2022 Categoría Primera B season

Torneo BetPlay Dimayor
Season	2022
Dates	22 January – 29 November 2022
Champions	Boyacá Chicó (3rd title)
Promoted	Boyacá Chicó; Atlético Huila
Matches played	289
Goals scored	638 (2.21 per match)
Top goalscorer	Torneo I: Jefferson Rivas (13 goals); Torneo II: Gustavo Britos (15 goals)
Biggest home win	Atlético Huila 6–0 Atlético; (8 October)
Biggest away win	Real Santander 0–4 Leones; (21 March); Real Cartagena 0–4 Llaneros; (10 May); Orsomarso 0–4 Dep. Quindío; (11 July); Orsomarso 0–4 Fortaleza; (30 September)
Highest scoring	Fortaleza 6–2 Orsomarso; (7 March)
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The 2022 Categoría Primera B season (officially known as the 2022 Torneo BetPlay Dimayor season for sponsorship reasons) was the 33rd season of the Categoría Primera B since its founding as Colombia's second division football league. The season began on 22 January and ended on 29 November 2022.

Boyacá Chicó were the champions, winning their third Primera B title as well as promotion to the top flight by defeating Atlético Huila by a 3–0 score on aggregate in the season's Grand Final.^[1] Atlético Huila claimed the other promotion berth, defeating Deportes Quindío in the promotion play-off by a 2–1 aggregate score.^[2]

Format

The format for the 2022 Primera B season was approved at DIMAYOR's General Assembly session of 17 December 2021.^[3]

For this season, and similar to the previous one, two tournaments (Torneo I and Torneo II) with three stages each were played. In the first stage of both tournaments, the 15 teams (16 teams in Torneo II) played a single round-robin tournament with each team having a bye round and home-and-away order reversed for the Torneo II. The top eight teams at the end of the fifteen rounds advanced to the semi-finals, where teams were drawn into two groups of four where they played each one of their rivals twice. The top team of each group advanced to the finals, playing a double-legged series with the winners advancing to the Grand Final.

The Grand Final to decide the season champions as well as the first promotion to Primera A, was a double-legged series contested at the end of the season by the winners of the season's two tournaments. The second promotion spot to Primera A for the 2023 season was decided in a promotion play-off between the Grand Final loser and the best-placed team of the season's aggregate table, other than the Grand Final winners.^[4]

Teams

Originally, 15 teams took part in the season. Cortuluá and Unión Magdalena, who won the semifinal groups of the 2021–II Primera B tournament, were promoted to Primera A for the 2022 season and were replaced in Primera B by Atlético Huila and Deportes Quindío, who were relegated at the end of the 2021 Primera A Finalización tournament.^[5]^[6]

On 20 April 2022 the General Assembly of DIMAYOR approved the reaffiliation of Cúcuta Deportivo, which had been expelled from the entity on 25 November 2020 due to legal issues. Despite being in the top tier at the moment of its disaffiliation, it was decided that Cúcuta Deportivo would enter the Primera B competition starting from the second half of the 2022 season, with which the tournament expanded to 16 teams.^[7]

Bogotá

Cali

Bogotá teams:
Bogotá
Fortaleza
Tigres
Cali teams:
Atlético
Boca Juniors

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Locations of the 2022 Categoría Primera B teams

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity
Atlético	Cali	Pascual Guerrero	33,130
Atlético Huila	Neiva	Guillermo Plazas Alcid	22,000
Barranquilla	Barranquilla	Romelio Martínez	8,000
Boca Juniors de Cali	Cali	Pascual Guerrero	33,130
Bogotá	Bogotá	Metropolitano de Techo	8,000
Boyacá Chicó	Tunja	La Independencia	20,630
Deportes Quindío	Armenia	Centenario	20,716
Fortaleza	Bogotá	Metropolitano de Techo	8,000
Leones	Itagüí	Metropolitano Ciudad de Itagüí	12,000
Llaneros	Villavicencio	Bello Horizonte	15,000
Orsomarso	Palmira	Francisco Rivera Escobar	15,300
Real Cartagena	Cartagena	Jaime Morón León	16,068
Real Santander	Piedecuesta	Villa Concha	5,500
Tigres	Bogotá	Metropolitano de Techo	8,000
Valledupar	Valledupar	Armando Maestre Pavajeau	11,000

The following team joined the competition for the Torneo II:

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity
Cúcuta Deportivo	Cúcuta	General Santander	42,901

Torneo I

First stage

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Leones	14	8	3	3	21	10	+11	27	Advance to the semi-finals
2	Fortaleza	14	7	4	3	26	17	+9	25
3	Deportes Quindío	14	6	7	1	17	8	+9	25
4	Real Cartagena	14	7	4	3	19	16	+3	25
5	Tigres	14	6	4	4	16	12	+4	22
6	Boyacá Chicó	14	6	4	4	18	16	+2	22
7	Llaneros	14	6	4	4	14	12	+2	22
8	Bogotá	14	6	4	4	17	16	+1	22
9	Valledupar	14	5	6	3	15	12	+3	21
10	Orsomarso	14	5	3	6	14	20	−6	18
11	Atlético	14	3	5	6	10	14	−4	14
12	Real Santander	14	2	5	7	13	21	−8	11
13	Barranquilla	14	2	4	8	13	23	−10	10
14	Atlético Huila	14	1	6	7	7	14	−7	9
15	Boca Juniors de Cali	14	1	5	8	10	19	−9	8

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

Results

Home \ Away	ATL	HUI	BAR	BOC	BOG	BOY	QUI	FOR	LEO	LLA	ORS	RCA	RSA	TIG	VAL
Atlético	—	1–0	—	1–0	3–1	0–2	—	2–2	—	1–3	—	—	0–1	—	0–0
Atlético Huila	—	—	0–0	2–0	—	—	0–0	—	1–1	—	0–1	—	1–1	0–0	—
Barranquilla	1–0	—	—	—	2–4	2–2	—	0–1	—	1–2	—	0–2	—	—	1–1
Boca Juniors de Cali	—	—	0–0	—	1–1	1–1	—	—	—	1–1	—	1–2	—	2–0	—
Bogotá	—	2–0	—	—	—	0–0	—	0–1	1–0	0–1	—	—	2–1	—	2–1
Boyacá Chicó	—	1–0	—	—	—	—	2–3	0–1	1–0	—	2–1	—	2–1	—	2–2
Deportes Quindío	1–0	—	2–1	1–0	1–2	—	—	—	—	0–0	—	5–0	—	0–0	—
Fortaleza	—	3–1	—	3–1	—	—	2–2	—	1–2	—	6–2	—	2–3	1–2	—
Leones	1–1	—	3–1	2–1	—	—	0–0	—	—	—	3–1	1–0	—	3–1	—
Llaneros	—	2–1	—	—	—	1–2	—	0–1	1–0	—	0–1	—	2–2	—	0–0
Orsomarso	1–0	—	2–1	2–0	1–1	—	1–1	—	—	—	—	1–2	—	0–2	—
Real Cartagena	0–0	1–1	—	—	1–1	3–1	—	1–1	—	2–0	—	—	—	—	1–2
Real Santander	—	—	2–3	1–1	—	—	0–1	—	0–4	—	0–0	1–2	—	0–0	—
Tigres	1–1	—	2–0	—	3–0	1–0	—	—	—	0–1	—	1–2	—	—	3–2
Valledupar	—	1–0	—	2–1	—	—	0–0	1–1	0–1	—	2–0	—	1–0	—	—

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

Semi-finals

The eight teams that advanced to the semi-finals were drawn into two groups of four teams, with the top two teams from the first stage being seeded in each group. The two group winners advanced to the finals.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	BOY	LEO	LLA	RCA
1	Boyacá Chicó	6	2	3	1	7	4	+3	9	Advance to the Finals	—	1–1	2–1	3–0
2	Leones	6	1	5	0	6	5	+1	8		0–0	—	1–1	0–0
3	Llaneros	6	1	4	1	9	6	+3	7		0–0	3–3	—	0–0
4	Real Cartagena	6	1	2	3	2	9	−7	5		2–1	0–1	0–4	—

Source: Dimayor, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) First stage position.

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	QUI	FOR	BOG	TIG
1	Deportes Quindío	6	3	3	0	7	4	+3	12	Advance to the Finals	—	1–1	2–1	1–0
2	Fortaleza	6	2	3	1	6	4	+2	9		1–1	—	0–1	2–1
3	Bogotá	6	2	1	3	5	7	−2	7		1–1	0–2	—	2–1
4	Tigres	6	1	1	4	3	6	−3	4		0–1	0–0	1–0	—

Source: Dimayor, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) First stage position.

Finals

12 June 2022

19:40 UTC−5

Boyacá Chicó	0–0	Deportes Quindío
	Report

Estadio La Independencia, Tunja

Referee: Edilson Ariza

17 June 2022

19:00 UTC−5

Deportes Quindío	2–2	Boyacá Chicó
Castillo 34' (pen.) L. Mina 83'	Report	Cruz 79' Támara 90'
Penalties
Borrero L. Mina H. Balanta Hinestroza	2–4	Lozano G. Balanta Pimentel Támara

Estadio Centenario, Armenia

Referee: Nolberto Ararat

Tied 2–2 on aggregate, Boyacá Chicó won on penalties.

Torneo BetPlay DIMAYOR 2022–I winners
Boyacá Chicó Advance to the Grand Final

Top scorers

Rank	Name	Club	Goals
1	Jefferson Rivas	Leones	13
2	Johar Mejía	Bogotá	9
3	Kevin Aladesanmi	Fortaleza	7
3	Luis Fabián Mina	Deportes Quindío	7
5	Mario Álvarez	Llaneros	6
	Diego Echeverri	Llaneros
	Breidy Golúz	Orsomarso
	Adrián Parra	Fortaleza
	Henry Plazas	Boyacá Chicó
10	Wilmar Cruz	Boyacá Chicó	5
	Wilson España	Real Cartagena
	Misael Martínez	Valledupar

Source: Soccerway