2017 Colombian Women's Football League

Liga Águila Femenina

Season	2017
Champions	Santa Fe (1st title)
Copa Libertadores Femenina	Santa Fe
Matches played	104
Goals scored	323 (3.11 per match)
Top goalscorer	Manuela González (13 goals)
Biggest home win	Envigado 8–0 Real Santander (4 March 2017)
Biggest away win	Alianza Petrolera 1–9 Envigado (1 March 2017)
Highest scoring	Alianza Petrolera 1–9 Envigado (1 March 2017)
Highest attendance	33,327 Santa Fe v Atlético Huila
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The 2017 Colombian Women's Football League season (officially known as the 2017 Liga Águila Femenina season for sponsorship reasons) was the first season of Colombia's top-flight women's football league. The season started on 17 February and concluded on 24 June 2017.

The two-legged final was played between Atlético Huila and Santa Fe. Santa Fe were the champions after beating Atlético Huila 2–1 in the first leg and 1–0 in the second leg for a 3–1 win on aggregate score, and qualified for the 2017 Copa Libertadores Femenina.

Format

The 18 teams competed in three round-robin regional hexagonals. The top two teams in each hexagonal along with the two best third-placed teams moved on to the quarterfinals, with the winners advancing to the semifinals. The winners of each semifinal played the finals, which determined the first champions of the Women's League. All rounds in the knockout stage were played on a home-and-away basis.

Teams

18 teams took part in the competition. The teams are affiliated with DIMAYOR affiliate clubs.

Stadia and locations

Alianza Petrolera

América de Cali

Atlético Bucaramanga

Atlético Huila

Bogotá

Cortuluá

Cúcuta Deportivo

Deportes Quindío

Deportivo Pasto

Deportivo Pereira

Envigado

Patriotas

Orsomarso

Real Cartagena

Real Santander

Unión Magdalena

Bogotá teams:
Fortaleza
La Equidad
Santa Fe

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Locations of the 2017 Liga Águila Femenina teams

Hexagonal	Team	City	Stadium
A	Alianza Petrolera	Barrancabermeja	Daniel Villa Zapata
	Atlético Bucaramanga	Bucaramanga	Cancha Marte
	Envigado	Envigado	Polideportivo Sur
	Real Cartagena	Cartagena	Jaime Morón León
	Real Santander	Floridablanca	Álvaro Gómez Hurtado
	Unión Magdalena	Santa Martaa	Julia Turbay Samur
B	Atlético Huila	Neiva	Guillermo Plazas Alcid
	Cúcuta Deportivo	Cúcutab	Municipal Héctor 'El Zipa' González
	Fortaleza	Bogotáb	Municipal Héctor 'El Zipa' González
	La Equidad	Bogotá	Metropolitano de Techo
	Patriotas	Tunja	La Independencia
	Santa Fe	Bogotá	Nemesio Camacho
C	América de Cali	Cali	Pascual Guerrero
	Cortuluá	Tuluác	Pascual Guerrero
	Deportes Quindío	Armenia	Centenario
	Deportivo Pasto	Pasto	Departamental Libertad
	Deportivo Pereira	Pereira	Hernán Ramírez Villegas
	Orsomarso	Palmira	Francisco Rivera Escobar

a: Played home games at El Carmen de Bolívar.
b: Played home games at Zipaquirá.
c: Played home games at Cali.

First stage

The First stage began on 17 February and consisted of three round-robin hexagonals.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ENV	BUC	RCA	MAG	RSA	APE
1	Envigado	10	10	0	0	36	3	+33	30	Advanced to the knockout phase		—	2–0	4–0	3–1	8–0	3–0
2	Atlético Bucaramanga	10	6	0	4	19	11	+8	18			0–1	—	2–1	1–0	4–0	4–0
3	Real Cartagena	10	5	1	4	14	12	+2	16			0–2	2–1	—	4–1	3–0	3–1
4	Unión Magdalena	10	5	1	4	13	14	−1	16			0–2	2–1	0–0	—	2–1	1–0
5	Real Santander	10	1	1	8	7	26	−19	4			1–2	1–2	1–0	0–1	—	1–1
6	Alianza Petrolera	10	1	1	8	10	33	−23	4			1–9	2–4	0–1	2–5	3–2	—

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) Goal difference, 3) Goals for, 4) Away goals for, 5) Goals against, 6) Drawing of lots

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SFE	CUC	HUI	PAT	FOR	EQU
1	Santa Fe	10	10	0	0	32	5	+27	30	Advanced to the knockout phase		—	3–1	6–0	4–1	1–0	5–2
2	Cúcuta Deportivo	10	6	0	4	22	16	+6	18			0–2	—	2–1	0–2	4–0	4–0
3	Atlético Huila	10	5	2	3	21	13	+8	17			1–2	6–1	—	0–0	5–1	1–0
4	Patriotas	10	2	3	5	11	20	−9	9			0–4	1–4	1–1	—	1–2	3–2
5	Fortaleza	10	2	1	7	8	23	−15	7			0–2	1–4	0–3	2–2	—	2–0
6	La Equidad	10	2	0	8	6	23	−17	6			0–3	0–2	0–3	1–0	1–0	—

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) Goal difference, 3) Goals for, 4) Away goals for, 5) Goals against, 6) Drawing of lots

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ORS	COR	AME	QUI	PER	PAS
1	Orsomarso	10	8	1	1	22	4	+18	25	Advanced to the knockout phase		—	1–0	2–0	2–0	1–2	4–1
2	Cortuluá	10	6	2	2	23	8	+15	20			0–1	—	1–1	3–1	4–0	7–0
3	América de Cali	10	5	4	1	24	9	+15	19			0–0	2–2	—	5–0	5–0	3–0
4	Deportes Quindío	10	2	1	7	8	19	−11	7			0–1	0–1	2–2	—	2–1	1–2
5	Deportivo Pereira	10	2	1	7	10	27	−17	7			1–5	1–3	2–4	1–2	—	1–0
6	Deportivo Pasto	10	2	1	7	6	26	−20	7			0–5	1–2	0–2	1–0	1–1	—

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) Goal difference, 3) Goals for, 4) Away goals for, 5) Goals against, 6) Drawing of lots

Ranking of third-placed teams

The two best teams among those ranked third qualified for the knockout stage.

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Result
1	C	América de Cali	10	5	4	1	24	9	+15	19	Advanced to the knockout phase
2	B	Atlético Huila	10	5	2	3	21	13	+8	17
3	A	Real Cartagena	10	5	1	4	14	12	+2	16

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) Goal difference, 3) Goals for, 4) Away goals for, 5) Goals against, 6) Drawing of lots

Knockout phase bracket

	Quarterfinals							Semifinals							Finals
	1B	Santa Fe	2	1	3
	1T	América de Cali	1	1	2
								Santa Fe		1	3	4
								Atlético Bucaramanga		0	0	0
	1C	Orsomarso	0	2	2
	2A	Atlético Bucaramanga	2	1	3
															Santa Fe		2	1	3
															Atlético Huila		1	0	1
	2C	Cortuluá	1	2	3
	2B	Cúcuta Deportivo	0	0	0
								Cortuluá		0	2	2 (1)
								Atlético Huila (p)		2	0	2 (3)
	1A	Envigado	1	2	3 (2)
	2T	Atlético Huila (p)	2	1	3 (3)

Liga Águila Femenina 2017 Champions
Santa Fe 1st Title

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Club	Goals
1	Manuela González	Atlético Bucaramanga	13
2	Oriana Altuve	Santa Fe	11
3	Daniela Montoya	Envigado	11
4	Catalina Usme	América de Cali	10
5	Karen Páez	Cúcuta Deportivo	10

Source: Futbolred

See also

• Colombian Women's Football League

External links

• Season at soccerway.com
• Dimayor's official website (in Spanish)