2023 Colombian Women's Football League

The 2023 Colombian Women's Football League (officially known as the Liga Femenina BetPlay DIMAYOR 2023 for sponsorship purposes) was the seventh season of Colombia's women's football league. The season started on 4 February and ended on 30 June 2023.^[1]

Liga Femenina BetPlay DIMAYOR

Season	2023
Dates	4 February – 30 June 2023
Champions	Santa Fe (3rd title)
Copa Libertadores Femenina	Santa Fe América de Cali Atlético Nacional
Matches played	150
Goals scored	406 (2.71 per match)
Top goalscorer	Catalina Usme (11 goals)
Biggest home win	Dep. Cali 7–1 Atl. Bucaramanga (24 April) La Equidad 6–0 Atl. Bucaramanga (18 May) Santa Fe 7–1 Cortuluá (5 June)
Biggest away win	Atlético Huila 0–6 América de Cali (11 March)
Highest scoring	Dep. Cali 7–1 Atl. Bucaramanga (24 April) Santa Fe 7–1 Cortuluá (5 June)
← 2022 2024 →

Santa Fe won their third title in the competition, defeating the defending champions América de Cali over two legs in the final.^[2]

Format

Although interest in holding a full-year women's league championship was expressed first by Colombian Football Federation (FCF) President Ramón Jesurún during the 2022 Copa América Femenina and later by the Colombian Minister of Sports María Isabel Urrutia,^[3][4] on 24 January 2023 the División Mayor del Fútbol Profesional Colombiano (DIMAYOR) announced that the 2023 Liga Femenina season would keep the format used in the previous season, playing the competition in the first semester of the year due to the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup and the 2023 Copa Libertadores Femenina, the latter of which the country is due to host.^[1] The 17 participating teams played a single round-robin tournament with all teams playing each other once and having a bye day, for a total of 16 matches for each team and 17 rounds in the first stage. The top eight teams advanced to the quarter-finals, with the winners advancing to the semi-finals. The winners of each semi-final then played the finals to decide the champions. All rounds in the knockout stage were played on a home-and-away, double-legged basis. The champions and runners-up qualified for the Copa Libertadores Femenina, with a third berth (which was awarded to the FCF for being the host association of the continental competition) going to the best-placed team in the season's aggregate table, other than the finalists.^[5]

Teams

17 DIMAYOR affiliate clubs took part in the competition with their women's teams. Fortaleza and Orsomarso did not enter this edition of the tournament, with these teams being replaced by Deportivo Pasto and Boyacá Chicó, the former returning after two years and the latter fielding a women's team for the first time ever.^[6] Moreover, Águilas Doradas, who were required by CONMEBOL to form a women's team in order to be able to take part in the men's 2023 Copa Sudamericana, signed a partnership with Cortuluá for this season to meet this requirement.^[7]

Stadia and locations

 

 

América de Cali

 

Atlético Bucaramanga

 

Atlético Huila

 

Bogotá

 

Boyacá Chicó

 

Cortuluá

 

Deportes Tolima

 

Deportivo Cali

 

Deportivo Pasto

 

Deportivo Pereira

 

Junior

 

Llaneros

 

Medellín

 

Real Santander

 

Bogotá teams:
La Equidad
Millonarios
Santa Fe
Medellín teams:
Atlético Nacional
Independiente Medellín

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Locations of the 2023 Liga Femenina teams

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity
América de Cali	Cali	Pascual Guerrero	33,130
Atlético Bucaramanga	Floridablanca	Álvaro Gómez Hurtado	12,000
Atlético Huila	Neiva	Guillermo Plazas Alcid	2,500
Atlético Nacional	Medellín	Atanasio Girardot	40,043
Boyacá Chicó	Yopal^[i]	Santiago de las Atalayas	10,000
Cortuluá^[ii]	Yumbo	Municipal Raúl Miranda	3,500
Deportes Tolima	Ibagué	Manuel Murillo Toro	28,100
Deportivo Cali	Palmira	Deportivo Cali	44,000
Deportivo Pasto	Pasto	Departamental Libertad	20,000
Deportivo Pereira	Pereira	Hernán Ramírez Villegas	30,297
Independiente Medellín	Itagüí	Metropolitano Ciudad de Itagüí	12,000
Junior	Barranquilla	Romelio Martínez	8,600
La Equidad	Bogotá	Metropolitano de Techo	10,000
Llaneros	Villavicencio	Bello Horizonte	15,000
Millonarios	Bogotá	Nemesio Camacho El Campín	36,343
Real Santander	Piedecuesta	Villa Concha	5,500
Santa Fe	Bogotá	Nemesio Camacho El Campín	36,343

Notes

1. Based in Tunja but playing its home games in Yopal.
2. In association with Águilas Doradas.

First stage

The first stage started on 4 February and consisted of a single-round robin tournament with the 17 participating teams playing each other once. It ended on 23 May with the top eight teams advancing to the knockout stage.

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	América de Cali	16	13	1	2	43	8	+35	40	Advance to the knockout stage
2	Santa Fe	16	10	5	1	33	12	+21	35
3	Atlético Nacional	16	8	6	2	28	9	+19	30
4	Deportivo Pereira	16	8	5	3	28	20	+8	29
5	Deportivo Cali	16	7	6	3	24	18	+6	27
6	Independiente Medellín	16	8	3	5	25	20	+5	27
7	Cortuluá	16	7	4	5	20	13	+7	25
8	La Equidad	16	7	2	7	28	20	+8	23
9	Millonarios	16	6	4	6	23	21	+2	22
10	Llaneros	16	7	1	8	21	23	−2	22
11	Junior	16	5	6	5	17	12	+5	21
12	Boyacá Chicó	16	4	8	4	13	15	−2	20
13	Atlético Huila	16	5	5	6	15	21	−6	20
14	Real Santander	16	3	4	9	13	29	−16	13
15	Deportivo Pasto	16	3	3	10	11	34	−23	12
16	Atlético Bucaramanga	16	1	3	12	9	41	−32	6
17	Deportes Tolima	16	0	2	14	11	46	−35	2

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	AME	BUC	HUI	NAC	BOY	COR	TOL	CAL	PAS	PER	DIM	JUN	EQU	LLA	MIL	RSA	SFE
América de Cali	—	2–1	—	2–0	—	—	2–0	5–0	5–0	—	2–0	—	2–0	1–0	—	—	—
Atlético Bucaramanga	—	—	0–1	—	0–0	0–4	—	—	—	0–3	—	0–2	—	—	1–1	1–1	1–3
Atlético Huila	0–6	—	—	—	1–1	3–0	—	—	—	0–2	—	1–0	—	—	0–1	2–1	0–2
Atlético Nacional	—	4–0	0–0	—	0–0	—	—	—	—	—	—	1–0	1–0	5–0	3–0	3–1	—
Boyacá Chicó	0–3	—	—	—	—	1–1	—	—	—	1–2	2–0	1–1	—	—	2–1	0–0	0–2
Cortuluá	0–3	—	—	0–0	—	—	1–1	2–0	3–0	—	0–0	—	4–0	—	—	—	0–1
Deportes Tolima	—	0–1	1–3	1–4	1–3	—	—	2–3	1–2	—	—	—	0–4	0–3	—	—	—
Deportivo Cali	—	7–1	0–0	1–1	0–0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1–0	3–1	1–1	2–0	—
Deportivo Pasto	—	1–0	2–2	0–3	1–1	—	—	0–1	—	—	—	—	1–3	0–2	—	3–1	—
Deportivo Pereira	1–4	—	—	1–1	—	1–2	2–1	1–1	3–0	—	2–2	—	—	—	—	—	2–2
Independiente Medellín	—	4–2	1–0	2–2	—	—	6–1	2–1	1–0	—	—	—	2–0	2–1	—	—	—
Junior	2–2	—	—	—	—	0–1	0–0	0–1	2–0	3–0	2–0	—	—	—	—	—	1–1
La Equidad	—	6–0	3–1	—	0–1	—	—	—	—	1–1	—	2–3	—	3–1	3–1	2–0	—
Llaneros	—	2–1	1–1	—	2–0	1–2	—	—	—	1–2	—	1–0	—	—	2–1	3–0	—
Millonarios	2–1	—	—	—	—	1–0	5–1	—	1–1	1–2	3–1	0–0	—	—	—	—	0–2
Real Santander	2–1	—	—	—	—	1–0	2–1	—	—	0–3	0–1	1–1	—	—	1–4	—	2–2
Santa Fe	0–2	—	—	1–0	—	—	5–0	2–2	5–0	—	2–1	—	1–1	2–0	—	—	—

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

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Quarter-finals							Semi-finals							Finals
	6	Independiente Medellín	1	1	2
	3	Atlético Nacional	1	3	4
								Atlético Nacional		1	0	1
								Santa Fe		1	4	5
	7	Cortuluá	1	1	2
	2	Santa Fe	2	7	9
															Santa Fe		2	0	2
															América de Cali		0	0	0
	5	Deportivo Cali	1	1	2
	4	Deportivo Pereira	1	2	3
								Deportivo Pereira		2	0	2
								América de Cali		3	4	7
	8	La Equidad	0	1	1
	1	América de Cali	0	4	4

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
La Equidad	1–4	América de Cali	0–0	1–4
Cortuluá	2–9	Santa Fe	1–2	1–7
Independiente Medellín	2–4	Atlético Nacional	1–1	1–3
Deportivo Cali	2–3	Deportivo Pereira	1–1	1–2

First leg

Cortuluá v Santa Fe

29 May 2023 (2023-05-29)	Cortuluá	1–2	Santa Fe	Yumbo
16:00 UTC−5	Carvajal   79' (pen.)	Report	Mosquera   34' Salazar   52' (pen.)	Stadium: Municipal Raúl Miranda Referee: Yeimi Martínez

Deportivo Cali v Deportivo Pereira

29 May 2023 (2023-05-29)	Deportivo Cali	1–1	Deportivo Pereira	Palmira
18:00 UTC−5	Medina   90+6'	Report	A. González   57' (pen.)	Stadium: Deportivo Cali Referee: Manuela Vásquez

La Equidad v América de Cali

29 May 2023 (2023-05-29)	La Equidad	0–0	América de Cali	Bogotá
19:00 UTC−5		Report		Stadium: Metropolitano de Techo Referee: Vanessa Ceballos

Independiente Medellín v Atlético Nacional

29 May 2023 (2023-05-29)	Independiente Medellín	1–1	Atlético Nacional	Itagüí
19:30 UTC−5	Infante   45+5'	Report	Montoya   12'	Stadium: Metropolitano Ciudad de Itagüí Referee: Erika Sánchez

Second leg

Atlético Nacional v Independiente Medellín

5 June 2023 (2023-06-05)	Atlético Nacional	3–1 (4–2 agg.)	Independiente Medellín	Medellín
19:00 UTC−5	S. Córdoba   29' Aguirre   39' (pen.) Quejada   85'	Report	Restrepo   87'	Stadium: Atanasio Girardot Referee: Viviana Muñoz

América de Cali v La Equidad

5 June 2023 (2023-06-05)	América de Cali	4–1 (4–1 agg.)	La Equidad	Cali
19:30 UTC−5	Usme   39', 58', 67' Muñoz   81'	Report	Cabrera   90+2'	Stadium: Pascual Guerrero Referee: María Victoria Daza

Santa Fe v Cortuluá

5 June 2023 (2023-06-05)	Santa Fe	7–1 (9–2 agg.)	Cortuluá	Bogotá
19:30 UTC−5	Reyes   10', 78' Mosquera   30', 44' Salazar   42' Viancha   48' Higuera   85'	Report	Urrutia   61'	Stadium: El Campín Referee: Danna Victorino

Deportivo Pereira v Deportivo Cali

5 June 2023 (2023-06-05)	Deportivo Pereira	2–1 (3–2 agg.)	Deportivo Cali	Pereira
19:30 UTC−5	Romero   37' (o.g.) Villegas   88'	Report	Pino   5'	Stadium: Hernán Ramírez Villegas Referee: Yessica Villadiego

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Deportivo Pereira	2–7	América de Cali	2–3	0–4
Atlético Nacional	1–5	Santa Fe	1–1	0–4

First leg

Deportivo Pereira v América de Cali

9 June 2023 (2023-06-09)	Deportivo Pereira	2–3	América de Cali	Pereira
18:00 UTC−5	Rojas   43' González   49'	Report	Vidal   7' Zamorano   65' Castellanos   90+3'	Stadium: Hernán Ramírez Villegas Referee: Paula Fernández

Atlético Nacional v Santa Fe

9 June 2023 (2023-06-09)	Atlético Nacional	1–1	Santa Fe	Medellín
20:05 UTC−5	S. Córdoba   2'	Report	Reyes   34'	Stadium: Atanasio Girardot Referee: Erika Sánchez

Second leg

Santa Fe v Atlético Nacional

14 June 2023 (2023-06-14)	Santa Fe	4–0 (5–1 agg.)	Atlético Nacional	Bogotá
18:00 UTC−5	Salazar   12' (pen.), 43' (pen.) Robayo   54' García   57'	Report		Stadium: El Campín Referee: María Victoria Daza

América de Cali v Deportivo Pereira

14 June 2023 (2023-06-14)	América de Cali	4–0 (7–2 agg.)	Deportivo Pereira	Cali
20:15 UTC−5	Muñoz   4' Usme   39' Castellanos   46' Ospina   58'	Report		Stadium: Pascual Guerrero Referee: Yessica Villadiego

Finals

25 June 2023 (2023-06-25)

16:00 UTC−5

Santa Fe	2–0	América de Cali
Viancha   26' Reyes   82'	Report

Estadio El Campín, Bogotá

Attendance: 30,747^[8]

Referee: Danna Victorino

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30 June 2023 (2023-06-30)

20:00 UTC−5

América de Cali	0–0	Santa Fe
	Report

Estadio Pascual Guerrero, Cali

Referee: María Victoria Daza

Santa Fe won 2–0 on aggregate.

Liga Femenina BetPlay DIMAYOR 2023 champions
Santa Fe 3rd title

Aggregate table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	América de Cali	22	16	3	3	54	13	+41	51	Qualification for Copa Libertadores Femenina
2	Santa Fe (C)	22	14	7	1	49	15	+34	49
3	Atlético Nacional	20	9	8	3	33	16	+17	35
4	Deportivo Pereira	20	9	6	5	33	29	+4	33
5	Deportivo Cali	18	7	7	4	26	21	+5	28
6	Independiente Medellín	18	8	4	6	27	24	+3	28
7	Cortuluá	18	7	4	7	22	22	0	25
8	La Equidad	18	7	3	8	29	24	+5	24
9	Millonarios	16	6	4	6	23	21	+2	22
10	Llaneros	16	7	1	8	21	23	−2	22
11	Junior	16	5	6	5	17	12	+5	21
12	Boyacá Chicó	16	4	8	4	13	15	−2	20
13	Atlético Huila	16	5	5	6	15	21	−6	20
14	Real Santander	16	3	4	9	13	29	−16	13
15	Deportivo Pasto	16	3	3	10	11	34	−23	12
16	Atlético Bucaramanga	16	1	3	12	9	41	−32	6
17	Deportes Tolima	16	0	2	14	11	46	−35	2

Source: Fémina Fútbol
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) Goal difference, 3) Goals for, 4) Away goals for, 5) Away goals against, 6) Drawing of lots.
(C) Champions

Top scorers

Rank	Name	Club	Goals
1	Catalina Usme	América de Cali	11
2	Liana Salazar	Santa Fe	10
	María Camila Reyes	Santa Fe
4	Lorena Cobos	Llaneros	9
	Daniela Montoya	Atlético Nacional
6	Manuela González	Deportivo Cali	8
	Ana Milé González	Deportivo Pereira
	Yessica Rodríguez	La Equidad
9	Mariana Zamorano	América de Cali	7
	Karla Viancha	Santa Fe
	Sara Córdoba	Atlético Nacional

Source: Fémina Fútbol

See also

• Colombian Women's Football League

References

1. "Dimayor confirma fechas de Liga Femenina y nuevos socios" [Dimayor confirms Women's League dates and new partners] (in Spanish). Diario As Colombia. 24 January 2023. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
2. "¡Tercer rugido de las leonas! Santa Fe campeón de Liga BetPlay Femenina" [Third roar by the lionesses! Santa Fe Liga BetPlay Femenina champions] (in Spanish). Futbolred. 30 June 2023. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
3. "La promesa incumplida de Ramón Jesurún a las jugadoras de la Liga Femenina en 2023" [Ramón Jesurún's unfulfilled promise to the Women's League players in 2023] (in Spanish). Infobae. 25 January 2023. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
4. "MinDeporte adelanta que habrá liga femenina extensa para 2023" [Sports Minister anticipates that there will be a long women's league for 2023] (in Spanish). ESPN. 13 January 2023. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
5. "REGLAMENTO LIGA FEMENINA BETPLAY DIMAYOR 2023" [2023 LIGA FEMENINA BETPLAY DIMAYOR REGULATIONS] (PDF) (in Spanish). Dimayor. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
6. "Así se jugará la primera fecha de la Liga Femenina BetPlay Dimayor 2023" [This is how the first matchday of the 2023 Liga Femenina BetPlay Dimayor will be played] (in Spanish). Infobae. 24 January 2023. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
7. "Liga femenina: otro torneo de 5 meses, una controversia de no acabar... análisis" [Women's league: another 5-month tournament, an endless controversy...analysis] (in Spanish). El Tiempo. 13 January 2022. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
8. "Santa Fe pegó primero en la final femenina: repase el 2-0 ante América" [Santa Fe struck first in women's final: review the 2–0 against América] (in Spanish). Futbolred. 25 June 2023. Retrieved 28 June 2023.

External links

• Liga Femenina on Dimayor's official website (in Spanish)