2025 Primera B de Chile

Liga de Ascenso Caixun
Season2025
Dates21 February – 2 November 2025
Matches played169
Goals scored396 (2.34 per match)
Top goalscorerTobías Figueroa (11 goals)
Biggest home winDep. Antofagasta 5–0 Magallanes
(15 June)
Biggest away winDep. Santa Cruz 0–3 Rangers
(23 February)
S. Morning 0–3 Dep. Concepción
(27 April)
U. de Concepción 0–3 S. Wanderers
(12 July)
Highest scoringCuricó Unido 5–3 San Marcos
(12 July)
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2026 →
All statistics correct as of 22 August 2025.

The 2025 Primera B de Chile, also known as Liga de Ascenso Caixun 2025 due to sponsorship by electronics manufacturer Caixun,[1] is the 71st season of the Primera B de Chile, Chile's second-tier football league. The season began on 21 February and is scheduled to end on 2 November 2025.[2]

Format

The competition is played under the same format used in the most recent seasons, with a regular stage and a play-off tournament (known as Liguilla). In the regular season, the 16 participating teams play each other in a double round-robin tournament (once at home and once away) for a total of 30 matches, with the top team at the end of the 30 rounds winning the championship as well as promotion to the Chilean Primera División for the following season. The teams placing from second to eighth place at the end of the regular season will enter the Liguilla to decide the second promoted team, in which the regular season runners-up will receive a bye to the semi-finals. The team placing last at the end of the regular season will be relegated to the Segunda División Profesional.[2]

Teams

Locations of the 2025 Primera B de Chile teams
Locations of the 2025 Primera B de Chile teams in Santiago.

The tournament is played by 16 teams, 13 of them returning from the previous season, two relegated from the 2024 Campeonato Nacional (Cobreloa and Deportes Copiapó), and the 2024 Segunda División Profesional champions Deportes Concepción, who returned to the second tier after nine years following their disaffiliation from the ANFP in 2016.[3] These teams replaced Deportes La Serena and Deportes Limache, who were promoted to the 2025 Liga de Primera, as well as Barnechea, relegated to Segunda División for this season.[2]

Deportes Concepción's promotion to Primera B was only confirmed on 31 January 2025, after a ruling by the Second Chamber of the Disciplinary Court confirmed a three-point deduction for Deportes Melipilla in the 2024 Segunda División Profesional standings, leaving Deportes Concepción as Segunda División champions.[4] Deportes Concepción were ratified as champions by the ANFP on 4 February, greenliting the club's participation in the competition.[5]

Stadia and locations

Club City Stadium Capacity
Cobreloa Calama Zorros del Desierto 12,102
Curicó Unido Curicó La Granja[i] 8,278
Deportes Antofagasta Antofagasta Regional de Antofagasta 21,178
Deportes Concepción Concepción Ester Roa Rebolledo 30,448
Deportes Copiapó Copiapó Luis Valenzuela Hermosilla 8,000
Deportes Recoleta Santiago (Recoleta) Municipal Leonel Sánchez Lineros 1,000
Deportes Santa Cruz Santa Cruz Joaquín Muñoz García 5,000
Deportes Temuco Temuco Municipal Germán Becker 18,413
Magallanes Santiago (San Bernardo) Municipal Luis Navarro Avilés 3,500
Rangers Talca Fiscal de Talca[ii] 16,070
San Luis Quillota Municipal Lucio Fariña Fernández 7,680
San Marcos de Arica Arica Carlos Dittborn 10,000
Santiago Morning Santiago (La Pintana) Municipal de La Pintana 6,000
Santiago Wanderers Valparaíso Elías Figueroa Brander[ii] 20,575
Unión San Felipe San Felipe Municipal de San Felipe 12,000
Universidad de Concepción Concepción Ester Roa Rebolledo 30,448
Notes
  1. ^ Curicó Unido play their home matches at Estadio Municipal Joaquín Muñoz García in Santa Cruz and Estadio Municipal in Molina since their regular stadium Estadio La Granja in Curicó is closed for expansion works.[6][7][8]
  2. ^ a b Rangers and Santiago Wanderers will play most of their home matches in this season at Estadio Fiscal Tucapel Bustamante in Linares, Estadio Fiscal Manuel Moya Medel in Cauquenes and Estadio Municipal Lucio Fariña Fernández in Quillota since Estadio Fiscal de Talca and Estadio Elías Figueroa Brander will be refurbished to host the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup.[9][10]

Standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Deportes Copiapó 21 10 6 5 26 12 +14 36 Promotion to Primera División
2 Santiago Wanderers 21 10 6 5 33 24 +9 36 Advance to Promotion play-off semi-finals
3 San Marcos de Arica 22 11 3 8 30 30 0 36 Advance to Promotion play-off quarter-finals
4 Universidad de Concepción 21 10 3 8 25 19 +6 33
5 Cobreloa 21 9 6 6 30 31 −1 33
6 Deportes Recoleta 21 8 7 6 24 23 +1 31
7 Deportes Antofagasta 21 7 8 6 30 26 +4 29
8 Deportes Concepción 21 8 5 8 25 23 +2 29
9 Rangers 21 6 10 5 26 26 0 28
10 San Luis 21 7 6 8 19 24 −5 27
11 Deportes Temuco 21 6 7 8 23 27 −4 25
12 Curicó Unido 21 5 8 8 24 24 0 23
13 Unión San Felipe 21 6 5 10 21 25 −4 23
14 Deportes Santa Cruz 21 5 7 9 24 29 −5 22
15 Magallanes 21 4 7 10 17 27 −10 19
16 Santiago Morning[a] 22 7 6 9 18 25 −7 18 Relegation to Segunda División Profesional
Updated to match(es) played on 22 August 2025. Source: Campeonato Chileno, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) Goal difference, 3) Matches won, 4) Goals for, 5) Away goals for, 6) Red cards, 7) Yellow cards, 8) Drawing of lots, 9) Play-off game (only if needed to decide championship).
If needed to decide championship between two teams: 2) Play-off game.
Notes:
  1. ^ Santiago Morning were deducted three points as punishment for failing to report the payment of social security contributions for their footballers in October 2024 and a further six points for second offense, having also failed to report the payment of social security contributions in November 2024.[11][12]

Results

Home \ Away COB CUR ANT DCO CDC REC DSC TEM MAG RAN SLQ SMA SM SW USF UDC
Cobreloa — 3–2 4–2 2–1 1–1 2–0 4–1 2–0 0–1 1–1 0–2
Curicó Unido — 1–0 2–3 1–1 1–1 2–3 1–1 0–1 5–3 0–1 3–0 1–2
Deportes Antofagasta 3–0 — 3–1 1–0 0–0 0–0 5–0 1–1 1–2 2–3 4–1 2–2
Deportes Concepción 0–0 0–0 — 2–0 0–1 1–0 2–2 1–2 1–0 0–0
Deportes Copiapó 1–1 1–1 2–1 — 3–0 3–0 3–0 3–0 2–2 3–0 0–0
Deportes Recoleta 0–1 1–2 2–3 — 3–2 2–2 2–0 3–1 1–0 2–1 1–0
Deportes Santa Cruz 3–0 2–0 0–1 0–0 — 2–0 0–3 2–2 0–2 2–2 1–1 1–2
Deportes Temuco 2–0 0–0 2–2 2–1 — 3–0 0–1 1–3 2–1 0–2 2–1 0–0
Magallanes 3–4 0–0 0–0 0–1 3–0 3–0 — 1–1 1–0 0–1 0–0 1–2
Rangers 1–1 0–1 0–0 1–1 2–2 2–3 — 2–2 1–2 0–0 3–3
San Luis 1–1 1–0 0–0 0–2 1–1 0–1 1–2 — 0–0 2–1 1–0
San Marcos de Arica 1–1 1–2 0–1 2–1 2–1 0–0 2–2 2–1 — 2–1 1–2 1–0
Santiago Morning 0–0 1–1 0–3 1–0 0–2 0–1 2–1 0–0 0–1 0–1 — 2–1
Santiago Wanderers 5–1 2–1 4–0 1–0 1–1 2–1 0–1 1–0 2–3 — 1–3 0–0
Unión San Felipe 3–0 2–1 0–1 0–0 1–0 1–0 0–2 1–0 1–2 0–1 — 1–2
Universidad de Concepción 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–0 1–0 2–1 0–0 1–2 4–1 5–1 0–3 —
Updated to match(es) played on 22 August 2025. Source: Campeonato Chileno, Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

As of 22 August 2025
Rank Player Club Goals
1 Argentina Tobías Figueroa Deportes Antofagasta 11
2 Argentina Gustavo Gotti Cobreloa 10
Chile Isaac Díaz Rangers
Chile Camilo Melivilú San Marcos de Arica
5 Chile Iam González Universidad de Concepción 9
6 Argentina Joaquín Larrivey Deportes Concepción 8
Argentina Martiniano Moreno Deportes Santa Cruz
Uruguay Luis Acevedo Deportes Temuco
9 Argentina Matías Gallegos Deportes Copiapó 7
Chile Thomas Jones Deportes Copiapó
Argentina Germán Estigarribia Deportes Recoleta
Argentina Milton Alegre Deportes Santa Cruz

Source: Besoccer

See also

References

  1. ^ "La nueva cara del fútbol chileno" [The new face of Chilean football] (in Spanish). TNT Sports. 4 February 2025. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  2. ^ a b c "Fixture Primera B 2025: calendario del Ascenso, resultados, equipos y formato" [2025 Primera B Fixture: Promotion Tournament schedule, results, teams and format] (in Spanish). Al Aire Libre. 23 February 2025. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  3. ^ "Nueve años después: el largo camino de Deportes Concepción para volver a Primera B" [Nine years later: Deportes Concepción's long road to return to Primera B] (in Spanish). La Tercera. 20 February 2025. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  4. ^ "Celebran los lilas: fallo de Segunda Sala del Tribunal de Disciplina confirma ascenso de Deportes Concepción a Primera B" [The lilacs celebrate: Disciplinary Court's Second Chamber ruling confirms Deportes Concepción's promotion to Primera B] (in Spanish). La Tercera. 31 January 2025. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  5. ^ "ANFP ratifica a Deportes Concepción como el campeón de la Segunda División Profesional y confirma su ascenso a Primera B" [ANFP ratifies Deportes Concepción as Segunda División Profesional champions and confirms their promotion to Primera B] (in Spanish). ADN Radio Chile. 4 February 2025. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  6. ^ "Curicó Unido en búsqueda de estadio para localía 2025" [Curicó Unido in search of a home stadium for 2025] (in Spanish). Pasión por los Deportes. 10 January 2025. Retrieved 10 April 2025.
  7. ^ "Curicó Unido se estrena en Santa Cruz" [Curicó Unido debut in Santa Cruz] (in Spanish). Diario La Prensa. 8 February 2025. Retrieved 10 April 2025.
  8. ^ "Curicó Unido en Molina: Oficializan acuerdo para usar el Estadio Municipal en Liga de Ascenso 2025" [Curicó Unido in Molina: They make official agreement to use the Estadio Municipal in the 2025 Liga de Ascenso] (in Spanish). VLN Radio. 29 May 2025. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  9. ^ "Rangers oficializó nueva localía para este 2025 tras desastroso paso por Linares" [Rangers made official their new home stadium for this 2025 after disastrous spell in Linares] (in Spanish). Pasión por los Deportes. 23 June 2025. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  10. ^ "En Wanderers se abuenan con Quillota tras no conseguir la localía en Viña: "Es el mejor estadio"" [Wanderers make up with Quillota after failing to secure a home stadium in Viña: "It's the best stadium"] (in Spanish). En Cancha. 7 March 2025. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  11. ^ "Confirmado: Santiago Morning comenzará el torneo de Primera B con resta de puntos" [Confirmed: Santiago Morning will begin the Primera B tournament with a point deduction] (in Spanish). En Cancha. 3 February 2025. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  12. ^ "Santiago Morning vuelve a ser castigado con resta de puntos y es último en la Primera B" [Santiago Morning are once again punished with point deduction and place last in Primera B] (in Spanish). La Tercera. 28 February 2025. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
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