2009 Liga Nacional de Ascenso

Liga Nacional de Ascenso

Season	2009
Champions	Río Abajo
Promoted	No promotion
Relegated	No relegation
Top goalscorer	Apertura: Andy Nuñez (20 goals) Clausura: Roberty Morales (21 goals)
Biggest home win	Orión 9-1 Génesis
Biggest away win	Génesis 0-13 Pan de Azúcar
Highest scoring	Génesis 0-13 Pan de Azúcar
← 2008 2010-11 →

The Liga Nacional de Ascenso 2009 season (officially "Torneo Primera A 2009") started on February 28, 2009. The defending chammpion and Apertura winner was Río Abajo and the Clausura winner was Orión. On December 12, 2009 a grand final was played where Río Abajo were crowned champions of the Liga Nacional de Ascenso after defeating Orión 3-1. However (as it happened in the 2008 edition) Río Abajo lost the promotion play-off, but this time against Alianza in a 2-1 aggregate score, thus failing to promote to the Liga Panameña de Fútbol.

Fortunately for the 2010-11 edition of the Liga Nacional de Ascenso the champion will be promoted directly without playing a promotion play-off.

Changes for 2009

• The league increased the number of participating teams from 8 to 10.
• After the Apertura I season Primera A changed it name to Liga Nacional de Ascenso.

Liga Nacional de Ascenso 2009 teams

Primera A 2009 team distribution

Club	City	Stadium
Atlético Nacional	Panama City	Cuadro de Kobee
Chorrillito	Arraijan	Campo de Campana
C.A.I.	La Chorrera	Estadio Agustín Sánchez
El Tecal	Arraijan	Campo de Campana
Génesis	Panama City	Estadio Balboa
Millenium	Panama City	Estadio Bernardo Gil
Orión	San Miguelito	Estadio Bernardo Gil
Pan de Azúcar	San Miguelito	Estadio Balboa
Paraíso	San Miguelito	Estadio Bernardo Gil
Río Abajo	Panama City	Estadio Bernardo Gil

Primera A Apertura 2009 I

Standings

Place	Team	Played	Won	Draw	Lost	Goals Scored	Goals Conceded	+/-	Points
1.	Río Abajo	18	12	5	1	48	20	+28	41
2.	Atlético Nacional	18	10	5	3	34	17	+17	35
3.	C.A.I.	18	11	2	5	35	22	+13	35
4.	Paraíso	18	9	5	4	43	28	+15	32
5.	Chorrillito	18	10	1	7	35	36	-1	31
6.	Pan de Azúcar	18	7	3	8	49	33	+16	24
7.	Orión	18	7	2	9	37	33	+4	23
8.	Millenium	18	5	3	10	29	38	-9	18
9.	El Tecal	18	4	2	12	19	48	-29	14
10.	Génesis	18	1	0	17	19	72	-53	3

Qualified to the final round.

Results table

• Please note that the home teams are read down the left hand side while the away teams are indicated along the top

• [*] Génesis and Atlético Nacional was initially postponed to a later date. The game result is unknown however it is known that Atl. Nacional managed to beat Génesis.
• [**]Millenium won by default because Genesis did not show up.

Final Round

	Semifinals (agg)					Final
	Río Abajo		5
	Paraíso		4
						Río Abajo		1
						C.A.I.		0
	Atlético Nacional		1
	C.A.I.		2

Semifinals 1st Leg

June 24, 2009

Paraíso	4-3	Río Abajo

Estadio Bernardo Gil

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June 25, 2009

C.A.I.	0-1	Atlético Nacional

Estadio Agustin Sanchez

Semifinals 2nd Leg

June 27, 2009

Río Abajo	2-0	Paraíso

Estadio Bernardo Gil

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June 28, 2008

Atlético Nacional	0-2	C.A.I.

Cuadro de Kobee

Final

July 3, 2009

Río Abajo	1-0	C.A.I.
John Gittens 115'

Cancha Sintetica Rommel Fernandez

Apertura 2009 I Champion: Río Abajo

Top Goal Scorer

Position	Player	Scored for	Goals
1	Andy Nuñez	Pan de Azúcar	20
2	Mario Cox	Chorrillito	17
3	Roberty Morales	Pan de Azúcar	13
4	Shamar Amantine	Orión	10
5	Aramis Haywood	Río Abajo	9

Liga Nacional de Ascenso Apertura 2009 II

Standings

Place	Team	Played	Won	Draw	Lost	Goals Scored	Goals Conceded	+/-	Points
1.	Río Abajo	18	13	1	4	52	16	+36	40
2.	Paraíso	18	11	3	4	42	25	+17	36
3.	Orión	18	10	3	5	62	34	+28	33
4.	Pan de Azúcar	18	10	2	6	37	31	+6	32
5.	Chorrillito	18	10	1	7	37	24	+13	31
6.	Atlético Nacional	18	8	4	6	36	25	+11	28
7.	Independiente	18	5	4	9	31	45	-14	19
8.	Millenium	18	5	3	10	27	46	-19	18
9.	El Tecal	18	4	5	9	33	46	-13	17
10.	Génesis	18	0	2	16	15	80	-65	2

Qualified to the final round.

Results table

• Please note that the home teams are read down the left hand side while the away teams are indicated along the top

Final Round

	Semifinals (agg)					Final
	Río Abajo		3
	Pan de Azúcar		2
						Río Abajo		3
						Orión		3
	Paraíso		2
	Orión		3

Semifinals 1st Leg

December 2, 2009

Orión	2-1	Paraíso
Roberty Morales Luis Renteria		Eugenio Galvan

Cancha Sintetica Rommel Fernandez

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December 2, 2009

Pan de Azúcar	1-1	Río Abajo
Eladio Carranza		Aramis Haywood

Cancha Sintetica Rommel Fernandez

Semifinals 2nd Leg

December 5, 2009

Paraíso	1-1	Orión
William Jimenez		Jorgen Jaen

Cancha Sintetica Rommel Fernandez

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December 5, 2008

Río Abajo	2-1	Pan de Azúcar
Cesar Gutierrez 7' Jefferson Viveros 34'		Joel Valdes 10'

Estadio Bernardo Gil

Final

December 10, 2009

Río Abajo	3-3	Orión
Fidel Cesar 36' Cesar Gutierrez 42' Jefferson Viveros 74'		Jose Ruiz 10' Mark Victoria 50' Arturo Castillo 85'
Penalties
	3-5

Cancha Sintetica Rommel Fernandez

Apertura 2009 II Champion: Orión

Top Goal Scorer

Position	Player	Scored for	Goals
1	Roberty Morales	Orión	21
2	Jefferson Viveros	Río Abajo	19
3	Luis Renteria Eduardo Santos	Orión Chorrillito	15
5	Andy Nuñez	Pan de Azúcar	10

Liga Nacional de Ascenso 2009 Grand Final

Club	Champion
Río Abajo	Apertura 2009 I Champion
Orión	Apertura 2009 II Champion Champion

Grand Final

December 12, 2009

Río Abajo	3-1	Orión
Aramis Haywood 3' 44' Yan Palacios 28'		Arturo Castillo 6'

Cancha Sintetica Rommel Fernandez

Primera A 2008 Champion:
Río Abajo 2nd Title

Promotion playoff

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Alianza	2-1	Río Abajo	1-1	1-0

Río Abajo remain in Liga Nacional de Ascenso

1st Leg

December 16, 2009

Alianza	1-1	Río Abajo
Francisco Lopez 4'		Jefferson Viveros 21'

Cancha Sintetica Rommel Fernandez

2nd Leg

December 19, 2009

Río Abajo	0-1	Alianza
		William Aguilar 87'

Cancha Sintetica Rommel Fernandez