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(Top) 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 Personnel and sponsoring (2011 Apertura) 6 Managerial changes 6.1 Before the start of the season 6.2 During the regular season 6.3 Regular season 6.3.1 Standings 6.3.2 Results 6.3.3 Positions by round 6.4 Finals round 6.4.1 Semi-finals Group 6.5 Final 6.5.1 First leg 6.5.2 Second leg 7 Aggregate table 8 List of foreign players in the league 9 References 10 External links

2011–12 Primera División de Nicaragua

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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 seasoninPrimera 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[edit]

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 forfeited the match meaning they were relegated).
Loser of promotion/relegation playoff: Xilotepelt

Team information[edit]

Last updated: July 7, 2011

Stadia and locations[edit]

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)[edit]

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[edit]

Before the start of the season[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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

Regular season[edit]

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

Standings[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Real Esteli	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 Managua	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 match(es) played on 3 November 2011. Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Results[edit]

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 Managua	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 Esteli	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 match(es) played on 26 October 2011. Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Positions by round[edit]

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Team ╲ Round
Real Esteli	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 Managua	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

Source: Soccerway

Finals round[edit]

The top two finishers in the Semi-finals Group will move on to the final.

Semi-finals Group[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	RES	WFE	MAN	CHI
1	Real Esteli	6	4	1	1	8	3	+5	13		2–1	0–0	3–0
2	Walter Ferretti	6	2	2	2	12	10	+2	8	1–2		1–1	3–2
3	Managua	6	2	2	2	5	7	−2	8	1–0	1–4		1–2
4	Chinandega	6	1	1	4	6	11	−5	4	0–1	2–2	0–1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

16 November 2011

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

TBD, TBD

16 November 2011

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

TBD, TBD

20 November 2011

Walter Ferretti	1-1	Managua
Darwing Ramírez 12'	[3]	Raúl Leguias 55'

Estadio Olímpico del IND, TBD

20 November 2011

Chinandega	0-1	Real Esteli
None	[4]	Elmer Mejía 13'

TBD, TBD

23 November 2011

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

TBD, TBD

24 November 2011

8:00pm

Managua	1-0	Real Esteli
Victor Castillo 67'		None

Estadio Olímpico del IND, Managua

27 November 2011

Chinandega	0-1	Managua
None		Raúl Leguías 89'

TBD, TBD

27 November 2011

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

TBD, TBD

1 December 2011

Managua	1-4	Walter Ferretti
Erwin Aguirre 79'		Darwin Ramirez 8', 32', 85', Milton Bustos 76'

TBD, TBD

1 December 2011

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

TBD, TBD

5 December 2011

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

TBD, TBD

5 December

Real Esteli	0-0	Managua
None		None

TBD, TBD

Final[edit]

First leg[edit]

12 December 2011

8pm

Walter Ferretti	1-1	Real Esteli
Kesler Rizo 70'		Elmer Mejía 3'

Estadio Olímpico del IND (Managua)

Attendance: TBD

Referee: TBA

Second leg[edit]

17 December 2011

TBA

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

TBD

Referee: TBD

Primera División de Nicaragua 2011 Apertura champion
Real Estelí 11th title

Clausura[edit]

The 2012 Clausura was the second tournament of the season.

Personnel and sponsoring (2011 Apertura)[edit]

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[edit]

Before the start of the season[edit]

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[edit]

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 ^[a]	February, 2012	8th

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

Regular season[edit]

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

Standings[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Real Esteli	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 Managua	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 match(es) played on 6 April 2012. Source: https://int.soccerway.com/national/nicaragua/1a-division/2011-2012/clausura/
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Results[edit]

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 Managua	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 Esteli	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 match(es) played on 29 January 2012. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Positions by round[edit]

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Team ╲ Round
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 Managua	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 Esteli	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

Updated to match(es) played on 6 April 2012. Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Finals round[edit]

The top two finishers in the Semi-finals Group will move on to the final.

Semi-finals Group[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	RES	DIR	MAN	WFE
1	Real Esteli	6	4	2	0	9	3	+6	14		3–0	1–1	2–1
2	Diriangén	6	4	0	2	12	5	+7	12	0–1		3–0	1–0
3	Managua	6	2	1	3	6	11	−5	7	0–1	0–3		2–1
4	Walter Ferretti	6	0	1	5	6	13	−7	1	1–1	1–4	2–3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

14 April 2012

7:00 pm

Real Estelí F.C.	3-0	Diriangén FC
Juan Barrera 20', Rudel Calero 60', Franklin López 89'	[6]	None

Estadio Nacional de Managua, Managua

15 April 2012

3:00 pm

Deportivo Walter Ferretti	2-3	Managua F.C.
William Mendieta 45', Armando Reyes 60'		Medardo Martínez 12', Remmy Vanegas 16' and 50'

Estadio Olímpico del IND Managua, Managua

Referee: Oscar Dávila

18 April 2012

3:00pm

Diriangén FC	1-0	Deportivo Walter Ferretti
Erick Téllez 46'		None

Estadio Cacique Diriangén, Diriangén

18 April 2012

3:00pm

Managua F.C.	0-1	Real Estelí F.C.
None	[7]	Elmer Mejía 23'

Estadio Nacional de Managua, Managua

22 April 2012

3:00pm

Deportivo Walter Ferretti	1-1	Real Estelí F.C.
Milton Bustos 12'	[8]	Samuel Wilson 61'

Estadio Olímpico del IND Managua, Managua

22 April 2012

3:00pm

Diriangén FC	3-0	Managua F.C.
Luis Olivares 6', Eulises Pavón 22', Juan Carlos Narvaez 79'	[9]

Estadio Cacique Diriangén, Diriangén

29 April 2012

3:00pm

Diriangén FC	0-1	Real Estelí F.C.
	[10]	Elmer Mejia 79'

Estadio Cacique Diriangén, Diriangén

29 April 2012

3:00pm

Managua F.C.	2-1	Deportivo Walter Ferretti
Remmy Vanegas 25', 86'	[11]	Milton Bustos 90'

Estadio Nacional de Managua, Managua

2 May 2012

3:00pm

Real Estelí F.C.	1-1	Managua F.C.
Samuel Wilson 78'	[12]	Eddy Espino 30'

Estadio Nacional de Managua, Managua

2 May 2012

3:00pm

Deportivo Walter Ferretti	1-4	Diriangén FC
Jessie Lopez 88'	[13]	Herberth Cabrera 31' & 42' , David Solorzano 30', Alejandro Tapia 44'

Estadio Olímpico del IND Managua, Managua

6 May 2012

3:00pm

Real Estelí F.C.	2-1	Deportivo Walter Ferretti
Félix Rodríguez 31' & 42'	[14]	31'

Estadio Nacional de Managua, Managua

6 May 2012

3:00pm

Managua F.C.	0-3	Diriangén FC
		Herbert Cabrera 60', Luis Peralta 71',Reynaldo Cruz 75'

Estadio Nacional de Managua, Managua

Final[edit]

First leg[edit]

13 May 2012

TBA

Real Estelí F.C.	3-0	Diriangen FC
Marlon Medina 5', Félix Rodríguez 35' 57'		None

TBD

Attendance: TBD

Referee: TBA

Second leg[edit]

15 May 2012

TBA

Diriangen FC	1-3	Real Estelí F.C.
Eulises Pavón 43'		Rudel Calero 7', Samuel Wilson 12' and 53'

TBD

Referee: TBD

Real Esteli won 6-1 on aggregate.

Primera División de Nicaragua 2012 Clausura champion
Real Estelí 12th title

Aggregate table[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Real Esteli	28	20	5	3	48	16	+32	65	Qualification for 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 Managua	28	7	7	14	41	51	−10	28	Relegation playoffs
8	Real Madriz	28	7	4	17	38	56	−18	25	Relegation to Segunda División de Fútbol Nicaragua

Updated to match(es) played on 2 November 2011. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

List of foreign players in the league[edit]

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

have played at least one apertura game for the respective club.
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

Real Madriz

Ramon Pedrozo
Victor Norales
Rony Colon
Julio Pastor Ruiz

Walter Ferretti

Mario Gracia
Jose Fernando Parra
Yaidero Alberio
Darwig Ramirez

References[edit]

External links[edit]

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