2009 Torneo Apertura (Chile)
| Season | 2009 |
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| Champions |
Universidad de Chile 13th title |
| Copa Sudamericana |
Unión Española Universidad de Chile |
| Matches played | 167 |
| Goals scored | 507 (3.04 per match) |
| Top goalscorer |
Esteban Paredes (17 goals) |
| Highest attendance | 39,685 Universidad Católica 1–4 Universidad de Chile |
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The 2009 Torneo Apertura or LXXXV Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol Profesional de la Primera División de Chile was the 78th season of Chilean Primera División. That was the first tournament of 2009 Chilean football season, the defending champions was Colo-Colo, which beat 4–2 in the aggregate result to Palestino during the 2008 Torneo Clausura finals, where the striker Lucas Barrios achieved reach 38 goals in a single year, thus surpassing Luis Hernán Álvarez, who scored one less in 1963.
The tournament champion was Universidad de Chile, so that earned their 13th league title after a five-year winless, after win 1–0 over Unión Española in the second leg final at Santa Laura with goal of Juan Manuel Olivera, that allowed the automatically qualification of the university team to the 2010 Copa Libertadores Second Stage.
After the relegations of Deportes Melipilla, Provincial Osorno and Deportes Concepción (because administration problems), the number of teams that contested the tournament was reduced from 20 to 18, following the promotion of Curicó Unido, which made their first top-flight appearance in 35 years.
It began on 31 January during a 2–2 draw between Colo-Colo and Curicó Unido at Estadio La Granja, and ended on 28 June.
The format for 2009 remains largely the same as 2008, except for the advancement to the Playoff Stages. Groups will no longer be used to determine who advance to the next stage. Instead, the top-eight teams in Classification Stage will advance.
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