1999 Categoría Primera B season

Categoría Primera B

Season	1999
Champions	Real Cartagena (1st title)
Promoted	Real Cartagena
Top goalscorer	Julián Vásquez (21 goals)
← 1998 2000 →

The 1999 Categoría Primera B season, (officially known as the 1999 Copa Águila for sponsorship reasons) was the 10th season of Colombia's second division football league. Real Cartagena won the tournament for the first time and was promoted to the Categoría Primera A. Julián Vásquez, playing for Itagüí, was the topscorer with 21 goals.

Teams

16 teams take part in the season. The previous season's champions Deportivo Pasto was promoted to Primera A for the 1999 season. Deportivo Unicosta, who were relegated from Primera A at the end of the 1998 season, did not take part of the tournament. After finishing last in the 1998 season, Real Floridablanca was relegated to Categoría Primera C. Univalle did not take part of the tournament. Cúcuta Deportivo changed its name to Cúcuta 2001 and Lanceros Boyacá changed its name to Lanceros Fair Play. Atlético Popayán, Palmira, Soledad were the debuting teams for this season.

Team	City	Stadium
Alianza Petrolera	Barrancabermeja	Daniel Villa Zapata
Atlético Córdoba	Cereté	Alberto Saibis Saker
Atlético Popayán	Popayán	Ciro López
Bello	Bello	Tulio Ospina
Cooperamos Tolima	Ibagué	Manuel Murillo Toro
Cúcuta 2001	Cúcuta	General Santander
Deportivo Pereira	Pereira	Hernán Ramírez Villegas
Deportivo Rionegro	Rionegro	Alberto Grisales
El Cóndor	Bogotá	El Campincito
Escuela Carlos Sarmiento Lora	Popayán	Estadio Ciro López
Girardot	Girardot	Luis Antonio Duque Peña
Itagüí	Itagüí	Metropolitano Ciudad de Itagüí
Lanceros Fair Play	Tunja	La Independencia
Palmira	Palmira	Francisco Rivera Escobar
Real Cartagena	Cartagena	Jaime Morón León
Soledad	Soledad	Romelio Martínez

Categoría Primera B 1999 champion
Real Cartagena 1st title

External links

• Dimayor official website