The 2019
Bolivian Primera División
The División de Fútbol Profesional is the top-flight professional football league in Bolivia. Until 2017 it was known as the "Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano" (; en, Bolivian Professional Football League).
Since 1950, a total of 16 club ...
season, known as the 2019 Copa Tigo season for sponsorship reasons, was the 42nd season of
Bolivia's top-flight
football league and the second season under División de Fútbol Profesional management.
San José were the defending champions, having won the
2018 Clausura tournament.
In the Torneo Apertura,
Bolívar won their twenty-ninth league title and twenty-third in the professional era, with two matches to spare following a 2–1 victory over
Oriente Petrolero
Club Deportivo Oriente Petrolero () is a Bolivian football club based in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. They play at the 38,000-capacity Estadio Tahuichi Aguilera. Oriente have been Bolivian champions five times, Copa Aerosur winners two ti ...
on 16 May, while in the Torneo Clausura,
Jorge Wilstermann won their fifteenth league title and eighth in the professional era following a 3–1 win against Oriente Petrolero on the last matchday of the tournament on 28 December.
Format
The season was split into a ''Torneo Apertura'' and a ''Torneo Clausura'', played in the first and second half of the year, respectively. Both were played under a double round-robin system, with all teams playing each other twice for a total of 26 matches. The teams placed first at the end of each tournament were the champions and earned qualification for the
Copa Libertadores group stage. The remaining two Copa Libertadores berths as well as the four Copa Sudamericana ones were awarded through the aggregate table.
Teams
The number of teams for the 2019 season remained the same as the 2018 season.
Universitario were relegated to the
Copa Simón Bolívar after finishing in last place of the aggregate table in the
previous season, and were replaced by
Always Ready, the
2018 Copa Simón Bolívar champions, who made their return to the top tier after 28 years.
Managerial changes
Torneo Apertura
Standings
Results
Top goalscorers
Source
Soccerway
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Torneo Clausura
Standings
Results
Top goalscorers
Source
Soccerway
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Aggregate table
Relegation/promotion playoff
The relegation playoff would have been played by
Sport Boys
Sport Boys Association, commonly referred to as Sport Boys or simply Boys, is a Peruvian football club based in the port city of Callao. It was founded on 28 July 1927. Its classic and historic rival is the Atlético Chalaco against whom dispute ...
, as the team placed 13th in the
2019 División Profesional aggregate table, and
Real Santa Cruz, who were the
2019 Copa Simón Bolívar runners-up, with the winners playing in the top flight for the
2020 season. However, considering Sport Boys' disaffiliation from the league as well as
Destroyers
In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, manoeuvrable, long-endurance warship intended to escort
larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against powerful short range attackers. They were originally developed in ...
's relegation as the bottom-placed team in the aggregate table, and with the late conclusion of the 2019 season which made infeasible playing the playoff in early January 2020, the
FBF decided on 5 January 2020 that Real Santa Cruz would be promoted for the next season as Copa Simón Bolívar runners-up.
References
External links
División Profesional on the FBF's official website
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