2014–15 Primera División de Nicaragua

Primera División
Season	2014–15
Champions	Apertura:; Walter Ferretti; Clausura:; Real Esteli
Relegated	Fox Villa
Champions League	Walter Ferretti
Top goalscorer	Apertura:; TBD - 11 goals ; Clausura: ; TBD - 13 goals
Biggest home win	Apertura: TBD 5-0 TBD ; Clausura: TBD 5-0 TBD
Biggest away win	Apertura: TBD 5-0 TBD ; Clausura: TBD 5-0 TBD
Highest scoring	Apertura: TBD 5-0 TBD ; Clausura: TBD 5-0 TBD
	← 2013–14 2015–16 →

The 2014–15 season in Primera División de Nicaragua will be divided into two tournaments (Apertura and Clausura) and will determine the 65th and 66th champions in the history of the league. It will also provide the sole berth for the 2015–16 CONCACAF Champions League. The Apertura tournament will be played in the second half of 2014, while the Clausura will be played in the first half of 2015.^[1]

Teams

A total of 10 teams will contest the league, including 8 sides from the 2013–14 season and one sides directly promoted from the 2013–14 Segunda division. The final participant will be determined in a two-legged play-off, in which the 9th placed Primera division side FC San Marcos will play the team who finished second in Segunda division which was Fox Villa. Fox Villa won 2-0 over FC San Marcos gaining promotion.

ART Jalapa
Diriangén FC
UCEM Juventus FC
Managua F.C.
Deportivo Ocotal
Real Madriz
Real Esteli F.C.
Fox Villa (Winner of the relegation/promotion playoff)
UNAN Managua (Winner of the Segunda Division)
Walter Ferretti

Promotion and relegation

At the end of the 2013–14, UNAN Managua and Fox Villa were promoted to Primera Division
At the end of the 2013–14, Chinandega FC and FC San Marcos were relegated to Segunda Division.

Changes

Juventus Managua changed their name and will now be known as UCEM Juventus FC []

Stadiums and locations

Team information

Last updated: 2014

Personnel and sponsoring (2014 Apertura)

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
ART Jalapa	Leonidas Rodríguez	TBD	TBD	TBD
Diriangén	Florencio Leiva	TBD	TBD	TBD
Fox Villa	Mario Aburto		TBD	CARUNA R.L., Alcaldía de Jinotepe and GRH Logistics
UCEM Juventus F.C.	Douglas Urbina	José Alfredo Ramírez	TBD	TBD
Managua F.C.	Emilio Aburto	TBD	TBD	TBD
Deportivo Ocotal	Randall Moreno	Marcos Rivera	TBD	TBD
Real Madriz	Armando Ricardo Hernandez	Enoc Salgado	TBD	TBD
Real Esteli F.C.	Ramón Otoniel Olivas	Elmer Mejia	TBD	TBD
UNAN Managua	Edward Urroz	Herberth Cabrera	TBD	UNAN Managua
Walter Ferretti	Flavio da Silva	Denis Espinoza	TBD	TBD

Managerial changes

Before the season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Deportivo Walter Ferretti	Florencio Levia	Resigned	2014	Flavio Da Silva	2014
Real Madriz	Luis Montana	Contract finished (moved to assistant coach of UNAN Managua	2014	Armando Ricardo Hernandez	2014
Diriangen FC	Flavio Da Silva	Contract finished	2014	Florencio Levia	2014

During the season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Diriangen FC	Florencio Levia	Sacked	3 August 2014	Roberto Chanampe	2014
Deportivo Ocotal	Randall Moreno	Sacked	August 2014	Eduardo Alonso	August 2014
Real Madriz	Armando Ricardo Hernandez	Sacked	October 2014	Mario Cruz	October 15, 2014
UNAN Managua	Edward Urroz	Sacked	October 14, 2014	Luis Montaño	October 15, 2014

Apertura

The 2014 Apertura was the first tournament of the season. It began on 2014.^[2]

Regular season

The regular season began on 2014. 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	Walter Ferretti	18	11	6	1	29	3	+26	39	Semi-finals Group
2	Real Esteli	18	10	6	2	27	9	+18	36
3	Diriangén FC	18	10	3	5	17	11	+6	33
4	Juventus Managua	18	9	4	5	24	18	+6	31
5	Managua	18	7	5	6	24	17	+7	26
6	Ocotal	18	7	4	7	22	21	+1	25
7	ART Jalapa	18	6	5	7	18	24	−6	23
8	Real Madriz	18	5	5	8	25	27	−2	20
9	UNAN Managua	18	5	2	11	24	34	−10	17
10	Fox Villa	18	0	0	18	10	56	−46	0

Updated to match(es) played on December 2014. Source: [1]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Results

Home \ Away	JAL	DIR	FVI	JUV	MAN	OCO	RES	RMD	UNA	WFE
ART Jalapa		2–0	2–1	1–2	0–0	0–0	0–0	3–1	3–2	0–0
Diriangén FC	1–0		3–1	1–0	0–2	1–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	0–0
Fox Villa	0–2	1–4		0–1	0–2	0–2	1–2	1–4	2–6	0–1
Juventus Managua	1–0	0–1	5–2		0–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	3–2	0–3
Managua	1–2	0–1	5–0	1–3		4–0	0–0	3–2	0–1	0–0
Ocotal	2–1	1–0	5–1	2–2	1–0		0–1	0–2	3–0	1–1
Real Esteli	4–1	0–0	3–0	1–1	4–1	3–1		1–0	3–1	2–0
Real Madriz	0–0	3–1	4–0	1–3	2–2	1–1	0–2		1–2	0–0
UNAN Managua	3–1	0–1	1–0	0–0	1–2	2–3	1–1	2–3		0–5
Walter Ferretti	6–0	1–0	4–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	3–0	2–0

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. 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	15	16	17	18
Team ╲ Round
Real Esteli	4	1	2	2	3	1	2	6	5	4	4	3	3	2	2	2	2	2
Managua	5	3	3	3	4	5	5	4	3	3	3	4	4	5	5	5	5	5
Walter Ferretti	2	2	1	1	1	2	3	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
UNAN Managua	6	8	7	7	6	8	8	9	9	9	8	8	8	8	9	9	9	9
Diriangén FC	8	9	9	8	7	6	7	7	7	7	7	6	5	4	3	4	3	3
Juventus Managua	1	4	5	6	8	7	4	3	2	2	1	2	2	3	4	3	4	4
Fox Villa	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
Ocotal	7	7	6	4	2	3	1	2	6	6	6	7	7	6	7	6	6	6
Real Madriz	10	6	8	9	9	8	9	8	8	8	9	9	9	9	8	8	8	8
ART Jalapa	3	5	4	5	5	4	6	5	4	5	5	5	6	7	6	7	7	7

Source: int.soccerway.com

Playoffs

Semi-finals

First leg

29 November 2014

Juventus Managua	0-2	Walter Ferretti
		Gerardo Arce 19' Dani Cadena 33'

Estadio Olimpico del IND, Managua

Referee: Oscar Davila

30 November 2014

Diriangén FC	2–2	Real Estelí
Jose Carballo 35' Luis Peralta 54'		Carlos Chavarria 34' Eduardo Praes 87'

Estadio Cacique Diriangen, Diriamba

Referee: William Mendoza

Second leg

Walter Ferretti	0-0	Juventus Managua
None		None

Walter Ferretti won 2-0 on aggregate.

Real Esteli	1-0	Diriangen
Samuel Wilson 1'		None

Real Esteli won 3-2 on aggregate.

Finals

First leg

13 December 2014

20:00 (UTC-6)

Real Estelí	0–1	Walter Ferretti
None		Jason Casco 36'

Estadio Independencia, Esteli

Second leg

21 December 2014

TBD

Walter Ferretti	0–0	Real Estelí
None		None

Estadio Nacional, Managua

Walter Ferretti won 1–0 on aggregate score.

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Marlon Barrios	Real Madriz	16
2	Dani Cadena	Deportivo Walter Ferretti	11
3	Eulises Pavón	Diriangén FC	8
4	Emiro Gómez	Deportivo Ocotal	8
5	Darwin Ramirez	Juventus Managua	7
6	Luis Galeano Romario	ART Municipal Jalapa	7
7	Raul Leguias	Deportivo Walter Ferretti	7
8	Jonathan Donado	UNAN Managua	7
9	Carlos Chavarria	Real Esteli F.C.	6
10	Emilio Palacios	UNAN Managua	6

Updated to games played on 30 December 2014

Scoring

First goal of the season: Katzumichi Ikeda for Juventus Managua against Fox Villa, 12 minutes (25 July 2014)
Fastest goal in a match: TBD minute - TBD for TBD against TBD ( 2014)
Goal scored at the latest point in a match: 88 minutes - Rene Ruiz for Fox Villa against Juventus Managua (25 July 2014) & Emiro Gomez for Deportivo Ocotal against Real Esteli F.C. (26 July 2014)
First penalty goal of the season: Mitchell Willams for UNAN Managua against Managua F.C., 28 minutes (27 July 2014)
Widest winning margin: 3 goals
- Juventus Managua 5–2 Fox Villa (25 July 2014) & Deportivo Walter Ferretti 3–0 Real Madriz (26 July 2014)
First hat-trick of the season: TBD for TBD against TBD (2014)
First own goal of the season: TBD (TBD) for TBD (2014)
Most goals in a match: 7 Goals Juventus Managua 5–2 Fox Villa (25 July 2014)
Most goals by one team in a match: 5 Goals
- Juventus Managua 5–2 Fox Villa (25 July 2014)
Most goals in one half by one team: 3 Goals Juventus Managua 5–2 Fox Villa (25 July 2014)
Most goals scored by losing team: 2 Goals
- Fox Villa 2–5 Juventus Managua (25 July 2014)
Most goals by one player in a single match: 2 Goals
- Rene Ruiz for Fox Villa against Juventus Managua (25 July 2014) & Samuel Wilson for Real Esteli F.C. against Deportivo Ocotal (26 July 2014)

Top scorers

List of foreign players in the league

This is a list of foreign players in Apertura 2014. 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 only have five foreign players in a squad.

ART Jalapa

Luis Maradiaga
Erling Ruiz
Arlis Lizandro Andino
Juan José Tablada

UNAN Managua

Herberth Cabrera
Michael William
Giacomo Ratto
George Tinglin
Jhonatan Donado Cardale
Carlos William Rovira Terán

Diriangén FC

Jose Luis Rodriguez
Saul Tyler Varela Fragoso
Moisés Raúl Leguías
Armando Cruz
Camilo Quiñónez
Jesús Guerrero

Juventus Managua

Anderson Palacio
Jonathan Angelo Castillo
Allan Maralles
Kazumichi Ikeda

Managua

Luis Fernándo Gonzáles
Oscar Palomino
Jeffry Araica
Darwing Güity
Keysi Guerrero

(player released mid season)

Ocotal

Marcos Alfredo Rivera
Cristhian Dario Batis
Nerlin Vallejos
Evanisto de Jesus Gonzales
Emiro Manuel Gomez
Yitson Rafael Lameda

Real Esteli

Rodrigo Valiente
Andres Camilo Ramìrez
Allan Kardeck
Jefferson Geraldo De Almeida
Daniel Da Silva
Eduardo Praes

Real Madriz

Ramón Eloy Iriarte
Marlon Barrios
Ornaldo José Torre
Jose Luis Cassiani
Jafeth Kaleth Valencia
Luis Valladares

Fox Villa

Marvin Lamber

Walter Ferretti

Luis Fernando Copete
Dani Cadena
Bernardo Laureiro
Deiver Cañate
Erick Alcazar

Clausura

The 2015 Clausura was the first tournament of the season. It began on 2015.^[3]

Team information

Last updated: 2014

Personnel and sponsoring (2014 Apertura)

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
ART Jalapa	Tyson Acevedo	Luis M. Galeano	TBD	Claro, Argoris
Diriangén	Roberto Chanampe	David Solorzano	Joma	Claro, Totto
Fox Villa	Mario Aburto	Alex Piache	TBD	CARUNA R.L., Alcaldía de Jinotepe and GRH Logistics
UCEM Juventus F.C.	Douglas Urbina	Emerson Salinas	TBD	TBD
Managua F.C.	Emilio Aburto	TBD	TBD	TBD
Deportivo Ocotal	Eduardo Alonso	Mario Morales	TBD	TBD
Real Madriz	Mario Cruz	Enoc Salgado	TBD	TBD
Real Esteli F.C.	Ramón Otoniel Olivas	Elmer Mejia	TBD	TBD
UNAN Managua	Luis Montaño	Roberto C Vanegas	TBD	UNAN Managua
Walter Ferretti	Flavio da Silva	Denis Espinoza	TBD	TBD

Managerial Changes

Before the season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
ART Jalapa	Leonididas Rodriguez	Resigned	2015	Tyson Acevedo	2015

During the season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Managua F.C.	Emilio Aburto	Resigned	29 January 2015	Carlos Zambrana	29 January 2015
Real Madriz	Mario Cruz	Resigned	22 February 2015	Leonidas Rodriguez	February 2015
Deportivo Ocotal	Vidal Alonso	Resigned	24 February 2015	Juan Ramon Trejo	25 February 2015
UNAN Managua	Luis Montaño	Resigned	March 2015	Julio Madrigal	March 2015

Regular season

The regular season began on 2015. 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	18	13	3	2	54	9	+45	42	Semi-finals Group
2	Walter Ferretti	18	12	4	2	34	10	+24	40
3	Diriangén FC	18	9	4	5	28	16	+12	31
4	ART Jalapa	18	6	9	3	28	25	+3	27
5	Managua	18	6	6	6	26	23	+3	24
6	Ocotal	18	6	4	8	27	35	−8	22
7	Juventus Managua	18	5	5	8	26	43	−17	20
8	Real Madriz	18	3	7	8	26	32	−6	16
9	UNAN Managua	18	3	6	9	14	29	−15	15
10	Fox Villa	18	1	4	13	13	54	−41	7

Updated to match(es) played on May 2015. Source: [2]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Results

Home \ Away	JAL	DIR	FVI	JUV	MAN	OCO	RES	RMD	UNA	WFE
ART Jalapa		1–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	3–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	4–3
Diriangén FC	0–1		2–1	4–0	2–0	5–3	0–0	3–0	1–0	1–0
Fox Villa	2–1	1–3		1–3	1–3	0–1	0–7	0–2	1–1	0–4
Juventus Managua	2–2	3–2	1–1		1–1	5–1	1–6	3–4	2–1	1–1
Managua	2–2	0–2	4–0	4–0		1–2	0–1	3–2	1–1	0–2
Ocotal	1–1	1–1	4–2	4–1	1–1		0–2	2–0	3–1	1–2
Real Esteli	5–1	2–0	9–0	2–1	0–0	3–0		3–0	6–0	1–2
Real Madriz	3–3	1–1	2–2	5–0	2–3	2–2	1–3		0–0	0–1
UNAN Managua	2–0	1–1	1–1	2–2	0–2	4–1	0–2	2–1		0–0
Walter Ferretti	1–1	1–0	4–0	3–0	3–0	1–0	2–1	0–0	4–0

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Positions by round

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Team ╲ Round
Real Esteli	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	1	1	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1
Managua	3	6	3	4	4	3	5	5	5	6	5	5	4	4	4	4	5
Walter Ferretti	4	2	2	2	1	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2
UNAN Managua	10	4	5	6	6	7	7	6	7	7	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
Diriangén FC	8	5	6	5	5	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Juventus Managua	6	8	7	8	7	6	6	7	9	9	8	7	7	7	7	7	7
Fox Villa	5	7	9	9	9	8	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
Ocotal	7	10	10	10	10	10	9	9	6	5	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
Real Madriz	9	9	8	7	8	9	8	8	8	8	7	8	8	8	8	8	8
ART Jalapa	2	3	4	3	3	5	3	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	4

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Playoffs

Semi-finals

First leg

24 May 2015

ART Municipal Jalapa	1-0	Real Estelí
Luis Galeano 81'		None

Estadio Alejandro Ramos de Nueva Segovia, Jalapa

24 May 2015

Diriangén FC	2-0	Walter Ferretti
Juan Carlos Narváez 58' José Luis “Puma” Rodríguez 70'		None

Estadio Cacique Diriangen, Diriamba

Second leg

30 May 2015

Walter Ferretti	0-0	Diriangen
None		None

Diriangen won 2-0 on aggregate.

31 May 2015

Real Esteli	0-0	ART Municipal Jalapa
Rudel Calero 24' & TBD 82' Juan Barrera 73'		Luis Galeano 46'

Estadio Independencia, Esteli

Real Esteli won 3-2 on aggregate.

Finals

First leg

27 June 2015

20:00 (UTC-6)

Real Esteli	2-1	Diriangén FC
Manuel Rosas 13' & Samuel Wilson 43'		Luis Peralta 80'

Estadio Independencia, Esteli

Second leg

July 2015

TBD

Diriangén FC	0–0	Real Esteli
None		None

Real Esteli F.C. won 2–1 on aggregate score.

List of foreign players in the league

This is a list of foreign players in Clausura 2015. 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 only have five foreign players in a squad.

ART Jalapa

Luis Maradiaga
Erling Ruiz
Arlis Lizandro Andino
Juan José Tablada
Mario Borja

UNAN Managua

Herberth Cabrera
Michael William
George Tinglin
Freider Mattos Pombo
Rodrigo Hernández Martínez
Luis Murillo

Diriangén FC

Lucas Martella
Jose Luis Rodriguez
Jesús Guerrero
Edwin Mejia
Brandon Mena
Camilo Quiñonez

Juventus Managua

Anderson Palacio
Roland Quintero
Ronny Colón
Cesar Salandía
Rudy Williams

Managua

Luis Fernándo Gonzáles
Oscar Palomino
Jeffry Araica
Darwing Güity
Keysi Guerrero

(player released mid season)

Ocotal

Marcos Alfredo Rivera
Alexander Trimiñio Motta
Miguel Montalvo
Evanisto de Jesus Gonzales
Emiro Manuel Gomez
Yitson Rafael Lameda

Real Esteli

Devis Gutiérrez
Vinicius De Sousa
Jesus Valencia
Óscar Movil
Gabriel Martínez
Miguel Ángel Lavié

Real Madriz

Miguel Estrada
Marlon Barrios
Luis Valladares
Adin Barahona
José Antonio Julio Carballo
Grevin Antonio Cerrato

Fox Villa

Alex Piache
Hugo Zambrano
Alberto García
Jamie Romo
Roel Salinas

Walter Ferretti

Bernardo Laureiro
Erick Alcazar
Eder Munive
Maycon Santana
Carlos Conceição Junior
Gonzalo Ancheta

Championship playoff

First leg

11 July 2015

Real Estelí	0-1	Walter Ferretti
None		Bernardo Laureiro 55'

Estadio Independencia, Estelí

Second leg

20 July 2015

Walter Ferretti	1-1	Real Estelí
Daniel Cadena 2'		Samuel Wilson 48' (pen.)

Nicaragua National Football Stadium, Managua

Walter Ferretti won 2–1 on aggregate score.

Primera Division 2015 Champion^[4]
Walter Ferretti 3rd title

Aggregate table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Walter Ferretti	36	23	10	3	63	13	+50	79	Qualification for 2015–16 CONCACAF Champions League
2	Real Esteli	36	23	9	4	82	17	+65	78
3	Diriangén	36	19	7	10	45	27	+18	64
4	Jalapa	36	13	14	9	46	47	−1	53
5	Managua F.C.	36	13	11	12	49	38	+11	50
6	Juventus Managua	36	13	10	13	50	73	−23	49
7	Ocotal	36	13	8	15	49	56	−7	47
8	Real Madriz	36	9	12	15	51	59	−8	39
9	UNAN Managua	36	8	9	19	40	65	−25	33	Relegation play-off
10	Fox Villa (R)	36	1	4	31	23	109	−86	7	Relegation to 2015–16 Segunda División de Fútbol de Nicaragua

Updated to match(es) played on May 2015. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(R) Relegated

References

^ Nakor'd García. "Nicaragua 2014/2015". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. RSSSF. Retrieved 2015-07-20.
^ Nakor'd García. "Apertura 2014". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. RSSSF. Retrieved 2015-07-20.
^ Nakor'd García. "Clausura 2015". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. RSSSF. Retrieved 2015-07-20.
^ Nakor'd García. "Championship Playoff 2015". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. RSSSF. Retrieved 2015-07-20.

External links

https://int.soccerway.com/national/nicaragua/1a-division/2013-2014/apertura/

[nic2015-1] Nakor'd García. "Nicaragua 2014/2015". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. RSSSF. Retrieved 2015-07-20.

[nicaper2014-2] Nakor'd García. "Apertura 2014". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. RSSSF. Retrieved 2015-07-20.

[nicclau2015-3] Nakor'd García. "Clausura 2015". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. RSSSF. Retrieved 2015-07-20.

[nichamp-4] Nakor'd García. "Championship Playoff 2015". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. RSSSF. Retrieved 2015-07-20.

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