1992 Categoría Primera A season

Copa Mustang
Season1992
ChampionsAmérica de Cali (8th title)
RelegatedReal Cartagena
Copa LibertadoresAmérica de Cali
Atlético Nacional
Matches played404
Goals scored946 (2.34 per match)
Top goalscorerJohn Jairo Tréllez (25)
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The 1992 Copa Mustang was the forty-fifth season of Colombia's top-flight football league. América de Cali won the league for the eighth time after winning the final quadrangular ahead of the defending champions Atlético Nacional, crosstown rivals Deportivo Cali, and Junior.[1]

Real Cartagena, who competed in the tournament for the second time after their prior appearance in 1971, became the first team to be relegated to Categoría Primera B after placing last in the aggregate table at the end of the season.[2]

Format

The season was split into four parts: Torneo Apertura, Torneo Finalización, semifinal quadrangulars, and final quadrangular. In the Torneo Apertura, the 16 participating teams were divided into two groups of eight, in which teams played on a round-robin fashion for a total of 16 matches, while in the Torneo Finalización, the 16 teams played each other twice in a double round-robin tournament for a total of 30 matches. The results of both the Apertura and the Finalización were combined into an aggregate table (Reclasificación), with the top eight teams in that table at the end of the season's 46 rounds advancing to the semifinal quadrangulars. Bonus points for the final stages (semifinal and final quadrangulars) were awarded at the end of the Apertura and Finalización tournaments to the top two teams in each Apertura group and the top four teams of the Finalización tournament, with the following scale being used: 1.00, 0.75, 0.50, and 0.25.

In the semifinal quadrangulars, the eight participating teams were divided into two groups of four in which they played each of their group rivals twice, with the top two teams of each group advancing to the final quadrangular, in which they again played their other group rivals twice. The team that topped the final quadrangular was the champion.

The promotion and relegation regime was fully implemented starting from this season, as the Categoría Primera B champion started participating in the top flight and the bottom-placed team in Primera A was relegated to the second tier, being replaced for the following season by the Primera B champion.[3]

Teams

Locations of the 1992 Categoría Primera A teams

Sixteen teams took part in the season, fourteen of them coming from the previous edition. Envigado participated in the tournament for the first time after becoming the first team to be promoted from the second tier by winning the 1991 Primera B competition,[3] and Real Cartagena (who had competed previously in 1971 with Atlético Bucaramanga's license) returned to the competition, this time replacing Sporting de Barranquilla who went bankrupt and sold their Dimayor license.[4]

Team City Stadium
América de Cali Cali Olímpico Pascual Guerrero
Atlético Bucaramanga Bucaramanga Alfonso López
Atlético Nacional Medellín Atanasio Girardot
Cúcuta Deportivo Cúcuta General Santander
Deportes Quindío Armenia Centenario
Deportes Tolima Ibagué Manuel Murillo Toro
Deportivo Cali Cali Olímpico Pascual Guerrero
Deportivo Pereira Pereira Hernán Ramírez Villegas
Envigado Envigado Polideportivo Sur
Independiente Medellín Medellín Atanasio Girardot
Junior Barranquilla Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez
Millonarios Bogotá El Campín
Once Caldas Manizales Fernando Londoño Londoño
Real Cartagena Cartagena Pedro de Heredia
Santa Fe Bogotá El Campín
Unión Magdalena Santa Marta Eduardo Santos

Torneo Apertura

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Bonus
1 Deportivo Cali 16 9 7 0 21 9 +12 25 +1.00 points
2 Atlético Nacional 16 6 6 4 18 11 +7 18 +0.25 points
3 Envigado 16 4 10 2 18 17 +1 18
4 Millonarios 16 6 5 5 20 20 0 17
5 Junior 16 4 8 4 20 19 +1 16
6 Cúcuta Deportivo 16 4 4 8 19 26 −7 12
7 Deportivo Pereira 16 2 8 6 9 16 −7 12
8 Deportes Tolima 16 2 6 8 9 18 −9 10
Source: RSSSF

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Bonus
1 Santa Fe 16 8 3 5 26 18 +8 19 +0.75 points
2 Unión Magdalena 16 7 5 4 29 18 +11 19 +0.50 points
3 Atlético Bucaramanga 16 7 5 4 17 14 +3 19
4 Once Caldas 16 4 9 3 15 15 0 17
5 América de Cali 16 4 8 4 11 15 −4 16
6 Independiente Medellín 16 5 4 7 14 14 0 14
7 Deportes Quindío 16 3 8 5 15 17 −2 14
8 Real Cartagena 16 2 6 8 9 23 −14 10
Source: RSSSF

Torneo Finalización

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Bonus
1 América de Cali 30 15 11 4 50 27 +23 41 +1.00 points
2 Junior 30 16 6 8 56 35 +21 38 +0.75 points
3 Atlético Nacional 30 14 9 7 48 30 +18 37 +0.50 points
4 Millonarios 30 12 12 6 34 27 +7 36 +0.25 points
5 Deportivo Pereira 30 12 10 8 40 33 +7 34
6 Santa Fe 30 12 10 8 38 31 +7 34
7 Deportivo Cali 30 12 7 11 38 29 +9 31
8 Unión Magdalena 30 10 10 10 35 42 −7 30
9 Atlético Bucaramanga 30 10 10 10 24 32 −8 30
10 Envigado 30 9 10 11 35 34 +1 28
11 Deportes Quindío 30 9 10 11 31 40 −9 28
12 Once Caldas 30 9 9 12 22 26 −4 27
13 Deportes Tolima 30 7 9 14 36 52 −16 23
14 Cúcuta Deportivo 30 5 13 12 29 41 −12 23
15 Independiente Medellín 30 8 5 17 30 40 −10 21
16 Real Cartagena 30 4 11 15 17 44 −27 19
Source: RSSSF

Aggregate table

An aggregate table known as Reclasificación including the games of both tournaments (Apertura and Finalización) was used to determine the teams that would advance to the Copa Mustang final stages, as well as the team that was relegated to Categoría Primera B at the end of the season.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 América de Cali 46 19 19 8 61 42 +19 57 Advance to the Final stages
2 Deportivo Cali 46 21 14 11 59 38 +21 56
3 Atlético Nacional 46 20 15 11 66 41 +25 55
4 Junior 46 20 14 12 76 54 +22 54
5 Santa Fe 46 20 13 13 64 49 +15 53
6 Millonarios 46 18 17 11 54 47 +7 53
7 Unión Magdalena 46 17 15 14 64 60 +4 49
8 Atlético Bucaramanga 46 17 15 14 41 46 −5 49
9 Deportivo Pereira 46 14 18 14 49 49 0 46
10 Envigado 46 13 20 13 53 51 +2 46
11 Once Caldas 46 13 18 15 37 41 −4 44
12 Deportes Quindío 46 12 18 16 46 57 −11 42
13 Independiente Medellín 46 13 9 24 44 54 −10 35
14 Cúcuta Deportivo 46 9 17 20 48 67 −19 35
15 Deportes Tolima 46 9 15 22 45 70 −25 33
16 Real Cartagena (R) 46 6 17 23 26 67 −41 29 Relegation to Categoría Primera B
Source: RSSSF
(R) Relegated

Final stages

Semifinal quadrangulars

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 América de Cali 6 2 4 0 15 11 +4 9[a] Advance to Final quadrangular
2 Atlético Nacional 6 2 3 1 11 9 +2 7.75[b]
3 Santa Fe 6 2 1 3 12 12 0 5.75[c]
4 Unión Magdalena 6 1 2 3 12 18 −6 4.5[d]
Source: RSSSF
Notes:
  1. ^ Season bonus: 1.00 points
  2. ^ Season bonus: 0.75 points
  3. ^ Season bonus: 0.75 points
  4. ^ Season bonus: 0.50 points

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Deportivo Cali 6 4 0 2 7 5 +2 9[a] Advance to Final quadrangular
2 Junior 6 3 2 1 10 6 +4 8.75[b]
3 Atlético Bucaramanga 6 2 1 3 8 12 −4 5
4 Millonarios 6 1 1 4 7 9 −2 3.25[c]
Source: RSSSF
Notes:
  1. ^ Season bonus: 1.00 points
  2. ^ Season bonus: 0.75 points
  3. ^ Season bonus: 0.25 points

Final quadrangular

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 América de Cali (C) 6 4 1 1 11 6 +5 10 Qualification for Copa Libertadores
2 Atlético Nacional 6 3 2 1 11 8 +3 8.75
3 Deportivo Cali 6 3 1 2 6 6 0 8 Qualification for Copa CONMEBOL[a]
4 Junior 6 0 0 6 3 11 −8 0.75
Source: RSSSF
(C) Champions
Notes:
  1. ^ Although Deportivo Cali were expected to play the 1993 Copa CONMEBOL after finishing third in the final quadrangular,[5] the Colombian Football Federation did not enter the tournament.


 1992 Copa Mustang champions 
América de Cali
8th title

Top goalscorers

Rank Player Club Goals
1 Colombia John Jairo Tréllez Atlético Nacional 25
2 Colombia Rubén Darío Hernández Envigado 20
3 Uruguay Jorge da Silva América de Cali 19
Colombia Adolfo Valencia Santa Fe
5 Colombia Víctor Aristizábal Atlético Nacional 18
6 Colombia Armando Osma Deportes Tolima 17
7 Colombia Antony de Ávila América de Cali 16
Colombia Freddy Rincón América de Cali
9 Colombia Manuel Acisclo Córdoba Santa Fe 15
Colombia Teddy Orozco Unión Magdalena

Source: Historia del Fútbol Profesional Colombiano 70 Años[6]

References

  1. ^ "Historia del Fútbol Profesional Colombiano. Capítulo 46: la 8ª estrella americana" [History of Colombian Professional Football. Chapter 46: América's 8th star] (in Spanish). El Escenario de los Clásicos. 22 November 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
  2. ^ "Especiales LMDF: Reseña de ascendidos y descendidos en Colombia" [LMDF Specials: Review of promotions and relegations in Colombia] (in Spanish). La Monserga del Fútbol. 24 April 2019. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
  3. ^ a b "Los equipos que han conocido el ascenso en el fútbol colombiano" [The teams that have experienced promotion in Colombian football] (in Spanish). ESPN. 12 April 2020. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
  4. ^ Anaya G., Lucho (21 March 2021). "¿Cuándo es el verdadero cumpleaños de Real Cartagena?" [When is Real Cartagena's actual birthday?] (in Spanish). PrimerTiempo.co. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  5. ^ "Deportivo Cali:" (in Spanish). El Tiempo. 3 February 1993. Retrieved 20 August 2025.
  6. ^ Ruiz Bonilla, Guillermo (2018). Historia del Fútbol Profesional Colombiano 70 Años (First ed.). Bogotá, Colombia: Mundo Fútbol SAS. p. 307. ISBN 9-789584-852731.
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