2008 Primera División of Chile

Primera División

Season	2008
Champions	Apertura: Everton (4th title) Clausura: Colo-Colo (28th title)
Relegated	Antofagasta Concepción Melipilla Provincial Osorno
Copa Libertadores	Everton Colo-Colo Universidad de Chile
Copa Sudamericana	Ñublense Universidad Católica
Top goalscorer	Apertura: Lucas Barrios (19 goals) Clausura: Lucas Barrios (18 goals) Season: Lucas Barrios (37 goals)
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The 2008 Primera División de Chile is the 77th season of top-flight football in Chile, and the 7th under its current format.

Torneo Apertura

The Torneo Apertura "Copa BancoEstado" opened the 2008 season on January 25. The 20 teams were organized into four groups, but played each other in a single round-robin format. The top-two teams from each group advanced to a single elimination play-off, but the best 3rd-place team had to worst 2nd-place team in an advancement play-off match. The winner of the tournament will be crowned the Apertura champion, and will earn a spot in the 2009 Copa Libertadores Group Stage. The champion and runner-up with earn spots in the 2008 Copa Sudamericana.

Group standings

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Play-off match

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Cobresal	2–2 (2–4 p)	Cobreloa

Playoff Stage

The clubs were seeded by their first phase standings.

	Quarterfinals							Semifinals							Final
	5	Everton (a)	0	4	4
	4	Audax Italiano	3	1	4
								5	Everton	3	1	4
								6	Universidad de Chile	1	1	2
	6	Universidad de Chile	4	2	6
	3	O'Higgins	2	1	3
															5	Everton	0	3	3
															7	Colo-Colo	2	0	2
	2	Universidad Católica	1	1	2
	7	Colo-Colo	3	1	4
								7	Colo-Colo(a)	0	2	2
								1	Ñublense	1	1	2
	8	Cobreloa	2	1	3
	1	Ñublense	2	2	4

Primera Division 2008 Apertura Champion
Everton 4th Title

Everton qualified to the 2009 Copa Libertadores Second Stage.

Top-five goalscorers

P	Scorer	Team	Goals
1	Lucas Barrios	Colo-Colo	19
2	Esteban Paredes	Santiago Morning	15
3	Manuel Villalobos	Universidad de Chile	13
	Ezequiel Miralles	Everton	13
5	Gabriel Vargas	Universidad de Concepción	12

Torneo Clausura

The Torneo Clausura "Copa BancoEstado" began on June 21. The format is the same as the Apertura tournament, but the field was reduced from 20 teams to 19 since Deportes Concepción withdrew before the start of the tournament due to financial problems. The best-placed team in the first stage earned a spot in the First Stage of the 2009 Copa Libertadores. The tournament champion will earn a spot in the 2009 Copa Libertadores Group Stage. Relegation will be determined at the end of this tournament.

Group standings

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Play-off match

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Everton	0–3	Cobreloa

Knock-out round

The clubs were seeded by their first phase standings.

	Quarterfinals							Semifinals							Final
	8	Cobreloa	3	2	5
	1	Universidad de Chile	1	3	4
								8	Cobreloa	3	2	5
								2	Colo-Colo	3	2	5
	7	Huachipato	1	2	3
	1	Colo-Colo	1	4	5
															2	Colo-Colo	1	3	4
															3	Palestino	1	1	2
	6	O'Higgins	2	1	3
	3	Palestino	2	2	4
								3	Palestino	2	0	2
								4	Rangers	2	0	2
	5	Universidad Católica	1	1	2
	4	Rangers	1	1	2

Primera Division 2008 Clausura Champion
Colo-Colo 28th Title

Colo-Colo qualified to the 2009 Copa Libertadores Second Stage.

Top-five goalscorers

P	Player	Team	Goals
1	Lucas Barrios	Colo-Colo	18
2	Gastón Cellerino	Rangers	16
	Nestor Bareiro	O'Higgins	16
4	Julio Gutiérrez	Universidad Católica	12
5	Gustavo Canales	La Serena	10
	Leonardo Monje	Huachipato	10
	Gustavo Savoia	Cobreloa	10

Relegation

Four teams were relegated this year to reduce the field for next season to 18 teams.

Aggregate table

The aggregate table is only a sum of the two first-stages from the Apertura and Clausura tournaments. The bottom-two teams are relegated from the results of this table.

Relegation table

The next two teams to be relegated were determined through a special aggregate table for the 2007 & 2008 season. The teams' performances were put under a specific formula (shown below) and then ranked. The two worst teams who have not been relegated by this season's aggregate table were relegated.

$P_{d}=0.4\cdot \;P_{2007}\cdot \;{\frac {19}{20}}+0.6\cdot \left(\;P_{Ap-2008}+\;P_{Cl-2008}\cdot \;{\frac {19}{18}}\right),$

In the case of Rangers, Provincial Osorno, and Santiago Morning, the following formula was used since they were not in the Primera División in the 2007 season:

$P_{d}=P_{Ap-2008}+P_{Cl-2008}\cdot \;{\frac {19}{18}}.$

In both formulas, P_d is the relegation average; P₂₀₀₇ is the total points earned in the 2007 season; P_Ap-2008 is the points earned in this season's Apertura tournament; P_Cl-2008 is the points earned in this season's Clausura tournament.

Pos	Team	Pdesc	P2007	PAp 2008	PCl 2008
1	Universidad Católica	70,37	30,40	21,60	18,37
2	Audax Italiano	70,18	34,58	20,40	15,20
3	Colo-Colo	69,78	32,68	16,20	20,90
4	Universidad de Chile	68,67	26,60	18,00	24,07
5	O'Higgins	62,51	23,18	21,60	17,73
6	Huachipato	58,00	24,70	16,20	16,10
7	Santiago Morning	57,44	0,00	30,00	27,44
8	Ñublense	57,41	22,04	24,60	10,77
9	Cobresal	56,22	24,32	18,60	13,30
10	Cobreloa	55,98	25,08	13,80	16,10
11	Rangers	55,67	0,00	24,00	31,67
12	Palestino	53,92	18,62	14,40	19,90
13	Everton	51,75	14,82	19,20	17,73
14	La Serena	50,94	18,24	15,60	17,10
15	Unión Española	47,33	17,10	14,40	15,83
16	Universidad de Concepción	45,66	19,76	12,60	13,30
17	Antofagasta	42,63	17,86	10,20	14,57
18	Melipilla	33,87	20,90	6,00	6,97
19	Provincial Osorno	26,56	0,00	16,00	10,56

	Relegated by the Relegation Table
	Already relegated by the Aggregate Table

Relegation/promotion play-off

The 15th & 16th place team in the aggregate table have to play two promotion/relegation matches the Segunda División runner-up (Puerto Montt) and the winner of the Segunda División Apertura/Clausura play-off (Coquimbo Unido). The winners will play in the Primera División the next season.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Coquimbo Unido	1–5	Universidad de Concepción	0–2	1–3
Puerto Montt	4–5	Unión Española	1–2	3–3

See also

• Chilean Primera División