2021 Colombian Women's Football League

Liga Femenina BetPlay Dimayor

Season	2021
Dates	10 July – 12 September 2021
Champions	Deportivo Cali (1st title)
Copa Libertadores Femenina	Deportivo Cali Santa Fe
Matches played	56
Goals scored	150 (2.68 per match)
Top goalscorer	Catalina Usme (12 goals)
Biggest home win	La Equidad 5–1 Llaneros (22 July) América de Cali 4–0 Real Santander (2 August)
Biggest away win	Atl. Bucaramanga 0–8 América de Cali (24 August)
Highest scoring	Atl. Bucaramanga 0–8 América de Cali (24 August)
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The 2021 Colombian Women's Football League (officially known as the Liga Femenina BetPlay Dimayor 2021 for sponsorship purposes) was the fifth season of Colombia's top-flight women's football league. The season started on 10 July and ended on 12 September 2021. ^{[1] [2]}

Deportivo Cali won their first title in the competition, defeating the defending champions Santa Fe in the double-legged final series by a 6–3 aggregate score. ^[3]

Format

On 29 April 2021, the División Mayor del Fútbol Profesional Colombiano (DIMAYOR) confirmed the format for the 2021 Liga Femenina season, following a meeting of its Board of Competition. For this season the league would have 12 teams competing, which were split into three groups of four where they would play each other in a double round-robin tournament. The top two teams in each group as well as the two best third-placed teams would advance to the quarter-finals, with the winners advancing to the semi-finals. The winners of each semi-final would qualify for the finals to decide the champions. All rounds in the knockout stage would be played on a home-and-away, double-legged basis. The champions and runners-up qualified for the 2021 Copa Libertadores Femenina. ^[4]

Due to the withdrawal of Cortuluá, DIMAYOR announced changes to the competition format on 17 June 2021. The remaining 11 clubs were split into two groups, one of which would be made up of six teams and the other one containing five teams. Teams would play each one of the teams in their group twice (once at home and once away), with teams in group A having two bye matchdays for a total of 10 matches. The top two teams in each group advanced to the semi-finals, with their winners playing the final. ^{[5] [6]}

Teams

12 DIMAYOR affiliate clubs were originally expected to take part in the competition with their women's teams. Out of the 13 clubs that competed in the previous season, neither Deportivo Pasto nor Junior fielded a team in this edition, whilst Cortuluá were to return to the competition. ^[1] However, on 8 June 2021 Cortuluá withdrew from the competition owing to financial reasons, with which the number of participant clubs went down to 11. ^[5]

Stadia and locations

Atlético Bucaramanga

Bogotá

Cali

Cortuluá

Fortaleza

Llaneros

Medellín

Real Santander

Bogotá teams:
La Equidad
Millonarios
Santa Fe
Cali teams:
América de Cali
Deportivo Cali
Medellín teams:
Atlético Nacional
Independiente Medellín

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Locations of the 2021 Liga Femenina teams

Group	Team	City	Stadium
A	Fortaleza	Chía	Villa Olímpica
	La Equidad	Bogotá	Metropolitano de Techo
	Llaneros	Villavicencio	Bello Horizonte
	Millonarios	Bogotá	Nemesio Camacho El Campín
	Santa Fe
B	América de Cali	Cali	Pascual Guerrero
	Atlético Bucaramanga	Bucaramanga	Alfonso López
	Atlético Nacional	Medellín	Atanasio Girardot
	Deportivo Cali	Palmira	Deportivo Cali
	Independiente Medellín	Medellín	Atanasio Girardot
	Real Santander	Piedecuesta	Villa Concha

First stage

The first stage started on 10 July and consisted of one group of five teams and one group of six. It ended on 29 August with the top two teams from each group advancing to the knockout stage.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SFE	EQU	MIL	FOR	LLA
1	Santa Fe	8	6	1	1	18	8	+10	19	Advance to knockout stage		—	3–2	3–0	2–0	3–1
2	La Equidad	8	3	3	2	11	6	+5	12			1–0	—	1–1	2–0	5–1
3	Millonarios	8	2	5	1	9	8	+1	11			0–0	0–0	—	2–2	3–0
4	Fortaleza	8	2	3	3	8	11	−3	9			2–3	1–0	1–1	—	2–1
5	Llaneros	8	0	2	6	6	19	−13	2			2–4	0–0	1–2	0–0	—

Source: Dimayor
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) Goal difference, 3) Goals for, 4) Away goals for, 5) Away goals against, 6) Yellow cards, 7) Red cards, 8) Drawing of lots.

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		CAL	NAC	AME	DIM	RSA	BUC
1	Deportivo Cali	10	6	4	0	16	6	+10	22	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–1	1–0	3–0	1–0	3–1
2	Atlético Nacional	10	6	3	1	14	7	+7	21			0–0	—	2–3	2–1	2–1	2–0
3	América de Cali	10	6	2	2	25	10	+15	20			2–2	1–1	—	2–4	4–0	2–0
4	Independiente Medellín	10	5	1	4	16	12	+4	16			1–1	0–2	0–1	—	3–1	3–0
5	Real Santander	10	2	0	8	8	19	−11	6			1–2	0–1	0–2	0–2	—	3–1
6	Atlético Bucaramanga	10	0	0	10	3	28	−25	0			0–2	0–1	0–8	0–2	1–2	—

Source: Dimayor
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) Goal difference, 3) Goals for, 4) Away goals for, 5) Away goals against, 6) Yellow cards, 7) Red cards, 8) Drawing of lots.

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Semi-finals							Finals
	Atlético Nacional		0	1	1
	Santa Fe		1	2	3
								Santa Fe		1	2	3
								Deportivo Cali		4	2	6
	La Equidad		1	0	1
	Deportivo Cali		2	2	4

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Atlético Nacional	1–3	Santa Fe	0–1	1–2
La Equidad	1–4	Deportivo Cali	1–2	0–2

First leg

La Equidad v Deportivo Cali

1 September 2021 (2021-09-01)	La Equidad	1–2	Deportivo Cali	Bogotá
13:00	Sánchez 16'	Report	Morales 78' Orozco 84'	Stadium: Metropolitano de Techo Referee: María Victoria Daza

Atlético Nacional v Santa Fe

1 September 2021 (2021-09-01)	Atlético Nacional	0–1	Santa Fe	Medellín
15:05		Report	Peralta 73'	Stadium: Atanasio Girardot Referee: Viviana Muñoz

Second leg

Deportivo Cali v La Equidad

4 September 2021 (2021-09-04)	Deportivo Cali	2–0 (4–1 agg.)	La Equidad	Palmira
10:00	Medina 7' Morales 24' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Deportivo Cali Referee: Vanessa Reales

Santa Fe v Atlético Nacional

4 September 2021 (2021-09-04)	Santa Fe	2–1 (3–1 agg.)	Atlético Nacional	Bogotá
20:10	Peña 22' Gauto 45+3' (pen.)	Report	Cuesta 37'	Stadium: El Campín Referee: Yessica Villadiego

Finals

7 September 2021 (2021-09-07)

20:00

Santa Fe	1–4	Deportivo Cali
Muñoz 30'	Report	Pavi 7' L. Caicedo 18' F. Caicedo 50' Morales 57' (pen.)

Estadio El Campín, Bogotá

Referee: Mariana Quintero

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12 September 2021 (2021-09-12)

20:10

Deportivo Cali	2–2	Santa Fe
L. Caicedo 13', 31'	Report	Salazar 50' Gauto 65'

Estadio Deportivo Cali – Myriam Guerrero, ^[7] Palmira

Attendance: 11,250

Referee: María Victoria Daza

Deportivo Cali won 6–3 on aggregate.

Top scorers

Rank	Name	Club	Goals
1	Catalina Usme	América de Cali	12
2	Fany Gauto	Santa Fe	7
3	Heidy Mosquera	Real Santander	6
	Joemar Guarecuco	América de Cali
	Manuela Pavi	Deportivo Cali
6	Linda Caicedo	Deportivo Cali	5
7	Ivonne Chacón	Santa Fe	4
	María Fernanda Agudelo	Atlético Nacional
	Yisela Cuesta	Atlético Nacional
	María Morales	Deportivo Cali

Source: Fémina Fútbol

See also

• Colombian Women's Football League

References

1. "Así se jugará la Liga Femenina BetPlay 2021" (in Spanish). AS Colombia. 29 April 2021. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
2. "Liga Femenina 2021 entra en acción: América vs. DIM, subirán el telón" (in Spanish). Futbolred. 8 July 2021. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
3. "¡Cali, campeón de Liga Femenina 2021! Se impuso en la serie a Santa Fe" (in Spanish). Futbolred. 12 September 2021. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
4. "CONCLUSIONES DE LA JUNTA DE COMPETENCIA – LIGA FEMENINA BETPLAY DIMAYOR 2021" (in Spanish). División Mayor del Fútbol Colombiano. 29 April 2021. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
5. "Cortuluá, el primer equipo que se baja de la Liga Femenina 2021" (in Spanish). Futbolred. 11 June 2021. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
6. "Cambios en la Liga Femenina 2021 por equipo que se retira" (in Spanish). La FM. 18 June 2021. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
7. "Estadio Deportivo Cali Myriam Guerrero: homenaje en final femenina" (in Spanish). Futbolred. 12 September 2021. Retrieved 13 September 2021.

External links

• Dimayor's official website (in Spanish)