2020 Categoría Primera B season
| Season | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Dates | 31 January – 26 December 2020 |
| Champions | Atlético Huila (3rd title) |
| Promoted | None |
| Matches played | 162 |
| Goals scored | 368 (2.27 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Diber Cambindo (12 goals) |
| Biggest home win | Cortuluá 6–0 Atlético (19 September) |
| Biggest away win | Bogotá 0–4 Atlético Huila (12 February) |
| Highest scoring | Barranquilla 2–5 U. Magdalena (23 October) |
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The 2020 Categoría Primera B season (officially known as the 2020 Torneo BetPlay Dimayor season for sponsorship reasons) was the 31st season of the Categoría Primera B since its founding as Colombia's second division football league. The tournament started on 31 January and ended on 26 December 2020, with Atlético Huila winning their third title in the competition after defeating Cortuluá in the finals.
The competition was suspended from 13 March to 17 September due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Format
For this season, and prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the format was originally planned to be the same as the previous season: two tournaments (Torneo I and Torneo II) with three stages each. In the first stage of both tournaments, the 16 clubs would play each other once, for a total of 15 games. The top eight teams after the first stage would advance to the semifinal round where they would be sorted into two groups of four to play a double round-robin tournament group stage, with the top team of each group qualifying for the finals. The winners of both tournaments would play a final series on a home-and-away basis, with the winner being crowned as season champions and also earning promotion to the Categoría Primera A for the 2021 season. The season runners-up would then play the best team in the aggregate table (other than the champions) in another double-legged series for the second promotion berth. In case the season runner-up also ended up as the best team in the aggregate table, it would also be promoted and the promotion play-off would not be played.[1]
On 25 July 2020, DIMAYOR's General Assembly decided to continue playing the Torneo I as the only tournament to be held in the season, with the winners of that tournament being crowned as champions and earning automatic promotion to the top flight. The promotion play-off, if needed, would still be played by the runners-up and the best team in the aggregate table other than the champions.[2] On 13 August 2020, DIMAYOR decided that there would not be any teams relegated from Primera A at the end of the season, meaning that this tournament would not award its champion a berth into the next year's Primera A tournament and that the promotion play-off would also be cancelled.[3]
Teams
16 teams took part, fourteen of them returning from last season plus Unión Magdalena and Atlético Huila, who were relegated from the Primera A the previous season. Both teams replaced Deportivo Pereira and Boyacá Chicó who earned promotion at the end of the last season.
