2019 Colombian Women's Football League

The 2019 Colombian Women's Football League (officially known as the Liga Águila Femenina 2019 for sponsorship reasons) was the third season of Colombia's top-flight women's football league. The season started on 13 July and concluded on 30 September 2019 with the second leg of the finals. América de Cali won their first league title following a 3–2 win on aggregate against Independiente Medellín in the finals.^[1] Atlético Huila were the defending champions, but were eliminated by the eventual runners-up Independiente Medellín in the semifinals.

Liga Águila Femenina

Season	2019
Dates	13 July – 30 September 2019
Champions	América de Cali (1st title)
Copa Libertadores Femenina	América de Cali Independiente Medellín
Matches	74
Goals	170 (2.3 per match)
Top goalscorer	Linda Caicedo (7 goals)
Biggest home win	Ind. Medellín 5–0 Atlético Huila (15 September)
Biggest away win	Once Caldas 0–6 Ind. Medellín (20 July) Atlético 0–6 Cortuluá (9 August)
Highest scoring	Once Caldas 0–6 Ind. Medellín (20 July) Atlético 0–6 Cortuluá (9 August)
← 2018 2020 →

Format

For this season, the league featured 20 teams, which were split into five double round-robin groups of four teams. The top teams in each group as well as the three best runners-up advanced to the quarterfinals, with the winners advancing to the semifinals. The winners of each semifinal qualified for the final to decide the champions. All rounds in the knockout stage were played on a home-and-away basis.^[2] The champions qualified for the 2019 Copa Libertadores Femenina, joining Atlético Huila who are already qualified as titleholders. On 15 June 2019, DIMAYOR and the FCF announced an agreement with CONMEBOL for an additional berth for Colombia into the Copa Libertadores Femenina, which was awarded to the league runners-up.^[3]

Teams

20 teams took part in the competition.^[2] The teams are affiliated with DIMAYOR affiliate clubs. Alianza Petrolera, Bogotá, Deportes Quindío, Envigado, Patriotas, Real Cartagena, and Unión Magdalena did not field a team in this edition, whilst Deportivo Cali, Independiente Medellín, Millonarios, and Once Caldas competed for the first time.

Stadia and locations

Atlético Bucaramanga

Atlético Huila

Bogotá

Cali

Cortuluá

Cúcuta Deportivo

Deportes Tolima

Deportivo Pasto

Deportivo Pereira

Fortaleza

Junior

Medellín

Once Caldas

Orsomarso

Real San Andrés

Bogotá teams:
La Equidad
Millonarios
Santa Fe
Cali teams:
América de Cali
Atlético
Deportivo Cali
Medellín teams:
Atlético Nacional
Independiente Medellín

Locations of the 2019 Liga Águila Femenina teams

Group	Team	City	Stadium
A	Atlético Nacional	Medellín Envigado Itagüí	Atanasio Girardot Polideportivo Sur Metropolitano Ciudad de Itagüí
	Deportivo Pereira	Pereira	Hernán Ramírez Villegas
	Independiente Medellín	Medellín Envigado Itagüí	Atanasio Girardot Polideportivo Sur Metropolitano Ciudad de Itagüí
	Once Caldas	Manizales	Palogrande
B	Fortaleza	Cota	Municipal de Cota
	La Equidad	Bogotá	Metropolitano de Techo
	Millonarios	Bogotá	Nemesio Camacho El Campín
	Santa Fe	Bogotá	Nemesio Camacho El Campín
C	Atlético Bucaramanga	Bucaramanga	Cancha Marte
	Cúcuta Deportivo	Cúcuta	General Santander
	Junior	Barranquilla	Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez
	Real San Andrés	Floridablanca Girón	Álvaro Gómez Hurtado 1 de Mayo
D	América de Cali	Cali	Pascual Guerrero
	Atlético	Cali	Pascual Guerrero
	Cortuluá	Tuluá	Doce de Octubre
	Deportivo Cali	Cali	Deportivo Cali
E	Atlético Huila	Neiva	Guillermo Plazas Alcid
	Deportes Tolima	Ibagué	Manuel Murillo Toro
	Deportivo Pasto	Pasto	Cancha San Rafael
	Orsomarso	Palmira	Francisco Rivera Escobar

First stage

The First stage started on 13 July and consisted of five groups of four teams. It ended on 18 August with the top teams from each group as well as the three best runners-up advancing to the knockout stage.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		DIM	NAC	PER	ONC
1	Independiente Medellín	6	5	1	0	14	1	+13	16	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–0	2–0	1–0
2	Atlético Nacional	6	4	1	1	10	2	+8	13			0–0	—	2–0	2–0
3	Deportivo Pereira	6	2	0	4	3	11	−8	6			1–4	0–3	—	1–0
4	Once Caldas	6	0	0	6	1	14	−13	0			0–6	1–3	0–1	—

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

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SFE	MIL	EQU	FOR
1	Santa Fe	6	4	1	1	8	3	+5	13	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–1	0–2	2–0
2	Millonarios	6	3	2	1	7	4	+3	11			0–1	—	2–1	1–0
3	La Equidad	6	3	1	2	9	6	+3	10			0–1	1–1	—	2–1
4	Fortaleza	6	0	0	6	2	13	−11	0			0–3	0–2	1–3	—

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 C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		JUN	BUC	RSA	CUC
1	Junior	6	3	2	1	5	3	+2	11	Advance to knockout stage		—	0–0	2–0	1–0
2	Atlético Bucaramanga	6	1	4	1	4	3	+1	7			2–0	—	0–0	0–0
3	Real San Andrés	6	1	4	1	5	6	−1	7			1–1	2–2	—	1–1
4	Cúcuta Deportivo	6	1	2	3	2	4	−2	5			0–1	1–0	0–1	—

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

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		AME	COR	CAL	ATL
1	América de Cali	6	5	1	0	11	3	+8	16	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–0	3–2	1–0
2	Cortuluá	6	3	1	2	12	6	+6	10			1–2	—	3–1	1–1
3	Deportivo Cali	6	2	0	4	10	13	−3	6			0–3	0–1	—	4–2
4	Atlético	6	0	2	4	4	15	−11	2			0–0	0–6	1–3	—

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 E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		HUI	PAS	ORS	TOL
1	Atlético Huila	6	3	3	0	12	4	+8	12	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–1	3–0	4–0
2	Deportivo Pasto	6	1	5	0	5	3	+2	8			1–1	—	2–0	0–0
3	Orsomarso	6	1	3	2	7	10	−3	6			1–1	1–1	—	2–2
4	Deportes Tolima	6	0	3	3	4	11	−7	3			1–2	0–0	1–3	—

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

Ranking of second-placed teams

The three best teams among those ranked second qualified for the knockout stage.

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Result
1	A	Atlético Nacional	6	4	1	1	10	2	+8	13	Knockout stage
2	B	Millonarios	6	3	2	1	7	4	+3	11
3	D	Cortuluá	6	3	1	2	12	6	+6	10
4	E	Deportivo Pasto	6	1	5	0	5	3	+2	8
5	C	Atlético Bucaramanga	6	1	4	1	4	3	+1	7

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

Knockout stage

Seeding

The five group winners were sorted according to their performance in the first stage in order to decide the four teams that were seeded into each of the four quarterfinal ties, which hosted the second leg in that stage. The four best group winners were seeded, while the remaining group winner was drawn along with the three best group runners-up against one of the seeded teams to make up the quarterfinal matchups.

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Result
1	A	Independiente Medellín	6	5	1	0	14	1	+13	16	Quarterfinals Tie 1
2	D	América de Cali	6	5	1	0	11	3	+8	16	Quarterfinals Tie 2
3	B	Santa Fe	6	4	1	1	8	3	+5	13	Quarterfinals Tie 3
4	E	Atlético Huila	6	3	3	0	12	4	+8	12	Quarterfinals Tie 4
5	C	Junior	6	3	2	1	5	3	+2	11	Drawing pot

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

Bracket

	Quarterfinals							Semifinals							Finals
		Millonarios (p)	1	1	2 (3)
	3	Santa Fe	1	1	2 (1)
								Millonarios		0	2	2
								América de Cali		2	1	3
		Atlético Nacional	0	2	2
	2	América de Cali	1	2	3
															América de Cali		2	1	3
															Independiente Medellín		0	2	2
		Junior	1	0	1
	4	Atlético Huila	3	2	5
								Atlético Huila		1	0	1
								Independiente Medellín		0	5	5
		Cortuluá	0	1	1
	1	Independiente Medellín	0	3	3

Quarterfinals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Cortuluá	1–3	Independiente Medellín	0–0	1–3
Atlético Nacional	2–3	América de Cali	0–1	2–2
Millonarios	2–2 (3–1 p)	Santa Fe	1–1	1–1
Junior	1–5	Atlético Huila	1–3	0–2

Semifinals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Atlético Huila	1–5	Independiente Medellín	1–0	0–5
Millonarios	2–3	América de Cali	0–2	2–1

Finals

24 September 2019

19:45

América de Cali	2–0	Independiente Medellín
Usme 13' Pineda 46'	Report

Estadio Pascual Guerrero, Cali

Referee: Jessica Villadiego

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30 September 2019

20:00

Independiente Medellín	2–1	América de Cali
Aguirre 23' (pen.) Botero 70'	Report	L. Caicedo 20'

Estadio Atanasio Girardot, Medellín

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Jenny Arias

América de Cali won 3–2 on aggregate.

Liga Águila Femenina 2019 champions
América de Cali 1st title

See also

• Colombian Women's Football League