Colombia 1979

Torneo Apertura Team MP MW MD ML Goals Points 1. América de Cali 26 13 8 5 29-19 34 2. Deportivo Cali 26 13 8 5 37-27 34 3. Once Caldas 26 13 7 6 42-24 33 4. Atlético Junior 26 13 6 7 36-27 32 5. Union Magdalena 26 9 10 7 27-25 28 6. Independiente Medellín 26 9 9 8 34-30 27 7. Independiente Santa Fe 26 5 17 3 31-27 27 8. Millonarios 26 11 4 11 42-37 26 9. Atlético Nacional 26 8 8 10 32-38 24 10. Deportes Quindío 26 7 10 9 27-24 24 11. Atlético Bucaramanga 26 8 7 11 34-38 23 12. Deportivo Pereira 26 8 7 11 34-41 23 13. Cúcuta Deportivo 26 6 10 10 27-40 22 14. Deportes Tolima 26 2 6 18 22-58 10 NOTE - América de Cali and Deportivo Cali, both with 34 points had to play two games to decide the champion of Torneo Apertura. These two games finished 0-0, then goal average was used as tie breaker to crown América as the winner of Apertura tournament. Torneo Finalización Team MP MW MD ML Goals Points 1. America de Cali 21 13 5 3 33-14 31 2. Deportivo Cali 21 11 5 5 30-21 27 3. Deportivo Pereira 21 11 4 6 41-28 26 4. Union Magdalena 21 10 4 7 24-20 24 5. Atlético Nacional 21 5 13 3 26-22 23 6. Deportes Quindío 21 7 8 6 26-21 22 7. Atlético Junior 21 7 8 6 25-24 22 8. Millonarios 21 7 7 7 36-29 21 9. Independiente Santa Fe 21 7 7 7 35-33 21 10. Atlético Bucaramanga 21 7 5 9 26-36 19 11. Once Caldas 21 7 4 10 34-28 18 12. Cúcuta Deportivo 21 1 11 9 19-31 13 13. Deportes Tolima 21 3 7 11 16-37 13 14. Independiente Medellín 21 3 5 13 15-42 11 Semi-Final Quadrangulars Round 1 [Nov 4] Pereira 0-0 Junior América 0-0 Nacional Santa Fe 1-1 Cali Magdalena 3-1 Caldas Round 2 [Nov 7] Nacional 2-2 Pereira Junior 2-0 América Cali 0-0 Magdalena Caldas 2-1 Santa Fe Round 3 [Nov 11] Pereira 1-1 América Junior 2-1 Nacional Santa Fe 1-0 Magdalena Cali 3-0 Caldas Round 4 [Nov 18] América 1-0 Pereira Nacional 0-0 Junior Magdalena 0-0 Santa Fe Caldas 0-0 Cali Round 5 [Nov 21] Pereira 2-1 Nacional América 2-0 Junior Santa Fe 5-2 Caldas Magdalena 2-0 Cali Round 6 [Nov 25] Junior 2-0 Pereira Nacional 4-2 América Cali 1-1 Santa Fe Caldas 0-0 Magdalena (in Bogotá) Group A Teams MP MW MD ML Goals Points 1. Atlético Junior 6 3 2 1 6- 3 8 2. América de Cali 6 2 2 2 6- 7 6 3. Deportivo Pereira 6 1 3 2 5- 7 5 4. Atlético Nacional 6 1 3 2 8- 8 5 Group B Teams MP MW MT ML Goals Points 1. Unión Magdalena 6 2 3 1 5- 2 7 2. Independiente Santa Fe 6 2 3 1 9- 6 7 3. Deportivo Cali 6 1 4 1 5- 4 6 4. Once Caldas 6 1 2 3 5-12 4 Final Quadrangular Round 1 [Dec 2] Santa Fe 2-1 Junior Magdalena 1-1 América (in Barranquilla) Round 2 [Dec 5] Junior 1-2 Magdalena América 1-0 Santa Fe Round 3 [Dec 9] Junior 1-2 América Magdalena 3-0 Santa Fe Round 4 [Dec 12] América 0-0 Junior Santa Fe 2-0 Magdalena Round 5 [Dec 16] Santa Fe 1-0 América Magdalena 4-1 Junior Round 6 [Dec 19] América 2-0 Magdalena Junior 0-1 Santa Fe Teams MP MW MT ML Goals Points 1. América de Cali 6 3 2 1 6- 3 8 Libertadores Cup 1980 2. Independiente Santa Fe 6 4 0 2 6- 5 8 Libertadores Cup 1980 3. Unión Magdalena 6 3 1 2 10- 7 7 4. Atlético Junior 6 0 1 5 4-11 1 América de Cali champions of Colombia 1979 Topscorers Player Team Goals 1. Juan José Irigoyén Millonarios 36 2. Alberto Benítez Cali 34 3. Néstor Leonel Scotta Cali 32 4. Oswaldo Marcial Palavecino Nacional 31 5. Alberto Santelli Santa Fe 26 6. Rafael Agudelo Bucaramanga 23 7. Benjamín Cardona Pereira 21 8. Jorge Ramón Cáceres América 19 9. Nelson Gallego Caldas 18 9. Manuel Rosendo Magán Cúcuta 18

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list of 2nd division champions.

list of 3rd division champions.

foundation dates clubs.

list of topscorers.

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Prepared and maintained by Frank Ballesteros for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

Author: Frank Ballesteros (f-balles@uniandes.edu.co)
Last updated: 14 Feb 2001