rionegro	18th	8th	4th	6th	022:210	+1	28
5.	Juventud Soacha	18th	7th	6th	5	021:230	−2	27
6th	Academia FC	18th	7th	4th	7th	027:250	+2	25th
7th	Expreso Rojo	18th	6th	6th	6th	016:190	−3	24
8th.	Cortuluá	18th	6th	5	7th	022:220	± 0	23
9.	Alianza Petrolera	18th	2	1	15th	010:410	−31	07th

	Participation in the semi-final phase
(A)	Relegated from the Categoría Primera A : Atlético Bucaramanga

Semi-final phase

Group A

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Atlético de la Sabana 1	6th	3	1	2	008: 600	+2	10
2.	Bogotá FC	6th	3	1	2	012: 700	+5	10
3.	Deportivo Rionegro	6th	3	1	2	008: 900	−1	10
4th	Itagüí Ditaires	6th	0	3	3	007:130	−6	03

¹ If there is a tie, the number of points in the first phase is decisive.

	Participation in the finals

Group B

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Atlético Bucaramanga	6th	3	2	1	008: 400	+4	11
2.	Centauros Villavicencio	6th	2	2	2	005: 600	−1	08th
3.	Unión Magdalena	6th	2	2	2	006: 700	−1	08th
4th	Real Santander	6th	0	4th	2	004: 600	−2	04th

	Participation in the finals

final

11/14/2009	Sincelejo	Atlético de la Sabana	-	Atlético Bucaramanga	1: 1 (1: 0)
11/18/2009	Bucaramanga	Atlético Bucaramanga	-	Atlético de la Sabana	2: 1 (2: 0)
With this Atlético Bucaramanga became 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.	Erwin Carrillo	Patriotas	14th
	Marlón Díaz Chacón	Atlético Bucaramanga
3.	Luis Alexander	Deportivo Rionegro	11
4th	Wilberto Cosme	Bogotá FC	10
	Célimo Polo	Centauros Villavicencio
	Leandro Vargas	Unión Magdalena

final

11/25/2009	Tuluá	Cortuluá	-	Atlético Bucaramanga	3: 0 (1: 0)
11/29/2009	Bucaramanga	Atlético Bucaramanga	-	Cortuluá	1: 1 (0: 0)
This was Cortuluá champion and rose directly to the first division.

Relegation

12/02/2009	Bucaramanga	Atlético Bucaramanga	-	Deportivo Pereira	1: 2 (0: 1)
December 17, 2009	Pereira	Deportivo Pereira	-	Atlético Bucaramanga	3: 2 (1: 0)
So Atlético Bucaramanga could not move up in the Categoría Primera A and Deportivo Pereira remained in the first division.

Overall table

In the Reclasificación all games of the season are summarized.

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Atlético Bucaramanga	52	26th	11	15th	081:540	+27	89
2.	Itagüí Ditaires	50	23	16	11	071:560	+15	85
3.	Deportivo Rionegro	48	24	12	12	059:490	+10	84
4th	Cortuluá	46	20th	13	13	058:450	+13	73
5.	Unión Magdalena	48	18th	16	14th	067:490	+18	70
6th	Atlético de la Sabana	44	18th	12	14th	057:530	+4	66
7th	Bogotá FC	42	17th	12	13	054:400	+14	63
8th.	Expreso Rojo	42	15th	14th	13	041:390	+2	59
9.	Centauros Villavicencio	42	16	10	16	053:510	+2	58
10.	Patriotas	42	15th	13	14th	050:490	+1	58
11.	Real Santander	42	13	16	13	046:440	+2	55
12.	Juventud Soacha	36	13	11	12	044:440	± 0	50
13.	Deportes Palmira	42	14th	8th	20th	041:540	−13	50
14th	Academia FC	36	13	10	13	046:480	−2	49
15th	Valledupar FC	36	11	8th	17th	032:460	−14	41
16.	Barranquilla FC	36	10	9	17th	036:450	−9	39
17th	Dépor FC	36	7th	10	19th	036:510	−15	31
18th	Alianza Petrolera	36	2	6th	28	021:710	−50	12

Web links

• Official website of the Dimayor
• Official website of the Torneo Postobón