2017 Categoría Primera A season
| Season | 2017 |
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| Matches played | 190 |
| Goals scored | 407 (2.14 per match) |
| Biggest home win | Deportivo Pasto 5–0 Patriotas (21 February 2017) |
| Biggest away win |
Cortuluá 0–4 Deportivo Pasto (3 February 2017) Alianza Petrolera 1–5 Atlético Nacional (11 March 2017) |
| Highest scoring |
Alianza Petrolera 3–3 América de Cali (1 March 2017) Junior 3–3 Atlético Huila (5 March 2017) Alianza Petrolera 1–5 Atlético Nacional (11 March 2017) Once Caldas 3–3 Junior (12 March 2017) América de Cali 4–2 Once Caldas (16 April 2017) |
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The 2017 Categoría Primera A season (officially known as the 2017 Liga Águila season for sponsorship reasons) is the 70th season of Colombia's top-flight football league. Santa Fe come in as the defending champions having won the title in the 2016 season's Finalización tournament. The season started on 3 February and is scheduled to conclude on 10 December.
The league will be played under the same format used since the 2015 season. The Apertura and Finalización tournaments will be divided into three stages: a First Stage which will be 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 will advance 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 was played on a home-and-away basis as well. The winner of the final in each tournament will declared the tournament champion and will participate in the 2018 Copa Libertadores, as well as the top team in the aggregate table not yet qualified and the Copa Colombia champion. The next four best teams in the aggregate table will qualify for the 2018 Copa Sudamericana.
20 teams are expected to take part, eighteen of them returning from last season plus América de Cali and Tigres, who were promoted from the 2016 Primera B. The former is returning to the top tier after 5 years while the latter will compete in the Primera A for the first time ever. Both promoted teams will be replacing Boyacá Chicó and Fortaleza who were relegated at the end of the last season.
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