2022 Categoría Primera B season

The 2022 Categoría Primera B season (officially known as the 2022 Torneo BetPlay Dimayor season for sponsorship reasons) is the 33rd season of the Categoría Primera B since its founding as Colombia's second division football league. The season began on 22 January and is scheduled to end on 16 November 2022.

Torneo BetPlay Dimayor
Season2022
Dates22 January – 16 November 2022
Matches played105
Goals scored230 (2.19 per match)
Top goalscorerTorneo I: Johar Mejía and Jefferson Rivas (7 goals each)
Biggest home winDep. Quindío 5–0 Real Cartagena
(12 April)
Biggest away winReal Santander 0–4 Leones
(21 March)
Highest scoringFortaleza 6–2 Orsomarso
(7 March)
← 2021
2023 →
All statistics correct as of 3 May 2022.

Format

The format for the 2022 Primera B season was approved at DIMAYOR's General Assembly session of 17 December 2021.[1]

For this season, and similar to the previous one, two tournaments (Torneo I and Torneo II) with three stages each will be played. In the first stage of both tournaments, the 15 teams will play a single round-robin tournament with each team having a bye round and home-and-away order reversed for the Torneo II. The top eight teams at the end of the fifteen rounds will advance to the semi-finals, where teams will be drawn into two groups of four where they will play each one of their rivals twice. The top team of each group will advance to the finals, playing a double-legged series with the winners advancing to the Grand Final.

The Grand Final to decide the season champions as well as the first promotion to Primera A, will be a double-legged series contested at the end of the season by the winners of the season's two tournaments. The second promotion spot to Primera A for the 2023 season will be decided in a promotion play-off between the Grand Final loser and the best-placed team of the season's aggregate table, other than the Grand Final winners.[2]

Teams

15 teams take part in the season. Cortuluá and Unión Magdalena, who won the semifinal groups of the 2021-II Primera B tournament, were promoted to Primera A for the 2022 season and were replaced in Primera B by Atlético Huila and Deportes Quindío, who were relegated at the end of the 2021 Primera A Finalización tournament.[3][4]

On 20 April 2022 the General Assembly of DIMAYOR approved the reaffiliation of Cúcuta Deportivo, which had been expelled from the entity on 25 November 2020 due to legal issues. Despite being in the top tier at the moment of its disaffiliation, it was decided that Cúcuta Deportivo will enter the Primera B competition starting from the second half of the 2022 season, with which the tournament will have 16 teams.[5]

Locations of the 2022 Categoría Primera B teams
Club City Stadium Capacity
Atlético Cali Pascual Guerrero 33,130
Atlético Huila Neiva Guillermo Plazas Alcid 22,000
Barranquilla Barranquilla Romelio Martínez 8,000
Boca Juniors Cali Pascual Guerrero 33,130
Bogotá Bogotá Metropolitano de Techo 8,000
Boyacá Chicó Tunja La Independencia 20,630
Deportes Quindío Armenia Centenario 20,716
Fortaleza Bogotá Metropolitano de Techo 8,000
Leones Itagüí Metropolitano Ciudad de Itagüí 12,000
Llaneros Villavicencio Bello Horizonte 15,000
Orsomarso Palmira Francisco Rivera Escobar 15,300
Real Cartagena Cartagena Jaime Morón León 16,068
Real Santander Piedecuesta Villa Concha 3,000
Tigres Bogotá Metropolitano de Techo 8,000
Valledupar Valledupar Armando Maestre Pavajeau 11,000

The following team will join the competition for the Torneo II:

Club City Stadium Capacity
Cúcuta Deportivo Cúcuta General Santander 42,901

Torneo I

Standings
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Leones 14 8 3 3 21 10 +11 27 Advance to the semi-finals
2 Fortaleza 14 7 4 3 26 17 +9 25
3 Deportes Quindío 14 6 7 1 17 8 +9 25
4 Real Cartagena 14 7 4 3 19 16 +3 25
5 Tigres 14 6 4 4 16 12 +4 22
6 Boyacá Chicó 14 6 4 4 18 16 +2 22
7 Llaneros 14 6 4 4 14 12 +2 22
8 Bogotá 14 6 4 4 17 16 +1 22
9 Valledupar 14 5 6 3 15 12 +3 21
10 Orsomarso 14 5 3 6 14 20 −6 18
11 Atlético 14 3 5 6 10 14 −4 14
12 Real Santander 14 2 5 7 13 21 −8 11
13 Barranquilla 14 2 4 8 13 23 −10 10
14 Atlético Huila 14 1 6 7 7 14 −7 9
15 Boca Juniors 14 1 5 8 10 19 −9 8
Source: Dimayor, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) Goal difference, 3) Goals for, 4) Away goals for, 5) Away goals against, 6) Drawing of lots.

Results
Home \ Away ATL HUI BAR BOC BOG BOY QUI FOR LEO LLA ORS RCA RSA TIG VAL
Atlético — 1–0 — 1–0 3–1 0–2 — 2–2 — 1–3 — — 0–1 — 0–0
Atlético Huila — — 0–0 2–0 — — 0–0 — 1–1 — 0–1 — 1–1 0–0 —
Barranquilla 1–0 — — — 2–4 2–2 — 0–1 — 1–2 — 0–2 — — 1–1
Boca Juniors — — 0–0 — 1–1 1–1 — — — 1–1 — 1–2 — 2–0 —
Bogotá — 2–0 — — — 0–0 — 0–1 1–0 0–1 — — 2–1 — 2–1
Boyacá Chicó — 1–0 — — — — 2–3 0–1 1–0 — 2–1 — 2–1 — 2–2
Deportes Quindío 1–0 — 2–1 1–0 1–2 — — — — 0–0 — 5–0 — 0–0 —
Fortaleza — 3–1 — 3–1 — — 2–2 — 1–2 — 6–2 — 2–3 1–2 —
Leones 1–1 — 3–1 2–1 — — 0–0 — — — 3–1 1–0 — 3–1 —
Llaneros — 2–1 — — — 1–2 — 0–1 1–0 — 0–1 — 2–2 — 0–0
Orsomarso 1–0 — 2–1 2–0 1–1 — 1–1 — — — — 1–2 — 0–2 —
Real Cartagena 0–0 1–1 — — 1–1 3–1 — 1–1 — 2–0 — — — — 1–2
Real Santander — — 2–3 1–1 — — 0–1 — 0–4 — 0–0 1–2 — 0–0 —
Tigres 1–1 — 2–0 — 3–0 1–0 — — — 0–1 — 1–2 — — 3–2
Valledupar — 1–0 — 2–1 — — 0–0 1–1 0–1 — 2–0 — 1–0 — —
Source: Dimayor, Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Semi-finals

The eight teams that advance 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 will advance to the final.

Group A
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification LEO RCA BOY LLA
1 Leones 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to the Final —
2 Real Cartagena 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
3 Boyacá Chicó 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
4 Llaneros 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
First match(es) will be played on 9 May 2022. Source: Dimayor
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) First stage position, 3) Goal difference, 4) Goals for, 5) Away goals for, 6) Away goals against, 7) Yellow cards, 8) Red cards.

Group B
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification FOR QUI TIG BOG
1 Fortaleza 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to the Final —
2 Deportes Quindío 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
3 Tigres 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
4 Bogotá 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
First match(es) will be played on 7 May 2022. Source: Dimayor
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) First stage position, 3) Goal difference, 4) Goals for, 5) Away goals for, 6) Away goals against, 7) Yellow cards, 8) Red cards.

Top scorers
As of 3 May 2022
Rank Name Club Goals
1 Johar Mejía Bogotá 7
Jefferson Rivas Leones
3 Breidy Golúz Orsomarso 6
4 Kevin Aladesanmi Fortaleza 5
Misael Martínez Valledupar
Luis Fabián Mina Deportes Quindío
Henry Plazas Boyacá Chicó
8 Jorge Cabezas Llaneros 4
Diego Echeverri Llaneros
Miguel Moreno Leones
Adrián Parra Fortaleza
Juan Pablo Patiño Bogotá
Jesús Zúñiga Tigres

Source: Soccerway

See also

References
  1. "SÍNTESIS DE LA ÚLTIMA ASAMBLEA EXTRAORDINARIA DE LA DIMAYOR 2021" [SUMMARY OF THE LAST EXTRAORDINARY ASSEMBLY OF DIMAYOR 2021] (in Spanish). Dimayor. 17 December 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  2. "Torneo BetPlay: cómo serán el sistema de juego y los ascensos en 2022" [Torneo BetPlay: what the system of play and promotions will be like in 2022] (in Spanish). Antena 2. 21 December 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  3. "¿Qué tan espinoso fue el camino? Cortuluá y Unión, los nuevos en 2022" [How thorny was the path? Cortuluá and Unión, the newcomers in 2022] (in Spanish). Futbolred. 27 December 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  4. "Huila y Quindío, los que deben descender en 2022 a la 'B'" [Huila and Quindío, those who must be relegated to the "B" for 2022] (in Spanish). La FM. 14 November 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  5. "Es un hecho: Cúcuta Deportivo vuelve al fútbol profesional después de dos años de 'castigo'" [It's a fact: Cúcuta Deportivo return to professional football after two years of 'punishment'] (in Spanish). El País. 20 April 2022. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
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