2012 Categoría Primera B season
The 2012 Categoría Primera B season is the 23rd season since its founding and is officially called the 2012 Torneo Postobón for sponsorship reasons.
Format
The season will consist of two tournaments: the 'Torneo Apertura' and the 'Torneo Finalización'. Each tournament will have an identical format of eighteen rounds with a round of regional derbies in the ninth round. At the end of the first eighteen rounds, the eight best-placed team will advance to the Semifinal round where teams will be sorted into groups and play a short double Round-robin tournament group stage. The winner of each group will advance to the Final round, which will consist of two legs. The winner will advance to the season final at the end of the Torneo Finalización.Current teams
| Departament | Home city | Club | Head Coach | Stadium |
| Cundinamarca | Bogotá | Academia | Jaime Rodríguez Suárez | Estadio Compensar |
| Cundinamarca | Bogotá | Bogotá F.C. | Oswaldo Duran Renteria | Estadio Alfonso López Pumarejo |
| Cundinamarca | Zipaquirá | Fortaleza | Jaime Manjarrés | Estadio Municipal Los Zipas |
| Cundinamarca | Soacha | Expreso Rojo | Rafallo Curanto | Estadio Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento |
| Valle del Cauca | Cali | América | Eduardo Lara | Estadio Pascual Guerrero |
| Valle del Cauca | Cali | Depor F.C. | Jorge Bermúdez | Estadio Pascual Guerrero |
| Valle del Cauca | Tuluá | Cortuluá | Fernando Velasco Gutiérrez | Estadio Doce de Octubre |
| Santander | Bucaramanga | Atlético Bucaramanga | Álvaro de Jesús Goméz | Estadio Alfonso Lopez |
| Santander | Bucaramanga | Real Santander | Eduardo Villamizar | Estadio Alfonso Lopez |
| Santander | Barrancabermeja | Alianza Petrolera | Hector Dario Estrada | Estadio Daniel Villa Zapata |
| Atlántico | Barranquilla | Barranquilla F.C. | David Jose Pinillos | Estadio Romelio Martínez |
| Atlántico | Sabanalarga | Uniautónoma F.C. | Félix Valverde Quiñónez | Estadio Marcos Henríquez |
| Risaralda | Pereira | Deportivo Pereira | Octavio Zambrano | Estadio Hernán Ramírez Villegas |
| Antioquia | Rionegro | Deportivo Rionegro | Oscar Aristizabal | Estadio Alberto Grisales |
| Sucre | Sincelejo | Sucre F.C. | Osnar Acuña | Estadio Arturo Cumplido Sierra |
| Magdalena | Santa Marta | Unión Magdalena | Carlos Silva Socarras | Estadio Eduardo Santos |
| Cauca | Popayán | Universitario Popayán | César Torres | Estadio Ciro López |
| Cesar | Valledupar | Valledupar F.C. | Jesús Alberto Barrios | Estadio Armando Maestre Pavajeau |
| Meta | Villavicencio | Llaneros F.C. | Alberto Rujana | Estadio Manuel Calle Lombana |