2011 Puerto Rico Soccer League season

Puerto Rico Soccer League

Season	2011
Champions	FC Leones de Ponce
Matches played	48
Goals scored	242 (5.04 per match)
Biggest home win	FC Leones de Ponce 17–0 Huracán FC Caguas CA River Plate Puerto Rico 17-0 Huracán FC Caguas
Biggest away win	Huracán FC Caguas 2–10 CA River Plate Puerto Rico
Highest scoring	FC Leones de Ponce 17–0 Huracán FC Caguas CA River Plate Puerto Rico 17-0 Huracán FC Caguas
← 2010

The 2011 Puerto Rico Soccer League season was the 3rd season of Puerto Rico's top-division professional football league. The regular season ran from April to July 2011. The league had planned in 2010 to make use of an Apertura and Clausura format, but this format was not be utilized. The Sevilla FC Puerto Rico won the regular season, but was defeated at the Playoff final by debuting FC Leones de Ponce.

Teams

Fajardo FC, Guaynabo Fluminense FC and Puerto Rico Islanders FC did not compete in the competition, with the Islanders taking part in the inaugural season of the NASL. Nevertheless, FC Leones de Ponce entered the competition, adding up to six clubs the number of teams participating in the season. Three of the clubs —Puerto Rico United SC, CA River Plate Puerto Rico and Sevilla FC Puerto Rico— took part in the inaugural season of the USL Pro. However, due to financial difficulties, the clubs were removed from USL Pro competition after only five games.^[1] Completed matches still counted towards the standings and were double both PRSL and USL Pro league matches.

Huracán FC

CA River Plate

Mayagüez FC

PR United

FC Leones

Sevilla FC

Locations of the 2011 Puerto Rico Soccer League teams

Club	Home city	Stadium
FC Leones de Ponce	Ponce	Francisco Montaner Stadium
Huracán FC Caguas	Caguas	Yldefonso Solá Morales Stadium
Mayagüez FC	Mayagüez	Mayagüez Athletics Stadium
Puerto Rico United SC	Aguada	Aguada Stadium
CA River Plate Fajardo	Fajardo	Roberto Clemente Stadium[L 1]
Sevilla FC Juncos	Juncos	Sevilla FC Stadium

1. River Plate PR are playing in Roberto Clemente Stadium in Carolina while their home stadium in Fajardo is being built.

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sevilla FC Puerto Rico (C)	15	9	4	2	48	17	+31	31	Regular season champion. Advances directly to the PlayOffs final.
2	FC Leones	15	7	5	3	49	22	+27	26	Advances directly to the PlayOffs semifinal.
3	River Plate Puerto Rico	15	7	4	4	62	17	+45	25	Advances to the PlayOffs quarterfinal.
4	Puerto Rico United (DQ)	15	7	2	6	29	33	−4	23	Sanctioned with suspension by PRSL due to failure to meet PRSL regulations.[2]
5	Mayagüez FC	15	6	3	6	31	27	+4	21	Advances to the PlayOffs quarterfinal.
6	Huracán de Caguas	15	0	0	15	10	113	−103	0

Updated to games played on 24 July 2011.
Source: PRSoccer.org
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Matches 1–10

Home \ Away^[1]	HUR	LEO	MAY	PRU	RIV	SEV
Huracán de Caguas		0–4	0–7	1–5	2–10	0–3
FC Leones	5–1		3–1	3–1	1–4	4–4
Mayagüez FC	5–0	2–1		0–1	1–3	0–2
Puerto Rico United	5–0	0–0	6–0		2–1	1–1
River Plate Puerto Rico	7–0	0–1	2–2	10–0		2–2
Sevilla FC Puerto Rico	10–0	2–0	1–3	2–3	1–0

Updated to games played on 29 July 2011.
Source: PRSoccer.org
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Matches 11–15

Home \ Away^[1]	HUR	LEO	MAY	PRU	RIV	SEV
Huracán de Caguas			3–5	3–4
FC Leones	17–0				2–2	3–3
Mayagüez FC		2–2			0–0
Puerto Rico United		0–3	1–3		0–3
River Plate Puerto Rico	17–0					1–3
Sevilla FC Puerto Rico	9–0		2–0	3–0

Updated to games played on 19 July 2011.
Source: FIFA.org
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

^{* During the second half of the seasons, teams will only face each other one time, resulting in an unequal count of Home/Away games.}

PlayOffs

Quarter-final

Semi-final

Final

July 27^*

CA River Plate Fajardo

4

July 29^*

Mayagüez FC^+

1

FC Leones de Ponce

2

July 31

CA River Plate Fajardo

1

Sevilla FC Juncos

1(0)

FC Leones de Ponce

1(3)

^* Both quarterfinal and semifinal games have been rescheduled. The original dates were July 26 and 28 respectively.

⁺ Mayagüez FC (fifth placed) replaced the fourth placed Puerto Rico United SC as it had been suspended by PRSL.^[2]

References

1. USL Reforms Agreement with PRSL: Three PRSL teams removed from 2011 USL PRO schedule
2. PR United suspended from PRSL. (Spanish)

External links

• Official website (Spanish)