2011–12 Venezuelan Primera División season explained

Competition:Copa Movilnet
Season:2011–12
Winners:Deportivo Lara (1st title)
Relegated:Carabobo
Tucanes
Continentalcup1:2013 Copa Libertadores
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers:Deportivo Lara
Caracas
Deportivo Anzoátegui
Continentalcup2:2012 Copa Sudamericana
Continentalcup2 Qualifiers:Deportivo Lara
Monagas
Deportivo Táchira
League Topscorer:Rafael Castellín (20 goals)
Prevseason:2010–11
Nextseason:2012–13

The 2011–12 Primera División season was the 30th professional season of Venezuela's top-flight football league.

Teams

Eighteen teams will participate this season, sixteen of whom remain from the previous season. Caroní and Atlético Venezuela were relegated after accumulating the fewest points in the 2010–11 season aggregate table. They will be replaced by Llaneros and Tucanes, the 2010–11 Segunda División winner and runner-up, respectively.

TeamCityStadium
Olímpico Hermanos Ghersi Páez
Ramón "Gato" Hernández
Misael Delgado
Olímpico de la UCV
José Antonio Anzoátegui
Metropolitano de Barquisimeto
Olímpico de la UCV
Polideportivo de Pueblo Nuevo
Metropolitano de Mérida
Polideportivo Cachamay
Rafael Calles Pinto
Monumental de Maturín
Brígido Iriarte
Luis Loreto Lira
Antonio José de Sucre
Florentino Oropeza
Agustín Tovar
José "Pachencho" Romero

Torneo Apertura

The Torneo Apertura is the first tournament of the season. It began on August 2011 and ended on December 2011.

Results

Torneo Clausura

The Torneo Clausura is the second tournament of the season.

Results

Season top goalscorers

RankPlayerNationalityClubGoals
1 20
2 14
3 13
4 12
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11
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10
10
10
Source:[1]

Serie Final

Because Deportivo Lara won both the Apertura and Clausura, the Serie Final was not played, and Deportivo Lara was declared champion automatically.

Serie Sudamericana

Other than the teams which already qualify for the Copa Libertadores (Apertura and Clausura champions and the best-placed team in the aggregate table) and the Copa Sudamericana (Copa Venezuela champion), the eight best-placed teams in the aggregate table will contest in the Serie Sudamericana for the remaining two berths to the Copa Sudamericana, which qualify the two winners to the First Stage.

In the first round, the matchups are:

In the second round, the matchups are:

For the two second round winners, the team with the better record in the aggregate table will receive the Venezuela 3 berth, while the other team will receive the Venezuela 4 berth.

First round

Match A

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Match B

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Match C

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Match D

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Second round

Winner A vs. Winner C

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Winner B vs. Winner D

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External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Estadisticas . Statistics . es . May 20, 2012 . .