The 2009 Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano season was the 33rd of Bolivia's top-flight professional football league.
The teams will play within each group, in addition to a cross-group rivalry (for example: Bolívar vs.
The three winners of each match, plus the best loser, then play each other in the semifinals and will start of a two-legged single-elimination play-off that culminates in a final match-up.
Guabirá was relegated at the end of the 2008 season to the regional leagues.
Results Bolívar, Real Potosí, Oriente Petrolero, Blooming and The Strongest have advanced to the Second Phase of the championship.
The games are round, "said the chairman of the Technical Committee of the League, Felipe Rodriguez.
Jorge Wilstermann will compete in a relegation/promotion playoff against the runner-up of the 2009 Copa Simón Bolívar.
The First Round of the play-off began on October 31 and is scheduled to end on November 5.
Unlike in other rounds, if both teams are tied on points, a playoff will be played at a neutral venue.