2016–17 Liga Panameña de Fútbol season

Liga Panameña de Fútbol
Season	2016-17
Champions	Apertura: Árabe Unido (15th Title) Clausura: Tauro (13th Title)
Relegated	TBD
Champions League	Tauro
Champions League	Árabe Unido TBD TBD
← 2015–16 2017–18 →

The 2016–17 Liga Panameña de Fútbol season (also known as the Liga Cable Onda) also is the 27th season of top-flight football in Panama. The season began on 2016 and is scheduled to end in May 2017. Ten teams will complete throughout the entire season.

Teams

Atlético Chiriquí finished in 10th place in the overall table last season and were relegated to the Liga Nacional de Ascenso. Taking their place for this season are the overall champions of last season's Liga Nacional de Ascenso Santa Gema.

Chepo suffered financial trouble and sold their spot to Atletico Veraguense.

Club	Home city	Stadium
Alianza	Panama City	Cancha de Entrenamiento Luis Tapia
Árabe Unido	Colón	Cancha de Entrenamiento Luis Tapia (in Panama City)
Atlético Nacional	Panama City	Estadio Agustín "Muquita" Sánchez
Atletico Veraguense	Santiago de Veraguas	Cancha de Entrenamiento Luis Tapia (in Panama City)
Chorrillo	Panama City	Estadio Javier Cruz
Plaza Amador	Panama City	Estadio Javier Cruz
San Francisco	La Chorrera	Estadio Agustín Sánchez
Santa Gema	Arraiján	Cancha del Mystic
Sporting San Miguelito	San Miguelito	Cancha de Entrenamiento Luis Tapia
Tauro	Panama City	Cancha de Entrenamiento Luis Tapia

2016 Apertura

Personnel and sponsoring (2016 Apertura)

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
Alianza	TBD	José Anthony Torres	Lotto	Balboa
Árabe Unido	TBD	Juan Sergio Guzmán	Puma	Pizza Hut
Atletico Nacional		José Chiari	Adidas	Nikos
Atletico Veraguense	TBD	Marcos Pimentel	GEMS	EGS, NCO
Chorrillo		Jair Medina	Lotto	McDonald's, Cremoso
Plaza Amador	TBD	Jair Palacios	Diadora	Páguela Facil, Frosquito, Mercana
Santa Gema		Leopoldo Lee	Mitre	ShowPro
San Francisco	Julio Quijano	Mike Stump	Lotto	KFC, Canon, Banco General
Sporting San Miguelito	TBD	Juan Pablo Lopera	Joma	Kenwood, Hyundai
Tauro	TBD	Rolando Palma	Patrick	Publica Amarias, Dominos, Estrella Azul, Argos, Capital Bank

During the season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Atletico Veraguense	Marcos Pimentel	Mutual agreement	August 2016	Andrés Felipe Domínguez	August 2016	th (Apertura 2016)
Chorrillo	Jair Medina	Sacked	September 2016	Óscar Upegui	September 2016	th (Apertura 2016)
Sporting San Miguelito	Juan Pablo Lopera	Sacked	October 2016	José Alfredo Poyatos	October 2016	th (Apertura 2016)

Standings


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Tauro	18	11	5	2	30	9	+21	38	Qualified to the Final Round
2	Plaza Amador	18	9	9	0	21	8	+13	36
3	Chorrillo	18	10	3	5	20	14	+6	33
4	Árabe Unido	18	8	5	5	26	17	+9	29
5	Santa Gema	18	6	5	7	15	13	+2	23
6	San Francisco	18	7	4	7	15	17	−2	25
7	Alianza	18	7	1	10	18	25	−7	22
8	Sporting San Miguelito	18	3	5	10	12	23	−11	14
9	Atletico Veraguense	18	3	5	10	7	23	−16	14
10	Atlético Nacional	18	2	4	12	11	26	−15	10

Updated to games played on 13 November 2016.
Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (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; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home \ Away^[1]	ALI	ATL	DÁU	ATV	CHO	PA	SAN	SF	SSM	TAU
Alianza		2–1	0–2	2–0	0–4	1–1	0–1	1–2	2–1	0–2
Atlético Nacional	1–2		1–1	1–0	1–2	1–3	1–1	0–1	0–0	0–2
Árabe Unido	3–1	0–1		4–1	1–1	0–0	2–3	0–2	2–0	2–1
Atletico Veraguense	1–0	0–0	0–1		1–1	0–1	0–0	1–1	0–0	0–2
Chorrillo	0–3	1–0	1–0	1–0		0–2	0–0	2–0	0–1	1–0
Plaza Amador	2–0	2–1	2–2	1–0	2–0		1–0	0–0	2–1	1–1
Santa Gema	0–1	2–1	1–0	0–1	1–2	0–0		0–0	4–2	0–0
San Francisco	0–1	1–0	1–3	3–0	1–2	1–1	0–1		1–0	0–3
Sporting San Miguelito	1–0	2–1	1–3	1–2	0–2	0–0	0–0	0–1		2–2
Tauro	3–2	4–0	0–0	4–0	1–0	0–0	2–1	2–0	1–0

Updated to games played on 13 November 2016.
Source:
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second stage

Semifinals					Final

1	Tauro	0	0	3
4	Árabe Unido	3	2	5
					4	Árabe Unido	2
					2	Plaza Amador	0
2	Plaza Amador	0	1	1
3	Chorrillo	0	0	0

Semifinals

First legs

Árabe Unido v Tauro

19 November 2016

Árabe Unido	3 – 0	Tauro
F. Caesar 33' E. Small 44' J. González 90+1'

Estadio Armando Dely Valdés
Referee: Ameth Sánchez

Chorrillo v Plaza Amador

19 November 2016

Chorrillo	0 – 0	Plaza Amador

Estadio Maracaná de Panamá
Referee: John Pitty

Second legs

Tauro v Árabe Unido

26 November 2016

Tauro	3 – 2	Árabe Unido
J. Muñoz 1' E. Aguilar 5', 35' (pen)		A. Macea 47' E. Small 54'

Estadio Rommel Fernández
Referee: Victor Rios

Arabe Unido won 5–3 on aggregate.

Plaza Amador v Chorrillo

26 November 2016

Plaza Amador	1 – 0	Chorrillo
F. Piedrahita 77'

Estadio Maracaná de Panamá
Referee: Jafeth Perea

Plaza Amador won 1–0 on aggregate.

Finals

Grand Final

Plaza Amador v Árabe Unido

December 3, 2016

Plaza Amador	0 – 2	Árabe Unido
		A. Macea 45' E. Small 69'

Estadio Rommel Fernández
Referee: Ameth Sánchez

Apertura 2016 Champions
Arabe Unido
15th Title

2017 Clausura

Personnel and sponsoring (2017 Clausura)

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
Alianza	TBD	TBD	Lotto	Balboa
Árabe Unido	TBD	Juan Sergio Guzmán	Puma	Pizza Hut
Atletico Nacional		Daniel Valencia	Lotto	Subway
Atletico Veraguense	TBD	Jorge Santos	GEMS	EGS, NCO
Chorrillo		TBD	Lotto	McDonald's, Cremoso
Plaza Amador	TBD	Jair Palacios	Diadora	Páguela Facil, Frosquito, Mercana
Santa Gema		Javier Wanchope	Mitre	ShowPro
San Francisco	Julio Quijano	Mike Stump	Lotto	KFC, Canon, Banco General
Sporting San Miguelito	TBD	Juan Pablo Lopera	Joma	Kenwood, Hyundai
Tauro	TBD	Jorge Dely Valdés	Patrick	Publicar Páginas Amarillas

Standings


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Plaza Amador	18	12	4	2	26	10	+16	40	Qualified to the Final Round
2	Tauro	18	8	7	3	25	16	+9	31
3	Atletico Veraguense	18	7	7	4	23	14	+9	28
4	Árabe Unido	18	8	4	6	25	20	+5	28
5	San Francisco	18	7	5	6	22	24	−2	26
6	Chorrillo	18	5	7	6	18	21	−3	22
7	Sporting San Miguelito	18	4	7	7	20	22	−2	19
8	Alianza	18	5	4	9	14	19	−5	19
9	Santa Gema	18	4	6	8	14	18	−4	18
10	Atlético Nacional	18	3	3	12	13	36	−23	12

Updated to games played on 6 May 2017.
Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (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; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home \ Away^[1]	ALI	ATL	DÁU	ATV	CHO	PA	SAN	SF	SSM	TAU
Alianza		0–1	1–2	0–2	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–2	1–0	1–0
Atlético Nacional	2–0		0–2	0–6	0–1	0–4	0–0	0–1	1–1	0–1
Árabe Unido	1–0	4–0		0–1	3–2	0–1	2–1	2–1	1–1	3–5
Atletico Veraguense	1–0	3–0	1–0		1–1	0–1	2–1	0–2	1–3	1–1
Chorrillo	1–3	2–2	1–0	1–1		1–1	1–1	1–2	1–0	1–3
Plaza Amador	2–1	1–0	2–1	0–0	1–2		2–0	3–1	1–2	1–1
Santa Gema	2–2	3–1	0–1	0–0	2–1	0–1		1–0	2–1	1–2
San Francisco	2–1	3–2	2–2	1–1	0–0	0–2	0–0		2–0	1–2
Sporting San Miguelito	0–0	2–3	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–2	1–0	5–1		0–3
Tauro	1–1	2–1	0–0	2–1	0–1	0–1	0–0	1–1	1–1

Updated to games played on 6 May 2017.
Source:
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second stage

Semifinals					Final

1	Plaza Amador	1	0	1
4	Árabe Unido	1	1	2
					4	Árabe Unido	0
					2	Tauro	1
2	Tauro	1	2	3
3	Atletico Veraguense	1	1	2

Semifinals

First legs

Árabe Unido v Plaza Amador

12 May 2017

Árabe Unido	1 – 1	Plaza Amador
E. Small 81'		R. Barsallo 80'

Estadio Armando Dely Valdés
Referee: Victor Rios

Atletico Veraguense v Tauro

14 May 2017

Atletico Veraguense	1 – 1	Tauro
H. Ward 55'		F. Baloy 64'

Estadio Omar Torrijos
Referee: Oliver Vergara

Second legs

Plaza Amador v Árabe Unido

20 May 2017

Plaza Amador	0 – 1	Árabe Unido
E. Small 78'

Estadio Maracaná de Panamá
Referee: Jafeth Perea

Arabe Unido won 2–1 on aggregate.

Tauro v Atletico Veraguense

20 May 2017

Tauro	2 – 1	Atletico Veraguense
A. Polo 19' A. Corpas 90+1'		C. Gallego 81'

Estadio Rommel Fernández
Referee: Ameth Sánchez

Tauro won 3–2 on aggregate.

Finals

Grand Final

Tauro v Árabe Unido

May 27, 2017

Tauro	1 – 0	Árabe Unido
A. Polo 90+1'

Estadio Rommel Fernández
Referee: Victor Rios

Clausura 2017 Champions
Tauro
13th Title

List of foreign players in the league

This is a list of foreign players for the 2016-2017. The following players:

have played at least one game for the respective club.
have not been capped for the Panama national football team on any level, independently from the birthplace

Alianza

Facundo Kroeck
Robyn Pertuz
Gerardo Negrete
Mauricio Castaño

Arabe Unido

Miguel Lloyd

Atletico Nacional

Manuel Murillo
Andrés Santamaría

Atlético Veraguense

Damaso Pichón
Alexis Mendoza
Walter Franco
Arlinto Murillo

Chorillo

Fabio Da Silva
David Agudelo

Jorge Henriquez
Justin Arboleda

Plaza Amador

Frank Piedrahita
Daniel Blanco

Santa Gema

Miguel Duque

San Francisco FC

Wanegre Delgado de Armas
Varcan Sterling

Sporting San Miguelito

None

Tauro FC

Jose Peraza
Carlos Sierra
Ariel Bonilla

(player released mid season)

Aggregate table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Plaza Amador	36	21	13	2	47	18	+29	76	2017 CONCACAF League
2	Tauro	36	19	12	5	55	25	+30	69	2018 CONCACAF Champions League
3	Árabe Unido	36	16	9	11	51	37	+14	57	2017 CONCACAF League
4	Chorrillo	36	15	10	11	38	35	+3	55	2017 CONCACAF League ¹
5	San Francisco	36	14	9	13	37	41	−4	51
6	Atletico Veraguense	36	10	12	14	30	37	−7	42
7	Santa Gema	36	10	11	15	29	31	−2	41
8	Alianza	36	12	5	19	32	44	−12	41
9	Sporting San Miguelito	36	7	12	17	32	45	−13	33
10	Atlético Nacional (R)	36	5	7	24	24	62	−38	22	Relegation to 2017–18 Liga de Ascenso

Source: []
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹ Due to Guatemala's suspension from FIFA, its teams will not participate in the 2017-18 CONCACAF club competitions. Due to this, Panama gained an additional qualifier for the 2017 CONCACAF League.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (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; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

External links

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