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Martin Hess

MUSIC_PRODUCTION

MUSIC_PRODUCTION_162_JOURNAL

The Copa Colombia (English: Colombia Cup); officially known as Copa BetPlay Dimayor is an

annual football tournament in Colombia.It is contested by the 36 professional clubs

affiliated to the División Mayor del Fútbol Profesional Colombiano (DIMAYOR) and is the

nation's domestic cup competition, equivalent to the FA Cup in England or the Copa del Rey

in Spain.The Copa Colombia was played for the first time in 1950, and it has been played

consecutively since its revival in 2008.Throughout history, different championships have

been known under the Copa Colombia name:

A double-elimination, knockout tournament parallel to the Colombian league, which was

played from 1950–51 to 1952–53.A tournament that was played under a round-robin group

format in which teams advanced to a final group, which was also named as Copa Presidente

de la República, played from late 1956 to early 1957.The name of a commemorative trophy

awarded in 1963, which is not considered a Copa Colombia title.A tournament played in

1981 and 1989, which was part of the league season and awarded bonus points or berths to

the final stages of the league tournament.The knockout tournament played by teams in

Categoría Primera A and Categoría Primera B, established since 2008.Atlético Nacional are

the current holders, who won their sixth Copa Colombia title against Millonarios, winning

the final series on penalties after a 2–2 draw on aggregate.Atlético Nacional are also the

most successful club in the competition.== History ==


=== Copa Colombia in "El Dorado" ===

The Copa Colombia was an idea promoted in 1950 by DIMAYOR at the time known as "El

Dorado" due to the boom experienced by football in the country.It emerged as an official

tournament to be held annually, independent from the league championship and under a

particular knockout format in which teams were divided by proximity into territorial

groups of four teams each.Teams faced each other in home-and-away matches to determine

the teams that advanced to a stage known as the winners' round.When a team lost two ties

it was eliminated, while if it won it played a new round.The worst of the three remaining

teams was eliminated, while a new tie was played, called losers' round, to determine the

other team that reached the final.Due to the economic power of clubs and the Colombian

league at that time, many teams had large payrolls for both tournaments as well as the

international games they played.However, the little interest the competition generated

among the participants led to delays in the scheduling of games and the first tournament

ended in 1951.It was the reason why the next edition was not held until 1952, and its

conclusion was again delayed until the following year.In the period between both editions

(1951–52), what turned out to be the early rounds of the 1952–53 edition is mistakenly

referred as another edition of the competition due to its double-elimination format.Boca

Juniors de Cali (as winners of the winners' round) and Millonarios (who were defeated by

Boca Juniors in the winners' round but then went on to win the losers' round) played the

final of the 1952–53 edition, which was ultimately won by Millonarios.Following that

edition, the tournament was cancelled due to the lack of interest displayed by fans and

teams alike.An attempt to resume it was made in 1956–57: in said third edition, the first

phase was played and six teams qualified to play a final hexagonal: Atlético Nacional, Santa

Fe, Deportivo Pereira, Boca Juniors de Cali and the ones that would be the top two of said
hexagonal: Independiente Medellín and Atlético Bucaramanga; however, the grand final

between these two teams was never played, thus the tournament was abandoned and no

more editions were played until the 1980s.=== Commemorative cup (1963) ===

After consecutively winning the league titles in 1961, 1962 and 1963, Millonarios were

granted permanent ownership of the "Copa Colombia" trophy, which should have been

awarded to the winner of three editions.As these editions did not come to fruition,

Millonarios were awarded the trophy on account of their league success.Although the club

counts it as a title, it is not recognized as an official title by DIMAYOR.In 2017, and through

its Twitter account, DIMAYOR included said trophy among those won by manager Gabriel

Ochoa Uribe (who coached the club in 1963), without clarifying whether it is an official

title.=== 1980s: Copa Colombia as part of the league tournament ===

In 1981, an event with the same name was held again but with the particularity that it was

played by the 10 clubs eliminated from the final quadrangular of the Campeonato

Profesional (made up of 14 teams), as an appendix phase of the championship.Firstly, the

six teams eliminated in the regular phase participated in a hexagonal from which one team

(Independiente Medellín) qualified for the final, with the other finalist (Deportivo Cali)

being decided in a quadrangular between the four teams that were eliminated in the

semifinal phase.Independiente Medellín won the tournament after beating Deportivo Cali

3–1 in the first leg and a 1–1 draw in the second leg, both played in Medellín.The

competition had an incentive for the first time, awarding a spot in the league's final

octagonal for the following season, which Independiente Medellín did not need in the end

since they ultimately qualified through league performance.In 2014, this tournament was

officially recognized by the Colombian Football Federation as part of the tribute that

CONMEBOL paid to Independiente Medellín for its 101st anniversary.

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