The 1995 Categoría Primera A season, known as the 1995 Copa Mustang for sponsoring purposes, was the forty-eighth season of Colombia's top-flight football league. The tournament was also known as Torneo Nivelación given that a switch to the European calendar (from the Northern Hemisphere's fall to spring) was approved starting from the following edition of the competition (the 1995–96 tournament).
Junior won the league for the fourth time, clinching the title on the final day of the season despite losing 3–1 to Santa Fe.
Format Given the transition from the American calendar to the European one scheduled for the second half of 1995, in this season the 16 participating teams played each other on a double round-robin tournament, with the champion being the team topping the table after the tournament's 30 rounds. The champion and runner-up qualified for the 1996 Copa Libertadores, while the bottom-placed team was relegated to Categoría Primera B. This was the last season in which relegation was decided by the season's standings, changing to a system by average starting from the following season, as well as the first season in which teams were awarded three points for a win.
Teams 16 teams competed in the season, the top 15 teams from the 1994 Primera A championship along with the 1994 Primera B champions Deportes Tolima, who replaced Atlético Bucaramanga who were relegated at the end of the previous season.
Team City Stadium América de Cali Cali Pascual Guerrero Atlético Huila Neiva Guillermo Plazas Alcid Atlético Nacional Medellín Atanasio Girardot Cortuluá Tuluá Doce de Octubre Cúcuta Deportivo Cúcuta General Santander Deportes Quindío Armenia Centenario Deportes Tolima Ibagué Manuel Murillo Toro Deportivo Cali Cali Pascual Guerrero Deportivo Pereira Pereira Hernán Ramírez Villegas Envigado Envigado Polideportivo Sur Independiente Medellín Medellín Atanasio Girardot Junior Barranquilla Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez Millonarios Bogotá El Campín Once Caldas Manizales Palogrande Santa Fe Bogotá El Campín Unión Magdalena Santa Marta Eduardo Santos
Standings
Top goalscorers Rank Player Club Goals 1 Iván ValencianoJunior 25 2 Níver ArboledaDeportivo Cali 19 3 Cristián MontecinosJunior 16 4 Carlos CastroIndependiente Medellín 15 5 Rubén Darío HernándezSanta Fe 13 6 Rubén Daniel IturburoUnión Magdalena 12 Edison MaflaDeportivo Cali 8 Henry ZambranoAmérica de Cali 11 9 Guillermo CastrillónEnvigado 10 Alex ComasAmérica de Cali
Source: Historia del Fútbol Profesional Colombiano 70 Años
References
External links Dimayor's official website