2010–11 Primera División de Nicaragua

Primera División

Season	2010–11
Champions	Apertura: Walter Ferretti Clausura: Real Estelí
Relegated	Xilotepelt & América Managua
2011–12 CONCACAF Champions League	Real Estelí
Goals scored	37 goals
Top goalscorer	Apertura: Herbert Cabrera (15 goals) Clausura: Erick Sierra (10 goals)
Biggest home win	Ocotal 4–5 Diriangén (March 30, 2011)
Biggest away win	América Managua 1–5 Diriangén (March 13, 2011)
Highest scoring	América Managua 7–1 Real Madriz (April 3, 2011)
← 2009–10 2011–12 →

The 2010–11 season in Primera División de Nicaragua will be divided into two tournaments (Apertura and Clausura) and will determine the 57th and 58th champions in the history of the league. The season will begin on July 25 and end on December 12 . It will also provide thew sole berth for the 2011–12 CONCACAF Champions League, which be decided on a grand finalist between the winner of the Clausura and Apertura.

Contents 1 Promotion and Relegation 2 2010–11 teams 2.1 Personnel and sponsoring (2010 Apertura) 3 Managerial Changes 3.1 Before the start of the season 3.2 During the regular season 4 Apertura 4.1 Regular season 4.1.1 Standings 4.2 Finals round 4.2.1 Semi Finals Group 4.3 Final 4.3.1 First leg 4.3.2 Second leg 4.4 Top scorers Apertura 5 Clausura 5.1 Personnel and sponsoring (Clausura 2011) 5.2 Regular season 5.2.1 Standings 5.3 Finals round 5.3.1 Semi Finals Group 5.3.2 Final 5.3.3 First leg 5.3.4 Second leg 5.4 Top goalscorers 6 Aggregate table 7 References 8 External links

Promotion and Relegation

Promoted from Segunda División de Fútbol Nicaragua.

• Champions: Managua F.C.
• América Managua (bought the spot of VCP Chinandega).

Relegated to Segunda División de Fútbol Nicaragua.

• Last place: Chinandega FC
• VCP Chinandega (sold their spot to América Managua).

2010–11 teams

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
Diriangén	Diriamba	Estadio Cacique Diriangén	7,500
Real Estelí	Estelí	Estadio Independencia	4,800
América Managua	Managua	Estadio Olímpico del IND Managua	9,000
Ocotal	Ocotal	Estadio Roy Fernandez	3,000
Walter Ferretti	Managua	Estadio Olímpico del IND Managua	9,000
Xilotepelt	Jinotepe	Estadio Pedro Selva	12,000
Real Madriz	Somoto	Estadio Municipal de Somoto	3,000
Managua F.C.	Managua	Estadio Olímpico del IND Managua	9,000

Personnel and sponsoring (2010 Apertura)

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
América Managua	Eliécer Trillo	Martín Mena
Diriangén	Tulio López	Edgard Sosa		Movistar
Managua F.C.	Napoleón Zeledón	Mario Alfaro		Managua F.C.
Ocotal	Oscar Mendoza	Vidal Alonso		Marlon Anthony
Real Estelí	Fidel Moreno	Ramón Otoniel Olivas		Movistar Bimbo yahoo
Real Madriz	Adolfo Marenco	Sindulio Adolfo Castellanos		Roylan Moylan
Walter Ferretti	Carlos Palacios	José Valladares		Movistar Policia
Xilotepelt	Wilber López	Abel Núñez		U de M

Managerial Changes

Before the start of the season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Ocotal	Leonidas Rodriguez	Resigned	TBA	Eduardo Vidal Alonso	August 13, 2010	7
Managua F.C.	Néstor Holwegger	Resigned	TBA	Mario Alfaro	TBA	3

During the regular season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Xilotepelt	Abel Núñez	Sacked	September 1, 2010	Néstor Holwegger	September 1, 2010	TBA
Ocotal	Eduardo Vidal Alonso	Resigned	August 28, 2010	Randall Moreno	August 28, 2010	TBA
Xilotepelt	Néstor Holwegger	Resigned	October 13, 2010	Emilio Palacios	October 13, 2010	TBA
Diriangén	Edgardo Sosa	Sacked	October 13, 2010	Rolando Méndez	October 13, 2010	TBA

Apertura

Regular season

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Deportivo Walter Ferretti	14	8	3	3	26	18	+8	27	Qualification to the Final round
2	Diriangén F.C.	14	8	2	4	29	17	+12	26
3	Managua F.C.	14	8	2	4	22	15	+7	26
4	Real Madriz	14	6	4	4	16	19	−3	22
5	Real Estelí	14	6	3	5	13	11	+2	21
6	Xilotepelt	14	3	4	7	17	22	−5	13
7	Deportivo Ocotal	14	3	4	7	17	23	−6	13
8	América Managua	14	1	4	9	9	24	−15	7

Finals round

Semi Finals Group

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Diriangén 6 5 1 0 9 1 +8 16 2 Walter Ferretti 6 3 1 2 12 4 +8 10 3 Managua 6 2 2 2 5 3 +2 8 4 Real Madriz 6 0 0 6 0 18 −18 0 Updated to games played on season Source: Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored. (C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round. Only applicable when the season is not finished: (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Home \ Away1 DIR MAN RMD WFE Diriangén 0–0 2–0 1–0 Managua 1–2 5–0 0–1 Real Madriz 0–3 0–1 0–3 Walter Ferretti 0–1 1–1 4–0 Updated to games played on season Source: 1The home team is listed in the left-hand column. Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

24 October 2010	Walter Ferreti	1–1	Managua FC	Estadio Olímpico del IND
	Marlon Mancía  62'		Clayton Da Cunha  42' (pen.)

27 October 2010	Diriangén	2–0	Real Madriz	Estadio Cacique Diriangén
	Remy Vanegas  14' Darwin Ramírez  30'		None

31 October 2010	Real Madriz	0–3	Walter Ferreti	Estadio Municipal de Somoto
	None		Armando Isamel Reyes  53' Gonzalo Molina  79' Ronald Pérez  88'

31 October 2010	Managua FC	1–2	Diriangén	Estadio Olímpico del IND
	Edwin Herrera  5'		Herbert Cabrera  53'  75'

7 November 2010	Diriangén	1–0	Walter Ferreti	Estadio Cacique Diriangén
	Marcos Méndez  90+3'		None

7 November 2010	Managua FC	5–0	Real Madriz	Estadio Olímpico del IND
	Raúl Leguía  43'  66', Clayton Da Cunha  10', Mario Morales  23', Norfran Lazo  50'		None

15 November 2010	Real Madriz	0–3	Diriangén	Estadio Municipal de Somoto
	None		Remy Vanegas  47'  67' Herbert Cabrera  85'

16 November 2010	Managua FC	0–1	Walter Ferreti	Estadio Olímpico del IND
	None		Michael Jarquín  75'

22 November 2010	Walter Ferreti	4–0	Real Madriz	Estadio Olímpico del IND
	José Luis Rodríguez  19'  44', Ismael Reyes  45' (pen.), José Carballo  53'		None

22 November 2010	Diriangén	0–0	Managua FC	Estadio Cacique Diriangén
	None		None

29 November 2010	Real Madriz	0–1	Managua FC	Estadio Municipal de Somoto
	None		Edwin Herrera  90'

29 November 2010	Walter Ferreti	0–1	Diriangén	Estadio Olímpico del IND
	None		Herbert Cabrera  45'

Final

First leg

6 December 2010 TBA	Walter Ferretti	1–0	Diriangén	Olímpico del IND Managua Attendance: TBD Referee: Franklin Jarquín
	Juan Barrera  77'	[1]	None

Second leg

12 December 2010 TBA	Diriangén	2–1	Walter Ferretti	Estadio Cacique Diriangén Diriamba Referee: René Guerrero
	Marcos Roman  41' Remi Vanegas  88'	[2]	Denis Espinoza  65'

Primera División de Nicaragua 2010 Apertura Champion
Walter Ferretti 4th Title

Top scorers Apertura

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Herbert Cabrera	Diriangén	15
2	Raúl Leguías	Managua F.C.	9
3	Emilio Palacios	Xilotepelt	7
	Darwin Ramírez	Diriangén	7
	Juan Barrera	Walter Ferretti	7
3	Hugo Silva	América Managua	6
	Ulises Pavón	Diriangén	6
	Jonathan Juárez	Real Madriz	6

Updated to games played on December 6, 2010.
Post-season goals are included, unlike other topscorers where only regular season goals count.

Clausura

Personnel and sponsoring (Clausura 2011)

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
América Managua		Martin Mena
Diriangén	Danilo Abud	Rolando Méndez		Movistar
Managua F.C.	Napoleón Zeledón	Mario Alfaro		Managua F.C.
Ocotal	Oscar Mendoza	Omar Zambrana		Marlon Anthony
Real Estelí	Fidel Moreno	Ramón Otoniel Olivas		Movistar Bimbo yahoo
Real Madriz	Adolfo Marenco	Sindulio Adolfo Castellanos		Roylan Moylan
Walter Ferretti	Carlos Palacios	José Valladares		Movistar Policia
Xilotepelt	Wilber López	Miguel Ángel Palacios		U de M, Claro

Regular season

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Real Estelí	14	8	4	2	22	11	+11	28	Qualification to the Final round
2	Diriangén F.C.	14	7	3	4	23	16	+7	24
3	Deportivo Walter Ferretti	14	7	1	6	18	14	+4	22
4	Deportivo Ocotal	14	6	3	5	24	26	−2	21
5	América Managua	14	6	2	6	24	20	+4	20
6	Managua F.C.	14	5	2	7	17	18	−1	17
7	Xilotepelt	14	3	5	6	18	27	−9	14
8	Real Madriz	14	1	6	7	11	25	−14	9

Finals round

Semi Finals Group

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Real Estelí 6 5 0 1 13 2 +11 15 2 Walter Ferretti 6 2 2 2 5 7 −2 8 3 Diriangén 6 1 2 3 4 8 −4 5 4 Deportivo Ocotal 6 1 2 3 4 9 −5 5 Updated to games played on season Source: Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored. (C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round. Only applicable when the season is not finished: (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Home \ Away1 DIR OCO WFE Diriangén 3–1 0–2 0–0 Ocotal 0–0 0–1 3–0 2–0 5–0 2–0 Walter Ferretti 3–1 0–0 2–1 Updated to games played on season Source: 1The home team is listed in the left-hand column. Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

10 April 2011	Diriangén	3–1	Deportivo Ocotal	Estadio Cacique Diriangén
	Germán Umaña  39', David Solórzano  45', Marcos Méndez  69' (og.)		Erick Sierra  26'

10 April 2011	Real Estelí	2–0	Walter Ferretti	Estadio Independencia
	José Antonio Flores  37', Rudell Calero  45'	[3]	None

13 April 2011	Walter Ferreti	3–1	Diriangén	Estadio Olimpico IND
	Medardo Martínez  18', Ronald Pérez  70', Osman Delgado  76'	[4]	Herbert Cabrera  16'

13 April 2011	Deportivo Ocotal	0–1	Real Estelí FC	Estadio Glorias del Beisbol
	None		Raúl Leguías  60'

17 April 2011	Diriangén	0–2	Real Estelí FC	Estadio Cacique Diriangén
	None	[5]	Rudel Calero  28', Franklin López  53'

17 April 2011	Walter Ferreti	0–0	Deportivo Ocotal	Estadio Olímpico del IND
	None		None

30 April 2011	Real Estelí FC	2–0	Diriangén	Estadio Independencia
	Manuel Rosas  35', Samuel Wilson  85'		None

1 May 2011	Deportivo Ocotal	3–0	Walter Ferreti	Estadio Glorias del Beisbol
	Marcos Rivera  75'  89', Ricardo Vega  81'		None

4 May 2011	Diriangén	0–0	Walter Ferreti	Estadio Cacique Diriangén
	None		None

4 May 2011	Real Estelí FC	5–0	Deportivo Ocotal	Estadio Independencia
	Félix Rodríguez  13'. Samuel Wilson  35', Eliud Zeledón  37',  55' Wilber Sánchez  77'		None

8 May 2011	Walter Ferreti	2–1	Real Estelí FC	Estadio Olímpico del IND
	José Luis Rodríguez  50', Ismael Reyes  79'		Félix Rodríguez  88'

8 May 2011	Deportivo Ocotal	0–0	Diriangén	Estadio Glorias del Beisbol
	None		None

Final

First leg

15 May 2011 3:00 pm	Walter Ferreti	1-0	Real Estelí	Estadio Olímpico del IND Attendance: TBD Referee: TBA
	Salvador García  51' (og.)	[6]	None

Second leg

21 May 2011 6:00pm	Real Estelí	3-1	Walter Ferreti	Estadio Independencia Attendance: TBA Referee: TBA
	Manuel Rosas  10', José Antonio Flores  20', Samuel Wilson  88'	[7]	Marlon Mancías  68'

Primera División de Nicaragua 2011 Clausura Champion
Real Estelí 10th Title

Top goalscorers

No.	Player	Team	Goals
1	Erick Sierra	Deportivo Ocotal	10
2	Rudel Calero	Real Estelí F.C.	8
3	Carlos Alonso	América Managua	7
4	Herbert Cabrera	Diriangén	7
5	Jose Antonio Flores	Real Estelí F.C.	7
6	Emilio Palacios	Xilotepelt	6
7	Adrián Morales	América Managua	6
8	Ricardo Vega	Deportivo Ocotal	6
9	Jonathan Juarez	Real Madriz	6
10	Samuel Wilson	Real Estelí F.C.	6
11	Milton Bustos	Xilotepelt	5
12	Remy Vanegas	Diriangén	5
13	Ronald Perez	Deportivo Walter Ferretti	4
14	Nofran Lazo	Managua F.C.	4
15	Ronny Colon	América Managua	3
16	Carlos Suazo	Xilotepelt	3
17	Clayton Da Cunha	Managua F.C.	3
18	German Umana	Diriangén	3
19	Byron Sauceda	América Managua	3
20	Elvis Figuero	Managua F.C.	3

Aggregate table

Relegation will be determined by the aggregate table of both Apertura and Clausura tournaments.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Diriangén F.C.	28	15	5	8	52	34	+18	50
2	Real Estelí	28	14	7	7	35	22	+13	49	Qualified to the 2011–12 CONCACAF Champions League Preliminary Round
3	Deportivo Walter Ferretti	28	15	4	9	43	32	+11	49
4	Managua F.C.	28	13	4	11	39	33	+6	43
5	Deportivo Ocotal	28	9	7	12	41	49	−8	34
6	Real Madriz	28	7	10	11	27	44	−17	31
7	América Managua	28	7	6	15	33	44	−11	27	Relegation playoffs
8	Xilotepelt (R)	28	6	9	13	35	49	−14	27	Relegation to the Nicaraguan Second Level

References

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