1995 Categoría Primera A season

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).^[1]

Copa Mustang

Season	1995
Dates	26 February – 14 June 1995
Champions	Junior (4th title)
Relegated	Cúcuta Deportivo
Copa Libertadores	Junior América de Cali
Matches played	240
Goals scored	676 (2.82 per match)
Top goalscorer	Iván Valenciano (25 goals)
← 1994 1995–96 →

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.^[2]

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.

Atlético Huila

Atlético Nacional

Bogotá

Cali

Cortuluá

Cúcuta Deportivo

Deportes Quindío

Deportes Tolima

Deportivo Pereira

Envigado

Independiente Medellín

Junior

Once Caldas

Unión Magdalena

Bogotá teams:
Millonarios
Santa Fe
Cali teams:
América de Cali
Deportivo Cali

Locations of the 1995 Categoría Primera A teams

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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Junior (C)	30	18	8	4	66	37	+29	62	Qualification for the Copa Libertadores
2	América de Cali	30	17	9	4	56	32	+24	60
3	Atlético Nacional	30	12	12	6	48	37	+11	48
4	Deportivo Cali	30	11	14	5	54	42	+12	47
5	Santa Fe	30	11	12	7	40	29	+11	45
6	Deportivo Pereira	30	13	4	13	52	46	+6	43
7	Independiente Medellín	30	11	10	9	48	43	+5	43
8	Once Caldas	30	11	9	10	37	33	+4	42
9	Deportes Tolima	30	10	10	10	41	44	−3	40
10	Deportes Quindío	30	9	10	11	35	40	−5	37
11	Cortuluá[a]	30	10	7	13	38	45	−7	35
12	Envigado	30	8	8	14	36	50	−14	32
13	Unión Magdalena	30	8	7	15	26	42	−16	31
14	Millonarios	30	5	13	12	40	53	−13	28
15	Atlético Huila	30	6	8	16	34	56	−22	26
16	Cúcuta Deportivo (R)	30	5	9	16	25	47	−22	24	Relegation to Categoría Primera B

Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) Wins, 3) Goal difference, 4) Goals for, 5) Away goals for, 6) Goals against, 7) Away goals against, 8) Drawing of lots.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Cortuluá were deducted two points.

1995 Copa Mustang champions
Junior 4th title

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Iván Valenciano	Junior	25
2	Níver Arboleda	Deportivo Cali	19
3	Cristián Montecinos	Junior	16
4	Carlos Castro	Independiente Medellín	15
5	Rubén Darío Hernández	Santa Fe	13
6	Rubén Daniel Iturburo	Unión Magdalena	12
	Edison Mafla	Deportivo Cali
8	Henry Zambrano	América de Cali	11
9	Guillermo Castrillón	Envigado	10
	Alex Comas	América de Cali

Source: Historia del Fútbol Profesional Colombiano 70 Años^[3]