Category Primera B 2016

Torneo Águila 2016
master	America de Cali
Climbers	América de Cali , Tigres FC
Teams	16
Games	282  (of which 282 played)
Gates	645  (ø 2.29 per game)
Top scorer	Juan Camilo Hernández ( Deportivo Pereira )
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The Categoría Primera B 2016 , also called Torneo Águila after a sponsor , was the twenty-seventh season of Colombia's second division in men's football . The season started on February 13th and ended on December 11th, 2016.

The relegated from the Categoría Primera A 2015 were Cúcuta Deportivo and Uniautónoma FC . However, Uniautónoma FC sold its starting right to Orsomarso SC .

The first to be promoted was América de Cali on November 27 , which secured promotion to Group B in the final round with a 2-1 win against Deportes Quindío on the last day of the match. A day later, Tigres FC was confirmed as the winner of Group A and promoted to the first division. In the final, America prevailed and was thus champion of the second Colombian league for the first time.

mode

The mode remained unchanged compared to the previous year. A tournament was played in which all teams played against each other in home and return matches. In addition, there were two game days with Clásicos , on which games with a derby character were played. The first eight teams qualified for the final round. The final round consisted of a group stage with two groups of four teams each, who determined the two direct promoters in the first and second legs. The two group winners also played out the champions in a final.

Clubs in the Categoría Primera B 2016

The following clubs took part in the 2016 season. Uniautónoma FC sold its entry right to Orsomarso SC and Expreso Rojo changed its name to Tigres FC . At the beginning of the season, Dépor FC struggled with legal disputes regarding the right to start and was only able to participate under the new name Atlético FC from mid-March .

Cartagena Barranquilla Floridablanca Bogotá Soacha Pereira Popayan turbo Envigado Itagüí Cali Palmira Riohacha Ciénaga Valledupar Villavicencio Armenia Cúcuta

Venues of the Torneo Águila 2016

team	city	Stadion	capacity
America de Cali	Cali	Pascual Guerrero	35,405
Atlético FC	Cali	Pascual Guerrero	35,405
Barranquilla FC	Barranquilla	Metropolitano	58,000
Bogotá FC	Bogotá	Metropolitan de Techo	10,000
Cúcuta Deportivo	Cúcuta	General Santander	42.901
Deportes Quindío	Armenia	Centenario	20,716
Deportivo Pereira	Pereira	Hernán Ramírez Villegas	31,192
Leones FC	Turbo Envigado Itagüí	John Jairo Tréllez Polideportivo Sur Ciudad de Itagüí 1	10,000 11,000 12,000
Llaneros FC	Villavicencio	Manuel Calle Lombana	15,000
Orsomarso SC	Palmira	Rivera Escobar	9000
Real Cartagena	Cartagena	Jaime Morón León	16,068
Real Santander	Floridablanca	Álvaro Gómez Hurtado	12,000
Tigres FC	Soacha Bogotá	Luis Carlos Galán Metropolitano de Techo 2	8000 10,000
Unión Magdalena	Riohacha Ciénaga	Federico Serrano Soto Municipal de Ciénaga 3	8000 10,000
Universitario Popayán	Popayan	Ciro López	5000
Valledupar FC	Valledupar	Armando Maestre Pavajeau	10,000
1 Leones FC moved to Envigado at the beginning of the return series and then to Itagüí for the final round. 2 Tigres FC played two home games in Bogotá. 3The home stadium of Unión Magdalena is originally the Estadio Eduardo Santos in Santa Marta, which is currently not allowed to be used for security reasons. In the Apertura the club played in Riohacha, in the Finalización in Ciénaga.

table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Deportivo Pereira	32	22nd	4th	6th	058:280	+30	70
2.	America de Cali	32	16	12	4th	048:240	+24	60
3.	Real Cartagena	32	16	9	7th	047:360	+11	57
4th	Leones FC	32	14th	7th	11	043:310	+12	49
5.	Universitario Popayán	32	14th	7th	11	037:350	+2	49
6th	Tigres FC	32	12	12	8th	026:240	+2	48
7th	Deportes Quindío	32	13	5	14th	036:330	+3	44
8th.	Bogotá FC	32	12	8th	12	037:390	−2	44
9.	Valledupar FC	32	13	5	14th	034:370	−3	44
10.	Cúcuta Deportivo (A)	32	11	9	12	035:310	+4	42
11.	Orsomarso SC	32	11	7th	14th	035:480	−13	40
12.	Barranquilla FC	32	9	8th	15th	031:370	−6	35
13.	Unión Magdalena	32	9	8th	15th	030:390	−9	35
14th	Real Santander	32	9	6th	17th	033:510	−18	33
15th	Llaneros FC	32	7th	10	15th	031:420	−11	31
16.	Atlético FC	32	6th	7th	19th	019:450	−26	25th

	Participation in the final round
(A)	Relegated from the Categoría Primera A : Cúcuta Deportivo, (Uniautónoma FC)

Final round

In the event of a tie, the table position of the league phase is decisive.

Group A

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Tigres FC	6th	3	2	1	005: 400	+1	11
2.	Deportivo Pereira	6th	2	3	1	010: 600	+4	09
3.	Leones FC	6th	2	3	1	012:100	+2	09
4th	Bogotá FC	6th	1	0	5	005:120	−7	03

	Promotion to the first division and participation in the final

October 22, 2016
Tigres FC	1-0	Bogotá FC	Estadio Luis Carlos Galán , Soacha
October 24, 2016
Deportivo Pereira	2: 2	Leones FC	Estadio Hernán Ramírez Villegas , Pereira
October 29, 2016
Leones FC	1: 1	Tigres FC	Estadio Metropolitano Ciudad de Itagüí , Itagüí
October 31, 2016
Bogotá FC	2: 1	Deportivo Pereira	Estadio Metropolitano de Techo , Bogotá
5th November 2016
Leones FC	3: 1	Bogotá FC	Estadio Metropolitano Ciudad de Itagüí
November 6, 2016
Deportivo Pereira	0-0	Tigres FC	Estadio Hernán Ramírez Villegas
November 12, 2016
Tigres FC	0: 2	Deportivo Pereira	Estadio Luis Carlos Galán
November 14, 2016
Bogotá FC	2: 3	Leones FC	Estadio Metropolitano de Techo
19th November 2016
Tigres FC	2: 1	Leones FC	Estadio Luis Carlos Galán
Deportivo Pereira	3-0	Bogotá FC	Estadio Hernán Ramírez Villegas
November 26, 2016
Leones FC	2: 2	Deportivo Pereira	Estadio Metropolitano Ciudad de Itagüí
Bogotá FC	0: 1	Tigres FC	Estadio Metropolitano de Techo

Group B

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	America de Cali	6th	4th	1	1	009: 400	+5	13
2.	Deportes Quindío	6th	3	2	1	009: 600	+3	11
3.	Real Cartagena	6th	1	2	3	006:100	−4	05
4th	Universitario Popayán	6th	0	3	3	003: 700	−4	03

	Promotion to the first division and participation in the final

October 23, 2016
Universitario	1: 1	Real Cartagena	Estadio Ciro López , Popayán
October 25, 2016
Deportes Quindío	1-0	America	Estadio Centenario de Armenia , Armenia
October 30, 2016
Real Cartagena	2: 2	Deportes Quindío	Estadio Jaime Morón León , Cartagena
November 1, 2016
America	2-0	Universitario	Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero , Cali
November 7, 2016
America	2: 1	Real Cartagena	Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero
November 8, 2016
Deportes Quindío	1-0	Universitario	Estadio Centenario
November 13, 2016
Real Cartagena	0: 2	America	Estadio Jaime Morón León
Universitario	1: 1	Deportes Quindío	Estadio Ciro López
20th November 2016
Universitario	1: 1	America	Estadio Ciro López
Deportes Quindío	3: 1	Real Cartagena	Estadio Centenario
November 27, 2016
America	2: 1	Deportes Quindío	Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero
Real Cartagena	1-0	Universitario	Estadio Jaime Morón León

final

The first leg took place on December 5, 2016 in Bogotá. América gained a 2-0 advantage away from home. Since America also won the second leg in Cali on December 11, the club became champions of the second division for the first time.

Team # 1	total	Team # 2	First leg	Return leg
Tigres FC	1: 5	America de Cali	0: 2	1: 3

Team # 1 played their first game at home.

First leg

pairing	Tigres FC - America de Cali
Result	0: 2 (0: 2)
date	December 5, 2016, 7:30 p.m. ( UTC − 5 )
Stadion	Estadio Metropolitano de Techo , Bogotá
spectator	7,000
referee	Bismark Santiago ( Atlántico )
Gates	0: 1 Carlos Lasso (ET, 35.) 0: 2 Jhonny Vásquez (59.)
Tigres FC	César Giraldo , Fabián Mosquera , Carlos Lasso , Jorge Luis Lozano (from 58th Andrés Ávila ), Alejandro Uribe , Luis Miguel Lazcano , Jhonny Alejandro Rivera , Diego Gómez , Jhoan Muñoz , Wilson Mena (from 68th Daniel Peñaloza ), Ethan González coach : John Jairo Bodmer
America de Cali	Carlos Bejarano (from 69. Sebastián Fuentes ) Arnol Palacios , Diego Herner , Efraín Cortés , Jarol Martinez , Jhonny Alexander Vásquez , Aníbal Hernández , Brayan Angulo (from 83. William Arboleda ), Jonathan Alvarez , Cristian Martinez Borja , Ernesto Farías (from 69. David Ferreira ) Coach: Hernán Torres
yellow cards	Wilson Mena, Jhony Rivera - Efraín Cortés, Diego Hérner

Return leg

pairing	América de Cali - Tigres FC
Result	3: 1 (2: 0)
date	December 10, 2016, 7:00 p.m. ( UTC − 5 )
Stadion	Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero , Cali
spectator	32,000
referee	Jorge Guzmán ( Norte de Santander )
Gates	1-0 Brayan Angulo (23rd) 2-0 Cristian Martínez Borja (44th) 3-0 Brayan Angulo (51st) 3-1 Jhonny Rivera (71st)
America de Cali	Sebastián Fuentes , Arnol Palacios , Diego Hérner , Efraín Cortés , Jarol Martínez , Camilo Ayala , Jhonny Alexander Vásquez , Jeison Lucumí (from 66th William Arboleda ), Brayan Angulo (from 56th Jonathan Álvarez ), Ernesto Farías (from 71st David Ferreira) ), Cristian Martínez Borja Coach: Hernán Torres
Tigres FC	César Giraldo , Fabián Mosquera , Carlos Lasso , Jorge Luis Lozano , Felipe Ávila , Harrison Mancilla , Jhonny Alejandro Rivera , Jhoan Muñoz , Diego Gómez , Ethan González , Wilson Mena (from 62nd Daniel Peñaloza ) Trainer: John Jairo Bodmer
yellow cards	Camilo Ayala - Ethan González, Harrison Mancilla

List of goalscorers

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

Pl.	player	team	Gates
1.	Juan Camilo Hernández	Deportivo Pereira	21st
2.	Jairo Molina	Bogotá FC	17th
3.	Damir Ceter	Deportes Quindío	14th
4th	Martín Arzuaga	Real Cartagena	13
	Ernesto Farías	America de Cali
6th	Cristian Martínez Borja	America de Cali	12
7th	Ricardo Delgado Araújo	Valledupar FC	11
8th.	Ethan González	Tigres FC	10
	Daniel Lloreda	Leones FC
	José David Lloreda	Cúcuta Deportivo
	Guillermo Murillo	Universitario Popayán
	Andrés Ricaurte Vélez	Leones FC
	Juan Salcedo	Real Cartagena

Web links

• Website of the Dimayor

Individual evidence

1. ^ Uniautónoma FC desaparecerá del profesionalismo
2. ↑ Orsomarso oficializó a Palmira como su sede para el Torneo Águila
3. ↑ ¡América vuelve a la A !: venció 2-1 a Quindío y logró su ascenso (Spanish)
4. ↑ En agónico final en el grupo A, Tigres venció 0-1 a Bogotá y ascendió (Spanish)
5. ↑ América volvió con todo: venció a Tigres y se proclamó campeón de la B (Spanish)
6. ↑ Así se jugarán la Liga, Copa y Torneo Águila en el 2016. caracol.com.co, November 24, 2015, accessed on December 1, 2015 . 
7. ↑ Definido el calendario del Torneo Águila 2016
8. ↑ El equipo colombiano Expreso Rojo se vuelve Tigres de Zipaquirá ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ^ Atlético Fútbol Club, antes Dépor, ya tiene reconocimiento deportivo