The 2010/11 season included the 95th and 96th edition of the Primera División de Costa Rica , the highest Costa Rican soccer league. This season, two championships - Invierno Scotiabank 2010 and Verano Scotiabank 2011 - were played. An overall table was created from the results of both championships to determine the relegated to the Liga de Ascenso-Segunda División . LD Alajuelense won his 25th and 26th championship titles and qualified for the CONCACAF Champions League 2011/12 . The best runner-up also qualified. Despite the exclusion of CD Barrio México during the season from UNAFUT, a relegated team was determined; CF Universidad de Costa Rica took last place in the overall table and was relegated to the second division.
In the 2010/11 season two championships were played, first the Torneo de Invierno 2010 from July to December, then the Torneo de Verano 2011 from January to May. The Torneos were played in the following mode:
The twelve participating clubs were divided into two groups A and B.
Within each group, the clubs met once at home and once away, and there was one game against the clubs in the other group. In total, there were 16 games per team.
The two best-placed teams in each group and the four next-best teams (across groups) qualified for the play-offs , which - starting with the quarter-finals - were played in the home and return matches .
Case "Águilas Guanacastecas CF - CD Barrio México"
Before the start of the season, Mario Sotela , majority owner of the highly indebted Águilas Guanacastecas CF , wanted to sell the franchise to the second division club CD Barrio México and start in the second division in the 2010/11 season. However, this exchange, only one week before the start of the season, was forbidden by FEDEFUTBOL , since the two responsible league associations ( UNAFUT , LIACSE ) had already worked out the exact participation and competition regulations as well as the game schedule, and franchise sales were only possible before the various regulations were approved are.
So Sotela and Minor Vargas , majority owners of CD Barrio México, decided to keep the two franchises in the respective league, but to register the board, the players, the stadium, etc. of the other club and thus swap the franchise.
CD Barrio México, which now plays in the Primera División, immediately changed the name of the franchise to CD Barrio México. However, the Liga de Ascenso banned Águilas Guanacastecas CF from renaming their new franchise. Thus the Águilas wear jerseys in their club colors, but with the name CD Barrio México .
This means that there is a club called CD Barrio México in both the first and second division , with the real Barrio México now playing in the first and the Águilas with the name Barrio México in the second division. Despite everything, the press continues to call the Águilas Águilas .
Beginning of the season Mario Sotela changed the name "fancy names" of his antretenden under the name Club Deportivo Barrio Mexico clubs in Águilas CF . Since then, the hometown of the Águilas is no longer Liberia, but Heredia.
In November 2010, before the final day of the group, former Liberia players Mia CF Minor Díaz and Pablo Salazar sued the franchise currently being used by CD Barrio México in the labor court, as they were each owed $ 200,000. The labor court then determined that the franchise was blocked from gaming operations until CD Barrio México (user of the franchise) had paid Liberia's debts. CD Barrio lost the last game of the group stage against AD Municipal Pérez Zeledón 3-0 at the green table, as did the subsequent quarter-finals against AD Santos de Guápiles .
In December 2010 the General Assembly of UNAFUT decided during the new season to also rate the Barrio México games with 0: 3, unless all debts of the franchise are paid on the Friday before the game in question.
After several meetings, discussions and investigations into the case, the members of UNAFUT voted at an extraordinary general assembly on March 1, 2011 to exclude the Liberia Mía franchise (used by CD Barrio México) with immediate effect. The remaining games of the club are rated 0: 3 and the rest of the game operations are maintained. The last placed will be relegated to the second class despite the exclusion of Barrio México; however, the excluded franchise is completely excluded from professional football (1st and 2nd league).
Special additional rule
Each squad (consisting of a maximum of 25 players) may contain a maximum of four foreigners.
