2022 Primera B de Chile
The 2022 Primera B de Chile, also known as Campeonato Ascenso Betsson 2022 for sponsorship purposes, was the 68th season of the Primera B de Chile, Chile's second-tier football league. The fixture for the season was announced on 1 February 2022, with the competition starting on 15 February and ending on 27 November 2022.[1]
| Season | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Dates | 15 February – 27 November 2022 |
| Champions | Magallanes (1st title) |
| Promoted | Magallanes Deportes Copiapó |
| Relegated | Fernandez Vial Deportes Melipilla |
| Matches played | 280 |
| Goals scored | 659 (2.35 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Juan Ignacio Duma (14 goals) |
| Biggest home win | Magallanes 7–0 Melipilla (9 October) |
| Biggest away win | Cobreloa 0–5 Copiapó (27 November) |
| Highest scoring | Barnechea 6–2 Iquique (11 May) |
← 2021 2023 → | |
Magallanes were the champions, clinching their first Primera B title as well as promotion to Primera División on the final day of the regular season with a 2–0 win over Deportes Recoleta on 1 November 2022.[2] The other promoted club was Deportes Copiapó, who won the promotion play-off after beating the regular season runners-up Cobreloa in the finals.[3]
Format
The tournament was played by 17 teams, 14 returning from the previous season, two relegated from the 2021 Campeonato Nacional (Deportes Melipilla and Santiago Wanderers), and the 2021 Segunda División Profesional champions Deportes Recoleta. The 17 teams played each other in a double round-robin tournament (once at home and once away) for a total of 32 matches, with every team having two bye rounds. The top team at the end of the 34 rounds was the champion and was promoted to the Campeonato Nacional for its 2023 season, while the next five teams played a play-off tournament (Liguilla) in which the league runners-up received a bye to the final. The playoffs winning team was the second and last promoted team to the top flight for the following season. Two teams were relegated to the Segunda División Profesional at the end of the season: the bottom-placed team in the league standings as well as the bottom-placed team in the relegation table, which considered the performance of teams in the 2021 and 2022 seasons.[4]
Teams
Stadia and locations
Barnechea
Deportes Recoleta
Magallanes
Santiago Morning
Concepción teams:
Fernandez Vial
U. de Concepción
- Notes
- Deportes Recoleta played some of their home matches at Estadio Santa Laura-Universidad SEK in Santiago.[5]
Standings
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Magallanes (C, P) | 32 | 22 | 6 | 4 | 61 | 23 | +38 | 72 | Promotion to Primera División |
| 2 | Cobreloa | 32 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 41 | 24 | +17 | 68 | Advance to Promotion play-off final |
| 3 | Deportes Copiapó (P) | 32 | 15 | 7 | 10 | 46 | 34 | +12 | 52 | Advance to Promotion play-off quarter-finals |
| 4 | Unión San Felipe | 32 | 15 | 7 | 10 | 38 | 35 | +3 | 52 | |
| 5 | Deportes Puerto Montt | 32 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 36 | 31 | +5 | 47 | |
| 6 | Universidad de Concepción | 32 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 41 | 33 | +8 | 46 | |
| 7 | Rangers | 32 | 14 | 4 | 14 | 39 | 40 | −1 | 46 | |
| 8 | Barnechea | 32 | 12 | 8 | 12 | 47 | 43 | +4 | 44 | |
| 9 | Santiago Wanderers | 32 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 37 | 37 | 0 | 42 | |
| 10 | Deportes Temuco | 32 | 10 | 8 | 14 | 31 | 41 | −10 | 38 | |
| 11 | Deportes Santa Cruz | 32 | 9 | 9 | 14 | 34 | 39 | −5 | 36 | |
| 12 | Deportes Iquique | 32 | 8 | 11 | 13 | 31 | 38 | −7 | 35 | |
| 13 | Deportes Recoleta | 32 | 8 | 10 | 14 | 34 | 41 | −7 | 34 | |
| 14 | Santiago Morning | 32 | 8 | 10 | 14 | 37 | 47 | −10 | 34 | |
| 15 | San Luis | 32 | 7 | 13 | 12 | 27 | 42 | −15 | 34 | |
| 16 | Deportes Melipilla | 32 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 29 | 48 | −19 | 30 | |
| 17 | Fernández Vial (R) | 32 | 3 | 17 | 12 | 26 | 39 | −13 | 26 | Relegation to Segunda División Profesional |
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) Goal difference, 3) Matches won, 4) Goals for, 5) Away goals for, 6) Red cards, 7) Yellow cards, 8) Drawing of lots, 9) Playoff game (only if needed to decide championship).
If needed to decide championship between two teams: 2) Playoff game.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Results
Promotion playoff
Bracket
| Quarter-finals | Semi-final | Final | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Deportes Puerto Montt | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | Deportes Copiapó | 0 | 5 | 5 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | Unión San Felipe | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Deportes Puerto Montt | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | Cobreloa | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 3 | Deportes Copiapó | 0 | 4 | 4 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Universidad de Concepción | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | Deportes Copiapó | 0 | 5 | 5 | |||||||||||||||
Quarter-finals
| Deportes Puerto Montt | 2–1 | Unión San Felipe |
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| Unión San Felipe | 0–1 | Deportes Puerto Montt |
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Deportes Puerto Montt won 3–1 on aggregate and advanced to the semi-final.
Deportes Copiapó won 5–1 on aggregate and advanced to the semi-final.
Semi-final
| Deportes Puerto Montt | 3–0 | Deportes Copiapó |
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| Deportes Copiapó | 4–0 | Deportes Puerto Montt |
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Deportes Copiapó won 4–3 on aggregate and advanced to the final.
Final
| Deportes Copiapó | 0–0 | Cobreloa |
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| Report |
| Cobreloa | 0–5 | Deportes Copiapó |
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Deportes Copiapó won 5–0 on aggregate and were promoted to Primera División.
Top scorers
| Rank | Name | Club | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Juan Ignacio Duma |
Barnechea | 14 |
| 2 | Alfredo Ábalos |
Rangers | 13 |
 Pedro Muñoz |
Deportes Santa Cruz | ||
| 4 | César Cortés |
Magallanes | 12 |
| David Escalante |
Cobreloa | ||
| Óscar Ortega |
Santiago Morning | ||
| 7 |  Arnaldo Castillo |
Universidad de Concepción | 11 |
| Steffan Pino |
Santiago Morning | ||
| Maximiliano Quinteros |
Deportes Copiapó | ||
| 10 | Lionel Altamirano |
Rangers | 9 |
| Sebastián Parada |
San Luis |
Source: Soccerway
Relegation
For this season, a relegation table was elaborated by computing an average of the points earned per game over this season and the previous one. Promoted team Deportes Recoleta and the relegated ones Deportes Melipilla and Santiago Wanderers only had their points in the 2022 season averaged. The team placing last in this table at the end of the season was relegated. In case this team was also the last-placed one in the season's table, the team placed second-to-last in this table would also be relegated.[6]
| Pos | Team | 2021 Pts |
2021 Pld |
2022 Pts |
2022 Pld |
Total Pts |
Total Pld |
Avg | Relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Magallanes | 41 | 30 | 72 | 32 | 113 | 62 | 1.823 | |
| 2 | Deportes Copiapó | 52 | 30 | 52 | 32 | 104 | 62 | 1.677 | |
| 3 | Cobreloa | 33 | 30 | 68 | 32 | 101 | 62 | 1.629 | |
| 4 | Deportes Puerto Montt | 48 | 30 | 47 | 32 | 95 | 62 | 1.532 | |
| 5 | Unión San Felipe | 36 | 30 | 52 | 32 | 88 | 62 | 1.419 | |
| 6 | Deportes Temuco | 49 | 30 | 38 | 32 | 87 | 62 | 1.403 | |
| 7 | Santiago Morning | 51 | 30 | 34 | 32 | 85 | 62 | 1.371 | |
| 8 | Santiago Wanderers | — | — | 42 | 32 | 42 | 32 | 1.313 | |
| 9 | Deportes Santa Cruz | 45 | 30 | 36 | 32 | 81 | 62 | 1.306 | |
| 10 | Rangers | 35 | 30 | 46 | 32 | 81 | 62 | 1.306 | |
| 11 | Universidad de Concepción | 33 | 30 | 46 | 32 | 79 | 62 | 1.274 | |
| 12 | Deportes Iquique | 40 | 30 | 35 | 32 | 75 | 62 | 1.21 | |
| 13 | San Luis | 40 | 30 | 34 | 32 | 74 | 62 | 1.194 | |
| 14 | Barnechea | 24 | 30 | 44 | 32 | 68 | 62 | 1.097 | |
| 15 | Fernández Vial | 40 | 30 | 26 | 32 | 66 | 62 | 1.065 | |
| 16 | Deportes Recoleta | — | — | 34 | 32 | 34 | 32 | 1.063 | |
| 17 | Deportes Melipilla (R) | — | — | 30 | 32 | 30 | 32 | 0.938 | Relegation to Segunda División Profesional |
Source: ANFP
References
- "Fixture de la Primera B 2022: Así se juega el torneo del ascenso en esta temporada" [Fixture of the 2022 Primera B: This is how the promotion tournament is being played this season] (in Spanish). RedGol. 1 February 2022. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- "35 años no es nada: Magallanes vuelve a ser de Primera" [35 years is nothing: Magallanes are in Primera again] (in Spanish). La Tercera. 1 November 2022. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
- "Histórico: Copiapó aplastó a Cobreloa en Calama y logró un inédito ascenso a Primera División" [Historical: Copiapó crushed Cobreloa in Calama and achieved an unprecedented promotion to Primera División] (in Spanish). Emol. 27 November 2022. Retrieved 27 November 2022.
- "Más ascensos, con Liguilla nueva y sin Promoción: los cambios que se vienen en la Primera B 2022" [More promotions, with a new Liguilla and without promotion/relegation play-offs: the changes that are coming in the 2022 Primera B] (in Spanish). Encancha.cl. 7 February 2022. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- "Deportes Recoleta será local en el Estadio Santa Laura durante 2022" [Deportes Recoleta will play their home matches during 2022 at Estadio Santa Laura] (in Spanish). AlAireLibre.cl. 13 January 2022. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- "BASES CAMPEONATO NACIONAL DE PRIMERA B TEMPORADA 2022" [2022 CAMPEONATO NACIONAL DE PRIMERA B REGULATIONS] (PDF) (in Spanish). ANFP. Retrieved 8 February 2022.