2019 Primera B de Chile

Primera B de Chile
Season	2019
Dates	15 February – 29 November 2019
Champions	Santiago Wanderers (3rd title)
Promoted	Santiago Wanderers; Deportes La Serena
Matches played	213
Goals scored	501 (2.35 per match)
Top goalscorer	Mathías Pinto; (14 goals)
Biggest home win	Deportes Valdivia 4–0 Santa Cruz; (17 February); Melipilla 4–0 La Serena; (28 April); Unión San Felipe 4–0 Rangers; (10 August); S. Wanderers 5–1 Cobreloa; (13 October); La Serena 4–0 Unión San Felipe; (19 October)
Biggest away win	Deportes Valdivia 0–5 Puerto Montt; (12 May)
Highest scoring	Ñublense 3–3 Deportes Valdivia; (10 March); S. Wanderers 5–1 Cobreloa; (13 October)
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The 2019 Primera B de Chile (known as Campeonato As.com 2019 for sponsoring purposes) was the 66th season of Chile's second-tier football league. The competition began on 15 February 2019 and was scheduled to end in December 2019.^[1]

Due to the 2019 Chilean protests, the competition was suspended since mid-October with three matches as well as the promotion play-offs still left. After a failed attempt to resume normal activity,^[2] on 29 November 2019, ANFP's Council of Presidents voted to conclude the season. Originally it was decided that no teams would be either promoted or relegated this season,^[3] however, on 6 December 2019 ANFP decided to declare Santiago Wanderers, who were leading the competition at the time of the suspension, as champions and promoted to the Primera División, as well as allowing another team to be promoted through a play-off.^[4] No teams were relegated to the Segunda División Profesional this season.

Format

The tournament was played by 16 teams, under the same format used in the previous edition: the 16 teams would play each other twice (once at home and once away), for a total of 30 matches. The team that finished in first place at the end of the round-robin tournament earned promotion to the Campeonato Nacional for the 2020 season as Primera B champions. Meanwhile, the teams finishing from second to tenth place will play a playoff tournament for the second promotion berth, with the season runners-up having a bye to the final. The team finishing in bottom place at the end of the season would have been relegated to the Segunda División Profesional.

Teams

Stadia and locations

Deportes Puerto Montt

Locations of the 2019 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 La Serena	La Serena	La Portada	18,243
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
Santiago Morning	Santiago (La Pintana)	Municipal de La Pintana	6,000
Santiago Wanderers	Valparaíso	Elías Figueroa Brander	20,575
Unión San Felipe	San Felipe	Municipal de San Felipe	12,000

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Santiago Wanderers (C, P)	27	13	7	7	40	26	14	46	Promotion to Primera División
2	Deportes La Serena (P)	27	12	7	8	35	27	8	43	Qualification for Promotion final
3	Ñublense	27	11	9	7	38	32	6	42	Qualification for Promotion playoff quarterfinals
4	Barnechea	27	12	4	11	26	27	−1	40
5	Cobreloa	26	10	9	7	40	33	7	39
6	Deportes Melipilla	26	10	9	7	33	26	7	39
7	Unión San Felipe	27	11	6	10	30	30	0	39
8	Deportes Temuco	27	9	11	7	31	24	7	38
9	Deportes Copiapó	26	9	11	6	28	21	7	38
10	Deportes Puerto Montt	27	9	10	8	36	29	7	37
11	Deportes Santa Cruz	27	10	7	10	32	37	−5	37
12	Santiago Morning	26	9	7	10	26	32	−6	34
13	Rangers	27	6	10	11	28	36	−8	28
14	San Luis	26	5	12	9	25	37	−12	27
15	Magallanes	26	5	10	11	23	33	−10	25
16	Deportes Valdivia	27	4	7	16	30	51	−21	19

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) Champions; (P) Promoted

Results

Home \ Away	BAR	COB	CDC	DLS	MEL	DPM	DSC	TEM	VAL	MAG	ÑUB	RAN	SL	SM	SW	USF
Barnechea	—	0–1	2–0	0–2	0–1	2–1	1–2	1–0	—	0–1	1–2	2–2	3–2	0–0	2–1	2–0
Cobreloa	—	—	0–0	3–1	0–1	2–1	—	2–2	2–1	0–0	1–2	2–2	3–0	3–0	4–1	1–0
Deportes Copiapó	3–0	2–1	—	1–1	1–3	—	3–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	—	0–1
Deportes La Serena	1–0	1–2	0–0	—	—	—	1–2	3–2	2–1	1–1	0–2	2–0	2–0	2–0	0–0	4–0
Deportes Melipilla	0–0	1–1	—	4–0	—	2–0	2–2	—	2–0	0–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	3–1	2–1	0–2
Deportes Puerto Montt	3–0	1–1	2–2	1–0	1–3	—	0–0	2–1	4–1	1–1	2–2	0–0	—	2–1	2–1	0–0
Deportes Santa Cruz	0–1	1–0	—	1–3	1–0	2–0	—	0–4	1–1	3–0	1–1	1–1	2–3	2–0	0–0	2–0
Deportes Temuco	0–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–1	—	—	4–1	2–0	1–0	3–2	0–0	0–0	0–0	—
Deportes Valdivia	2–1	2–3	1–1	0–2	1–1	0–5	4–0	0–0	—	—	2–3	1–1	4–1	1–2	0–1
Magallanes	1–2	—	3–0	—	1–2	1–1	1–1	2–0	3–2	—	0–2	0–3	0–0	1–1	0–2	0–1
Ñublense	—	3–2	2–2	1–2	2–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	3–3	2–3	—	—	0–0	0–2	0–4	3–1
Rangers	0–1	—	0–2	0–0	2–0	0–3	0–3	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–0	—	3–1	3–1	0–1	2–3
San Luis	0–2	1–1	1–1	0–3	—	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	0–1	3–2	—	—	2–2	1–1
Santiago Morning	2–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	3–2	1–0	1–3	0–0	2–0	—	1–1	—	0–2	—	2–1	3–1
Santiago Wanderers	0–0	5–1	0–3	4–1	2–1	1–1	3–1	1–0	2–0	2–1	—	0–0	—	3–1	—	1–2
Unión San Felipe	0–2	2–2	0–0	1–1	2–0	2–1	3–0	2–3	0–1	1–0	0–0	4–0	1–0	—	0–1	—

Source: ANFP, Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Promotion play-off

The promotion play-offs were played by the nine teams placed from second to tenth place in the league table at the end of the season. Deportes La Serena, as league runners-up, received a bye to the promotion final, while the remaining eight teams played a play-off for the second berth to the promotion final. For the quarter-finals, teams were paired according to their final placement in the Primera B standings, with the third-placed team facing the tenth-placed team, the fourth-placed team facing the ninth-placed one and so on. The winners advanced to the semi-finals, with the higher-seeded team advancing in case of a draw. For the semi-finals, teams were reseeded according to their average of points per match in the league season, with the teams with the higher average playing the teams with lower average. The winners advanced to the finals, with the winners of that match facing Deportes La Serena for the second promotion berth. For the semi-finals, final, and promotion final, a penalty shoot-out would decide the winners in case of a draw.^[5]^[6] All matches of the promotion play-off were played at a neutral venue, in this case Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos in Santiago.

Quarter-finals			Semi-finals			Final

6	Deportes Melipilla	2

7	Unión San Felipe	0
			5	Deportes Melipilla	1 (3)

			7	Deportes Copiapó (p)	1 (4)
4	Barnechea	1

9	Deportes Copiapó	2
						7	Deportes Copiapó	2

						9	Deportes Temuco	3
3	Ñublense	2

10	Deportes Puerto Montt	1
			3	Ñublense	0

			9	Deportes Temuco	1
5	Cobreloa	0

8	Deportes Temuco	2

Quarter-finals

11 January 2020