1949 Campeonato Profesional

The 1949 Campeonato Profesional was the second season of Colombia's top-flight football league. The tournament was started on April 25. 14 teams compete against one another and played each weekend. This tournament was famous for mark the beginning of El Dorado. Millonarios and Deportivo Cali, both with 44 points, played two final matches to decide the champion of the season. Santa Fe, the defending champion, was 3rd with 39 points.

Campeonato Profesional
Season1949
ChampionsMillonarios (1st title)
Matches played186
Goals scored820 (4.41 per match)
Top goalscorerPedro Cabillón (42)
Biggest home winSanta Fe 10–2 Huracán
Biggest away winAtlético Municipal 0–6 Deportes Caldas
Highest scoringSanta Fe 10–3 Deportivo Pereira
← 1948
1950 →

Background

The season was notable for being the beginning of El Dorado, during which many international football stars arrived to the Colombian league, especially from Argentina, due to the protests that were taking place in that country.[1] The tournament began on 25 April 1949. The debutants teams were Atlético Bucaramanga, Boca Juniors de Cali, Deportivo Barranquilla, Deportivo Pereira and Huracán de Medellín. This year Universidad returned to Bogotá. Deportivo Barranquilla participated to replacing Atlético Junior, who was representing Colombia in the South American Championship. Barranquilla only played 21 of the 26 league matches.[2]

League system

Every team played two games against each other team, one at home and one away. Teams received two points for a win and one point for a draw. If two or more teams were tied on points, places were determined by goal difference. The team with the most points is the champion of the league.

Teams
Locations of the 1949 Campeonato Profesional teams:
  • 1. Barranquilla
  • 2. Bogotá
  • 3. Bucaramanga
  • 4. Cali
  • 5. Manizales
  • 6. Medellín
  • 7. Pereira
Team City Stadium
América Cali Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero
Atlético Bucaramanga Bucaramanga Estadio Alfonso López
Atlético Municipal Medellína Estadio San Fernando
Boca Juniors Cali Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero
Deportes Caldas Manizales Estadio Palogrande
Deportivo Barranquilla Barranquilla Estadio Romelio Martínez
Deportivo Cali Cali Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero
Deportivo Pereira Pereira Estadio Libaré
Huracán de Medellín Medellín Estadio San Fernando
Independiente Medellín Medellín Estadio San Fernando
Millonarios Bogotá Estadio El Campín
Once Deportivo Manizales Estadio Palogrande
Santa Fe Bogotá Estadio Alfonso López Pumarejo
Universidad Bogotá Estadio Alfonso López Pumarejo

a Municipal played its home games at Itagüí

Final standings
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Millonarios (C) 26 20 4 2 99 35 +64 44
2 Deportivo Cali 26 20 4 2 89 41 +48 44
3 Santa Fe 26 17 5 4 102 50 +52 39
4 Deportes Caldas 26 16 0 10 69 53 +16 32
5 Independiente Medellín 26 12 5 9 58 60 −2 29
6 Universidad 26 9 9 8 46 42 +4 27
7 Atlético Municipal 26 8 8 10 40 60 −20 24
8 Boca Juniors 26 9 5 12 45 58 −13 23
9 Once Deportivo 26 9 2 15 40 66 −26 20
10 América 26 7 4 15 53 67 −14 18
11 Atlético Bucaramanga 26 7 4 15 48 81 −33 18
12 Huracán 26 6 5 15 47 75 −28 17
13 Deportivo Barranquilla 26 5 5 16 34 49 −15 15
14 Deportivo Pereira 26 4 6 16 44 77 −33 14
Source: RSSSF
(C) Champion.

Results
Home \ Away AME BJ BUC CLI DB CLD HUR DIM MIL MUN OND PER SFE UNI
América 3–4 1–3 1–4 4–1 2–6 2–1 4–1 4–5 1–2 2–0 5–1 3–4 3–3
Boca Juniors 1–3 2–3 3–5 1–0[lower-alpha 1] 3–1 2–1 5–1 4–3 1–0 3–1 1–1 1–1 0–2
Atlético Bucaramanga 1–2 2–1 1–5 3–1 2–3 2–1 2–2 2–5 4–3 2–3 1–2 1–3 1–1
Deportivo Cali 1–0 4–1 6–1 1–0[lower-alpha 1] 3–1 4–0 3–1 3–3 6–3 7–2 4–2 2–2 3–0
Deportivo Barranquilla 1–1 1–0 6–2 3–3 1–0[lower-alpha 1] 7–2 2–0 2–2 0–1[lower-alpha 1] 0–1[lower-alpha 1] 0–1[lower-alpha 1] 0–1[lower-alpha 1] 2–2
Deportes Caldas 2–0 6–2 7–3 1–4 5–0 5–2 2–1 1–5 2–3 4–1 5–4 0–3 0–2
Huracán 2–1 3–2 7–4 3–4 0–0 3–2 1–2 2–2 0–0 2–3 3–4 2–2 4–2
Independiente Medellín 2–2 6–3 4–1 3–2 1–0[lower-alpha 1] 5–3 2–0 1–6 0–0 4–1 4–1 3–2 2–5
Millonarios 1–0[lower-alpha 2] 2–0 5–1 0–2 5–0 3–0 5–1 4–0 6–0 3–0 3–2 2–2 3–1
Atlético Municipal 3–1 2–2 1–1 1–2 3–2 0–6 1–2 2–4 1–5 3–2 1–1 2–6 1–1
Once Deportivo 2–1 1–1 2–1 3–4 2–1 0–1 2–1 0–1 2–5 1–2 2–1 2–6 1–0
Deportivo Pereira 3–3 1–2 1–2 1–4 0–3 0–1 4–1 4–4 0–5 1–1 4–4 1–3 1–2
Santa Fe 7–3 5–0 5–0 4–3 6–2 2–3 10–2 3–1 3–6 3–3 4–1 10–3 1–4
Universidad 6–1 0–0 2–2 1–1 1–0[lower-alpha 1] 0–1 1–1 3–3 1–5 0–1 3–1 3–0 0–4
Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:
  1. Deportivo Barranquilla withdrew from the tournament, so the remaining games left in walkover
  2. Points awarded to Millonarios because two América players suspended participated in the match

Final
Deportivo Cali0–1Millonarios
Report Pedernera  57' (pen.)
Referee: Felipe Gregorio
Millonarios3–2Deportivo Cali
 Report
Referee: Orlando Troccoli

Top goalscorers
Rank Name Club Goals
1 Pedro Cabillón Millonarios 42
2 Germán Antón Santa Fe 30
3 Valeriano López Deportivo Cali 24
4 Carlos Arango Deportes Caldas 19
Guillermo Barbadillo Deportivo Cali 19
6 Ricardo Aycardy Deportivo Barranquilla 18
7 Luciano Campos Independiente Medellín 17
Luis López García Santa Fe 17
Ricardo Ruiz Peso Deportivo Cali 17
10 Alfredo Castillo Millonarios 15

Source: RSSSF.com Colombia 1949

 1949 Campeonato Profesional Champion 
Millonarios
First title

References
  1. Ruíz Bonilla, Guillermo (2008). La gran historia del Fútbol Profesional Colombiano. Ediciones Dayscript. p. 12–14; 19. ISBN 978-958-98713-0-0.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-10-17. Retrieved 2013-07-10.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
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