2011–12 Primera División de Nicaragua

Primera División

Season	2011–12
Champions	Apertura: Real Estelí Clausura: Real Estelí
Relegated	Real Madriz
Champions League	Real Estelí
Matches played	4
Goals scored	15 (3.75 per match)
Top goalscorer	Apertura: Andres Giraldo 12 goals Clausura: Rudel Calero and Remmy Vanegas 9 goals
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 the sole berth for the 2012–13 CONCACAF Champions League. The Apertura tournament will be played in the second half of 2011, while the Clausura will be played in the first half of 2012.

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

Chinandega

Diriangén

Juventus

Managua FC

Ocotal

Real Estelí

Real Madriz

Walter Ferretti

Location of teams in Apertura 2011

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 Curaçao
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; (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; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home \ Away	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
^{1 ^} The 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:^{[citation needed]}
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; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Home \ Away	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:^{[citation needed]
1 ^} The 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	0-1	Managua	TBD
	None		Raúl Leguías  89'

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

1 December 2011	Managua	1-4	Walter Ferretti	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	TBD
	None		None

Final

First leg

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

Second leg

17 December 2011 TBA	Real Esteli	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.

Personnel and sponsoring (2011 Apertura)

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
Chinandega FC	Ortencia Marin	Luis Olivares	adidas
Diriangén	Tulio López	Martín Mena	Joma	Movistar
Juventus		Douglas Urbina
Managua F.C.	Napoleón Zeledón	Mario Alfaro	cebjus	Managua F.C.
Ocotal	Oscar Mendoza	Omar Zambrana	Galaxia	None
Real Estelí	Fidel Moreno	Ramón Otoniel Olivas	Galaxia	Movistar, Bimbo, Yahoo, La Curaçao
Real Madriz	Adolfo Marenco	Sindulio Adolfo Castellanos		Roylan Moylan
Walter Ferretti	Carlos Palacios	Henry Urbina		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
Chinandega FC	Vidal Alonso	sacked	TBA	Luis Olivares	January, 2012	4th

During the regular season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Deportivo Ocotal	Omar Zambrana	Resigned	11 February 2012	Carlos Walcott	12 February 2012	TBA
Managua F.C.	Mario Alfaro	Resigned	February 15, 2012	Emilio Aburto	TBA	TBA
Diriangen FC	Martin Mena	Resigned Personal Issues	February 19, 2012	Angel Eugenio Orellana	February 20, 2012	3rd
Chinandega FC	Luis Olivares	Sacked	February, 2012	Reyna Espinizo 1	February, 2012	8th

• ¹ She has become the first women to coach a men's first division club

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	Real Estelí	14	10	2	2	27	8	+19	32	Semi Finals Group
2	Walter Ferretti	14	6	3	5	17	12	+5	21
3	Diriangén	14	5	6	3	15	12	+3	21
4	Managua	14	5	6	3	19	17	+2	21
5	Ocotal	14	6	2	6	22	24	−2	20
6	Juventus	14	4	3	7	19	22	−3	15
7	Real Madriz	14	4	3	7	18	23	−5	15
8	Chinandega	14	1	5	8	11	30	−19	8

Updated to games played on 6 April 2012.
Source: http://www.soccerway.com/national/nicaragua/1a-division/2011-2012/clausura/
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; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home \ Away	CHI	DIR	JUV	MAN	OCO	RES	RMD	WFE
Chinandega		0–0	2–4	0–0	2–2	1–2	2–2	0–1
Diriangén	0–0		1–0	2–2	2–0	1–0	3–0	0–0
Juventus	0–1	1–3		2–2	4–1	0–2	2–1	0–2
Managua	4–1	1–1	1–0		0–2	0–1	3–0	0–3
Ocotal	4–0	3–1	3–3	3–1		0–2	1–3	0–1
Real Estelí	3–1	3–0	1–0	1–1	5–1		3–0	1–1
Real Madriz	5–0	0–0	2–3	1–1	0–1	0–2		2–1
Walter Ferretti	3–1	2–1	0–0	1–2	0–1	1–2	1–2

Updated to games played on 29 January 2012.
Source:^{[citation needed]
1 ^} The 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	7	7	7	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
Diriangén	4	2	4	4	5	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	3
Juventus	5	8	8	7	4	6	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	6
Managua	2	3	5	5	7	5	5	5	5	6	4	4	3	4
Ocotal	8	6	6	6	6	7	7	6	6	5	5	5	5	5
Real Estelí	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Real Madriz	3	5	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	6	6	6	7
Walter Ferretti	6	4	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2

Last updated: 6 April 2012.
Source:^{[citation needed]}

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	2	0	9	3	+6	14
2	Diriangén FC	6	4	0	2	12	5	+7	12
3	Managua	6	2	1	3	6	11	−5	7
4	Walter Ferretti	6	0	1	5	6	13	−7	1

Updated to games played on pre-season.
Source:^{[citation needed]}
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; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Home \ Away	DIR	MAN	RES	WFE
Diriangén		3–0	0–1	1–0
Managua	0–3		0–1	2–1
Real Estelí	3–0	1–1		2–1
Walter Ferretti	1–4	2–3	1–1

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

14 April 2012 7:00 pm	Real Estelí F.C.	3-0	Diriangén FC	Estadio Nacional de Managua
	Juan Barrera  20', Rudel Calero  60', Franklin López  89'	[6]	None

15 April 2012 3:00 pm	Deportivo Walter Ferretti	2-3	Managua F.C.	Estadio Olímpico del IND Managua Referee: Oscar Dávila
	William Mendieta  45', Armando Reyes  60'		Medardo Martínez  12', Remmy Vanegas  16' and  50'

18 April 2012 3:00pm	Diriangén FC	1-0	Deportivo Walter Ferretti	Estadio Cacique Diriangén
	Erick Téllez  46'		None

18 April 2012 3:00pm	Managua F.C.	0-1	Real Estelí F.C.	Estadio Nacional de Managua
	None	[7]	Elmer Mejía  23'

22 April 2012 3:00pm	Deportivo Walter Ferretti	1-1	Real Estelí F.C.	Estadio Olímpico del IND Managua
	Milton Bustos  12'	[8]	Samuel Wilson  61'

22 April 2012 3:00pm	Diriangén FC	3-0	Managua F.C.	Estadio Cacique Diriangén
	Luis Olivares  6', Eulises Pavón  22', Juan Carlos Narvaez  79'	[9]

29 April 2012 3:00pm	Diriangén FC	0-1	Real Estelí F.C.	Estadio Cacique Diriangén
		[10]	Elmer Mejia  79'

29 April 2012 3:00pm	Managua F.C.	2-1	Deportivo Walter Ferretti	Estadio Nacional de Managua
	Remmy Vanegas  25',  86'	[11]	Milton Bustos  90'

2 May 2012 3:00pm	Real Estelí F.C.	1-1	Managua F.C.	Estadio Nacional de Managua
	Samuel Wilson  78'	[12]	Eddy Espino  30'

2 May 2012 3:00pm	Deportivo Walter Ferretti	1-4	Diriangén FC	Estadio Olímpico del IND Managua
	Jessie Lopez  88'	[13]	Herberth Cabrera  31' &  42' , David Solorzano  30', Alejandro Tapia  44'

6 May 2012 3:00pm	Real Estelí F.C.	2-1	Deportivo Walter Ferretti	Estadio Nacional de Managua
	Félix Rodríguez  31' &  42'	[14]	31'

6 May 2012 3:00pm	Managua F.C.	0-3	Diriangén FC	Estadio Nacional de Managua
			Herbert Cabrera  60', Luis Peralta  71',Reynaldo Cruz  75'

Final

First leg

13 May 2012 TBA	Real Estelí F.C.	3-0	Diriangen FC	TBD Attendance: TBD Referee: TBA
	Marlon Medina  5', Félix Rodríguez  35'  57'		None

Second leg

15 May 2012 TBA	Diriangen FC	1-3	Real Estelí F.C.	TBD Referee: TBD
	Eulises Pavón  43'		Rudel Calero  7', Samuel Wilson  12' and  53'

Real Esteli won 6-1 on aggregate.

Primera División de Nicaragua 2012 Clausura Champion
Real Estelí 12th Title

Aggregate table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Real Estelí	28	20	5	3	48	16	+32	65	2012–13 CONCACAF Champions League Group Stage
2	Managua	28	13	7	8	41	32	+9	46
3	Walter Ferretti	28	13	5	10	45	30	+15	44
4	Diriangén	28	11	10	7	34	28	+6	43
5	Chinandega	28	8	7	13	27	45	−18	31
6	Ocotal	28	8	5	15	39	55	−16	29
7	Juventus	28	7	7	14	41	51	−10	28	Relegation playoffs
8	Real Madriz	28	7	4	17	38	56	−18	25	Relegation to the Segunda División de Fútbol Nicaragua

Updated to games played on 2 November 2011.
Source:^{[citation needed]}
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; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

List of foreign players in the league

This is a list of foreign players in Clausura 2012. The following players:

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

A new rule was introduced a few season ago, that clubs can only have four foreign players per club and can only add a new player if a player/s is released.

Chinandega

• Roberto Chanampe
• Jonathan Brigatti
• Christian Rodriguez
• Jaime Crisanto

Diriangén FC

• Johnni Saavedra
• Christian Mena
• Herberth Cabrera
• Victor Castillo

Juventus Managua

• Victor Carrasco
• Jorge Hernandez

Managua

• Andres Giraldo
• Jose Flores
• Christian Batiz
• Juan Tablada

(player released mid season)

Ocotal

• Luis Maradiaga
• Marcos Rivera
• Byron Maradiaga
• Erick Sierra

Real Esteli

• Elmer Mejia
• Manuel Rosas
• Fernando Alvez
• Luiz Gonzales

Real Madriz

• Ramon Pedrozo
• Victor Norales
• Rony Colon
• Julio Pastor Ruiz

Walter Ferretti

• Mario Gracia
• Jose Fernando Parra
• Yaidero Alberio
• Darwig Ramirez

External links

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