The 2023 Categoría Primera A season (officially known as the 2023 Liga BetPlay Dimayor season for sponsorship purposes) is the 76th season of the

Categoría Primera A The Categoría Primera A (), commonly referred to as Liga BetPlay Dimayor (between 2015 and 2019 ''Liga Águila'') due to sponsorship by online betting company BetPlay, is a Colombian professional league for association football clubs. It is the ...

, Colombia's top-flight football league. The season began on 24 January and will end on 10 December 2023.

Deportivo Pereira Deportivo Pereira is a professional Colombian football team based in Pereira, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. They play their home games at the Hernán Ramírez Villegas stadium. History Early years While there are several ...

are the defending champions, having won the 2022 Finalización tournament.

Format

The competition format for this season was approved by the Extraordinary Assembly of DIMAYOR on 14 December 2022, which decided to keep the same system used in the previous season, with two tournaments (Apertura and Finalización) of three stages each.

Teams

20 teams will take part in the season, the top 18 teams from the relegation table of the previous season as well as the 2022 Primera B champions

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and the winners of the Primera B

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. Boyacá Chicó were the first team to earn promotion, winning the Primera B title on 21 November 2022 after beating Atlético Huila in the season's Grand Final, while Atlético Huila themselves ensured promotion to the top flight on 29 November 2022, after winning the promotion play-off against

Deportes Quindío Deportes Quindío is a professional Colombian football club based in Armenia that currently plays in the Categoría Primera B. The club was founded on 8 January 1951, and its best achievement was winning the 1956 league tournament. They play th ...

. The promoted teams replaced Patriotas and

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, the bottom two teams in the relegation table of the 2022 season, who were relegated to Primera B.

Stadia and locations

Personnel and kits

Managerial changes

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Torneo Apertura

The Torneo Apertura (officially known as ''Liga BetPlay Dimayor 2023–I'') is the first tournament of the 2023 season. It began on 24 January and will end on 25 June 2023.

First stage

Standings

Results

Top scorers

Source
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Relegation

A separate table is kept to determine the teams that are relegated to the

Categoría Primera B Categoría Primera B, commonly referred to as Torneo BetPlay Dimayor due to sponsorship by online betting company BetPlay (formerly ''Torneo Águila''), is the second-division football league in Colombia. Format DIMAYOR has applied a new forma ...

for the next season. This table is elaborated from a sum of all first stage games played in the three most recent seasons (including the 2021–I, 2021–II, 2022–I, 2022–II, 2023–I, and 2023–II tournaments), with the points earned being averaged per match played. The bottom two teams of the relegation table at the end of the season will be relegated to Categoría Primera B. Source
Dimayor

Rules for classification: 1) average, 2) 2023 points, 3) 2023 goal difference, 4) 2023 goals scored, 5) 2023 away goals scored, 6) 2023 away goals against, 7) 2023 wins, 8) 2023 yellow cards, 9) 2023 red cards, 10) drawing of lots.

References

External links

Dimayor's official website
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