Venezuelan First Division, 2007–2008

The Season 2007/08 of the First Division of Venezuela (officially, by reasons of sponsorship Glass CANTV) initiated on 4 August 2007 with the participation of 18 teams, this afterwards of the promotion of 8 teams after the expansion of the league approved by the Venezuelan Federation of Football. In the season 2007/08 arrived to the record of assistance to the stadiums of Venezuelan football to 740.000 people in a local tournament.

The winner of each one of the tournaments (Opening 2007 and Closure 2008) obtains a direct contingent to the Glass Libertadores 2009. In addition to these two contingents, the following team positioned in the Table Accumulated of all the Season 2007/08 obtains a contingent to the previous round of the Glass Libertadores of America 2009 whereas the team that follow him to east obtains one of the two contingents of Venezuela to the Glass Sudamericana 2008.

The two last teams positioned in the Table Accumulated of the Season 2007/08 descend to the Second Division of Venezuela.

Teams participants

The teams participants in the Season 2007/08 of the First Division of the Venezuelan Football are the following:

AC Miners of Guyana Aragua FC Athletic The Lookout FC Carabobo FC Caracas FC Sportive Anzoátegui SC Sportive Italy Sportive Táchira FC Crash Red FC

Students of Mérida FC Guaros FC Llaneros Of Guanare FC Monagas SC Portuguese FC Trujillanos FC UA Maracaibo Union Lara FC Zamora FC

Tournament Opening

The Tournament Opening 2007 is the first tournament of the Season 2007/08 in the First Division of Venezuela.

Classification

Team	PTS	JJ	JG	JE	JP	GF	GC	DG
1	Caracas FC	37	17	10	7	0	31	10	+21
2	Sportive Anzoátegui SC	34	17	10	4	3	31	12	+19
3	Sportive Táchira FC	28	17	7	7	3	22	10	+12
4	UA Maracaibo	28	17	7	7	3	26	20	+6
5	Zamora FC	24	17	6	6	5	19	11	+8
6	Portuguese FC	24	17	6	6	5	15	18	-3
7	Llaneros Of Guanare FC	23	17	6	5	6	25	23	+2
8	Aragua FC	23	17	6	5	6	30	30	0
9	AC Miners of Guyana	23	17	6	5	6	28	27	+1
10	Guaros FC	23	17	7	2	8	28	33	-5
11	Trujillanos FC	23	17	6	5	6	22	27	-5
12	Monagas SC	22	17	6	4	7	31	26	+5
13	Sportive Italy	22	17	5	7	5	17	14	+3
14	Students of Mérida FC	20	17	5	5	7	21	28	-7
15	Athletic The Lookout FC	19	17	6	1	10	18	26	-8
16	Carabobo FC	15	17	4	3	10	13	25	-12
17	Union Lara FC	14	17	3	5	9	25	32	-7
18	Crash Red FC	13	17	3	4	10	19	45	-26

Tournament Closure

The Tournament Closure 2008 is the second tournament of the season 2007/08 in the First Division of Venezuela.

Classification

Team	PTS	JJ	JG	JE	JP	GF	GC	DG
1	Sportive Táchira FC	42	17	13	3	1	30	15	+15
2	Caracas FC	36	17	10	6	1	34	18	+16
3	Sportive Anzoátegui SC	32	17	10	2	5	33	14	+19
4	Sportive Italy	28	17	7	7	3	23	16	+7
5	Guaros FC	28	17	8	4	5	19	15	+4
6	UA Maracaibo	27	17	8	3	6	28	22	+6
7	Zamora FC	26	17	8	3	6	26	25	+1
8	Carabobo FC	24	17	6	6	5	19	16	+3
9	Crash Red FC	24	17	7	3	7	25	31	-6
10	Portuguese FC	23	17	6	5	6	25	25	0
11	Athletic The Lookout FC	19	17	6	1	10	19	25	-6
12	Students of Mérida FC	18	17	4	6	7	18	26	-8
13	Llaneros Of Guanare FC	18	17	5	3	9	18	27	-9
14	Aragua FC	17	17	4	5	8	18	22	-4
15	Monagas SC	17	17	5	2	10	16	26	-10
16	AC Miners of Guyana	16	17	3	7	7	18	22	-4
17	Union Lara FC	14	17	3	5	9	18	30	-12
18	Trujillanos FC	13	17	3	4	10	18	31	-13

Legend: PTS (Points), JJ (Games played), JG (Games Won), JE (Games Empatados), JG (Stray Games), GF (Goals in favour), GC (Goals against), DG (Difference of Goals).

Final

Sportive Táchira FC

Champion

Accumulated

Classification

Pos	Team	Pts	JJ	JG	JE	JP	GF	GC	Dif	Competition
1	Caracas FC	73	34	20	13	1	65	28	37	Glass Libertadores 2009
2	Sportive Táchira FC	70	34	20	10	4	52	25	27	Glass Libertadores 2009
3	Sportive Anzoátegui SC	66	34	20	6	8	64	26	38	Pre Glass Libertadores 2009
4	UA Maracaibo	55	34	15	10	9	54	42	12	Pre Glass Sudamericana 2008
5	Guaros FC	51	34	15	6	13	47	47	0
6	Sportive Italy	50	34	12	14	8	40	30	10
7	Zamora FC	50	34	14	8	12	45	36	9
8	Portuguese FC	47	34	13	10	11	40	43	-3
9	Llaneros Of Guanare FC	41	34	11	8	15	43	50	-7
10	Aragua FC	40	34	10	10	14	48	52	-4	Glass Sudamericana 2008
11	AC Miners of Guyana	39	34	9	12	13	45	49	-4
12	Monagas SC	39	34	11	6	17	46	52	-6
13	Carabobo FC	39	34	10	9	15	32	41	-9
14	Athletic The Lookout FC	38	34	12	2	20	38	52	-14
15	Students of Mérida FC	38	34	9	11	14	39	54	-15
16	Crash Red FC	37	34	10	7	17	44	76	-32
17	Trujillanos FC	36	34	9	9	19	40	58	-18	Descent
18	Union Lara FC	28	33	6	10	17	42	60	-18	Descent

The Aragua FC finds classified to the Glass Sudamericana 2008 when having topped champion of the Glass Venezuela 2007

Legend: PTS (Points), JJ (Games played), JG (Games Won), JE (Games Empatados), JG (Stray Games), GF (Goals in favour), GC (Goals against), DG (Difference of Goals).

Top 5 Goleadores

Player			Goals	Team
1		Alexander Rondón	19	Sportive Anzoátegui
2		Rafael Castellín	16	Caracas FC
2		Arming Maita	16	Monagas SC (10) and UA Maracaibo (6)
4		Johny Carneiro	15	AC Miners of Guyana
5		Wuiswel Isea	14	Union Lara FC (8) and Aragua FC (6)

Recognitions

Recognition
Player more stood out	Ronald Vargas
Trainer more stood out	Carlos Maldonado
Better Goalkeeper	Manuel Sanhouse
Better Juvenile
Better Referee
Fair Play

Resulted

Official "results" of the Tournament Opening (To) and the Tournament Closure (C) of the First Venezuelan Division of Football 2007/08. The rows correspond to the games of local whereas the columns correspond to the games of visitor of each one of the teams. The in colour blue results correspond to victory of the local team, red to victory visitor and yellow to tie.

2007/08Up to date: 25 May 2008	To.Vig	It ploughs	Carb	CCS	D.Anz	D.Ita	D.Tch	And.Roj	Estu	Gua	Lla	Min	Mon	By	Tru	UAM	Or.Lar	Zam
Athletic The Lookout FC	3-1 (To)	1-1 (C)	0-2 (C)	1-5 (C)	1-2 (To)	1-0 (To)	1-0 (C)	2-3 (To)	0-1 (To)	0-0 (To)	3-0 (C)	2-1 (C)	2-1 (To)	2-0 (C)	0-2 (To)	3-2 (C)	1-0 (C)
Aragua FC	2-1 (C)	1-1 (C)	1-2 (C)	1-0 (C)	1-0 (To)	1-1 (To)	3-2 (To)	5-2 (To)	3-1 (To)	3-1 (To)	1-1 (To)	1-2 (C)	2-3 (To)	2-0 (C)	1-1 (To)	1-2 (C)	2-2 (C)
Carabobo FC	0-1 (To)	0-2 (To)	1-1 (To)	0-1 (To)	1-0 (To)	0-1 (C)	4-1 (C)	2-1 (C)	0-0 (C)	1-0 (C)	0-1 (C)	2-0 (C)	0-1 (To)	2-0 (To)	1-0 (To)	0-0 (C)	1-2 (C)
Caracas FC	2-0 (To)	2-2 (To)	1-1 (C)	0-1 (C)	0-0 (To)	2-2 (C)	6-4 (C)	2-1 (To)	5-1 (To)	0-0 (To)	0-0 (C)	3-0 (C)	3-1 (To)	3-1 (C)	0-0 (To)	4-2 (C)	3-1 (C)
Sportive Anzoátegui	1-0 (To)	5-1 (To)	1-0 (C)	2-3 (To)	1-1 (To)	2-3 (C)	7-1 (C)	3-0 (To)	3-1 (To)	2-1 (C)	1-0 (C)	4-0 (C)	0-0 (To)	4-0 (To)	1-1 (To)	2-1 (C)	5-0 (C)
Sportive Italy	1-0 (C)	2-1 (C)	2-0 (C)	1-1 (C)	2-0 (C)	0-0 (To)	1-1 (To)	2-0 (To)	1-1 (To)	3-0 (To)	2-3 (To)	2-3 (To)	2-0 (C)	2-2 (C)	1-1 (C)	1-0 (To)	1-0 (To)
Sportive Táchira FC	1-0 (C)	3-0 (C)	0-0 (To)	0-1 (To)	0-0 (To)	1-0 (C)	6-1 (To)	1-0 (C)	1-0 (C)	3-2 (C)	3-0 (To)	3-2 (To)	4-1 (C)	2-0 (To)	4-3 (C)	2-0 (To)	0-0 (To)
Crash Red FC	0-1 (To)	3-2 (C)	3-2 (To)	1-1 (To)	1-3 (To)	0-0 (C)	0-1 (C)	4-1 (C)	3-2 (C)	0-1 (C)	1-0 (C)	1-1 (To)	3-3 (C)	3-2 (To)	2-1 (C)	1-4 (To)	0-1 (To)
Students of Mérida FC	1-0 (C)	1-1 (C)	2-0 (To)	1-2 (C)	1-1 (C)	2-0 (C)	0-1 (To)	1-1 (To)	2-1 (To)	1-0 (To)	1-1 (To)	2-1 (To)	2-2 (C)	1-0 (C)	0-0 (C)	2-2 (To)	2-2 (To)
Guaros FC	1-0 (C)	1-0 (C)	3-1 (To)	0-0 (C)	0-1 (C)	1-1 (C)	1-0 (To)	3-1 (To)	1-1 (C)	4-3 (To)	3-1 (To)	2-2 (To)	1-0 (C)	4-1 (C)	2-1 (C)	2-1 (To)	0-3 (To)
Llaneros Of Guanare FC	2-1 (C)	0-2 (C)	3-1 (To)	1-2 (C)	1-0 (To)	1-0 (C)	1-1 (To)	5-1 (To)	0-0 (C)	3-2 (C)	3-2 (To)	2-1 (To)	1-0 (C)	1-1 (To)	3-6 (C)	2-0 (To)	1-1 (To)
Mining CD of Guyana	1-0 (To)	0-0 (C)	2-1 (To)	1-3 (To)	1-0 (To)	2-2 (C)	2-2 (C)	6-0 (To)	2-3 (C)	0-1 (C)	3-0 (C)	1-1 (To)	3-3 (C)	1-5 (To)	2-0 (C)	3-3 (To)	0-0 (To)
Monagas SC	4-1 (To)	1-0 (To)	4-0 (To)	0-3 (To)	2-3 (To)	0-1 (C)	0-1 (C)	1-0 (C)	5-0 (C)	0-1 (C)	1-0 (C)	1-1 (C)	0-1 (To)	0-1 (To)	0-2 (C)	2-1 (C)	2-0 (To)
Portuguese FC	2-3 (C)	1-0 (C)	0-0 (C)	1-1 (C)	1-0 (C)	1-0 (To)	2-2 (To)	1-2 (To)	0-0 (To)	1-0 (To)	1-0 (To)	0-3 (To)	2-1 (C)	2-1 (C)	1-1 (To)	4-0 (C)	2-1 (C)
Trujillanos FC	3-2 (To)	0-0 (To)	2-3 (C)	1-1 (To)	1-1 (C)	1-1 (To)	1-2 (C)	0-0 (C)	1-0 (To)	4-3 (To)	2-1 (C)	2-1 (C)	1-1 (C)	2-0 (To)	1-1 (To)	2-0 (C)	1-4 (C)
UA Maracaibo	3-1 (C)	1-1 (C)	2-3 (C)	1-2 (C)	1-0 (C)	0-0 (To)	0-1 (To)	4-0 (C)	4-2 (To)	2-1 (To)	3-2 (To)	2-1 (To)	3-3 (To)	1-0 (C)	2-1 (C)	2-1 (To)	2-0 (C)
Union Lara FC	2-3 (To)	6-4 (To)	1-1 (To)	0-2 (To)	0-3 (To)	4-4 (C)	0-0 (C)	1-2 (C)	2-1 (C)	0-1 (C)	1-1 (C)	1-1 (C)	1-3 (To)	1-1 (To)	3-0 (To)	0-1 (C)	0-0 (To)
Zamora FC	3-1 (To)	1-0 (To)	1-2 (To)	0-2 (To)	0-1 (To)	0-2 (C)	2-0 (C)	0-1 (C)	3-2 (C)	2-1 (C)	1-1 (C)	2-0 (C)	4-1 (C)	0-0 (To)	3-0 (To)	4-0 (To)	2-0 (C)
To.Vig	It ploughs	Carb	CCS	D.Anz	D.Ita	D.Tch	And.Roj	Estu	Gua	Lla	Min	Mon	By	Tru	UAM	Or.Lar	Zam