Serie A (Ecuador)

Copa Banco del Pacífico
First edition	1957
hierarchy	1st League
Teams	12
master	LDU Quito (11th title)
Record champions	Barcelona Sporting Club (15)
Record scorer	Ermen Benítez (191)
Website	www.ecuafutbol.org
Qualification for	Copa Libertadores Copa Sudamericana
↓ Series B

The Serie A is the highest Ecuadorian Football League. It has existed since 1957 and is run and organized by the Federación Ecuatoriana de Fútbol . 16 clubs have played in the league since 2019. The championship is held in three stages. The first two stages consist of the first and second legs between all teams. In the third stage, the leaders of the first and second stage determine the champions. For commercial reasons, the championship was held between 2003 and 2008 under the official name of Copa Pilsener . From 2009 to 2011, sponsored by Banco Pichincha , the official name was Copa Credife . In the following year they did not use a foreign name. In 2013 they returned to the name Copa Pilsener. The league system of Ecuador is divided as follows:

• Serie A (16 teams)
• Serie B (10 teams)
• Second category (22 provincial groups)

history

The first football clubs in Ecuador were founded in 1899. From 1922 the Pichincha and Guayas provinces organized regional amateur championships. Between 1940 and 1949 the first amateur championships were held at the national level, and the first professional championships at the regional level in the 1950s. In 1957, the first official championship was held as Campeonato Nacional de clubes en Ecuador , which was suspended in the following two years, but has been held continuously since 1960. It was not until the 1970s that clubs from cities other than Quito and Guayaquil took part in the championship . The first champions who did not come from one of these two cities were the Olmedo club from Riobamba in 2000 and Deportivo Cuenca in 2004 . In the 1970s, 10 clubs took part in the championship. The number of participating clubs fluctuated in the 1980s and has since risen to 16 and 18 respectively. Since 1989, 12 teams have participated in the championship, in 2000 the number was reduced to 10. In 2005 two champions were played in Apertura and Clausura in order to adapt the system to the leagues of other Latin American countries. But in 2006 they returned to the system with one master per year. Since 2008, 12 teams have again participated in the championship. In 2008, a club from Ecuador managed to win an international title for the first time. LDU Quito won the most important club competition in South America, the Copa Libertadores . Since then, the club has won the Copa Sudamericana 2009 and the Recopa Sudamericana twice . 16 teams have been taking part in the championship since 2019.

mode

championship

The mode in which the Ecuadorian master is determined has changed several times over the years. 16 teams are currently fighting for the title in two stages. The first stage consists of 30 match days, on which all teams meet in home and return matches. In the second stage, the first eight teams play the champions in a final round with home and return games. In the quarter-finals, the first plays against the eighth, the second against the seventh, and so on. This is followed by the semi-finals and final.

Qualification for the continental competitions

For the Copa Libertadores , the champions, the runner-up and the next two teams in the overall table qualify. For the Copa Sudamericana , the next three teams in the overall table as well as the winner or the best-placed team of the Ecuadorian Cup not qualified for an international competition qualify.

Clubs in Serie A 2019

LDU El Nacional U. Católica Aucas América Barcelona Emelec Guayaquil City Dep. Cuenca Independiente Macará T. Universitario Mushuc Runa Delfín F. Amarilla Olmedo

Clubs in Serie A 2019

The following teams will take part in the 2019 season.

team	city	Stadion	capacity
America de Quito	Quito	Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa	35,742
Aucas	Quito	Estadio Gonzalo Pozo Ripalda	18,799
Barcelona	Guayaquil	Estadio Monumental Banco Pichincha	57,267
Delfín	manta	Estadio Jocay	17,834
Deportivo Cuenca	Cuenca	Estadio Alejandro Serrano Aguilar	16,540
El Nacional	Quito	Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa	35,742
Emelec	Guayaquil	Estadio George Capwell	40,020
Fuerza Amarilla	Machala	Estadio 9 de Mayo	16,456
Guayaquil City	Guayaquil	Estadio Christian Benítez Betancourt	10.152
Independiente del Valle	Sangolquí	Estadio Rumiñahui	7.233
LDU Quito	Quito	Estadio La Casa Blanca	41,575
Macará	Ambato	Estadio Bellavista	16,467
Mushuc Runa SC	Ambato	Estadio Bellavista	16,467
Olmedo	Riobamba	Estadio Olímpico de Riobamba	14,400
Técnico Universitario	Ambato	Estadio Bellavista	16,467
Universidad Católica	Quito	Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa	35,742

The master

rank	society	masterpieces companies	Vizemeister- companies	Years of championships
1	Barcelona Sporting Club	15th	12	1960, 1963, 1966, 1970, 1971, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1995, 1997, 2012, 2016
2	CS Emelec	14th	14th	1957, 1961, 1965, 1972, 1979, 1988, 1993, 1994, 2001, 2002, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017
3	CD El Nacional	13	7th	1967, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1992, 1996, 2005C 1 , 2006
4th	LDU Quito	11	4th	1969, 1974, 1975, 1990, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2005A 1 , 2007, 2010, 2018
5	Deportivo Quito	5	3	1964, 1968, 2008, 2009, 2011
6th	Deportivo Cuenca	1	5	2004
7th	Delfín Sporting Club	1	1	2019
	CD Olmedo	1	1	2000
9	Deportivo Everest	1	0	1962
10	9 de Octubre	0	3
11	America de Quito	0	2
	Universidad Católica	0	2
	Técnico Universitario	0	2
14th	CD Espoli	0	1
	Filanbanco	0	1
	Patria	0	1
	Valdez SC (Milagro)	0	1
	Independiente del Valle	0	1

¹ In 2005 two masters were played, one of the Apertura (A) and one of the Clausura (C).

Top scorer

year	player	society	Gates
1957	Simón Cañarte	Barcelona	4th
1960	Enrique Cantos	Barcelona	8th
1961	Galo Pinto	Deportivo Everest	12
1962	Iris López	Barcelona	9
1963	Carlos Alberto Raffo	Emelec	4th
1964	Jorge Valencia	America de Manta	8th
1965	Helio Cruz	Barcelona	8th
1966	Coutinho	LDU Quito	13
1967	Tom Rodríguez	El Nacional	16
1968	Víctor Manuel Battaini	Deportivo Quito	19th
1969	Francisco Bertocchi	LDU Quito	26th
1970	Rómulo Dudar Mina	Macará	19th
1971	Alfonso Obregón	LDU de Portoviejo	18th
1972	Ángel Liciardi 1	Deportivo Cuenca	24
1973	Ángel Marín	America de Quito	18th
1974	Angel Liciardi	Deportivo Cuenca	19th
1975	Angel Liciardi	Deportivo Cuenca	36
1976	Angel Liciardi	Deportivo Cuenca	35
1977	Fabián Paz y Miño	El Nacional	27
	Ángel Marín 1	Deportivo Quito	27
1978	Juan José Pérez	LDU de Portoviejo	24
1979	Carlos Horacio Miori	Emelec	26th
1980	Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez	America de Quito	26th
1981	Paulo César	LDU Quito	25th
1982	José Villafuerte	El Nacional	25th
1983	Paulo César	Barcelona	28
1984	Sergio Saucedo	Deportivo Quito	25th
1985	Juan Carlos de Lima	Universidad Católica	24
	Alexander "Guga" da Silva	Esmeraldas Petrolero	24
1986	Juan Carlos de Lima	Deportivo Quito	23
1987	Ermen Benítez	El Nacional	23
	Hamilton Cuvi	Filanbanco	23
	Waldemar Victorino	LDU de Portoviejo	23
1988	Janio Pinto	LDU Quito	18th
1989	Ermen Benítez	El Nacional	23
1990	Ermen Benítez	El Nacional	29
1991	Pedro Varela	Delfín Sporting Club	24
1992	Carlos Muñoz Martínez	Barcelona	19th
1993	Diego Herrera	LDU Quito	19th
1994	Manuel Uquillas	CD Espoli	25th
1995	Manuel Uquillas	Barcelona	24
1996	Ariel Graziani	Emelec	29
1997	Ariel Graziani	Emelec	24
1998	Iván Kaviedes	Emelec	43
1999	Christian Botero	Macará	25th
2000	Alejandro Kenig	Emelec	25th
2001	Carlos Alberto Juarez	Emelec	17th
2002	Christian Carnero	Deportivo Quito	26th
2003	Ariel Graziani	Barcelona	23
2004	Ebelio Ordóñez	El Nacional	28
2005A	Wilson Segura	LDU de Loja	21st
2005C	Omar Guerra	SD Aucas	17th
2006	Luis Miguel Escalada	Emelec	29
2007	Juan Carlos Ferreyra	Deportivo Cuenca	17th
2008	Pablo Palacios	Barcelona	20th
2009	Claudio Bieler	LDU Quito	22nd
2010	Jaime Ayoví	Emelec	23
2011	Narciso Mina	Independiente del Valle	28
2012	Narciso Mina	Barcelona	30th
2013	Federico Nieto	Deportivo Quito	29
2014	Armando Wila	Universidad Católica	20th
2015	Miller Bolaños	CS Emelec	25th
2016	Maxi Barreiro	Delfín Sporting Club	26th
2017	Hernán Barcos	LDU Quito	21st
2018	Jhon Cifuente	Universidad Católica	37

¹ In 1972 and 1977, the Serie B top scorer was declared the overall top scorer.

Web links

• Federación Ecuatoriana de Fútbol: Official website of the association (Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ El trofeo del Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol tiene nuevo nombre (Spanish) on www.elcomercio.com from January 7, 2013, accessed on June 1, 2013
2. ↑ ecuafutbol.org: (June 19, 2011) ( Memento of the original from November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ ecuafutbol.org: (June 19, 2011) ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.