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The Colombian Championship is a sporting competition located at the top of the football hierarchy in Colombia between eighteen best teams in Colombia. It is launched in 1948 by the División Mayor del Fútbol Profesional Colombiano (Dimayor), a complementary organization to the Colombian Football Federation. The competition initially called División Mayor has now become the Liga Águila for sponsorship reasons and takes place each year in two phases.Since the first season in 1948 the tournament has been played for 64 years (including the 1989 season, suspended before its term) giving rise to the award of 76 titles of champions due to the recent organization in semi-annual tournament.The first competition is won by the Independiente Santa Fe and the most recent, the closing tournament 2012, is won by Millonarios, who gets his fourteenth title, which allows him to be the most titled club in the country.According to the IFFHS 2011-2012 ranking, the Colombian championship is the 21st best championship in the world and the 6th in America behind the Brazilian Championship, the Argentine Championship, the Chilean Championship, the Ecuadorian Championship and the Championship of Paraguay. Historically, according to the IFFFHS, it ranks 3rd in the South American championships behind the Brazilian and Argentine championships.
History
The birth of professional Colombian football is directly linked to the creation of the División Mayor del Fútbol Profesional Colombiano (Dimayor), which was founded on 27 June 1948 in Barranquilla, precisely in order to organize a professional football tournament in the country . At this event, the date of 15 August of that same year is chosen as the opening date of the championship. The opening match of the first season pits the Atlético Municipal and the National University of Colombia with a score of 2 to 0. The first goal of the championship is marked in the fifteenth minute of this match by Rafael Serna. The first club crowned champion at the end of this first season is the Independiente Santa Fe based in Bogota.During the 1949 championship, due to a strike in Argentinian football, an era known as El Dorado began, during which many national stars such as Alfredo Di Stéfano and Adolfo Pedernera were recruited. Both sign for the Millonarios de Bogota. Other Colombian clubs also hire famous players from abroad, including many Peruvians. Valeriano López becomes the star of Deportivo Cali where he is associated with other Peruvian players, the Independiente Medellín forms a team comprising 12 Peruvians in its workforce, including Roberto Drago and Segundo Castillo Varela. The season ended with the victory of the Millonarios in the race for the title of champion.In 1950, the Sport Caldas (now Once Caldas) created a surprise by winning the championship, for the first time in its history, relegating Millonarios to second place. However Millonarios remains the main beneficiary of the El Dorado period by winning three consecutive titles in 1951, 1952 and 1953.The championship of 1954 sees the first coronation of the Atlético Nacional, in a competition marked by the economic crisis and which seals the period known as El Dorado, forcing several teams to withdraw from the competition. The season 1955 sees the crowning of a new champion, the Independiente Medellín club, the Atlético Nacional finishing vice-champion. The year 1956 is the year when the Deportes Quindío wins the championship for the first time and until then only in its history after a fight for the title with Millonarios and the Boca Juniors of Cali.
The tournament organized in 1957 is the longest and most confusing championship in the history of Colombian football; In the first place is played a round of championship by return, the winner of this championship is qualified for the national final. As a result of this first phase a championship reduced to the 8 best teams of the first phase is organized but is canceled before term. This phase is then replaced by two separate tournaments each comprising 6 of the 12 initial teams. Pool A of this second phase comprising 3 teams with the same number of points, a championship of dams is organized between these teams to determine the winner of the pool. The two second stage winners Deportes Tolima and Cúcuta Deportivo meet in a live final to decide who will play the national final against Independiente Medellín, already qualified as the winner of the first phase. Cucuta Deportivo wins in the final live but must, after the two games of the national final, admit defeat by the Independiente Medellín who wins his second title.1958 saw the victory of the Independiente Santa Fe who won his second title 10 after the one of 1948. Before the last day, Santa Fe and Millonarios are tied with 46 points, during the last day, Millonarios makes 2-2 in Moving to Cúcuta while Santa Fe won 2-0 the encounter with Atlético Manizales. In addition the Boca Juniors of Cali absent of the season for economic reason announces its final withdrawal.The 1959 season was won by the Millonarios who won his fifth championship title. With the decision to create the Copa Libertadores by the South American Confederation of Football the club is qualified for the first edition of the event played in 1960 and becomes the first Colombian club to take part in an official international competition. The club will also reach the semifinals of the event.
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