1996 Primera División of Chile

The 1996 Campeonato Nacional, known as Campeonato Nacional Copa Banco del Estado 1996 for sponsorship purposes, was the 64th season of top-flight football in Chile. Colo-Colo won their 20th title following a 1–1 home draw against Audax Italiano on 11 November. Universidad Católica also qualified for the next Copa Libertadores as Liguilla winners.

Campeonato Nacional Copa Banco del Estado

Dates	16 March – 24 November 1996
Champions	Colo-Colo (20th title)
Relegated	Regional Atacama O'Higgins
1997 Copa Libertadores	Colo-Colo Universidad Católica (Liguilla winners)
1996 Copa CONMEBOL	Cobreloa (Play-off winners)
Matches played	240
Goals scored	769 (3.2 per match)
Top goalscorer	Mario Véner (30)
Biggest home win	Unión Española 7–0 Regional Atacama (27 August)
Highest attendance	58,051 Colo-Colo 1–1 Audax Italiano (11 November)
Total attendance	1,698,008
Average attendance	7,075
← 1995 1997 →

Final table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Colo-Colo	30	19	6	5	62	24	+38	63	Champions and qualified for the 1997 Copa Libertadores
2	Universidad Católica	30	17	8	5	70	40	+30	59	Qualified for the Liguilla Pre-Copa Libertadores
3	Cobreloa	30	15	6	9	58	44	+14	51
4	Audax Italiano	30	14	9	7	51	38	+13	51
5	Universidad de Chile	30	13	8	9	49	42	+7	47
6	Provincial Osorno	30	11	10	9	54	40	+14	43
7	Deportes Antofagasta	30	12	7	11	47	46	+1	43
8	Unión Española	30	11	7	12	43	47	−4	40
9	Coquimbo Unido	30	12	4	14	46	53	−7	40
10	Deportes Concepción	30	8	15	7	44	53	−9	39
11	Santiago Wanderers	30	10	7	13	49	57	−8	37
12	Huachipato	30	8	11	11	42	46	−4	35
13	Palestino	30	8	9	13	40	53	−13	33	Promotion/relegation play-offs
14	Deportes Temuco	30	8	4	18	35	55	−20	28
15	Regional Atacama	30	7	6	17	38	70	−32	27	Relegated to Segunda División
16	O'Higgins	30	5	7	18	41	61	−20	22

Source:^{[citation needed]}

Primera División de Chile 1996 champion
Colo-Colo 20th title

Results

Home \ Away	DAN	RAT	AUD	CLO	COL	DCO	COQ	HUA	OHI	POS	PAL	DTE	UCA	UCH	UES	SWA
Antofagasta		1–0	0–2	0–0	4–2	3–0	2–3	0–0	1–0	1–2	1–1	2–1	1–0	2–2	2–0	6–0
Atacama	1–1		2–3	3–1	0–0	2–0	4–1	1–0	3–1	0–1	2–2	1–2	0–2	2–2	2–0	0–5
Audax	1–2	2–1		2–0	1–3	2–2	5–1	0–0	3–2	2–0	0–1	1–1	0–0	1–2	2–1	1–1
Cobreloa	1–2	5–1	3–0		3–0	4–3	1–0	6–2	3–1	1–1	5–1	3–0	4–4	0–0	5–0	2–1
Colo-Colo	2–1	4–1	1–1	0–1		7–1	3–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	4–2	0–0	3–1	0–1	2–0	3–0
Concepción	2–1	5–1	2–0	1–1	1–1		0–0	4–2	1–1	0–5	3–0	3–2	0–0	1–1	0–0	0–0
Coquimbo	3–1	2–2	1–3	3–0	0–1	2–1		1–1	3–0	2–1	2–1	0–1	4–3	2–5	2–1	2–1
Huachipato	1–1	5–0	1–1	1–2	1–0	2–2	1–0		2–1	1–1	3–2	0–1	3–3	2–3	0–1	2–2
O'Higgins	2–1	2–2	0–2	1–2	0–5	2–2	2–1	4–0		1–1	1–1	5–1	1–1	4–1	2–3	1–2
Osorno	1–1	3–2	2–2	4–0	0–2	1–1	1–2	1–1	4–1		2–2	2–2	1–1	2–0	3–0	6–1
Palestino	1–2	1–2	2–4	1–0	1–1	1–1	3–1	0–4	1–1	4–0		2–0	1–3	0–3	2–2	2–1
Temuco	3–0	2–1	0–2	1–2	0–1	1–2	2–2	0–1	4–2	0–2	0–1		0–1	1–2	1–1	3–1
U. Católica	5–1	2–0	3–2	3–0	3–3	6–0	2–1	4–2	2–0	4–3	1–0	5–2		0–3	3–1	1–1
U. Chile	1–2	4–1	0–0	1–1	0–2	2–3	1–0	1–3	4–2	1–0	1–0	0–1	2–5		1–1	1–2
U. Española	6–4	7–0	1–2	3–0	0–5	1–1	3–2	1–1	3–1	2–1	1–2	2–0	1–0	0–0		1–0
S. Wanderers	3–1	4–1	3–4	4–2	0–0	2–2	1–3	2–0	1–0	2–3	2–2	4–2	0–2	2–4	1–0

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

Top goalscorers

Pos	Name	Team	Goals
1	Mario Véner	Santiago Wanderers	30
2	Sebastian Rozental	Universidad Católica	24
3	Ivo Basay	Colo-Colo	18
4	Sergio Vásquez	Deportes Antofagasta	16
	Pedro González V.	Cobreloa	16
6	Jaime Riveros	Cobreloa	14
7	Hugo Brizuela	Audax Italiano	13
	Fernando Vergara	Colo-Colo	13
	Marcelo Corrales	Provincial Osorno	13
10	Juan Carreño	Deportes Concepción	12

Liguilla Pre-Copa Libertadores

Semifinals

Audax Italiano v Cobreloa

30 November 1996	Audax Italiano	3 – 1	Cobreloa	Estadio Municipal de La Florida
	Brizuela   2' Illesca   51' Delgado   82'		44' Cornejo	Attendance: 2,853 Referee: C. Robles

Universidad de Chile v Universidad Católica

1 December 1996	Universidad de Chile	1 – 2	Universidad Católica	Estadio Nacional
	C. Castañeda   57'		68' A. González   75' Rozental	Attendance: 24,765 Referee: G. Aros

Cobreloa v Audax Italiano

4 December 1996	Cobreloa	3 – 1 (8–7 p)	Audax Italiano	Estadio Municipal de Calama
	Tapia   56' Silva   60' M. Rojas   68'		76' Brizuela	Attendance: 2,178 Referee: E. Gamboa

Universidad Católica v Universidad de Chile

5 December 1996	Universidad Católica	5 – 2	Universidad de Chile	Estadio Nacional
	Rozental   24' (pen.) A. González   36',   43',   61',   87' (pen.)		17',   53' V. Castañeda	Attendance: 16,378 Referee: M. Sánchez

Finals

Cobreloa v Universidad Católica

8 December 1996	Cobreloa	3 – 2	Universidad Católica	Estadio Municipal de Calama
	Guerrero   29' Riveros   57',   87'		8',   73' Lunari	Attendance: 7,275 Referee: E. Gamboa

Universidad Católica v Cobreloa

18 December 1996	Universidad Católica	3 – 2 (4 – 2 p)	Cobreloa	Estadio San Carlos de Apoquindo
	Lunari   21' Rozental   66',   74',		80' P. González   90' Cornejo	Attendance: 18,031 Referee: E. Marín
	Penalties
	Lepe   Rozental   Lunari   Catê   R. Gómez		Riveros   Cornejo   Silva   P. González

Universidad Católica qualified for the 1997 Copa Libertadores

Copa CONMEBOL 1996 play-off

Goal difference didn't count; in case of equal points, extra time was played.

Cobresal v Cobreloa

24 August 1996	Cobresal	2 – 0	Cobreloa	Estadio El Cobre
	Troncoso   24' (pen.) Jorquera   56'			Attendance: 1,000 Referee: G. Aros

Cobreloa v Cobresal

31 August 1996	Cobreloa	7 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Cobresal	Estadio Municipal de Calama
	P. González   11',   17',   27',   45' Sandoval   20' (o.g.) Riveros   55' (pen.) Vásquez   119'		90' Garrido	Attendance: 1,435 Referee: M. Peña

Cobreloa qualified for the 1996 Copa CONMEBOL

Promotion/relegation play-offs

Cobresal v Deportes Temuco

1 December 1996	Cobresal	3 – 1	Deportes Temuco	Estadio El Cobre
	Rivera   57' Salgado   20' Garrido   73'		Alvarez   79'	Attendance: 4,110 Referee: Salvador Imperatore

Deportes Iquique v Palestino

1 December 1996	Deportes Iquique	1 – 0	Palestino	Estadio Tierra de Campeones
	Donoso   17'			Attendance: 7,152 Referee: Enrique Marín

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Deportes Temuco^[1] v Cobresal

8 December 1996	Deportes Temuco^[1]	2 – 0	Cobresal	Estadio Germán Becker
	Castillo   27' Poirrier   30'			Attendance: 13,089 Referee: Mariano Peña

Palestino v Deportes Iquique

8 December 1996	Palestino	5 – 1	Deportes Iquique	Estadio Municipal de La Cisterna
	Castillo   8',   14' Lizana   52' Córdova   73',   90'		Donoso   88'	Attendance: 4,500 Referee: Iván Guerrero

See also

• 1996 Copa Chile

Notes

1. Temuco and Palestino remained in the Primera División de Chile

References

• national-football-teams