2009 Liga Panameña de Fútbol season

The 2009 Liga Panameña de Fútbol season was the 22nd season of top-flight football in Panama.

Liga Panameña de Fútbol

Season	2009
Champions	Apertura I: San Francisco (6th title) Apertura II: Árabe Unido (5th title)
2009–10 CONCACAF Champions League	San Francisco
2010–11 CONCACAF Champions League	Árabe Unido
Top goalscorer	Apertura I: Edwin Aguilar (18 goals) Apertura II: Armando Polo (12 goals)
Biggest home win	Sporting San Miguelito 7–0 Alianza
Biggest away win	Alianza 1–4 Atlético Veragüense
Highest scoring	Atlético Veragüense 3–5 Tauro San Francisco 3–5 Tauro Sporting San Miguelito 4–4 Tauro Atlético Chiriquí 4–4 Tauro
← 2008 2010–11 →

Teams

Árabe Unido

Atlético Chiriquí

Atlético Veragüense

San Francisco

Panama City teams:
Alianza
Chepo
Chorrillo
Plaza Amador
Sporting San Miguelito
Tauro

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Locations of the 2009 LPF teams

Club	City	Stadium
Alianza	Panama City	Estadio Camping Resort
Árabe Unido	Colón	Estadio Armando Dely Valdés
Atlético Chiriquí	David	Estadio San Cristobal
Atlético Veragüense	Santiago	Estadio Aristocles Castillo
Chepo	Chepo	Cancha Sintetica Rommel Fernández (in Panama City)
Chorrillo	Panama City	Estadio Javier Cruz
Plaza Amador	Panama City	Estadio Javier Cruz
San Francisco	La Chorrera	Estadio Agustín Sánchez
Sporting San Miguelito	San Miguelito	Estadio Bernardo Gil
Tauro	Panama City	Cancha Sintetica Rommel Fernández (in Panama City)

Apertura I

First round

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Tauro	18	10	6	2	40	23	+17	36	Qualified to the final round
2	Atlético Chiriquí	18	10	3	5	35	19	+16	33
3	San Francisco	18	10	3	5	29	16	+13	33
4	Chorrillo	18	8	8	2	32	17	+15	32
5	Chepo	18	10	2	6	37	24	+13	32
6	Sporting San Miguelito	18	8	4	6	28	19	+9	28
7	Árabe Unido	18	7	4	7	29	24	+5	25
8	Atlético Veragüense	18	3	4	11	20	44	−24	13
9	Alianza	18	2	5	11	22	43	−21	11
10	Plaza Amador	18	2	1	15	13	56	−43	7

Source:

Results table

Home \ Away	ALI	ÁRA	ACH	AVE	CHE	CHO	PLA	SAN	SPO	TAU
Alianza	—	1–3	4–4	1–1	0–4	0–0	1–0	0–3	0–3	2–3
Árabe Unido	2–0	—	2–0	6–0	1–3	1–3	4–0	0–1	1–0	2–3
Atl. Chiríqui	2–3	2–0	—	3–0	1–0	0–0	4–0	3–0	3–0	1–2
Atl. Veragüense	4–3	3–0	1–2	—	2–4	0–4	1–0	0–1	1–1	0–1
Chepo	2–0	1–1	0–1	4–1	—	1–1	4–1	2–0	0–1	4–1
Chorrillo	3–3	1–1	2–1	2–2	2–0	—	5–1	1–2	1–0	1–1
Plaza Amador	2–1	2–0	1–4	1–1	2–3	1–4	—	0–5	0–1	1–2
San Francisco	3–0	1–1	2–1	2–1	1–2	0–1	4–0	—	1–1	1–0
Sporting	2–2	1–2	1–2	5–1	2–1	2–0	5–0	2–1	—	1–1
Tauro	2–1	2–2	1–1	4–1	6–2	1–1	7–1	1–1	2–0	—

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

Final round

	Semifinals (agg)					Final
	Chorrillo		6
	Tauro		1
						Chorrillo		0
						San Francisco		0
	San Francisco		3
	Atlético Chiriquí		2

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

June 6, 2009

Chorrillo	3–1	Tauro
Angel Lombardo 31' Johnny Ruiz 38' Bernardo Palma 85'		Edwin Aguilar 45'

Estadio Javier Cruz

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June 10, 2009

Tauro	0–3	Chorrillo
		Johnny Ruiz 60' Rennan Addles 76' Johnny Ruiz 82'

Cancha Sintetica Rommel Fernández

Semifinal 2

June 6, 2009

San Francisco	0–1	Atlético Chiriquí
		Auriel Gallardo 3'

Estadio Agustín Sánchez

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June 10, 2009

Atlético Chiriquí	1–3	San Francisco
Clive Trottman 76'		Ricardo Phillips 12' Brunet Hay 47' Boris Alfaro 55'

Estadio San Cristobal

Final

June 13, 2009

Chorrillo	0–0	San Francisco
Penalties
Engie Mitre Caio Milan Johnny Ruiz Diego Mosquera Marcos Villareal Derek James Julio Medina III Cesar Blackman	4–5	Victor Herrera Brunet Hay Wess Torres Alberto Manotas Manuel Torres William Negrete Amir White Ricardo Phillips

Estadio Agustín Sánchez

Apertura 2009 champion
San Francisco 6th title

San Francisco qualified for 2009–10 CONCACAF Champions League.

Top goalscorers

Pos	Player	Scored for	Goals
1	Edwin Aguilar	Tauro	18
2	Johnny Ruiz	Chorrillo	17
3	Luis Jaramillo	Chepo	11
4	Auriel Gallardo	Atlético Chiriquí	10
5	Rennan Addles	Chorrillo	9
	Boris Alfaro	San Francisco	9
	Oscar Vargas	Atlético Chiriquí	9
8	Orlando Rodríguez	Árabe Unido	8
9	Luis Escobar	Tauro	6
	Armando Polo	Sporting San Miguelito	6
	Anthony Valdes	Chiriquí	6

Apertura II

The Apertura II (officially the 2009 Copa Digicel Apertura for sponsorship reasons) was the second tournament of the season. It started August 8 and ended on December 13. Árabe Unido were crowned champions of the Liga Panameña de Fútbol for the fifth time after beating Tauro 3-2 in the final. With this win Árabe Unido earned a spot in the 2010–11 CONCACAF Champions League.

First round

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Árabe Unido	18	11	5	2	28	12	+16	38	Qualified to the final round
2	Atlético Chiriquí	18	11	2	5	36	26	+10	35
3	Tauro	18	9	5	4	38	22	+16	32
4	Chorrillo	18	7	6	5	21	21	0	27
5	San Francisco	18	7	5	6	25	23	+2	26
6	Sporting San Miguelito	18	7	4	7	37	30	+7	25
7	Plaza Amador	18	7	3	8	26	30	−4	24
8	Chepo	18	3	8	7	16	25	−9	17
9	Atlético Veragüense	18	3	4	11	22	36	−14	13
10	Alianza	18	1	6	11	12	36	−24	9

Source:

Results

Home \ Away	ALI	ÁRA	ACH	AVE	CHE	CHO	PLA	SAN	SPO	TAU
Alianza	—	0–0	1–2	1–4	0–0	1–1	2–1	2–2	0–2	0–2
Árabe Unido	3–0	—	2–1	4–2	1–0	2–1	3–1	1–1	2–0	2–0
Atl. Chiríqui	3–1	2–1	—	4–0	3–0	1–0	4–2	2–0	3–0	0–2
Atl. Veragüense	0–0	0–0	1–2	—	1–1	0–1	3–0	0–1	1–0	3–5
Chepo	3–2	0–1	2–2	2–0	—	1–1	1–3	0–0	3–3	1–0
Chorrillo	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–2	2–1	—	2–3	3–2	3–2	2–1
Plaza Amador	1–1	0–2	2–1	4–2	2–0	0–0	—	2–1	3–4	0–0
San Francisco	2–0	0–1	4–0	3–2	0–0	1–0	1–0	—	1–0	3–5
Sporting	7–0	2–2	2–3	2–1	1–1	3–0	1–2	3–1	—	4–4
Tauro	2–1	1–1	5–2	4–0	3–0	0–0	2–0	2–2	0–1	—

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

Final round

	Semifinals (agg)					Final
	Árabe Unido		4
	Chorrillo		3
						Árabe Unido		3
						Tauro		2
	Atlético Chiriquí		4
	Tauro		7

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

November 28, 2009

Chorrillo	3–0	Árabe Unido
Johnny Ruiz 15' 47' Alcibiades Rojas 77'

Estadio Javier Cruz

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December 6, 2009

Árabe Unido	4–0	Chorrillo
Orlando Rodríguez 24' Victor Rene Mendieta Jr. 28' Alejandro Veléz 43' Camilo Aguirre 113' Camilo Aguirre  113'

Cancha Sintetica Rommel Fernández

Semifinal 2

November 28, 2009

Tauro	3–0	Atlético Chiriquí
Escobar 25', 39', 72'

Cancha Sintetica Rommel Fernández

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December 5, 2009

Atlético Chiriquí	4–4	Tauro
Auriel Gallardo 10' Davis Granados 56' Gabriel Ávila 62' Javier Mercado 65'		Ricardo Amor 9' Luis Tejada 41' 59' Temistocles Perez 90'

Estadio San Cristobal

Final

December 13, 2009

16:00 (UTC-5)

Árabe Unido	3–2	Tauro
Mendieta, Jr. 14' Carroll 77' Rodríguez 89'		Pérez 28', 54'

Estadio Agustín Sánchez, La Chorrera

Apertura II 2009 champion
Árabe Unido 5th title

Árabe Unido qualified for 2010–11 CONCACAF Champions League.

Top goalscorers

Position	Player	Scored for	Goals
1	Armando Polo	Sporting San Miguelito	12
2	Orlando Rodríguez Luis Tejada Johan de Avila	Árabe Unido Tauro Atlético Veragüense	10
5	Edwin Aguilar	Tauro	9
6	Luis Morales	Sporting San Miguelito	8
7	Anthony Basile Johnny Ruiz Temistocles Perez Luis Escobar	Plaza Amador Chorrillo Tauro Tauro	7

Relegation table

For the second year in a row, Alianza had the fewest points at the end of the season and had to face Liga Nacional de Ascenso champion Río Abajo. Just as last year, Alianza defeated Río Abajo and stayed in the LPF.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Tauro	36	19	11	6	78	45	+33	68
2	Atlético Chiriquí	36	21	5	10	71	45	+26	68
3	Árabe Unido	36	18	9	9	57	36	+21	63
4	San Francisco	36	17	8	11	54	39	+15	59
5	Chorrillo	36	15	14	7	53	38	+15	59
6	Sporting San Miguelito	36	15	8	13	65	48	+17	53
7	Chepo	36	13	10	13	53	49	+4	49
8	Plaza Amador	36	9	4	23	39	86	−47	31
9	Atlético Veragüense	36	6	8	22	42	80	−38	26
10	Alianza	36	3	11	22	34	79	−45	20	Relegation playoff

Source:

Promotion playoff

December 16, 2009

Alianza	1–1	Río Abajo
López 4'		Viveros 21'

Cancha Sintetica Rommel Fernández, Panama City

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December 19, 2009

Río Abajo	0–1	Alianza
		Aguilar 87'

Cancha Sintetica Rommel Fernández, Panama City