2009 Categoría Primera A season

Copa Mustang

Season	2009
Champions	Apertura: Once Caldas (3rd title) Finalización: Independiente Medellín (5th title)
Relegated	Deportivo Pasto
Copa Libertadores	Once Caldas Independiente Medellín Junior
Copa Sudamericana	Deportes Tolima Atlético Huila
Matches played	376
Goals scored	971 (2.58 per match)
Top goalscorer	Apertura: Teófilo Gutiérrez (16 goals) Finalización: Jackson Martínez (18 goals) Season: Teófilo Gutiérrez (30 goals)
← 2008 2010 →

The 2009 Copa Mustang was the 62nd season of Colombia's top-flight football league, the Categoría Primera A. The season is divided into two championships; Torneo Apertura and Torneo Finalización. Each tournament crowned a national champion and qualified to the 2010 Copa Libertadores.

Teams

América

Atlético Huila

Independiente Medellín

Boyacá Chicó

Cúcuta Deportivo

Deportivo Cali

Deportivo Pasto

Envigado

Junior

Bogotá

Real Cartagena

Atlético Nacional

Deportes Quindío

Deportes Tolima

Deportivo Pereira

Once Caldas

Bogotá teams:
La Equidad
Millonarios
Santa Fe

Locations of the 2009 Primera A teams

Team	City	Stadium
América	Cali	Pascual Guerrero
Atlético Huila	Neiva	Guillermo Plazas Alcid
Atlético Nacional	Medellín	Atanasio Girardot
Boyacá Chicó	Tunja	La Independencia
Cúcuta Deportivo	Cúcuta	General Santander
Deportes Quindío	Armenia	Centenario
Deportes Tolima	Ibagué	Manuel Murillo Toro
Deportivo Cali	Cali	Deportivo Cali
Deportivo Pasto	Pasto	Departamental Libertad
Deportivo Pereira	Pereira	Hernán Ramírez Villegas
Envigado	Envigado	Polideportivo Sur
Independiente Medellín	Medellín	Atanasio Girardot
Junior	Barranquilla	Metropolitano
La Equidad	Bogotá	Metropolitano de Techo
Millonarios	Bogotá	El Campín
Once Caldas	Manizales	Palogrande
Real Cartagena	Cartagena	Jaime Morón León
Santa Fe	Bogotá	El Campín

Torneo Apertura

The Torneo Apertura began on February 6 and ended on June 28. Once Caldas won the tournament for their 3rd national title.

First stage

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Deportes Tolima	18	10	2	6	21	16	+5	32	Cuadrangular Semifinals
2	Junior	18	9	4	5	30	18	+12	31
3	Cúcuta Deportivo	18	9	4	5	16	14	+2	31
4	Boyacá Chicó	18	8	6	4	24	22	+2	30
5	Deportivo Cali	18	8	5	5	23	17	+6	29
6	La Equidad	18	8	5	5	20	18	+2	29
7	Envigado	18	8	5	5	22	24	−2	29
8	Once Caldas	18	7	7	4	23	14	+9	28
9	Deportes Quindío	18	7	4	7	23	23	0	25
10	Real Cartagena	18	7	4	7	23	24	−1	25
11	América	18	7	3	8	24	21	+3	24
12	Deportivo Pereira	18	7	3	8	26	25	+1	24
13	Atlético Huila	18	7	3	8	21	26	−5	24
14	Santa Fe	18	5	6	7	20	25	−5	21
15	Millonarios	18	3	8	7	16	20	−4	17
16	Deportivo Pasto	18	4	5	9	12	17	−5	17
17	Atlético Nacional	18	3	7	8	16	25	−9	16
18	Independiente Medellín	18	2	5	11	18	29	−11	11

Updated to games played on May 17, 2009
Source: ^[1]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(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.

Results

Home \ Away1

AMÉ

HUI

NAC

BOY

CUC

QUI

TOL

CAL

PAS

PER

ENV

IND

JUN

EQU

MIL

OCA

RCA

SFE

América

2–3

1–1

2–1

3–1

0–1

1–0

4–0

3–0

1–1

Atlético Huila

3–3

0–1

1–2

0–2

1–0

2–0

2–1

0–0

3–1

Atlético Nacional

0–2

2–1

0–1

1–2

1–1

1–1

0–0

1–0

0–2

Boyacá Chicó

4–0

2–2

1–1

1–1

2–0

3–2

0–0

1–0

1–0

Cúcuta Deportivo

2–2

2–0

1–0

1–0

1–0

0–0

0–0

2–0

2–1

Deportes Quindío

2–0

0–2

2–0

0–1

1–1

0–1

0–2

0–1

2–1

Deportes Tolima

0–1

2–1

2–0

1–0

1–0

1–0

3–1

2–1

2–0

Deportivo Cali

1–1

0–0

0–1

3–1

2–1

3–0

2–1

2–1

2–2

Deportivo Pasto

1–0

1–1

0–1

0–1

1–0

0–0

3–0

0–1

0–0

Deportivo Pereira

3–1

4–0

0–1

2–0

1–0

4–2

1–3

3–5

0–1

Envigado

2–0

1–1

1–0

1–0

3–3

2–1

3–2

1–0

1–1

Independiente Medellín

1–3

2–1

1–2

1–4

1–1

3–0

1–1

1–1

2–2

Junior

4–0

3–0

4–1

2–0

2–1

1–1

2–1

0–2

3–1

La Equidad

3–0

0–0

1–0

2–1

1–3

1–0

1–1

0–0

1–0

Millonarios

3–1

0–1

1–0

1–1

1–0

2–3

0–1

1–1

1–1

Once Caldas

2–0

2–1

1–1

0–0

1–0

1–1

2–3

3–0

3–0

Real Cartagena

1–0

1–0

6–3

2–2

2–1

3–1

2–1

0–2

0–0

Santa Fe

1–0

3–1

1–1

2–3

1–0

2–1

1–1

1–1

1–0

Updated to games played on May 17, 2009
Source: ^[1]
1The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Cuadrangular semifinals

The second stage of the Torneo Apertura was a quadrangular semifinal. The eight teams qualified from the first stage were placed into two groups of four. The top-two seeded teams were placed into separate groups, while the other qualified teams were pooled into odd and even seeds and placed into separate groups. Each group played against each other in a double round-robin format. The top team from each group will play each other in the finals.

Group A

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Once Caldas (A)	6	3	1	2	11	10	+1	10
2	La Equidad	6	2	3	1	5	4	+1	9
3	Deportes Tolima	6	2	2	2	4	4	0	8
4	Boyacá Chicó	6	1	2	3	4	6	−2	5

Updated to games played on June 21, 2009
Source: ^[1]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(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.

Results

Home \ Away1	BOY	TOL	EQU	OCA
Boyacá Chicó		0–0	1–0	2–3
Deportes Tolima	1–0		0–0	4–1
La Equidad	0–0	1–0		1–1
Once Caldas	2–1	2–0	2–3

Updated to games played on June 21, 2009
Source: ^[1]
1The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Group B

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Junior (A)	6	2	3	1	11	6	+5	9
2	Deportivo Cali	6	2	3	1	8	7	+1	9
3	Cúcuta Deportivo	6	1	3	2	6	9	−3	6
4	Envigado	6	1	3	2	5	8	−3	6

Updated to games played on June 21, 2009
Source: ^[1]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(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.

Results

Home \ Away1	CUC	CAL	ENV	JUN
Cúcuta Deportivo		0–1	1–1	1–1
Deportivo Cali	1–2		2–1	2–2
Envigado	2–2	0–0		1–0
Junior	3–0	2–2	3–0

Updated to games played on June 21, 2009
Source: ^[1]
1The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Finals

First leg

June 24, 2009 20:00 (UTC-5)	Once Caldas	2–1	Junior	Estadio Palogrande, Manizales
	Romero  26' Fano  72'	Report	Hernández  78'

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Second leg

June 28, 2009 17:30 (UTC-5)	Junior	1–3	Once Caldas	Estadio Metropolitano, Barranquilla
	Palacio  29'	Report	Henriquez  16' Sinisterra  42' Pérez  72'

Copa Mustang 2009 I Champion
Once Caldas 3rd Title

Top-five goalscorers

Pos	Name	Club	Goals
1	Teófilo Gutiérrez	Junior	16
2	Johan Fano	Once Caldas	13
3	Pablo Batalla	Deportivo Cali	10
	Roberto Gamarra	Cúcuta Deportivo	10
5	Wilson Carpintero	La Equidad	9
	Adrián Ramos	América	9

Torneo Finalización

The Torneo Finalización began on June 10 and is scheduled to end in December.

First stage

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Independiente Medellín	18	12	2	4	29	18	+11	38	Cuadrangular Semifinals
2	Santa Fe	18	8	6	4	31	24	+7	30
3	Atlético Huila	18	8	6	4	27	24	+3	30
4	Deportivo Pereira	18	7	8	3	21	9	+12	29
5	Deportes Tolima	18	8	5	5	25	23	+2	29
6	Junior	18	8	3	7	35	25	+10	27
7	Atlético Nacional	18	6	9	3	21	19	+2	27
8	Real Cartagena	18	7	6	5	30	30	0	27
9	Millonarios	18	6	8	4	24	20	+4	26
10	Deportivo Pasto	18	7	5	6	24	25	−1	26
11	Boyacá Chicó	18	6	6	6	32	31	+1	24
12	Deportivo Cali	18	6	4	8	30	32	−2	22
13	Deportes Quindío	18	6	3	9	22	31	−9	21
14	Cúcuta Deportivo	18	4	6	8	15	16	−1	18
15	La Equidad	18	2	11	5	17	24	−7	17
16	Once Caldas	18	4	5	9	23	35	−12	17
17	América	18	1	10	7	20	29	−9	13
18	Envigado	18	1	7	10	32	43	−11	10

Updated to games played on November 15, 2009
Source: ^[1]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(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.

Cuadrangular semifinals

The second stage of the 2009 Copa Mustang II is a quadrangular semifinal. The eight teams qualified teams from the first stage were placed into two groups of four. The top-two seeded teams were placed into separate groups, while the other qualified teams were pooled into odd and even seeds and placed into separate groups. Each group played against each other in a double round-robin format. The top team from each group will play each other in the finals.

Group A

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Independiente Medellín (A)	6	4	2	0	12	6	+6	14
2	Junior	6	2	3	1	7	5	+2	9
3	Deportivo Pereira	6	1	2	3	9	11	−2	5
4	Real Cartagena	6	1	1	4	5	11	−6	4

Updated to games played on December 13, 2009
Source: ^[1]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(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.

Results

Home \ Away1	PER	IND	JUN	RCA
Deportivo Pereira		1–2	1–2	2–1
Independiente Medellín	2–2		0–0	2–0
Junior	2–2	1–2		2–0
Real Cartagena	2–1	2–4	0–0

Source: ^[1]
1The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Group B

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Atlético Huila (A)	6	3	2	1	8	5	+3	11
2	Atlético Nacional	6	3	1	2	10	7	+3	10
3	Santa Fe	6	2	1	3	6	11	−5	7
4	Deportes Tolima	6	1	2	3	9	10	−1	5

Updated to games played on December 13, 2009
Source: ^[1]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(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.

Results

Home \ Away1	HUI	NAC	TOL	SFE
Atlético Huila		1–0	1–1	4–1
Atlético Nacional	0–1		2–1	3–0
Deportes Tolima	1–1	3–4		1–2
Santa Fe	2–0	1–1	0–2

Source: ^[1]
1The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Finals

First leg

December 16, 2009 20:15 (UTC-5)	Atlético Huila	0 – 1	Independiente Medellín	Guillermo Plazas Alcid, Neiva Referee: Hernando Buitrago
		Report	Martínez  84'

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Second leg

December 20, 2009 18:00 (UTC-5)	Independiente Medellín	2 – 2	Atlético Huila	Estadio Atanasio Girardot, Medellín Referee: Óscar Ruiz
	Martínez  68' Mosquera  72'	Report	Maturana  43' Ochoa  83'

Copa Mustang 2009 II Champion
Independiente Medellín 5th Title

Top-five goalscorers

Pos	Name	Club	Goals
1	Jackson Martínez	Independiente Medellín	18
2	Teófilo Gutiérrez	Junior	14
3	Giovanni Moreno	Atlético Nacional	13
4	Iván Velásquez	Atlético Huila	11
5	Sergio Herrera	Deportivo Cali	10

Relegation

Relegation was determined by an average of the points obtained in the First Stages of the past six tournaments (three seasons). For the purposes of completing the relegation table, the 2007 and 2008 numbers of the 2008 Primera B champion (Real Cartagena) will be the same as the team that finished 16th in this relegation table.

Pos Team Pts GP Avg 1 Atlético Nacional 165 108 1.527 2 Boyacá Chicó 163 108 1.509 3 Deportes Tolima 162 108 1.500 4 Independiente Medellín 161 108 1.490 5 Deportivo Cali 158 108 1.462 6 Junior 157 108 1.453 7 La Equidad 157 108 1.453 8 Cúcuta Deportivo 154 108 1.425 9 Santa Fe 150 108 1.388 10 Millonarios 145 108 1.342 11 América 145 108 1.342 12 Once Caldas 138 108 1.277 13 Atlético Huila 137 108 1.268 14 Deportes Quindío 136 108 1.259 15 Envigado 135 108 1.250 16 Real Cartagena 135 108 1.250 17 Deportivo Pereira 133 108 1.231 18 Deportivo Pasto 131 108 1.212 Updated as of games played on November 15, 2009. Source:[1]

Playoff match Relegated to the Primera B

Relegation/promotion playoff

By finishing 17th in the relegation table, Deportivo Pereira played a playoff against the 2009 Primera B runner-up Atlético Bucaramanga. The team that accumulated the most points over two legs will play in the Primera A for the 2010 season. If there is a tie in points, goal difference would be taken into account, followed by a penalty shootout. Atlético Bucaramanga host the first leg.

Team #1	Points	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Deportivo Pereira	6–0	Atlético Bucaramanga	2–1	3–2

Aggregate table

The aggregate table is the sum of all points and results throughout the entire season, including Cuadrangulares and Finals. This table determined the remaining berths for the Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Junior	50	21	13	16	85	59	+26	76	2010 Copa Libertadores First Stage
2	Deportes Tolima	48	21	11	16	59	53	+6	74	2010 Copa Sudamericana Second Stage
3	Independiente Medellín	44	19	10	15	62	55	+7	67	2010 Copa Libertadores Second Stage 1
4	Atlético Huila	44	18	12	14	58	58	0	66	2010 Copa Sudamericana First Stage
5	Once Caldas	44	16	13	15	62	61	+1	61	2010 Copa Libertadores Second Stage 1
6	Deportivo Cali	42	16	12	14	61	56	+5	60
7	Boyacá Chicó	42	15	14	13	60	59	+1	59
8	Deportivo Pereira	42	15	13	14	56	45	+11	58
9	Santa Fe	42	15	13	14	57	60	−3	58	2010 Copa Sudamericana First Stage 2
10	Real Cartagena	42	15	11	16	58	65	−7	56
11	La Equidad	42	12	19	11	42	46	−4	55
12	Atlético Nacional	42	12	17	13	47	51	−4	53
13	Cúcuta Deportivo	42	13	13	16	37	43	−6	52
14	Envigado	42	11	15	16	62	74	−12	48
15	Deportes Quindío	36	13	7	16	45	54	−9	46
16	Millonarios	36	9	16	11	40	40	0	43
17	Deportivo Pasto	36	11	10	15	36	42	−6	43
18	América	36	8	13	15	44	50	−6	37

Updated to games played on December 20, 2009
Source: ^[1]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
1. Once Caldas and Independiente Medellín are qualified as the two tournament champions.
2. As 2009 Copa Colombia champion.
(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.

See also

• Categoría Primera A
• 2009 Copa Colombia

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m} Andrés, Juan Pablo; Ballesteros, Frank (January 29, 2010). "Colombia 2009". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/col09.html. Retrieved September 27, 2010. 

External links

• Copa Mustang Official Page
• Dimayor Official Page