# 1957 Campeonato Profesional

The 1957 Campeonato Profesional was the tenth season of Colombia's top-flight football league. The tournament consisted of a first stage, a cancelled octagonal stage, and a two-group second stage, and ended on 13 April 1958. 12 teams participated in the tournament. Independiente Medellín won the league for 2nd time in its history after defeating Cúcuta Deportivo in the championship playoff with an aggregate score of 8–3. Atlético Quindío, the defending champion, was 3rd in the first stage with 24 points, and was then eliminated in the second stage.

## Background

12 teams competed in the tournament. Libertad de Barranquilla was the only team from the previous season who did not participate.

## League system

Teams received two points for a win and one point for a draw. On the first stage, every team played two games against each other team, one at home and one away, and the first 8 teams qualified for the octagonal stage. From this stage, the team with most points would be the champion of the season, however the stage was cancelled after 8 matches due to claims from the teams eliminated in the first stage. Then, a second stage was played, with two groups of six teams each. The champion of each group played a playoff, and the champion of it played a champion playoff against the champion of the first stage.

## Teams

* 1. Armenia
* 2. Bogotá
* 3. Bucaramanga
* 4. Cali
* 5. Cúcuta
* 6. Ibagué
* 7. Medellín
* 8. Pereira
* 9. Santa Marta
| Team | City | Stadium |
| América | Cali | Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero |
| Atlético Bucaramanga | Bucaramanga | Estadio Alfonso López |
| Atlético Nacional | Medellín | Estadio Atanasio Girardot |
| Atlético Quindío | Armenia | Estadio San José de Armenia |
| Boca Juniors | Cali | Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero |
| Cúcuta Deportivo | Cúcuta | Estadio General Santander |
| Deportes Tolima | Ibagué | Estadio Gustavo Rojas Pinilla |
| Deportivo Pereira | Pereira | Estadio Alberto Mora Mora |
| Independiente Medellín | Medellín | Estadio Atanasio Girardot |
| Millonarios | Bogotá | Estadio El Campín |
| Santa Fe | Bogotá | Estadio El Campín |
| Unión Magdalena | Santa Marta | Estadio Eduardo Santos |

## First stage

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Independiente Medellín | 22 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 69 | 31 | +38 | 36 | Qualified to Octagonal Stage (and later also added to Champion Playoff) |
| 2 | Boca Juniors | 22 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 43 | 26 | +17 | 29 | Qualified to Octagonal Stage |
| 3 | Atlético Quindío | 22 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 34 | 30 | +4 | 24 | Qualified to Octagonal Stage |
| 4 | Deportivo Pereira | 22 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 42 | 51 | −9 | 24 | Qualified to Octagonal Stage |
| 5 | Cúcuta Deportivo | 22 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 37 | 38 | −1 | 22 | Qualified to Octagonal Stage |
| 6 | Santa Fe | 22 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 52 | 52 | 0 | 21 | Qualified to Octagonal Stage |
| 7 | Unión Magdalena | 22 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 32 | 32 | 0 | 21 | Qualified to Octagonal Stage |
| 8 | Deportes Tolima | 22 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 41 | 47 | −6 | 20 | Qualified to Octagonal Stage |
| 9 | América | 22 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 39 | 46 | −7 | 19 | |
| 10 | Atlético Nacional | 22 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 31 | 41 | −10 | 17 | |
| 11 | Atlético Bucaramanga | 22 | 6 | 4 | 12 | 28 | 37 | −9 | 16 | |
| 12 | Millonarios | 22 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 25 | 42 | −17 | 15 | |

### Results

| Home \ Away | AME | BJ | BUC | CUC | MAG | MED | MIL | NAC | PER | QUI | SFE | TOL |
| América | | 1–4 | 3–2 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 4–0 | 5–5 | 1–0 |
| Boca Juniors | 3–0 | | 1–0 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2–2 |
| Atlético Bucaramanga | 3–1 | 1–0 | | 2–0 | 0–0 | 0–4 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 0–1 |
| Cúcuta Deportivo | 2–1 | 2–2 | 3–1 | | 3–2 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 4–5 | 2–1 | 3–1 |
| Unión Magdalena | 4–2 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 0–0 | | 2–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 3–1 |
| Independiente Medellín | 3–1 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 4–2 | 6–1 | | 4–1 | 1–2 | 8–1 | 2–1 | 9–5 | 4–3 |
| Millonarios | 2–2 | 1–0 | 3–4 | 2–2 | 1–3 | 1–3 | | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 |
| Atlético Nacional | 2–1 | 0–3 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 3–0 | | 2–3 | 0–0 | 3–4 | 5–3 |
| Deportivo Pereira | 4–3 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 3–3 | 2–6 | 3–0 | 1–0 | | 2–1 | 4–1 | 4–4 |
| Atlético Quindío | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 3–1 | 5–0 | | 3–2 | 1–2 |
| Santa Fe | 2–0 | 6–1 | 4–2 | 4–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–3 | 1–2 | 3–3 | 1–2 | | 4–3 |
| Deportes Tolima | 1–2 | 2–5 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 2–3 | 2–2 | |

## Octagonal (canceled)

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Independiente Medellín | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 4 | +9 | 6 |
| 2 | Atlético Quindío | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 4 |
| 3 | Unión Magdalena | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 3 |
| 4 | Deportivo Pereira | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | Santa Fe | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 1 |
| 6 | Deportes Tolima | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 0 |
| 7 | Boca Juniors | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | −2 | 0 |
| 8 | Cúcuta Deportivo | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 11 | −9 | 0 |

### Results

| Home \ Away | BJ | CUC | MAG | MED | PER | QUI | SFE | TOL |
| Boca Juniors | | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Cúcuta Deportivo | – | | – | – | 1–4 | – | – | – |
| Unión Magdalena | 2–0 | – | | – | – | – | – | – |
| Independiente Medellín | – | 7–1 | – | | 3–1 | – | – | – |
| Deportivo Pereira | – | – | – | – | | 1–2 | – | – |
| Atlético Quindío | – | – | – | – | – | | – | 1–0 |
| Santa Fe | – | – | 2–2 | 2–3 | – | – | | – |
| Deportes Tolima | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
* 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 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 Matches not played

## Second stage
### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Independiente Medellín | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 24 | 16 | +8 | 12 |
| 2 | Deportivo Pereira | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 23 | 18 | +5 | 12 |
| 3 | Deportes Tolima | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 22 | 19 | +3 | 12 |
| 4 | Atlético Quindío | 10 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 10 |
| 5 | Atlético Nacional | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 16 | +1 | 9 |
| 6 | Unión Magdalena | 10 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 27 | −17 | 5 |

### Results

| Home \ Away | MAG | MED | NAC | PER | QUI | TOL |
| Unión Magdalena | | 0–3 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 1–4 |
| Independiente Medellín | 5–0 | | 2–1 | 5–3 | 0–2 | 3–5 |
| Atlético Nacional | 3–0 | 1–1 | | 3–2 | 1–3 | 3–1 |
| Deportivo Pereira | 4–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | | 2–1 | 1–1 |
| Atlético Quindío | 4–4 | 2–2 | 2–2 | 0–3 | | 3–3 |
| Deportes Tolima | 1–1 | 0–3 | 3–2 | 4–2 | 0–0 | |

#### First-place playoff

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Deportes Tolima | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | +2 | 5 |
| 2 | Deportivo Pereira | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 5 |
| 3 | Independiente Medellín | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 | −3 | 2 |

### Results

| Home \ Away | MED | PER | TOL |
| Independiente Medellín | | 1–2 | 2–0 |
| Deportivo Pereira | 2–1 | | 2–2 |
| Deportes Tolima | 4–1 | 2–1 | |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Cúcuta Deportivo | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 14 | +5 | 14 |
| 2 | Atlético Bucaramanga | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 9 | +6 | 12 |
| 3 | Santa Fe | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 12 | +2 | 10 |
| 4 | Millonarios | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 15 | −2 | 10 |
| 5 | Boca Juniors | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 14 | −4 | 8 |
| 6 | América | 10 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 17 | −7 | 6 |

### Results

| Home \ Away | AME | BJ | BUC | CUC | MIL | SFE |
| América | | 2–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 |
| Boca Juniors | 1–2 | | 1–1 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 |
| Atlético Bucaramanga | 2–1 | 2–0 | | 0–0 | 4–1 | 3–0 |
| Cúcuta Deportivo | 4–3 | 4–0 | 3–1 | | 2–1 | 1–1 |
| Millonarios | 3–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 3–1 | | 1–1 |
| Santa Fe | 2–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 2–3 | 4–0 | |

### Final

Cúcuta Deportivo qualified to Champion Playoff on coin toss. Because of this, a Runners-up Playoff was also played after the Champion Playoff.

## Top goalscorers

| Rank | Name | Club | Goals |
| 1 | José Grecco | Independiente Medellín | 30 |
| 2 | Jaime Gutiérrez | Atlético Nacional | 23 |
| 2 | Walter Marcolini | Atlético Quindío | 23 |
| 2 | Roberto Rolando | Boca Juniors de Cali | 23 |
| 5 | Casimiro Ávalos | Deportivo Pereira | 18 |
| 5 | Francisco Solano Patiño | Deportivo Pereira | 18 |
| 7 | José Montanini | Atlético Bucaramanga | 17 |
| 7 | Alberto Galeano | Cúcuta Deportivo | 17 |
| 9 | Alejandro Genes | Deportivo Pereira | 16 |
| 10 | Luis Miloc | Cúcuta Deportivo | 15 |
Source: RSSSF.com Colombia 1957
* 1957 Campeonato Profesional champion
* Independiente Medellín Second title