2020 Chilean Primera División
The 2020 Chilean Primera División, known as Campeonato Nacional AFP PlanVital 2020 for sponsorship reasons, is the 90th season of the Chilean Primera División, Chile's top-flight football league. The season started on 24 January 2020. Universidad Católica are the defending champions, having won the previous tournament.
On 16 March 2020, the Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional announced the suspension of the Campeonato Nacional as well as the rest of its tournaments due to the COVID-19 pandemic, starting from 18 March 2020.
On 8 June, ANFP's Council of Presidents decided to resume the league on 31 July with matches to be played behind closed doors and clubs having at least four weeks of training sessions, pending approval from the Chilean government. However, this original date had to be pushed back as clubs were only given approval to resume training sessions starting from 16 July, with the ANFP considering the weekend of 8 August as a new tentative date of resumption, following three weeks of training sessions.
Format changes
For this season, and given that the previous season was declared as concluded with no relegations to the Primera B, ANFP approved an expansion of the first tier to 18 teams, with two teams promoted from the second tier joining the 16 teams that competed in the top flight in 2019. The 18 teams will play each other twice for a total of 34 matches. Qualification for the Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana will be awarded to the top seven teams at the end of the season, as well as the Copa Chile champions who will qualify for the Copa Libertadores.Since there were no relegated teams in the previous season, in this season three teams will be relegated to the second tier: the last-placed team in the standings of the 2020 season, the last-placed team in a relegation table which will be elaborated considering the performance in both the 2019 and 2020 seasons, and the losers of a play-off between the teams placed second-to-last of both tables.
Teams
Eighteen teams will take part in the league in this season: the sixteen teams from the previous season, plus the 2019 Primera B champions Santiago Wanderers and Deportes La Serena, winners of the Primera B promotion play-offs.Stadia and locations
Team | City | Stadium | Capacity |
Audax Italiano | Santiago Santiago Santiago | Bicentenario de La Florida Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos Municipal de La Pintana | 12,000 48,665 5,000 |
Cobresal | El Salvador | El Cobre | 12,000 |
Colo-Colo | Santiago | Monumental David Arellano | 47,347 |
Coquimbo Unido | Coquimbo | Francisco Sánchez Rumoroso | 18,750 |
Curicó Unido | Curicó | La Granja | 8,278 |
Deportes Antofagasta | Antofagasta | Calvo y Bascuñán | 21,178 |
Deportes Iquique | Iquique | Tierra de Campeones | 13,171 |
Deportes La Serena | La Serena | La Portada | 18,243 |
Everton | Viña del Mar | Sausalito | 22,360 |
Huachipato | Talcahuano | Huachipato-CAP Acero | 10,500 |
O'Higgins | Rancagua | El Teniente | 13,849 |
Palestino | Santiago Santiago | Municipal de La Cisterna Municipal de La Pintana | 8,000 5,000 |
Santiago Wanderers | Valparaíso | Elías Figueroa Brander | 20,575 |
Unión Española | Santiago | Santa Laura-Universidad SEK | 19,000 |
Unión La Calera | La Calera | Nicolás Chahuán Nazar | 9,200 |
Universidad Católica | Santiago | San Carlos de Apoquindo | 14,118 |
Universidad de Chile | Santiago | Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos | 48,665 |
Universidad de Concepción | Concepción | Alcaldesa Ester Roa Rebolledo | 30,448 |
Personnel and kits
Managerial changes
Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment |
O'Higgins | Marco Antonio Figueroa | End of contract | 1 December 2019 | Pre-season | Patricio Graff | 11 December 2019 |
Curicó Unido | Hugo Vilches | Sacked | 3 December 2019 | Pre-season | Nicolás Larcamón | 5 December 2019 |
Universidad Católica | Gustavo Quinteros | Signed by Tijuana | 4 December 2019 | Pre-season | Ariel Holan | 12 December 2019 |
Unión La Calera | Walter Coyette | Resigned | 5 December 2019 | Pre-season | Juan Pablo Vojvoda | 29 December 2019 |
Universidad de Concepción | Francisco Bozán | End of contract | 10 December 2019 | Pre-season | Eduardo Acevedo | 28 December 2019 |
Coquimbo Unido | Patricio Graff | Signed by O'Higgins | 11 December 2018 | Pre-season | Germán Corengia | 18 December 2019 |
Audax Italiano | Juan José Ribera | Mutual consent | 12 December 2019 | Pre-season | Francisco Meneghini | 16 December 2019 |
Colo-Colo | Mario Salas | Sacked | 25 February 2020 | 14th | Gualberto Jara | 25 February 2020 |
Deportes Antofagasta | Juan Manuel Azconzábal | Signed by Unión de Santa Fe | 30 June 2020 | 5th | Héctor Almandoz | 18 July 2020 |
Standings
Results
Top goalscorers
Rank | Name | Club | Goals |
1 | Roberto Gutiérrez | O'Higgins | 5 |
1 | Joaquín Larrivey | Universidad de Chile | 5 |
1 | Cecilio Waterman | Universidad de Concepción | 5 |
1 | Fernando Zampedri | Universidad Católica | 5 |
5 | Pablo Aránguiz | Universidad de Chile | 4 |
5 | Luciano Aued | Universidad Católica | 4 |
5 | Eduard Bello | Deportes Antofagasta | 4 |
5 | Misael Dávila | Unión Española | 4 |
5 | Álvaro Ramos | Deportes Iquique | 4 |
5 | Leonardo Valencia | Colo-Colo | 4 |
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Relegation
Weighted table
For this season, a weighted table will be elaborated by computing an average of the points earned per game over this season and the previous one, with the average of points earned in the 2019 season weighted by 60% and the average of points earned in the 2020 season weighted by 40%. Promoted teams will only have their points in the 2020 season averaged, without weighting. The team placed last in this table at the end of the season will be relegated, while the team placed second-to-last will qualify for the relegation play-off.Team | Relegation | ||||||||
1 | Universidad Católica | 53 | 24 | 19 | 7 | ' | - | ||
2 | Unión La Calera | 37 | 25 | 16 | 7 | ' | - | ||
3 | Palestino | 38 | 24 | 12 | 7 | ' | - | ||
4 | Curicó Unido | 26 | 24 | 16 | 7 | ' | - | ||
5 | Audax Italiano | 34 | 24 | 11 | 7 | ' | - | ||
6 | Huachipato | 34 | 24 | 11 | 7 | ' | - | ||
7 | Unión Española | 34 | 25 | 11 | 7 | ' | - | ||
8 | Colo-Colo | 40 | 24 | 7 | 7 | ' | - | ||
9 | Universidad de Chile | 24 | 24 | 14 | 7 | ' | - | ||
10 | Deportes Antofagasta | 27 | 24 | 12 | 7 | ' | - | ||
11 | Cobresal | 34 | 25 | 9 | 8 | ' | - | ||
12 | Everton | 29 | 24 | 10 | 8 | ' | - | ||
13 | Coquimbo Unido | 34 | 24 | 4 | 6 | ' | - | ||
14 | O'Higgins | 34 | 24 | 4 | 7 | ' | - | ||
15 | Deportes Iquique | 25 | 25 | 8 | 8 | ' | - | ||
16 | 23 | 24 | 5 | 8 | ' | - | |||
17 | Santiago Wanderers | — | — | — | 4 | 7 | ' | ||
18 | Deportes La Serena | — | — | — | 4 | 8 | ' | Relegation to Primera B |
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