2015 Categoría Primera A season
| Season | 2015 |
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| Champions | Apertura: Deportivo Cali (9th title) Finalización: Atlético Nacional (15th title) |
| Relegated |
Uniautónoma Cúcuta Deportivo |
| Copa Libertadores |
Deportivo Cali Atlético Nacional Santa Fe (Copa Sudamericana winner) |
| Copa Sudamericana |
Santa Fe (Copa Sudamericana winner) Junior (cup winner) Atlético Nacional (Superliga winner) Independiente Medellín Deportes Tolima |
| Top goalscorer | Apertura: Fernando Uribe (15 goals) Finalización: Jefferson Duque (15 goals) |
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The 2015 Categoría Primera A season (officially known as the 2015 Liga Águila season for sponsorship reasons) was the 68th season of Colombia's top-flight football league. The season started on 30 January and concluded on 20 December.
20 teams competed against one another. Santa Fe came in as the defending champions having won the title in the 2014 season's Finalización tournament. Jaguares de Córdoba entered as champion of the 2014 Primera B, while Cortuluá and Cúcuta Deportivo were promoted as the top teams of their respective groups in the Promotion tournament.
Deportivo Cali won its ninth title in the Torneo Apertura after beating Independiente Medellín in the finals, while in the Torneo Finalización Atlético Nacional won its fifteenth title after beating Junior in the finals, thus surpassing Millonarios as the club with the most championships.
Starting from this season, the league was expanded to 20 teams: 17 from last season plus Jaguares, the 2014 Primera B winners, and Cortuluá and Cúcuta Deportivo, the top two teams of a playoff tournament played in January 2015 between 8 Primera B sides to fill up the field of 20 teams. The Apertura and Finalización tournaments had a similar format and were divided into three stages: a First Stage which was contested on a single round-robin basis, with each team playing the other teams once and playing a regional rival once more for a total of 20 matches. The top eight teams after the twenty rounds advanced to a knockout round, where they were pitted into four ties to be played on a home-and-away basis, with the four winners advancing to the semifinals and the winner of each semifinal advancing to the final of the tournament, which were played on a home-and-away basis as well. The winner of the final was declared the tournament champion and will participate in the 2016 Copa Libertadores.
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