2009 Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano season

Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano
Season	2009
Champions	Apertura: Bolívar (16th title); Clausura: Blooming (5th title)
Relegated	Nacional Potosí
Copa Libertadores	Bolívar; Blooming; Real Potosí
Copa Sudamericana	Oriente Petrolero; San José; TBD
Top goalscorer	Apertura: William Ferreira (16 goals); Clausura: Cristian Díaz, William Ferreira, Pastor Tórrez (9 goals each)
Biggest home win	San José 5–0 La Paz; (June 25)
Biggest away win	Nacional Potosí 0–5 Oriente Petrolero; (June 14)
Highest scoring	Real Mamoré 5–4 Nacional Potosí; (June 28)
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The 2009 Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano season was the 33rd of Bolivia's top-flight professional football league. The season was split into two championships—the Apertura and the Clausura—and the Play-off

Format

The 2009 season will be divided into two championships, each with their own format.

Apertura

The Apertura championship will be a double round-robin league format. The team with the most points after the twenty-two rounds will be declared the champion.

Clausura^[1]

The Clausura championship will be divided into two phases. The first phase will have the twelve team divided into two groups. The teams will play within each group, in addition to a cross-group rivalry (for example: Bolívar vs. The Strongest). The best three teams in each group will advance to the second phase. In the second phase, the best teams from each group will play the third best team from each group and the second best teams will play each other. The three winners of each match, plus the best loser, then play each other in the semifinals and will start of a two-legged single-elimination play-off that culminates in a final match-up. The winner of the final is the tournament champion.

The winners of each championship will earn a berth in the 2010 Copa Libertadores and the runners-up will earn a berth in the 2010 Copa Sudamericana.

Teams

The amount of team remains the same for this season. Guabirá was relegated at the end of the 2008 season to the regional leagues. They were replaced by Nacional Potosí.

Universitario de Sucre

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Locations of the 2009 LFPB teams

Team	Home city	Home stadium
Aurora	Cochabamba	Estadio Félix Capriles
Blooming	Santa Cruz	Estadio Tahuichi Aguilera
Bolívar	La Paz	Estadio Libertador Simón Bolívar
Jorge Wilstermann	Cochabamba	Estadio Félix Capriles
La Paz	La Paz	Estadio Hernando Siles
Nacional Potosí	Potosí	Estadio Victor Agustín Ugarte
Oriente Petrolero	Santa Cruz	Estadio Tahuichi Aguilera
Real Mamoré	Trinidad	Estadio Gran Mamoré
Real Potosí	Potosí	Estadio Victor Agustín Ugarte
San José	Oruro	Estadio Jesús Bermúdez
The Strongest	La Paz	Estadio Rafael Mendoza
Universitario de Sucre	Sucre	Estadio Olímpico Patria

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Oriente Petrolero	Pablo Sánchez	Resigned	2 October 2009^[2]	Marco Etcheverry	7 October 2009	4th (Apertura), 3rd (Clausura)
Bolivar	Gustavo Quinteros	Resigned	10 November 2009^[3]	Santiago Escobar	12 November 2009	1st (Apertura), 2nd (Clausura) Eliminated in the Final.

Torneo Apertura

The Torneo Apertura was the first championship of the season. It began on February 7 and ended on July 6.

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Bolívar	22	11	7	4	36	22	+14	40	2010 Copa Libertadores Second Stage
2	Real Potosí	22	11	6	5	45	31	+14	39
3	San José	22	11	2	9	53	35	+18	35	2010 Copa Sudamericana Second Stage
4	Oriente Petrolero	22	10	5	7	33	30	+3	35
5	Universitario de Sucre	22	11	3	8	38	27	+11	33^[a]
6	The Strongest	22	9	5	8	36	35	+1	32
7	La Paz	22	9	5	8	38	39	−1	32
8	Nacional Potosí	22	7	7	8	36	40	−4	28
9	Blooming	22	7	6	9	24	32	−8	27
10	Aurora	22	7	5	10	26	33	−7	26
11	Jorge Wilstermann	22	3	8	11	22	38	−16	17
12	Real Mamoré	22	4	5	13	25	50	−25	17

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

^ Universitario was docked three points for not fielding enough Bolivian nationals in Round 19.

Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano 2009 Apertura champion
Bolívar 16th title

Results

Home \ Away	BLO	OPE	RMA	RPO
Aurora
Blooming		–
Bolívar
Jorge Wilstermann
La Paz
Nacional Potosí
Oriente Petrolero	2–0		1–0	2–3
Real Mamoré
Real Potosí
San José
The Strongest
Universitario de Sucre

Updated to match(es) played on July 5, 2009. Source: RSSSF
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top-five goalscorers

Pos	Name	Club	Goals
1	William Ferreira	Bolívar	16
2	Abdón Reyes	Bolívar	11
2	Hernán Boyero	Blooming	11
3	Luis Gatty Ribeiro	Real Potosí	10
	Álex da Rosa	San José	10
	Sacha Lima	Universitario de Sucre	10

Torneo Clausura

The Torneo Clausura is the second championship of the season. It began on July 18 and is scheduled to end in December.

First phase

Key to colors in group tables
	Advances to Second Phase

Serie A

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Bolívar (A)	12	7	4	1	25	13	+12	25
2	Universitario de Sucre (A)	12	5	3	4	11	13	−2	18
3	Blooming (A)	12	5	3	4	16	19	−3	18
4	San José	12	3	6	3	24	17	+7	15
5	Jorge Wilstermann	12	4	3	5	14	15	−1	15
6	Nacional Potosí	12	2	2	8	10	21	−11	8

Updated to match(es) played on September 17, 2009. Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(A) Advance to a further round

Results

Home \ Away	BLO	BOL	WIL	NAC	SJO	UNI
Blooming		2–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	4–0
Bolívar	4–1		1–1	3–2	2–2	2–1
Jorge Wilstermann	0–1	4–0		2–0	2–0	2–2
Nacional Potosí	2–0	0–3	0–2		2–1	0–0
San José	4–1	2–2	2–2	1–1		1–3
Universitario de Sucre	2–0	0–0	2–1	1–0	1–3

Updated to match(es) played on September 17, 2009. Source: RSSSF
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Serie B

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Real Potosí (A)	12	7	1	4	23	14	+9	22
2	The Strongest (A)	12	6	3	3	19	15	+4	21
3	Oriente Petrolero (A)	12	5	4	3	12	12	0	19
4	Real Mamoré	12	5	1	6	16	18	−2	16
5	Aurora	12	3	2	7	8	14	−6	11
6	La Paz	12	2	4	6	18	25	−7	10

Updated to match(es) played on September 17, 2009. Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(A) Advance to a further round

Results

Home \ Away	AUR	LPA	OPE	RMA	RPO	STR
Aurora		1–1	0–0	3–0	1–0	0–1
La Paz	1–0		3–0	2–3	2–3	2–2
Oriente Petrolero	2–0	0–0		1–0	1–0	2–0
Real Mamoré	3–0	2–0	1–4		3–1	2–2
Real Potosí	2–0	4–2	3–0	2–0		1–3
The Strongest	1–0	3–2	2–0	2–1	1–1

Updated to match(es) played on September 17, 2009. Source: RSSSF
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Inter-series

Home team	Results	Away team
—
The Strongest	0–0	Bolívar
Bolívar	3–1	The Strongest
—
Universitario de Sucre	1–0	Real Mamore
Real Mamore	1–0	Universitario de Sucre
—
Blooming	1–1	Oriente Petrolero
Oriente Petrolero	2–2	Blooming
—
La Paz	1–5	San José
San José	2–2	La Paz
—
Jorge Wilstermann	2–1	Aurora
Aurora	2–1	Jorge Wilstermann
—
Nacional Potosí	0–2	Real Potosí
Real Potosí	4–1	Nacional Potosí

Second phase

Bolívar, Real Potosí, Oriente Petrolero, Blooming and The Strongest have advanced to the Second Phase of the championship. All games were played at the UTC-3 time zone.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bolívar	1–1 (a)	Oriente Petrolero	1–1	0–0
Real Potosí	0–1	Blooming	0–0	0–1
Universitario de Sucre	3–4	The Strongest	2–2	1–2

September 20

15:30

Bolívar	1 – 1	Oriente Petrolero
Ferreira 93'		Peña 61'

Estadio Hernando Siles, La Paz

Attendance: 13,000

Referee: Óscar Maldonado

September 20