2019 Chilean Primera División

The 2019 Campeonato Nacional, known as Campeonato AFP PlanVital 2019 for sponsorship reasons,^[1] was the 89th season of top-flight football in Chile. The season started on 15 February 2019.^[2] Universidad Católica were the defending champions, having won the previous tournament.

Campeonato Nacional

Season	2019
Dates	15 February – 29 November 2019
Champions	Universidad Católica (14th title)
Copa Libertadores	Universidad Católica Colo-Colo Palestino
Copa Sudamericana	Unión La Calera Coquimbo Unido Huachipato Audax Italiano
Matches played	194
Goals scored	514 (2.65 per match)
Top goalscorer	Lucas Passerini (14 goals)
Biggest home win	U. Católica 5–0 Cobresal (6 October)
Biggest away win	Unión Española 0–4 Everton (21 April)
Highest scoring	O'Higgins 3–6 Antofagasta (28 July)
Highest attendance	43,646 U. de Chile 2–1 Dep. Iquique (17 October)
Total attendance	1,344,615
Average attendance	6,967
← 2018 2020 →

Due to the 2019 Chilean protests, the competition was suspended since mid-October with six matchdays still left. After a failed attempt to resume normal activity that saw only one match fully played,^[3] on 29 November 2019, ANFP's Council of Presidents voted to conclude the season. Thus Universidad Católica, who were leading the competition at the time of the suspension, won their fourteenth title.^[4][5] No teams were relegated to the Primera B this season.

Teams

Sixteen teams took part in the league in this season: the top fourteen teams from the previous season, plus Coquimbo Unido and Cobresal, who were promoted from the Primera B. Both promoted teams replaced Deportes Temuco and San Luis, who were relegated at the end of the last season.

Stadia and locations

Cobresal

Coquimbo Unido

Curicó Unido

Deportes Antofagasta

Deportes Iquique

Everton

Huachipato

O'Higgins

Santiago

U. La Calera

U. de Concepción

Santiago teams:
A. Italiano
Colo-Colo
Palestino
U. Española
U. Católica
U. de Chile

Locations of the 2019 Chilean Primera División teams.

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity
Audax Italiano	Santiago (La Florida)	Bicentenario de La Florida	12,000
Cobresal	El Salvador	El Cobre	12,000
Colo-Colo	Santiago (Macul)	Monumental David Arellano	47,347
Coquimbo Unido	Coquimbo	Francisco Sánchez Rumoroso	18,750
Curicó Unido	Curicó	La Granja	8,278
Deportes Antofagasta	Antofagasta	Calvo y Bascuñán	21,178
Deportes Iquique	Iquique	Cavancha	5,500
Everton	Viña del Mar	Sausalito	22,360
Huachipato	Talcahuano	Huachipato-CAP Acero	10,500
O'Higgins	Rancagua	El Teniente	13,849
Palestino	Santiago (La Cisterna)	Municipal de La Cisterna	8,000
Unión Española	Santiago (Independencia)	Santa Laura-Universidad SEK	19,000
Unión La Calera	La Calera	Nicolás Chahuán Nazar	9,200
Universidad Católica	Santiago (Las Condes)	San Carlos de Apoquindo	14,118
Universidad de Chile	Santiago (Ñuñoa)	Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos	48,665
Universidad de Concepción	Concepción	Alcaldesa Ester Roa Rebolledo	30,448

Personnel and kits

Team	Head coach	Kit manufacturer	Sponsors
Audax Italiano	Juan José Ribera	Macron	Traverso
Cobresal	Gustavo Huerta	KS7	PF
Colo-Colo	Mario Salas	Umbro	MG Motor
Coquimbo Unido	Patricio Graff	CAFU	PF
Curicó Unido	Hugo Vilches	OneFit	Multihogar
Deportes Antofagasta	Juan Manuel Azconzábal	CAFU	Minera Escondida
Deportes Iquique	Jaime Vera	Rete	UNAP
Everton	Javier Torrente	Pirma	Marathonbet
Huachipato	Gustavo Florentín	OneFit	PF
O'Higgins	Marco Antonio Figueroa	Adidas	Sun Monticello
Palestino	Ivo Basay	Capelli Sport	Bank of Palestine
Unión Española	Ronald Fuentes	Kappa	Universidad SEK
Unión La Calera	Walter Coyette	Lyon	PF
Universidad Católica	Gustavo Quinteros	Under Armour	DirecTV
Universidad de Chile	Hernán Caputto (caretaker)	Adidas	Petrobras
Universidad de Concepción	Francisco Bozán	KS7	Algoritmos

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Colo-Colo	Héctor Tapia	End of contract	2 December 2018[6]	Pre-season	Mario Salas	18 December 2018[7]
Deportes Iquique	Luis Musrri		3 December 2018[8]		Pablo Sánchez	4 December 2018[9]
Everton	Javier Torrente		4 December 2018[10]		Gustavo Díaz	13 December 2018[11]
Universidad Católica	Beñat San José	Resigned	10 December 2018[12]		Gustavo Quinteros	21 December 2018[13]
Curicó Unido	Jaime Vera	Signed by OFI Crete	25 January 2019[14]		Dalcio Giovagnoli	28 January 2019[15]
Universidad de Chile	Frank Kudelka	Resigned	13 March 2019[16]	10th	Alfredo Arias	14 March 2019[17]
Deportes Antofagasta	Gerardo Ameli	Sacked	18 May 2019[18]	14th	Walter Fiori (caretaker)	18 May 2019[19]
	Walter Fiori	End of caretaker spell	27 May 2019	16th	Juan Manuel Azconzábal	27 May 2019[20]
Huachipato	Nicolás Larcamón	Mutual consent	9 July 2019[21]	9th	Gustavo Florentín	11 July 2019[22]
Deportes Iquique	Pablo Sánchez		29 July 2019[23]	12th	Jaime Vera	30 July 2019[24]
Universidad de Chile	Alfredo Arias	Sacked	4 August 2019[25]	15th	Hernán Caputto (caretaker)	5 August 2019[25]
Unión Española	Fernando Díaz		23 August 2019[26]	8th	Ronald Fuentes	24 August 2019[27]
Unión La Calera	Francisco Meneghini		16 September 2019[28]	7th	Walter Coyette	17 September 2019[29]
Everton	Gustavo Díaz		17 September 2019[30]	13th	Javier Torrente	18 September 2019[31]
Curicó Unido	Dalcio Giovagnoli		7 October 2019[32]	12th	Hugo Vilches	10 October 2019[33]

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Universidad Católica (C)	24	16	5	3	44	14	+30	53	Qualification for Copa Libertadores group stage
2	Colo-Colo	24	11	7	6	37	30	+7	40
3	Palestino	24	10	8	6	42	31	+11	38	Qualification for Copa Libertadores second stage
4	Unión La Calera	25	9	10	6	29	23	+6	37	Qualification for Copa Sudamericana first stage
5	Coquimbo Unido	24	8	10	6	29	27	+2	34
6	Huachipato	24	9	7	8	31	30	+1	34
7	Audax Italiano	24	10	4	10	35	35	0	34
8	O'Higgins	24	10	4	10	34	35	−1	34
9	Unión Española	25	10	4	11	32	35	−3	34
10	Cobresal	25	10	4	11	31	39	−8	34
11	Everton	24	7	8	9	21	24	−3	29
12	Deportes Antofagasta	24	7	6	11	34	35	−1	27
13	Curicó Unido	24	6	8	10	36	43	−7	26
14	Deportes Iquique	25	6	7	12	24	40	−16	25
15	Universidad de Chile	24	4	12	8	32	38	−6	24
16	Universidad de Concepción	24	5	8	11	23	35	−12	23

Source: ANFP, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) Playoff game (only if needed to decide championship between two teams), 3) Goal difference, 4) Matches won, 5) Goals for, 6) Away goals for, 7) Red cards, 8) Yellow cards, 9) Drawing of lots.
(C) Champions

Results

Home \ Away	AUD	CSL	CC	COQ	CUR	ANT	DIQ	EVE	HUA	OHI	PAL	UE	ULC	UC	UCH	UDC
Audax Italiano	—	—	2–4	2–0	3–1	0–3	3–1	—	0–1	2–2	2–3	3–2	1–1	0–2	3–1	—
Cobresal	1–2	—	0–0	4–1	—	2–2	0–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	3–2	3–2	1–0	0–2	—	1–0
Colo-Colo	3–0	0–2	—	—	0–1	1–0	2–0	0–0	2–2	3–2	2–1	1–0	—	2–3	3–2	1–0
Coquimbo Unido	1–0	—	2–0	—	2–1	1–1	1–1	4–0	—	—	2–2	2–0	1–1	1–2	2–2	2–2
Curicó Unido	2–2	3–1	3–4	0–0	—	—	1–2	2–2	4–2	2–1	1–1	—	—	1–4	—	4–2
Deportes Antofagasta	1–0	2–0	—	0–1	1–1	—	—	1–1	0–1	3–1	0–1	1–2	1–1	1–2	3–1	—
Deportes Iquique	1–3	0–1	—	0–1	0–0	2–0	—	0–0	—	1–3	3–3	3–2	1–0	—	2–4	2–2
Everton	0–2	2–1	—	0–2	2–1	1–0	2–0	—	0–0	—	—	1–0	1–2	1–2	1–1	1–0
Huachipato	2–0	3–1	1–1	0–0	2–0	4–3	1–1	—	—	2–1	0–2	—	1–2	0–1	—	1–0
O'Higgins	—	2–0	1–0	2–0	—	3–6	4–1	2–1	0–3	—	—	0–2	3–1	1–0	1–0	1–2
Palestino	1–2	3–0	2–2	2–0	4–2	—	—	1–0	3–1	1–1	—	—	1–1	1–2	1–1	4–1
Unión Española	0–2	1–3	1–3	3–1	2–1	—	4–0	0–4	2–1	0–1	1–0	—	1–1	—	1–1	1–0
Unión La Calera	—	2–1	1–1	—	2–0	2–3	0–0	0–0	2–1	2–0	2–0	1–2	—	1–0	0–0	3–1
Universidad Católica	—	5–0	—	1–1	0–0	5–1	0–1	1–0	—	0–0	—	0–0	1–0	—	4–0	3–1
Universidad de Chile	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	3–3	1–0	2–1	—	3–0	—	2–3	1–2	1–1	1–1	—
Universidad de Concepción	1–0	—	3–1	—	1–2	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–1	—	0–3	2–1	—

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

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Club	Goals
1	Lucas Passerini	Palestino	14
2	Tobías Figueroa	Deportes Antofagasta	11
	Ignacio Jeraldino	Audax Italiano
4	Matías Donoso	Deportes Iquique	10
	Roberto Gutiérrez	Palestino
6	José Pedro Fuenzalida	Universidad Católica	9
7	Carlos Muñoz	Cobresal	8
	Mauro Quiroga	Curicó Unido
	Sebastián Varas	Unión Española
10	Leandro Benegas	Universidad de Chile	7
	Iván Ledezma	Audax Italiano
	Juan Sánchez Sotelo	Huachipato

Source: Soccerway

Attendances

#	Club	Total attendance	Average attendance[34]
1	Universidad de Chile	440,476	18,353
2	Colo-Colo	434,038	18,085
3	Universidad Católica	256,524	10,689
4	Coquimbo Unido	155,088	6,462
5	Unión Española	141,498	5,660
6	Deportes Iquique	130,548	5,440
7	Everton	126,194	5,258
8	O'Higgins	123,139	5,131
9	Universidad de Concepción	122,126	5,089
10	Deportes Antofagasta	122,069	5,086
11	Curicó Unido	117,159	4,882
12	Unión La Calera	116,113	4,838
13	Palestino	107,518	4,480
14	Audax Italiano	104,247	4,344
15	Huachipato	96,974	4,041
16	Cobresal	95,463	3,819