2022 Copa Colombia
The 2022 Copa Colombia, officially the Copa BetPlay Dimayor 2022 for sponsorship reasons, is the 20th edition of the Copa Colombia, the national cup competition for clubs affiliated to DIMAYOR, the governing body of professional club football in Colombia. The tournament will be contested by 35 teams and began on 9 February 2022. It is scheduled to end on 12 October 2022, with the champions being entitled to qualify for the 2023 Copa Libertadores. Atlético Nacional are the defending champions, having won the competition in the most recent edition. Format. The format for the 2022 Copa Colombia  will be similar to the one used in the previous two editions, with the competition being played in a double-legged, single-elimination format in its entirety, without any group stages. Fourteen out of the 15 Categoría Primera B teams will enter the competition in the first stage and were drawn into seven ties, except for Boyacá Chicó who received a bye to the second stage for being the best-placed team in the aggregate table of the 2021–II Primera B tournament. After two stages, four Primera B teams will qualify for the third stage, along with the 12  Categoría Primera A teams that failed to qualify for international competition, which will enter the cup at that stage. Finally, in the round of 16, the eight third stage winners will be joined by the four Copa Libertadores qualifiers (Deportes Tolima, Deportivo Cali, Millonarios, and Atlético Nacional) and the four Copa Sudamericana qualifiers (Junior, América de Cali, La Equidad, and Independiente Medellín), which will enter the competition at this point. Schedule. The schedule of the competition is as follows: First stage. The first stage was played by 14 Categoría Primera B clubs, eight of which were seeded in the ties  according to their placement in the 2021–II season aggregate table. The remaining Primera B clubs were drawn into each tie. The seeded clubs (Team 2) hosted the second leg. Second stage. The second stage was played by the seven first stage winners as well as Boyacá Chicó, who were seeded into this stage. In each tie, the clubs with the best performance in the first stage hosted the second leg. Third stage. The third stage is played by the four second stage winners and the 12 Categoría Primera A clubs that did not qualify for international competition, which were  seeded in the ties according to their placement in the 2021 season aggregate table. The four second stage winners as well as the four best teams according to the 2021 Primera A aggregate table will host the second leg. Final stages. Each tie in the knockout stage will be played in a home-and-away two-legged format. In each tie, the team which has the better overall record up to that stage will host the second leg, except in the round of 16 where the third stage winners will host the second leg. The teams entering the competition at  this stage will be the ones that qualified for the 2022 Copa Libertadores and 2022 Copa Sudamericana, which will be drawn into each of the eight ties. In case of a tie, extra time will not be played and the winner will be decided in a penalty shoot-out. Round of 16. The teams qualifying from the third stage will play the second leg at home.