2000 Categoría Primera A season

The 2000 Categoría Primera A season, known as Copa Mustang 2000 for sponsoring purposes, was the 53rd season of the Categoría Primera A, Colombia's top-flight football league. The season started on 12 February and ended on 17 December 2000. América de Cali were the champions, clinching their tenth domestic league title with a 2–0 victory over Deportes Tolima on the final day of the season.[1]

Copa Mustang
Season2000
Dates12 February – 17 December 2000
ChampionsAmérica de Cali (10th title)
RelegatedDeportes Quindío
Copa LibertadoresAmérica de Cali
Junior
Deportivo Cali
Matches played364
Goals scored972 (2.67 per match)
Top goalscorerCarlos Castro (24 goals)
← 1999
2001 →

Atlético Nacional were the defending champions, but placed seventh in the aggregate table and thus failed to qualify for the final stage of the competition.

Format

The season was split into three stages: the first two stages were the Apertura and Finalización tournaments, in which the 16 teams were first divided into two groups of eight teams, playing seven games, and then all teams in the league played each other once for a total of 22 matches. The winners of each tournament earned a berth into the 2001 Copa Libertadores. The third and final stage was played by the top four teams of the aggregate table of both tournaments, who played each other twice to decide the champions of the season, who also qualified for the Copa Libertadores. In case the eventual champion had already won the Apertura or Finalización tournaments, the runners-up of the final stage would take the third Copa Libertadores berth as the season's runners-up.

Teams

16 teams competed in the season, the top 15 teams of the relegation table of the 1999 season and Real Cartagena, who were promoted as champions of the 1999 Categoría Primera B tournament, replacing Unión Magdalena who were relegated at the end of the previous season.

Locations of the 2000 Categoría Primera A teams
Team Home city Stadium Capacity
América de Cali Cali Pascual Guerrero 45,625
Atlético Bucaramanga Bucaramanga Alfonso López 28,000
Atlético Huila Neiva Guillermo Plazas Alcid 22,000
Atlético Nacional Medellín Atanasio Girardot 52,000
Cortuluá Tuluá Doce de Octubre 16,000
Deportes Quindío Armenia Centenario 29,000
Deportes Tolima Ibagué Manuel Murillo Toro 28,100
Deportivo Cali Cali Pascual Guerrero 45,625
Deportivo Pasto Pasto Departamental Libertad 12,000
Envigado Envigado Polideportivo Sur 11,000
Independiente Medellín Medellín Atanasio Girardot 52,000
Junior Barranquilla Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez 60,000
Millonarios Bogotá Nemesio Camacho El Campín 48,300
Once Caldas Manizales Palogrande 36,553
Real Cartagena Cartagena Pedro de Heredia 16,000
Santa Fe Bogotá Nemesio Camacho El Campín 48,300

Torneo Apertura

The Torneo Apertura (also known as Copa Mustang I) began on 12 February and ended on 2 July.

Standings
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Deportivo Cali 22 11 7 4 36 22 +14 40 Qualification for the Copa Libertadores
2 América de Cali 22 11 5 6 42 22 +20 38
3 Deportes Tolima 22 11 3 8 36 29 +7 36
4 Millonarios 22 8 9 5 32 27 +5 33
5 Atlético Nacional 22 9 5 8 35 29 +6 32
6 Junior 22 9 5 8 33 27 +6 32
7 Cortuluá 22 9 5 8 30 31 −1 32
8 Envigado 22 8 8 6 30 25 +5 32
9 Santa Fe 22 8 7 7 32 30 +2 31
10 Real Cartagena 22 7 6 9 21 23 −2 27
11 Atlético Huila 22 6 9 7 21 27 −6 27
12 Once Caldas 22 6 9 7 24 31 −7 27
13 Independiente Medellín 22 6 8 8 28 34 −6 26
14 Deportivo Pasto 22 6 4 12 27 44 −17 22
15 Atlético Bucaramanga 22 5 6 11 16 28 −12 21
16 Deportes Quindío 22 5 6 11 24 38 −14 21
Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) Wins, 3) Goal difference, 4) Goals for, 5) Away goals for, 6) Goals against, 7) Away goals against, 8) Drawing of lots.

Torneo Finalización

The Torneo Finalización (also known as Copa Mustang II) began on 9 July and ended on 26 November. On 17 September 2000, during the 12th round match between Santa Fe and Deportes Tolima, referee Óscar Ruiz disallowed a goal for Santa Fe scored by Jeffrey Díaz after checking the existence of a handball with the help of a replay of the television broadcast of the match.[2]

Standings
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 América de Cali 22 14 6 2 40 20 +20 48 Qualification for the Copa Libertadores
2 Santa Fe 22 13 4 5 33 22 +11 43
3 Junior 22 10 8 4 37 23 +14 38
4 Millonarios 22 9 9 4 32 23 +9 36
5 Deportes Tolima 22 10 3 9 31 25 +6 33
6 Once Caldas 22 9 6 7 29 19 +10 33
7 Atlético Nacional 22 8 4 10 31 34 −3 28
8 Deportivo Pasto 22 7 7 8 29 28 +1 28
9 Independiente Medellín 22 7 6 9 28 30 −2 27
10 Atlético Bucaramanga 22 7 6 9 23 30 −7 27
11 Atlético Huila 22 8 2 12 29 39 −10 26
12 Envigado 22 7 5 10 31 38 −7 26
13 Real Cartagena 22 6 6 10 23 28 −5 24
14 Deportes Quindío 22 6 6 10 26 38 −12 24
15 Deportivo Cali 22 5 6 11 31 42 −11 21
16 Cortuluá 22 3 10 9 25 39 −14 19
Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) Wins, 3) Goal difference, 4) Goals for, 5) Away goals for, 6) Goals against, 7) Away goals against, 8) Drawing of lots.

Aggregate table

An aggregate table known as Reclasificación including the games of both tournaments (Apertura and Finalización) was used to determine the four teams that would advance to the final stage of the tournament, as well as the team to be relegated at the end of the season. The top four teams in this table at the end of the Torneo Finalización advanced to the final stage, while the team placed last was relegated to Categoría Primera B for the following season.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 América de Cali 44 25 11 8 82 42 +40 86 Advance to the final stage
2 Santa Fe 44 21 11 12 65 52 +13 74
3 Junior 44 19 13 12 70 50 +20 70
4 Deportes Tolima 44 21 6 17 67 54 +13 69
5 Millonarios 44 17 18 9 64 50 +14 69
6 Deportivo Cali 44 16 13 15 67 64 +3 61
7 Atlético Nacional 44 17 9 18 66 63 +3 60
8 Once Caldas 44 15 15 14 53 50 +3 60
9 Envigado 44 15 13 16 61 63 −2 58
10 Atlético Huila 44 14 11 19 50 66 −16 53
11 Independiente Medellín 44 13 14 17 56 64 −8 53
12 Real Cartagena 44 13 12 19 44 51 −7 51
13 Cortuluá 44 12 15 17 55 70 −15 51
14 Deportivo Pasto 44 13 11 20 56 72 −16 50
15 Atlético Bucaramanga 44 12 12 20 39 58 −19 48
16 Deportes Quindío (R) 44 11 12 21 50 76 −26 45 Relegation to Categoría Primera B
Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) Wins, 3) Goal difference, 4) Goals for, 5) Away goals for, 6) Goals against, 7) Away goals against, 8) Drawing of lots.
(R) Relegated

Final stage

In the third stage of the tournament, the four qualified teams played each other under a double round-robin system with the team with the most points at the end of this stage being declared as the champion.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification AME JUN TOL SFE
1 América de Cali (C) 6 3 1 2 7 3 +4 10 — 2–0 2–0 3–1
2 Junior 6 2 3 1 6 6 0 9 Qualification for the Copa Libertadores 0–0 — 1–0 4–3
3 Deportes Tolima 6 2 1 3 5 6 −1 7 1–0 0–0 — 3–1
4 Santa Fe 6 2 1 3 9 12 −3 7 1–0 1–1 2–1 —
Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) Wins, 3) Goal difference, 4) Goals for, 5) Away goals for, 6) Goals against, 7) Away goals against, 8) Drawing of lots.
(C) Champions
 2000 Categoría Primera A champions 
América de Cali
10th title

Top goalscorers
Rank Name Club Goals
1 Colombia Carlos Castro Millonarios 24
2 Colombia Julián Vásquez Envigado 23
3 Argentina Sergio Galván Rey Once Caldas 20
Colombia Iván René Valenciano Independiente Medellín / Atlético Bucaramanga
5 Colombia Néstor Salazar América de Cali 19
6 Brazil Marcos Cardoso Junior 17
7 Colombia Orlando Ballesteros Junior 16
8 Colombia Hugo Arrieta Deportes Tolima 16
9 Colombia Léider Preciado Santa Fe 15
Colombia Ricardo Ciciliano Deportivo Pasto / Deportes Quindío

Source: RSSSF

References
  1. "De aquel 19 al 7 de diciembre: recorrido por las catorce estrellas del América de Cali" [From that 19th to December 7th: a tour of the fourteen stars of América de Cali] (in Spanish). El País. 7 December 2019. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
  2. "Santa Fe - Tolima en el 2000: La primera vez que se usó el VAR en Colombia" [Santa Fe vs. Tolima in 2000: the first time VAR was used in Colombia] (in Spanish). Canal RCN. 1 December 2019. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
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