2015 Categoría Primera B season

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Relegated	None
Top goalscorer	Ayron del Valle (29 goals)
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The 2015 Categoría Primera B season (officially known as the 2015 Torneo Águila season for sponsorship reasons) was the 26th season since its founding.

Format

16 teams competed in this Categoría Primera B season, a decrease from 18 in the last season due to the expansion of the Categoría Primera A to 20 teams starting from this season and the realization of a special promotion tournament to promote 2 additional teams to the Primera A at the start of the season. The Primera B tournament itself changed to a year-round competition with the 16 teams playing the other teams twice on a home-and-away basis and playing a regional rival twice more for a total of 32 matches. The top eight teams after the thirty-two rounds advanced to the Semifinal round where the eight teams were sorted into two groups of four and played a double Round-robin tournament group stage. Both group winners earned promotion to the Categoría Primera A and also advanced to the Final round, which consisted of two legs and decided the season winner.

Teams

Universitario

Valledupar

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Locations of the 2015 Categoría Primera B teams

Club	Home city	Stadium	2014 season
América	Cali	Pascual Guerrero^b	5th
Atlético Bucaramanga	Bucaramanga	Alfonso López	3rd
Barranquilla	Barranquilla	Metropolitano	15th
Bogotá	Bogotá	Metropolitano de Techo	16th
Cortuluá^a	Tuluá	Doce de Octubre	13th
Cúcuta Deportivo^a	Cúcuta	General Santander	6th
Depor	Cali	Pascual Guerrero^c	18th
Deportes Quindío	Armenia	Centenario	2nd
Deportivo Pereira	Pereira	Hernán Ramírez Villegas	10th
Expreso Rojo	Zipaquirá	Municipal Los Zipas	17th
Fortaleza	Bogotá	Metropolitano de Techo	17th (Primera A)
Leones	Turbo	John Jairo Tréllez	4th
Llaneros	Villavicencio	Manuel Calle Lombana	8th
Real Cartagena	Cartagena	Jaime Morón León	9th
Real Santander	Floridablanca	Álvaro Gómez Hurtado	14th
Unión Magdalena	Santa Marta	Municipal de Ciénaga	7th
Universitario	Popayán	Ciro López	12th
Valledupar	Valledupar	Erasmo Camacho Calamar^[1]	11th

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	Cúcuta Deportivo	3	2	1	0	8	3	+5	7	Promoted to Categoría Primera A
2	Deportes Quindío	3	2	1	0	6	4	+2	7
3	Atlético Bucaramanga	2	0	0	2	0	3	−3	0
4	Real Cartagena	2	0	0	2	1	5	−4	0

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	Cortuluá	3	1	2	0	4	2	+2	5	Promoted to Categoría Primera A
2	Unión Magdalena	3	1	2	0	1	0	+1	5
3	América	3	0	2	1	2	3	−1	2
4	Deportivo Pereira	3	0	2	1	2	4	−2	2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Atlético Bucaramanga	32	21	8	3	55	17	+38	71	Advanced to the semifinals
2	Deportivo Pereira	32	18	6	8	54	36	+18	60
3	América	32	15	11	6	61	37	+24	56
4	Fortaleza	32	13	12	7	41	35	+6	51
5	Real Cartagena	32	15	5	12	46	43	+3	50
6	Leones	32	15	5	12	33	36	−3	50
7	Unión Magdalena	32	12	12	8	37	28	+9	48
8	Universitario de Popayán	32	12	11	9	36	30	+6	47
9	Deportes Quindío	32	12	9	11	43	36	+7	45
10	Valledupar	32	10	8	14	38	45	−7	38
11	Bogotá	32	9	7	16	30	44	−14	34
12	Expreso Rojo	32	8	9	15	38	56	−18	33
13	Real Santander	32	8	8	16	36	52	−16	32
14	Barranquilla	32	7	10	15	23	37	−14	31
15	Llaneros	32	7	9	16	33	51	−18	30
16	Depor	32	6	6	20	37	58	−21	24

Home \ Away	AME	BAR	BOG	BUC	DEP	QUI	PER	EXP	FOR	LEO	LLA	RCA	RSA	MAG	UPO	VAL
América		3–0	3–0	2–2	3–1	2–2	1–2	4–1	1–1	3–1	2–1	3–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	3–0
Barranquilla	0–0		1–0	0–2	1–2	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–0	3–1	2–1	0–1	2–0	1–1	2–0	1–1
Bogotá	0–2	0–2		0–1	2–1	2–2	2–0	2–0	0–0	5–0	1–1	4–2	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–1
Atlético Bucaramanga	4–1	2–0	3–2		2–0	0–0	0–0	6–0	4–1	3–0	3–1	0–0	1–0	2–0	3–1	2–0
Depor	3–3	3–0	2–0	1–2		0–2	1–2	1–1	1–3	1–2	1–2	0–2	2–0	0–0	1–3	3–1
Deportes Quindío	0–2	1–0	0–1	0–3	1–3		2–3	3–0	1–1	0–0	2–1	2–0	4–0	2–1	1–1	2–1
Deportivo Pereira	2–0	2–0	2–0	1–2	3–2	1–0		5–1	2–2	2–0	2–0	2–0	2–1	3–0	0–0	3–0
Expreso Rojo	1–1	1–0	4–0	0–1	1–1	0–1	2–2		4–1	1–0	3–2	1–1	3–2	1–1	0–1	1–3
Fortaleza	3–1	2–0	1–0	2–1	3–0	1–0	1–1	0–0		0–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	2–0	2–1
Leones	4–3	1–0	3–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	3–2	2–0		1–0	2–0	2–1	2–1	0–0	2–1
Llaneros	0–0	0–0	0–1	1–1	2–1	1–4	2–1	2–3	2–1	0–2		3–2	1–2	1–0	1–1	1–1
Real Cartagena	1–2	3–3	4–0	2–0	3–2	0–1	2–3	2–1	2–2	2–0	3–0		1–1	0–2	1–0	3–2
Real Santander	0–5	0–0	3–2	0–2	3–1	2–2	2–3	3–0	1–1	3–1	0–1	0–1		0–0	2–0	3–2
Unión Magdalena	2–2	2–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	2–2	1–0	2–1	2–1	0–0	2–0	4–0	3–0		2–1	2–1
Universitario de Popayán	2–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	3–0^[a]	3–2	3–2	2–0	2–0	2–2	1–2	3–1	1–0		1–2
Valledupar	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–1	3–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	3–3	1–2	3–3	1–1	1–0

2015 Categoría Primera B season

Format

Teams

Promotion tournament

Group A

Group B

Primera B tournament

First stage

Standings

Results

Regular matches

Regional derbies (Rounds 8 & 24)

Semifinals

Group A

Group B

Finals

Top goalscorers

Aggregate table

References

External links

Round 8 (Derbies) - April 4, 5, and 6, 2015
Date	Time	Venue	Home	Score	Away
Sat.	15:00	Erasmo Camacho Calamar	Valledupar	1 – 2	Unión Magdalena
Sat.	15:00	Municipal Los Zipas	Expreso Rojo	1 – 1	Llaneros
Sun.	11:30	Ciro López	Universitario de Popayán	1 – 0	Leones
	15:00	Hernando Azcárate Martínez	América	3 – 0	Depor
	15:30	Jaime Morón León	Real Cartagena	2 – 0	Barranquilla
Mon.	18:30	Metropolitano de Techo	Fortaleza	2 – 2	Bogotá
	19:00	Álvaro Gómez Hurtado	Real Santander	0 – 0	Atlético Bucaramanga
	20:30	Hernán Ramírez Villegas	Deportivo Pereira	2 – 1	Deportes Quindío

Round 24 (Derbies) - August 29, 30, 31, and September 1, 2015
Date	Time	Venue	Home	Score	Away
Sat.	15:00	Metropolitano de Techo	Bogotá	0 – 0	Fortaleza
Sun.		Municipal de Ciénaga	Unión Magdalena	0 – 0	Valledupar
		John Jairo Tréllez	Leones	0 – 0	Universitario de Popayán
	15:30	Pascual Guerrero	Depor	1 – 2	América
		Alfonso López	Atlético Bucaramanga	0 – 1	Real Santander
		Manuel Calle Lombana	Llaneros	0 – 1	Expreso Rojo
Mon.	18:00	Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez	Barranquilla	0 – 2	Real Cartagena
Tue.	20:00	Centenario	Deportes Quindío	4 – 0	Deportivo Pereira

Rank	Name	Club	Goals
1	Ayron del Valle	América	29
2	Leonardo Castro	Deportivo Pereira	18
3	Carlos Peralta	Unión Magdalena	17
4	Ernesto Farías	América	14
4	Edis Ibargüen	Fortaleza	14