Puerto Rico Soccer League 2008 NB: first ever professional league; the reigning champions Fraigcomar from Río Piedras (champions 2005, 2006 and 2007) do not enter or were not invited. Regular Stage Final Table: 1.Sevilla FC Puerto Rico 14 10 2 2 45-14 32 Qualified [*] 2.River Plate Ponce 14 8 4 2 42-12 28 Qualified 3.Atlético de San Juan FC 14 8 3 3 42-21 27 Qualified 4.Guaynabo Fluminense FC 14 6 7 1 40-13 25 Qualified - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 5.Academia Quintana 14 6 1 7 28-27 19 6.Puerto Rico Giants de Carolina 14 4 3 7 26-29 15 7.Caguas Huracán 14 2 2 10 11-38 8 8.Pachuca Tornados de Humacao 14 1 0 13 9-89 3 [*] affiliated side to Puerto Rico Islanders, play in Bayamón Round 1 [Jun 28] Atlético 0-2 River Plate [Daniel Gómez Vinazco 43, Harry Irizarry 84] [Jul 3] Sevilla 1-0 Huracán [Ernesto Armstrong 61og] [Jul 5] Academia 5-0 Tornados [Aiman Omar Yahia 28, 77, Francisco Cirino 52, Efraín Torres 75, Sergio Castro 80] [Jul 6] Fluminense 2-2 Giants [Pedro Power 55, Keith Pavón 63; Mauricio Turizo 62, Javier Moya (og) 2-2] Round 2 [Jul 12] Sevilla 1-0 River Plate Academia 2-3 Atlético [Francisco Cirino 51, Jesús Garrido (og) 2-3; Eloy Matos 10, 81, Rudson Crisóstomo 34] [Jul 13] Huracán 0-0 Fluminense Tornados 1-5 Giants [Alberto Villegas 33; Ramón De Santos 10, 89, Ernesto Roldán 25, Cristian Turizo 70, 75] Round 3 [Jul 19] Atlético 9-0 Tornados [Geison Carvalho 7, 42, Eloy Matos 15, Rudson Crisóstomo 27, 69, Ricardo Vigo 48, 87, 89, Lenin Cruz 7-0] Giants 3-0 Huracán [Ramón Mariano De los Santos 41, 70, Mauricio Turizo 76] [Jul 20] Sevilla 4-2 Academia [Víctor Rivera 11og, Isaac Nieves 15, Elliot Vélez 3-0, Alberto Delgado 88; Jesús Lebrón 59pen, Aiman Omar Yahia 71] River Plate 1-1 Fluminense [Michael Reyes 22; Yaike Pérez 70] Round 4 [Jul 26] Fluminense 1-2 Academia [Yaikel Pérez 1-0; Aiman Omar Yahia 20, 90] [Jul 27] Tornados 2-3 Huracán [Luis Ángel Díaz 4, Gean Villanueva 17; José Delgado 6, 9, 19] River Plate 3-1 Giants [Marcelo Moya 6, Alexis Medina 25, Michael Vélez 90; Chris Gore 50] Sevilla 1-0 Atlético [Víctor Herrera 42] Round 5 [Aug 2] River Plate 3-0 Huracán [Jerónimo González 46, Michael Reyes 50, Oliver Líelo Joseph Brisson 90pen] Fluminense 4-4 Atlético [Carlos Méndez 8, Yaikel Pérez 63, Keith Pavón 77, 83; Lenin Cruz 15, Jaison Carvalho 36, Héctor Rivera 78, Héctor Calderón 89] Giants 1-1 Academia Tornados 1-11 Sevilla Round 6 [Aug 9] Atlético 4-2 Giants [Rudson Crisóstomo 27, 35, 71, 90; Oscar Sánchez 34, Ernesto Guerrero 58pen] [Aug 10] Tornados 1-10 River Plate [?; Lucas Medina, Michael Reyes, Daniel Gómez (2), Jerónimo González, Alejandro Russo, Fabián Zermaten, Gilberto Mendoza (2), Miguel López] Academia 4-1 Huracán [Francisco Cirino 23, Luis Bermúdez 32, Kelvin Flores 50, Efraín Torres 4-1; Julio Moreno 55] Sevilla 0-0 Fluminense Round 7 [Aug 16] River Plate 4-0 Academia [Aug 17] Huracán 1-2 Atlético [Ángel Ortiz; Rudson Crisótomo,y Eloy Matos] Fluminense 9-0 Tornados [Yaikel Pérez 24, 32, 45, 73, 77, Keith Pavon 36, Chago Matos 52, Jininho 63, Joe Jara 71] Giants 0-2 Sevilla [Víctor Herrera 62, Julio César 90] Round 8 [Aug 23] Giants 2-3 Fluminense [Christian Turizo 17, Luis Ramírez 2-3; Ricardo Alcerro Madariaga 7, 32, Juninho 24] [Aug 24] River Plate 5-1 Atlético [Michael Reyes 22, 40, Alejandro Russo 29, Alexis Medina 52, 89; Rudson Crisóstomo] Tornados 1-5 Academia [Agenis Soria 39; Efraín Torres 21, 50, 71, Daniel Salazar 62, Omar Montero 90pen] [Aug 27] Huracán 1-5 Sevilla [Ernesto Armstrong 76pen; Víctor Herrera 11pen, 41, Mahamadou Simpara 26, Alberto Delgado 37, Julio Maya 63] Round 9 [Aug 29] Atlético 3-1 Academia [Rudson Crisóstomo 43, Geison Moura 47, 66; Luis Bermúdez 71] [Aug 30] River Plate 1-1 Sevilla [Alexis Medina 18; Víctor Herrera 28] Fluminense 6-0 Huracán [Gustavo Fernández 7, 18, Yaikel Pérez 10, 14, 26, Edilvaldo Juninho Da Silva 34] Giants 4-0 Tornados [Christian Turizo 20, Nicolas Weeb 47, Ramón Mariano De los Santos 87, Luis Ramírez 90] Round 10 [Sep 6] Tornados 0-9 Atlético [Jeison Moura 10, Rudson Crisóstomo 26, Eloy Matos 36, Gilmar Suana 45, Luiz Lucio Gonzaga 58pen, 72, Adriano 71, Luis Caballero 74og, Arnaldo Ortiz 90] [Sep 7] Fluminense 1-1 River Plate [Ricardo Alcerro 66; Marcelo Moya 51] Huracán 0-2 Giants Academia 0-2 Sevilla [Víctor Herrera 75pen, Luis Arroyo Lebrón 83] Round 11 [Sep 10] Huracán 0-2 Tornados [Sep 13] Atlético 3-1 Sevilla [Rudson Crisostomo 40, Eloy Matos 43, 67; Alberto Delgado 50] [Sep 14] Academia 0-2 Fluminense [Yordani Oropeza 32, Yaikel Pérez 62] Giants 2-2 River Plate [Cristian Turizo 65, Nicolas Webb 82; Daniel Gómez 9, Alejandro Russo 75] Round 12 [Sep 20] Academia 3-2 Giants [Yahya Musa 44, Harold Chiclana 68, Efraín Centeno 71; Nicolas Webb 13, 36] [Sep 21] Atlético 0-0 Fluminense Sevilla 9-1 Tornados [Alberto Delgado 9, 71, Julio Maya 2-1, 5-1, 68, Gadiel Figueroa 3-1. Isaac Nieves 4-1, Kevin Mesa 78, Andrew Zárate 84; Luis Díaz 27] Huracán 1-5 River Plate [? 90pen; Michael Reyes 4, 17, Miguel López 6, Jerónimo González 16, Gonzalo Arrarrazabal 75] Round 13 [Sep 27] Giants 0-2 Atlético [Eloy Matos 27, 35] [Sep 28] Huracán 2-1 Academia [Jean Villanueva, Jorge Batista; Sergio Castro 0-1] Fluminense 5-1 Sevilla [Yaikel Pérez 2, Yordani Oropeza 19, 49, 5-1, Ricardo Alcerro 53; Víctor Herrera 45pen] River Plate 4-0 Tornados [Michael Reyes 5, 18, Alejandro Russo 21, Miguel Ángel López 89] Round 14 [Oct 2] Sevilla 6-0 Giants [Víctor Herrera 48, Alberto Delgado 51, Julio Maya 63, Luis Arroyo 76, William Torres 87, Omar Cartagena 90] [Oct 4] Academia 2-1 River Plate [Efraín Torres 40, 84; Alexis Medina 71] [Oct 5] Atlético 2-2 Huracán [Arnaldo Ortiz 44, Carlos Montalvo 57; Jorge Batista 12, Marcos Berríos 18] Tornados 0-6 Fluminense [Yaikel Pérez 9, 41, 53, 56, Yordani Oropeza 30, 86] Final Table: 1.Sevilla FC Puerto Rico 14 10 2 2 45-14 32 Qualified [*] 2.River Plate Ponce 14 8 4 2 42-12 28 Qualified 3.Atlético de San Juan FC 14 8 3 3 42-21 27 Qualified 4.Guaynabo Fluminense FC 14 6 7 1 40-13 25 Qualified - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 5.Academia Quintana 14 6 1 7 28-27 19 6.Puerto Rico Giants de Carolina 14 4 3 7 26-29 15 7.Caguas Huracán 14 2 2 10 11-38 8 8.Pachuca Tornados de Humacao 14 1 0 13 9-89 3 [*] affiliated side to Puerto Rico Islanders, play in Bayamón Semifinals First Legs [Oct 8] Atlético 0-2 Sevilla [Julio Maya 31, Alberto Delgado 51] [Oct 9] Fluminense 0-0 River Plate Second Legs [Oct 11] Sevilla 1-2 Atlético [aet] [Víctor Herrera 98; Rudson Crisóstomo 45, Luiz Lucio 82] [Oct 12] River Plate 2-1 Fluminense [Gilberto Mendoza 28, Michael Reyes 90; Yordani Oropeza 18] Final [Oct 18, Estadio Hiram Bithorn] Sevilla 2-1 River Plate NB: top-3 to play off with Puerto Rico Islanders (USL) in a 'Liguilla Nacional' for participation in CONCACAF club tournament 2009/10 Author: Hans Schöggl Last updated: 12 Jun 2009 (C) Copyright Hans Schöggl and RSSSF 2008/09