# 2013–14 Primera División de Nicaragua

The 2013–14 season in Primera División de Nicaragua will be divided into two tournaments (Apertura and Clausura) and will determine the 63rd and 64th champions in the history of the league. It will also provide the sole berth for the 2014–15 CONCACAF Champions League. The Apertura tournament will be played in the second half of 2013, while the Clausura will be played in the first half of 2014.

## General
### Promotion and relegation

* At the end of the 2012–13, ART Jalapa, FC San Marcos and Real Madriz were promoted to Primera Division
* At the end of the 2012–13, Xilotepelt were relegated to Segunda Division.

### Changes in competition formats

* The Primera Division was expanded to 10 clubs.

## Team information

Last updated: June 28, 2013

### Personnel and sponsoring (2013 Apertura)

| Team | Chairman | Head Coach | Kitmaker | Shirt sponsor |
| ART Municipal Jalapa | TBD | Leónidas Rodríguez | TBD | TBD |
| Chinandega FC | TBA | Vidal Alonso | Adidas | None |
| Diriangén | Tulio López | Carlos Alberto de Toro | Joma | Movistar |
| Juventus | | Douglas Urbina | | Movistar, EZA |
| Managua F.C. | Napoleón Zeledón | Emilio Aburto | | Managua F.C. |
| Ocotal | Oscar Mendoza | Mario Alfaro | | |
| Real Estelí | Fidel Moreno | Ramón Otoniel Olivas | Galaxia | Movistar, Grupo Bimbo, Yahoo, La Curaçao |
| Real Madriz | TBD | Omar Zambrana | TBD | TBD |
| Walter Ferretti | Emilio Rodriguez | Florencio Leiva | | Policia, Cierro, Banco |
| FC San Marcos | TBD | Marcos Bodán | | |

## Managerial changes
### During the season

| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Replaced by | Date of appointment |
| Chinandega FC | Vidal Alonso | Sacked | 28 August 2013 | Wilson Gil Yuste | 28 August 2013 |
| Real Madriz | Omar Zambrana | Sacked | 30 August 2013 | Tyron Acevedo (interim) | 1 September 2013 |
| Real Madriz | Tyron Acevedo | moved to assistant coach | 19 September 2013 | Angel Orellana | 22 September 2013 |
| Juventus Managua | Douglas Urbina | Sacked | October 2013 | Oscar Blanco (interim) | October 2013 |

## Apertura

The 2013 Apertura was the first tournament of the season. It began in 2013.

### Regular season

The regular season began in August 2012. The top four finishers will move on to the next stage of the competition.

#### Standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Real Estelí | 18 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 36 | 12 | +24 | 40 | Semi-finals Group |
| 2 | Diriangén FC | 18 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 26 | 17 | +9 | 34 | Semi-finals Group |
| 3 | Walter Ferretti | 18 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 27 | 20 | +7 | 33 | Semi-finals Group |
| 4 | Managua | 18 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 25 | 14 | +11 | 31 | Semi-finals Group |
| 5 | Jalapa | 18 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 25 | 28 | −3 | 28 | |
| 6 | Ocotal | 18 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 26 | 21 | +5 | 24 | |
| 7 | Juventus Managua | 18 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 20 | 30 | −10 | 18 | |
| 8 | Chinandega | 18 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 22 | 36 | −14 | 13 | |
| 9 | San Marcos | 18 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 25 | 36 | −11 | 12 | |
| 10 | Real Madriz | 18 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 17 | 39 | −22 | 12 | |

#### Results

| Home \ Away | JAL | CHI | DIR | JUV | MAN | OCO | RES | RMD | SMA | WFE |
| Jalapa | | 1–0 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 |
| Chinandega | 4–5 | | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 1–1 |
| Diriangén FC | 2–0 | 3–1 | | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 5–3 | 2–1 |
| Juventus Managua | 1–1 | 3–2 | 1–1 | | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–4 |
| Managua | 2–0 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | | 3–3 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–2 |
| Ocotal | 3–1 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 4–1 | 0–0 | | 1–1 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 |
| Real Estelí | 4–0 | 4–1 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 3–0 | | 3–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 |
| Real Madriz | 2–2 | 3–1 | 0–4 | 3–1 | 0–2 | 3–2 | 0–1 | | 1–1 | 2–3 |
| San Marcos | 2–3 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 5–0 | | 1–3 |
| Walter Ferretti | 1–2 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | |

#### Positions by round

| Team ╲ Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| Real Estelí | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Managua | 5 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| Walter Ferretti | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| Chinandega | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 8 |
| Diriangén FC | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Juventus Managua | 6 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| San Marcos | 9 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 9 |
| Ocotal | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| Real Madriz | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| Jalapa | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |

### Playoffs

| Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Finals | Finals | Finals | Finals | Finals |
| 1 | Real Estelí | 2 | 2 | 4 | | | | | |
| 4 | Managua | 0 | 1 | 1 | | | | | |
| 4 | Managua | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Real Estelí | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| | | | | | 3 | Walter Ferretti | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Diriangén | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | Walter Ferretti | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Walter Ferretti | 1 | 1 | 2 | | | | | |

#### Semi-finals
##### Second leg

Real Estelí won 4–1 on aggregate.
Walter Ferretti won 2–1 on aggregate

#### Finals
##### Second leg

* Real Esteli won 1–0 on aggregate score.
* Primera Division 2013 Apertura champion
* Real Esteli F.C. 12th title

## Top scorers

| Rank | Scorer | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Daniel 'Dani' Cadena | Deportivo Walter Ferretti | 11 |
| 2 | Ricardo Vega | Chinandega FC | 10 |
| 3 | Rudel Calero | Real Esteli F.C. | 9 |
| 4 | Luis Manuel Galeano 'Romario' | ART Jalapa | 8 |
| 5 | Raul Leguias | Diriangén FC | 8 |
| 6 | Milton Zeledón | ART Jalapa | 7 |
| 7 | Erick Sierra | Managua F.C. | 7 |
| 8 | Juan Barrera | Deportivo Walter Ferretti | 7 |
| 9 | Emilio Palacios | Diriangén FC | 6 |
| 10 | Wilber Sanchez | Real Esteli F.C. | 6 |
Updated to games played on 7 November 2013

## List of foreign players in the league

This is a list of foreign players in Apertura 2013. The following players:
* have played at least one apertura game for the respective club.
* have not been capped for the Nicaragua national football team on any level, independently from the birthplace
A new rule was introduced this year, that clubs can have upwards of six foreign players in a squad, However some conditions include: The player has to be younger than 30 years old, spent year abroad away from Nicaragua, and clubs can only have five foreign players on the field at one time .

## Clausura

The 2014 Clausura was the first tournament of the season. It began on 4 January 2014. Real Esteli F.C. are the defending champion. The league will consist of 10 teams, each playing a home and away game against the other clubs for a total of 18 games, respectively. The top four teams at the end of the regular season will take part of the playoffs.

## Team information

Last updated: December 1, 2013

### Personnel and sponsoring (2014 Clausura)

| Team | Chairman | Head Coach | Kitmaker | Shirt sponsor |
| ART Municipal Jalapa | Ali Antonio Castellanos | Leónidas Rodríguez | TBD | TBD |
| Chinandega FC | TBA | Wilson Gil Yuste | None | None |
| Diriangén | Tulio López | Flavio da Silva | Joma | Movistar |
| Juventus | Ariel Brex | Oscar Blanco | None | Movistar, EZA |
| Managua F.C. | Napoleón Zeledón | Emilio Aburto | | Managua F.C. |
| Ocotal | Oscar Mendoza | Angel Orellana | None | Alcadia de Ocotal |
| Real Estelí | Helmuth Hurtado | Ramón Otoniel Olivas | Galaxia | Movistar, Grupo Bimbo, Yahoo, La Curaçao |
| Real Madriz | TBD | Juan Ramón Trejo | TBD | TBD |
| Walter Ferretti | Emilio Rodriguez | Florencio Leiva | | Policia, Cierro, Banco |
| FC San Marcos | TBD | Marcos Bodán | None | Transp. Rodriguez |

## Managerial changes
### Beginning of the season

| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Replaced by | Date of appointment |
| Diriangén | Carlos de Toro | Resigned | November 2013 | Flavio da Silva | TBD |
| Deportivo Ocotal | Mario Alfaro | Resigned | December 2013 | Angel Orellana | December 2013 |
| Real Madriz | Angel Orellana | Contract expired | November 2013 | Juan Ramon Trejo | TBD |

### During the season

| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Replaced by | Date of appointment |
| Real Madriz | Juan Ramon Trejo | Resigned | 20 February 2014 | Luís Eduardo Montaño | TBD |
| Deportivo Ocotal | Angel Orellana | Sacked | 26 February 2014 | Randall Moreno | 28 February 2014 |

## Regular season

The regular season began in 2014. The top four finishers will move on to the next stage of the competition.

### Standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Real Estelí | 18 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 31 | 9 | +22 | 39 | Semi-finals Group |
| 2 | Diriangén FC | 18 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 27 | 15 | +12 | 33 | Semi-finals Group |
| 3 | Walter Ferretti | 18 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 39 | 17 | +22 | 32 | Semi-finals Group |
| 4 | Managua | 18 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 34 | 25 | +9 | 27 | Semi-finals Group |
| 5 | Real Madriz | 18 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 28 | 30 | −2 | 27 | |
| 6 | Juventus Managua | 18 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 25 | 21 | +4 | 25 | |
| 7 | Ocotal | 18 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 20 | 30 | −10 | 18 | |
| 8 | San Marcos | 18 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 25 | 36 | −11 | 17 | |
| 9 | Jalapa | 18 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 33 | −18 | 12 | |
| 10 | Chinandega | 18 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 19 | 46 | −27 | 10 | |

### Results

| Home \ Away | JAL | CHI | DIR | JUV | MAN | OCO | RES | RMD | SMA | WFE |
| Jalapa | | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–2 |
| Chinandega | 1–0 | | 0–1 | 2–2 | 1–4 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 2–3 | 2–2 | 0–3 |
| Diriangén FC | 3–1 | 2–2 | | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 2–1 |
| Juventus Managua | 3–0 | 2–1 | 1–2 | | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 |
| Managua | 2–0 | 5–2 | 2–2 | 1–5 | | 3–1 | 1–1 | 4–1 | 5–2 | 2–3 |
| Ocotal | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–2 | | 0–5 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 2–3 |
| Real Estelí | 5–2 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | | 0–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 |
| Real Madriz | 5–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 4–2 | 3–4 | 1–0 | | 1–3 | 0–2 |
| San Marcos | 2–2 | 6–2 | 0–3 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 0–2 | | 1–4 |
| Walter Ferretti | 1–1 | 10–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–3 | 5–0 | 0–0 | |

### Positions by round

| Team ╲ Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| Real Estelí | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Managua | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 |
| Walter Ferretti | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Chinandega | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 |
| Diriangén FC | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Juventus Managua | 9 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 |
| San Marcos | 8 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 8 |
| Ocotal | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 7 |
| Real Madriz | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 5 |
| Jalapa | 7 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 9 |

### Playoffs

| Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Finals | Finals | Finals | Finals | Finals |
| 1 | Real Estelí | 6 | 4 | 10 | | | | | |
| 4 | Managua | 1 | 1 | 2 | | | | | |
| 4 | Managua | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | Real Estelí | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| | | | | | 3 | Diriangén | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | Diriangén | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | Diriangén | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Walter Ferretti | 2 | 0 | 2 | | | | | |

#### Semi-finals
##### Second leg

Real Estelí won 10–2 on aggregate.
Diriangén FC 2-2 on aggregate won on the away goal rule

#### Finals
##### Second leg

* Real Esteli FC won 2-1 on aggregate score.
* Primera Division 2014 Clausura champion
* Real Estelí ?th title

## Top scorers

| Rank | Scorer | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Xavier Dolmus | Deportivo Walter Ferretti | 13 |
| 2 | Daniel 'Dani' Cadena | Deportivo Walter Ferretti | 11 |
| 3 | Jose Rodriguez | Diriangén FC | 10 |
| 4 | Lesther Jarquín | Juventus Managua | 8 |
| 5 | Marcos Méndez | Managua F.C. | 7 |
| 6 | Enoc Salgado | Real Madriz | 7 |
| 7 | Eulises Ezequiel Pavón | Diriangén FC | 7 |
| 8 | Luis Balladares | Real Madriz | 7 |
| 9 | Byron Garcia | Managua F.C. | 6 |
| 10 | Mauro Rodriguez | Real Esteli F.C. | 6 |
Updated to games played on 13 January 2014

## List of foreign players in the league

This is a list of foreign players in Clausura 2014. The following players:
* have played at least one apertura game for the respective club.
* have not been capped for the Nicaragua national football team on any level, independently from the birthplace
A new rule was introduced this year, that clubs can have upwards of six foreign players in a squad, However some conditions include: The player has to be younger than 30 years old, spent year abroad away from Nicaragua, and clubs can only have five foreign players on the field at one time .

## Aggregate table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Real Esteli | 36 | 23 | 10 | 3 | 67 | 22 | +45 | 79 | Qualification for 2014–15 CONCACAF Champions League |
| 2 | Diriangén | 36 | 18 | 13 | 5 | 56 | 32 | +24 | 67 | |
| 3 | Walter Ferretti | 36 | 20 | 7 | 9 | 69 | 39 | +30 | 67 | |
| 4 | Managua F.C. | 36 | 14 | 13 | 9 | 59 | 42 | +17 | 55 | |
| 5 | Juventus Managua | 36 | 10 | 13 | 13 | 45 | 51 | −6 | 43 | |
| 6 | Ocotal | 35 | 9 | 14 | 12 | 46 | 51 | −5 | 41 | |
| 7 | Jalapa | 36 | 9 | 13 | 14 | 40 | 60 | −20 | 40 | |
| 8 | Real Madriz | 36 | 11 | 6 | 19 | 44 | 69 | −25 | 39 | Relegation play-off |
| 9 | San Marcos | 36 | 7 | 8 | 21 | 51 | 72 | −21 | 29 | Relegation play-off |
| 10 | Chinandega (R) | 36 | 4 | 11 | 21 | 42 | 83 | −41 | 23 | Relegation to 2014–15 Segunda División de Fútbol de Nicaragua |