2010–11 Primera División de Nicaragua

The 2010–11 season in Primera División de Nicaragua will be divided into two tournaments (Apertura and Clausura) and will determine the 57th and 58th champions in the history of the league. The season will begin on July 25 and end on December 12. It will also provide the sole berth for the 2011–12 CONCACAF Champions League.

Primera División

Season	2010–11
Champions	Apertura: Walter Ferretti Clausura: Real Estelí
Relegated	Xilotepelt & América Managua
2011–12 CONCACAF Champions League	Real Estelí
Goals scored	37 goals
Top goalscorer	Apertura: Herbert Cabrera (15 goals) Clausura: Erick Sierra (10 goals)
Biggest home win	Ocotal 4–5 Diriangén (March 30, 2011)
Biggest away win	América Managua 1–5 Diriangén (March 13, 2011)
Highest scoring	América Managua 7–1 Real Madriz (April 3, 2011)
← 2009–10 2011–12 →

Promotion and relegation

Promoted from Segunda División de Fútbol Nicaragua.

• Champions: Managua F.C.
• América Managua (bought the spot of VCP Chinandega).

Relegated to Segunda División de Fútbol Nicaragua.

• Last place: Chinandega FC
• VCP Chinandega (sold their spot to América Managua).

2010–11 teams

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
Diriangén	Diriamba	Estadio Cacique Diriangén	7,500
Real Estelí	Estelí	Estadio Independencia	4,800
América Managua	Managua	Estadio Olímpico del IND Managua	9,000
Ocotal	Ocotal	Estadio Roy Fernandez	3,000
Walter Ferretti	Managua	Estadio Olímpico del IND Managua	9,000
Xilotepelt	Jinotepe	Estadio Pedro Selva	12,000
Real Madriz	Somoto	Estadio Municipal de Somoto	3,000
Managua F.C.	Managua	Estadio Olímpico del IND Managua	9,000

Personnel and sponsoring (2010 Apertura)

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
América Managua	Eliécer Trillo	Martín Mena
Diriangén	Tulio López	Edgard Sosa		Movistar
Managua F.C.	Napoleón Zeledón	Mario Alfaro		Managua F.C.
Ocotal	Oscar Mendoza	Vidal Alonso		Marlon Anthony
Real Estelí	Fidel Moreno	Ramón Otoniel Olivas		Movistar Bimbo yahoo
Real Madriz	Adolfo Marenco	Sindulio Adolfo Castellanos		Roylan Moylan
Walter Ferretti	Carlos Palacios	José Valladares		Movistar Policia
Xilotepelt	Wilber López	Abel Núñez		U de M

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
Ocotal	Leonidas Rodriguez	Resigned	TBA	Eduardo Vidal Alonso	August 13, 2010	7
Managua F.C.	Néstor Holwegger	Resigned	TBA	Mario Alfaro	TBA	3

During the regular season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Xilotepelt	Abel Núñez	Sacked	September 1, 2010	Néstor Holwegger	September 1, 2010	TBA
Ocotal	Eduardo Vidal Alonso	Resigned	August 28, 2010	Randall Moreno	August 28, 2010	TBA
Xilotepelt	Néstor Holwegger	Resigned	October 13, 2010	Emilio Palacios	October 13, 2010	TBA
Diriangén	Edgardo Sosa	Sacked	October 13, 2010	Rolando Méndez	October 13, 2010	TBA

Apertura

Regular season

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Deportivo Walter Ferretti	14	8	3	3	26	18	+8	27	Qualification for Final round
2	Diriangén F.C.	14	8	2	4	29	17	+12	26
3	Managua F.C.	14	8	2	4	22	15	+7	26
4	Real Madriz	14	6	4	4	16	19	−3	22
5	Real Esteli	14	6	3	5	13	11	+2	21
6	Xilotepelt	14	3	4	7	17	22	−5	13
7	Deportivo Ocotal	14	3	4	7	17	23	−6	13
8	América Managua	14	1	4	9	9	24	−15	7

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Finals round

Semi-finals Group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		DIR	WFE	MAN	RMD
1	Diriangén	6	5	1	0	9	1	+8	16			1–0	0–0	2–0
2	Walter Ferretti	6	3	1	2	9	3	+6	10		0–1		1–1	4–0
3	Managua	6	2	2	2	7	5	+2	8		1–2	0–1		5–0
4	Real Madriz	6	0	0	6	0	18	−18	0		0–3	0–3	0–1

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

Walter Ferreti	1–1	Managua FC
Marlon Mancía 62'		Clayton Da Cunha 42' (pen.)

24 October 2010

Estadio Olímpico del IND, Managua, Nicaragua

Diriangén	2–0	Real Madriz
Remy Vanegas 14' Darwin Ramírez 30'		None

27 October 2010

Estadio Cacique Diriangén, Diriamba, Nicaragua

Real Madriz	0–3	Walter Ferreti
None		Armando Isamel Reyes 53' Gonzalo Molina 79' Ronald Pérez 88'

31 October 2010

Estadio Municipal de Somoto, Somoto, Nicaragua

Managua FC	1–2	Diriangén
Edwin Herrera 5'		Herbert Cabrera 53' 75'

31 October 2010

Estadio Olímpico del IND, Managua, Nicaragua

Diriangén	1–0	Walter Ferreti
Marcos Méndez 90+3'		None

7 November 2010

Estadio Cacique Diriangén, Diriamba, Nicaragua

Managua FC	5–0	Real Madriz
Raúl Leguía 43' 66', Clayton Da Cunha 10', Mario Morales 23', Norfran Lazo 50'		None

7 November 2010

Estadio Olímpico del IND, Managua, Nicaragua

Real Madriz	0–3	Diriangén
None		Remy Vanegas 47' 67' Herbert Cabrera 85'

15 November 2010

Estadio Municipal de Somoto, Somoto, Nicaragua

Managua FC	0–1	Walter Ferreti
None		Michael Jarquín 75'

16 November 2010

Estadio Olímpico del IND, Managua, Nicaragua

Walter Ferreti	4–0	Real Madriz
José Luis Rodríguez 19' 44', Ismael Reyes 45' (pen.), José Carballo 53'		None

22 November 2010

Estadio Olímpico del IND, Managua, Nicaragua

Diriangén	0–0	Managua FC
None		None

22 November 2010

Estadio Cacique Diriangén, Nicaragua

Real Madriz	0–1	Managua FC
None		Edwin Herrera 90'

29 November 2010

Estadio Municipal de Somoto, Somoto, Nicaragua

Walter Ferreti	0–1	Diriangén
None		Herbert Cabrera 45'

29 November 2010

Estadio Olímpico del IND, Managua, Nicaragua

Final

First leg

Walter Ferretti	1–0	Diriangén
Juan Barrera 77'		None

6 December 2010

TBA

Olímpico del IND
Managua

Attendance: TBD

Referee: Franklin Jarquín

Second leg

Diriangén	2–1	Walter Ferretti
Marcos Roman 41' Remi Vanegas 88'		Denis Espinoza 65'

12 December 2010

TBA

Estadio Cacique Diriangén
Diriamba

Referee: René Guerrero

Primera División de Nicaragua 2010 Apertura champion
Walter Ferretti 4th title

Top scorers Apertura

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Herbert Cabrera	Diriangén	15
2	Raúl Leguías	Managua F.C.	9
3	Emilio Palacios	Xilotepelt	7
	Darwin Ramírez	Diriangén	7
	Juan Barrera	Walter Ferretti	7
3	Hugo Silva	América Managua	6
	Ulises Pavón	Diriangén	6
	Jonathan Juárez	Real Madriz	6

Updated to games played on December 6, 2010.
Post-season goals are included, unlike other topscorers where only regular season goals count.

Clausura

Personnel and sponsoring (Clausura 2011)

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
América Managua		Martin Mena
Diriangén	Danilo Abud	Rolando Méndez		Movistar
Managua F.C.	Napoleón Zeledón	Mario Alfaro		Managua F.C.
Ocotal	Oscar Mendoza	Omar Zambrana		Marlon Anthony
Real Estelí	Fidel Moreno	Ramón Otoniel Olivas		Movistar Bimbo yahoo
Real Madriz	Adolfo Marenco	Sindulio Adolfo Castellanos		Roylan Moylan
Walter Ferretti	Carlos Palacios	José Valladares		Movistar Policia
Xilotepelt	Wilber López	Miguel Ángel Palacios		U de M, Claro

Regular season

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Real Esteli	14	8	4	2	22	11	+11	28	Qualification for Final round
2	Diriangén F.C.	14	7	3	4	23	16	+7	24
3	Deportivo Walter Ferretti	14	7	1	6	18	14	+4	22
4	Deportivo Ocotal	14	6	3	5	24	26	−2	21
5	América Managua	14	6	2	6	24	20	+4	20
6	Managua F.C.	14	5	2	7	17	18	−1	17
7	Xilotepelt	14	3	5	6	18	27	−9	14
8	Real Madriz	14	1	6	7	11	25	−14	9

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Finals round

Semi-finals Group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		RES	WFE	DIR	OCO
1	Real Estelí	6	5	0	1	13	2	+11	15			2–0	2–0	5–0
2	Walter Ferretti	6	2	2	2	5	7	−2	8		2–1		3–1	0–0
3	Diriangén	6	1	2	3	4	8	−4	5		0–2	0–0		3–1
4	Ocotal	6	1	2	3	4	9	−5	5		0–1	3–0	0–0

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

Diriangén	3–1	Deportivo Ocotal
Germán Umaña 39', David Solórzano 45', Marcos Méndez 69' (og.)		Erick Sierra 26'

10 April 2011

Estadio Cacique Diriangén, Diriamba, Nicaragua

Real Esteli	2–0	Walter Ferretti
José Antonio Flores 37', Rudell Calero 45'		None

10 April 2011

Estadio Independencia, Esetli, Nicaragua

Walter Ferreti	3–1	Diriangén
Medardo Martínez 18', Ronald Pérez 70', Osman Delgado 76'		Herbert Cabrera 16'

13 April 2011

Estadio Olimpico IND, Managua, Nicaragua

Deportivo Ocotal	0–1	Real Esteli
None		Raúl Leguías 60'

13 April 2011

Estadio Glorias del Beisbol, , Nicaragua

Diriangén	0–2	Real Esteli
None		Rudel Calero 28', Franklin López 53'

17 April 2011

Estadio Cacique Diriangén, Diriamba, Nicaragua

Walter Ferreti	0–0	Deportivo Ocotal
None		None

17 April 2011

Estadio Olímpico del IND, Managua, Nicaragua

Real Esteli	2–0	Diriangén
Manuel Rosas 35', Samuel Wilson 85'		None

30 April 2011

Estadio Independencia, Esteli, Nicaragua

Deportivo Ocotal	3–0	Walter Ferreti
Marcos Rivera 75' 89', Ricardo Vega 81'		None

1 May 2011

Estadio Glorias del Beisbol, , Nicaragua

Diriangén	0–0	Walter Ferreti
None		None

4 May 2011

Estadio Cacique Diriangén, Diriamba, Nicaragua

Real Esteli	5–0	Deportivo Ocotal
Félix Rodríguez 13'. Samuel Wilson 35', Eliud Zeledón 37', 55' Wilber Sánchez 77'		None

4 May 2011

Estadio Independencia, Esteli, Nicaragua

Walter Ferreti	2–1	Real Esteli
José Luis Rodríguez 50', Ismael Reyes 79'		Félix Rodríguez 88'

8 May 2011

Estadio Olímpico del IND, Managua, Nicaragua

Deportivo Ocotal	0–0	Diriangén
None		None

8 May 2011

Estadio Glorias del Beisbol, , Nicaragua

Final

First leg

Walter Ferreti	1-0	Real Estelí
Salvador García 51' (og.)		None

15 May 2011

3:00 pm

Estadio Olímpico del IND

Attendance: TBD

Referee: TBA

Second leg

Real Estelí	3-1	Walter Ferreti
Manuel Rosas 10', José Antonio Flores 20', Samuel Wilson 88'		Marlon Mancías 68'

21 May 2011

6:00pm

Estadio Independencia

Attendance: TBA

Referee: TBA

Primera División de Nicaragua 2011 Clausura champion
Real Estelí 10th title

Top goalscorers

No.	Player	Team	Goals
1	Erick Sierra	Deportivo Ocotal	10
2	Rudel Calero	Real Estelí F.C.	8
3	Carlos Alonso	América Managua	7
4	Herbert Cabrera	Diriangén	7
5	Jose Antonio Flores	Real Estelí F.C.	7
6	Emilio Palacios	Xilotepelt	6
7	Adrián Morales	América Managua	6
8	Ricardo Vega	Deportivo Ocotal	6
9	Jonathan Juarez	Real Madriz	6
10	Samuel Wilson	Real Estelí F.C.	6
11	Milton Bustos	Xilotepelt	5
12	Remy Vanegas	Diriangén	5
13	Ronald Perez	Deportivo Walter Ferretti	4
14	Nofran Lazo	Managua F.C.	4
15	Ronny Colon	América Managua	3
16	Carlos Suazo	Xilotepelt	3
17	Clayton Da Cunha	Managua F.C.	3
18	German Umana	Diriangén	3
19	Byron Sauceda	América Managua	3
20	Elvis Figuero	Managua F.C.	3

Aggregate table

Relegation will be determined by the aggregate table of both Apertura and Clausura tournaments.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Diriangén F.C.	28	15	5	8	52	34	+18	50
2	Real Esteli	28	14	7	7	35	22	+13	49	Qualified to the 2011–12 CONCACAF Champions League Preliminary round
3	Deportivo Walter Ferretti	28	15	4	9	43	32	+11	49
4	Managua F.C.	28	13	4	11	39	33	+6	43
5	Deportivo Ocotal	28	9	7	12	41	49	−8	34
6	Real Madriz	28	7	10	11	27	44	−17	31
7	América Managua	28	7	6	15	33	44	−11	27	Relegation playoffs
8	Xilotepelt (R)	28	6	9	13	35	49	−14	27	Relegation to Nicaraguan Second Level

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(R) Relegated