The 2024 Categoría Primera B season (officially known as the 2024 Torneo BetPlay Dimayor season for sponsorship reasons) was the 35th season of the

Categoría Primera B Categoría Primera B, commonly referred to as Torneo BetPlay Dimayor due to Sponsor (commercial), sponsorship by online betting company BetPlay, is the second-division association football, football league in Colombia. The tournament was inaugura ...

since its founding as

Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ...

's second division football league. The season began on 2 February and ended on 14 December 2024.

Unión Magdalena Unión Magdalena () commonly known as El Unión, and nicknamed as El Ciclón Bananero (The Banana Cyclone) and also Los Samarios (The Samarios), is a Colombian football club from the city of Santa Marta, capital of the department of Magdalena De ...

were the champions, winning their second Primera B title and promoting to

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 ...

after defeating

Llaneros A (, 'plainsman') is a Venezuelan and Colombian herder. The name is taken from the Llanos grasslands occupying eastern Colombia and western-central Venezuela. During the Spanish American wars of independence, lancers and cavalry served in b ...

on penalties in the season's grand final following a 1–1 draw on aggregate. Llaneros also promoted at the end of the season, after ending the season as runners-up and also topping the season's aggregate table.

Teams

16 teams took part in the season. The previous season's champions Patriotas and runners-up

Fortaleza Fortaleza ( ; ; ) is the state capital of Ceará, located in Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeastern Brazil. It is Brazil's 4th largest city—Fortaleza surpassed Salvador, Bahia, Salvador in 2022 census with a population of slightly over 2.4 mi ...

were promoted to Primera A for the 2024 season, being replaced in Primera B for this season by

and

Atlético Huila Atlético Huila is a professional Colombian association football, football team based in Neiva, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera B. The club was founded in 1990, making it one of the youngest professional football clubs in Colombia. ...

, who were relegated from Primera A at the end of the 2023 season after finishing in the bottom two places of the top tier's relegation table. On 12 December 2023 the General Assembly of DIMAYOR approved a request from

Cortuluá Cortuluá, officially named Cortuluá Fútbol Club S. A. and previously known as Corporación Club Deportivo Tuluá for short, was a Colombian football club from Tuluá, Valle del Cauca Department. It was founded in 1967 and last played in Categ ...

to change their home stadium for this season, moving to Palmira after one season in

Yumbo Yumbo is a small, industrial city and municipality in western Colombia. It is located in the Valle del Cauca Department, just north of Cali. In 2020, the municipality had a population of approximately 110,000. History Modern Yumbo was founded ...

, Valle del Cauca Department. On 10 January 2024, Cortuluá was rebranded as Internacional F.C. de Palmira. In addition to this, starting from this season Real Soacha Cundinamarca left

Soacha Soacha is an autonomous municipality of the department of Cundinamarca in Colombia, and part of the Metropolitan Area of Bogotá. It has an important industrial zone and is home to mostly working-class families. Soacha borders Bojacá and Mosq ...

and was rebranded to ''Real Cundinamarca'', temporarily moving to

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and playing its home matches at Parque Estadio Olaya Herrera.

Torneo I

First stage

Standings

Results

Semi-finals

The eight teams that advanced to the semi-finals were drawn into two groups of four teams, with the top two teams from the first stage being seeded in each group. The two group winners advanced to the finals.

Group A

Group B

Finals

---- ''Tied 2–2 on aggregate, Llaneros won on penalties.''

Top scorers

Source
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Torneo II

First stage

Standings

Results

Semi-finals

Group A

Group B

Finals

---- ''Unión Magdalena won 5–1 on aggregate.''

Top scorers

Source
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Grand Final

---- ''Tied 1–1 on aggregate, Unión Magdalena won on penalties.''

Aggregate table

Promotion play-off

Since the season runners-up

also ended up as the best-placed team in the aggregate table, they earned automatic promotion to

and the promotion play-off was not played.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:2024 Categoria Primera B season Categoría Primera B seasons 2

Teams

Torneo I

First stage

Standings

Results

Semi-finals

Group A

Group B

Finals

Top scorers

Torneo II

First stage

Standings

Results

Semi-finals

Group A

Group B

Finals

Top scorers

Grand Final

Aggregate table

Promotion play-off

See also

References

External links