2010–11 National Premier League

National Premier League
Season	2010–11
Champions	Tivoli Gardens 5th title
Relegated	St. George's Benfica
CFU Club Championship	Tivoli Gardens Boys' Town
Matches played	228
Goals scored	460 (2.02 per match)
Biggest home win	Arnett Gardens 12-0 Benfica
Biggest away win	Benfica 0-7 Humble Lions
Highest scoring	Arnett Gardens 12-0 Benfica
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The 2010–11 National Premier League (also known as the 2010–11 Digicel Premier League) is the highest competitive football league in Jamaica. The regular season began August 29, 2010 and will be completed May 1, 2011. The teams will play each other 3 times each then the final 5 games will be played amongst the top 6 and bottom 6; making it a total of 38 games each. Harbour View were the defending champions, having won their third Jamaican championship last season.

Tropical storm Nicole caused a number of games to be postponed.^[1]

1 Teams
2 Regular stage
- 2.1 League table
- 2.2 Results
  - 2.2.1 Matches 1–22
  - 2.2.2 Matches 23–33
3 Championship playoff
- 3.1 Standings
- 3.2 Results
4 Relegation playoff
- 4.1 Standings
- 4.2 Results
5 Top goalscorers
6 Promotion from Super Leagues
- 6.1 Results
7 External links
8 References

Teams

Rivoli United and August Town finished 11th and 12th at the end of last season and were relegated to lower leagues.

Taking their places in the league this season are Benfica and Reno, which were the best two clubs in last season's second level promotion playoffs.

Location of teams in the 2010–11 National Premier League

Team	Location	Stadium	Stadium Capacity	Manager
Arnett Gardens	Kingston	Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex	1,500	Paul "Tegat" Davis
Benfica	St. Ann	Drax Hall Football Field	2,000
Boys' Town	Kingston	Collie Smith Drive Sporting Complex	2,000	Andrew Price
Harbour View	Kingston	Harbour View Mini Stadium	7,000	Donovan Hayles
Humble Lions	Clarendon	Effortville Community Centre	1,000	Lennyworth Hyde
Portmore United	Portmore	Ferdi Neita Sports Complex	2,000	Linval Dixon
Reno	Westmoreland	Frome Sports Club	2,000	Wendell Downswell
Sporting Central Academy	Clarendon	Brancourt Sports Ground, Carendon Oval	2,000	Donovan Duckie
St. George's	Portland	Lynch Park	2,000	Geoffrey Maxwell
Tivoli Gardens	Kingston	Railway Oval	3,000	Glendon "Admiral" Bailey
Village United	Trelawney	Elleston Wakeland Stadium	3,000
Waterhouse	Kingston	Waterhouse Stadium	5,000

Regular stage

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Tivoli Gardens	33	17	10	6	47	26	+21	61	Championship Playoff
2	Boys' Town	33	15	11	7	31	24	+7	56
3	Harbour View	33	14	9	10	36	26	+10	51
4	Waterhouse	33	13	8	12	37	31	+6	47
5	Portmore United	33	12	11	10	29	25	+4	47
6	Village United	33	11	10	12	36	39	−3	43
7	Reno	33	10	11	12	34	33	+1	41	Relegation Playoff
8	Arnett Gardens	33	9	14	10	25	29	−4	41
9	Sporting Central Academy	33	9	13	11	32	31	+1	40
10	Benfica	33	10	7	16	33	54	−21	37
11	St. George's	33	10	6	17	23	38	−15	36
12	Humble Lions	33	8	10	15	23	30	−7	34

Source: Jamaican FA
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.

Results

Matches 1–22

Home \ Away¹	ARN	BEN	BOY	HAR	HUM	POR	REN	SCA	STG	TIV	VIL	WAT
Arnett Gardens		1–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	2–1	0–3	0–2	0–0	0–1	1–0	3–1
Benfica	1–1		2–1	0–4	0–1	2–1	3–2	1–2	2–1	1–3	2–2	0–0
Boys' Town	0–2	1–1		2–1	2–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	4–2	1–0	0–1	1–0
Harbour View	0–1	0–1	5–1		1–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	2–0	3–2	0–1	1–1
Humble Lions	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–1		0–1	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–1	3–0	1–2
Portmore United	0–0	3–0	0–0	0–0	2–1		2–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	3–0	0–1
Reno	0–0	4–1	0–0	1–2	2–0	0–1		1–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–1
Sporting Central Academy	3–0	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–1	0–1	0–1		4–1	1–2	4–3	0–2
St. George's	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–2	1–0	1–1	2–0	0–1		0–1	0–1	1–0
Tivoli Gardens	1–1	5–0	0–2	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	3–0		4–0	1–1
Village United	2–2	1–2	1–2	2–0	0–1	1–1	0–1	0–3	0–1	1–1		2–0
Waterhouse	2–0	4–1	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–1	3–1	1–0	2–2

Source: Soccerway
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Matches 23–33

Home \ Away¹	ARN	BEN	BOY	HAR	HUM	POR	REN	SCA	STG	TIV	VIL	WAT
Arnett Gardens			1–1		0–0		1–1	2–0	0–1	2–2
Benfica	2–1		1–1			0–1	0–1			2–3	0–0
Boys' Town						1–0	0–0	0–0	2–0	0–1		2–1
Harbour View	1–0	3–1	0–0		2–0							1–0
Humble Lions		0–2	0–1					0–0		0–3²		2–0
Portmore United	0–1			0–0	0–3³						0–2	0–1
Reno				2–1	2–0	1–2			1–2		0–3
Sporting Central Academy		0–3⁴		2–2		1–1	1–1		1–1			0–0
St. George's		1–1		0–0	0–0	1–0					0–1
Tivoli Gardens				0–0		1–1	1–1	1–0	2–1		0–0
Village United	0–0		0–1	3–0⁵	2–1			1–1				3–2
Waterhouse	1–1	4–0					2–1		0–1	1–2

Source: Soccerway
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
²This match originally ended 1-0, but was awarded 0-3 afterward.
³This match originally ended 0-0, but was awarded 0-3 afterward.
⁴This match originally ended 1-1, but was awarded 0-3 afterward.
⁵This match originally ended 0-2, but was awarded 3-0 afterward.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Championship playoff

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Tivoli Gardens (C)	38	20	12	6	52	27	+25	72	2012 CFU Club Championship
2	Boys' Town	38	19	11	8	39	28	+11	68	2012 CFU Club Championship
3	Harbour View	38	17	10	11	43	28	+15	61
4	Waterhouse	38	14	9	15	38	35	+3	51
5	Portmore United	38	12	12	14	31	34	−3	48
6	Village United	38	12	11	15	43	49	−6	47

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.

Results

Home \ Away¹	BOY	HAR	POR	TIV	VIL	WAT
Boys' Town		2–1			2–1
Harbour View			1–0	0–0	4–0
Portmore United	1–2			0–0
Tivoli Gardens	1–0					1–0
Village United			5–1	1–3
Waterhouse	0–2	0–1	1–0		0–0

Source:
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation playoff

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
7	Reno	38	13	11	14	39	37	+2	50
8	Sporting Central Academy	38	11	14	13	39	36	+3	47
9	Arnett Gardens	38	11	14	13	38	36	+2	47
10	Humble Lions	38	12	10	16	35	32	+3	46
11	St. George's (R)	38	13	7	18	29	41	−12	46	Relegation to the 2011-12 Eastern Confederation Super League
12	Benfica (R)	38	10	7	21	34	77	−43	37

Results

Home \ Away¹	ARN	BEN	HUM	REN	SCA	STG
Arnett Gardens		12–0
Benfica			0–7		0–1	1–2
Humble Lions	0–1			1–0		2–0
Reno	1–0	1–0			3–1
Sporting Central Academy	4–0		1–2
St. George's	2–0			2–0	0–0

Source:
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Scorer	Team	Goals
1	Kirk Ramsey	Arnett Gardens	17
2	Craig Foster	Reno	15
3	Navion Boyd	Tivoli Gardens	11
3	Steven Morrissey	Portmore United	11
5	Vincent Earle	Waterhouse	10
6	Francois Swaby	Sporting Central	9
7	Devon Hodges	Tivoli Gardens	8
7	Jermaine Anderson	Waterhouse	8
9	Renae Lloyd	Boys Town F.C.	6
9	O'Brian Woodbine	Reno	6

Updated to games played on 24 February 2011
Source: Soccerway

Promotion from Super Leagues

The winners of the 4 regional Super Leagues play-off in a home and home round robin series.

KSAFA Super League - Cavalier
South Central Confederation Super League - Rivoli United
Eastern Confederation Super League - Highgate United
Western Confederation Super League - Seba United

Results

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Highgate United	6	3	3	0	8	3	+5	12	2011–12 National Premier League
2	Seba United	6	2	4	0	7	5	+2	10	2011–12 National Premier League
3	Cavalier	6	2	1	3	4	7	−3	7
4	Rivoli United	6	0	2	4	4	8	−4	2

Home \ Away¹	CAV	HIG	RIV	SEB
Cavalier		0–2	1–0	1–1
Highgate United	2–0		1–1	0–0
Rivoli United	0–1	1–2		2–2
Seba United	2–1	1–1	1–0

Source:
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

^[2] ^[3]

External links

References

^ Walker, Howard (3 October 2010). "DPL matches postponed yet again". Jamaica Observer. http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sport/DPL-matches-postponed-yet-again_8018995. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
^ Walker, Howard (2 June 2011). "Draw puts Seba back into DPL". Jamaica Observer. http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sport/Draw-puts-Seba-back-into-DPL_8942683. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
^ "Seba, Highgate could seal DPL berths". Jamaica Observer. 1 June 2011. http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sport/Seba--Highgate-could-seal-DPL-berths. Retrieved 9 June 2011.

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2010–11 National Premier League

Contents

Teams

Regular stage

League table

Results

Matches 1–22

Matches 23–33

Championship playoff

Standings

Results

Relegation playoff

Standings

Results

Top goalscorers

Promotion from Super Leagues

Results

External links

References