The 2017
Categoría Primera A
The Categoría Primera A (), commonly referred to as Liga BetPlay Dimayor due to Sponsor (commercial), sponsorship by online betting company BetPlay, is a professional association football league in Colombia and the highest level of the Colombian ...
season (officially known as the 2017 Liga Águila season for sponsorship reasons) was the 70th season of
Colombia
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's top-flight football league.
Santa Fe were the defending champions having won the title in the
2016 season's Finalización tournament. The season started on 3 February and concluded on 17 December.
In the Torneo Apertura,
Atlético Nacional won its sixteenth title after beating
Deportivo Cali in the finals, while in the Torneo Finalización
Millonarios defeated crosstown rivals
Santa Fe in the finals to win its fifteenth title.
Format
The league was played under the same format used since the
2015 season. The Apertura and Finalización tournaments were divided into three stages: a First Stage which was contested on a single round-robin basis, with each team playing the other teams once and playing a regional rival once more for a total of 20 matches. The top eight teams after the twenty rounds advanced to a knockout round, where they were pitted into four ties to be played on a home-and-away basis, with the four winners advancing to the semifinals and the winner of each semifinal advancing to the final of the tournament, which was played on a home-and-away basis as well. The winner of the final in each tournament was declared the tournament champion and will participate in the
2018 Copa Libertadores, as well as the top team in the aggregate table not yet qualified and the
Copa Colombia champions. The next four best teams in the aggregate table qualified for the
2018 Copa Sudamericana.
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Teams
20 teams took part, eighteen of them returning from last season plus
América de Cali and
Tigres, who were promoted from the
2016 Primera B. The former returned to the top tier after 5 years while the latter competed in the Primera A for the first time ever. Both promoted teams replaced
Boyacá Chicó and
Fortaleza who were relegated at the end of the last season.
Stadia and locations
a: Played its Torneo Apertura home games at Estadio Álvaro Gómez Hurtado in Floridablanca due to remodeling works at Estadio Alfonso López es:Estadio is the spanish language word for Stadium
A stadium (: stadiums or stadia) is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage completely or partially surrounded by a tiered s ...
.
b: Temporarily plays its home games at Estadio Pascual Guerrero in Cali
Santiago de Cali (), or Cali, is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department, and the most populous city in southwest Colombia, with 2,280,522 residents estimate by National Administrative Department of Statistics, DANE in 2023. The city span ...
since Estadio Doce de Octubre failed to meet league requirements.
Managerial changes
Torneo Apertura
First stage
The First stage began on 3 February and consisted of twenty rounds including a series of regional rivalries in the tenth round. It ended on 29 May with the top eight teams at the end of this stage advancing to the knockout phase.
Standings
Results
Knockout phase bracket
Quarterfinals
First leg
†: Match played behind closed doors.
Second leg
Semifinals
First leg
†: Match played behind closed doors.
Second leg
Finals
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''Atlético Nacional won 5–3 on aggregate.''
Top goalscorers
Source
Dimayor
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Torneo Finalización
First stage
The First stage began on 7 July and featured the same format used in the Torneo Apertura, with reversed fixtures. It concluded on 19 November with the top eight teams at the end of this stage advancing to the knockout stage.
Standings
Results
Knockout phase bracket
Quarterfinals
First leg
Second leg
Semifinals
First leg
Second leg
Finals
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''Millonarios won 3–2 on aggregate.''
Top goalscorers
Source
Soccerway
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Aggregate table
Relegation
A separate table is kept to determine the teams that get relegated to the
Categoría Primera B
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for the next season. The table includes an average of all first stage games played for the current season and the previous two seasons. For purposes of elaborating the table, promoted teams are given the same point and goal tallies as the team in the 18th position at the start of the season.
Source
Dimayor
br />Rules for classification: 1st average; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored; 4th away goals scored.
See also
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2017 Categoría Primera B season
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2017 Copa Colombia
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2018 Superliga Colombiana
References
External links
Dimayor's official website
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