1957 Campeonato Profesional

Campeonato Profesional

Season	1957
Champions	Independiente Medellín (2nd title)
Matches played	213
Goals scored	744 (3.49 per match)
Top goalscorer	José Grecco (30)
Biggest home win	Independiente Medellín 8–1 Deportivo Pereira
Biggest away win	Bucaramanga 0–4 Independiente Medellín Deportivo Pereira 2–6 Independiente Medellín
Highest scoring	Independiente Medellín 9–5 Santa Fe
← 1956 1958 →

The 1957 Campeonato Profesional was the tenth season of Colombia's top-flight football league. The tournament consisted of a First Stage, a cancelled Octogonal Stage and a two-groups Second Stage, therefore ending on 13 April 1958. 12 teams participed in the tournament. Independiente Medellín won the league for 2nd time in its history after defeating Cúcuta Deportivo in the Championship Playoff with an aggregate score of 8–3. Atlético Quindío, the defending champion, was 3rd in the First Stage with 24 points, but was eliminated in the Second Stage.^[1]

Background

12 teams competed in the tournament, with Libertad de Barranquilla was the only team from the previous season who did not participate.^[2][3]

League system

Teams received two points for a win and one point for a draw. On the First Stage, every team played two games against each other team, one at home and one away, and the first 8 teams qualified for the Octogonal Stage. From this stage, the team with most points would be the champion of the season, however the stage was cancelled after 8 matches due to claims from the teams eliminated in the First Stage. Then, a Second Stage was played, with two groups of six teams each. The champion of each group played a playoff, and the champion of it played a Champion Playoff against the champion of the First Stage.

Teams

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Locations of the 1956 Campeonato Profesional teams:

1. Armenia 2. Bogotá 3. Bucaramanga

4. Cali 5. Cúcuta 6. Ibagué

7. Medellín 8. Pereira 9. Santa Marta

Team	City	Stadium
América	Cali	Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero
Atlético Bucaramanga	Bucaramanga	Estadio Alfonso López
Atlético Nacional	Medellín	Estadio Atanasio Girardot
Atlético Quindío	Armenia	Estadio San José de Armenia
Boca Juniors	Cali	Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero
Cúcuta Deportivo	Cúcuta	Estadio General Santander
Deportes Tolima	Ibagué	Estadio Gustavo Rojas Pinilla
Deportivo Pereira	Pereira	Estadio Alberto Mora Mora
Independiente Medellín	Medellín	Estadio Atanasio Girardot
Millonarios	Bogotá	Estadio El Campín
Santa Fe	Bogotá	Estadio El Campín
Unión Magdalena	Santa Marta	Estadio Eduardo Santos

First Stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Independiente Medellín	22	16	4	2	69	31	+38	36
2	Boca Juniors	22	12	5	5	43	26	+17	29
3	Atlético Quindío	22	10	4	8	34	30	+4	24
4	Deportivo Pereira	22	9	6	7	42	51	−9	24
5	Cúcuta Deportivo	22	7	8	7	37	38	−1	22
6	Santa Fe	22	7	7	8	52	52	0	21
7	Unión Magdalena	22	7	7	8	32	32	0	21
8	Deportes Tolima	22	7	6	9	41	47	−6	20
9	América	22	8	3	11	39	46	−7	19
10	Atlético Nacional	22	6	5	11	31	41	−10	17
11	Atlético Bucaramanga	22	6	4	12	28	37	−9	16
12	Millonarios	22	4	7	11	25	42	−17	15

	Qualified to Octogonal Stage (and later also added to Champion Playoff)
	Qualified to Octogonal Stage

Results

Home \ Away^[1]

AME

BJ

BUC

CUC

MAG

MED

MIL

NAC

PER

QUI

SFE

TOL

América

1–4

3–2

3–2

1–0

1–2

0–2

4–1

2–1

4–0

5–5

1–0

Boca Juniors

3–0

1–0

2–2

2–0

2–2

2–0

3–1

2–2

1–0

3–0

2–2

Atlético Bucaramanga

3–1

1–0

2–0

0–0

0–4

2–2

0–1

2–1

2–3

1–1

0–1

Cúcuta Deportivo

2–1

2–2

3–1

3–2

0–0

3–1

2–1

0–0

4–5

2–1

3–1

Unión Magdalena

4–2

0–2

1–2

0–0

2–0

1–1

3–1

3–0

0–0

1–2

3–1

Independiente Medellín

3–1

2–1

3–2

4–2

6–1

4–1

1–2

8–1

2–1

9–5

4–3

Millonarios

2–2

1–0

3–4

2–2

1–3

1–3

1–1

1–1

0–1

1–1

1–2

Atlético Nacional

2–1

0–3

2–2

0–0

1–2

0–2

3–0

2–3

0–0

3–4

5–3

Deportivo Pereira

4–3

2–1

1–0

3–2

3–3

2–6

3–0

1–0

2–1

4–1

4–4

Atlético Quindío

1–1

0–1

1–0

1–1

2–1

1–2

0–1

3–1

5–0

3–2

1–2

Santa Fe

2–0

6–1

4–2

4–1

0–0

1–1

2–3

1–2

3–3

1–2

4–3

Deportes Tolima

1–2

2–5

1–0

2–1

2–2

1–1

2–0

2–2

2–1

2–3

2–2

Octogonal (Canceled)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Independiente Medellín	3	3	0	0	13	4	+9	6
2	Atlético Quindío	2	2	0	0	3	1	+2	4
3	Unión Magdalena	2	1	1	0	4	2	+2	3
4	Deportivo Pereira	3	1	0	2	6	6	0	2
5	Santa Fe	2	0	1	1	4	5	−1	1
6	Deportes Tolima	1	0	0	1	0	1	−1	0
7	Boca Juniors	1	0	0	1	0	2	−2	0
8	Cúcuta Deportivo	2	0	0	2	2	11	−9	0

Results

Home \ Away^[1]	BJ	CUC	MAG	MED	PER	QUI	SFE	TOL
Boca Juniors		[4]	[4]	[4]	[4]	[4]	[4]	[4]
Cúcuta Deportivo	[4]		[4]	[4]	1–4	[4]	[4]	[4]
Unión Magdalena	2–0	[4]		[4]	[4]	[4]	[4]	[4]
Independiente Medellín	[4]	7–1	[4]		3–1	[4]	[4]	[4]
Deportivo Pereira	[4]	[4]	[4]	[4]		1–2	[4]	[4]
Atlético Quindío	[4]	[4]	[4]	[4]	[4]		[4]	1–0
Santa Fe	[4]	[4]	2–2	2–3	[4]	[4]		[4]
Deportes Tolima	[4]	[4]	[4]	[4]	[4]	[4]	[4]

Second Stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Independiente Medellín	10	5	2	3	24	16	+8	12
2	Deportivo Pereira	10	5	2	3	23	18	+5	12
3	Deportes Tolima	10	4	4	2	22	19	+3	12
4	Atlético Quindío	10	2	6	2	18	18	0	10
5	Atlético Nacional	10	3	3	4	17	16	+1	9
6	Unión Magdalena	10	0	5	5	10	27	−17	5

Results

Home \ Away^[1]	MAG	MED	NAC	PER	QUI	TOL
Unión Magdalena		0–3	0–0	2–2	1–1	1–4
Independiente Medellín	5–0		2–1	5–3	0–2	3–5
Atlético Nacional	3–0	1–1		3–2	1–3	3–1
Deportivo Pereira	4–1	2–0	2–1		2–1	1–1
Atlético Quindío	4–4	2–2	2–2	0–3		3–3
Deportes Tolima	1–1	0–3	3–2	4–2	0–0

First-place Playoff

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Deportes Tolima	4	2	1	1	8	6	+2	5
2	Deportivo Pereira	4	2	1	1	7	6	+1	5
3	Independiente Medellín	4	1	0	3	5	8	−3	2

Results

Home \ Away^[1]	MED	PER	TOL
Independiente Medellín		1–2	2–0
Deportivo Pereira	2–1		2–2
Deportes Tolima	4–1	2–1

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Cúcuta Deportivo	10	6	2	2	19	14	+5	14
2	Atlético Bucaramanga	10	5	2	3	15	9	+6	12
3	Santa Fe	10	4	2	4	14	12	+2	10
4	Millonarios	10	4	2	4	13	15	−2	10
5	Boca Juniors	10	3	2	5	10	14	−4	8
6	América	10	3	0	7	10	17	−7	6

Results

Home \ Away^[1]	AME	BJ	BUC	CUC	MIL	SFE
América		2–1	0–1	0–1	1–0	1–2
Boca Juniors	1–2		1–1	3–0	0–1	1–0
Atlético Bucaramanga	2–1	2–0		0–0	4–1	3–0
Cúcuta Deportivo	4–3	4–0	3–1		2–1	1–1
Millonarios	3–0	2–2	1–0	3–1		1–1
Santa Fe	2–0	0–1	2–1	2–3	4–0

Final

Cúcuta Deportivo v Deportes Tolima

16 February 1958

Cúcuta Deportivo	1–0	Deportes Tolima
Zapirain  18'	Report

Estadio General Santander, Cúcuta Referee: José Sundheim

Deportes Tolima v Cúcuta Deportivo

23 February 1958

Deportes Tolima	2–1	Cúcuta Deportivo
H. Pérez  30' L. Rodríguez  54' (o.g.)	Report	Serrano  70'

Estadio Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, Ibagué Referee: Jaime Téllez

Deportes Tolima v Cúcuta Deportivo

15 March 1958

Deportes Tolima	1–1	Cúcuta Deportivo
Coll  27'	Report	Galeano  67'

Estadio Atanasio Girardot, Medellín Referee: Jaime Téllez

Cúcuta Deportivo qualified to Champion Playoff on coin toss. Because of this, a Runners-up Playoff was also played after the Champion Playoff.

Champion Playoff

Cúcuta Deportivo v Independiente Medellín

19 March 1958

Cúcuta Deportivo	3–4	Independiente Medellín
E. Ramírez  36' Galeano  67' Cuéllar  83'	Report	Arredondo  23' Larraz  40', 51' Contreras  77'

Estadio General Santander, Cúcuta Referee: José Sundheim

Independiente Medellín v Cúcuta Deportivo

23 March 1958

Independiente Medellín	4–0	Cúcuta Deportivo
Larraz  10' Arredondo  40', 62' Grecco  81'	Report

Estadio Atanasio Girardot, Medellín Referee: Francisco Giménez Molina

Runners-Up Playoff

Cúcuta Deportivo v Deportes Tolima

9 April 1958

Cúcuta Deportivo	3–2	Deportes Tolima
E. Ramírez  34' Galeano  45', 54'	Report	Jamardo  75' Coll  88'

Estadio General Santander, Cúcuta Referee: Ovidio Orrego

Deportes Tolima v Cúcuta Deportivo

13 April 1958

Deportes Tolima	2–0	Cúcuta Deportivo
Jamardo  43' Galavis  66'	Report

Estadio Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, Ibagué Referee: Francisco Giménez Molina

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Club	Goals
1	José Grecco	Independiente Medellín	30
2	Jaime Gutiérrez	Atlético Nacional	23
	Walter Marcolini	Atlético Quindío	23
	Roberto Rolando	Boca Juniors de Cali	23
5	Casimiro Ávalos	Deportivo Pereira	18
	Francisco Solano Patiño	Deportivo Pereira	18
7	José Montanini	Atlético Bucaramanga	17
	Alberto Galeano	Cúcuta Deportivo	17
9	Alejandro Genes	Deportivo Pereira	16
10	Luis Miloc	Cúcuta Deportivo	15

Source: RSSSF.com Colombia 1957

1957 Campeonato Profesional Champion
Independiente Medellín Second Title

References

1. Ruíz Bonilla, Guillermo (2008). La gran historia del Fútbol Profesional Colombiano. Ediciones Dayscript. p. 12-14; 19. ISBN 978-958-987-1300.
2. Asociación de Clubes del Fútbol Profesional Colombiano - Historia 1957 at the Wayback Machine
3. El Tiempo (5 August 2008). "Diez clubes jugaron en la primera división del fútbol colombiano, pero desaparecieron". El Tiempo (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 September 2014.
4. Matches not played.

External links

• Dimayor Official Page