# 2022 Ecuadorian Serie B

The 2022 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol Serie B, known as the LigaPro Betcris Serie B 2022 for sponsoring purposes, was the 64th season of the Serie B, Ecuador's second tier football league, and the fourth under the management of the Liga Profesional de Fútbol del Ecuador (or LigaPro). The season began on 15 March and ended on 30 October 2022.

## Teams

10 teams competed in the season. LDU Portoviejo and Atlético Porteño were relegated after finishing in the bottom two places of the aggregate table of the previous season, being replaced by the 2021 Segunda Categoría champions Libertad and runners-up Imbabura. Manta and Olmedo were relegated after finishing in the bottom two places of the aggregate table of the 2021 Serie A.

### Team changes

| Promoted from 2021 Segunda Categoría | Relegated from 2021 Serie A | Promoted to 2022 Serie A | Relegated to 2022 Segunda Categoría |
| Libertad Imbabura | Manta Olmedo | Cumbayá Gualaceo | LDU Portoviejo Atlético Porteño |

### Stadiums and locations

| Club | City | Stadium | Capacity |
| América de Quito | Quito | Olímpico Atahualpa | 38,258 |
| Atlético Santo Domingo | Santo Domingo | Etho Vega Baquero | 10,172 |
| Búhos ULVR | Guayaquil | Modelo Alberto Spencer Herrera | 42,000 |
| Chacaritas | Pelileo | Ciudad de Pelileo | 8,000 |
| El Nacional | Quito | Olímpico Atahualpa | 38,258 |
| Imbabura | Ibarra | Olímpico Ciudad de Ibarra | 18,600 |
| Independiente Juniors | Sangolquí | Banco Guayaquil | 12,000 |
| Libertad | Loja | Federativo Reina del Cisne | 14,935 |
| Manta | Manta | Jocay | 20,000 |
| Olmedo | Riobamba | Fernando Guerrero | 14,000 |

### Personnel and kits

| Team | Manager | Kit manufacturer | Shirt sponsor |
| América de Quito | Samy Ariza | Boman | — |
| Atlético Santo Domingo | Patricio Lara | Yeliyan | Constructora Wilson Erazo PipBowling |
| Búhos ULVR | Matías Rosa | MB1 | Universidad Vicente Rocafuerte |
| Chacaritas | Joel Vernaza | Vaz Sport | San Francisco COAC Ltda. |
| El Nacional | Ever Hugo Almeida | Lotto | ANDEC Banco General Rumiñahui |
| Imbabura | Joel Armas | Ortiz Design | Fábrica de Medias Gardenia |
| Independiente Juniors | Miguel Bravo | Marathon Sports | Chery Banco Guayaquil |
| Libertad | Paúl Vélez | Jasa Evolution | Banco de Loja Grand Aviation |
| Manta | Fabián Frías | Astro | Atún Isabel BET593 |
| Olmedo | Eduardo Favaro | Reusch | Fibra Telecom |

### Managerial changes

| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment |
| Chacaritas | Lorenzo Frutos | Sacked | 26 February 2022 | 3rd | Juan Carlos Ávila | 5 April 2022 |
| Manta | Pablo Trobbiani | Mutual agreement | 8 April 2022 | 10th | Fabián Frías | 15 April 2022 |
| Atlético Santo Domingo | Juan Carlos Caballero | Mutual agreement | 7 May 2022 | 9th | Jairo Portilla | 8 May 2022 |
| Atlético Santo Domingo | Jairo Portilla | Mutual agreement | 9 July 2022 | 9th | Patricio Lara | 10 July 2022 |
| Olmedo | Héctor González | Mutual agreement | 1 September 2022 | 8th | Omar Ledesma | 2 September 2022 |
| Olmedo | Omar Ledesma | End of caretaker spell | 18 September 2022 | 8th | Eduardo Favaro | 18 September 2022 |
| Libertad | Nelson Tapia | Sacked | 22 September 2022 | 4th | Paúl Vélez | 22 September 2022 |
| Chacaritas | Juan Carlos Ávila | Resigned | 27 September 2022 | 6th | Joel Vernaza | 1 October 2022 |

#### Notes

* ↑ Caretaker manager.

## League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
| 1 | El Nacional (C, P) | 36 | 18 | 9 | 9 | 54 | 37 | +17 | 63 | Promotion to Serie A |
| 2 | Independiente Juniors | 36 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 44 | 33 | +11 | 56 | |
| 3 | Libertad (P) | 36 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 42 | 38 | +4 | 56 | Promotion to Serie A |
| 4 | América de Quito | 36 | 13 | 15 | 8 | 41 | 31 | +10 | 54 | |
| 5 | Imbabura | 36 | 13 | 8 | 15 | 47 | 51 | −4 | 47 | |
| 6 | Chacaritas | 36 | 11 | 10 | 15 | 30 | 38 | −8 | 43 | |
| 7 | Búhos ULVR | 36 | 9 | 15 | 12 | 33 | 38 | −5 | 42 | |
| 8 | Manta | 36 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 29 | 39 | −10 | 42 | |
| 9 | Atlético Santo Domingo (R) | 36 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 31 | 36 | −5 | 39 | Relegation to Segunda Categoría |
| 10 | Olmedo (R) | 36 | 10 | 11 | 15 | 33 | 43 | −10 | 38 | Relegation to Segunda Categoría |
* ↑ Reserve teams were ineligible for promotion.
* ↑ Olmedo were deducted three points as punishment for failing to pay their creditors.

## Results

| Home \ Away | AME | ASD | BUH | CHA | NAC | IMB | IND | LIB | MAN | OLM |
| América de Quito | — | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 |
| — | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–4 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 |
| Atlético Santo Domingo | 4–0 | — | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 1–2 |
| 2–2 | — | 2–1 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 |
| Búhos ULVR | 3–2 | 1–0 | — | 0–0 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 3–3 |
| 0–0 | 1–1 | — | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–2 |
| Chacaritas | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | — | 3–2 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 |
| 0–2 | 3–0 | 1–0 | — | 0–2 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| El Nacional | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | — | 2–4 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 |
| 0–1 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | — | 5–0 | 1–1 | 4–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 |
| Imbabura | 1–2 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 2–1 | — | 3–2 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| 2–1 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–2 | — | 1–3 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 |
| Independiente Juniors | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | — | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 |
| 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 4–1 | 4–1 | — | 0–1 | 2–2 | 1–0 |
| Libertad | 0–3 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 5–1 | 1–0 | 3–5 | 1–0 | — | 0–0 | 1–0 |
| 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–2 | — | 0–0 | 2–1 |
| Manta | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 3–2 | 0–2 | 0–3 | — | 2–1 |
| 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2–2 | — | 2–1 |
| Olmedo | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–4 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 1–2 | — |
| 0–2 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 3–0 | — |

## Positions by round

To preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches were not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match was scheduled for round 7, but then played between rounds 8 and 9, it will be added to the standings for round 8.
| Team ╲ Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 |
| América de Quito | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Atl. Santo Domingo | 4 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 9 |
| Búhos ULVR | 9 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| Chacaritas | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| El Nacional | 5 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Imbabura | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Independiente Juniors | 7 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Libertad | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| Manta | 8 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| Olmedo | 10 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 |
* Leader and promotion to Serie A
* Promotion to Serie A
* Relegation to Segunda Categoría

## Results by match played

| Team ╲ Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 |
| América de Quito | D | D | W | D | W | L | D | W | L | W | W | D | L | W | W | W | L | L | L | L | D | L | W | W | W | D | D | D | W | D | D | W | D | D | D | D |
| Atl. Santo Domingo | D | L | L | W | L | D | D | L | L | L | W | L | D | D | L | D | D | W | W | L | L | D | W | L | W | D | D | W | L | L | L | W | L | D | W | D |
| Búhos ULVR | L | L | W | L | W | L | L | D | W | W | W | D | D | D | D | W | W | D | L | L | L | W | W | L | D | D | D | D | L | D | L | D | D | L | D | D |
| Chacaritas | W | L | W | L | W | W | D | W | D | W | L | W | D | W | L | D | L | D | L | W | D | D | L | W | D | D | L | L | L | L | W | D | L | L | L | L |
| El Nacional | D | D | L | W | L | W | D | W | L | L | W | D | W | W | W | L | L | W | W | D | W | D | L | W | L | D | W | W | W | W | D | W | D | W | L | W |
| Imbabura | D | W | W | W | W | L | D | L | W | L | L | L | D | L | W | L | W | L | W | L | D | W | D | W | D | L | L | W | L | D | W | L | D | L | W | L |
| Independiente Juniors | D | W | L | W | L | W | W | D | L | W | L | L | D | L | D | L | D | L | W | W | W | W | W | D | D | W | W | D | W | D | D | L | W | W | L | D |
| Libertad | W | W | L | L | W | D | W | L | W | L | L | W | D | D | D | W | D | W | L | W | W | L | L | D | D | D | W | L | W | D | D | W | D | L | W | W |
| Manta | D | D | L | L | L | L | L | W | D | L | L | W | D | L | D | W | W | W | L | W | D | L | L | L | D | D | D | D | W | D | W | L | D | W | L | W |
| Olmedo | L | D | W | D | L | W | D | L | W | W | W | D | D | D | L | L | D | L | W | D | L | D | D | L | L | D | L | L | L | W | L | L | W | W | W | L |

## Top scorers

    As of 30 October 2022
| Rank | Name | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Ronie Carrillo | El Nacional | 16 |
| 2 | Alejandro Tobar | Imbabura | 11 |
| 2 | Bryan Rodríguez | Libertad | 11 |
| 4 | Mario Barrionuevo | Búhos ULVR | 10 |
| 5 | Kevin Rodríguez | Imbabura | 9 |
| 5 | Kevin Hoyos | América de Quito | 9 |
| 7 | Steven Gómez | El Nacional | 8 |
| 8 | César Espínola | Libertad | 7 |
Source: Ecuagol

## Number of teams by province

| Position | Province | Number | Teams |
| 1 | Pichincha | 3 | América de Quito, El Nacional and Independiente Juniors |
| 2 | Chimborazo | 1 | Olmedo |
| 2 | Guayas | 1 | Búhos ULVR |
| 2 | Imbabura | 1 | Imbabura |
| 2 | Loja | 1 | Libertad |
| 2 | Manabí | 1 | Manta |
| 2 | Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas | 1 | Atlético Santo Domingo |
| 2 | Tungurahua | 1 | Chacaritas |