1949 Campeonato Profesional

The 1949 Campeonato Profesional was the second season of Colombia's top-flight football league. The tournament was started on April 25. 14 teams compete against one another and played each weekend. This tournament was famous for mark the beginning of El Dorado. Millonarios and Deportivo Cali, both with 44 points, played two final matches to decide the champion of the season. Santa Fe, the defending champion, was 3rd with 39 points.

Campeonato Profesional

Season	1949
Champions	Millonarios (1st title)
Matches played	186
Goals scored	820 (4.41 per match)
Top goalscorer	Pedro Cabillón (42)
Biggest home win	Santa Fe 10–2 Huracán
Biggest away win	Atlético Municipal 0–6 Deportes Caldas
Highest scoring	Santa Fe 10–3 Deportivo Pereira
← 1948 1950 →

Background

The season was notable for being the beginning of El Dorado, during which many international football stars arrived to the Colombian league, especially from Argentina, due to the protests that were taking place in that country.^[1] The tournament began on 25 April 1949. The debutants teams were Atlético Bucaramanga, Boca Juniors de Cali, Deportivo Barranquilla, Deportivo Pereira and Huracán de Medellín. This year Universidad returned to Bogotá. Deportivo Barranquilla participated to replacing Atlético Junior, who was representing Colombia in the South American Championship. Barranquilla only played 21 of the 26 league matches.^[2]

League system

Every team played two games against each other team, one at home and one away. Teams received two points for a win and one point for a draw. If two or more teams were tied on points, places were determined by goal difference. The team with the most points is the champion of the league.

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Locations of the 1949 Campeonato Profesional teams:

• 1. Barranquilla
• 2. Bogotá
• 3. Bucaramanga
• 4. Cali
• 5. Manizales
• 6. Medellín
• 7. Pereira

Team	City	Stadium
América	Cali	Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero
Atlético Bucaramanga	Bucaramanga	Estadio Alfonso López
Atlético Municipal	Medellín^a	Estadio San Fernando
Boca Juniors	Cali	Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero
Deportes Caldas	Manizales	Estadio Palogrande
Deportivo Barranquilla	Barranquilla	Estadio Romelio Martínez
Deportivo Cali	Cali	Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero
Deportivo Pereira	Pereira	Estadio Libaré
Huracán de Medellín	Medellín	Estadio San Fernando
Independiente Medellín	Medellín	Estadio San Fernando
Millonarios	Bogotá	Estadio El Campín
Once Deportivo	Manizales	Estadio Palogrande
Santa Fe	Bogotá	Estadio Alfonso López Pumarejo
Universidad	Bogotá	Estadio Alfonso López Pumarejo

^a Municipal played its home games at Itagüí

Final standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Millonarios (C)	26	20	4	2	99	35	+64	44
2	Deportivo Cali	26	20	4	2	89	41	+48	44
3	Santa Fe	26	17	5	4	102	50	+52	39
4	Deportes Caldas	26	16	0	10	69	53	+16	32
5	Independiente Medellín	26	12	5	9	58	60	−2	29
6	Universidad	26	9	9	8	46	42	+4	27
7	Atlético Municipal	26	8	8	10	40	60	−20	24
8	Boca Juniors	26	9	5	12	45	58	−13	23
9	Once Deportivo	26	9	2	15	40	66	−26	20
10	América	26	7	4	15	53	67	−14	18
11	Atlético Bucaramanga	26	7	4	15	48	81	−33	18
12	Huracán	26	6	5	15	47	75	−28	17
13	Deportivo Barranquilla	26	5	5	16	34	49	−15	15
14	Deportivo Pereira	26	4	6	16	44	77	−33	14

Source: RSSSF
(C) Champion

Results

Home \ Away	AME	BJ	BUC	CLI	DB	CLD	HUR	DIM	MIL	MUN	OND	PER	SFE	UNI
América		3–4	1–3	1–4	4–1	2–6	2–1	4–1	4–5	1–2	2–0	5–1	3–4	3–3
Boca Juniors	1–3		2–3	3–5	1–0^[a]	3–1	2–1	5–1	4–3	1–0	3–1	1–1	1–1	0–2
Atlético Bucaramanga	1–2	2–1		1–5	3–1	2–3	2–1	2–2	2–5	4–3	2–3	1–2	1–3	1–1
Deportivo Cali	1–0	4–1	6–1		1–0^[a]	3–1	4–0	3–1	3–3	6–3	7–2	4–2	2–2	3–0
Deportivo Barranquilla	1–1	1–0	6–2	3–3		1–0^[a]	7–2	2–0	2–2	0–1^[a]	0–1^[a]	0–1^[a]	0–1^[a]	2–2
Deportes Caldas	2–0	6–2	7–3	1–4	5–0		5–2	2–1	1–5	2–3	4–1	5–4	0–3	0–2
Huracán	2–1	3–2	7–4	3–4	0–0	3–2		1–2	2–2	0–0	2–3	3–4	2–2	4–2
Independiente Medellín	2–2	6–3	4–1	3–2	1–0^[a]	5–3	2–0		1–6	0–0	4–1	4–1	3–2	2–5
Millonarios	1–0^[b]	2–0	5–1	0–2	5–0	3–0	5–1	4–0		6–0	3–0	3–2	2–2	3–1
Atlético Municipal	3–1	2–2	1–1	1–2	3–2	0–6	1–2	2–4	1–5		3–2	1–1	2–6	1–1
Once Deportivo	2–1	1–1	2–1	3–4	2–1	0–1	2–1	0–1	2–5	1–2		2–1	2–6	1–0
Deportivo Pereira	3–3	1–2	1–2	1–4	0–3	0–1	4–1	4–4	0–5	1–1	4–4		1–3	1–2
Santa Fe	7–3	5–0	5–0	4–3	6–2	2–3	10–2	3–1	3–6	3–3	4–1	10–3		1–4
Universidad	6–1	0–0	2–2	1–1	1–0^[a]	0–1	1–1	3–3	1–5	0–1	3–1	3–0	0–4

Source:^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

1. Deportivo Barranquilla withdrew from the tournament, so the remaining games left in walkover
2. Points awarded to Millonarios because two América players suspended participated in the match

Final

November 20, 1949

Deportivo Cali	0–1	Millonarios
	Report	Pedernera   57' (pen.)

Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero, Cali

Referee: Felipe Gregorio

December 4, 1949

Millonarios	3–2	Deportivo Cali
Di Stéfano   24' Pedernera   30' (pen.) Castillo   77'	Report	V. López   44' Giúdice   84'

Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero, Cali

Referee: Orlando Troccoli

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Club	Goals
1	Pedro Cabillón	Millonarios	42
2	Germán Antón	Santa Fe	30
3	Valeriano López	Deportivo Cali	24
4	Carlos Arango	Deportes Caldas	19
	Guillermo Barbadillo	Deportivo Cali	19
6	Ricardo Aycardy	Deportivo Barranquilla	18
7	Luciano Campos	Independiente Medellín	17
	Luis López García	Santa Fe	17
	Ricardo Ruiz Peso	Deportivo Cali	17
10	Alfredo Castillo	Millonarios	15

Source: RSSSF.com Colombia 1949

1949 Campeonato Profesional champion
Millonarios First title

References

1. Ruíz Bonilla, Guillermo (2008). La gran historia del Fútbol Profesional Colombiano. Ediciones Dayscript. p. 12–14; 19. ISBN 978-958-98713-0-0.
2. . Archived from the original on 2007-10-17. Retrieved 2013-07-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

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