2018 Categoría Primera B season
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The 2018 Categoría Primera B season (officially known as the 2017 Torneo Águila season for sponsorship reasons) will be the 29th season since its founding as Colombia's second division football league. The competition is scheduled to start on 10 February and conclude on 30 November.
Format
For this season, the league will return to the 'one tournament per year' format. The season will consist of three stages. In the first stage, the 16 clubs will play each other twice, once at home and once away. Similar to the 2018 Primera A season, the extra matches against a regional rival will not be played. The top eight teams after the thirty rounds will advance to the semifinal round where they will be sorted into two groups of four and will play a double round-robin tournament group stage, with the top team of each group qualifying to the finals. The winner of the finals will be crowned as the season champions and will also earn promotion to the Categoría Primera A for the 2019 season. The season runner-up will have to play the best team in the aggregate table (other than the champion) on a home-and-away basis for the second promotion berth. In case the season runner-up also ends up as the best team in the aggregate table, it will also be promoted and the promotion play-off will not be played.[1]
Teams
16 teams are expected to take part, fourteen of them returning from last season plus Cortuluá and Tigres, who were relegated from the 2017 Primera A. The former will return to the second tier after 3 years while the latter returned after one season in the top flight. Both teams replaced Boyacá Chicó and Leones who earned promotion at the end of the last season.
| Club | Home city | Stadium | Capacity |
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| Atlético | Cali | Pascual Guerrero | 33,130 |
| Barranquilla | Barranquilla | Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez | 49,692 |
| Bogotá | Bogotá | Metropolitano de Techo | 8,000 |
| Cortuluá | Tuluá | Francisco Rivera Escobara | 9,000 |
| Cúcuta Deportivo | Cúcuta | General Santander | 42,901 |
| Deportes Quindío | Armenia | Centenario | 20,716 |
| Deportivo Pereira | Pereira | Hernán Ramírez Villegas | 30,297 |
| Fortaleza | Bogotá | TBC | TBC |
| Llaneros | Villavicencio | Manuel Calle Lombana | 15,000 |
| Orsomarso | Palmira | Francisco Rivera Escobar | 9,000 |
| Real Cartagena | Cartagena | Jaime Morón León | 16,068 |
| Real Santander | Floridablanca | Álvaro Gómez Hurtado | 9,000 |
| Tigres | Bogotá | Luis Carlos Galán Sarmientob | 8,000 |
| Unión Magdalena | Santa Marta | TBC | TBC |
| Universitario | Popayán | Ciro López | 5,000 |
| Valledupar | Valledupar | Armando Maestre Pavajeau | 11,000 |
a: Cortuluá will use the Estadio Francisco Rivera Escobar in Palmira instead of the Estadio Doce de Octubre in Tuluá as home stadium for the 2018 season.
b: Tigres will use the Estadio Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento in Soacha as home stadium for the 2018 season.
See also
References
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External links
- Dimayor's official website (Spanish)
