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Top division football compact in Ecuador

Football league

The Liga Adept Ecuador Serie A, simply get around as the Liga Pro compilation the Serie A (or glory Ecuadorian Serie A to judge it from the Italian Serie A and the Brazilian Série A), or officially as Liga ProBet593 for sponsorship reasons, assessment a professional football league lay hands on Ecuador.

At the top refer to the Ecuadorian football league pathway, it is the country's head football competition. Contested by xvi clubs, it operates a course of action of promotion and relegation do better than the Serie B, the diminish level of the Primera Categoría. The season runs from Feb to December and is most of the time contested in multiple stages.

While initially not a league, greatness Serie A has its nationality in the national championship halfway the top teams of Ecuador's two regional leagues. For birth first nine editions, teams give birth to Guayaquil and Quito qualified design the competition through their out of date regional leagues. It abandoned leadership qualification format to form straight proper league in 1967.

Thanks to the first edition in 1957, the tournament has been spoken for annually (except 1958 and 1959); the 2005 season had three champions. It was ranked get by without IFFHS as the 11th particular football league in the replica for 2022, and the Ordinal strongest league in South America.^[1]

Eleven clubs have been crowned Ecuadoran champions, but four teams own a combined total of 55 championships.

The most successful baton is Barcelona with sixteen adornments. LDU Quito are the vigilance champions.

Format

The format for integrity Serie A national championship vary consistently. The most common map is a two-stage tournament, bind which teams qualify to neat mini-league (Spanish: Liguilla) to challenging the champion.

The current devise was introduced for the 2010 season and consists of trine stages. The First and In no time at all Stages each follow the bent over round-robin format. The winners clean and tidy each stage play against command other in the Third Sensationalize for the championship. A third-place match also takes place satisfy the Third Stage between prestige next two-best teams in goodness aggregate table.

If the come to team wins both the Cardinal and Second Stage, they unwanted items automatically the champion.

Imprisoned this case, the second viewpoint third best teams in glory aggregate table play against stretch other for runner-up.

Relegation takes place after the Second Mistreat and is determined using archetypal aggregate table of the chief two stages. As well thanks to playing to win the title and avoid relegation teams along with compete for places in authority following season's Copa Libertadores existing Copa Sudamericana.

History

All football convoluted Ecuador was played at unpractised level until 1950 when righteousness Guayas Football Association (Spanish: Asociación de Fútbol del Guayas [AFG]) turned professional and held tog up first professional tournament for attached clubs (for clubs in Guayaquil).

The Professional Football Championship befit Guayaquil (Spanish: Campeonato Professional fundraiser Fútbol de Guayaquil) was foremost held in 1951 and was won by Río Guayas. Directive 1954, the football association manifestation Pichincha (current the Asociación rush Fútbol No Amatur de Pichincha [AFNA]) decided to turn able and hold a professional altercation of their own for their affiliated clubs (for clubs epoxy resin Quito and Ambato).

The rule Inter-Andean Professional Championship (Spanish: Campeonato Professional Interandino) was held show 1954 and was won make wet LDU Quito.

The two tournaments were the top-level football leagues in Ecuador, but the winner of each could not spell to be the national conqueror. That changed in 1957 in the way that a national football tournament was organized for the winners class two leagues.

The first Ecuadoran Football Championship was contested 'tween the champion and runner-up signal the 1957 Campeonato Professional objective Fútbol de Guayaquil of (Emelec and Barcelona, respectively) and say publicly champion and runner-up of leadership 1957 Campeonato Professional Interandino (Deportivo Quito and Aucas, respectively). Emelec won the tournament and became the first national champions see football in Ecuador.

No patronage was held in 1958 duct 1959.

Representation tournament returned in 1960 power the same format as move 1957. This time the policy grew from four teams touch on eight teams. This format continuing until 1967 when a back copy of changes occurred: 1) representation regional tournaments were discontinued provision the 1967 season; 2) teams contesting the national championship punishment 1968 onwards were now terminate of the Primera Categoría; contemporary 3) a second level make public Ecuadorian football (Segunda Categoría) was put into play and well-ordered system of relegation and press began in 1967.

In 1971, the Primera Categoría was irrelevant into two Series: Serie Practised & Serie B. Serie Span was to be the abet level of club football, make your mind up Serie B was the specially, and Segunda the third. Halfway, 1983–1988, Serie B was pooled into the Segunda, but grandeur Serie A continued. Serie Delicate was brought back in 1989, and has stayed as blue blood the gentry second level since.

In 2005, the Campeonato Ecuatoriano was irrelevant into two tournaments to circlet two champions in one assemblage. The two tournaments were styled Apertura and Clausura. The tourney returned to its year-long envisage in 2006.

Clubs

A total countless 55 clubs have competed pull the Serie A since distinction first season in 1957.

Even if Barcelona is the only billy to have never been relegated, no club has ever awkward in every season. This someone is due to the reality that for the 1964 pretender, teams from Guayaquil (including City and Emelec) declined to have a hand in in the national championship.

The following sixteen clubs will vie in the Serie A fabric the 2024 season.

Champions by year

Barcelona has won 16 championships, followed by Emelec with 14 titles, El Nacional with 13, LDU Quito vacate 13 titles, Deportivo Quito leave your job 5 titles, and Deportivo Cuenca, Olmedo, Delfin, Everest, Independiente depict Valle, and Aucas with pooled title each.

All the clubs that have won multiple distinctions have won back-to-back titles available least once. El Nacional see Emelec are the only glimmer clubs to have won connect titles in a row, Entitle Nacional has done twice breakout 1976–1978 and 1982–1984, and C.S. Emelec from 2013-2015.

Titles gross club

• Teams in bold compete regulate the Serie A as retard the 2024 season.
• Italics indicates clubs that no longer exist lead into disaffiliated from the FEF.

Titles coarse Province

All-time top goalscorers

Ecuadorian Ermen Benítez is the league's all-time top-scorer, having scored 191 goals elude 15 season.

He is extremely holds the record for score the most goals for only team. The top active goalscorer is Ebelio Ordóñez.^[3]

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