2014–15 Venezuelan Primera División season

The 2014–15 Primera División season is the 33rd professional season of Venezuela's top-flight football league.

Liga Movistar
Season2014–15
ChampionsDeportivo Táchira (8th Title)
2015 →

Teams

Eighteen teams participated this season, sixteen of whom remain from the previous season. Atlético El Vigía and Yaracuyanos were relegated after accumulating the fewest points in the 2013–14 season aggregate table. They will be replaced by Metropolitanos and Portuguesa, the 2013–14 Segunda División winner and runner-up, respectively.

Aragua
Carabobo
Caracas
Deportivo Anzoátegui
Deportivo Lara
Deportivo Táchira
Estudiantes
Llaneros
Tucanes
Mineros de Guayana
Trujillanos
Zamora
Zulia
Caracas teams:
Caracas FC
Deportivo Petare
Deportivo La Guaira
Atlético Venezuela
Locations of the 2014–15 Primera División teams
Team City Stadium
AraguaMaracayOlímpico Hermanos Ghersi Páez
Atlético VenezuelaCaracasBrígido Iriarte
CaraboboValenciaMisael Delgado
CaracasCaracasOlímpico de la UCV
Deportivo AnzoáteguiPuerto La CruzJosé Antonio Anzoátegui
Deportivo LaraBarquisimetoMetropolitano de Barquisimeto
Deportivo PetareCaracasOlímpico de la UCV
Deportivo TáchiraSan CristóbalPolideportivo de Pueblo Nuevo
EstudiantesMéridaMetropolitano de Mérida
La GuairaCaracasBrígido Iriarte
MetropolitanosCaracasBrígido Iriarte
MinerosCiudad GuayanaPolideportivo Cachamay
LlanerosGuanareRafael Calles Pinto
PortuguesaAcariguaGeneral José Antonio Paez
TrujillanosValeraLuis Loreto Lira
TucanesPuerto AyacuchoAntonio José de Sucre
ZamoraBarinasAgustín Tovar
ZuliaMaracaiboJosé "Pachencho" Romero

Torneo Apertura

The Torneo Apertura will be the first tournament of the season. It began in August 2014 and ended in December 2014.

Standings
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Trujillanos 17 11 3 3 27 15 +12 36 Serie Final and the 2016 Copa Libertadores Second Stage
2 La Guaira 17 10 5 2 25 13 +12 35
3 Caracas 17 9 4 4 33 16 +17 31
4 Aragua 17 9 4 4 30 22 +8 31
5 Deportivo Anzoátegui 17 8 3 6 28 15 +13 27
6 Mineros 17 6 7 4 20 16 +4 25
7 Tucanes 17 7 4 6 16 19 −3 25
8 Deportivo Lara 17 5 9 3 25 18 +7 24
9 Carabobo 17 5 9 3 21 20 +1 24
10 Estudiantes 17 6 6 5 20 21 −1 24
11 Deportivo Táchira 17 6 5 6 24 16 +8 23
12 Zamora 17 5 7 5 19 19 0 22
13 Atlético Venezuela 17 4 6 7 14 20 −6 18
14 Metropolitanos 17 3 6 8 16 29 −13 15
15 Deportivo Petare 17 2 9 6 8 17 −9 12
16 Llaneros 17 3 3 11 12 30 −18 12
17 Zulia 17 2 5 10 12 27 −15 11
18 Portuguesa 17 1 7 9 11 28 −17 10
Source:

Torneo Clausura

The Torneo Clausura will be the second tournament of the season. It began in February 2015 and ended in May 2015.

Standings
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Deportivo Táchira 17 13 2 2 39 16 +23 41 Serie Final and the 2016 Copa Libertadores Second Stage
2 Caracas 17 12 3 2 23 11 +12 39
3 Zamora 17 11 3 3 29 14 +15 36
4 Deportivo Anzoátegui 17 9 4 4 31 23 +8 31
5 Deportivo Lara 17 7 7 3 22 18 +4 28
6 Mineros 17 7 4 6 23 23 0 25
7 La Guaira 17 7 3 7 22 19 +3 24
8 Aragua 17 6 4 7 25 25 0 22
9 Atlético Venezuela 17 5 6 6 17 15 +2 21
10 Zulia 17 6 3 8 14 18 −4 21
11 Trujillanos 17 5 5 7 15 20 −5 20
12 Metropolitanos 17 5 4 8 21 26 −5 19
13 Deportivo Petare 17 4 4 9 7 14 −7 16
14 Tucanes 17 3 7 7 6 22 −16 16
15 Carabobo 17 4 3 10 20 26 −6 15
16 Llaneros 17 4 2 11 24 32 −8 14
17 Estudiantes 17 6 4 7 18 21 −3 13
18 Portuguesa 17 3 4 10 17 30 −13 13
Source:

Aggregate table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Caracas 34 21 7 6 56 27 +29 70 2016 Copa Libertadores First Stage
2 Deportivo Táchira 34 19 7 8 64 33 +31 64 2016 Copa Libertadores Second Stage
3 La Guaira 34 17 8 9 48 33 +15 59 2015 Copa Sudamericana First Stage
4 Deportivo Anzoátegui 34 17 7 10 59 38 +21 58
5 Zamora 34 16 10 8 48 33 +15 58 Qualified to the Serie Sudamericana
6 Trujillanos 34 16 8 10 42 35 +7 56 2016 Copa Libertadores Second Stage
7 Aragua 34 15 8 11 55 47 +8 53 Qualified to the Serie Sudamericana
8 Deportivo Lara 34 12 16 6 47 36 +11 52
9 Mineros 34 13 11 10 43 39 +4 50
10 Tucanes 34 10 11 13 22 41 −19 41
11 Atlético Venezuela 34 9 12 13 31 35 −4 39
12 Carabobo 34 9 12 13 41 46 −5 39
13 Estudiantes 34 12 10 12 38 42 −4 46
14 Metropolitanos 34 8 10 16 37 55 −18 34
15 Zulia 34 8 8 18 26 45 −19 32
16 Deportivo Petare 34 6 13 15 15 31 −16 31
17 Llaneros 34 7 5 22 36 62 −26 26
18 Portuguesa 34 4 11 19 28 58 −30 23
Source:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Serie Final

Deportivo Táchira and Trujillanos qualified to the Serie Final, which was contested on a home and away basis.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Deportivo Táchira 2 1 1 0 1 0 +1 4
2 Trujillanos 2 0 1 1 0 1 −1 1
Source:
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goals scored; 3rd away goals; 4th penalty shoot-out.

Serie Sudamericana

Other than the teams which already qualify for the Copa Libertadores (Apertura and Clausura champions and the best-placed team in the aggregate table) and the Copa Sudamericana (Copa Venezuela champion and the second best-placed team in the aggregate table), the eight best-placed teams in the aggregate table will contest in the Serie Sudamericana for the remaining two berths to the Copa Sudamericana, which qualify the two winners to the First Stage.

In the first round, the matchups are:

  • Match A (1 vs. 8)
  • Match B (2 vs. 7)
  • Match C (3 vs. 6)
  • Match D (4 vs. 5)

In the second round, the matchups are:

  • Winner A vs. Winner C
  • Winner B vs. Winner D

For the two second round winners, the team with the better record in the aggregate table will receive the Venezuela 3 berth, while the other team will receive the Venezuela 4 berth.

First round

Match A
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Zamora 2 2 0 0 6 3 +3 6 Second Round
2 Estudiantes 2 0 0 2 3 6 −3 0
Source:
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goals scored; 3rd away goals; 4th penalty shoot-out.

Match B
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Mineros 2 1 1 0 3 0 +3 4 Second Round
2 Tucanes 2 0 1 1 0 3 −3 1
Source:
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goals scored; 3rd away goals; 4th penalty shoot-out.

Match C
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Carabobo 2 1 1 0 1 0 +1 4 Second Round
2 Aragua 2 0 1 1 0 1 −1 1
Source:
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goals scored; 3rd away goals; 4th penalty shoot-out.

Match D
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Deportivo Lara 2 1 0 1 2 1 +1 3 Second Round
2 Atlético Venezuela 2 1 0 1 1 2 −1 3
Source:
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goals scored; 3rd away goals; 4th penalty shoot-out.

Second round

Winner A vs. Winner B
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Zamora 2 2 0 0 6 4 +2 6 2015 Copa Sudamericana First Stage
2 Mineros 2 0 0 2 4 6 −2 0
Source:
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goals scored; 3rd away goals; 4th penalty shoot-out.

Winner C vs. Winner D
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Carabobo 2 1 0 1 1 1 0 3 2015 Copa Sudamericana First Stage
2 Deportivo Lara 2 1 0 1 1 1 0 3
Source:
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goals scored; 3rd away goals; 4th penalty shoot-out.
gollark: Then prizes would be more common than, say, xenowyrms.
gollark: One raffle per day.
gollark: Again, not that it would help the core issue.
gollark: I'd favour some sort of logarithmic dropoff there.
gollark: 191 total dragons, joined about two months ago.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.