The 2013–14 Súper Final Apertura was the final game that determined the champion of the Torneo de Apertura 2013-14 of Chile.
Universidad Católica played against O'Higgins, both teams arrived with the same number of points to the last match-day of the championship. The match was played on 10 December 2013, at the Estadio Nacional de Chile.[2]
Was the first tiebreaker match or Súper Final in the Primera División de Chile history. In which, O'Higgins reached its first championship by winning 0:1, with a goal of the Argentine-Chilean Pablo Hernández.[3]
Match
After a hard-fought championship title fight against Universidad Católica, both ended up the tournament tied on 39 points, forcing a tiebreaker match, after an amendment to the rules of the championship was made. Modifying the rule that the team who had a better goal difference if both teams had the same number of points would be crowned as the champion.
The match was played at the Estadio Nacional de Chile as a neutral pitch, and the referee chosen for the match was Jorge Osorio.[4]
The match was played on December 10, 2013, with a crowded Estadio Nacional de Chile that witnessed O'Higgins winning its championship in history with a goal of one of its main players Pablo Hernández, who ultimately ended up in club history.
Road to the final
Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away). These results only considered the regular phase of the tournament (round robin), consisting of 17 matchdays played since 26 July until 8 December 2013.
 Universidad Católica
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Campeonato Nacional |  O'Higgins
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| Opponent | Result | Round robin | Opponent | Result | ||||
 Ñublense
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3-0 (H) | Matchday 1 |  Deportes Iquique
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1-0 (A) | ||||
 Unión Española
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1-0 (A) | Matchday 2 |  Antofagasta
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2-1 (H) | ||||
 Universidad de Concepción
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1-1 (H) | Matchday 3 |  Audax Italiano
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1-1 (A) | ||||
| Audax Italiano
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1-1 (H) | Matchday 4 |  Everton
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1-1 (H) | ||||
 Palestino
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6-3 (A) | Matchday 5 |  Santiago Wanderers
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3-0 (A) [note] | ||||
 Cobresal
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3-0 (H) | Matchday 6 | Palestino
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0-1 (H) | ||||
 Huachipato
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4-0 (A) | Matchday 7 | Ñublense
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1-0 (H) | ||||
| O'Higgins
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1-2 (H) | Matchday 8 | Universidad Católica
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2-1 (A) | ||||
| Deportes Iquique
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2-2 (A) | Matchday 9 | Huachipato
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1-0 (H) | ||||
 Rangers
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5-1 (H) | Matchday 10 |  Universidad de Chile
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1-1 (A) | ||||
| Santiago Wanderers
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2-0 (H) | Matchday 11 | Universidad de Concepción
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1-0 (A) | ||||
| Universidad de Chile
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1-0 (A) [note] | Matchday 12 |  Colo-Colo
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2-3 (H) | ||||
 Cobreloa
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2-1 (H) | Matchday 13 | Cobresal
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4-0 (A) | ||||
| Everton
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2-0 (A) | Matchday 14 | Cobreloa
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1-0 (H) | ||||
| Antofagasta
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0-2 (A) | Matchday 15 |  Unión La Calera
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2-1 (A) | ||||
| Colo-Colo
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1-0 (H) | Matchday 16 | Unión Española
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1-0 (H) | ||||
| Unión La Calera
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2-0 (A) | Matchday 17 | Rangers
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4-3 (H) | ||||
- 1.^ The match between Santiago Wanderers and O'Higgins finished with result 2:2, but the coach Ivo Basay put on the match 6 foreigners players, being punished with a 3-0 defeat against. [5]
- 2.^ The match between Universidad de Chile and Universidad Católica was suspended and finished with the result at the last minute of the game (0:1). [6][7]
League table
- After the 17 matches of the round robin
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | Universidad Católica | 17 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 37 | 13 | +24 | 39 | Súper Final (tied in points) |
| 2 | O'Higgins | 17 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 28 | 13 | +15 | 39 | |
| 3 | Unión Española | 17 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 21 | 15 | +6 | 28 | Already qualified for Copa Libertadores (Transición champion) |
| 4 | Universidad de Chile | 17 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 31 | 16 | +15 | 27 | Apertura Liguilla |
| 5 | Palestino | 17 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 26 | 26 | 0 | 27 | |
| 6 | Iquique | 17 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 22 | 21 | +1 | 26 |
- After the Súper Final
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | O'Higgins | 17 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 28 | 13 | +15 | 39 | 2014 Copa Libertadores group stage |
| 2 | Universidad Católica | 17 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 37 | 13 | +24 | 39 | Apertura Liguilla |
| 3 | Unión Española | 17 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 21 | 15 | +6 | 28 | Already qualified for Copa Libertadores (Transición champion) |
| 4 | Universidad de Chile | 17 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 31 | 16 | +15 | 27 | Apertura Liguilla |
| 5 | Palestino | 17 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 26 | 26 | 0 | 27 | |
| 6 | Iquique | 17 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 22 | 21 | +1 | 26 |
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Man of the Match:
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Match rules
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References
- ^ "Full-time report". Archived from the original on 2013-12-17. Retrieved 2014-09-21.
- ^ "La final entre la UC y O'Higgins ya tiene horario y estadio confirmado - el Gráfico Chile, la plataforma deportiva más grande de Chile". Archived from the original on 2013-12-10. Retrieved 2014-09-21.
- ^ "O'higgins Venció a U. Católica y Celebra el Primer Título de Su Historia".
- ^ "Jorge Osorio será el juez que arbitrará la final del Apertura". 9 December 2013.
- ^ "Fallo del Tribunal de Disciplina Por el Caso O'higgins-Wanderers".
- ^ "Duelo entre Católica y U. de Chile se suspendió tras caída de proyectiles". Terra (in Spanish). 2014-12-01. Archived from the original on 2014-12-11. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
- ^ "Universidad de Chile - Universidad Católica, suspendido por agresión a un futbolista | Goal.com".
- ^ a b c "Team statistics". CDF.cl. 24 May 2014. Archived from the original on 2013-12-17. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
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