2011–12 Primera División de Nicaragua

Primera División

Season	2011–12
Champions	Apertura: Real Estelí Clausura: TBD
Relegated	TBD
Champions League	TBD
Matches played	4
Goals scored	15 (3.75 per match)
Top goalscorer	Apertura: TBD Clausura: TBD
Biggest home win	Apertura: Walter Ferretti 6-1 Chinandega
Biggest away win	Apertura: Managua 0-3 Chinandega
Highest scoring	Apertura: Walter Ferretti 6-1 Chinandega
← 2010-11 2012–13 →

The 2011–12 season in Primera División de Nicaragua will be divided into two tournaments (Apertura and Clausura) and will determine the 59th and 60th champions in the history of the league. It will also provide two berths for the 2012–13 CONCACAF Champions League. The Apertura tournament will be player in the second half of 2011, while the Clausura on the first half of 2012.

Contents 1 Promotion and Relegation 2 Team Information 2.1 Stadia and locations 2.2 Personnel and sponsoring (2011 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 4.1.2 Results 4.1.3 Positions by round 4.2 Finals round 4.2.1 Semi Finals Group 4.3 Final 4.3.1 First leg 4.3.2 Second leg 5 Clausura 5.1 Regular season 5.1.1 Standings 5.1.2 Results 5.1.3 Positions by round 5.2 Finals round 5.2.1 Semi Finals Group 5.3 Final 5.3.1 First leg 5.3.2 Second leg 6 Aggregate table 7 External links

Promotion and Relegation

Promoted from Segunda División de Fútbol Nicaragua.

• Champions: Juventus
• Winner of promotion/relegation playoff: Chinandega FC

Relegated to Segunda División de Fútbol Nicaragua.

• Last place: América Managua (although they didn't finish last they had to replay a game, which the team refused to play and foreited the match meaning they were relegated).
• Loser of promotion/relegation playoff: Xilotepelt

Team Information

Last updated: July 7, 2011

Stadia and locations

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
Chinandega FC	Chinandega	TBA
Diriangén	Diriamba	Estadio Cacique Diriangén	7,500
Juventus	Managua	Estadio Olímpico del IND Managua	9,000
Managua F.C.	Managua	Estadio Olímpico del IND Managua	9,000
Ocotal	Ocotal	Estadio Roy Fernandez	3,000
Real Estelí	Estelí	Estadio Independencia	4,800
Real Madriz	Somoto	Estadio Municipal de Somoto	3,000
Walter Ferretti	Managua	Estadio Olímpico del IND Managua	9,000

Personnel and sponsoring (2011 Apertura)

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
Chinandega FC	TBA	Vidal Alonso
Diriangén	Tulio López	Glen Blanco	Joma	Movistar
Juventus		Douglas Urbina
Managua F.C.	Napoleón Zeledón	Mario Alfaro		Managua F.C.
Ocotal	Oscar Mendoza	Omar Zambrana		Marlon Anthony
Real Estelí	Fidel Moreno	Ramón Otoniel Olivas	Galaxia	Movistar, Bimbo, Yahoo, La Curacao
Real Madriz	Adolfo Marenco	Sindulio Adolfo Castellanos		Roylan Moylan
Walter Ferretti	Carlos Palacios	José Valladares		Policia, Cierro, Banco

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
Diriangén	Rolando Méndez	sacked	TBA	Glen Blanco	August, 2011	3rd
Chinandega FC	Reyna Espinoza Morán	replaced moved to assistant manager	TBA	Vidal Alonso	August, 2011	promoted

During the regular season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Walter Ferretti	José Valladares	Resigned	August 9, 2011	Henry Urbina	TBA	TBA

Apertura

The 2011 Apertura was the first tournament of the season. It began on 6 August 2011.

Regular season

The regular season began on 6 August 2011. The top four finishers will move on to the next stage of the competition.

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Real Estelí	14	10	3	1	21	8	+13	33	Semi Finals Group
2	Managua	14	8	1	5	22	15	+7	25
3	Walter Ferretti	14	7	2	5	28	18	+10	23
4	Chinandega	14	7	2	5	16	15	+1	23
5	Diriangén	14	6	4	4	19	16	+3	22
6	Juventus	14	3	4	7	22	29	−7	13
7	Real Madriz	14	3	1	10	20	33	−13	10
8	Ocotal	14	2	3	9	17	31	−14	9

Updated to games played on 3 November 2011
Source: Soccerway
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	CHI	DIR	JUV	MAN	OCO	RES	RMD	WFE
Chinandega		0–2	3–0	1–0	2–1	0–1	1–0	0–0
Diriangén	0–1		3–3	0–3	0–0	0–0	1–3	2–1
Juventus	3–2	1–2		0–1	3–1	1–2	1–2	2–5
Managua	0–3	1–3	0–0		6–0	1–2	3–2	2–1
Ocotal	1–1	0–2	3–3	1–2		1–2	3–2	1–2
Real Estelí	1–0	1–1	2–1	0–1	1–0		3–0	2–1
Real Madriz	0–1	1–2	2–2	3–1	1–4	1–4		2–3
Walter Ferretti	6–1	1–0	1–2	0–1	4–1	0–0	3–2

Updated to games played on 26 October 2011
Source: Soccerway
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Positions by round

Team \ Round
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Real Estelí	3	2	2	1	3	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Managua	8	5	6	8	5	4	4	4	4	4	2	3	2	2
Walter Ferretti	2	1	1	3	2	3	3	3	3	3	4	2	3	3
Chinandega	1	4	5	7	8	8	6	6	6	5	5	5	4	4
Diriangén	4	3	3	2	1	1	1	2	2	2	3	4	5	5
Juventus	5	6	7	4	4	5	5	5	5	6	6	6	6	6
Real Madriz	6	8	8	6	7	7	8	7	8	8	8	8	7	7
Ocotal	7	7	4	5	6	6	7	8	7	7	7	7	8	8

Last updated: 26 October 2011
Source: Soccerway

Finals round

The top two finishers in the Semi Finals Group will move on to the Final.

Semi Finals Group

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Real Esteli 6 4 1 1 8 3 +5 13 2 Walter Ferretti 6 2 2 2 12 10 +2 8 3 Managua 6 2 2 2 5 7 −2 8 4 Chinandega 6 1 1 4 6 11 −5 4 Updated to games played on pre-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 CHI MAN RES WFE Chinandega 0–1 0–1 2–2 Managua 1–2 1–0 1–4 Real Estelí 3–0 0–0 2–1 Walter Ferretti 3–2 1–1 1–2 Updated to games played on pre-season Source: 1The home team is listed in the left-hand column. Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

16 November 2011	Chinandega	2-1	Managua	TBD
	Andrés Giraldo  29', Adrián Morales  69'	[1]	William Mendieta  63'

16 November 2011	Real Esteli	2-1	Walter Ferretti	TBD
	Manuel Rosas  31', Salvador García  46'	[2]	Norfran Lazo  65'

20 November 2011	Walter Ferretti	1-1	Managua	Estadio Olímpico del IND
	Darwing Ramírez  12'	[3]	Raúl Leguias  55'

20 November 2011	Chinandega	0-1	Real Esteli	TBD
	None	[4]	Elmer Mejía  13'

23 November 2011	Walter Ferretti	3-2	Chinandega	TBD
	Axel Villanueva  8', Norfran Lazon  37', Milton Bustos  75'		Eustace Martin  1' (own goal), Andrés Giraldo  90'

24 November 2011 8:00pm	Managua	1-0	Real Esteli	Estadio Olímpico del IND
	Victor Castillo  67'		None

27 November 2011	Chinandega FC	0-1	Managua	TBD
	None		Raúl Leguías  89'

27 November 2011	Walter Ferreti	1-2	Real Esteli	TBD
	Darwin Ramirez  88'		Samuel Wilson  7', José Montaño  73'

1 December 2011	Managua FC	1-4	Walter Ferreti	TBD
	Erwin Aguirre  79'		Darwin Ramirez  8',  32',  85', Milton Bustos  76'

1 December 2011	Real Esteli	3-0	Chinandega	TBD
	Wilber Sánchez  8', Feliz Eliud Zeledon  52', Elmer Mejía  52'		None

5 December 2011	Chinandega	2-2	Walter Ferretti	TBD
	Andrés Giraldo  8', Erlin Morán  52'		Kesler Rizo  16', Darwin Ramirez  23'

5 December	Real Esteli	0-0	Managua FC	TBD
	None		None

Final

First leg

12 December 2011 8pm	Walter Ferretti	1-1	Real Esteli Fc	Estadio Olímpico del IND (Managua) Attendance: TBD Referee: TBA
	Kesler Rizo (70'		Elmer Mejía (3'

Second leg

17 December 2011 TBA	Real Esteli Fc	3-2	Walter Ferretti	TBD Referee: TBD
	Mario García  59' (O.G.), Elmer Mejía  67', Luis González  90+4'	[5]	Kesler Rizo  40', Darwin Ramírez  70'

Primera División de Nicaragua 2011 Apertura Champion
Real Estelí 11th Title

Clausura

The 2012 Clausura was the second tournament of the season.

Regular season

The top four finishers will move on to the next stage of the competition.

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Chinandega	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Semi Finals Group
2	Diriangén	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Juventus	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Managua	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Ocotal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	Real Estelí	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	Real Madriz	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	Walter Ferretti	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Updated to games played on pre-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.

Results

Home \ Away1	CHI	DIR	JUV	MAN	OCO	RES	RMD	WFE
Chinandega
Diriangén
Juventus
Managua
Ocotal
Real Estelí
Real Madriz
Walter Ferretti

Updated to games played on pre-season
Source:
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Positions by round

Team \ Round
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Chinandega
Diriangén
Juventus
Managua
Ocotal
Real Estelí
Real Madriz
Walter Ferretti

Last updated: pre-season
Source:

Finals round

The top two finishers in the Semi Finals Group will move on to the Final.

Semi Finals Group

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 TBD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Updated to games played on pre-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 TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD Updated to games played on pre-season Source: 1The home team is listed in the left-hand column. Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

TBA	TBD	v	TBD	TBD

TBA	TBD	v	TBD	TBD

TBA	TBD	v	TBD	TBD

TBA	TBD	v	TBD	TBD

TBA	TBD	v	TBD	TBD

TBA	TBD	v	TBD	TBD

TBA	TBD	v	TBD	TBD

TBA	TBD	v	TBD	TBD

TBA	TBD	v	TBD	TBD

TBA	TBD	v	TBD	TBD

TBA	TBD	v	TBD	TBD

TBA	tbd	v	tbd	TBD

Final

First leg

TBA TBA	TBD	v	TBD	TBD Attendance: TBD Referee: TBA

Second leg

TBA TBA	TBD	v	TBD	TBD Referee: TBD

Aggregate table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Real Estelí	14	10	3	1	21	8	+13	33
2	Managua	14	8	1	5	22	15	+7	25
3	Walter Ferretti	14	7	2	5	28	18	+10	23
4	Chinandega	14	7	2	5	16	15	+1	23
5	Diriangén	14	6	4	4	19	16	+3	22
6	Juventus	14	3	4	7	22	29	−7	13
7	Real Madriz	14	3	1	10	20	33	−13	10	Relegation playoffs
8	Ocotal	14	2	3	9	17	31	−14	9	Relegation to the Segunda División de Fútbol Nicaragua

Updated to games played on 2 November 2011
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.

External links

• http://www.futbolnica.net/
• http://www.soccerway.com/national/nicaragua/1a-division/2011-2012/apertura/

Nicaraguan League Competition Seasons (current) · Champions · Players (foreign) · Coaches · Stadiums Statistics and awards Awards · Golden Boot · Hat-tricks Current clubs Chinandega FC · Diriangén · Juventus Managua · Managua F.C. · Deportivo Ocotal · Real Estelí · Real Madriz · Deportivo Walter Ferretti Former clubs América Managua · Deportivo Bluefields · Deportivo Masatepe · Deportivo Jalapa · FC San Marcos · Scorpión FC · VCP Chinandega · Xilotepelt

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