2010 �11 LIGA NACIONAL DE ASCENSO

Liga Nacional de Ascenso
Season	2010 Apertura
Champions	Colón C-3
Top goalscorer	Enrico Small (15 goals)
Biggest home win	Orión 8–2 Génesis; Atlético Nacional 6–0 El Tecal; Independiente 6–0 Chiriquí
Biggest away win	Génesis 0–8 Colón C-3
Highest scoring	Génesis 2–9 Orión
	← Apertura 2009 II Clausura 2011 →

Liga Nacional de Ascenso
Season	2010–11
	← 2009 2011–12 →

The 2010–11 Liga Nacional de Ascenso season is the thirteenth edition since its establishment in 1996. A total of 16 teams contest the league, 10 of which returned from the 2009 season, 1 of which was promoted from Copa Rommel Fernández, and 5 of which have been invited to participate as part of the league's expansion project.

Changes for the 2010–11 edition

The league increased the number of participating teams from 10 to 16. SUNTRACS earned its spot as champions of the 2010 edition of the Copa Rommel Fernández while 5 other teams from the Colón, Chiriquí, Chiriquí Occidente, Coclé, and Veraguas provincial leagues were invited to participate as part of the league's expansion project.^[1]
The teams were separated into 2 groups (Group A and Group B) containing 8 teams in each.
There will be no more promotion play-off in this edition, instead the overall champion (that is the Grand Champion or the winner of both the Apertura and Clausura) will be promoted directly. Additionally, the team with the worst record in the general standings of the Liga Panameña de Fútbol will be relegated directly.^[1]

Teams

Colón C-3

Chiriquí

Veraguas

Independiente
Chorrillito
El Tecal

Panama City and San Miguelito
Atlético Nacional
Génesis
Millenium
Orión
Pan de Azúcar
Paraíso F.C.
Río Abajo
SUNTRACS

Coclé

Chiriquí Occidente

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Locations of the 2010-11 LNA teams

Club	City	Stadium	2009 season	Group
Atlético Nacional	Panama City	Estadio Javier Cruz	3rd in LNA	Group B
Chiriquí F.C.	David	Estadio San Cristóbal	Invited	Group B
Chiriquí Occidente F.C.	Puerto Armuelles	Estadio Glorias Baruenses	Invited	Group B
Chorrillito F.C.	Arraiján	Cancha del Mistic	4th in LNA	Group B
Coclé F.C.	Penonomé	Estadio Virgilio Tejeira	Invited	Group B
Colón C-3	Colón	Estadio Armando Dely Valdés	Invited	Group A
El Tecal	Arraiján	Cancha del Mistic	9th in LNA	Group B
Génesis	Panama City	Cancha de Entrenamiento Luis Tapia	10th in LNA	Group A
Independiente F.C.	La Chorrera	Estadio Agustín Sánchez	7th in LNA	Group B
Millenium F.C.	Panama City	Cancha de Entrenamiento Luis Tapia	8th in LNA	Group A
Orión	San Miguelito	Cancha de Entrenamiento Luis Tapia	5th in LNA (Runner-up)	Group A
Pan de Azúcar	San Miguelito	Cancha de Entrenamiento Luis Tapia	6th in LNA	Group A
Paraíso F.C.	San Miguelito	Cancha de Entrenamiento Luis Tapia	2nd in LNA	Group A
Río Abajo F.C.	Panama City	Cancha de Entrenamiento Luis Tapia	1st in LNA (Champion)	Group A
SUNTRACS F.C.	San Miguelito	Estadio Bernardo Gil	Copa Rommel Fernández champion	Group A
Veraguas 2010	Santiago	Estadio Áristocles Castillo	Invited	Group B

Apertura 2010

Regular Round

Group A

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Río Abajo	14	10	2	2	28	13	+15	32	Qualified to the Final Round
2	Orión	14	9	3	2	40	24	+16	30
3	Colón C-3	14	8	3	3	41	16	+25	27
4	Paraíso	14	8	2	4	33	18	+15	26
5	Pan de Azúcar	14	5	4	5	25	24	+1	19
6	SUNTRACS	14	2	2	10	20	32	−12	8
7	Millenium	13	1	5	7	19	35	−16	8
8	Génesis	13	1	1	11	17	61	−44	4

Updated to match(es) played on 28 August 2010. Source: LNA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Positions by round

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Team ╲ Round
Colón C-3	2	4	3	2	4	3	4	4	4	4	2	4	4	3
Génesis	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
Millenium	5	6	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7
Orión	1	2	4	4	3	4	3	3	2	2	3	2	2	2
Pan de Azúcar	5	5	5	6	5	6	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	5
Paraíso	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	4	3	3	4
Río Abajo	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
SUNTRACS	7	7	7	5	6	5	5	5	6	6	6	6	6	6

Source: LNA

Results

Home \ Away	CC3	GEN	MIL	ORI	PdA	PAR	RA	SUN
Colón C-3		8–2	4–1	5–2	1–1	2–1	0–2	3–0
Génesis	0–8			2–9	2–4	1–6	1–2	1–0
Millenium	1–4	2–2		2–3	2–2	0–1	1–1	2–1
Orión	1–1	4–0	3–1		2–1	3–1	1–2	1–1
Pan de Azúcar	2–1	4–2	3–3	1–2		1–3	2–1	0–2
Paraíso	2–1	5–1	6–1	0–0	1–1		0–2	3–2
Río Abajo	0–0	5–3	2–0	3–4	1–0	3–1		2–0
SUNTRACS	1–3	4–0	3–3	4–5	1–3	0–4	0–2

Updated to match(es) played on 28 August 2010. Source: LNA
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Group B

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Atlético Nacional	14	9	3	2	33	12	+21	30	Qualified to the Final Round
2	Independiente	14	8	4	2	30	12	+18	28
3	Veraguas 2010	14	6	3	5	23	19	+4	21
4	Coclé	14	5	3	6	21	20	+1	18
5	Chorrillito	14	5	3	6	16	26	−10	18
6	Chiriquí	14	5	2	7	18	30	−12	17
7	Chiriquí Occidente	14	2	5	7	13	25	−12	11
8	El Tecal	14	1	7	6	20	30	−10	10

Updated to match(es) played on 28 August 2010. Source: LNA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Positions by round

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Team ╲ Round
Atlético Nacional	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Chiriquí	7	5	5	2	3	4	3	4	4	5	4	5	6	6
Chiriquí Occidente	3	6	7	7	8	8	6	6	5	4	6	7	7	7
Chorrillito	3	2	3	5	5	6	5	5	6	6	7	6	5	5
Coclé	8	8	8	8	6	5	7	8	8	7	5	4	4	4
El Tecal	3	7	6	6	7	7	8	7	7	8	8	8	8	8
Independiente	3	3	2	4	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Veraguas 2010	1	4	3	3	4	3	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3

Source: LNA

Results

Home \ Away	AN	CHI	OCC	CHO	COC	DET	IND	VER
Atlético Nacional		1–1	2–0	0–1	4–2	6–0	4–1	2–1
Chiriquí	2–3		0–2	1–0	1–2	3–2	2–2	2–4
Chiriquí Occidente	0–0	0–1		0–1	1–1	2–2	0–2	0–4
Chorrillito	1–6	0–2	1–3		1–0	3–2	1–2	2–1
Coclé	1–1	5–0	3–0	3–1		2–0	0–2	0–2
El Tecal	1–3	1–2	3–3	2–2	1–1		1–1
Independiente	0–1	6–0	3–0	1–1	4–1	1–1		3–1
Veraguas 2010	1–0	2–1	2–2	2–2	2–0	1–1	0–1

Updated to match(es) played on 28 August 2010. Source: LNA
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Final round

Quarter-finals ( agg)			Semifinals ( agg)			Final

3	Veraguas 2010	6

2	Orión	3
			3	Veraguas 2010	2

			1	Atlético Nacional	0
4	Paraíso	2

1	Atlético Nacional	3
						3	Veraguas 2010	0

						3	Colón C-3	2
3	Colón C-3	5

2	Independiente	1
			3	Colón C-3	4

			1	Río Abajo	2
4	Coclé	0

1	Río Abajo	7

Quarter-finals

Quarter-finals 1

September 4, 2010

16:00 ( UTC-5)

Colón C-3	3 – 0	Independiente
Vaughan Racero	Report

Estadio Armando Dely Valdés, Colón

September 4, 2010

20:00 ( UTC-5)

Veraguas 2010	4 – 2	Orión
Josue Brown Mosquera ^[2]	Report

Estadio Áristocles Castillo, Santiago

September 5, 2010

15:00 ( UTC-5)

Coclé	0 – 5	Río Abajo
	Report

Estadio Virgilio Tejeira, Penonomé

September 5, 2010

18:30 ( UTC-5)

Paraíso	1 – 0	Atlético Nacional
	Report

Cancha de Entrenamiento Luis Tapia, Panama City

Quarter-finals 2

September 9, 2010

19:15 ( UTC-5)

Río Abajo	2 – 0	Coclé
	Report

Cancha de Entrenamiento Luis Tapia, Panama City

September 10, 2010

19:00 ( UTC-5)

Orión	1 – 2	Veraguas 2010
O. Mosquera ^[3]	Report	( OG) J. Mosquera^[3]

Cancha de Entrenamiento Luis Tapia, Panama City

September 12, 2010

10:00 ( UTC-5)

Atlético Nacional	3 – 1	Paraíso
	Report

Estadio Javier Cruz, Panama City

September 12, 2010

20:00 ( UTC-5)

Independiente	1 – 2	Colón C-3
	Report	Racero Argono

Estadio Agustín Sánchez, La Chorrera

Semifinals

Semifinals 1

September 18, 2010

20:00 ( UTC-5)

Veraguas 2010	0 – 0	Atlético Nacional
	Report

Estadio Áristocles Castillo, Santiago

September 19, 2010

16:00 ( UTC-5)

Colón C-3	2 – 1	Río Abajo
Thomas Hernández ( OG)	Report	Girón

Estadio Armando Dely Valdés, Colón

Semifinals 2

September 26, 2010

11:00 ( UTC-5)

Atlético Nacional	0 – 2	Veraguas 2010
	Report	Mosquera

Estadio Javier Cruz, Panama City

September 30, 2010

15:00 ( UTC-5)

Río Abajo	1 – 2	Colón C-3
Aguilar 83'	Report	34' Thomas 65' Racero

Estadio Agustín Sánchez, La Chorrera

The original match between Río Abajo and Colón C-3 was played on September 26 at 19:00 ( UTC-5) at Cancha de Entrenamiento Luis Tapia, but it was suspended at the 65th minute by the referee Luis Rodríguez because of violence in the stands perpetuated by the team's supporters.^[4] At the time of the suspension, Río Abajo was winning 1-0 but the rematch was scheduled to start from 0.^[5]

Final

16 October 2010

20:00 ( UTC-5)

Veraguas 2010	0 – 2 ( a.e.t.)	Colón C-3
	Report	Enrico Small 94' 111'

Estadio Rommel Fernández, Panama City

Referee: Jaffet Perea ( Panama)

2010 Apertura Champion:
Colón C-3

Awards

Top goalscorers

Pos	Name	Club	Goals
1	Enrico Small	Colón C-3	15
2	Roberty Morales	Orión	14
3	Josue Brown	Veraguas 2010	13
4	Domingo Rodríguez	Pan de Azúcar	11
5	John Freddy Mosquera	Veraguas 2010	10
6	Justo Carrillo	Paraíso	9
7	Luis Jiménez	Atlético Nacional	8
8	Andres Jiménez	Colón C-3	7

Most valuable player

Pos	Name	Club
1	Enrico Small	Colón C-3

Best goalkeeper

Pos	Name	Club
1	Federico Ploche	Atlético Nacional

References

^ ^a ^b "Torneo Apertura de la LNA inicia el 29 de mayo con 16 equipos". Archived from the original on 2011-07-10. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
^ Veraguas 2010 tumba al Orión por 4 a 2
^ ^a ^b Orión 1-2 Veraguas 2010^{[
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^ "Video: Fanáticos se enfrentan en el "Cascarita" Tapia en Panamá". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2010-10-01.
^ "Río Abajo y Colón C-3 repetirán su partido". Archived from the original on 2012-03-28. Retrieved 2010-10-01.

[fepafut.com-1] "Torneo Apertura de la LNA inicia el 29 de mayo con 16 equipos". Archived from the original on 2011-07-10. Retrieved 2010-05-29.

[2] Veraguas 2010 tumba al Orión por 4 a 2

[Ori_1-2_Ver-3] Orión 1-2 Veraguas 2010^{[
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[4] "Video: Fanáticos se enfrentan en el "Cascarita" Tapia en Panamá". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2010-10-01.

[5] "Río Abajo y Colón C-3 repetirán su partido". Archived from the original on 2012-03-28. Retrieved 2010-10-01.

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Changes for the 2010–11 edition

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