2007 Chilean Primera División season

Primera División

Season	2007
Champions	Apertura: Colo-Colo (26th title) Clausura: Colo-Colo (27th title)
Relegated	Deportes Puerto Montt Lota Schwager Santiago Wanderers Coquimbo Unido
2008 Copa Libertadores	Colo-Colo Universidad Católica Audax Italiano
2007 Copa Sudamericana	Audax Italiano Colo-Colo
Top goalscorer	Apertura: Humberto Suazo (18 goals) Clausura: Carlos Villanueva (20 goals)
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The 2007 Primera División del Fútbol Profesional Chileno season is the 76th season of top-flight football in Chile. The season is composed of two championship: the Torneo Apertura & Torneo Clasura.

Format

Each tournament will have a different format. The Apertura will have a double round-robin format. The team with the most points at the end will be the champion. The Clausura will consist of two stage. The first stage will be a double round-robin format. The two best teams from each group will advance to the playoffs. The playoffs will be in a single-elimation format, the winner of which will be the champion.

Torneo Apertura

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Colo-Colo	20	14	5	1	47	16	+31	47	2008 Copa Libertadores Second Stage & Copa Sudamericana Playoffs 1
2	Universidad Católica	20	14	4	2	36	14	+22	46
3	Audax Italiano	20	13	5	2	39	20	+19	44	Copa Sudamericana Playoffs
4	Huachipato	20	12	4	4	35	21	+14	40
5	Cobreloa	20	10	5	5	44	23	+21	35
6	Cobresal	20	9	5	6	31	21	+10	32
7	Ñublense	20	8	8	4	31	31	0	32
8	Unión Española	20	8	4	8	29	25	+4	28
9	Melipilla	20	8	4	8	35	34	+1	28
10	O'Higgins	20	8	3	9	30	38	−8	27
11	Deportes La Serena	20	7	5	8	31	30	+1	26
12	Everton	20	6	8	6	24	27	−3	26
13	Universidad de Chile	20	6	7	7	20	21	−1	25
14	Deportes Concepción	20	6	5	9	20	34	−14	23
15	Palestino	20	5	8	7	27	30	−3	23
16	Deportes Antofagasta	20	5	7	8	24	34	−10	22
17	Universidad de Concepción	20	4	5	11	25	33	−8	17
18	Deportes Puerto Montt	20	4	2	14	19	40	−21	14
19	Coquimbo Unido	20	4	2	14	18	40	−22	14
20	Santiago Wanderers	20	4	4	12	24	33	−9	0132
21	Lota Schwager	20	2	6	12	28	52	−24	12

Updated to games played on June 17, 2007
Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
1. Universidad Católica qualified to the 2008 Copa Libertadores since Colo-Colo also won the Clausura tournament.
2. Santiago Wanderers were deducted three points for not paying their players on time in November 2006.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Top goalscorers

Pos	Player	Team	Goals
1	Humberto Suazo	Colo-Colo	18
2	José Luis Díaz	Cobreloa	16
3	Lucas Barrios	Cobreloa	14
4	Gustavo Canales	La Serena	11
	César Díaz	Cobresal	11
	Luis Núñez	Universidad Católica	11

Copa Sudamericana playoffs

Winners qualified to the 2007 Copa Sudamericana.

July 17	Universidad Católica	0–3	Audax Italiano	Estadio San Carlos de Apoquindo, Santiago
			Villanueva  12' Medina  32' Orellana  63'

July 19	Colo-Colo	2–1	Huachipato	Estadio Sausalito, Viña del Mar
	Hernandez  10' Aceval  87'		González  8'

Torneo Clausura

First stage

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Colo-Colo	20	11	6	3	40	21	+19	39	Playoffs
2	Cobresal	20	8	8	4	31	23	+8	32
3	Palestino	20	6	6	8	27	23	+4	24
4	Deportes La Serena	20	6	4	10	25	33	−8	22
5	Santiago Wanderers	20	4	5	11	15	43	−28	17

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Universidad de Concepción	20	9	8	3	30	19	+11	35	Playoffs
2	Universidad Católica	20	10	4	6	33	21	+12	34
3	Melipilla	20	7	6	7	32	34	−2	27
4	Deportes Concepción	20	7	4	9	30	41	−11	25
5	Unión Española	20	4	5	11	26	36	−10	17

Group 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Audax Italiano	20	14	5	1	47	20	+27	47	Playoffs and 2008 Copa Libertadores First Stage 1
2	Universidad de Chile	20	13	6	1	42	21	+21	45	Playoffs
3	Cobreloa	20	8	7	5	35	29	+6	31	Play-off Match
4	Deportes Puerto Montt	20	5	6	9	18	22	−4	21
5	Everton	20	3	4	13	20	36	−16	13

Group 4

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	O'Higgins	20	9	7	4	28	23	+5	34	Playoffs
2	Ñublense	20	7	5	8	32	38	−6	26	Play-off Match
3	Deportes Antofagasta	20	6	7	7	22	21	+1	25
4	Huachipato	20	7	4	9	30	36	−6	25
5	Lota Schwager	20	4	7	9	22	28	−6	19
6	Coquimbo Unido	20	4	1	15	18	37	−19	13

Updated to games played on November 25, 2007
Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
1. Audax Italiano qualified to the 2008 Copa Libertadores as the team with the most points in the Clausura classification phase.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Playoff match

A playoff round was contested because there was a third-placed team who had more points than a second placed team. In a playoff round the third-placed team would have the home field advantage.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Cobreloa	3–1	Ñublense

Playoff stage

	Quarterfinals							Semifinals							Final
	5	Universidad Católica	5	0	5
	4	Universidad de Concepción (a)	3	2	5
								4	Universidad de Concepción	2	3	5
								1	Audax Italiano	3	1	4
	8	Cobreloa	2	0	2
	1	Audax Italiano	2	1	3
															4	Universidad de Concepción	0	0	0
														3	Colo-Colo	1	3	4
	6	O'Higgins	0	1	1
	3	Colo-Colo	5	1	6
								3	Colo-Colo	2	1	3
								2	Universidad de Chile	0	0	0
	7	Cobresal	2	1	3
	2	Universidad de Chile	4	2	6

Top goalscorers

Pos	Player	Team	Goals
1	Carlos Villanueva	Audax Italiano	20
2	Pedro Morales	Universidad de Chile	13
	Manuel Villalobos	Ñublense	13
4	Cristián Canío	Cobreloa	12
	Gabriel Vargas	Cobresal	12
5	Esteban Fuertes	Universidad Católica	11

Relegation

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Audax Italiano	40	27	10	3	86	40	+46	91
2	Colo-Colo	40	25	11	4	87	37	+50	86
3	Universidad Católica	40	24	8	8	69	35	+34	80
4	Universidad de Chile	40	19	13	8	62	42	+20	70
5	Cobreloa	40	18	12	10	79	52	+27	66
6	Huachipato	40	19	8	13	65	57	+8	65
7	Cobresal	40	17	13	10	62	44	+18	64
8	O'Higgins	40	17	10	13	58	61	−3	61
9	Ñublense	40	15	13	12	63	69	−6	58
10	Melipilla	40	15	10	15	67	68	−1	55
11	Universidad de Concepción	40	13	13	14	55	52	+3	52
12	Palestino	40	12	13	15	54	53	+1	49
13	Deportes La Serena	40	13	9	18	56	63	−7	48
14	Deportes Concepción	40	13	9	18	52	75	−23	48
15	Deportes Antofagasta	40	11	14	15	46	55	−9	47
16	Unión Española	40	12	9	19	55	61	−6	45
17	Everton	40	9	12	19	44	63	−19	39
18	Deportes Puerto Montt	40	9	8	23	37	62	−25	35	Relegation Playoffs
19	Lota Schwager	40	6	13	21	50	80	−30	31	Relegated to the Primera División B
20	Santiago Wanderers	40	8	9	23	39	76	−37	0301
21	Coquimbo Unido	40	8	3	29	36	77	−41	27

Updated to games played on November 25, 2007
Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
1. Santiago Wanderers were deducted three points for not paying their players on time in November 2006.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Relegation playoffs

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Santiago Morning	4	2	1	1	4	3	+1	7	Promoted to the Primera División
2	Deportes Puerto Montt	4	2	0	2	9	9	0	6	Relegated to the Primera División B
3	Deportes Copiapó	4	1	1	2	6	7	−1	4	Remains in the Primera División B

References

General

• Andrés, Juan Pablo (January 17, 2008). "Chile 2007". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/chile07.html. Retrieved September 11, 2010. 

External links

• Official website of the ANFP