# 2025 Bolivian Primera División season

The 2025 Bolivian Primera División season will be the 47th season of the División Profesional del Fútbol Boliviano, Bolivia's top-flight football league and the seventh season under División de Fútbol Profesional management. The season will begin on 30 March and will end in December 2025. Although the season was originally expected to begin on 14 February 2025, delays in the resolution of disciplinary cases that could affect the club composition for the season eventually forced the start date to be moved to 30 March.
Bolívar will be the defending champions.
On 28 February 2025, Aurora was deducted 33 points ahead of the season, as punishment for the Gabriel Montaño case.

## Format

The format for the season was decided at a meeting of the División Profesional's Council on 11 March 2025, following the resolution of disciplinary cases involving the club Royal Pari and Aurora player Gabriel Montaño. The 2025 season will have two parallel tournaments starting on 30 March and ending in December: a double round-robin league competition in which the 16 participating teams will play each other twice for a total of 30 rounds, and a cup tournament named Copa Bolivia with a first stage in which the 16 teams will be drawn into four groups and a knockout stage involving the top teams in the first stage. The team topping the league tournament at the end of the season will be the División Profesional champion.
The champions and runners-up of the league tournament will qualify for the 2026 Copa Libertadores group stage as Bolivia 1 and Bolivia 2, whilst the Copa Bolivia champions will qualify for the Copa Libertadores as Bolivia 3 and the runners-up of the latter tournament will claim the last berth to the 2026 Copa Sudamericana. The remaining international berths will be awarded to the best-placed teams in the league tournament, whilst the team placing last in this tournament will be relegated and the team placing second-from-bottom will have to play the relegation play-off against the Copa Simón Bolívar runner-up. No aggregate table will be considered for this season.

## Teams

16 teams will compete in the league for the 2025 season: the top 14 teams in the aggregate table of the 2024 Primera División season, along with ABB who promoted from the 2024 Copa Simón Bolívar, and the winners of the promotion/relegation play-off Totora Real Oruro. ABB achieved a first-ever promotion to the top tier on 1 December 2024, after winning the Copa Simón Bolívar title. Meanwhile, Totora Real Oruro's first-ever promotion was confirmed on 6 January 2025, after the Bolivian Football Federation's Sports Disciplinary Court ruled the exclusion of Royal Pari from the competition following their abandonment of the second leg of the promotion/relegation play-off.
ABB and Totora Real Oruro replaced Real Santa Cruz and Royal Pari, both relegated to the Santa Cruz regional league.

### Stadia and locations

| Team | City | Stadium | Capacity |
| ABB | El Alto | Municipal de Villa Ingenio | 22,000 |
| Always Ready | El Alto | Municipal de Villa Ingenio | 22,000 |
| Aurora | Cochabamba | Félix Capriles | 32,000 |
| Blooming | Santa Cruz de la Sierra | Ramón Tahuichi Aguilera | 38,000 |
| Bolívar | La Paz | Hernando Siles | 42,000 |
| Guabirá | Montero | Gilberto Parada | 13,000 |
| GV San José | Oruro | Jesús Bermúdez | 33,000 |
| Independiente Petrolero | Sucre | Olímpico Patria | 30,700 |
| Jorge Wilstermann | Cochabamba | Félix Capriles | 32,000 |
| Nacional Potosí | Potosí | Víctor Agustín Ugarte | 32,105 |
| Oriente Petrolero | Santa Cruz de la Sierra | Ramón Tahuichi Aguilera | 38,000 |
| Real Tomayapo | Tarija | IV Centenario | 15,000 |
| San Antonio Bulo Bulo | Entre Ríos | Carlos Villegas | 17,000 |
| The Strongest | La Paz | Hernando Siles | 42,000 |
| Totora Real Oruro | Oruro | Jesús Bermúdez | 33,000 |
| Universitario de Vinto | Cochabamba | Félix Capriles | 32,000 |

#### Notes

* ↑ Used along with Estadio Municipal de Quillacollo as home stadiums for the season since Universitario's stadium Estadio Hipólito Lazarte does not meet FBF requirements for a professional match.

### Personnel and kits

| Team | Manager | Kit manufacturer | Main shirt sponsors |
| ABB | Pablo Godoy | Rei | UTB |
| Always Ready | Eduardo Villegas | Marathon | UTB |
| Aurora | Daniel Farrar | Marathon | UTB |
| Blooming | Mauricio Soria | Marathon | Gree |
| Bolívar | Flavio Robatto | Puma | Suzuki |
| Guabirá | Rolando Carlen | Forte | Celina, Ingenio Guabirá, Grupo Paz |
| GV San José | Dalcio Giovagnoli | Arce | 4life Grains, Paceña |
| Independiente Petrolero | Marcelo Robledo | Red White | UTB, Fancesa |
| Jorge Wilstermann | Luciano Theiler | Puma | Nacional, Campero |
| Nacional Potosí | César Vigevani | Willys | Ingenio San Silvestre |
| Oriente Petrolero | Rodrigo Venegas | Marathon | Yango |
| Real Tomayapo | Humberto Viviani | Oxígeno Wear | Altavida |
| San Antonio Bulo Bulo | Julio César Baldivieso | Oxígeno Wear | UTB |
| The Strongest | Antônio Carlos Zago | Marathon | Kia |
| Totora Real Oruro | Alberto Illanes | Forte | UTB |
| Universitario de Vinto | Thiago Leitão | Oxígeno Wear | UTB |

### Managerial changes

| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment |
| The Strongest | Ismael Rescalvo | End of contract | 20 December 2024 | Pre-season | Antônio Carlos Zago | 12 January 2025 |
| Always Ready | Jaime Jemio | Return to assistant role | 21 December 2024 | Pre-season | Eduardo Villegas | 2 January 2025 |
| Jorge Wilstermann | Franz Taboada | End of caretaker spell | 21 December 2024 | Pre-season | Luciano Theiler | 4 January 2025 |
| Nacional Potosí | Dayler Gutiérrez | End of caretaker spell | 21 December 2024 | Pre-season | César Vigevani | 27 December 2024 |
| Aurora | Sergio Órteman | End of contract | 24 December 2024 | Pre-season | Daniel Farrar | 8 January 2025 |
| San Antonio Bulo Bulo | Leonardo Eguez | End of contract | 24 December 2024 | Pre-season | Julio César Baldivieso | 27 December 2024 |
| Blooming | Álvaro Peña | End of contract | 25 December 2024 | Pre-season | Mauricio Soria | 25 December 2024 |
| Guabirá | Víctor Hugo Andrada | Sacked | 26 December 2024 | Pre-season | Rolando Carlen | 26 December 2024 |
| GV San José | Julio César Baldivieso | Signed by San Antonio Bulo Bulo | 27 December 2024 | Pre-season | Dalcio Giovagnoli | 16 January 2025 |
| Universitario de Vinto | Pablo Godoy | End of contract | 31 December 2024 | Pre-season | Thiago Leitão | 6 January 2025 |
| ABB | David Condori | End of contract | 31 December 2024 | Pre-season | Pablo Godoy | 14 February 2025 |
| Totora Real Oruro | Daniel Gómez | Sacked | 7 January 2025 | Pre-season | Alberto Illanes | 10 January 2025 |
| Oriente Petrolero | Joaquín Monasterio | Sacked | 4 March 2025 | Pre-season | Rodrigo Venegas | 4 March 2025 |

#### Notes

* ↑ Aurora originally appointed Rodrigo Venegas as manager on 26 December 2024, but on 4 January 2025 the club informed him that he would not take over the team.
* ↑ ABB originally appointed Julio Quinteros as manager on 20 January 2025, but he was sacked on 14 February.

## Standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | ABB | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification for Copa Libertadores group stage |
| 2 | Always Ready | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification for Copa Libertadores group stage |
| 3 | Blooming | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification for Copa Libertadores first stage |
| 4 | Bolívar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification for Copa Sudamericana first stage |
| 5 | Guabirá | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification for Copa Sudamericana first stage |
| 6 | GV San José | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification for Copa Sudamericana first stage |
| 7 | Independiente Petrolero | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 8 | Jorge Wilstermann | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 9 | Nacional Potosí | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 10 | Oriente Petrolero | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 11 | Real Tomayapo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 12 | San Antonio Bulo Bulo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 13 | The Strongest | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 14 | Totora Real Oruro | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 15 | Universitario de Vinto | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification for Promotion/relegation play-off |
| 16 | Aurora | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −33 | Relegation to Bolivian Football Regional Leagues |
* ↑ Aurora were deducted 33 points as punishment for the Gabriel Montaño case.