Liga DIMAYOR

Liga BetPlay Dimayor

Organising body	DIMAYOR
Founded	15 August 1948;77 years ago (1948-08-15)
Country	Colombia
Confederation	CONMEBOL
Number of clubs	20
Level on pyramid	1
Relegation to	Torneo DIMAYOR
Domestic cups	Copa Colombia Superliga Colombiana
International cup(s)	Copa Libertadores Copa Sudamericana
Current champions	Junior (11th title) (2025–II)
Most championships	Atlético Nacional (18 titles)
Most appearances	Gabriel Berdugo (733)
Top scorer	Dayro Moreno (252 goals)
Broadcaster(s)	Win Sports, Win+ Fútbol
Website	dimayor.com.co
Current: 2025 season

The Liga DIMAYOR, commonly referred to as Liga BetPlay Dimayor due to sponsorship by online betting company BetPlay, ^[1] is a professional association football league in Colombia and the highest level of the Colombian football league system.

A total of twenty clubs compete in the league's regular season. División Mayor del Fútbol Profesional Colombiano, better known as DIMAYOR, organizes the competition and operates the league system of promotion and relegation for both Liga DIMAYOR and Torneo DIMAYOR leagues. Since its foundation in 1948, sixteen teams have been crowned as Colombian football champions. ^[2] The most successful club is Atlético Nacional with 18 titles. The league was ranked as the 11th strongest national league in the world at the end of 2023 by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics. ^[3]

History

Independiente Medellín squad in 1922

Before 1948 there was no professional football league in Colombia. The first clubs were formed in Barranquilla and Bogotá: Barranquilla FC, Polo Club, Escuela Militar and Bartolinos, although the game took a while to develop in popularity. ^[4] The 1918 Campeonato Nacional was the first tournament played between Colombian clubs, followed by the Copa Centenario Batalla de Boyacá. Independiente Medellín, founded on 15 April 1913, is the oldest club that remains as a professional club. ^[5] The first tournament was organised by the Colombian Football Federation and DIMAYOR in 1948. Ten teams signed up for this first tournament, paying the required fee of 1,000 pesos). Two teams each signed on from Bogotá, Cali, Manizales, and Pereira, plus one from Barranquilla. ^[6] 252 players were registered for that year's tournament, 182 of which were Colombians, 13 were Argentine, 8 Peruvian, 5 Uruguayan, 2 Chilean, 2 Ecuadorian, 1 Dominican, and 1 Spanish. ^[6]

Soon after the league's foundation, disputes between Adefútbol (the body governing amateur football in Colombia) and DIMAYOR (the organizing body behind the new national league) erupted. DIMAYOR broke away from Adefútbol, announcing that it would operate independently of FIFA rules and regulations. In response, FIFA sanctioned Colombian football, banning the national team and all its clubs from international competition. This period, which lasted from 1949 to 1954, is known as El Dorado.

Deportivo Cali vs Atlético Nacional

Far from being a dark time in Colombian football, this was its golden age. No longer required to pay transfer fees to clubs from other nations, Colombian clubs began importing stars from all over South America and Europe. The most aggressive signer of international players was Millonarios, which won consecutive championships with stars such as Alfredo di Stéfano. Attendances boomed, and the expanding appetite for club competitions resulted in the creation of the Copa Colombia in 1950. That knockout competition was played sporadically over the next 58 years and only became an annual tournament in 2008. ^[7] Although the stars returned to their nations when Colombia rejoined the international fold in 1954, the era was never forgotten. ^[8]

In 1968 the league started following the pattern emerging in South America by replacing its year-long tournament with two shorter ones. From this point forward, Colombian clubs would compete in two tournaments a year; the Apertura from February to June and the Finalización from July to December, which became independent championships in 2002. Another league restructuring came in 1991, with the addition of second and third divisions. The third division had its 2002 edition cancelled for economic reasons, and stopped awarding promotion to the professional tiers in 2003 until it was finally dropped in 2010.

Format

The current format of Colombian football was adopted for the 2019 season. The top flight features 20 teams, all of which play through the Apertura and Finalización tournaments each year. Both tournaments are conducted according to an identical three-stage format, and have been independent title-awarding tournaments since 2002.

The first stage is conducted on a single round-robin basis, with each team playing the other teams once for a total of 19 matches, although an extra round of regional derbies has been included in most seasons. The top eight teams then advance to a semi-final round consisting of two groups of four teams, each team playing the others in their group twice in a double round-robin format. The two group winners advance to the final, which is played in a home-and-away double-legged fashion.

Relegation to the Torneo DIMAYOR is determined by averaging the point totals achieved by teams in the first stage of the competition over the previous three seasons. Each year, the bottom two teams drop out and are replaced by the top two from the Torneo DIMAYOR. ^[9]

Current teams

Teams for the 2025 season

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity	Head coach	First season in Primera A	Last title
Águilas Doradas	Rionegro	Alberto Grisales	14,000	Jonathan Risueño	2011	None
Alianza	Valledupar	Armando Maestre Pavajeau	11,000	Hubert Bodhert	2024	None
América de Cali	Cali	Pascual Guerrero	38,000	David González	1948	2020
Atlético Bucaramanga	Bucaramanga	Américo Montanini	28,000	Leonel Álvarez	1949	2024–I
Atlético Nacional	Medellín	Atanasio Girardot	44,826	Diego Arias	1948	2024–II
Boyacá Chicó	Tunja	La Independencia	20,630	Flabio Torres	2004	2008–I
Deportes Tolima	Ibagué	Manuel Murillo Toro	28,100	Lucas González	1955	2021–I
Deportivo Cali	Cali	Deportivo Cali	42,000	Alberto Gamero	1948	2021–II
Deportivo Pasto	Pasto	Libertad	19,000	René Rosero (caretaker)	1999	2006–I
Deportivo Pereira	Pereira	Hernán Ramírez Villegas	30,297	Cristian Galíndez (caretaker)	1949	2022–II
Envigado	Envigado	Polideportivo Sur	11,000	Andrés Orozco	1992	None
Fortaleza C.E.I.F.	Bogotá	Metropolitano de Techo	10,000	Sebastián Oliveros	2014	None
Independiente Medellín	Medellín	Atanasio Girardot	44,826	Alejandro Restrepo	1948	2016–I
Junior	Barranquilla	Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez	49,692	Alfredo Arias	1948	2023–II
La Equidad	Bogotá	Metropolitano de Techo	10,000	Daniel Gómez (caretaker)	2007	None
Llaneros F.C.	Villavicencio	Bello Horizonte – Rey Pelé	15,000	José Luis García	2025	None
Millonarios	Bogotá	Nemesio Camacho	39,512	Hernán Torres	1948	2023–I
Once Caldas	Manizales	Palogrande	32,000	Hernán Darío Herrera	1948	2010–II
Santa Fe	Bogotá	Nemesio Camacho	39,512	Francisco López Grigori Méndez (caretakers)	1948	2025–I
Unión Magdalena	Santa Marta	Sierra Nevada	16,000	Carlos Silva	1953	1968

Seasons by club

This is the complete list of the clubs that have taken part in at least one Primera A season, founded in 1948, until the 2025 season. ^[10] Teams that currently play are indicated in bold.

78 seasons: Atlético Nacional (Atlético Municipal) 78 seasons: Millonarios 78 seasons: Santa Fe 75 seasons: Deportivo Cali 74 seasons: Independiente Medellín 72 seasons: América de Cali 72 seasons: Once Caldas (Deportes Caldas, Deportivo Manizales, Atlético Manizales, Cristal Caldas, Varta Caldas, Once Philips) 70 seasons: Deportes Tolima 66 seasons: Atlético Bucaramanga 65 seasons: Junior 64 seasons: Deportivo Pereira 62 seasons: Deportes Quindío (Atlético Quindío) 57 seasons: Cúcuta Deportivo 53 seasons: Unión Magdalena (Samarios) 33 seasons: Envigado 27 seasons: Atlético Huila 25 seasons: Deportivo Pasto 19 seasons: Boyacá Chicó (Bogotá Chicó) 19 seasons: La Equidad 16 seasons: Cortuluá 15 seasons: Águilas Doradas (Itagüí Ditaires, Águilas Pereira, Rionegro Águilas)

12 seasons: Patriotas 12 seasons: Real Cartagena 11 seasons: Alianza Petrolera 10 seasons: Jaguares 9 seasons: Boca Juniors 8 seasons: Sporting 5 seasons: Universidad 4 seasons: Fortaleza 4 seasons: Once Deportivo 3 seasons: Huracán 2 seasons: Alianza 2 seasons: Uniautónoma 2 seasons: Unicosta 1 season: Deportivo Barranquilla 1 season: Centauros Villavicencio 1 season: Leones 1 season: Libertad 1 season: Llaneros 1 season: Oro Negro 1 season: Tigres

Trophy

The same trophy has been used to commemorate the first division champions since 1948. Made of German silver, weighing roughly 5 kilos and measuring approximately 90 centimeters tall, in its upper part it has the figure of the Winged Victory of Samothrace, which has been used to represent sporting triumph with the passing of history. The original trophy, which is engraved with the names of all the champion clubs, is kept at the headquarters of DIMAYOR and is only exhibited for fixture draws or events with sponsors, with the champions being awarded an exact replica. ^[11] Along with the competition's official trophy, the champions are also awarded an additional trophy handed over by the league's sponsor. ^[12] Starting from 2020, a new trophy commissioned by league sponsor BetPlay started to be presented to the champions instead of the original one. ^[13]

Clubs in international competitions

Main article: Colombian football clubs in international competitions

Players

Appearances

As of 13 March 2016 ^[14]

Rank	Player	Years	Appearances
1	Gabriel Berdugo	1968–1984	733 [15] [16]
2	Alexis García	1980–1998	723
3	Arturo Segovia	1963–1979	706
4	Jorge Bermúdez	1989–96, 2005, 2006–07	682
5	Misael Flórez	1962–1981	652

Top scorers

As of 25 October 2025 ^[17]

Rank	Player	Years	Goals
1	Dayro Moreno	2003–present	252 [18]
2	Sergio Galván Rey	1996–2011	224 [19]
3	Iván Valenciano	1988–2009	217
4	Hugo Lóndero	1969–1981	211
5	Oswaldo Palavecino	1975–1985	204
6	Jorge Ramírez Gallego	1962–1975	201
7	Omar Devani	1962–1975	200
8	Víctor Aristizábal	1990–2007	187
9	Arnoldo Iguarán	1977–1997	186
10	Willington Ortiz	1972–1988	184

Champions by seasons

The only tournament that was not awarded to a champion occurred in 1989, after the assassination of referee Álvaro Ortega on October 1 in Medellín. All games, post-season games and international representation for the following year were cancelled. ^{[20] [21]}

Ed.	Season		Champion (title count)	Runner-up	Winning manager	Leading goalscorer(s) [22]
1	1948		Santa Fe (1)	Junior	Carlos Carrillo Nalda	Alfredo Castillo (Millonarios; 31 goals)
2	1949		Millonarios (1)	Deportivo Cali	Carlos Aldabe	Pedro Cabillón (Millonarios; 42 goals)
3	1950		Deportes Caldas (1)	Millonarios	Alfredo Cuezzo	Casimiro Ávalos (Deportivo Pereira; 27 goals)
4	1951		Millonarios (2)	Boca Juniors	Adolfo Pedernera	Alfredo Di Stéfano (Millonarios; 31 goals)
5	1952		Millonarios (3)	Boca Juniors	Adolfo Pedernera	Alfredo Di Stéfano (Millonarios; 19 goals)
6	1953		Millonarios (4)	Atlético Quindío	Adolfo Pedernera	Mario Garelli (Atlético Quindío; 20 goals)
7	1954		Atlético Nacional (1)	Atlético Quindío	Fernando Paternoster	Carlos Alberto Gambina (Atlético Nacional; 21 goals)
8	1955		Independiente Medellín (1)	Atlético Nacional	Delfín Benítez Cáceres	Felipe Marino (Independiente Medellín; 22 goals)
9	1956		Atlético Quindío (1)	Millonarios	Francisco Lombardo	Jaime Gutiérrez (Atlético Quindío; 21 goals)
10	1957		Independiente Medellín (2)	Deportes Tolima	René Seghini	José Vicente Grecco (Independiente Medellín; 30 goals)
11	1958		Santa Fe (2)	Millonarios	Julio Tocker	José Américo Montanini (Atlético Bucaramanga; 36 goals)
12	1959		Millonarios (5)	Independiente Medellín	Gabriel Ochoa Uribe	Felipe Marino (Cúcuta Deportivo / Independiente Medellín; 35 goals)
13	1960		Santa Fe (3)	América de Cali	Julio Tocker	Walter Marcolini (Deportivo Cali; 30 goals)
14	1961		Millonarios (6)	Independiente Medellín	Gabriel Ochoa Uribe	Alberto Perazzo (Santa Fe; 32 goals)
15	1962		Millonarios (7)	Deportivo Cali	Gabriel Ochoa Uribe	José Omar Verdún (Cúcuta Deportivo; 36 goals)
16	1963		Millonarios (8)	Santa Fe	Gabriel Ochoa Uribe	Omar Devani (Atlético Bucaramanga; 36 goals) José Omar Verdún (Cúcuta Deportivo; 36 goals)
17	1964		Millonarios (9)	Cúcuta Deportivo	Efraín Sánchez	Omar Devani (Unión Magdalena / Atlético Bucaramanga; 28 goals)
18	1965		Deportivo Cali (1)	Atlético Nacional	Francisco Villegas	Perfecto Rodríguez (Independiente Medellín; 38 goals)
19	1966		Santa Fe (4)	Independiente Medellín	Gabriel Ochoa Uribe	Omar Devani (Santa Fe; 31 goals)
20	1967		Deportivo Cali (2)	Millonarios	Francisco Villegas	José María Ferrero (Millonarios; 38 goals)
21	1968		Unión Magdalena (1)	Deportivo Cali	Antonio Julio de la Hoz	José María Ferrero (Millonarios; 32 goals)
22	1969		Deportivo Cali (3)	América de Cali	Francisco Villegas	Hugo Lóndero (América de Cali; 25 goals)
23	1970		Deportivo Cali (4)	Junior	Roberto Reskín	José María Ferrero (Cúcuta Deportivo; 27 goals) Walter Sossa (Santa Fe; 27 goals)
24	1971		Santa Fe (5)	Atlético Nacional	Vladimir Popović	Hugo Lóndero (Cúcuta Deportivo; 30 goals) Apolinar Paniagua (Deportivo Pereira; 30 goals)
25	1972		Millonarios (10)	Deportivo Cali	Gabriel Ochoa Uribe	Hugo Lóndero (Cúcuta Deportivo; 27 goals)
26	1973		Atlético Nacional (2)	Millonarios	César López Fretes	Nelson Silva Pacheco (Cúcuta Deportivo / Junior; 36 goals)
27	1974		Deportivo Cali (5)	Atlético Nacional	Vladimir Popović	Víctor Ephanor (Junior; 33 goals)
28	1975		Santa Fe (6)	Millonarios	Francisco Hormazábal	Jorge Ramón Cáceres (Deportivo Pereira; 35 goals)
29	1976		Atlético Nacional (3)	Deportivo Cali	Osvaldo Zubeldía	Miguel Angel Converti (Millonarios; 33 goals)
30	1977		Junior (1)	Deportivo Cali	Juan Ramón Verón	Oswaldo Marcial Palavecino (Atlético Nacional; 33 goals)
31	1978		Millonarios (11)	Deportivo Cali	Pedro Dellacha	Oswaldo Marcial Palavecino (Atlético Nacional; 36 goals)
32	1979		América de Cali (1)	Santa Fe	Gabriel Ochoa Uribe	Juan José Irigoyén (Millonarios; 36 goals)
33	1980		Junior (2)	Deportivo Cali	José Varacka	Sergio Cierra (Deportivo Pereira; 26 goals)
34	1981		Atlético Nacional (4)	Deportes Tolima	Osvaldo Zubeldía	Víctor Hugo del Río (Deportes Tolima; 29 goals)
35	1982		América de Cali (2)	Deportes Tolima	Gabriel Ochoa Uribe	Miguel Oswaldo González (Atlético Bucaramanga; 27 goals)
36	1983		América de Cali (3)	Junior	Gabriel Ochoa Uribe	Hugo Gottardi (Santa Fe; 29 goals)
37	1984		América de Cali (4)	Millonarios	Gabriel Ochoa Uribe	Hugo Gottardi (Independiente Santa Fe; 23 goals)
38	1985		América de Cali (5)	Deportivo Cali	Gabriel Ochoa Uribe	Miguel Oswaldo González (Atlético Bucaramanga; 34 goals)
39	1986		América de Cali (6)	Deportivo Cali	Gabriel Ochoa Uribe	Héctor Ramón Sossa (Independiente Medellín; 23 goals)
40	1987		Millonarios (12)	América de Cali	Luis Augusto García	Jorge Aravena (Deportivo Cali; 23 goals)
41	1988		Millonarios (13)	Atlético Nacional	Luis Augusto García	Sergio Angulo (Santa Fe; 29 goals)
42	1989		Championship not awarded
43	1990		América de Cali (7)	Atlético Nacional	Gabriel Ochoa Uribe	Antony de Ávila (América de Cali; 25 goals)
44	1991		Atlético Nacional (5)	América de Cali	Hernán Darío Gómez	Iván Valenciano (Junior; 30 goals)
45	1992		América de Cali (8)	Atlético Nacional	Francisco Maturana	John Jairo Tréllez (Atlético Nacional; 25 goals)
46	1993		Junior (3)	Independiente Medellín	Julio Comesaña	Miguel Guerrero (Junior; 34 goals)
47	1994		Atlético Nacional (6)	Millonarios	Juan José Peláez	Rubén Darío Hernández (Independiente Medellín / Deportivo Pereira / América de Cali; 32 goals)
48	1995		Junior (4)	América de Cali	Carlos Restrepo	Iván Valenciano (Junior; 24 goals)
49	1995–96		Deportivo Cali (6)	Millonarios	Fernando Castro	Iván Valenciano (Junior; 36 goals)
50	1996–97		América de Cali (9)	Atlético Bucaramanga	Luis Augusto García	Hamilton Ricard (Deportivo Cali; 36 goals)
51	1998		Deportivo Cali (7)	Once Caldas	José Eugenio Hernández	Víctor Bonilla (Deportivo Cali; 37 goals)
52	1999		Atlético Nacional (7)	América de Cali	Luis Fernando Suárez	Sergio Galván Rey (Once Caldas; 26 goals)
53	2000		América de Cali (10)	Junior	Jaime de la Pava	Carlos Alberto Castro (Millonarios; 24 goals)
54	2001		América de Cali (11)	Independiente Medellín	Jaime de la Pava	Carlos Alberto Castro (Millonarios; 29 goals) Jorge Horacio Serna (Independiente Medellín; 29 goals)
55	2002	Apertura	América de Cali (12)	Atlético Nacional	Jaime de la Pava	Luis Fernando Zuleta (Unión Magdalena; 13 goals)
56		Finalización	Independiente Medellín (3)	Deportivo Pasto	Víctor Luna	Orlando Ballesteros (Atlético Bucaramanga; 13 goals) Milton Rodríguez (Deportivo Pereira; 13 goals)
57	2003	Apertura	Once Caldas (2)	Junior	Luis Fernando Montoya	Arnulfo Valentierra (Once Caldas; 13 goals)
58		Finalización	Deportes Tolima (1)	Deportivo Cali	Luis Augusto García	Léider Preciado (Deportivo Cali; 17 goals)
59	2004	Apertura	Independiente Medellín (4)	Atlético Nacional	Pedro Sarmiento	Sergio Herrera (América de Cali; 13 goals)
60		Finalización	Junior (5)	Atlético Nacional	Miguel Ángel López	Leonardo Fabio Moreno (América de Cali; 15 goals) Léider Preciado (Santa Fe; 15 goals)
61	2005	Apertura	Atlético Nacional (8)	Santa Fe	Santiago Escobar	Víctor Aristizábal (Atlético Nacional; 16 goals)
62		Finalización	Deportivo Cali (8)	Real Cartagena	Pedro Sarmiento	Jámerson Rentería (Real Cartagena; 12 goals) Hugo Rodallega (Deportivo Cali; 12 goals)
63	2006	Apertura	Deportivo Pasto (1)	Deportivo Cali	Óscar Héctor Quintabani	Jorge Díaz Moreno (Cúcuta Deportivo; 15 goals)
64		Finalización	Cúcuta Deportivo (1)	Deportes Tolima	Jorge Luis Pinto	Diego Álvarez (Independiente Medellín; 11 goals) Jhon Charría (Deportes Tolima; 11 goals)
65	2007	Apertura	Atlético Nacional (9)	Atlético Huila	Óscar Héctor Quintabani	Fredy Montero (Atlético Huila; 13 goals) Sergio Galván Rey (Atlético Nacional; 13 goals)
66		Finalización	Atlético Nacional (10)	La Equidad	Óscar Héctor Quintabani	Dayro Moreno (Once Caldas; 16 goals)
67	2008	Apertura	Boyacá Chicó (1)	América de Cali	Alberto Gamero	Miguel Caneo (Boyacá Chicó; 13 goals) Iván Velásquez (Deportes Quindío; 13 goals)
68		Finalización	América de Cali (13)	Independiente Medellín	Diego Umaña	Fredy Montero (Deportivo Cali; 16 goals)
69	2009	Apertura	Once Caldas (3)	Junior	Javier Álvarez	Teófilo Gutiérrez (Junior; 16 goals)
70		Finalización	Independiente Medellín (5)	Atlético Huila	Leonel Álvarez	Jackson Martínez (Independiente Medellín; 18 goals)
71	2010	Apertura	Junior (6)	La Equidad	Diego Umaña	Carlos Bacca (Junior; 12 goals) Carlos Rentería (La Equidad; 12 goals)
72		Finalización	Once Caldas (4)	Deportes Tolima	Juan Carlos Osorio	Wilder Medina (Deportes Tolima; 16 goals) Dayro Moreno (Once Caldas; 16 goals)
73	2011	Apertura	Atlético Nacional (11)	La Equidad	Santiago Escobar	Carlos Rentería (Atlético Nacional; 12 goals)
74		Finalización	Junior (7)	Once Caldas	José Eugenio Hernández	Carlos Bacca (Junior; 12 goals)
75	2012	Apertura	Santa Fe (7)	Deportivo Pasto	Wilson Gutiérrez	Robin Ramírez (Deportes Tolima; 13 goals)
76		Finalización	Millonarios (14)	Independiente Medellín	Hernán Torres	Henry Hernández (Cúcuta Deportivo; 9 goals) Carmelo Valencia (La Equidad; 9 goals) Germán Cano (Independiente Medellín; 9 goals)
77	2013	Apertura	Atlético Nacional (12)	Santa Fe	Juan Carlos Osorio	Wilder Medina (Santa Fe; 12 goals)
78		Finalización	Atlético Nacional (13)	Deportivo Cali	Juan Carlos Osorio	Dayro Moreno (Millonarios; 16 goals) Luis Carlos Ruiz (Junior; 16 goals)
79	2014	Apertura	Atlético Nacional (14)	Junior	Juan Carlos Osorio	Dayro Moreno (Millonarios; 12 goals)
80		Finalización	Santa Fe (8)	Independiente Medellín	Gustavo Costas	Germán Cano (Independiente Medellín; 16 goals)
81	2015	Apertura	Deportivo Cali (9)	Independiente Medellín	Fernando Castro	Fernando Uribe (Millonarios; 15 goals)
82		Finalización	Atlético Nacional (15)	Junior	Reinaldo Rueda	Jefferson Duque (Atlético Nacional; 15 goals)
83	2016	Apertura	Independiente Medellín (6)	Junior	Leonel Álvarez	Miguel Borja (Cortuluá; 19 goals)
84		Finalización	Santa Fe (9)	Deportes Tolima	Gustavo Costas	Ayron del Valle (Millonarios; 12 goals)
85	2017	Apertura	Atlético Nacional (16)	Deportivo Cali	Reinaldo Rueda	Dayro Moreno (Atlético Nacional; 14 goals)
86		Finalización	Millonarios (15)	Santa Fe	Miguel Ángel Russo	Yimmi Chará (Junior; 11 goals) Ayron del Valle (Millonarios; 11 goals) Dayro Moreno (Atlético Nacional; 11 goals) Carmelo Valencia (La Equidad; 11 goals)
87	2018	Apertura	Deportes Tolima (2)	Atlético Nacional	Alberto Gamero	Germán Cano (Independiente Medellín; 12 goals)
88		Finalización	Junior (8)	Independiente Medellín	Julio Comesaña	Germán Cano (Independiente Medellín; 20 goals)
89	2019	Apertura	Junior (9)	Deportivo Pasto	Julio Comesaña	Germán Cano (Independiente Medellín; 21 goals)
90		Finalización	América de Cali (14)	Junior	Alexandre Guimarães	Germán Cano (Independiente Medellín; 13 goals) Michael Rangel (América de Cali; 13 goals)
91	2020		América de Cali (15)	Santa Fe	Juan Cruz Real	Miguel Borja (Junior; 14 goals)
92	2021	Apertura	Deportes Tolima (3)	Millonarios	Hernán Torres	Jefferson Duque (Atlético Nacional; 11 goals) Fernando Uribe (Millonarios; 11 goals) Diego Herazo (La Equidad; 11 goals)
93		Finalización	Deportivo Cali (10)	Deportes Tolima	Rafael Dudamel	Harold Preciado (Deportivo Cali; 13 goals)
94	2022	Apertura	Atlético Nacional (17)	Deportes Tolima	Hernán Herrera	Dayro Moreno (Atlético Bucaramanga; 13 goals)
95		Finalización	Deportivo Pereira (1)	Independiente Medellín	Alejandro Restrepo	Leonardo Castro (Deportivo Pereira; 15 goals)
96	2023	Apertura	Millonarios (16)	Atlético Nacional	Alberto Gamero	Marco Pérez (Águilas Doradas; 13 goals)
97		Finalización	Junior (10)	Independiente Medellín	Arturo Reyes	Carlos Bacca (Junior; 18 goals)
98	2024	Apertura	Atlético Bucaramanga (1)	Santa Fe	Rafael Dudamel	Carlos Bacca (Junior; 12 goals) Hugo Rodallega (Santa Fe; 12 goals)
99		Finalización	Atlético Nacional (18)	Deportes Tolima	Efraín Juárez	Daniel Moreno (Deportivo Pasto; 17 goals)
100	2025	Apertura	Santa Fe (10)	Independiente Medellín	Jorge Bava	Hugo Rodallega (Santa Fe; 16 goals)
101		Finalización	Junior (11)	Deportes Tolima	Alfredo Arias	Francisco Fydriszewski (Independiente Medellín; 12 goals) Luciano Pons (Atlético Bucaramanga; 12 goals)

Source for champions and runners-up by season: RSSSF ^[10]

List of champions

• Teams in bold compete in the Liga DIMAYOR as of the 2025 season.
• Italics indicates clubs that no longer exist or disaffiliated from Dimayor.

Rank	Club	Winners	Runners-up	Winning years	Runners-up years
1	Atlético Nacional	18	12	1954, 1973, 1976, 1981, 1991, 1994, 1999, 2005–I, 2007–I, 2007–II, 2011–I, 2013–I, 2013–II, 2014–I, 2015–II, 2017–I, 2022–I, 2024–II	1955, 1965, 1971, 1974, 1988, 1990, 1992, 2002–I, 2004–I, 2004–II, 2018–I, 2023–I
2	Millonarios	16	10	1949, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1972, 1978, 1987, 1988, 2012–II, 2017–II, 2023–I	1950, 1956, 1958, 1967, 1973, 1975, 1984, 1994, 1995–96, 2021–I
3	América de Cali	15	7	1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1992, 1996–97, 2000, 2001, 2002–I, 2008–II, 2019–II, 2020	1960, 1969, 1987, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2008–I
4	Junior	11	10	1977, 1980, 1993, 1995, 2004–II, 2010–I, 2011–II, 2018–II, 2019–I, 2023–II, 2025–II	1948, 1970, 1983, 2000, 2003–I, 2009–I, 2014–I, 2015–II, 2016–I, 2019–II
5	Deportivo Cali	10	14	1965, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1974, 1995–96, 1998, 2005–II, 2015–I, 2021–II	1949, 1962, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1985, 1986, 2003–II, 2006–I, 2013–II, 2017–I
	Santa Fe	10	7	1948, 1958, 1960, 1966, 1971, 1975, 2012–I, 2014–II, 2016–II, 2025–I	1963, 1979, 2005–I, 2013–I, 2017–II, 2020, 2024–I
7	Independiente Medellín	6	13	1955, 1957, 2002–II, 2004–I, 2009–II, 2016–I	1959, 1961, 1966, 1993, 2001, 2008–II, 2012–II, 2014–II, 2015–I, 2018–II, 2022–II, 2023–II, 2025–I
8	Once Caldas	4	2	1950, 2003–I, 2009–I, 2010–II	1998, 2011–II
9	Deportes Tolima	3	10	2003–II, 2018–I, 2021–I	1957, 1981, 1982, 2006–II, 2010–II, 2016–II, 2021–II, 2022–I, 2024–II, 2025–II
10	Deportivo Pasto	1	3	2006–I	2002–II, 2012–I, 2019–I
	Deportes Quindío	1	2	1956	1953, 1954
	Cúcuta Deportivo	1	1	2006–II	1964
	Atlético Bucaramanga	1	1	2024–I	1996–97
	Unión Magdalena	1	—	1968	—
	Boyacá Chicó	1	—	2008–I	—
	Deportivo Pereira	1	—	2022–II	—

Source: RSSSF

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External links

• Dimayor Official Website
• Colombian Federation (archived 16 October 2019)
• FIFA Association (archived 26 June 2008)
• Primera A – current season league table, recent results and upcoming fixtures at Soccerway