2012–13 Primera División de Nicaragua

Primera División
Season	2012–13
Champions	Apertura:; Real Estelí; Clausura:; Real Estelí
Relegated	Xilotepelt
Champions League	Real Estelí
Top goalscorer	Apertura:; Andres Giraldo - 11 goals ; Clausura: ; TBD - goals
Biggest home win	Apertura: Diriangén 5 - 1 Chinandega FC ; Xilotepelt 5-1 Ocotal ; Clausura: Real Estelí 12 - 0 Xilotepelt
Biggest away win	Clausura: Juventus Managua 0-4 Deportivo Walter Ferretti
Highest scoring	Clausura: Real Estelí 12 - 0 Xilotepelt
	← 2011–12 2013–14 →

The 2012–13 season in Primera División de Nicaragua was divided into two tournaments (Apertura and Clausura) and determined the 61st and 62nd champions in the history of the league. It also provided the country's sole berth for the 2013–14 CONCACAF Champions League. The Apertura tournament was played in the second half of 2012, while the Clausura was played in the first half of 2013.

Promotion and relegation

Promoted from Segunda División de Fútbol Nicaragua.

Champions: Xilotepelt

Relegated to Segunda División de Fútbol Nicaragua.

Last place: Real Madriz.

Team information

Last updated: July 7, 2011

Stadia and locations

Location of teams in Apertura 2012

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
Chinandega FC	Chinandega	Estadio Efrain Tijerino	8,000
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
Walter Ferretti	Managua	Estadio Olímpico del IND Managua	9,000
Xilotepelt	Jinotepe	Estadio Pedro Selva	12,000

Personnel and sponsoring (2012 Apertura)

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
Chinandega FC	TBA	Alex Cajina	Adidas	None
Diriangén	Tulio López	Francisco Nunez	Joma	Movistar
Juventus		Edward Urroz	None	Intracarga, Grao
Managua F.C.	Napoleón Zeledón	Emilio Aburto		Managua F.C.
Ocotal	Oscar Mendoza	Florentino Colindres		Marlon Anthony
Real Estelí	Fidel Moreno	Ramón Otoniel Olivas	Galaxia	Movistar, Grupo Bimbo, Yahoo, La Curaçao
Walter Ferretti	Emilio Rodriguez	Henry 'Huesito' Urbina		Policia, Cierro, Banco
Xilotepelt	TBD	Martin Mena	Gerithen	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
Diriangén	Angel Orellana	resigned (due to problems with team economics)	June 8, 2012	Francisco Núñez	June 14, 2012
Deportivo Ocotal	Carlos Walcott	resigned (personal issues)	9 July 2012	Florentino Colindres	13 July 2012
Xilotepelt	Luis "guicho" Díaz	sacked	3 July 2012	Martin Mena	4 July 2012

During the season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Deportivo Ocotal	Florentino Colindres	resigned (poor performance)	30 July 2012	Sindulios Castellano	1 August 2012
Diriangén	Francisco Núñez	resigned (poor performance)	23 September 2012	Luis Vega	24 September 2012

Apertura

The 2012 Apertura was the first tournament of the season. It began in August 2012.

Regular season

The regular season began in August 2012. 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
1	Real Esteli	14	7	5	2	22	12	+10	26	Semi-finals Group
2	Managua	14	6	4	4	16	11	+5	22
3	Walter Ferretti	14	6	2	6	15	11	+4	20
4	Juventus Managua	14	5	5	4	13	14	−1	20
5	Diriangén	14	6	1	7	14	16	−2	19
6	Ocotal	14	3	7	4	12	16	−4	16
7	Chinandega	14	4	3	7	16	22	−6	15
8	Xilotepelt	14	4	3	7	12	18	−6	15

Updated to match(es) played on September 2012. Source: [1]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Results

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

Updated to match(es) played on September 2012. Source: Soccerway
Legend: 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
Team ╲ Round
Real Esteli	2	2	6	4	4	5	3	1	2	2	2	2	1	1
Managua	6	3	3	3	3	2	2	3	1	1	1	1	2	2
Walter Ferretti	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	2	5	4	5	4	5	3
Chinandega	7	6	5	5	6	7	6	7	8	8	6	7	6	7
Diriangén	4	5	4	6	5	4	5	5	4	5	3	5	3	5
Juventus Managua	3	4	2	2	1	3	4	4	3	3	4	3	4	4
Xilotepelt	5	8	8	8	8	8	8	6	7	6	7	6	7	8
Ocotal	8	7	7	7	7	6	7	8	6	7	8	8	8	6

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	RES	WFE	MAN	JUV
1	Real Esteli	6	3	3	0	10	5	+5	12		1–1	2–1	1–1
2	Walter Ferretti	6	2	3	1	5	5	0	9	0–2		1–0	1–0
3	Managua	6	2	2	2	6	6	0	8	1–1	0–0		2–1
4	Juventus Managua	6	0	2	4	6	11	−5	2	1–3	2–2	1–2

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

20 October 2012

Managua	2 – 1	Juventus Managua
Erick Sierra 18', Herbert Cabrera 72'		Cantillo 63'

Estadio Nacional UNAN, Managua

Referee: Oscar Davila

21 October 2012

Real Esteli	1 – 1	Walter Ferretti
Samuel Wilson 25'		Ismael Reyes 50'

Estadio Independencia, Esteli

Referee: Rene Guerrero

28 October 2012

Walter Ferretti	1 – 0	Managua
Darwing Ramírez 18'

Estadio Nacional UNAN, Managua

Referee: William Reyes

29 October 2012

Juventus Managua	1 – 3	Real Esteli
Victor Carrasco 73'		Manuel Rosas 57', Rudel Calero 62', Jefry Araica 88'

Estadio Nacional UNAN, Managua

10 November 2012

Walter Ferretti	1 – 0	Juventus Managua
Juan Rosales 76'

Estadio Nacional UNAN, Managua

Referee: William Reyes

11 November 2012

Managua	1 – 1	Real Esteli
Medardo Martinez 20'		Samuel Wilson 32'

Estadio Nacional UNAN, Managua

17 November 2012

Juventus Managua	1 – 2	Managua
63'		Erick Sierra 18', Remy Vanegas 72'

Estadio Nacional UNAN, Managua

10 November 2012

Walter Ferretti	0 – 2	Real Esteli
Samuel Wilson 25', Wilber Sanchez 50'

Estadio Nacional UNAN, Managua

24 November 2012

Managua	0 – 0	Walter Ferretti

Estadio Nacional UNAN, Managua

Referee: William Reyes

24 November 2012

Real Esteli	1 – 1	Juventus Managua
Rudel Calero 76'		Carlos Membreño 80'

Estadio Independencia, Esteli

2 December 2012

Juventus Managua	2 – 2	Walter Ferretti
Ronny Colon 35', Henry Garcia 73'		Juan Rosales 78', Ricardo Vegas 54'

Estadio Nacional UNAN, Managua

2 December 2012

Real Esteli	2 – 1	Managua
Elmer Mejia 28', Manuel Rosas 32'		Erick Sierra 12'

Estadio Independencia, Esteli

Referee: William Reyes

Final

First leg

9 December 2012

Walter Ferretti	0 – 0	Real Esteli

Estadio Olímpico del IND (Managua)

Second leg

16 December 2011

Real Esteli	4 – 0	Walter Ferretti
Rudel Calero 35' & 60' Manuel Rosas 77' & 80'		None

Estadio Independencia

Primera División de Nicaragua 2012 Apertura champion
Real Estelí 13th title

Top scorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Andres Giraldo	Chinandega FC	11
2	Rudel Calero	Real Esteli F.C.	9
3	Herberth Cabrera	Managua F.C.	7
4	Samuel Wilson	Real Esteli F.C.	7
5	Eulises Pavon	Diriangén FC	6
6	Elmer Mejia	Real Esteli F.C.	6
7	Ricardo Vega	Deportivo Walter Ferretti	5
8	Ronny Colon	Juventus Managua	5

Updated to games played on 14 September 2012.
Post-season goals are not included, only regular season goals.

List of foreign players in the league

This is a list of foreign players in Apertura 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 this year, that clubs can have upwards of five foreign players in a squad, However some conditions include: The player has to be younger than 30 years old, spent year abroad away from Nicaragua, and clubs can only have four foreign players on the field at one time [2].

Chinandega

Andres Giraldo
Gustavo Reyes
Juan Davis Restrepo
Víctor Norales
Cristian Rodríguez

Diriangén FC

Johnni Saavedra
Christian Mena
Wilson Flores
Gerson Martínez

Juventus Managua

Victor Carrasco
Jorge Hernandez
Daniel Henao
Ronny Colon

Managua

Jose Flores
Christian Batiz
Luis Fernando González
Fernando Copete
Herberth Cabrera

(player released mid season)

Ocotal

Luis Maradiaga
Marcos Rivera
Byron Maradiaga
Cesar Salandia

Real Esteli

Elmer Mejia
Manuel Rosas
Fernando Alvez
Ronald Quintero
Gabriel Mirazo Villar

Xilotepelt

Oscar Castillo
Mandell Scott
George Tinglin
Álvaro Salazar

Walter Ferretti

Mario Gracia
David da Silva
Darwig Ramirez
Darwin Guity
Víctor Lozano

Clausura

The 2013 Clausura was the second tournament of the season.

Personnel and sponsoring (2013 Clausura)

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
Chinandega FC	TBA	Alex Cajina	Adidas
Diriangén	Tulio López	Carlos Alberto de Toro	Joma	Movistar
Juventus	Edward Urroz	Douglas Urbina	None	UNEM
Managua F.C.	Napoleón Zeledón	Emilio Aburto		Managua F.C.
Ocotal	Oscar Mendoza	Sindulio Castellano	Tecnitasa	Alcadia de Ocotal
Real Estelí	Fidel Moreno	Ramón Otoniel Olivas	Galaxia	Movistar, Grupo Bimbo, Yahoo, La Curaçao
Walter Ferretti	Emilio Rodriguez	Henry 'Huesito' Urbina	Dejudo	Claro, Albanisa, Flor de Cana,Ramos, Mediotipca
Xilotepelt	TBD	Angel Orellana	TBD	TBD

Managerial changes

Before the start of the season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Diriangén	Luis Vega	Sacked	October 2012	Carlos Alberto de Toro	November 2012
Xilotepelt	Martin Mena	Sacked	December 2012	Angel Orellana	January 2013

During the season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Deportivo Ocotal	Sindulios Castellano	resigned (poor performance)	Feb 2013	Mario Alfaro	March 2013
Xilotepelt	Angel Orellana	resigned (Personal Reasons)	Feb 2013	TBD	March 2013
Deportivo Walter Ferretti	Henry 'Huesito' Urbina	resigned (Personal Reasons)	March 2013	Luis 'Gaucho' Diaz	March 2013

Clausura

The 2013 Clausura was the first tournament of the season. It began in August 2012.

Regular season

The regular season began on 2013. 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
1	Diriangén	14	9	4	1	25	10	+15	31	Semi-finals Group
2	Real Esteli	14	8	4	2	33	5	+28	28
3	Walter Ferretti	14	6	4	4	22	13	+9	22
4	Managua	14	5	4	5	18	16	+2	19
5	Ocotal	14	5	4	5	19	21	−2	19
6	Juventus Managua	14	4	2	8	19	27	−8	14
7	Chinandega	14	2	4	8	13	30	−17	10
8	Xilotepelt	14	1	5	8	14	41	−27	8

Updated to match(es) played on 2013. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Results

Home \ Away	CHI	DIR	JUV	MAN	OCO	RES	WFE	XIL
Chinandega		2–4	3–1	1–3	1–1	1–1	0–1	3–3
Diriangén	3–0		2–0	1–1	2–2	1–0	3–2	4–1
Juventus Managua	0–1	0–2		1–0	2–3	1–1	0–4	6–1
Managua	6–1	0–0	1–1		2–0	0–1	2–1	1–2
Ocotal	2–0	0–2	1–2	3–0		0–1	3–2	3–1
Real Esteli	5–0	2–0	2–0	0–1	5–0		1–1	12–0
Walter Ferretti	0–0	0–1	3–0	4–1	0–0	0–0		2–1
Xilotepelt	0–0	0–0	3–5	0–0	1–1	0–2	1–2

Updated to match(es) played on 29 April 2013. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: 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
Team ╲ Round
Real Esteli	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2
Managua	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	5	5	4
Walter Ferretti	5	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3
Chinandega	8	8	8	5	5	5	7	7	8	8	7	7	7	7
Diriangén	2	2	2	2	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1
Juventus Managua	3	7	7	7	6	6	5	5	5	6	6	6	6	6
Xilotepelt	7	6	6	8	8	7	8	8	7	7	8	8	8	8
Ocotal	6	5	5	6	7	8	6	6	6	5	5	4	4	5

Updated to match(es) played on April 29, 2013. 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	WFE	RES	MAN	DIR
1	Walter Ferretti	6	4	2	0	12	4	+8	14		1–1	2–1	2–0
2	Real Esteli	6	3	2	1	8	4	+4	11	1–1		1–0	1–0
3	Managua	6	2	0	4	5	12	−7	6	0–4	0–3		3–2
4	Diriangén	6	1	0	5	5	10	−5	3	1–2	2–1	0–1

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

4 May 2013

8pm

Real Esteli	1-0	Managua
Felix Rodriguez 83'	[]	None

Estadio Independencia, Esteli

Referee: Oscar Davilla

5 May 2013

3pm

Diriangén FC	1-2	Walter Ferretti
Lucas Martella 83'	[]	Maycon Santana 52' , Mitchell Williams 60'

Estadio Cacique

8 May 2013

3pm

Managua	3-2	Diriangén FC
Darwin Salinas 83' 83', Remmy Vanegas 83'	[]	David Solórzano 83' Jorge Portocarrero 83'

Estadio Nacional UNAN, Managua

8 May 2012

6pm

Walter Ferretti	1-1	Real Esteli
Milton Bustos 83'	[]	Salvador García 83'

Estadio Nacional UNAN, Managua

11 May 2013

6pm

Walter Ferretti	2-1	Managua
Pedrinho 83', Víctor Lozano 83'	[]	Erick Sierra 83'

Estadio Nacional UNAN, Managua

12 May 2013

3pm

Real Esteli	1-0	Diriangén FC
Rudel Calero 83'	[]

Estadio Cacique

18 May 2013

3pm

Managua	0-3	Real Esteli
	[]	Rudel Calero 1' and 19', Norfran Lazo 85'

Estadio Nacional UNAN, Managua

Referee: Oscar Davila

18 May 2013

6pm

Walter Ferretti	2-0	Diriangén FC
Ricardo Vega 4', Osman Delgado 20'	[]

Estadio Nacional UNAN, Managua

Referee: William Mendoza

22 May 2013

3pm

Real Esteli	1-1	Walter Ferretti
Norfrraan Lazo	[]	Ricardo Vega

Estadio Independencia, Esteli

22 May 2013

3pm

Diriangén FC	0-1	Managua
	[]	Bryan Garcia

Estadio Cacique

25 May 2013

8pm

Diriangén FC	2-1	Real Esteli
Diego Diaz	[]	Elmer Mejía, Quintero own goal

Estadio Cacique, Cacique

25 May 2013

8pm

Managua	0-4	Walter Ferretti
	[]	Juan Rosales(2), Enrique González, Axel Villanueva

Estadio Nacional UNAN, Managua

Final

First leg

1 June 2013

Real Esteli	3-0	Walter Ferretti
Félix Rodríguez 25', Wilber Sánchez 63', Elmer Mejía 91'		None

Estadio Independencia

Second leg

8 June 2013

Real Esteli	3-0	Walter Ferretti
Wilber Sánchez 5'	Awarded	None

Estadio Olímpico del IND (Managua)

The game was called after sixty six minutes of play after Walter Ferretti fan base caused to much disruption to the games with rioting, flares and objects being thrown on the pitch, Real Esetli won the series 6-0 on aggregate.^[1]

Primera División de Nicaragua 2013 Clausura champion
Real Esteli 14th title

List of foreign players in the league

This is a list of foreign players in Apertura 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 this year, that clubs can have upwards of five foreign players in a squad, However some conditions include: The player has to be younger than 30 years old, spent year abroad away from Nicaragua, and clubs can only have four foreign players on the field at one time [3].

Chinandega

Andres Giraldo
Gustavo Reyes
Juan Davis Restrepo
Víctor Norales
Cristian Rodríguez

Diriangén FC

Johnni Saavedra
Christian Mena
Wilson Flores
Gerson Martínez
Lucas Martella
Luis Rodriguez

Juventus Managua

Victor Carrasco
Jorge Hernandez
Daniel Henao
Ronny Colon

Managua

Jose Flores
Christian Batiz
Luis Fernando González
Fernando Copete
Herberth Cabrera

(player released mid season)

Ocotal

Juan José Tablada
Marcos Rivera
José Javier Mejía
Cesar Salandia
Jonathan Juárez

Real Esteli

Elmer Mejia
Assad Esteves
Paulo Ortiz
Ronald Quintero
Gabriel Mirazo Villar

Xilotepelt

Oscar Palomino Castillo
Jaime Romo
George Tinglin
Gilberth Sequeira

Walter Ferretti

Pedro Augusto Pedrinho
Mayco Santana
Darwig Ramirez
Mitchel Williams
Víctor Lozano

Aggregate table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Real Esteli	28	15	9	4	55	17	+38	54	Qualification for 2013–14 CONCACAF Champions League
2	Diriangén	28	15	5	8	39	26	+13	50
3	Walter Ferretti	28	12	6	10	37	24	+13	42
4	Managua	28	11	8	9	34	27	+7	41
5	Ocotal	28	8	11	9	31	37	−6	35
6	Juventus Managua	28	9	7	12	32	41	−9	34
7	Chinandega	28	6	7	15	29	52	−23	25
8	Xilotepelt	28	5	8	15	26	59	−33	23	Relegation playoffs

Updated to match(es) played on September 2012. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

References

^ "El Nuevo Diario".

External links

[1] "El Nuevo Diario".

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