2026 Liga de Ascenso

For the 2026 season, the competition kept the format used in its most recent editions, comprising a regular season and a promotion play-off tournament (Liguilla). The regular season will be a double round-robin tournament consisting of 30 matchdays, where each team plays all other teams twice (once at home and once away). The team finishing first at the end of the regular season will be crowned champion and will be directly promoted to the 2027 Liga de Primera, while the teams finishing from 2nd to 8th place will qualify for the promotion play-offs, where they will compete in home-and-away knockout rounds to determine the second promoted team. The regular season's runner-up will receive a bye to the semi-finals, while the remaining six teams will enter in the first round. The team finishing bottom of the table at the end of the regular season will be relegated to the Segunda División Profesional for the 2027 season. == Teams ==

Sixteen teams contest the competition, thirteen of them returning from the previous season. Following the conclusion of the 2025 season, Universidad de Concepción and Deportes Concepción were promoted to the top flight, being replaced in the second tier competition by Unión Española (relegated to the second tier for the first time since 1999) and Deportes Iquique (returning after two years), who were relegated from the 2025 Liga de Primera. Joining the league from the lower tier is the 2025 Segunda División Profesional champion Deportes Puerto Montt, who returned after a two-year absence. They replaced Santiago Morning, who were relegated to the third tier for the first time after finishing last in the 2025 campaign. Stadiums and locations == Standings ==

Source: Soccerway ==See also==