2018 Colombian Women's Football League

Liga Águila Femenina
Season	2018
Dates	10 February – 31 May 2018
Champions	Atlético Huila (1st title)
Copa Libertadores Femenina	Atlético Huila
Matches played	124
Goals scored	367 (2.96 per match)
Top goalscorer	Oriana Altuve; (16 goals)
Biggest home win	Santa Fe 10–0 Bogotá; (17 February)
Biggest away win	Bogotá 1–9 Patriotas; (28 February)
Highest scoring	Santa Fe 10–0 Bogotá; (17 February); Bogotá 1–9 Patriotas; (28 February)
	← 2017 2019 →

The 2018 Colombian Women's Football League season (officially known as the 2018 Liga Águila Femenina season for sponsorship reasons) was the second season of Colombia's top-flight women's football league. The season started on 10 February and concluded on 31 May 2018. Santa Fe were the defending champions.

The two-legged final was played between Atlético Huila and debutants Atlético Nacional. Atlético Huila were the champions after tying Atlético Nacional 2–2 in aggregate score and beating them 3–0 in the penalty shootout, and qualified for the 2018 Copa Libertadores Femenina.^[1]

Format

Starting from this season, the league was expanded from 18 to 23 teams, which competed in four double round-robin groups, three of six teams each and one of five teams. The top two teams in each group moved on to the quarterfinals, with the winners advancing to the semifinals. The winners of each semifinal played the finals, which determined the champions. All rounds in the knockout stage were played on a home-and-away basis. The champions qualified for the 2018 Copa Libertadores Femenina and also played the 2017–18 Primera División Femenina champions in a double-legged series, same as last season.^[2]

Teams

23 teams took part in the competition.^[2] The teams are affiliated with DIMAYOR affiliate clubs. Atlético, Atlético Nacional, Bogotá, Deportes Tolima, and Junior competed for the first time.

Stadia and locations

Patriotas

Bogotá teams:
Bogotá
La Equidad
Santa Fe
Cali teams:
América de Cali
Atlético

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Locations of the 2018 Liga Águila Femenina teams

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Hexagonal	Team	City	Stadium
A	Alianza Petrolera	Barrancabermeja	Daniel Villa Zapata
	Atlético Bucaramanga	Bucaramanga	Cancha Marte
	Atlético Huila	Neiva	Guillermo Plazas Alcid
	Cúcuta Deportivo	Cúcuta	General Santander
	Deportes Tolima	Ibagué	Manuel Murillo Toro
	Real Santander	Floridablanca	Álvaro Gómez Hurtado
B	Bogotá	Bogotá^a	Municipal Héctor "El Zipa" González
	Deportivo Pasto	Pasto	Departamental Libertad
	Fortaleza	Cota	Municipal de Cota
	La Equidad	Bogotá	Metropolitano de Techo
	Patriotas	Tunja^b	Primero de Septiembre
	Santa Fe	Bogotá	Nemesio Camacho El Campín
C	América de Cali	Cali	Pascual Guerrero
	Atlético	Cali	Pascual Guerrero
	Cortuluá	Tuluá^c	Pascual Guerrero
	Deportes Quindío	Armenia	Centenario
	Deportivo Pereira	Pereira	Hernán Ramírez Villegas
	Orsomarso	Palmira	Francisco Rivera Escobar
D	Atlético Nacional	Medellín	Atanasio Girardot
	Envigado	Envigado	Polideportivo Sur
	Junior	Barranquilla	Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez
	Real Cartagena	Cartagena	Jaime Morón León
	Unión Magdalena	Santa Marta	Sierra Nevada

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	HUI	TOL	APE	CUC	BUC	RSA
1	Atlético Huila	10	8	1	1	22	3	+19	25	Advance to the knockout phase	—	2–1	2–0	4–0	2–0	4–0
2	Deportes Tolima	10	4	4	2	13	11	+2	16	Advance to the knockout phase	1–0	—	0–1	2–1	3–2	2–1
3	Alianza Petrolera	10	4	3	3	10	10	0	15		0–3	1–1	—	2–2	1–0	3–0
4	Cúcuta Deportivo	10	3	4	3	14	17	−3	13		0–3	1–1	1–1	—	2–1	5–2
5	Atlético Bucaramanga	10	2	1	7	7	14	−7	7		0–1	0–0	1–0	0–1	—	1–3
6	Real Santander	10	1	3	6	11	22	−11	6		1–1	2–2	0–1	1–1	1–2	—

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	SFE	PAT	FOR	EQU	BOG	PAS
1	Santa Fe	10	8	1	1	37	6	+31	25	Advance to the knockout phase	—	2–0	6–0	4–0	10–0	2–0
2	Patriotas	10	6	2	2	22	8	+14	20	Advance to the knockout phase	1–0	—	2–1	0–1	1–0	3–0
3	Fortaleza	10	4	4	2	14	13	+1	16		2–2	2–2	—	2–1	1–0	3–0
4	La Equidad	10	4	3	3	11	10	+1	15		0–2	1–1	0–0	—	3–0	1–0
5	Bogotá	10	1	3	6	6	29	−23	6		2–3	1–9	0–0	1–1	—	1–0
6	Deportivo Pasto	10	0	1	9	2	26	−24	1		1–6	0–3	0–3	0–3	1–1	—

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	AME	COR	PER	QUI	ORS	ATL
1	América de Cali	10	7	1	2	26	12	+14	22	Advance to the knockout phase	—	1–1	0–3^[a]	4–1	3–1	2–0
2	Cortuluá	10	6	2	2	20	8	+12	20	Advance to the knockout phase	2–3	—	3–0	2–0	0–1	4–1
3	Deportivo Pereira	10	6	1	3	15	12	+3	19		2–0	0–2	—	2–3	2–1	2–1
4	Deportes Quindío	10	3	3	4	21	20	+1	12		1–4	1–4	1–1	—	4–1	8–0
5	Orsomarso	10	3	2	5	14	17	−3	11		1–2	1–1	1–2	0–0	—	4–1
6	Atlético	10	0	1	9	7	34	−27	1		0–7	0–1	0–1	2–2	2–3	—

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	NAC	MAG	ENV	JUN	RCA
1	Atlético Nacional	8	6	1	1	16	3	+13	19	Advance to the knockout phase	—	3–1	2–1	3–0	2–0
2	Unión Magdalena	8	5	1	2	13	6	+7	16	Advance to the knockout phase	0–0	—	1–0	1–0	4–0
3	Envigado	8	3	2	3	9	5	+4	11		1–0	0–1	—	0–0	5–1
4	Junior	8	3	2	3	9	7	+2	11		0–1	2–1	0–0	—	4–0
5	Real Cartagena	8	0	0	8	3	29	−26	0		0–5	1–4	0–2	1–3	—

2018 Colombian Women's Football League

Format

Teams

Stadia and locations

First stage

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout phase

Bracket

Quarterfinals

First leg

Second leg

Semifinals

First leg

Second leg

Finals

Top goalscorers

See also

References

External links

Quarterfinals					Semifinals				Finals

1A	Atlético Huila	4	2	6

2D	Unión Magdalena	0	0	0
					Atlético Huila	3	2	5

					América de Cali	1	0	1
1C	América de Cali	0	5	5

2B	Patriotas	2	0	2
									Atlético Huila (p)	0	2	2 (3)

									Atlético Nacional	1	1	2 (0)
1B	Santa Fe	4	3	7

2C	Cortuluá	0	1	1
					Santa Fe	1	2	3

					Atlético Nacional	1	3	4
1D	Atlético Nacional	3	3	6

2A	Deportes Tolima	0	0	0

10 May 2018	Unión Magdalena	0–4	Atlético Huila	Ciénaga
15:30		Report	Torres 12' Rincón 21' Oliveros 80' Córdoba 83'	Stadium: Estadio Municipal de Ciénaga Referee: Heider Castro

10 May 2018	Cortuluá	0–4	Santa Fe	Palmira
16:00		Report	Altuve 48', 52' Salazar 59' Santos 68'	Stadium: Estadio Francisco Rivera Escobar Referee: Vanessa Ceballos

10 May 2018	Patriotas	2–0	América de Cali	Tunja
19:00	Villamayor 61' Alvarado 81'	Report		Stadium: Estadio La Independencia Referee: Andrea Chavarría