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2013–14 Venezuelan Primera División season

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Season
  
2013–14

Champion
  
Zamora FC

Location
  
Venezuela

Champions
  
Zamora (2nd title)

Dates
  
10 Aug 2013 – 28 May 2014

2013–14 Venezuelan Primera División season

2015 Copa Libertadores
  
Zamora Mineros Deportivo Táchira

2014 Copa Sudamericana
  
Caracas (cup winner) Deportivo Anzoátegui Trujillanos La Guaira

Similar
  
2015 Venezuelan Primera, 2014 Categoría Primera A, 2014 Recopa Sudamericana, 2013 Campeonato Brasileiro, 2013 Recopa Sudamericana

The 2013-14 Primera División season was the 32nd professional season of Venezuela's top-flight football league.

Contents

Teams

Eighteen teams participated this season, sixteen of whom remain from the previous season. Monagas and Portuguesa were relegated after accumulating the least amount of points in the 2012–13 season aggregate table. They will be replaced by Carabobo and Tucanes, the 2012–13 Segunda División winner and runner-up, respectively.

Torneo Apertura

The Torneo Apertura will be the first tournament of the season. It began on August 2013 and ended in December 2013.

Torneo Clausura

The Torneo Clausura will be the second tournament of the season.

Aggregate table

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.
1Caracas qualified for the 2013 Copa Sudamericana as the 2013 Copa Venezuela champion.

Serie Final

Mineros and Zamora 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.

Serie Sudamericana

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:

  • Match A (1 vs. 8)
  • Match B (2 vs. 7)
  • Match C (3 vs. 6)
  • Match D (4 vs. 5)
  • In the second round, the matchups are:

  • Winner A vs. Winner C
  • Winner B vs. Winner D
  • 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.

    Match A

    Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goals scored; 3rd away goals; 4th penalty shoot-out.

    Match B

    Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goals scored; 3rd away goals; 4th penalty shoot-out.

    Match C

    Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goals scored; 3rd away goals; 4th penalty shoot-out.

    Match D

    Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goals scored; 3rd away goals; 4th penalty shoot-out.

    Winner A vs. Winner C

    Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goals scored; 3rd away goals; 4th penalty shoot-out.

    Winner B vs. Winner D

    Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goals scored; 3rd away goals; 4th penalty shoot-out.

    References

    2013–14 Venezuelan Primera División season Wikipedia