The 2022 Bolivian Primera División season, known as the 2022 Copa Tigo season for sponsorship reasons, was the 45th season of the
División Profesional del Fútbol Boliviano,
Bolivia
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's top-flight
football
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league and the fifth season under División de Fútbol Profesional management. The season began on 4 February and was scheduled to end on 13 November 2022.
In the Torneo Apertura,
Bolívar won their thirtieth league title and twenty-fourth in the professional era, by defeating crosstown rivals
The Strongest
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in the final match played on 12 June by a 3–0 score. On the other hand, the Torneo Clausura was abandoned on 10 November 2022 with 24 out of 30 rounds played and no champion was declared due to civil unrest in the
Santa Cruz Department
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.
Independiente Petrolero
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were the defending champions, having won the
2021
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tournament.
Format
The format for the 2022 season was approved by the 16 División Profesional clubs on 21 December 2021.
[ The league returned to the ]Apertura and Clausura
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format after the year-long tournament held in 2021
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due to the COVID-19 pandemic
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. The Torneo Apertura, which was played from 6 February to 12 June, had a first stage with the 16 participating clubs divided into two groups of eight, from which the top four clubs of each group advanced to a knockout stage in which the champions were decided. Meanwhile, the Torneo Clausura, played from 1 July to 10 November, was played under a double round-robin format.
The distribution of international berths was confirmed on 11 January 2022. The champions of both tournaments, as well as the Torneo Clausura runners-up and the best placed team in the aggregate table would qualify for the 2023 Copa Libertadores
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, while the Torneo Apertura runners-up, the Copa Bolivia
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champions, and the next two best placed teams in the aggregate table would qualify for the 2023 Copa Sudamericana
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.
Teams
16 teams competed in the league for the 2022 season, 14 of which took part in 2021. The 2021 Copa Simón Bolívar
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champions Universitario de Vinto and the winners of the promotion/relegation play-off Universitario de Sucre
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, were both promoted for this season. The former competed in the top tier for the first time ever, while the latter returned after a 3-year absence. The promoted teams replaced Real Potosí
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and San José, who were relegated at the end of the previous season.
Stadia and locations
Managerial changes
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Torneo Apertura
First stage
Standings
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Results
Knockout stage
Bracket
Quarter-finals
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Semi-finals
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Final
Top scorers
Source
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Torneo Clausura
The Torneo Clausura, which was originally scheduled to begin on 24 June, had its start date pushed back to 1 July due to technical issues for the implementation of VAR
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. The tournament was scheduled to end on 13 November 2022, but it was suspended on 21 October with six rounds to go due to civil unrest in the Santa Cruz Department
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Standings
Results
Top scorers
Source
Soccerway
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Aggregate table
Due to the abandonment of the Torneo Clausura, the berths for international tournaments for the following season were awarded through aggregate table placement. In addition to this, the División Profesional's Higher Council decided that the bottom-placed team in this table at the moment the Clausura tournament was abandoned would play the relegation play-off and no teams would be directly relegated to the Bolivian Football Regional Leagues The third tier of the Bolivian football league system consists of nine regional leagues (one for each department); the number of participants varies depending
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.
Promotion/relegation play-off
The relegation play-off was played by:
* Universitario de Sucre
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(2022 División Profesional aggregate table 16th place)
* Libertad Gran Mamoré (2022 Copa Simón Bolívar
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runners-up)
The winners will play in the top flight for the 2023 season.
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''Libertad Gran Mamoré won 6–0 on aggregate and were promoted to the Bolivian Primera División
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. Universitario de Sucre were relegated to the Chuquisaca Football Association Championship.''
See also
* 2022 Copa Bolivia
References
External links
División Profesional on the FBF's official website
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