2010–11 National Premier League

National Premier League
Season	2010–11
Champions	Tivoli Gardens; 5th title
Relegated	St. George's; Benfica
Matches played	228
Goals scored	460 (2.02 per match)
Biggest home win	Arnett Gardens 12-0 Benfica
Biggest away win	Benfica 0-7 Humble Lions
Highest scoring	Arnett Gardens 12-0 Benfica
	← 2009–10 2011–12 →

The 2010–11 National Premier League (also known as the 2010–11 Digicel Premier League) is the highest competitive football league in Jamaica. The regular season began August 29, 2010 and will be completed May 1, 2011. The teams will play each other 3 times each then the final 5 games will be played amongst the top 6 and bottom 6; making it a total of 38 games each. Harbour View were the defending champions, having won their third Jamaican championship last season.

Tropical storm Nicole caused a number of games to be postponed.^[1]

Teams

Rivoli United and August Town finished 11th and 12th at the end of last season and were relegated to lower leagues.

Taking their places in the league this season are Benfica and Reno, which were the best two clubs in last season's second level promotion playoffs.

Arnett Gardens
Boys' Town
Harbour View
Tivoli Gardens
Waterhouse

Benfica

Location of teams in the 2010–11 National Premier League

Team	Location	Stadium	Stadium Capacity	Manager
Arnett Gardens	Kingston	Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex	1,500	Paul "Tegat" Davis
Benfica	Lime Hall, St. Ann	Drax Hall Football Field	2,000	Harold Thomas
Boys' Town	Kingston	Collie Smith Drive Sporting Complex	2,000	Andrew Price
Harbour View	Kingston	Harbour View Mini Stadium	7,000	Donovan Hayles
Humble Lions	Clarendon	Effortville Community Centre	1,000	Lenworth Hyde sr.
Portmore United	Portmore	Ferdi Neita Sports Complex	2,000	Linval Dixon
Reno	Savanna-la-Mar	Frome Sports Club	2,000	Wendell Downswell
Sporting Central Academy	Clarendon	Brancourt Sports Ground, Clarendon Oval	2,000	Donovan Duckie
St. George's	Buff Bay	Lynch Park	2,000	Geoffrey Maxwell
Tivoli Gardens	Kingston	Railway Oval	3,000	Glendon "Admiral" Bailey
Village United	Falmouth	Elleston Wakeland Stadium	3,000	Norman Foster
Waterhouse	Kingston	Waterhouse Stadium	5,000	Baris Johnson

Regular stage

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Tivoli Gardens	33	17	10	6	47	26	+21	61	Championship Playoff
2	Boys' Town	33	15	11	7	31	24	+7	56
3	Harbour View	33	14	9	10	36	26	+10	51
4	Waterhouse	33	13	8	12	37	31	+6	47
5	Portmore United	33	12	11	10	29	25	+4	47
6	Village United	33	11	10	12	36	39	−3	43
7	Reno	33	10	11	12	34	33	+1	41	Relegation Playoff
8	Arnett Gardens	33	9	14	10	25	29	−4	41
9	Sporting Central Academy	33	9	13	11	32	31	+1	40
10	Benfica	33	10	7	16	33	54	−21	37
11	St. George's	33	10	6	17	23	38	−15	36
12	Humble Lions	33	8	10	15	23	30	−7	34

Source: Jamaican FA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Results

Matches 1–22

Home \ Away	ARN	BEN	BOY	HAR	HUM	POR	REN	SCA	STG	TIV	VIL	WAT
Arnett Gardens		1–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	2–1	0–3	0–2	0–0	0–1	1–0	3–1
Benfica	1–1		2–1	0–4	0–1	2–1	3–2	1–2	2–1	1–3	2–2	0–0
Boys' Town	0–2	1–1		2–1	2–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	4–2	1–0	0–1	1–0
Harbour View	0–1	0–1	5–1		1–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	2–0	3–2	0–1	1–1
Humble Lions	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–1		0–1	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–1	3–0	1–2
Portmore United	0–0	3–0	0–0	0–0	2–1		2–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	3–0	0–1
Reno	0–0	4–1	0–0	1–2	2–0	0–1		1–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–1
Sporting Central Academy	3–0	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–1	0–1	0–1		4–1	1–2	4–3	0–2
St. George's	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–2	1–0	1–1	2–0	0–1		0–1	0–1	1–0
Tivoli Gardens	1–1	5–0	0–2	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	3–0		4–0	1–1
Village United	2–2	1–2	1–2	2–0	0–1	1–1	0–1	0–3	0–1	1–1		2–0
Waterhouse	2–0	4–1	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–1	3–1	1–0	2–2

Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Matches 23–33

Home \ Away	ARN	BEN	BOY	HAR	HUM	POR	REN	SCA	STG	TIV	VIL	WAT
Arnett Gardens			1–1		0–0		1–1	2–0	0–1	2–2
Benfica	2–1		1–1			0–1	0–1			2–3	0–0
Boys' Town						1–0	0–0	0–0	2–0	0–1		2–1
Harbour View	1–0	3–1	0–0		2–0							1–0
Humble Lions		0–2	0–1					0–0		0–3^[a]		2–0
Portmore United	0–1			0–0	0–3^[b]						0–2	0–1
Reno				2–1	2–0	1–2			1–2		0–3
Sporting Central Academy		0–3^[c]		2–2		1–1	1–1		1–1			0–0
St. George's		1–1		0–0	0–0	1–0					0–1
Tivoli Gardens				0–0		1–1	1–1	1–0	2–1		0–0
Village United	0–0		0–1	3–0^[d]	2–1			1–1				3–2
Waterhouse	1–1	4–0					2–1		0–1	1–2

Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

^ This match originally ended 1-0, but was awarded 0-3 afterward.
^ This match originally ended 0-0, but was awarded 0-3 afterward.
^ This match originally ended 1-1, but was awarded 0-3 afterward.
^ This match originally ended 0-2, but was awarded 3-0 afterward.

Championship playoff

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	TIV	BOY	HAR	WAT	POR	VIL
1	Tivoli Gardens (C)	38	20	12	6	52	27	+25	72		1–0		1–0
2	Boys' Town	38	19	11	8	39	28	+11	68			2–1			2–1
3	Harbour View	38	17	10	11	43	28	+15	61	0–0				1–0	4–0
4	Waterhouse	38	14	9	15	38	35	+3	51		0–2	0–1		1–0	0–0
5	Portmore United	38	12	12	14	31	34	−3	48	0–0	1–2
6	Village United	38	12	11	15	43	49	−6	47	1–3				5–1

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

Relegation playoff

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation	REN	SCA	ARN	HUM	STG	BEN
7	Reno	38	13	11	14	39	37	+2	50			3–1	1–0			1–0
8	Sporting Central Academy	38	11	14	13	39	36	+3	47				4–0	1–2
9	Arnett Gardens	38	11	14	13	38	36	+2	47							12–0
10	Humble Lions	38	12	10	16	35	32	+3	46		1–0		0–1		2–0
11	St. George's (R)	38	13	7	18	29	41	−12	46	Relegation to 2011-12 Eastern Confederation Super League	2–0	0–0	2–0
12	Benfica (R)	38	10	7	21	34	77	−43	37	Relegation to 2011-12 Eastern Confederation Super League		0–1		0–7	1–2

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

Top goalscorers

Rank	Scorer	Team	Goals
1	Kirk Ramsey	Arnett Gardens	17
2	Craig Foster	Reno	15
3	Navion Boyd	Tivoli Gardens	11
3	Steven Morrissey	Portmore United	11
5	Vincent Earle	Waterhouse	10
6	Francois Swaby	Sporting Central	9
7	Devon Hodges	Tivoli Gardens	8
7	Jermaine Anderson	Waterhouse	8
9	Renae Lloyd	Boys Town F.C.	6
9	O'Brian Woodbine	Reno	6

Updated to games played on 24 February 2011
Source: Soccerway

Promotion from Super Leagues

The winners of the 4 regional Super Leagues play-off in a home and home round robin series.

Results

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	HIG	SEB	CAV	RIV
1	Highgate United	6	3	3	0	8	3	+5	12	2011–12 National Premier League		0–0	2–0	1–1
2	Seba United	6	2	4	0	7	5	+2	10	2011–12 National Premier League	1–1		2–1	1–0
3	Cavalier	6	2	1	3	4	7	−3	7		0–2	1–1		1–0
4	Rivoli United	6	0	2	4	4	8	−4	2		1–2	2–2	0–1

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

References

^ Walker, Howard (3 October 2010). "DPL matches postponed yet again". Jamaica Observer. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
^ Walker, Howard (2 June 2011). "Draw puts Seba back into DPL". Jamaica Observer. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
^ "Seba, Highgate could seal DPL berths". Jamaica Observer. 1 June 2011. Archived from the original on 3 June 2011. Retrieved 9 June 2011.

External links

[table_note_1_HUM_TIV0.7045911600369-2] This match originally ended 1-0, but was awarded 0-3 afterward.

[table_note_1_POR_HUM0.7045911600369-3] This match originally ended 0-0, but was awarded 0-3 afterward.

[table_note_1_SCA_BEN0.7045911600369-4] This match originally ended 1-1, but was awarded 0-3 afterward.

[table_note_1_VIL_HAR0.7045911600369-5] This match originally ended 0-2, but was awarded 3-0 afterward.

[1] Walker, Howard (3 October 2010). "DPL matches postponed yet again". Jamaica Observer. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2010.

[6] Walker, Howard (2 June 2011). "Draw puts Seba back into DPL". Jamaica Observer. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 9 June 2011.

[7] "Seba, Highgate could seal DPL berths". Jamaica Observer. 1 June 2011. Archived from the original on 3 June 2011. Retrieved 9 June 2011.

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