2014–15 Venezuelan Primera División season
| Season | 2014–15 |
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| Champions | Deportivo Táchira (8th Title) |
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2015 →
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The 2014-15 Primera División season is the 33rd professional season of Venezuela's top-flight football league.
Eighteen teams participated this season, sixteen of whom remain from the previous season. Atlético El Vigía and Yaracuyanos were relegated after accumulating the least amount of points in the 2013–14 season aggregate table. They will be replaced by Metropolitanos and Portuguesa, the 2013–14 Segunda División winner and runner-up, respectively.
The Torneo Apertura will be the first tournament of the season. It began in August 2014 and ended in December 2014.
The Torneo Clausura will be the second tournament of the season. It began in February 2015 and ended in May 2015.
Source:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Deportivo Táchira and Trujillanos qualified to the Serie Final, which was contested on a home and away basis.
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goals scored; 3rd away goals; 4th penalty shoot-out.
Other than the teams which already qualify for the Copa Libertadores (Apertura and Clausura champions and the best-placed team in the aggregate table) and the Copa Sudamericana (Copa Venezuela champion and the second best-placed team in the aggregate table), the eight best-placed teams in the aggregate table will contest in the Serie Sudamericana for the remaining two berths to the Copa Sudamericana, which qualify the two winners to the First Stage.
In the first round, the matchups are:
In the second round, the matchups are:
For the two second round winners, the team with the better record in the aggregate table will receive the Venezuela 3 berth, while the other team will receive the Venezuela 4 berth.
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