Although they finished 2020 with a 17-game mark without losing in the League, Millionaires failed to meet any of his goals for the season. He did not qualify among the eight, was eliminated from the Colombia Cup by Alianza Petrolera and was left out of the South American Cup in the second round.
The change in the championship system due to the covid-19 pandemic allowed him to have a new opportunity to qualify for an international tournament, by way of the Eliminated League. However, he lost to Deportivo Cali in the playoffs, by shooting from the penalty spot.
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This was the third time the team lost in a knockout stage this year on the same track. According to statistician Carlos Forero, it is the first time in history, in the world, that something like this happens to the same club.
Before the defeat against Cali, the same team had already taken it out in the South American Cup and the defeat against Alianza Petrolera in the Colombia Cup was also from the white point.
Since that final of the second half of 2012, in which they beat Medellín and won the 12th star, Millonarios has played 12 tiebreaks and has only won four, three of them in the Colombia Cup: twice in 2013, against Fortaleza (5- 4) and Junior (3-0), and one in 2018 (3-1 to Jaguares).
The other who managed to win was in the semifinal of the Eliminated League, when they beat Once Caldas.
In the League he reached that instance three times, and lost all of them: 5-4 with Junior, in 2014-I, 4-3 with Cali, in 2015-I, and 4-2 again with Junior, in 2016-I .
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In addition to what happened with Cali in the Suramericana this year, it was also left out of the Copa Libertadores 2017, after losing 4-2 to Atlético Paranaense, from Brazil, and the Suramericana 2018, when Santa Fe defeated it 5-3.
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