LigaPro Serie A

Season	2020
Dates	14 February – 29 December 2020
Champions	Barcelona (16th title)
Relegated	LDU Portoviejo El Nacional
Copa Libertadores	Barcelona LDU Quito Independiente del Valle Universidad Católica
Copa Sudamericana	Emelec Guayaquil City Macará Aucas
Matches played	240
Goals scored	667 (2.78 per match)
Top goalscorer	Cristian Martínez Borja (24 goals)
Biggest home win	LDU Quito 5–0 Dep. Cuenca (14 October)
Biggest away win	LDU Portoviejo 0–6 Emelec (11 November)
Highest scoring	Ind. del Valle 4–4 Macará (18 August)
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The 2020 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol Serie A (until 18 September 2020 officially known as the LigaPro Banco Pichincha 2020 for sponsorship reasons)^[1] was the 62nd season of the Serie A, Ecuador's top tier football league, and the second under the management of the Liga Profesional de Fútbol del Ecuador (or LigaPro). Delfín were the defending champions.^[2] Barcelona won their 16th domestic league title after defeating LDU Quito 3–1 on penalties following a 1–1 draw on aggregate score in the finals.

The competition was suspended from 14 March to 14 August due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Format

The format for the 2020 season was decided by LigaPro's Council of Presidents on 22 October 2019. For this season, the league returned to the three-stage system used before the 2019 season, scrapping the play-off stage played in the previous season.^[3] The first and second stages were played as single round-robin tournaments with all teams playing each other once for a total of 15 matches per stage. The first stage fixture was reversed for the second stage, and the top teams at the end of each stage qualified for the finals as well as the Copa Libertadores group stage. The finals were a double-legged series between the winners of both stages with a penalty shoot-out deciding the champion in case of a tie in points and goals scored. In case a team won both stages of the season, the finals would not have been played and that team would win the championship.

An aggregate table including the matches of both the first and second stages was used to decide international qualification and relegation, with the best two teams (other than the stage winners) qualifying for the Copa Libertadores, and the next best three teams qualifying for the Copa Sudamericana. The remaining Copa Sudamericana berth would have been allocated through the 2020 Copa Ecuador, which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and had its berth reallocated to the next best team in the aggregate table. Meanwhile, the teams that ended in the 15th and 16th place of the aggregate table would have competed in relegation play-offs against the third- and fourth-placed teams of the 2020 Serie B for the right to remain in the top tier for the following season,^[4] however, in a Council of Presidents session held on 23 May 2020 it was decided not to expand the Serie A to 18 teams for the 2021 season, meaning that the bottom two teams of the aggregate table at the end of the season were relegated to Serie B.^[5]

Teams

Stadia and locations

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity
Aucas	Quito	Gonzalo Pozo Ripalda	21,689
Barcelona	Guayaquil	Monumental Banco Pichincha	57,267
Delfín	Manta	Jocay	17,834
Deportivo Cuenca	Cuenca	Banco del Austro Alejandro Serrano Aguilar	18,549
El Nacional	Quito	Olímpico Atahualpa	35,258
	Cayambe	Guillermo Albornoz	12,000
Emelec	Guayaquil	Banco del Pacífico Capwell	40,020
Guayaquil City	Guayaquil	Christian Benítez Betancourt	10,152
Independiente del Valle	Sangolquí	Rumiñahui	7,233
	Quito	Olímpico Atahualpa[note 1]	35,258
		Rodrigo Paz Delgado[note 2]	41,575
LDU Portoviejo	Portoviejo	Reales Tamarindos	20,500
LDU Quito	Quito	Rodrigo Paz Delgado	41,575
Macará	Ambato	Bellavista	16,467
Mushuc Runa	Ambato	COAC Mushuc Runa	6,000
		Bellavista[note 3]	16,467
Olmedo	Riobamba	Olímpico	7,233
Orense	Machala	9 de Mayo	16,456
Técnico Universitario	Ambato	Bellavista	16,467
Universidad Católica	Quito	Olímpico Atahualpa	35,258

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Aucas	Darío Tempesta	Umbro	Banco del Pacífico
Barcelona	Fabián Bustos	Marathon	Pilsener
Delfín	Horacio Montemurro (caretaker)	Baldo's	Banco del Pacífico
Deportivo Cuenca	Guillermo Duró (caretaker)	Joma	Chubb Seguros
El Nacional	José Villafuerte (caretaker)	Lotto	Aceros ANDEC Banco General Rumiñahui
Emelec	Ismael Rescalvo	Adidas	Tubos Pacífico
Guayaquil City	Pool Gavilánez	Astro	Cooperativa San Francisco Ltda.
Independiente del Valle	Miguel Ángel Ramírez	Marathon	Chery DirecTV
LDU Portoviejo	Pablo Trobbiani	Boman	Cooperativa 15 de Abril
LDU Quito	Pablo Repetto	Puma	Banco Pichincha
Macará	Paúl Vélez	Boman	Cooperativa San Francisco Ltda.
Mushuc Runa	Ricardo Dillon	Elohim	Cooperativa Mushuc Runa
Olmedo	Geovanny Cumbicus	Boman	Cooperativa Daquilema GolTV
Orense	Patricio Lara	JMP Sport	Banco del Austro
Técnico Universitario	José Eugenio Hernández	Boman	Cooperativa San Francisco Ltda.
Universidad Católica	Santiago Escobar	Umbro	Discover Card

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
First stage
Olmedo	Ricardo Dillon	Resigned	3 November 2019[6]	Pre-season	Darío Franco	9 December 2019[7]
Mushuc Runa	Martín Cardetti	Sacked	5 November 2019[8]		Ricardo Dillon	12 November 2019[9]
El Nacional	Marcelo Zuleta	End of contract	7 November 2019[10]		Eduardo Lara	12 November 2019[11]
Barcelona	Tabaré Silva		27 November 2019[12]		Fabián Bustos	16 December 2019[13]
Aucas	Gabriel Schürrer		9 December 2019[14]		Máximo Villafañe	11 December 2019[15]
Delfín	Fabián Bustos	Signed by Barcelona	15 December 2019[16]		Ángel López Pérez	27 December 2019[17]
	Ángel López Pérez	Sacked	29 February 2020[18]	11th	Carlos Ischia	1 March 2020[19]
Aucas	Máximo Villafañe	Resigned	14 June 2020[20]	16th	Darío Tempesta	14 June 2020[21]
Olmedo	Darío Franco		15 June 2020[22]	13th	Geovanny Cumbicus	18 June 2020[23]
El Nacional	Eduardo Lara	Sacked	20 June 2020[24]	9th	Jorge Montesino	20 June 2020[25]
Orense	Humberto Pizarro	Mutual consent	1 September 2020[26]	15th	Patricio Lara	2 September 2020[27]
Delfín	Carlos Ischia	Sacked	4 September 2020[28]	11th	Miguel Ángel Zahzú	4 September 2020[29]
Deportivo Cuenca	Tabaré Silva		30 September 2020[30]	16th	Guillermo Duró (caretaker)	30 September 2020[30]
Second stage
LDU Portoviejo	Rubén Darío Insúa	Sacked	5 November 2020[31]	15th	Marcelo Zuleta	5 November 2020[32]
El Nacional	Jorge Montesino		7 November 2020[33]	15th	Javier Rodríguez	7 November 2020[33]
	Javier Rodríguez	Resigned	20 November 2020[34]	16th	Édison Méndez	20 November 2020[35]
LDU Portoviejo	Marcelo Zuleta		20 November 2020[36]	15th	Pablo Trobbiani	20 November 2020[37]
Delfín	Miguel Ángel Zahzú	Sacked	3 December 2020[38]	10th	Horacio Montemurro (caretaker)	3 December 2020[38]
El Nacional	Édison Méndez	Resigned	8 December 2020[39]	16th	José Villafuerte (caretaker)	8 December 2020[40]

Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

On 14 March 2020 after two Matchday 5 games had been played, the competition was suspended indefinitely by LigaPro due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[41]

On 20 May LigaPro's Council of Presidents decided to tentatively resume the league on 17 July pending final approval by the Ecuadorian government, with matches to be played behind closed doors.^[42] That same day the Council approved to restart training activities on 8 June, which was later moved to 10 June per decision by the National Emergency Operations Committee (COE).^[43] However, the date for the resumption of the competition was pushed back as the protocol approved by the Ecuadorian government through the National COE had set 29 July as the earliest tentative date for resumption.^[44]

On 27 July, the National COE approved LigaPro's biosecurity protocol and established 15 August as the tentative date to resume the competition.^[45] Eventually, on 11 August the National COE approved LigaPro's request to resume the competition on 14 August, with the completion of the fifth matchday.^[46]

Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=2020_Ecuadorian_Serie_A
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