Liga FUTVE

Founded	1921; 104 years ago (1921)
Country	Venezuela
Confederation	CONMEBOL
Number of clubs	14
Level on pyramid	1
Relegation to	Segunda División
Domestic cup(s)	Copa Venezuela
International cup(s)	Copa Libertadores Copa Sudamericana
Current champions	Deportivo Táchira (11th title) (2024 season)
Most championships	Caracas (12 titles)
Top goalscorer	Juan García (271 goals)
TV partners	TVes, GolTV, Star+
Website	Liga FUTVE (in Spanish) Venezuelan Football Federation (in Spanish)
Current: 2025 season

The Primera División (pronounced [pɾiˈmeɾa ðiβiˈsjon]; English: First Division), or Liga Venezolana (locally [ˈliɣa βenesoˈlana]; English: Venezuelan League) is the top-flight professional football league of Venezuela. It was created in 1921 and turned professional in 1957. It is organized by the Federación Venezolana de Fútbol.

Starting in the 2020 season, 20 teams play in a home-and-away round-robin tournament, with the top eight teams advancing to the semi-final stage.

At the semi-final stage, the eight teams are divided into two groups of four teams each, facing the other teams in their group twice. The two group winners advance to the Serie Final to decide the league champions.

• The champions and runners-up qualify to the group phase of the Copa Libertadores.
• The team with the most points in the entire season qualifies to the preliminary round of the Copa Libertadores as Venezuela 3.
• The second and third team with the most points in the entire season qualifies to the Copa Sudamericana as Venezuela 1 and Venezuela 2.
• If a team won both tournaments that team qualify to the Copa Libertadores as Venezuela 1, then the first and second team with the most points in the entire season qualify to the Copa Libertadores as Venezuela 2 and Venezuela 3 and the fourth and fifth team with the most points in the entire season qualify to the Copa Sudamericana as Venezuela 1 and Venezuela 2.
• If the winner of the Copa Venezuela does not qualify to the Copa Libertadores through the aforementioned manners or through the point total in the entire season, they take the Venezuela 2 spot in the Copa Sudamericana.

• The two lowest placed teams in the entire season are automatically relegated to the Segunda División.

Pto. Cabello

Angostura

Barinas

Carabobo

Caracas

Deportivo Táchira

Est. Mérida

Portuguesa

Monagas

Rayo Zuliano

Barinas teams:
Inter de Barinas
Zamora
Caracas teams:
Caracas
Deportivo La Guaira
Metropolitanos
Universidad Central

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Locations of the 2024 Primera División teams

List of champions since the first championship held in 1920. The Primera División turned professional on 21 February 1957.^{[citation needed]}

Ed.	Season	Champion	Runner-up	Winning manager	Top scorer
Professional era
37	1957	Universidad Central (3)	La Salle	Orlando Fantoni	Tonho (Universidad Central, 12 goals)
38	1958	Deportivo Portugués (1)	Deportivo Español	Orlando Fantoni	René Irazque (Portugués, 6 goals)
39	1959	Deportivo Español (2)	Deportivo Portugués	Delfín Benítez Cáceres	Abel Benítez (Deportivo Español, 15 goals)
40	1960	Deportivo Portugués (2)	Deportivo Español	Javier Ferreira	José Luis Iglesias (Deportivo Portugués, 9 goals)
41	1961	Deportivo Italia (1)	Banco Agrícola y Pecuario	Orlando Fantoni	Antonio Ravelo (Banco Agrícola y Pecuario, 11 goals)
42	1962	Deportivo Portugués (3)	Universidad Central	Emilio Huguet	Jaime da Silva (Universidad Central, 16)
43	1963	Deportivo Italia (2)	Deportivo Portugués	Orlando Fantoni	Nino (Deportivo Portugués, 15 goals)
44	1964	Deportivo Galicia (1)	Tiquire Flores	Julio César Britos	Helio Rodrigues (Tiquire Flores, 12 goals)
45	1965	Lara (1)	Deportivo Italia	Gaetano Pintón	Mario Mateo (Lara, 16 goals)
46	1966	Deportivo Italia (3)	Deportivo Portugués	Orlando Fantoni	Ratto (Deportivo Portugués, 20 goals)
47	1967	Deportivo Portugués (4)	Deportivo Galicia	José Julián Hernández	Joao Ramos (Deportivo Portugués, 28 goals)
48	1968	Unión Deportiva Canarias (1)	Deportivo Italia	Manuel Arias	Raimundinho (Deportivo Portugués, 21 goals)
49	1969	Deportivo Galicia (2)	Valencia	Julio César Britos	Eustaquio Batista (Deportivo Italia, 19 goals) Lelo (Valencia, 19 goals)
50	1970	Deportivo Galicia (3)	Deportivo Italia	Silvio Leite	Roland Langon (Deportivo Galicia, 13 goals)
51	1971	Valencia (1)	Deportivo Italia	Walter Roque	Agostinho Sabara (Tiquire Aragua, 20 goals)
52	1972	Deportivo Italia (4)	Deportivo Galicia	Elmo Correa	Francisco Rodriguez (Anzoátegui FC, 18 goals)
53	1973	Portuguesa (1)	Valencia	Walter Roque	Jose Chiazzaro (Estudiantes de Mérida, 14 goals)
54	1974	Deportivo Galicia (4)	Portuguesa	Walter Roque	Jose Chiazzaro (Estudiantes de Mérida, 15 goals) Sergio Hugo Castillo (Anzoátegui FC, 15 goals)
55	1975	Portuguesa (2)	Estudiantes de Mérida	Vladica Popović	Pedro Pascual Peralta (Portuguesa, 20 goals)
56	1976	Portuguesa (3)	Estudiantes de Mérida	Benjamín Fernández	Pedro Pascual Peralta (Portuguesa, 25 goals)
57	1977	Portuguesa (4)	Estudiantes de Mérida	Vladica Popović	Jairzinho (Portuguesa, 20 goals) Juan Cesar Silva (Portuguesa, 20 goals)
58	1978	Portuguesa (5)	Deportivo Galicia	Celino Mora	Andrade (ULA Mérida, 23 goals)
59	1979	Deportivo Táchira (1)	Deportivo Galicia	Esteban Beracochea	Omar Ferrari (Deportivo Táchira, 15 goals)
60	1980	Estudiantes de Mérida (1)	Portuguesa	Ramón Rodríguez	Wilfrido Campos (Portuguesa, 12 goals)
61	1981	Deportivo Táchira (2)	Estudiantes de Mérida	Esteban Beracochea	Rafael Angulo (Deportivo Táchira, 14 goals)
62	1982	San Cristóbal (1)	Deportivo Táchira	Walter Roque	German Montero (Estudiantes, 21 goals)
63	1983	Universidad de Los Andes (1)	Portuguesa	Iván García	Johnny Castellanos (Atlético Zamora, 13 goals)
64	1984	Deportivo Táchira (3)	Deportivo Italia	Carlos Horacio Moreno	Sergio Meckler (Zamora, 15 goals)
65	1985	Estudiantes de Mérida (2)	Deportivo Táchira	Iván García	Sergio Meckler (Deportivo Táchira, 17 goals)
66	1986	Unión Atlético Táchira (4)	Estudiantes de Mérida	Carlos Horacio Moreno	Wilton Arreaza (Caracas, 8 goals)
67	1986–87	Marítimo (1)	Unión Atlético Táchira	Rafael Santana	Johnny Castellanos (Portuguesa, 16 goals)
68	1987–88	Marítimo (2)	Unión Atlético Táchira	Alfredo López	Miguel González (Unión Atlético Táchira, 22 goals)
69	1988–89	Mineros de Guayana (1)	Pepeganga Margarita	Alfredo López	Johnny Castellanos (Mineros, 24 goals)
70	1989–90	Marítimo (3)	Unión Atlético Táchira	Rafael Santana	Herbert Márquez (Marítimo, 19 goals)
71	1990–91	Universidad de Los Andes (2)	Marítimo	Carlos Diéz	Alexander Bottini (Monagas, 15 goals)
72	1991–92	Caracas (1)	Minervén	Manuel Plasencia	Andreas Vogler (Caracas, 25 goals)
73	1992–93	Marítimo (4)	Minervén	Miguel Sabina	Herbert Márquez (Marítimo, 21 goals)
74	1993–94	Caracas (2)	Trujillanos	Manuel Plasencia	Rodrigo Soto (Trujillanos, 20 goals)
75	1994–95	Caracas (3)	Minervén	Pedro Febles	Rogeiro da Silva (Mineros, 30 goals)
76	1995–96	Minervén (1)	Mineros de Guayana	Raúl Cavalleri	Jose Luis Dolgetta (Caracas, 24 goals)
77	1996–97	Caracas (4)	Atlético Zulia	Manuel Plasencia	Rafael Castellín (Caracas, 19 goals)
78	1997–98	Atlético Zulia (1)	Estudiantes de Mérida	Ratomir Dujkovic	Jose Luis Dolgetta (Estudiantes de Mérida/Carabobo, 22 goals)
79	1998–99	Deportivo Italchacao (5)	Unión Atlético Táchira	Raúl Cavalleri	Gustavo Fonseca (Internacional Lara, 24 goals)
80	1999–00	Deportivo Táchira (5)	Deportivo Italchacao	Walter Roque	Juan Enrique García (Caracas, 24 goals)
81	2000–01	Caracas (5)	Trujillanos	Carlos Horacio Moreno	Martín Brignani (Estudiantes de Mérida, 12 goals)
82	2001–02	Nacional Táchira	Estudiantes de Mérida	Carlos Maldonado	Juan Enrique García (Nacional Táchira, 34 goals)
83	2002–03	Caracas (6)	Unión Atlético Maracaibo	Noel Sanvicente	Juan Enrique García (Monagas/Mineros, 19 goals)
84	2003–04	Caracas (7)	Deportivo Táchira	Noel Sanvicente	Juan Enrique García (Mineros, 18 goals)
85	2004–05	Unión Atlético Maracaibo (1)	Caracas	Carlos Maldonado	Daniel Delfino (Carabobo, 19 goals)
86	2005–06	Caracas (8)	Unión Atlético Maracaibo	Noel Sanvicente	Juan Enrique García (Deportivo Táchira, 21 goals)
87	2006–07	Caracas (9)	Unión Atlético Maracaibo	Noel Sanvicente	Robinson Rentería (Trujillanos, 19 goals)
88	2007–08	Deportivo Táchira (6)	Caracas	Carlos Maldonado	Alexander Rondon (Deportivo Anzoátegui, 19 goals)
89	2008–09	Caracas (10)	Deportivo Italia	Noel Sanvicente	Daniel Arismendi (Maracaibo/Deportivo Táchira, 17 goals) Heatklif Castillo (Aragua, 17 goals)
90	2009–10	Caracas (11)	Deportivo Táchira	Ceferino Bencomo	Norman Cabrera (Atlético El Vigía, 20 goals)
91	2010–11	Deportivo Táchira (7)	Zamora	Jorge Luis Pinto	Daniel Arismendi (Deportivo Anzoátegui, 20 goals)
92	2011–12	Deportivo Lara (1)	Caracas	Eduardo Saragó	Rafael Castellín (Deportivo Lara, 21 goals)
93	2012–13	Zamora (1)	Deportivo Anzoátegui	Noel Sanvicente	Gabriel Torres (Zamora, 19 goals)
94	2013–14	Zamora (2)	Mineros de Guayana	Noel Sanvicente	Juan Falcón (Zamora, 19 goals)
95	2014–15	Deportivo Táchira (8)	Trujillanos	Daniel Farías	Edwin Aguilar (Deportivo Anzoategui, 23 goals)
96	2016	Zamora (3)	Zulia	Francesco Stifano	Gabriel Torres (Zamora, 22 goals)
97	2017	Monagas (1)	Deportivo Lara	Jhonny Ferreira	Anthony Blondell (Monagas, 24 goals)
98	2018	Zamora (4)	Deportivo Lara	Alí Cañas	Anthony Uribe (Zamora, 16 goals)
99	2019	Caracas (12)	Estudiantes de Mérida	Noel Sanvicente	Edder Farías (Atlético Venezuela, 18 goals)
100	2020	Deportivo La Guaira (1)	Deportivo Táchira	Daniel Farías	Richard Blanco (Mineros, 8 goals) Edder Farías (Atlético Venezuela, 8 goals)
101	2021	Deportivo Táchira (9)	Caracas	Juan Domingo Tolisano	Samson Akinyoola (Caracas, 18 goals)
102	2022	Metropolitanos (1)	Monagas	José María Morr	Kevin Viveros (Carabobo, 21 goals)
103	2023	Deportivo Táchira (10)	Caracas	Eduardo Saragó	Luifer Hernández (Academia Puerto Cabello, 18 goals)
104	2024	Deportivo Táchira (11)	Carabobo	Edgar Pérez Greco	Juan Camilo Zapata (Inter de Barinas/Universidad Central, 16 goals)

Clubs in bold compete in Primera División as of the current season. Clubs in italic no longer exist.

• Venezuelan football league system

• Official website (in Spanish)
• News in Spanish about the First Division of the Venezuelan Football/Soccer
• News and pictures (in Spanish)
• League statistics at RSSSF
• FuriaVinotinto – Unofficial Forum Archived 2008-02-14 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)