2020 Categoría Primera B season

The 2020 Categoría Primera B season (officially known as the 2020 Torneo BetPlay Dimayor season for sponsorship reasons) is the 31st season of the Categoría Primera B since its founding as Colombia's second division football league.

Torneo BetPlay Dimayor
Season2020
Dates31 January – December 2020
Matches played55
Goals scored134 (2.44 per match)
Top goalscorerTorneo I:
Diber Cambindo
(5 goals)
Biggest home winLlaneros 4–0 U. Magdalena
(31 January)
Leones 4–0 Atlético Huila
(25 February)
U. Magdalena 5–1 Real San Andrés
(11 March)
Dep. Quindío 5–1 Real Cartagena
(12 March)
Biggest away winBogotá 0–4 Atlético Huila
(12 February)
Highest scoringCortuluá 3–3 Leones
(1 March)
U. Magdalena 5–1 Real San Andrés
(11 March)
Dep. Quindío 5–1 Real Cartagena
(12 March)
← 2019
2021 →
All statistics correct as of 12 March 2020.

On 13 March 2020, after a meeting with its member clubs, DIMAYOR announced the temporary suspension of the tournament, along with the Primera A and Copa Colombia ones, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1]

On 29 June, and after an Assembly of its member clubs, DIMAYOR presented a timetable for the implementation of the biosafety protocol to resume its competitions, with COVID-19 testing for players and staff members of every club scheduled to be held from 10 to 15 July, and individual training resuming the following day. The resumption of collective training sessions, scheduled for 20 August, will be subject to government approval. According to said timetable, the league was scheduled to resume on 27 August, pending the fulfillment of the previous stages as well as final approval by the Colombian government.[2][3] On 25 July, it was confirmed that the competition would resume on 30 August 2020 with alterations in its format, and pending government approval.[4]

Format

For this season, and prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the format was originally planned to be the same as the previous season: two tournaments (Torneo I and Torneo II) with three stages each. In the first stage of both tournaments, the 16 clubs would play each other once, for a total of 15 games. The top eight teams after the first stage would advance to the semifinal round where they would be sorted into two groups of four to play 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 season champions and also earning promotion to the Categoría Primera A for the 2021 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.[5]

On 25 July 2020, DIMAYOR's General Assembly decided to continue playing the Torneo I as the only tournament to be held in the season, with the winners of that tournament being crowned as champions and earning automatic promotion to the top flight. The promotion play-off, if needed, would still be played by the runners-up and the best team in the aggregate table other than the champions.[4]

Teams

16 teams are taking part, fourteen of them returning from last season plus Unión Magdalena and Atlético Huila, who were relegated from the Primera A the previous season. Both teams replaced Deportivo Pereira and Boyacá Chicó who earned promotion at the end of the last season.

Locations of the 2020 Categoría Primera B teams
Club Home city Stadium Capacity
Atlético Cali Pascual Guerrero 33,130
Atlético Huila Neiva Guillermo Plazas Alcid 22,000
Barranquilla Barranquilla Romelio Martínez 20,000
Boca Juniors Cali Pascual Guerrero 33,130
Bogotá Bogotá Metropolitano de Techo 8,000
Cortuluá Tuluá Doce de Octubre 16,000
Deportes Quindío Armenia Centenario 20,716
Fortaleza Cota Municipal de Cota 4,000
Leones Itagüí
Envigado		 Metropolitano Ciudad de Itagüí
Polideportivo Sur[note 1]		 12,000
14,000
Llaneros Villavicencio
Tunja		 Manuel Calle Lombana
La Independencia[note 2]		 15,000
20,630
Orsomarso Palmira
Tuluá		 Francisco Rivera Escobar
Deportivo Cali[note 3]
Doce de Octubre[note 4]		 15,300
42,000
16,000
Real Cartagena Cartagena
Magangué		 Jaime Morón León
Diego de Carvajal[note 5]		 16,068
10,000
Real San Andrés San Andrés Erwin O'Neill 5,000
Tigres Bogotá Metropolitano de Techo 8,000
Unión Magdalena Santa Marta Sierra Nevada 16,000
Valledupar Valledupar Armando Maestre Pavajeau 11,000
  1. Used by Leones as temporary home stadium while Estadio Metropolitano Ciudad de Itagüí is remodeled.
  2. Used by Llaneros as temporary home stadium while Estadio Manuel Calle Lombana is remodeled.
  3. Used by Orsomarso for their Torneo I home matches against Valledupar and Unión Magdalena.
  4. Used by Orsomarso for their Torneo I home matches against Tigres and Boca Juniors.
  5. Used by Real Cartagena as temporary home stadium while Estadio Jaime Morón León is cleared for use.

First stage

Standings
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Deportes Quindío 7 4 3 0 16 5 +11 15 Advance to the semifinals
2 Leones 7 4 3 0 16 8 +8 15
3 Unión Magdalena 7 4 2 1 13 8 +5 14
4 Atlético Huila 7 3 3 1 9 7 +2 12
5 Fortaleza 7 3 3 1 9 7 +2 12
6 Cortuluá 7 3 2 2 11 8 +3 11
7 Llaneros 7 3 2 2 9 7 +2 11
8 Real San Andrés 7 3 1 3 10 10 0 10
9 Valledupar 7 2 3 2 5 7 −2 9
10 Bogotá 6 2 1 3 6 8 −2 7
11 Atlético 7 2 1 4 5 9 −4 7
12 Orsomarso 7 0 6 1 7 9 −2 6
13 Barranquilla 6 1 2 3 4 7 −3 5
14 Boca Juniors 7 1 2 4 8 12 −4 5
15 Real Cartagena 7 1 1 5 3 13 −10 4
16 Tigres 7 0 3 4 3 9 −6 3
Updated to match(es) played on 12 March 2020. 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 HUI BAR BOC BOG COR QUI FOR LEO LLA ORS RCA RSA TIG MAG VAL
Atlético — 1–2 1–0 — — 0–0 — — — 0–3 — — —
Atlético Huila — — — 1–0 1–1 — — — 1–1 — — —
Barranquilla — — — — — — 2–3 — 0–0 0–0 — —
Boca Juniors — — 1–2 — 1–3 — 1–1 — — — —
Bogotá 1–2 0–4 — — — — — — — — 3–0
Cortuluá — — — 2–0 — — — 3–3 — 2–0 — —
Deportes Quindío — — — — — 3–0 2–2 5–1 — 2–0 — —
Fortaleza — — 1–0 — 2–3 — 2–2 — — — — —
Leones 1–0 4–0 — — 0–0 — — — — — — —
Llaneros — — — 0–2 — — — 1–1 2–0 — 4–0 —
Orsomarso — 1–3 — — — — — — — 1–1 2–2 0–0
Real Cartagena 2–1 — — — — — — — — 0–2 0–1
Real San Andrés — — 2–0 2–1 — 0–1 — — — — —
Tigres 0–0 — — 0–0 — 1–2 1–3 — — — — — —
Unión Magdalena — 2–0 — — 1–1 — — — — 5–1 1–0 —
Valledupar — 2–2 — — 0–0 0–1 — — — 2–1 — — —
Updated to match(es) played on 12 March 2020. Source: Dimayor, Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers
As of 12 March 2020
Rank Name Club Goals
1 Diber Cambindo Deportes Quindío 5
2 Sebastián Acosta Fortaleza 4
César Caicedo Bogotá
Exneider Guerrero Deportes Quindío
Hernán Luna Unión Magdalena
6 Keiner Angulo Orsomarso 3
Leonel García Leones
Denis Mena Leones
Éder Munive Leones
Guillermo Murillo Cortuluá
Luis Narváez Unión Magdalena
Danny Santoya Deportes Quindío

Source: Soccerway

See also

References
  1. "Suspendido el fútbol profesional colombiano por coronavirus" (in Spanish). El Tiempo. 13 March 2020.
  2. "DIMAYOR envió comunicación a los clubes del FPC para la implementación del Protocolo de Bioseguridad" (in Spanish). DIMAYOR. 29 June 2020. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  3. "Ya hay una fecha para un posible inicio del fútbol colombiano" (in Spanish). Futbolred. 3 July 2020. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  4. "Definida la Liga, definido el Torneo de ascenso: así se jugará" (in Spanish). Futbolred. 25 July 2020.
  5. "Síntesis del primer día de la Asamblea Extraordinaria de la DIMAYOR" (in Spanish). Dimayor.com.co. 30 October 2019. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
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