The 2026 Primera B de Chile, officially known as Liga de Ascenso Caixun 2026 for sponsorship reasons, is the 72nd season of the second-tier football league of Chile. The season, which is the second edition under the Liga de Ascenso branding, began on 20 February 2026.
Format For the 2026 season, the competition kept the format used in its most recent editions, featuring a regular stage and a promotion play-off tournament (Liguilla). In the regular stage, the 16 teams play a double round-robin tournament facing each other twice (once at home and once away). The team finishing first at the end of the 30 rounds will be crowned champion and will also promote to the 2027 Liga de Primera, while the next best seven teams will qualify for the promotion play-offs, where they will compete in a knockout stage to determine the second promoted team. The regular season's runner-up will receive a bye to the semi-finals, while the remaining six teams will enter the play-offs in the first round. The team finishing last in the regular stage will be relegated to the Segunda División Profesional for the 2027 season.
Teams
Sixteen teams take part in the competition, thirteen of them returning from the previous season. Universidad de Concepción and Deportes Concepción were promoted to the top flight at the end of the 2025 season, being replaced in the second-tier competition by Unión Española and Deportes Iquique, both relegated from the 2025 Liga de Primera. The former team was relegated to the second tier for the first time since 1998, whilst the latter one returned to the Liga de Ascenso after two years.
The 2025 Segunda División Profesional champions Deportes Puerto Montt were promoted to the Liga de Ascenso for this season, returning after a two-year absence. They replaced Santiago Morning, who were relegated to the third tier for the first time after finishing last in the 2025 season.
Stadiums and locations ClubCityStadiumCapacityCobreloaCalamaZorros del Desierto12,102Curicó UnidoCuricóLa Granja12,000Deportes AntofagastaAntofagastaCalvo y Bascuñán21,178Deportes CopiapóCopiapó Luis Valenzuela Hermosilla8,600Deportes IquiqueIquiqueTierra de Campeones14,430Deportes Puerto MonttPuerto MonttRegional de Chinquihue10,000Deportes RecoletaSantiago (Recoleta)Municipal Leonel Sánchez Lineros2,000Deportes Santa CruzSanta CruzJoaquín Muñoz García4,500Deportes TemucoTemucoMunicipal Germán Becker18,000MagallanesSantiago (San Bernardo)Municipal Luis Navarro Avilés3,516RangersTalcaFiscal de Talca16,070San LuisQuillotaMunicipal Lucio Fariña Fernández7,700San Marcos de AricaAricaCarlos Dittborn10,000Santiago WanderersValparaísoElías Figueroa Brander25,500Unión EspañolaSantiago (Independencia)Santa Laura-Universidad SEK19,887Unión San FelipeSan FelipeMunicipal de San Felipe10,000
Standings
Results
Top scorers
{| class="wikitable" border="1" |- ! Rank ! Player ! Club ! Goals |- | align=center | 1 | Diego Arias |Deportes Santa Cruz | align=center | 17 |- | align=center | 2 | Gustavo Gotti |Cobreloa | align=center | 15 |- | align=center | 3 | Manuel López |Deportes Copiapó | align=center | 14 |- | align=center | 4 | Sebastián Parada |San Luis | align=center | 13 |- | align=center | 5 | Marcos Camarda |Santiago Wanderers | align=center | 12 |- | align=center | 6 | Camilo Melivilú |San Marcos de Arica | align=center | 11 |- | rowspan=2 align=center | 7 | Brayan Hurtado |Deportes Antofagasta | rowspan=2 align=center | 10 |- | Andrés Vilches |Unión Española |- | align=center | 9 | Josepablo Monreal |Deportes Antofagasta | align=center | 9 |- | rowspan=5 align=center | 10 | Leandro Benegas |Curicó Unido | rowspan=5 align=center | 8 |- | Diego Buonanotte |Deportes Temuco |- | Richard Paredes |Deportes Puerto Montt |- | Facundo Peraza |Magallanes |- | Agustín Venezia |Deportes Iquique
Source: Soccerway
See also 2026 Liga de Primera 2026 Copa de la Liga 2026 Copa Chile 2026 Supercopa de Chile
References
External links Liga de Ascenso on ANFP's website