2008–09 Primera Divisió

Primera Divisió

Season	2008–09
Champions	UE Sant Julià 2nd Andorran title
Relegated	FC Rànger's
Champions League	UE Sant Julià
Europa League	FC Santa Coloma (via domestic cup)
Matches played	80
Goals scored	391 (4.89 per match)
Biggest home win	Sant Julià 18–0 Engordany
Biggest away win	Rànger's 0–12 FC Santa Coloma
Highest scoring	Sant Julià 18–0 Engordany
← 2007–08 2009–10 →

The 2008–09 Primera Divisió was the fourteenth season of top-tier football in Andorra. It began on 21 September 2008 and ended on 7 May 2009. FC Santa Coloma were the defending champions.

Competition format

The participating teams first played a conventional round-robin schedule with every team playing each opponent once home and once away for a total of 14 games. The league was then split up in two groups of four teams with each of them playing teams within their group a home-and-away cycle of games. The top four teams competed for the championship. The bottom four clubs played out one direct relegation spot and one relegation play-off spot. Records earned in the first round were taken over to the respective second rounds.

Promotion and relegation

Casa Estrella del Benfica were relegated after the last season due to finishing in 8th place. They were replaced by Segona Divisió champions UE Santa Coloma.

Further, UE Engordany and Segona Divisió runners-up UE Extremenya played a two-legged relegation play-off. Engordany kept their spot in Primera Divisió by winning 5–3 on aggregate.

First round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sant Julià	14	11	2	1	69	10	+59	35	Qualification to Championship round
2	FC Santa Coloma	14	10	3	1	58	5	+53	33
3	Lusitanos	14	10	0	4	36	17	+19	30
4	Principat	14	8	1	5	32	31	+1	25
5	UE Santa Coloma	14	6	3	5	35	28	+7	21	Qualification to Relegation round
6	Engordany	14	3	0	11	21	75	−54	9
7	Inter Club d'Escaldes	14	2	1	11	12	48	−36	7
8	Rànger's	14	1	0	13	22	71	−49	3

Source: fedandfut.com (in Catalan and English)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Home \ Away	ENG	INT	LUS	PRI	RAN	SFC	SUE	SJU
Engordany		3–2	0–4	2–3	5–4	0–7	1–4	1–7
Inter Club d'Escaldes	2–4		0–4	0–1	3–1	0–6	2–2	1–5
Lusitanos	4–1	2–0		2–1	5–2	0–2	5–1	0–1
Principat	4–1	2–0	2–3		5–4	0–7	5–0	0–6
Rànger's	4–1	1–2	1–3	0–7		0–12	0–3	2–6
FC Santa Coloma	6–0	8–0	0–2	0–0	4–1		0–0	1–0
UE Santa Coloma	6–2	4–0	3–2	0–1	9–1	1–4		2–2
Sant Julià	18–0	5–0	3–0	6–1	6–1	1–1	3–0

Source: fedandfut.com (in Catalan and English)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second round

Championship round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sant Julià (C)	20	16	2	2	84	15	+69	50	Qualification to Champions League first qualifying round
2	FC Santa Coloma	20	15	3	2	75	12	+63	48	Qualification to Europa League second qualifying round
3	Principat	20	10	1	9	38	47	−9	31
4	Lusitanos	20	10	0	10	39	30	+9	30

Source: fedandfut.com (in Catalan and English)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions
Notes:

Home \ Away	LUS	PRI	SFC	SJU
Lusitanos		1–2	0–2	0–1
Principat	2–1		1–4	0–2
FC Santa Coloma	3–1	3–1		3–1
Sant Julià	3–0	5–0	3–2

Source: fedandfut.com (in Catalan and English)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
5	UE Santa Coloma	20	12	3	5	65	31	+34	39
6	Engordany	20	7	0	13	39	88	−49	21
7	Inter Club d'Escaldes (O)	20	4	1	15	25	68	−43	13	Qualification to relegation play-offs
8	Rànger's (R)	20	1	0	19	26	100	−74	3	Relegation to Segona Divisió

Source: fedandfut.com (in Catalan and English)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated

Home \ Away	ENG	INT	RAN	SUE
Engordany		4–2	4–0	2–3
Inter Club d'Escaldes	2–4		4–2	1–5
Rànger's	0–4	2–4		0–5
UE Santa Coloma	6–0	3–0	8–0

Source: fedandfut.com (in Catalan and English)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation play-offs

Inter Club d'Escaldes competed in a two-legged relegation play-off against Atlètic Club d'Escaldes, runners-up from Segona Divisió, for one spot in 2009–10 Primera Divisió. Inter successfully retained their Primera Divisió spot after winning on penalties 10–9.

17 May 2009

20:00 CEST

Inter Club d'Escaldes	2 – 1	Atlètic Club d'Escaldes

Estadi Comunal d'Aixovall, Aixovall

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24 May 2009

18:00 CEST

Atlètic Club d'Escaldes	2 – 1	Inter Club d'Escaldes
Penalties
	9 – 10

Estadi Comunal d'Aixovall, Aixovall

External links

• Official site (in Catalan and English)