2017 Categoría Primera B season
| Season | 2017 |
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| Matches played | 105 |
| Goals scored | 248 (2.36 per match) |
| Biggest home win | Valledupar 5–0 Bogotá (16 April 2017) |
| Biggest away win |
Orsomarso 1–4 Leones (19 March 2017) Valledupar 2–5 Real Cartagena (22 March 2017) Unión Magdalena 1–4 Cucuta Deportivo (23 April 2017) |
| Highest scoring | Valledupar 2–5 Real Cartagena (22 March 2017) |
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The 2017 Categoría Primera B season (officially known as the 2017 Torneo Águila season for sponsorship reasons) is the 28th season since its founding as Colombia's second division football league.
For this season, the league will switch from the 'one tournament per year' format used in the two most recent seasons to a 'two tournaments per year' one. The season will consist of two tournaments: the 'Torneo Apertura' and the 'Torneo Finalización'. Both will be divided into three stages. The First Stage will be contested on a home-and-away basis, with each team playing the other teams once and playing a regional rival once more. The top eight teams after the sixteen rounds will advance to a knockout round, where they will be 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 will be played on a home-and-away basis as well.
The winners of both finals will qualify for the season final which will be played after the end of the Torneo Finalización and will also consist of two legs, with its winner being promoted to the Categoría Primera A for the 2018 season. The season runner-up will play the best team in the aggregate table (other than the champion) on a home-and-away basis for the second promotion berth. In case a team wins both the Apertura and Finalización tournaments, it will be promoted and the second promoted team will be the winner of the double-legged series between the next two best teams in the aggregate table.
16 teams will take part, fourteen of them returning from last season plus Boyacá Chicó and Fortaleza, who were relegated from the 2016 Primera A. The former will play in the second tier after 13 years while the latter will return after one season in the top flight. Both teams will be replacing América de Cali and Tigres who earned promotion at the end of the last season.
a: Cúcuta Deportivo will use the Estadio Municipal Héctor 'El Zipa' González in Zipaquirá instead of the Estadio General Santander as home stadium for the 2017 season.
b: Unión Magdalena will use the Estadio Diego de Carvajal in Magangué instead of the Estadio Municipal de Ciénaga as home stadium for the 2017 season.
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