Chile - 2017 Campeonato Nacional de Transición

The Chilean Primera División (First Division) is the top tier league of the Chilean football league system. It is organized by the ANFP. The league is known as the Campeonato Scotiabank for sponsorship reasons.

The 2017 Campeonato Nacional season, known as Campeonato Nacional de Transición Scotiabank 2017 for sponsorship purposes, was the 87th season of top-flight football in Chile. Colo-Colo won their thirty-second title following a 3–0 away win at Huachipato on 9 December. Universidad de Chile were the defending champions.

Starting in 2017, the ANFP approved a change from the European calendar season (July-May) that had been used since 2013 to a calendar year season (February-December). The year calendar would have been implemented for the 2017 season, however, it was postponed for one year. In order to manage this transition, the 2017 Clausura tournament, part of the 2016–17 season, was followed up by a single championship in the second semester of the year. The 2018 season will be played as a single tournament, without the Apertura-Clausura system.

Universidad Chile won Torneo Clausura 2017

Teams  

Colo Colo was the champion in the Transicion

Runners-up play off

The runners-up playoff was played between:

• Universidad de Concepción (2017 Clausura best team not already qualified for the 2018 Copa Libertadores)
• Unión Española (2017 Transición runners-up)

The winner qualified for the 2018 Copa Libertadores second stage, while the loser qualified for the 2018 Copa Sudamericana first stage. In the event that the same team ended up as runners-up of both tournaments, the playoff would not be played and that team would qualify for the Copa Libertadores. The Copa Sudamericana berth would then be awarded to the 2017 Transición best team not already qualified.

Universidad de Concepción	1–0	Unión Española

Unión Española	1–2	Universidad de Concepción

Universidad de Concepción won 3–1 on aggregate.

Relegation

Relegation is determined at the end of the season by computing an average of the number of points earned per game over the three most recent tournaments: 2016 Apertura, 2017 Clausura and 2017 Transición. The team with the lowest average qualified for the relegation playoff.

The relegation playoff was played by three teams: the last-placed in the relegation table (Santiago Wanderers), 2016–17 Primera B runners-up San Marcos de Arica, and 2017 Primera B champions Unión La Calera. The two Primera B teams played each other with the winner qualifying to the final against the Primera División team for promotion to the top flight for the 2018 season.

Semifinal

Unión La Calera	0–1	San Marcos de Arica

San Marcos de Arica	0–2	Unión La Calera

Final

Santiago Wanderers	1–0	Unión La Calera

Unión La Calera	1–0	Santiago Wanderers

(5-4 penaltys)

Union La Calera promoted and will play 2018 Primera Division

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Chile - Primera División B 2014/15

Primera División B del Fútbol Profesional Chileno (English: Chilean First Division B of Professional Football) is the second tier in the Chilean football league system, and is organized by the Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional. It was established in 1952 as Segunda División, and later renamed in 1996 to the current name. Since 1954, automatic promotion to and relegation from Primera División has been granted, although Palestino and Rangers were promoted to the top flight in the first season.

These are the teams participating in the Chilean Primera B as of 2014-15:

• Coquimbo Unido
• Curicó Unido
• Deportes Concepción
• Deportes Copiapó
• Deportes La Serena
• Deportes Temuco
• Everton
• Iberia (Los Ángeles)
• Lota Schwager (Coronel)
• Magallanes (Santiago)
• Rangers
• San Luis (Quillota)
• Santiago Morning
• Unión San Felipe

 

Source:  http://www.anfp.cl/primera-b

Chile - Primera División 2014

The Primera División del Fútbol Profesional Chileno (English: First Division of Chilean Professional Football) is the top tier league of the Chilean football league system. It is organized by the Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional (English: National Association of Professional Football) the league became known as the Campeonato Nacional Scotiabank for sponsorship reasons.

Resembling the competition system in most Latin American countries (such as Argentina and Mexico), the Chilean First Division is currently played by 18 teams, which play two single-round tournaments per season, with the two tournaments known as Apertura and Clausura. Chile has used this format for most of the 21st century.

From 2002 to 2012, except in 2010, a system similar to that used in Mexico was employed. The Apertura tournament was played in the first half of the calendar year (usually held between January and June), followed by the Clausura tournament (between July and December). For each Apertura and Clausura tournament, a single round-robin tournament, called the regular phase, was played first. Afterwards, a post-season play-off began, where the best eight teams in each single-round tournament eliminated each other in the knockout tournament format in two-leg aggregate score. In the 2010 season, only one championship was held due to the devastating earthquake that hit the country that February.

In 2013, Chile changed to a season spanning two calendar years. As a result, a transitional 2013 season was held in the first half of the calendar year, with only one championship awarded. With the new format beginning in 2013–14, the Apertura is now contested in the second half of the calendar year, with the Clausura following in the first half of the next calendar year. The new format retains the single round-robin schedule of the recent past, but has no play-offs; this resembles the current Argentine season structure.

The Chilean League of Football has never been regular in terms of their tournament systems. Traditionally, the League had consisted in one annual, double round-robin tournament, with the addition of a Cup, but the number of contesting teams and League format has varied throughout the years, until the adoption of the Mexican system in 2002.

Currently, the two teams with the worst scores in the complete season (including Apertura and Clausura, but excluding the play-off stage), are relegated to Primera B, and replaced by the Champions and Runners-up of this Division. There is also a Relegation Playoff Tournament, played in a home-and-away basis by the teams that finish 15º and 16° in the First Division against the teams that finish 3° and 4° in the Primera B.

Source: http://www.anfp.cl