2003 Primera División of Chile

Campeonato Nacional Clausura Copa Banco del Estado
Dates	8 February – 6 July 2003
Champions	Cobreloa; 7th title
2004 Copa Libertadores	Colo-Colo (Apertura/Clausura 2nd place); Universidad de Concepción (Best team not yet qualified)
Matches played	181
Goals scored	509 (2.81 per match)
Top goalscorer	Gustavo Biscayzacú; (21 goals)
Biggest home win	Palestino 6–2 Rangers; (18 October)
Biggest away win	Universidad Católica 2–5 Colo-Colo; (10 August); Rangers 0–6 Universidad de Concepción; (26 October)
Highest attendance	40,000; Colo-Colo 1–2 Cobreloa; (21 December)
	← 2003–A 2004–A →

Campeonato Nacional Apertura Copa Banco del Estado
Dates	8 February – 6 July 2003
Champions	Cobreloa; 6th title
2004 Copa Libertadores	Cobreloa
2003 Copa Sudamericana	Universidad Católica (Pre-Sudamericana winners); Provincial Osorno (Pre-Sudamericana winners)
Matches played	146
Goals scored	489 (3.35 per match)
Top goalscorer	Salvador Cabañas; (18 goals)
Biggest home win	Universidad de Concepción 8–2 Palestino; (20 April)
Biggest away win	Palestino 1–5 Audax Italiano; (15 March)
Highest attendance	40,000; Colo-Colo 0–0 Cobreloa; (21 December)
	← 2002–C 2003–C →

The 2003 Primera División de Chile season was both 73rd and 74th season of top-flight football in Chile.

Torneo Apertura[edit]

The 2003 Campeonato Nacional Apertura Copa Banco del Estado was the 73rd Chilean League top flight tournament, in which Cobreloa won its sixth league title after eight years.^[1]

Qualification stage[edit]

Group standings[edit]

Group A
Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Cobreloa	15	10	1	4	26	16	+10	31	Qualify to the playoffs
2	Huachipato	15	6	3	6	22	22	0	21
3	Unión Española	15	5	3	7	24	32	−8	18
4	Palestino	15	5	2	8	18	28	−10	17

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group B
Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Deportes Puerto Montt	15	7	4	4	26	22	+4	25	Qualify to the playoffs
2	Universidad de Chile	15	4	8	3	30	24	+6	20	Qualify to the playoffs
3	Unión San Felipe	15	3	4	8	13	26	−13	13	Qualify to the repechaje
4	Coquimbo Unido	15	2	2	11	12	30	−18	8

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group C
Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Audax Italiano	15	8	2	5	37	30	+7	26	Qualify to the playoffs
2	Cobresal	15	6	3	6	27	19	+8	21
3	Rangers	15	3	11	1	28	26	+2	20
4	Santiago Wanderers	15	5	4	6	24	23	+1	19	Qualify to the repechaje

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group D
Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Universidad de Concepción	15	7	3	5	29	21	+8	24	Qualify to the playoffs
2	Universidad Católica	15	6	6	3	27	20	+7	24
3	Colo-Colo	15	6	5	4	28	23	+5	23
4	Deportes Temuco	15	5	3	7	24	33	−9	18

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Aggregate table[edit]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Cobreloa	15	10	1	4	26	16	+10	31	Playoffs
2	Audax Italiano	15	8	2	5	37	30	+7	26
3	Deportes Puerto Montt	15	7	4	4	26	22	+4	25
4	Universidad de Concepción	15	7	3	5	29	21	+8	24
5	Universidad Católica	15	6	6	3	27	20	+7	24
6	Colo-Colo	15	6	5	4	28	23	+5	23
7	Cobresal	15	6	3	6	27	19	+8	21
8	Huachipato	15	6	3	6	22	22	0	21
9	Universidad de Chile	15	4	8	3	30	24	+6	20
10	Rangers	15	3	11	1	28	26	+2	20
11	Santiago Wanderers	15	5	4	6	24	23	+1	19	Repechaje
12	Unión Española	15	5	3	7	24	32	−8	18	Playoffs
13	Palestino	15	5	2	8	18	28	−10	17
14	Deportes Temuco	15	5	3	7	24	33	−9	18
15	Unión San Felipe	15	3	4	8	13	26	−13	13	Repechaje
16	Coquimbo Unido	15	2	2	11	12	30	−18	8

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Repechaje Santiago Wanderers qualify to playoffs as best placed team despite having drawn with Unión San Felipe.

Match	Home	Visitor	Result
1	Unión San Felipe	Santiago Wanderers	2–2

Playoffs[edit]

First round[edit]

Colo-Colo and Huachipato qualified as best losers.

Match	Home	Visitor	1st Leg	2nd Leg	Aggregate
1	Cobresal	Colo-Colo	3–0	1–2	4–2
2	Cobreloa	Unión Española	3–3	3–2	6–5
3	Universidad de Concepción	Universidad de Chile	0–0	4–3	4–3
4	Universidad Católica	Huachipato	2–1	1–1	3–2
5	Deportes Puerto Montt	Rangers	1–2	3–0	4–2
6	Santiago Wanderers	Audax Italiano	0–0	3–0	3–0

Knockout stage[edit]

Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Finals

1	Cobreloa	3	4	7

11	S. Wanderers	1	2	3
					1	Cobreloa	1	2	3

					8	Huachipato	2	0	2
3	Deportes Puerto Montt	0	2	2

8	Huachipato	2	3	5
										1	Cobreloa	0	4	4

										6	Colo-Colo	0	0	0
4	U. de Concepción	1	7	8

7	Cobresal	2	1	3
					4	U. de Concepción	0	2	2

					6	Colo-Colo	3	3	6
5	Universidad Católica	3	0	3

6	Colo-Colo	2	1	3

Finals[edit]

3 July 2003

18:10 (UTC-4)

1st Leg

Colo-Colo	0–0	Cobreloa
	Report

Estadio Monumental, Santiago

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Rubén Selman

6 July 2003

17:10 (UTC-4)

2nd Leg

Cobreloa	4–0	Colo-Colo
Fuentes 28' Díaz 67' Galaz 72', 87'	Report	Riffo 74' Zamorano 74' Villaseca 74'

Estadio Municipal de Calama, Calama

Attendance: 10,776

Referee: Carlos Chandía

2003 Apertura winners
Cobreloa 6th title

Top goalscorers[edit]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Salvador Cabañas	Audax Italiano	18
2	Juan Quiroga	Cobresal	12
3	José Luis Díaz	Cobreloa	11
	Patricio Galaz	Cobreloa
	Marcelo Corrales	Puerto Montt
	Joel Soto	Santiago Wanderers

Pre-Copa Sudamericana 2003 Tournament[edit]

All sixteen first level teams took part in this tournament, plus -and only for this edition-, all sixteen second level teams took part as well. One of the qualified teams to the Copa Sudamericana coming from this division, Provincial Osorno.

First round[edit]

Played on July 9 & 10, 2003

Home team	Score	Away team
Deportes Arica	1–5	Universidad de Chile
Deportes Antofagasta	3–0	Cobreloa
Deportes Copiapó	1–0	Cobresal
Deportes La Serena	2–2 (2-4p)	Coquimbo Unido
Unión La Calera	0–2	Universidad Católica
Everton	2–0	Santiago Wanderers
Deportes Melipilla	1–0	Unión San Felipe
O'Higgins	5–2	Audax Italiano
Fernandez Vial	1–0	Universidad de Concepción
Lota Schwager	0–2	Huachipato
Deportes Talcahuano	0–1	Deportes Temuco
Provincial Osorno	1–0	Deportes Puerto Montt
Deportes Ovalle	4–3 aet	Colo-Colo
Santiago Morning	2–3	Palestino
Magallanes	5–2	Unión Española
Rangers	3–0	Deportes Concepción

Second round[edit]

Played on July 13, 2003

Home team	Score	Away team
Deportes Antofagasta	2–1 aet	Universidad de Chile
Coquimbo Unido	2–1	Deportes Copiapó
Universidad Católica	0–0 (5-4p)	Deportes Ovalle
Everton	4–0	Deportes Melipilla
Magallanes	2–3	Palestino
O'Higgins	2–1 aet	Rangers
Huachipato	2–1	Fernandez Vial
Provincial Osorno	1–0	Deportes Temuco

Third round[edit]

Played on July 16 & 17, 2003

Home team	Score	Away team
Everton	2–2 (2-3p)	Universidad Católica
Deportes Antofagasta	4–2	Coquimbo Unido
O'Higgins	1–3	Palestino
Provincial Osorno	2–1	Huachipato

Final round[edit]

20 July 2003	Universidad Católica	2 – 0	Deportes Antofagasta	San Carlos de Apoquindo, Santiago
	Gioino 44' Rozental 90'			Attendance: 3,529 Referee: C. Chandía

20 July 2003	Provincial Osorno	2 – 1	Palestino	Parque Schott, Osorno
	Naif 25', 43'		46' Estay	Attendance: 8,000 Referee: P. Pozo

Universidad Católica & Provincial Osorno qualified to 2003 Copa Sudamericana

Torneo Clausura[edit]

The 2003 Campeonato Nacional Clausura Copa Banco del Estado was the 74th Chilean League top flight tournament, in which Cobreloa won its seventh league title after beating Colo-Colo in the finals.^[2]

Qualification stage[edit]

Group standings[edit]

Group A
Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Universidad de Chile	15	7	2	6	28	21	+7	23	Qualify to the playoffs
2	Cobreloa	15	6	4	5	30	24	+6	22
3	Huachipato	15	6	2	7	30	33	−3	20
4	Deportes Temuco	15	3	1	11	18	38	−20	10

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group B
Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Colo-Colo	15	9	5	1	39	19	+20	32	Qualify to the playoffs
2	Santiago Wanderers	15	7	6	2	27	22	+5	27
3	Palestino	15	8	2	5	35	28	+7	26
4	Audax Italiano	15	5	2	8	15	22	−7	17	Qualify to the re-qualifier

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group C
Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Unión Española	15	9	4	2	36	22	+14	31	Qualify to the playoffs
2	Universidad Católica	15	6	2	7	22	24	−2	20	Qualify to the playoffs
3	Deportes Puerto Montt	15	5	0	10	23	34	−11	15	Qualify to the re-qualifier
4	Coquimbo Unido	15	2	3	10	15	27	−12	9

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group D
Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Universidad de Concepción	15	9	5	1	35	15	+20	32	Qualify to the playoffs
2	Cobresal	15	6	4	5	29	26	+3	22
3	Rangers	15	6	1	8	20	38	−18	19
4	Unión San Felipe	15	2	3	10	22	33	−11	9

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Aggregate table[edit]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Colo-Colo	15	9	5	1	39	19	+20	32	Playoffs
2	Universidad de Concepción	15	9	5	1	35	15	+20	32
3	Unión Española	18	9	4	5	36	22	+14	31
4	Santiago Wanderers	15	7	6	2	27	22	+5	27
5	Palestino	15	8	2	5	35	28	+7	26
6	Universidad de Chile	15	7	2	6	28	21	+7	23
7	Cobreloa	15	6	4	5	30	24	+6	22
8	Cobresal	15	6	4	5	29	26	+3	22
9	Universidad Católica	15	6	2	7	22	24	−2	20
10	Huachipato	15	6	2	7	30	33	−3	20
11	Rangers	15	6	1	8	20	38	−18	19
12	Audax Italiano	15	5	2	8	15	22	−7	17	Repechaje
13	Deportes Puerto Montt	15	5	0	10	23	34	−11	15	Repechaje
14	Deportes Temuco	15	3	1	11	18	38	−20	10
15	Unión San Felipe	15	2	3	10	22	33	−11	9
16	Coquimbo Unido	15	2	3	10	15	27	−12	9

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Re-qualifier[edit]

Match	Home	Visitor	Result
1	Deportes Puerto Montt	Audax Italiano	1–1

Audax Italiano qualify to playoffs as best placed team despite having drawn with Deportes Puerto Montt

Playoffs[edit]

First round[edit]

Santiago Wanderers and Palestino qualified as best losers.

Match	Home	Visitor	1st Leg	2nd Leg	Aggregate
1	Universidad de Concepción	Rangers	2–2	3–1	5–3
2	Cobreloa	Universidad de Chile	3–2	3–1	6–3
3	Colo-Colo	Audax Italiano	1–1	4–0	5–1
4	Unión Española	Huachipato	2–1	3–2	5–3
5	Universidad Católica	Santiago Wanderers	4–1	1–2	5–3
6	Cobresal	Palestino	0–0	2–1	2–1

Knockout stage[edit]

Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Finals

3	Unión Española	1	2	3

7	Cobreloa	4	4	8
					8	Cobreloa	2	0	2

					4	Santiago Wanderers	0	0	0
4	Santiago Wanderers (p)	1	1	2

5	Palestino	1	1	2
										1	Colo-Colo	2	1	3

										7	Cobreloa	2	2	4
1	Colo-Colo	2	0	2

9	Universidad Católica	1	0	1
					1	Colo-Colo	1	2	3

					8	Cobresal	1	0	1
2	Universidad de Concepción	1	5	6

8	Cobresal	2	2	4

Finals[edit]

17 December 2003

1st Leg

Cobreloa	2–2	Colo-Colo
González 52' Cornejo 80' (pen.)	Report	Espina 75' Henríquez 90'

Estadio Municipal de Calama, Calama

Attendance: 7,633

Referee: Carlos Chandía

21 December 2003

2nd Leg

Colo-Colo	1–2	Cobreloa
Fernández 81' Henríquez 86'	Report	Fuentes 41' González 70'

Estadio Monumental, Santiago

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Rubén Selman

2003 Clausura winners
Cobreloa 7th title

Top goalscorers[edit]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Gustavo Biscayzacú	Unión Española	21
2	José Luis Villanueva	Palestino	14
3	Manuel Neira	Colo-Colo	13
3	Juan Quiroga	Cobresal	13
4	Héctor Mancilla	Huachipato	11
	Diego Rivarola	Universidad de Chile
	Joel Estay	Palestino

References[edit]

^ "Cobreloa Campeón 2003". Retrieved 11 September 2015.
^ "Campeón "Monumental"". Emol.com. Retrieved 23 August 2015.

External links[edit]

RSSSF Chile 2003

[1] "Cobreloa Campeón 2003". Retrieved 11 September 2015.

[2] "Campeón "Monumental"". Emol.com. Retrieved 23 August 2015.

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