2008 ANAPROF Clausura

The ANAPROF Clausura 2008 season (officially "Torneo Clausura 2008") started on July 25, 2008. On November 30, 2008, the Clausura 2008 finalized with Árabe Unido crowned four time ANAPROF champion after beating Tauro F.C. 3–2 after extra time. Therefore Árabe Unido will participate in the 2009–10 CONCACAF Champions League. Plaza Amador remained in the ANAPROF after beating Primera A 2008 champion Río Abajo F.C. with a 3-2 aggregate score. Therefore, no team was relegated from ANAPROF for the second consecutive year.

ANAPROF

Season	Clausura 2008
Champions	-
Relegated	-
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← 2008(A) 2009 →

ANAPROF 2008 Clausura team distribution

Teams

Club	City	Stadium
Alianza F.C.	Panama City	Estadio Camping Resort
Árabe Unido	Colon	Estadio Armando Dely Valdés
Atlético Chiriquí	David	Estadio Glorias Deportivas Barüenses
Atlético Veragüense	Santiago	Estadio Virgilio Tejeira Complejo Deportivo Carlos Jiménez*
Chepo F.C.	Chepo	Estadio Bernardo Gil
Chorrillo F.C.	Panama City	Estadio Municipal de Balboa
Plaza Amador	Panama City	Estadio Bernardo Gil
San Francisco F.C.	La Chorrera	Estadio Virgilio Tejeira
Sporting San Miguelito	San Miguelito	Estadio Bernardo Gil
Tauro F.C.	Panama City	Campo de Deportes Giancarlo Gronchi

• [*] From round 11

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Árabe Unido	18	11	4	3	39	17	+22	37	Semifinal
2	Tauro	18	9	6	3	33	23	+10	33
3	San Francisco	18	9	4	5	35	27	+8	31
4	Chepo	18	8	5	5	31	19	+12	29
5	Atlético Veragüense	18	7	6	5	25	21	+4	27
6	Sporting San Miguelito	18	5	8	5	26	24	+2	23
7	Alianza	18	6	3	9	20	24	−4	21
8	Atlético Chiriquí	18	5	4	9	19	42	−23	19
9	Chorrillo	18	4	6	8	18	26	−8	18
10	Plaza Amador	18	2	2	14	9	31	−22	8

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results table

Home \ Away	ALI	ÁRA	ACH	AVE	CHE	CHO	PLA	SAN	SPO	TAU
Alianza	—	1–3	1–2	2–2	0–1	1–0	3–0	1–4	3–1	2–0
Árabe Unido	2–1	—	7–0	4–1	0–1	1–1	5–1	3–0	1–1	3–1
Atl. Chiríqui	0–2	1–3	—	2–1	1–1	2–2	1–0	1–2	1–2	1–1
Atl. Veragüense	1–0	3–0	3–0	—	1–0	1–3	3–0	1–0	1–1	2–3
Chepo	1–1	1–2	4–0	1–2	—	2–0	3–0	1–1	2–0	4–1
Chorrillo	0–0	1–2	1–1	1–1	3–2	—	1–0	2–3	1–5	0–2
Plaza Amador	3–0	0–2	0–1	0–0	2–1	0–1	—	0–2	0–3	0–1
San Francisco	1–2	0–0	5–1	3–1	3–3	1–0	2–1	—	1–1	3–4
Sporting	2–0	1–1	2–4	0–0	1–2	2–1	0–0	1–3	—	2–2
Tauro	1–0	2–0	5–0	1–1	1–1	0–0	3–2	4–1	1–1	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Final round

	Semifinals (agg)					Final
	Árabe Unido		7
	Chepo		5
						Árabe Unido		3
						Tauro		2
	Tauro		1
	San Francisco		1

Semifinals 1st leg

November 16, 2008

Chepo	5-4	Árabe Unido
Luis Jaramillo 31' 68' 90' Ismael Menal 77' Armando Gun 89'		Omar Camargo 1' Manuel Mosquera 23' Nelson Barahona 33' Orlando Rodríguez 46'

Estadio Bernardo Gil

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November 16, 2008

San Francisco	0-1	Tauro
		Luis Escobar 22'

Estadio Virgilio Tejeira

Semifinals 2nd leg

November 22, 2008

Árabe Unido	3-0	Chepo
Victor Rene Mendieta Jr. 8' Jose Justavino 60' Orlando Rodríguez 88'

Estadio Armando Dely Valdés

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November 23, 2008

Tauro	0-1	San Francisco
		Alberto Zapata 61'
Penalties
Edwin Aguilar Luis Moreno Gustavo Avila Anel Canales	4-2	Alberto Zapata Eduardo Jiménez Temistocles Perez Santiago de Alba

Campo de Deportes Giancarlo Gronchi

Tauro advances to final 4–2 on penalties

Final

November 30, 2008

Árabe Unido	3-2	Tauro F.C.
Orlando Rodríguez 30' 66' Victor Rene Mendieta Jr. 111'		Rolando Palma 5' Edwin Aguilar 71'

Estadio Virgilio Tejeira

Clausura 2008 champion
Árabe Unido 4th title

Árabe Unido qualified for 2009–10 CONCACAF Champions League.

Top goalscorers

Position	Player	Scored for	Goals
1	Orlando Rodríguez	Árabe Unido	18
2	Luis Jaramillo	Chepo	14
3	Alberto Zapata	San Francisco	13
4	Manuel Mosquera	Árabe Unido	11
-	Brunet Hay	Tauro	11
6	Edwin Aguilar	Tauro	8
7	Ismael Menal	Chepo	7
-	Cesar Medina	Alianza	7
9	Luis Escobar	Tauro	6
-	Eybir Bonaga	Chiriquí	6

Goalscorers by team

Club	Club goals	Goals	Nat.	Player
Alianza	20	7		César Medina
		4		Alberto Skinner
		2		Jair Carrasquilla
		2		Francisco Lopez
		1		Jostick McCormack
		1		Edwin Oropeza
		1		Javier Navas
		1		Gilmar Torres
		1		Yishak González De León
Árabe Unido	49	18		Orlando Rodríguez
		11		Manuel Mosquera
		5		Victor Rene Mendieta Jr.
		3		Eduardo McTaggart
		2		Nelson Barahona
		2		Amílcar Henríquez
		2		Publio Rodriguez
		1		Richard Dixon
		1		William Aguilar
		1		Andres Santamaria
		1		Armando Cooper
		1		Omar Camargo
		1		Jose Justavino
Atlético Chiriquí	19	6		Eybir Bonaga
		4		Anthony Valdes
		3		Clive Trottman
		3		Auriel Gallardo
		1		Mario Mendez
		1		Luis Rolando Mendoza
		1		Gabriel Ávila
Atlético Veragüense	25	6		Jair Medina
		6		John Mosquera
		5		Oscar Vargas
		3		Catalino Smith
		2		Cesar Blackman
		1		Marco Aparicio
		1		Jairo Pineda
		1		Rodman Gonzalez
Chepo	36	14		Luis Jaramillo
		7		Ismael Menal
		4		Delano Welch
		4		José Luis González
		3		Cesar Aguilar
		1		Carlos Rodríguez
		1		José Calderon
		1		Gerardo Barrios
		1		Carlos Martinez
		1		Armando Gun
Chorrillo	18	6		Johnny Ruiz
		3		Julio Medina III
		2		Bernardo Palma
		1		Alfredo Phillips
		1		Jaime Caby
		1		Roderick Brown
		1		Samuel Stewart
		1		Gilberto Walter
		1		Luis Morales
		1		Jose Julio
Plaza Amador	12	2		Engie Mitre
		2		Julio Ruiz
		2		Enrico Small
		2		Luis Olivardia
		1		Luis de Leon
		1		Luis Palacios
		1		Felipe Borowski
		1		Nestor Murillo
San Francisco	36	13		Alberto Zapata
		4		Eduardo Jiménez
		3		Angel Lombardo
		3		Alberto Blanco
		3		Temìstocles Pèrez
		2		Manuel Torres
		2		Juan Ramón Solís
		2		Victor Suarez
		2		Boris Alfaro
		1		Pablo Romero
		1		Marco Aparicio (OG)
Sporting San Miguelito	26	4		Luis Mendoza
		3		Miguel Vásquez
		3		Esteban Jaén
		3		Anthony Basile
		3		Luis Angel Rodriguez
		2		Luis Ovalles
		2		Charles Multon
		2		Ricardo Phillips
		1		Alejandro Dawson
		1		Yairo Yao
		1		Jair Miranda
		1		Chaimir Toloy
Tauro	36	11		Brunet Hay
		8		Edwin Aguilar
		6		Luis Escobar
		3		Gabriel Ríos
		3		Anel Canales
		2		Rolando Blackburn
		1		Gustavo Avila
		1		Josue Brown
		1		Rolando Palma

Relegation table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Árabe Unido	31	17	6	8	54	31	+23	57
2	Tauro	31	16	8	7	54	41	+13	56
3	San Francisco	31	14	11	6	54	42	+12	53
4	Chepo	31	13	10	8	50	31	+19	49
5	Sporting San Miguelito	31	11	10	10	44	40	+4	43
6	Atlético Veragüense	31	9	11	11	40	48	−8	38
7	Chorrillo	31	7	13	11	32	39	−7	34
8	Atlético Chiriquí	31	9	7	15	33	64	−31	34
9	Alianza	31	9	4	18	45	51	−6	31
10	Plaza Amador	31	6	8	17	22	41	−19	26	Relegation playoff

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Relegation playoff

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Plaza Amador	3-2	Río Abajo F.C.	2-2	1-0

Plaza Amador remain in ANAPROF

1st leg

November 21, 2008

Plaza Amador	2–2	Río Abajo F.C.
Luis Olivardia 24' 37'		Hector de la Cruz 8' Aramis Haywood 83'

Estadio Bernardo Gil

2nd leg

December 6, 2008

Río Abajo F.C.	0–1	Plaza Amador
		Nestor Murillo 56'

Estadio Balboa

Local derby statistics

El Super Clasico Nacional - Tauro v Plaza Amador

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October 16, 2008

Tauro F.C.	3–2	Plaza Amador
Anel Canales 14' Brunet Hay 27' Gabriel Ríos 90'		Julio Ruiz 34' 45'

Giancarlo Gronchi

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October 31, 2008

Plaza Amador	0–1	Tauro F.C.
		Edwin Aguilar 75'

Bernardo Gil

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Clasico del Pueblo - Plaza Amador v Chorillo

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July 26, 2008

Chorrillo F.C.	1–0	Plaza Amador
Alfredo Phillips 47'

Balboa

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September 19, 2008

Plaza Amador	0–1	Chorrillo F.C.
		Julio Medina III 72'

Bernardo Gil

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Clasico Interiorano - Atlético Chiriquí v Atlético Veragüense

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September 17, 2008

Atlético Chiriquí	2–1	Atlético Veragüense
Clive Trottman 28' Auriel Gallardo 47'		Oscar Vargas 4'

Glorias Barüenses

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November 1, 2008

Atlético Veragüense	3–0	Atlético Chiriquí
John Mosquera 11' Jair Medina 27' Cesar Blackman 52'

Carlos Jiménez

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