2007 Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano season

The 2007 season of Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano was the 50th season of top-tier football in Bolivia. The 2007 annual season had the 35th (Apertura 2007) and the 36th (Clausura 2007) tournament of LFPB's history. The Apertura tournament started on March 6 and finished on June 13. The Clausura tournament was played between August and December. Bolívar and Wilstermann will be defending the championships obtained in the 2006 annual season.

Teams and venues

Team	Location	Venue	Capacity
Aurora	Cochabamba	Estadio Felix Capriles	32,000
Blooming	Santa Cruz de la Sierra	Estadio Tahuichi Aguilera	38,000
Bolívar	La Paz	Estadio Libertador Simón Bolivar	25,000
Destroyers	Santa Cruz de la Sierra	Estadio Ramón Tahuichi Aguilera	38,000
Jorge Wilstermann	Cochabamba	Felix Capriles	32,000
La Paz F.C.	La Paz	Estadio Hernando Siles	42,000
Oriente Petrolero	Santa Cruz de la Sierra	Estadio Tahuichi Aguilera	38,000
Real Mamoré	Trinidad	Estadio Gran Mamoré	12,000
Real Potosí	Potosí	Estadio Victor Agustín Ugarte	32,000
San José	Oruro	Estadio Jesús Bermúdez	33,000
The Strongest	La Paz	Estadio Rafael Mendoza	15,000
Universitario de Sucre	Sucre	Estadio Olímpico Patria	32,000

CONMEBOL Qualification

Main article: CONMEBOL

Team	Competition
Apertura 2007 Champions	Copa Libertadores de América 2008 as Bolivia-1
Clausura 2007 Champions	Copa Libertadores de América 2008 as Bolivia-2
Winner of the playoff between Apertura 2007 and Clausura 2007 Runners-Up	Copa Libertadores de América 2008 as Bolivia-3
Loser of the playoff between Apertura 2007 and Clausura 2007 Runners-Up	Copa Sudamericana 2008 as Bolivia-1
Winner of the playoff between Apertura 2007 and Clausura 2007 3rd places	Copa Sudamericana 2008 as Bolivia-2

Relegation

At the end of the year the team with the lowest point average (points / games played) from the past annual season (2006) and the current one (2007) is relegated to its respective regional tournament. The team with the 2nd lowest point average faces a playoff against the 2nd placed team in the Copa Simón Bolívar.

Torneo Apertura

Twelve clubs play in double round-robin format (home and away), a total of 22 games each. A club receives 3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie, and 0 points for a loss. The clubs are ranked by points, and tie breakers are, in the following order: goal difference, goals scored, head-to-head results.

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Real Potosí	22	12	3	7	46	25	+21	39
2	Bolívar¹	22	10	4	8	32	37	-5	37
3	La Paz F.C.	22	10	5	7	31	23	+8	35
4	Jorge Wilstermann	22	10	5	7	29	23	+6	35
5	Oriente Petrolero¹	22	10	7	5	33	30	+3	34
6	Blooming	22	10	1	11	32	35	-3	31
7	The Strongest²	22	8	5	9	36	40	-4	30
8	Aurora	22	8	4	10	37	34	+3	28
9	San José²	22	8	4	10	36	35	+1	27
10	Destroyers	22	7	5	10	28	35	-7	26
11	Universitario de Sucre	22	7	4	11	32	32	+0	25
12	Real Mamoré	22	7	3	12	32	55	-23	24

1 - Bolívar awarded 3 points and Oriente 0 for Oriente's 3-0 win
2 - The Strongest awarded 3 points and San José 0 for their 2-2 draw

	Champions - Qualified for Copa Libertadores 2008
	Qualified for Copa Libertadores 2008 through Torneo Clausura and Torneo Play Off de la Liga
	Qualified for Copa Sudamericana 2008
	Relegated to Regional leagues

Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

Torneo Clausura

Group Stage

Group 1


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	The Strongest	12	6	3	3	23	14	+9	21	Final Group
2	Blooming	12	6	3	3	14	10	+4	21
3	San José	12	4	5	3	18	17	+1	17
4	Universitario	12	4	3	5	18	18	0	15
5	Aurora	12	3	5	4	13	17	−4	14
6	Destroyers	12	3	2	7	17	26	−9	11

Updated to games played on 2007.
Source:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Group 2


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	La Paz	12	7	2	3	12	6	+6	23	Final Group
2	Jorge Wilstermann	12	5	3	4	19	17	+2	18
3	Real Mamoré	12	5	2	5	15	13	+2	17
4	Real Potosí	12	4	4	4	17	14	+3	16
5	Bolívar	12	4	2	6	16	20	−4	14
6	Oriente Petrolero	12	4	0	8	10	20	−10	12

Final Group

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
San José	18	10	5	3	2	16	13	+3
La Paz F.C.	18	10	5	2	3	18	16	+2
Blooming	15	10	4	3	3	15	11	+4
Real Mamoré	15	10	4	3	3	17	14	+3
The Strongest	11	10	3	2	5	20	16	+4
Jorge Wilstermann	7	10	2	1	7	8	21	-13

NB: La Paz FC and The Strongest started with 1 bonus point for winning their respective groups in the first phase

Play-offs

Championship

La Paz F.C. v San José

First Leg
2007-12-09

La Paz F.C.	2 – 2	San José
Daison Guale 69' Ronald Gutiérrez 79'		Álex da Rosa 19' Lisandro Moyano 90+2'

Estadio Hernando Siles, La Paz

San José v La Paz F.C.

Second Leg
2007-12-12

San José	1 – 0	La Paz F.C.
Álex da Rosa 32'

Estadio Jesús Bermúdez, Oruro

Torneo de la Liga

Bolívar v La Paz F.C.

First Leg
2007-12-16

Bolívar	1 – 2	La Paz F.C.
Luis Anibal Torrico 13'		Daison Guale 37' Diomedes Peña 46'

Estadio Libertador Simón Bolivar, La Paz

La Paz F.C. v Bolívar

Second Leg
2007-12-19

La Paz F.C.	2 – 1	Bolívar
Ronald Gutiérrez 74' Diomedes Peña 82'		Doyle Vaca 63'

Estadio Hernando Siles, La Paz

La Paz FC join Real Potosí and San José in the Copa Libertadores 2008, while losers Bolívar join Blooming in the Copa Sudamericana 2008

Real Potosí and San José qualified to the 2008 Copa Libertadores Second Stage.
La Paz qualified to the 2008 Copa Libertadores First Stage.
Blooming qualified to the 2008 Copa Sudamericana First Stage.
Bolívar qualified to the 2008 Copa Sudamericana Preliminary.

Promotion/Relegation

Aurora v Nacional Potosí

First Leg
2007-12-06

Aurora	3 – 0	Nacional Potosí
Edson Zenteno 12' (pk) Oliver Christian Fernández 23' Isidro Candia 90+3'

Estadio Félix Capriles, Cochabamba

Second leg

Nacional Potosí v Aurora

Second Leg
2007-12-09

Nacional Potosí	2 – 2	Aurora
Fernando Batiste 25' (og) Maximiliano Andrada 50'		Oliver Christian Fernández 1' Isidro Candia 43'

Estadio Victor Agustín Ugarte, Potosí

Aurora win 5-2 on aggregate. Aurora remain at the top level.

References

Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano seasons

1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2005–06 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

2007 in South American Football (CONMEBOL)

Domestic Leagues	Argentina '06–'07 '07–'08 Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia I II Ecuador Paraguay Peru Uruguay '06–'07 '07–'08 Venezuela '06–'07 '07–'08

Domestic Cups	Brazil Venezuela '07–'08

CONMEBOL Competitions	Copa Libertadores Copa Sudamericana Recopa Sudamericana

Football in Bolivia

Federación Boliviana de Fútbol

National teams

National leagues

men:	Liga Nacional A Liga Nacional B Copa Bolivia Torneo Nacional Interprovincial

women:	National Championship

Domestic Cup	Copa Aerosur Copa Cine Center

Regional leagues	Bolivian Football Regional Leagues Primera B

Defunct competitions	Copa Simón Bolívar Copa Bolivia (1976-2002)

List of clubs
Footballers
Managers
List of venues
League system

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