- Nicaraguan women's football championship
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Nicaraguan women's football championship Countries Nicaragua Founded 1996 Number of teams 10 Levels on pyramid 1 Current champions Diriangén
(2010)Most championships UNAN Managua (6 titles) The Nicaraguan women's football championship is the top level women's football league in the Nicaraguan football league system. The league was first played in the 1996 season. Record champions are UNAN Managua with six titles.
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Competition format
The current format which was adopted in 2002 features ten teams playing a double round-robin. After those the six best placed teams advance to the playoffs. Three matches are played over two legs. The three winners and the best loser advance to the semi-finals. Those and the final are the contested over two legs too.
Champions
The list of all finals:[1]
Tournament Winner Score Runner up 1996 UCA 1997 UCA 1998/99 UCA UAM 1999 UCA 2000 Diriangén UCA 2001 Diriangén 2-1 UAM 2002 UAM 1-0 Estelí 2003 Diriangén 4-1, 6-0 Jalapa 2004 UNAN Managua 0-1, 2-0 Diriangén 2005 UNAN Managua 0-0, 0-0 aet (3-2 pen) Estelí 2006 UNAN Managua 0-0, 1-0 aet Las Segovias 2007 UNAN Managua 3-0, 4-3 UAM 2008 UNAN Managua 0-0, 0-0 aet (4-3 pen) UAM 2009 UNAN Managua 1–0, 2–1 All Stars 2010[2] Diriangén 1–0, 1–2 (a) UNAN Managua - UAM is the team of the Universidad Americana
- UCA is the team of the Universidad Centroamericana.
- UNAN is the team of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua
Teams
The 2010 season was started with 10 teams, of which three withdrew during the season.[3]
- UNAN Managua
- Cacique Diriangén
- Caruna RL
- Deportivo Estelí
- Deportivo Kolocho
- Saúl Álvarez
- Deportivo Matagalpa
- Rivas FC (withdrew)
- San Marcos FC (withdrew)
- Santo Junior (withdrew)
See also
References
- ^ "Nicaragua - List of Women Champions". RSSSF. http://rsssf.com/tablesn/nica-womchamp.html. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
- ^ "Diriangen wins championship" (in Spanish). mundodelfutbolfemenino.blogspot.com. 26 December 2010. http://mundodelfutbolfemenino.blogspot.com/2010/12/nicaragua-diriangen-apaga-la-unan.html. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
- ^ "Nicaragua (Women) 2010". RSSSF. http://rsssf.com/tablesn/nica-wom2010.html. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
External links
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