2020 Primera B de Chile

The 2020 Primera B de Chile, also known as Campeonato Juegaenlinea.com 2020, was the 66th season of the Primera B de Chile, Chile's second-tier football league. The competition began on 22 February 2020 and ended on 7 February 2021. Ñublense were the champions, winning their second Primera B title and earning promotion to the Chilean Primera División for the following season.

Primera B de Chile
Season2020
Dates22 February 2020 – 7 February 2021
ChampionsÑublense (2nd title)
PromotedÑublense
Deportes Melipilla
RelegatedDeportes Valdivia
Matches played218
Goals scored543 (2.49 per match)
Top goalscorerGonzalo Sosa
(17 goals)
Biggest home winCobreloa 6–0 Dep. Valdivia
(6 January 2021)
Barnechea 7–1 Rangers
(17 January 2021)
Biggest away winS. Morning 0–4 U. San Felipe
(20 September 2020)
Dep. Valdivia 0–4 Dep. Temuco
(22 December 2020)
Highest scoringMagallanes 5–5 Rangers
(23 September 2020)
← 2019
2021 →

The competition was suspended from 18 March to 29 August 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Format

The tournament was played by 15 teams, 14 returning from the previous season and the Segunda División Profesional champions San Marcos de Arica. The 15 teams played each other twice (once at home and once away) for a total of 28 matches, with one team having a bye day in each round. The team that finished in first place at the end of the round-robin tournament earned promotion to the Campeonato Nacional for the 2021 season as Primera B champions. Meanwhile, the teams finishing from second to sixth place played a playoff tournament for the second promotion berth, with the season runners-up having a bye to the final.

Since no teams were relegated at the end of the previous season, a weighted table that considered the performance of teams in the previous season as well as the current one was elaborated to decide relegation. The team finishing in bottom place of this table at the end of the season was relegated to the Segunda División Profesional.[1][2]

Teams

Stadia and locations
Locations of the 2020 Primera B de Chile teams
Club City Stadium Capacity
Barnechea Santiago (Lo Barnechea) Municipal de Lo Barnechea 3,000
Cobreloa Calama Zorros del Desierto 12,346
Deportes Copiapó Copiapó Luis Valenzuela Hermosilla 8,000
Deportes Melipilla Melipilla Municipal Roberto Bravo Santibáñez 6,000
Deportes Puerto Montt Puerto Montt Chinquihue 10,000
Deportes Santa Cruz Santa Cruz Joaquín Muñoz García 5,000
Deportes Temuco Temuco Germán Becker 18,413
Deportes Valdivia Valdivia Parque Municipal 5,397
Magallanes Santiago (San Bernardo) Municipal Luis Navarro Avilés 3,500
Ñublense Chillán Municipal Nelson Oyarzún Arenas 12,000
Rangers Talca Fiscal de Talca 8,200
San Luis Quillota Lucio Fariña Fernández 7,680
San Marcos de Arica Arica Carlos Dittborn 9,746
Santiago Morning Santiago (La Pintana) Municipal de La Pintana 6,000
Unión San Felipe San Felipe Municipal de San Felipe 12,000

Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

On 16 March 2020, the Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional (ANFP) announced the suspension of the Primera B as well as the rest of its tournaments due to the COVID-19 pandemic, starting from 18 March 2020.[3]

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.[4] 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.[5]

On 19 August, in a press conference held at Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos in Santiago, Chilean President Sebastián Piñera confirmed 29 August as the date of resumption of both the first and second tier seasons, with games to be played behind closed doors. The competition eventually resumed that day, with its fifth round of matches.[6]

Standings
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Ñublense (C, P) 28 15 5 8 51 33 +18 50 Promotion to Primera División
2 Unión San Felipe 28 12 10 6 37 25 +12 46 Qualification for Promotion playoff final
3 Rangers 28 12 9 7 43 39 +4 45 Qualification for Promotion playoff quarter-finals
4 Deportes Puerto Montt 28 11 9 8 36 28 +8 42
5 Deportes Melipilla (P) 28 11 9 8 30 23 +7 42
6 Deportes Temuco 28 11 8 9 35 34 +1 41
7 San Marcos de Arica 28 12 5 11 27 29 −2 41
8 Magallanes 28 9 13 6 31 25 +6 40
9 Deportes Copiapó 28 10 9 9 48 46 +2 39
10 Cobreloa 28 9 9 10 37 33 +4 36
11 San Luis 28 8 9 11 31 35 −4 33
12 Santiago Morning 28 7 10 11 29 39 −10 31
13 Barnechea 28 7 9 12 39 45 −6 30
14 Deportes Valdivia 28 6 10 12 34 48 −14 28
15 Deportes Santa Cruz 28 6 4 18 28 54 −26 22
Source: ANFP, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) Goal difference, 3) Matches won, 4) Goals for, 5) Away goals for, 6) Red cards, 7) Yellow cards, 8) Drawing of lots, 9) Playoff game (only if needed to decide championship).
If needed to decide championship between two teams: 2) Playoff game.
(C) Champion; (P) Promoted.

Results
Home \ Away BAR COB CDC MEL DPM DSC TEM VAL MAG ÑUB RAN SL SMA SM USF
Barnechea — 2–2 3–1 0–1 1–1 2–3 1–1 3–3 2–1 2–4 7–1 2–0 2–1 1–3 1–0
Cobreloa 2–0 — 1–1 0–0 1–1 0–1 1–0 6–0 0–1 4–2 3–0 0–0 3–1 2–3 0–2
Deportes Copiapó 2–2 1–2 — 4–1 1–3 2–0 2–3 1–0 4–4 1–0 1–1 1–0 3–1 4–1 1–2
Deportes Melipilla 3–1 1–1 1–2 — 2–0 0–0 0–2 2–0 0–0 1–0 1–0 3–0 0–1 1–1 0–1
Deportes Puerto Montt 1–1 1–0 1–1 0–0 — 4–1 2–2 3–2 1–0 3–2 0–0 5–0 3–0 0–0 1–0
Deportes Santa Cruz 0–1 4–1 1–4 2–4 0–1 — 0–2 3–2 0–3 1–3 0–2 1–3 0–2 2–1 2–1
Deportes Temuco 3–1 1–0 0–0 0–3 2–1 2–1 — 0–0 1–1 1–2 0–0 0–1 2–1 0–1 1–0
Deportes Valdivia 1–1 1–1 4–2 0–1 1–0 1–0 0–4 — 1–0 2–2 0–1 1–1 2–1 2–1 2–2
Magallanes 1–1 1–1 1–1 0–0 1–0 2–0 1–0 1–1 — 0–0 5–5 1–0 0–0 1–0 1–1
Ñublense 1–0 3–2 5–0 4–0 2–0 2–2 1–2 2–1 2–1 — 4–2 2–1 1–0 2–1 2–3
Rangers 2–1 3–1 1–1 1–0 3–1 4–1 5–1 3–2 1–0 1–0 — 1–2 1–2 1–0 2–2
San Luis 4–1 0–1 2–2 1–1 2–0 0–0 3–0 3–2 0–1 0–2 1–1 — 1–2 1–1 1–2
San Marcos de Arica 1–0 3–1 2–3 1–0 0–0 2–1 1–0 1–1 1–0 0–0 0–0 0–2 — 0–1 2–1
Santiago Morning 0–0 0–1 2–1 0–3 1–2 2–1 4–4 1–1 1–1 2–1 1–1 1–1 0–1 — 0–4
Unión San Felipe 2–0 0–0 2–1 1–1 2–1 1–1 1–1 2–1 1–2 0–0 2–0 1–1 1–0 0–0 —
Source: ANFP, Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Promotion playoff
  Quarter-finals     Semi-final     Final
                           
  3 Rangers 2  
  6 Deportes Temuco 0         2 Unión San Felipe 1 (1)
        3 Rangers 1     5 Deportes Melipilla (p) 1 (3)
        5 Deportes Melipilla 3  
  4 Deportes Puerto Montt 2    
  5 Deportes Melipilla 3  

Quarter-finals
Deportes Melipilla2–2Deportes Puerto Montt
 Report
  • Lemmo  57'
  • Bustamante  66'
Attendance: 0
Referee: Diego Flores
Deportes Puerto Montt0–1Deportes Melipilla
Report
  • Guerreño  33'
Attendance: 0
Referee: Benjamín Saravia

Deportes Melipilla won 3–2 on aggregate and advanced to the semi-final.

Deportes Temuco0–1Rangers
Report
Attendance: 0
Referee: Juan Lara
Rangers1–0Deportes Temuco
 Report
Attendance: 0
Referee: Claudio Cevasco

Rangers won 2–0 on aggregate and advanced to the semi-final.

Semi-final
Deportes Melipilla1–1Rangers
 Report
Attendance: 0
Referee: Héctor Jona
Rangers0–2Deportes Melipilla
Report
Attendance: 0
Referee: Rodrigo Carvajal

Deportes Melipilla won 3–1 on aggregate and advanced to the final.

Final
Deportes Melipilla0–1Unión San Felipe
Report
  • Riveros  20'
Attendance: 0
Referee: José Cabero
Unión San Felipe0–1Deportes Melipilla
  • Guerreño  31'
Penalties
 1–3
Attendance: 0
Referee: Roberto Tobar

Tied 1–1 on aggregate, Deportes Melipilla won on penalties and was promoted to the Chilean Primera División.

Top goalscorers
Rank Name Club Goals
1 Gonzalo Sosa Deportes Melipilla 17
2 Alfredo Ábalos Rangers 13
3 Leandro Garate Barnechea 12
Matías Zamora Deportes Valdivia
5 Manuel López Rangers 11
Oscar Ortega Ñublense
7 Lionel Altamirano Deportes Puerto Montt 10
Ignacio Lemmo Deportes Puerto Montt
Gabriel Tellas Cobreloa
10 Gustavo Guerreño Deportes Melipilla 9
Mathias Pinto Ñublense
Luca Pontigo Deportes Copiapó

Source: Soccerway

Relegation

For this season, a weighted table was 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 team San Marcos de Arica only had their points in the 2020 season averaged, without weighting. The team placed last in this table at the end of the season was relegated.[2]

Pos Team 2019
Pts		 2019
Pld		 2019
WAvg		 2020
Pts		 2020
Pld		 2020
WAvg		 Total
WAvg		 Relegation
1 Ñublense 42270.93350280.7141.647
2 Unión San Felipe 39270.86746280.6571.524
3 Deportes Melipilla 39260.942280.61.5
4 San Marcos de Arica ———41281.4641.464
5 Deportes Copiapó 38260.87739280.5571.434
6 Deportes Temuco 38270.84441280.5861.43
7 Deportes Puerto Montt 37270.82242280.61.422
8 Cobreloa 39260.936280.5141.414
9 Barnechea 40270.88930280.4291.318
10 Rangers 28270.62245280.6431.265
11 Santiago Morning 34260.78531280.4431.228
12 Magallanes 25260.57740280.5711.148
13 Deportes Santa Cruz 37270.82222280.3141.136
14 San Luis 27260.62333280.4711.094
15 Deportes Valdivia (R) 19270.42228280.40.822 Relegation to Segunda División Profesional

Source: ANFP

See also

References
  1. "Oficial: Así será el sistema de campeonato este 2020" (in Spanish). Primera B Chile. 31 December 2019. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  2. "Bases Campeonato Nacional de Primera B Temporada 2020" (PDF) (in Spanish). ANFP. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  3. "Se suspende el campeonato: la ANFP extrema medidas por el coronavirus" (in Spanish). La Tercera. 16 March 2020.
  4. "Los clubes chilenos aprueban que el fútbol profesional vuelva el 31 de julio" (in Spanish). La Tercera. 8 June 2020.
  5. "¿Cuándo es el pitazo inicial en el fútbol chileno? Las fechas y obligaciones que siguen al retorno a los entrenamientos" (in Spanish). La Tercera. 13 July 2020. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  6. "Piñera anuncia el regreso del fútbol para el sábado 29 de agosto" (in Spanish). La Tercera. 19 August 2020. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
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