2010 Categoría Primera A season explained

Competition:Liga Postobón
Season:2010
Winners:Apertura: Junior (6th title)
Finalización: Once Caldas (4th title)
Relegated:Cortuluá
Continentalcup1:2011 Copa Libertadores
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers:Junior
Once Caldas
Deportes Tolima
Continentalcup2:2011 Copa Sudamericana
Continentalcup2 Qualifiers:Santa Fe
La Equidad
League Topscorer:Apertura:
Carlos Rentería
Carlos Bacca
(12 goals each)
Finalización:
Wilder Medina
Dayro Moreno
(16 goals each)
Prevseason:2009
Nextseason:2011

The 2010 Categoria Primera A season was the 63rd season of Colombia's top-flight football league. Because of new sponsorship, it was officially called the 2010 Liga Postobón season.[1]

Format

The Assembly of DIMAYOR established a new system of competition on December 10, 2009.[2]

Apertura
The First Stage of the Apertura was a single round-robin tournament in 18 dates. The top four teams at the end of this stage advanced to the semifinals and pitted into two ties: 1 vs. 4 and 2 vs. 3. The winners of the semifinals contested the finals.

Finalización
The Finalizacion was the same as the previous season.

Teams

TeamCityStadium
AméricaCaliPascual Guerrero
Atlético HuilaNeivaGuillermo Plazas Alcid
Atlético NacionalMedellínAtanasio Girardot
Boyacá ChicóTunjaLa Independencia
CortuluáTuluáDoce de Octubre
Cúcuta DeportivoCúcutaGeneral Santander
Deportes QuindíoArmeniaCentenario
Deportes TolimaIbaguéManuel Murillo Toro
Deportivo CaliCaliDeportivo Cali
Deportivo PereiraPereiraHernán Ramírez Villegas
EnvigadoEnvigadoPolideportivo Sur
Independiente MedellínMedellínAtanasio Girardot
JuniorBarranquillaMetropolitano
La EquidadBogotáMetropolitano de Techo
MillonariosBogotáNemesio Camacho
Once CaldasManizalesPalogrande
Real CartagenaCartagenaJaime Morón León
Santa FeBogotáNemesio Camacho

Campeonato Apertura

The Liga Postobon I was scheduled to begin on January 31, 2010.

First stage

Results

Semifinals

The four qualified teams from the first stage were placed into two semifinals labelled "Semifinal A" and "Semifinal B". Each semifinal was played on a home and away basis. The teams that made up each semifinal were determined by their first stage standings: Semifinal A was between the teams that finished 1st and 4th; Semifinal B was between the teams that finished 2nd and 3rd. The team in each semifinal that finished higher in the table played the second leg at home. The winner of each semifinal advanced to the Finals.

Semifinal A

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Semifinal B

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Finals

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Top goalscorers

PosPlayerPlayer nationalityClubGoals
align=center rowspan=21Carlos Bacca ColombiaJunior12
Carlos Rentería ColombiaLa Equidad12
align=center rowspan=33Franco Arizala ColombiaDeportes Tolima11
Giovanni Moreno ColombiaAtlético Nacional11
Fernando Uribe ColombiaOnce Caldas11
6Luis Muriel ColombiaDeportivo Cali9
align=center rowspan=37Yovanny Arrechea ColombiaMillonarios8
Victor Cortes ColombiaJunior8
Mario GiménezIndependiente Medellín8
align=center rowspan=310Luis Carlos Arias ColombiaIndependiente Medellín7
Julián Barahona ColombiaDeportivo Pereira7
Anthony Tapia ColombiaBoyacá Chicó7
Source:[3]

Statistics

Campeonato Finalización

The Liga Postobon II began on July 17 and is ended on December 19.

First stage

Results

Cuadrangular semifinals

Group B

Finals

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Top goalscorers

PosPlayerPlayer nationalityClubGoals
align=center rowspan=11Wilder Medina ColombiaDeportes Tolima16
align=center rowspan=12Dayro Moreno ColombiaOnce Caldas16
align=center rowspan=13Wilson Carpintero ColombiaCúcuta Deportivo14
align=center rowspan=14Fernando Uribe ColombiaOnce Caldas13
align=center rowspan=15Martín Morel ArgentinaDeportivo Cali11
align=center rowspan=36Yovanny Arrechea ColombiaMillonarios10
Jorge Perlaza ColombiaDeportes Tolima10
Carlos Rodas ColombiaDeportes Quindío10
align=center rowspan=18Luis Carlos Arias ColombiaIndependiente Medellín9
align=center rowspan=210Giovanni Hernández ColombiaJunior8
Léider Preciado ColombiaDeportes Quindío8
Source:[4]

Statistics

Relegation table

Relegation was determined through an average of the points earn in the First Stages of the three season. For the purposes of the table, the 2009 Primera B winner (Cortuluá) entered with the same points as the team that was 16th in the beginning of the season (Real Cartagena). The team with the lowest average was relegated to the Categoría Primera B for the following season, and the team with the next lowest average played a playoff match against the 2010 Primera B runner-up.

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1 108 159 126 +33 179
2 108 145 118 +27 173
3 108 132 119 +13 169
4 108 148 119 +29 164
5 108 161 134 +27 162
6 108 162 130 +32 161
7 108 144 146 −2 156
8 108 126 129 −3 156
9 108 152 151 +1 152
10 108 148 151 −3 146
11 108 120 140 −20 137
12 108 136 135 +1 136
13 108 98 112 −14 134
14 108 146 146 0 133
15 108 136 160 −24 133
16 108 126 137 −11 128
17 Envigado (O) 108 138 167 −29 123 Relegation/Promotion Playoff
18 Cortuluá (R) 108 128 167 −39 118 Relegated to the Primera B
Source: link|date=September 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} DIMAYOR
Rules for classification: 1st average; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored; 4th away goals for; 5th away goals against; 6th draw.

Relegation/promotion playoff

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.dimayor.com.co/Comunicados/Postobon_Patrocinador_del_Futbol_Profesional_Colombiano_310-51644.html{{Dead link|date=September 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  2. Web site: Definidos los Nuevos Sistemas de Campeonato Para el Año 2010 . es . The New Championship Systems for 2010 are Defined . . November 22, 2010 .
  3. Web site: Estadísticas . es . golgolgol.net . Torneos Históricos . November 22, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100612011712/http://golgolgol.net/Colombia/Futbol_Colombiano/Liga_Postobon/Estadisticas/home_104.html . June 12, 2010 . dead . mdy-all .
  4. Web site: Estadísticas . es . golgolgol.net . Torneos Históricos . December 19, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100612011712/http://golgolgol.net/Colombia/Futbol_Colombiano/Liga_Postobon/Estadisticas/home_104.html . June 12, 2010 . dead . mdy-all .