Bolivia. The championship formula was almost identical with that of Ecuador – at the first stage a regular league championship was played and the top 8 of the 14 top league clubs qualified to the second stage. In the second stage the the 8 teams were divided into 2 groups and the top 2 teams in each of them qualified to the semifinals. Then the winners in the semifinals played the final of the second stage and after that the winners of the first and second stages played the championship final.
First stage: Universitario (Sucre) was last with 18 points, Ciclon (Tarija) – 13th with 19 points, Aurora (Cochabamba) – 12th with 19 points, San Jose (Oruro) – 11th with 21 points, Real (Santa Cruz) – 10th with 23 points, and Jorge Wilstermann (Cochabamba) – 9th with 24 points. Universitario and Ciclon were possibly relegated. Very weak season for Jorge Wilstermann.
The top 8 qualified to the next stage: Blooming (Santa Cruz) – 8th with 25 points, Always Ready (La Paz) – 7th with 26 points, Destroyers (Santa Cruz) – 6th with 28 points, Litoral (La Paz) – 5th with 28 points, The Strongest (La Paz) – 4th with 29 points, Petrolero (Cochabamba) – 3rd with 32 points, Oriente Petrolero (Santa Cruz) – 2nd with 34 points.
Bolivar (La Paz) won the First Stage with 38 points and instantly qualified to the championship final. Which meant that they could take it easy in the Second Stage – if they decided so.
Second Stage. Deliberately or not, but Group A was made of only clubs from La Paz and the provincials played in Group B.
Group A: Always Ready was last with 2 points, Bolivar – 3rd with 7 points, Litoral – 2nd with 7 points and The Strongest – 1st with 8 points. The top two qualified to the semifinals.
Group B: Petrolero – 4th with 5 points,
Blooming – 3rd with 5 points, Oriente Petrolero – 2nd with 6 points and Destroyers – 1st with 8 points. Top two went to the semifinals.
Semifinals: Litoral was eliminated by Destroyers 0-1 and 1-1 and
The Strongest lost to Oriente Petrolero 2-1 and 1-3.
In the final Destroyers lost to Oriente Petrolero 1-1 and 1-3.
Oriente Petrolero won the Second Stage and qualified to the championship final.
In the championship final everything was decided in the first leg – Bolivar absolutely destroyed Oriente Petrolero 6-0. However, in Santa Cruz the hosts won 3-0. And since goal-difference did not count… a third match was scheduled in Cochabamba. Bolivar left no doubts now: 5-2!
Oriente Petrolero (Santa Cruz) finished second this season.
Bolivar (La Paz) won at the end, but leaving a bit of a bitter taste: they had up and down season. Seemingly, they did not play very serious football in the second stage, satisfied with reaching the championship final in the first stage. Also, it looked like they decided the job was done in the first leg of the final and thus permitted Oriente Petrolero to get a play-off. Such suspicions come from the results: 6-0 at first and then 5-2 in the third game. But whatever ends well cannot be judged harshly: Bolivar won its 8th title and equalized Jorge Wilstermann in the lead of the Bolivian strongest teams.