2017 Ecuadorian Serie A

The 2017 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol Serie A (officially known as the Copa Banco del Pacífico Serie A for sponsorship reasons) was the 59th season of the Serie A.

Copa Banco del Pacífico Serie A

Season	2017
Dates	29 January – 17 December 2017
Champions	Emelec (14th title)
Relegated	Clan Juvenil Fuerza Amarilla
Copa Libertadores	Emelec Delfín Independiente del Valle Macará
Copa Sudamericana	Barcelona El Nacional Deportivo Cuenca LDU Quito
Matches played	266
Goals scored	693 (2.61 per match)
Top goalscorer	Hernán Barcos (21 goals)
Biggest home win	Macará 7–1 Clan Juvenil (18 August) El Nacional 6–0 Fuerza Amarilla (24 September) Independiente del Valle 6–0 Fuerza Amarilla (22 October)
Biggest away win	Fuerza Amarilla 0–3 Barcelona (28 April) Macará 0–3 Universidad Católica (30 April) Universidad Católica 0–3 Independiente del Valle (15 July) Guayaquil City 0–3 Macará (23 September) LDU Quito 0–3 El Nacional (4 November) Fuerza Amarilla 0–3 Emelec (11 November)
Highest scoring	Clan Juvenil 6–3 Universidad Católica (25 August) LDU Quito 6–3 Clan Juvenil (8 December)
← 2016 2018 →

Teams

Twelve teams competed in the 2017 Serie A season, ten of whom took part in the previous season. Aucas and Mushuc Runa were relegated from the Serie A after accumulating the fewest points during the 2016 season. They were replaced by Macará and Clan Juvenil, the 2016 Serie B winner and runner-up, respectively. Macará made their 31st top-flight appearance and their first return to the Serie A since 2013, while Clan Juvenil participated in their first top-flight appearance.

Stadia and locations

Barcelona

Clan Juvenil

Delfín

Deportivo Cuenca

El Nacional

Emelec

Fuerza Amarilla

Independiente del Valle

LDU Quito

Macará

Guayaquil City

Universidad Católica

Locations of the 2017 Serie A teams.

Note: Table lists in alphabetical order.

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
Barcelona	Guayaquil	Monumental Banco Pichincha	57,267
Clan Juvenil	Sangolquí	Rumiñahui	7,233
Delfín	Manta	Jocay	17,834
Deportivo Cuenca	Cuenca	Banco del Austro Alejandro Serrano Aguilar	18,549
El Nacional	Quito	Olímpico Atahualpa	35,258
Emelec	Guayaquil	Banco del Pacífico Capwell	38,963
Fuerza Amarilla	Machala	9 de Mayo	16,456
Guayaquil Citya	Guayaquil	Christian Benítez Betancourt	10,152
Independiente del Valle	Sangolquí	Rumiñahui	7,233
LDU Quito	Quito	Rodrigo Paz Delgado	41,575
Macará	Ambato	Bellavista	16,467
Universidad Católica	Quito	Olímpico Atahualpa	35,258

a: Known as River Ecuador until the end of the first stage.

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Barcelona	Guillermo Almada	Marathon	Pilsener
Clan Juvenil	Julio Asad	Aurik	Juan Cevallos Accesorios Petroleros Carli Snacks
Delfín	Guillermo Sanguinetti	Spyro	Frescodegfer La Esquina de Ales
Deportivo Cuenca	Gabriel Schürrer	Joma	Chubb Seguros
El Nacional	Eduardo Favaro	Lotto	ANDEC
Emelec	Alfredo Arias	Adidas	Pilsener
Fuerza Amarilla	Alcides de Oliveira (caretaker)	Boman	No sponsor
Guayaquil City	Pool Gavilánez (caretaker)	Astro	DirecTV
Independiente del Valle	Alexis Mendoza	Marathon	Chevrolet DirecTV
LDU Quito	Pablo Repetto	Umbro	Chevrolet
Macará	Paúl Vélez	Boman	Cooperativa San Francisco Ltda.
Universidad Católica	Santiago Escobar	Astro	Discover Card

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
First stage
Fuerza Amarilla	Ángel Gracia	Resigned	3 March[1]	6th	Marcelo Fleitas	6 March[2]
Clan Juvenil	Juan Carlos Garay		12 March[3]	10th	Carlos Sevilla	12 March[4]
River Ecuador	Ángel Gómez	Sacked	28 March[5]	12th	Gabriel Perrone	30 March[6]
Clan Juvenil	Carlos Sevilla	Resigned	28 March[7]	12th	Julio Asad	29 May[8]
LDU Quito	Gustavo Munúa	Sacked	3 July[9]	11th	Pablo Repetto	5 July[10]
Second stage
Fuerza Amarilla	Marcelo Fleitas	Sacked	18 July[11]	9th	Reinaldo Merlo	18 July[11]
Universidad Católica	Jorge Célico	Signed by FEF	18 July[12]	12th	Gustavo Díaz	21 July[13]
Fuerza Amarilla	Reinaldo Merlo	Sacked	15 August[14]	12th	Alcides de Oliveira	16 August[15]
Universidad Católica	Gustavo Díaz	Signed by León	28 August[16]	12th	Marcelo Romano	28 August[17]
Guayaquil City	Gabriel Perrone	Sacked	11 September[18]	12th	Pool Gavilánez	11 September[18]
Universidad Católica	Marcelo Romano	End of caretaker tenure	1 November[19]	12th	Santiago Escobar	1 November[19]

First stage

The first stage began on January 29 and ended on July 9.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Delfín	22	13	8	1	35	14	+21	47	Qualification to Third stage and Copa Libertadores group stage
2	Emelec	22	9	11	2	32	21	+11	38
3	Independiente del Valle	22	10	7	5	27	19	+8	37
4	Barcelona[a]	22	12	5	5	36	21	+15	35
5	Macará	22	9	6	7	29	30	−1	33
6	Deportivo Cuenca	22	7	8	7	24	23	+1	29
7	Universidad Católica	22	7	7	8	33	26	+7	28
8	River Ecuador	22	6	8	8	20	25	−5	26
9	El Nacional	22	5	8	9	27	36	−9	23
10	LDU Quito	22	3	10	9	25	32	−7	19
11	Fuerza Amarilla	22	2	10	10	17	31	−14	16
12	Clan Juvenil	22	2	6	14	19	46	−27	12

Source: FEF, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) Goal difference, 3) Goals for, 4) Away goals for, 5) Goals against, 6) Head-to-head record, 7) Penalty shootout.
If a penalty shootout is not possible: 7) Drawing of lots or playoff game
Notes:

1. Barcelona were deducted six points as punishment for an unpaid debt to Boca Juniors regarding the transfer of Damián Díaz.^[20]

Results

Home \ Away	BAR	CJU	DEL	CUE	NAC	EME	FAM	IDV	LDQ	MAC	RIV	CAT
Barcelona	—	4–1	1–2	1–0	3–2	2–1	2–0	2–1	3–1	1–1	2–0	1–3
Clan Juvenil	1–1	—	0–1	2–0	3–4	2–2	1–1	0–2	0–0	0–2	2–1	0–1
Delfín	1–0	1–0	—	1–0	3–0	3–3	5–1	2–1	4–1	1–0	0–0	3–1
Deportivo Cuenca	1–1	2–0	1–1	—	3–1	2–2	1–0	2–0	2–0	1–3	2–1	2–2
El Nacional	1–3	3–1	0–0	0–0	—	0–2	4–2	0–2	1–1	2–0	2–2	1–1
Emelec	1–0	2–0	1–1	2–1	0–0	—	1–0	1–1	2–0	2–0	1–0	2–2
Fuerza Amarilla	0–3	1–1	1–1	0–0	3–0	0–1	—	1–2	1–1	1–1	0–2	3–1
Independiente del Valle	0–2	4–1	1–1	1–0	0–2	1–1	2–0	—	2–1	1–0	0–0	1–0
LDU Quito	1–1	5–0	0–2	1–1	2–2	1–1	1–1	1–1	—	2–3	4–0	1–0
Macará	2–1	2–2	1–2	2–2	1–0	4–3	0–0	1–1	1–0	—	2–1	0–3
River Ecuador	0–0	2–1	1–0	2–0	3–1	0–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	3–0	—	0–2
Universidad Católica	1–2	5–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–3	3–0	1–3	4–0	—

Source: FEF,^[21] Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second stage

The second stage began on July 14 and concluded on December 9.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Emelec	22	14	3	5	39	20	+19	45	Qualification to Third stage and Copa Libertadores group stage
2	El Nacional	22	12	5	5	46	26	+20	41
3	Macará	22	10	7	5	28	17	+11	37
4	Delfín	22	9	10	3	30	20	+10	37
5	LDU Quito	22	10	5	7	41	32	+9	35
6	Independiente del Valle	22	9	7	6	41	30	+11	34
7	Barcelona	22	8	8	6	26	20	+6	32
8	Deportivo Cuenca	22	9	5	8	27	26	+1	32
9	Guayaquil City	22	4	7	11	15	31	−16	19
10	Universidad Católica	22	5	2	15	23	41	−18	17
11	Clan Juvenil	22	4	5	13	31	56	−25	17
12	Fuerza Amarilla[a]	22	5	2	15	17	45	−28	12

Source: FEF, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) Goal difference, 3) Goals for, 4) Away goals for, 5) Goals against, 6) Head-to-head record, 7) Penalty shootout.
If a penalty shootout is not possible: 7) Drawing of lots or playoff game
Notes:

1. Fuerza Amarilla were deducted five points as punishment for failing to submit its payrolls.^[22]

Results

Home \ Away	BAR	CJU	DEL	CUE	NAC	EME	FAM	GUA	IDV	LDQ	MAC	CAT
Barcelona	—	2–1	1–1	3–0	1–2	0–0	2–0	0–0	1–1	2–0	0–1	0–1
Clan Juvenil	0–2	—	3–3	2–2	2–2	1–2	1–0	4–1	2–4	0–0	1–0	6–3
Delfín	1–1	3–0	—	0–0	2–1	2–1	3–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	2–0
Deportivo Cuenca	1–0	3–0	1–1	—	1–2	0–2	2–1	3–0	1–0	1–3	0–1	3–1
El Nacional	3–3	4–0	1–0	0–1	—	3–1	6–0	1–0	1–1	4–2	1–0	3–1
Emelec	3–0	5–1	0–0	1–0	2–1	—	2–0	2–0	2–1	2–1	2–1	2–0
Fuerza Amarilla	0–2	3–2	1–2	2–0	1–0	0–3	—	0–3[a]	1–2	1–1	2–2	2–0
Guayaquil City	1–2	0–0	0–0	0–1	2–2	1–1	0–2	—	1–2	1–0	0–3	2–1
Independiente del Valle	2–2	2–1	2–2	2–3	2–2	2–1	6–0	4–1	—	1–3	1–1	2–0
LDU Quito	0–0	6–3	5–2	2–1	0–3	2–4	3–1	1–1	3–1	—	2–0	3–0
Macará	1–0	7–1	0–0	1–1	3–2	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–1	—	2–1
Universidad Católica	1–2	2–0	2–0	2–2	1–2	3–1	2–0	0–0	0–3	2–3	0–1	—

Source: FEF,^[21] Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

1. Match awarded 3–0 to Guayaquil City due to Fuerza Amarilla being sanctioned by FEF.^[23]

Third stage

Delfín and Emelec qualified to the Finals (Third stage) by being the First stage and Second stage winners, respectively. The winners were the Serie A champions and earned the Ecuador 1 berth in the 2018 Copa Libertadores, and the losers were the Serie A runners-up and earned the Ecuador 2 berth in the 2018 Copa Libertadores. By having the greater number of points in the aggregate table, Delfín played the second leg at home.

13 December 2017

20:00 UTC–5

Emelec	4–2	Delfín
Guagua 10' Gaibor 45' Preciado 71' Angulo 78'	Report	Luna 69', 90+3'

Estadio George Capwell, Guayaquil

Referee: Roddy Zambrano

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17 December 2017

12:00 UTC–5

Delfín	0–2	Emelec
	Report	Preciado 45' Angulo 64'

Estadio Jocay, Manta

Referee: Omar Ponce

Emelec won 6–2 on aggregate.

Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol 2017 Serie A champions
Emelec 14th title

Aggregate table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Delfín	44	22	18	4	65	34	+31	84	Qualification to Copa Libertadores group stage
2	Emelec (C)	44	23	14	7	71	41	+30	83
3	Independiente del Valle	44	19	14	11	68	49	+19	71	Qualification to Copa Libertadores second stage
4	Macará	44	19	13	12	57	47	+10	70	Qualification to Copa Libertadores first stage
5	Barcelona[a]	44	20	13	11	62	41	+21	67	Qualification to Copa Sudamericana first stage
6	El Nacional	44	17	13	14	73	62	+11	64
7	Deportivo Cuenca	44	16	13	15	51	49	+2	61
8	LDU Quito	44	13	15	16	66	64	+2	54	Qualification to Copa Sudamericana playoff
9	Universidad Católica	44	12	9	23	56	67	−11	45
10	Guayaquil City	44	10	15	19	35	56	−21	45
11	Clan Juvenil (R)	44	6	11	27	50	102	−52	29	Relegation to Serie B
12	Fuerza Amarilla[b] (R)	44	7	12	25	34	76	−42	28

Source: FEF
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) Goal difference, 3) Goals for, 4) Away goals for, 5) Goals against, 6) Head-to-head record, 7) Penalty shootout.
If a penalty shootout is not possible: 7) Drawing of lots or playoff game
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Barcelona were deducted six points as punishment for an unpaid debt to Boca Juniors regarding the transfer of Damián Díaz.^[20]
2. Fuerza Amarilla were deducted five points as punishment for failing to submit its payrolls.^[22]

Copa Sudamericana playoff

The Copa Sudamericana playoff was played between:

• LDU Quito (Aggregate table 4th best team not qualified for 2018 Copa Libertadores)
• Técnico Universitario (2017 Serie B champions)

The winners qualified for the 2018 Copa Sudamericana first stage.

13 December 2017

20:00 UTC–5

Técnico Universitario	1–2	LDU Quito
Armas 35' (pen.)	Report	Barcos 90' Salaberry 90+3'

Estadio Bellavista, Ambato

Referee: Carlos Orbe

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17 December 2017

11:30 UTC–5

LDU Quito	3–3	Técnico Universitario
Cevallos 13', 51' Barcos 17'	Report	Fábio Renato 60', 69', 76'

Estadio Rodrigo Paz Delgado, Quito

Referee: Luis Quiroz

LDU Quito won 5–4 on aggregate.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Club	Goals
1	Hernán Barcos	LDU Quito	21
2	Jonathan Álvez	Barcelona	20
3	Juan Dinenno	Deportivo Cuenca	19
	Carlos Garcés	Delfín	19
5	Juan Manuel Tévez	Macará	17
6	Jhon Cifuente	Universidad Católica	15
	Michael Estrada	Independiente del Valle	15
8	Bryan de Jesús	El Nacional	14
	Ayrton Preciado	Emelec	14
10	Roberto Ordóñez	Delfín	13

Source: FEF