The 2022 Primera B de Chile, also known as Campeonato Ascenso Betsson 2022 for sponsorship purposes, was the 68th season of the Primera B de Chile, Chile's second-tier football league. The fixture for the season was announced on 1 February 2022, with the competition starting on 15 February and ending on 27 November 2022.
Magallanes were the champions, clinching their first Primera B title as well as promotion to Primera División on the final day of the regular season with a 2–0 win over Deportes Recoleta on 1 November 2022. The other promoted club was Deportes Copiapó, who won the promotion play-off after beating the regular season runners-up Cobreloa in the finals.
Format The tournament was played by 17 teams, 14 returning from the previous season, two relegated from the 2021 Campeonato Nacional (Deportes Melipilla and Santiago Wanderers), and the 2021 Segunda División Profesional champions Deportes Recoleta. The 17 teams played each other in a double round-robin tournament (once at home and once away) for a total of 32 matches, with every team having two bye rounds. The top team at the end of the 34 rounds was the champion and was promoted to the Campeonato Nacional for its 2023 season, while the next five teams played a play-off tournament (Liguilla) in which the league runners-up received a bye to the final. The playoffs winning team was the second and last promoted team to the top flight for the following season. Two teams were relegated to the Segunda División Profesional at the end of the season: the bottom-placed team in the league standings as well as the bottom-placed team in the relegation table, which considered the performance of teams in the 2021 and 2022 seasons.
Teams Stadia and locations
ClubCityStadiumCapacityBarnecheaSantiago (Lo Barnechea)Municipal de Lo Barnechea3,000CobreloaCalamaZorros del Desierto12,346 Deportes CopiapóCopiapóLuis Valenzuela Hermosilla8,000Deportes IquiqueIquiqueTierra de Campeones13,171Deportes MelipillaMelipillaRoberto Bravo Santibáñez6,000Deportes Puerto MonttPuerto MonttChinquihue10,000Deportes Recoleta Santiago (Recoleta)Leonel Sánchez Lineros1,000Deportes Santa Cruz Santa CruzJoaquín Muñoz García5,000Deportes TemucoTemucoGermán Becker18,413 Fernandez VialConcepciónAlcaldesa Ester Roa Rebolledo30,448MagallanesSantiago (San Bernardo)Luis Navarro Avilés3,500RangersTalcaFiscal de Talca8,200San LuisQuillotaLucio Fariña Fernández7,680Santiago MorningSantiago (La Pintana)Municipal de La Pintana6,000Santiago WanderersValparaísoElías Figueroa Brander20,575Unión San FelipeSan FelipeMunicipal de San Felipe12,000Universidad de ConcepciónConcepciónAlcaldesa Ester Roa Rebolledo30,448 Notes
Standings
Results
Promotion playoff Bracket
Quarter-finals
Deportes Puerto Montt won 3–1 on aggregate and advanced to the semi-final.
Deportes Copiapó won 5–1 on aggregate and advanced to the semi-final.
Semi-final
Deportes Copiapó won 4–3 on aggregate and advanced to the final.
Final
Deportes Copiapó won 5–0 on aggregate and were promoted to Primera División.
Top scorers Rank Name Club Goals 1 Juan Ignacio DumaBarnechea 14 2 Alfredo ÁbalosRangers 13 Pedro MuñozDeportes Santa Cruz 4 César CortésMagallanes 12 David EscalanteCobreloa Óscar OrtegaSantiago Morning 7 Arnaldo CastilloUniversidad de Concepción 11 Steffan PinoSantiago Morning Maximiliano QuinterosDeportes Copiapó 10 Lionel AltamiranoRangers 9 Sebastián ParadaSan Luis
Source: Soccerway
Relegation For this season, a relegation table was elaborated by computing an average of the points earned per game over this season and the previous one. Promoted team Deportes Recoleta and the relegated ones Deportes Melipilla and Santiago Wanderers only had their points in the 2022 season averaged. The team placing last in this table at the end of the season was relegated. In case this team was also the last-placed one in the season's table, the team placed second-to-last in this table would also be relegated.
Team Relegation 1Magallanes 41 30 72 32 113 62 2Deportes Copiapó 52 30 52 32 104 62 3Cobreloa 33 30 68 32 101 62 4Deportes Puerto Montt 48 30 47 32 95 62 5Unión San Felipe 36 30 52 32 88 62 6Deportes Temuco 49 30 38 32 87 62 7Santiago Morning 51 30 34 32 85 62 8Santiago Wanderers — — 42 32 42 32 9Deportes Santa Cruz 45 30 36 32 81 62 10Rangers 35 30 46 32 81 62 11 33 30 46 32 79 62 12Deportes Iquique 40 30 35 32 75 62 13San Luis 40 30 34 32 74 62 14Barnechea 24 30 44 32 68 62 15Fernández Vial 40 30 26 32 66 62 16Deportes Recoleta — — 34 32 34 32 17Deportes Melipilla (R) — — 30 32 30 32 Source: ANFP
See also 2022 Chilean Primera División 2022 Copa Chile 2022 Supercopa de Chile
References
External links Primera B on ANFP's website