# 2010–11 Liga Nacional de Ascenso

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.
* 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.

## 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 | Qualified to the Final Round |
| 3 | Colón C-3 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 41 | 16 | +25 | 27 | Qualified to the Final Round |
| 4 | Paraíso | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 33 | 18 | +15 | 26 | Qualified to the Final Round |
| 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 | |

###### Positions by round

| Team ╲ Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| 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 |

##### 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 | |

#### 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 | Qualified to the Final Round |
| 3 | Veraguas 2010 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 23 | 19 | +4 | 21 | Qualified to the Final Round |
| 4 | Coclé | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 21 | 20 | +1 | 18 | Qualified to the Final Round |
| 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 | |

###### Positions by round

| Team ╲ Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| 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 |

##### 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 | |

### Final round

| Quarter-finals (agg) | Quarter-finals (agg) | Quarter-finals (agg) | Semifinals (agg) | Semifinals (agg) | Semifinals (agg) | Final | Final | Final |
| 3 | Veraguas 2010 | 6 | | | | | | |
| 2 | Orión | 3 | | | | | | |
| 2 | Orión | 3 | 3 | Veraguas 2010 | 2 | | | |
| | | | 1 | Atlético Nacional | 0 | | | |
| 4 | Paraíso | 2 | 1 | Atlético Nacional | 0 | | | |
| 1 | Atlético Nacional | 3 | | | | | | |
| 1 | Atlético Nacional | 3 | | | | 3 | Veraguas 2010 | 0 |
| | | | | | | 3 | Colón C-3 | 2 |
| 3 | Colón C-3 | 5 | | | | | | | 3 | Colón C-3 | 2 |
| 2 | Independiente | 1 | | | | | | |
| 2 | Independiente | 1 | 3 | Colón C-3 | 4 | | | |
| | | | 1 | Río Abajo | 2 | | | |
| 4 | Coclé | 0 | 1 | Río Abajo | 2 | | | |
| 1 | Río Abajo | 7 | | | | | | |

#### Semifinals
##### Semifinals 1
##### Semifinals 2

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. At the time of the suspension, Río Abajo was winning 1-0 but the rematch was scheduled to start from 0.

#### Final

* 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 |