2026 Liga DIMAYOR

The 2026 Liga DIMAYOR is the 79th season of the first division league of Colombian football. The season began on 16 January 2026.
Two tournaments will be played in the season, each one of them being an independent championship. Junior entered the season as defending champions, having won the 2025 Finalización tournament.

Format

The competition format for the season was determined at the Extraordinary Assembly of Dimayor, held on 10 and 11 December 2025. Due to the 2026 FIFA World Cup and the need to end the Torneo Apertura by 5 June 2026, the format proposed and eventually approved for the Torneo Apertura consisted in playing a round-robin first stage with 19 matchdays, with the top eight teams advancing to a final stage to be played as single-elimination playoffs instead of the semifinal group stage played in recent seasons, thus returning to the format last used in the 2021 Apertura tournament.
Unlike the Apertura, the Torneo Finalización will be played under the usual format, with a round-robin first stage in which teams will play each other once and the top eight teams from the first stage advancing to the following phase. Instead of play-offs, the eight qualified teams will be drawn into two semi-final groups, with the two group winners advancing to play the tournament finals.

Teams

Twenty teams take part in the season, the top 18 teams in the relegation table of the previous season as well as the 2025 Torneo DIMAYOR champions Jaguares and Cúcuta Deportivo, who returned to the top flight after one year and six years, respectively. Both teams promoted after winning the season's short tournaments and securing the top two places of the aggregate table. The promoted teams replaced Envigado and Unión Magdalena, the bottom two teams in the relegation table of the 2025 season, who were relegated to the second tier after sixteen and one year in the top flight, respectively.
Starting from this season, La Equidad rebranded to Internacional de Bogotá, following the club's takeover by the Tylis-Porter Group in early 2025 and the decision by its former owners Seguros La Equidad to keep the name, symbols and colors to themselves. The club's new identity was officially presented on 10 December 2025.

Stadia and locations

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Managerial changes

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Torneo Apertura

The Torneo Apertura, officially known as Liga BetPlay Dimayor 2026–I, is the 102nd first division football championship and the first tournament of the 2026 season. It began on 16 January and is scheduled to end on 5 June 2026.

First stage

Standings

Top scorers

Rank

Player

Club

Goals

Relegation

A separate table is kept to determine the teams that will be relegated to Torneo DIMAYOR for the next season. This table is elaborated from a sum of all first stage games played in the three most recent seasons, with the points earned being averaged per match played. The bottom two teams of the relegation table at the end of the season will be relegated to Torneo DIMAYOR.

	Team										Relegation
1	Deportes Tolima	72	74	8	6	2	+4	82	154	'
2	Santa Fe	71	64	6	5	4	+1	82	141	'
3	Atlético Bucaramanga	66	66	8	10	4	+6	82	140	'
4	Junior	60	72	6	5	5	0	81	138	'
5	América de Cali	62	68	7	5	1	+4	81	137	'
6	Atlético Nacional	56	72	3	4	0	+4	79	131	'
7	Independiente Medellín	58	72	2	3	6	−3	82	132	'
8	Millonarios	66	64	1	3	6	−3	82	131	'
9	Once Caldas	60	60	6	5	4	+1	82	126	'
10	Fortaleza	51	55	6	3	2	+1	82	112	'
11	Jaguares	—	—	4	4	4	0	3	4	'
12	Deportivo Pereira	61	46	2	4	7	−3	82	109	'
13	Deportivo Pasto	49	48	9	5	5	0	82	106	'
14	Águilas Doradas	46	48	5	5	5	0	82	99	'
15	Llaneros	—	45	6	5	3	+2	44	51	'
16	Alianza	33	58	1	1	9	−8	82	92	'
17	Deportivo Cali	38	45	6	7	4	+3	82	89	'
18		55	24	7	5	6	−1	82	86	'
19	Boyacá Chicó	33	36	1	1	7	−6	82	70	'
20	Cúcuta Deportivo	—	—	2	5	7	−2	4	2	'

Updated to match average, 2) 2026 points, 3) 2026 goal difference, 4) 2026 goals for, 5) 2026 away goals for, 6) 2026 goals against, 7) 2026 away goals against, 8) 2026 wins, 9) play-off match.