2019 Categoría Primera B season

The 2019 Categoría Primera B season (officially known as the 2019 Torneo Águila season for sponsorship reasons) was the 30th season since its founding as Colombia's second division football league.

Torneo Águila

Season	2019
Dates	2 February – 6 December 2019
Champions	Deportivo Pereira (2nd title)
Promoted	Deportivo Pereira Boyacá Chicó
Matches played	294
Goals scored	701 (2.38 per match)
Top goalscorer	Torneo I: 3 players (12 goals each) Torneo II: Juan Sebastián Herrera (12 goals)
Biggest home win	Deportivo Pereira 6–0 Tigres (18 March) Cortuluá 6–0 Valledupar (14 October)
Biggest away win	Tigres 0–5 Deportivo Pereira (16 November)
Highest scoring	Orsomarso 4–4 Boyacá Chicó (22 September)
← 2018 2020 →

Format

For this season, the league returned to the format used in 2017. The season consisted of two tournaments (Torneo I and Torneo II) with three stages each. In the first stage of both tournaments, the 16 clubs played each other once, for a total of 15 games. The top eight teams after the first stage advanced to the semifinal round where they were sorted into two groups of four and played a double round-robin tournament group stage, with the top team of each group qualifying for the finals. The winners of both tournaments would play a final series on a home-and-away basis, with the winner being crowned as the season champions and also earning promotion to the Categoría Primera A for the 2020 season. The season runners-up would then play the best team in the aggregate table (other than the champions) in another double-legged series for the second promotion berth. In case the season runner-up also ended up as the best team in the aggregate table, it would also be promoted and the promotion play-off would not be played.^[1]

Teams

16 teams took part, fourteen of them returning from last season plus Boyacá Chicó and Leones, who were relegated from the 2018 Primera A after one year in the top flight. Both teams replaced Cúcuta Deportivo and Unión Magdalena who earned promotion at the end of the last season. Also, starting from this season, Real Santander moved its home games to San Andrés Island, becoming Real San Andrés.^[2]

On 12 March 2019, the General Assembly of DIMAYOR approved a proposal to relocate Universitario from Popayán to Cali starting from the second half of the season, with the aforementioned club being effectively rebranded as Boca Juniors de Cali.^[3] Universitario played its last match in the tournament under that name on 4 May 2019, losing to Deportivo Pereira in Palmira by a 4–1 score.^[4]

Atlético, Boca Juniors

Barranquilla

Bogotá, Tigres

Boyacá Chicó

Cortuluá

Deportes Quindío

Deportivo Pereira

Fortaleza

Leones

Llaneros

Orsomarso

Real Cartagena

Real San Andrés

Universitario

Valledupar

Locations of the 2019 Categoría Primera B teams

Club	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
Atlético	Cali	Pascual Guerrero	33,130
Barranquilla	Barranquilla	Romelio Martínez	20,000
Boca Juniors de Cali	Cali	Pascual Guerrero	33,130
Bogotá	Bogotá	Metropolitano de Techo	8,000
Boyacá Chicó	Tunja	La Independencia	20,630
Cortuluá	Tuluá	Doce de Octubre	16,000
Deportes Quindío	Armenia	Centenario	20,716
Deportivo Pereira	Pereira	Hernán Ramírez Villegas	30,297
Fortaleza	Cota	Municipal de Cota	4,000
Leones	Itagüí	Metropolitano Ciudad de Itagüí	12,000
Llaneros	Villavicencio	Manuel Calle Lombana	15,000
Orsomarso	Palmira	Francisco Rivera Escobar	9,000
Real Cartagena	Cartagena	Jaime Morón León	16,068
Real San Andrés	San Andrés	Erwin O'Neill	5,000
Tigres	Bogotá	Metropolitano de Techo	8,000
Universitario	Popayán	Ciro Lópeza	5,000
Valledupar	Valledupar	Armando Maestre Pavajeau	11,000

a: Universitario played their home matches against Llaneros, Bogotá, Leones and Deportivo Pereira at Estadio Deportivo Cali in Palmira.

	Only participated in the Torneo I.
	Replaced Universitario for the Torneo II.

Torneo I

First stage

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Real Cartagena	15	8	5	2	26	15	+11	29	Advance to the semifinals
2	Deportes Quindío	15	8	5	2	23	12	+11	29
3	Deportivo Pereira	15	8	4	3	26	10	+16	28
4	Barranquilla	15	7	5	3	20	15	+5	26
5	Boyacá Chicó	15	6	7	2	16	10	+6	25
6	Cortuluá	15	7	3	5	26	22	+4	24
7	Leones	15	6	6	3	16	12	+4	24
8	Llaneros	15	7	2	6	26	24	+2	23
9	Bogotá	15	6	4	5	16	19	−3	22
10	Tigres	15	5	5	5	20	24	−4	20
11	Fortaleza	15	5	4	6	21	22	−1	19
12	Valledupar	15	3	5	7	13	20	−7	14
13	Universitario	15	2	6	7	12	20	−8	12
14	Real San Andrés	15	1	7	7	13	24	−11	10
15	Atlético	15	1	5	9	9	25	−16	8
16	Orsomarso	15	0	7	8	16	25	−9	7

Source: Dimayor, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) Goal difference, 3) Goals for, 4) Away goals for, 5) Away goals against, 6) Drawing of lots

Results

Home \ Away	ATL	BAR	BOG	BOY	COR	QUI	PER	FOR	LEO	LLA	ORS	RCA	RSA	TIG	UPO	VAL
Atlético	—	—	—	1–2	0–2	1–0	—	0–1	—	—	—	0–3	0–1	—	—	—
Barranquilla	1–0	—	—	0–0	2–2	—	—	2–0	—	—	—	2–1	2–0	—	—	3–0
Bogotá	0–0	0–2	—	—	3–2	—	1–1	—	—	2–5	—	1–0	1–0	—	—	2–1
Boyacá Chicó	—	—	0–0	—	—	1–1	0–0	3–1	2–1	—	0–0	—	—	0–1	2–0	—
Cortuluá	—	—	—	0–0	—	1–3	2–1	3–2	0–1	—	2–0	—	—	2–1	1–0	—
Deportes Quindío	—	2–2	4–1	—	—	—	—	—	0–0	1–0	1–1	—	—	3–1	2–1	—
Deportivo Pereira	4–0	2–1	—	—	—	0–1	—	—	—	—	1–0	—	1–0	6–0	—	2–0
Fortaleza	—	—	2–0	—	—	0–2	1–2	—	4–1	2–1	2–2	—	—	0–0	3–1	—
Leones	4–2	0–0	1–0	—	—	—	1–0	—	—	0–1	—	1–1	3–0	—	—	0–0
Llaneros	3–1	3–1	—	3–3	3–2	—	0–0	—	—	—	—	0–2	2–0	—	—	0–1
Orsomarso	1–1	1–2	1–2	—	—	—	—	—	1–2	2–3	—	—	—	—	2–2	1–2
Real Cartagena	—	—	—	2–1	3–2	2–1	2–2	2–0	—	—	1–1	—	—	2–0	1–0	—
Real San Andrés	—	—	—	0–1	2–2	1–1	—	2–2	—	—	2–2	3–3	—	1–1	—	—
Tigres	1–1	4–0	0–3	—	—	—	—	—	1–1	4–2	2–1	—	—	—	2–0	—
Universitario	1–1	0–0	0–0	—	—	—	1–4	—	0–0	3–0	—	—	1–1	—	—	2–1
Valledupar	1–1	—	—	0–1	1–3	0–1	—	1–1	—	—	—	1–1	2–0	2–2	—	—

Source: Dimayor, Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Semifinals

The eight teams that advanced to the semifinals were drawn into two groups of four teams. The winners of each group advanced to the finals.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		COR	RCA	LEO	BAR
1	Cortuluá	6	4	1	1	11	4	+7	13	Advance to the Finals		—	3–0	3–0	2–0
2	Real Cartagena	6	3	2	1	11	8	+3	11			1–1	—	4–1	2–1
3	Leones	6	2	1	3	6	11	−5	7			3–1	1–1	—	1–0
4	Barranquilla	6	1	0	5	4	9	−5	3			0–1	1–3	2–0	—

Source: Dimayor
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) Goal difference, 3) Goals for, 4) Away goals for, 5) Away goals against, 6) Drawing of lots.

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PER	BOY	QUI	LLA
1	Deportivo Pereira	6	5	0	1	9	4	+5	15	Advance to the Finals		—	1–2	2–1	1–0
2	Boyacá Chicó	6	4	1	1	9	2	+7	13			0–1	—	1–0	0–0
3	Deportes Quindío	6	1	1	4	5	9	−4	4			0–2	0–3[a]	—	3–0
4	Llaneros	6	0	2	4	2	10	−8	2			1–2	0–3	1–1	—

Source: Dimayor
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) Goal difference, 3) Goals for, 4) Away goals for, 5) Away goals against, 6) Drawing of lots.

1. Match awarded 3–0 to Boyacá Chicó due to crowd disturbances. The match originally ended with a 0–1 win for Boyacá Chicó.^[5]

Finals

6 June 2019

15:30

Cortuluá	2–1	Deportivo Pereira
Herrera 24' Roa 55'	Report	Álvarez 74'

Estadio Doce de Octubre, Tuluá

Referee: Carlos Ortega

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10 June 2019

19:30

Deportivo Pereira	2–1	Cortuluá
Molina 31' Álvarez 70'	Report	Roa 43'
Penalties
Álvarez Navarro Molina Casierra	3–1	Herrera Correa Lazso Montoya

Estadio Hernán Ramírez Villegas, Pereira

Referee: Gustavo Murillo

Tied 3–3 on aggregate, Deportivo Pereira won on penalties.

Torneo Águila 2019–I Winners
Deportivo Pereira Advance to the Grand Final

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Club	Goals
1	Diego Álvarez	Deportivo Pereira	12
	Juan Sebastián Herrera	Cortuluá
	Guillermo Murillo	Cortuluá
4	Edwin Aguilar	Real Cartagena	11
	Jairo Molina	Deportivo Pereira
6	Jhonny Cano	Real Cartagena	8
7	Kevin Aladesanmi	Leones	7
	Leonel García	Atlético
	Danny Santoya	Deportes Quindío

Source: Soccerway

Torneo II

First stage

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Deportes Quindío	15	8	5	2	21	12	+9	29	Advance to the semifinals
2	Boyacá Chicó	15	8	3	4	25	19	+6	27
3	Bogotá	15	8	2	5	19	14	+5	26
4	Cortuluá	15	8	1	6	24	19	+5	25
5	Deportivo Pereira	15	6	7	2	13	9	+4	25
6	Real Cartagena	15	7	3	5	20	19	+1	24
7	Fortaleza	15	6	4	5	18	15	+3	22
8	Tigres	15	5	6	4	17	14	+3	21
9	Leones	15	4	9	2	19	17	+2	21
10	Real San Andrés	15	6	2	7	16	17	−1	20
11	Llaneros	15	6	1	8	12	15	−3	19
12	Valledupar	15	4	7	4	14	19	−5	19
13	Atlético	15	4	6	5	15	13	+2	18
14	Boca Juniors de Cali	15	3	2	10	15	25	−10	11
15	Barranquilla	15	2	5	8	10	21	−11	11
16	Orsomarso	15	1	5	9	13	23	−10	8

Source: Dimayor, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) Goal difference, 3) Goals for, 4) Away goals for, 5) Away goals against, 6) Drawing of lots

Results

Home \ Away	ATL	BAR	BOC	BOG	BOY	COR	QUI	PER	FOR	LEO	LLA	ORS	RCA	RSA	TIG	VAL
Atlético	—	0–0	2–1	0–1	—	—	—	0–0	—	1–1	1–2	1–0	—	—	1–1	0–0
Barranquilla	—	—	3–1	0–2	—	—	0–2	1–1	—	2–2	1–0	0–0	—	—	1–1	—
Boca Juniors de Cali	—	—	—	—	2–2	3–2	0–2	—	0–1	—	—	2–1	1–2	—	2–0	—
Bogotá	—	—	2–0	—	0–1	—	2–1	—	2–0	3–3	—	2–1	—	—	0–3	—
Boyacá Chicó	2–0	4–0	—	—	—	3–2	—	—	—	—	1–0	—	5–2	1–0	—	1–0
Cortuluá	3–2	2–0	—	1–0	—	—	—	—	—	—	1–0	—	1–0	1–0	—	6–0
Deportes Quindío	0–4	—	—	—	3–0	1–1	—	1–1	1–1	—	—	—	2–0	1–0	—	0–0
Deportivo Pereira	—	—	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	—	—	1–0	1–1	1–0	—	0–0	—	—	—
Fortaleza	1–1	2–1	—	—	3–0	4–2	—	—	—	—	—	—	1–0	3–0	—	0–0
Leones	—	—	2–2	—	1–0	1–0	2–3	—	0–0	—	—	2–0	—	—	0–0	—
Llaneros	—	—	1–0	0–2	—	—	0–1	—	2–0	1–1	—	2–0	—	—	1–3	—
Orsomarso	—	—	—	—	4–4	1–2	1–1	1–1	2–0	—	—	—	1–2	0–1	0–0	—
Real Cartagena	1–0	2–1	—	2–1	—	—	—	—	—	0–1	3–0	—	—	3–3	—	2–2
Real San Andrés	0–2	1–0	2–0	0–1	—	—	—	3–1	—	3–1	0–1	—	—	—	—	2–1
Tigres	—	—	—	—	1–1	2–0	0–2	1–0	3–2	—	—	—	0–1	1–1	—	1–2
Valledupar	—	1–0	2–1	1–1	—	—	—	1–1	—	1–1	0–2	3–1	—	—	—	—

Source: Dimayor, Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Semifinals

The eight teams that advanced to the semifinals were drawn into two groups of four teams. The winners of each group will advance to the finals.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PER	COR	TIG	QUI
1	Deportivo Pereira	6	4	1	1	11	4	+7	13	Advance to the Finals		—	1–0	1–1	1–0
2	Cortuluá	6	3	2	1	10	6	+4	11			3–1	—	2–0	1–0
3	Tigres	6	1	3	2	6	12	−6	6			0–5	1–1	—	4–3
4	Deportes Quindío	6	0	2	4	6	11	−5	2			0–2	3–3	0–0	—

Source: Dimayor
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) Goal difference, 3) Goals for, 4) Away goals for, 5) Away goals against, 6) Drawing of lots.

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BOY	FOR	RCA	BOG
1	Boyacá Chicó	6	4	2	0	9	4	+5	14	Advance to the Finals		—	1–1	2–1	1–1
2	Fortaleza	6	2	2	2	10	9	+1	8			0–2	—	1–3	3–1
3	Real Cartagena	6	2	2	2	8	7	+1	8			0–1	2–2	—	1–0
4	Bogotá	6	0	2	4	4	11	−7	2			1–2	0–3	1–1	—

Source: Dimayor
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) Goal difference, 3) Goals for, 4) Away goals for, 5) Away goals against, 6) Drawing of lots.

Finals

22 November 2019

18:30

Deportivo Pereira	2–1	Boyacá Chicó
Posada 40' Vásquez 82'	Report	Palomino 73'

Estadio Hernán Ramírez Villegas, Pereira

Referee: Luis Fernando Trujillo

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26 November 2019

20:00

Boyacá Chicó	1–1	Deportivo Pereira
Urueña 87'	Report	Vásquez 30'

Estadio La Independencia, Tunja

Referee: Óscar Gómez

Deportivo Pereira won 3–2 on aggregate.

Torneo Águila 2019–II Winners
Deportivo Pereira Advance to the Grand Final

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Club	Goals
1	Juan Sebastián Herrera	Cortuluá	12
2	Edinson Palomino	Boyacá Chicó	11
3	Sebastián Acosta	Fortaleza	10
4	Cristian Cangá	Valledupar	8
5	Edwin Aguilar	Real Cartagena	7
	Diber Cambindo	Deportes Quindío
	Leonel García	Atlético
	Jairo Molina	Deportivo Pereira
9	Kevin Aladesanmi	Leones	6
	Henry Hernández	Deportes Quindío
	Yorleys Mena	Real Cartagena
	Luis Mina	Boca Juniors de Cali
	José Carlos Muñoz	Cortuluá

Source: Soccerway

Grand Final

Since Deportivo Pereira won both tournaments of the season, the Grand Final was not played and they were declared as champions of the season. Deportivo Pereira also earned direct promotion to Categoría Primera A for the 2020 season.

Torneo Águila 2019 champions
Deportivo Pereira 2nd title

Aggregate table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Deportivo Pereira (C, P)	46	25	13	8	65	32	+33	88	Promotion to Categoría Primera A
2	Boyacá Chicó (P)	46	23	15	8	62	37	+25	84	Qualification for Promotion play-off
3	Cortuluá	46	23	8	15	74	55	+19	77
4	Real Cartagena	42	20	12	10	65	49	+16	72
5	Deportes Quindío	42	17	13	12	55	44	+11	64
6	Leones	36	12	16	8	41	40	+1	52
7	Bogotá	36	14	8	14	39	44	−5	50
8	Fortaleza	36	13	10	13	49	46	+3	49
9	Tigres	36	11	14	11	43	50	−7	47
10	Llaneros	36	13	5	18	40	49	−9	44
11	Barranquilla	36	10	10	16	34	45	−11	40
12	Valledupar	30	7	12	11	27	39	−12	33
13	Real San Andrés	30	7	9	14	29	41	−12	30
14	Atlético	30	5	11	14	24	38	−14	26
15	Boca Juniors de Cali	30	5	8	17	27	45	−18	23
16	Orsomarso	30	1	12	17	29	48	−19	15

Source: Dimayor
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) Goal difference, 3) Goals for, 4) Away goals for, 5) Away goals against, 6) Drawing of lots
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted

Promotion play-off

The promotion play-off was played by Boyacá Chicó and Cortuluá, who were the best two teams in the aggregate table excluding the champions, Deportivo Pereira. The winners of this double-legged series earned the second promotion berth.

1 December 2019

15:15

Cortuluá	0–0	Boyacá Chicó
	Report

Estadio Doce de Octubre, Tuluá

Referee: Carlos Ortega

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6 December 2019

20:00

Boyacá Chicó	1–0	Cortuluá
Vela 56'	Report

Estadio La Independencia, Tunja

Referee: Óscar Gómez

Boyacá Chicó won 1–0 on aggregate.

See also

• 2019 Categoría Primera A season
• 2019 Copa Colombia