Ibagué hosts Colombia’s first league-based national ultimate tournament

Ibagué turned Estadio Alterno del Parque Deportivo into the center of Colombia’s ultimate scene, hosting the first league-based National Interligas from June 5 to June 8 across mixed, women’s and men’s divisions. The tournament opened with 13 matches on two fields, and by the end Bogotá had taken the women’s and men’s titles while Tolima captured the mixed championship, a result that underlined both Bogotá’s reach and the rise of regional programs outside the capital.

For the Federación Colombiana de Disco Volador, the event is more than a national crown chase. FECODV has framed Interligas as the country’s first ultimate tournament organized by leagues, with the larger goal of building a departmental ranking that can help determine which players and teams represent Colombia internationally. That structure gives every round-robin game added weight, because performance in Ibagué feeds a longer selection process rather than standing alone as a one-off trophy run.

The field sizes showed how that system is expanding the sport’s footprint. The women’s bracket included Nariño, Antioquia, Bogotá and Tolima, while the men’s bracket brought together Cundinamarca, Nariño, Bogotá, Antioquia and Tolima. The mixed division was even wider, with nine teams split into two groups. Group A included Bogotá, Antioquia, Caldas and Tolima, and Group B featured Casanare, Boyacá, Quindío, Valle and Cundinamarca. In a sport that is still building a clear national ladder, those entries matter as much as the final standings.

Tolima’s title in mixed play also carried local meaning in a region that has spent years building an ultimate identity. Ibagué had never before hosted the National Interligas, and the move to the Tolima capital reflected a broader push to spread major events beyond Bogotá. The department already has a track record in the sport, including a previous Interligas edition in which Tolima won the open category, and local accounts have pointed to players such as Alejandra Oviedo, a former women’s top scorer, and Sofía Gálvez, who stood out as the mixed division’s best defender.

That history helps explain why the sixth edition in Bogotá, staged May 1 to 4, 2025 at Universidad Unicervantes, was such a useful benchmark. Bogotá won the open and mixed titles there, and Antioquia took the women’s crown. One year later, Ibagué hosted a broader and more layered field, and the results suggested a national pecking order that is still being written, with Bogotá on top in two divisions and Tolima strong enough to claim one of the sport’s most important emerging titles.