Segunda División de Panamá

Liga Prom
Organising body	Fepafut
Founded	February 19, 2021
Country	Panamá
Confederation	CONCACAF
Number of teams	24
Level on pyramid	2
Promotion to	Suspended
Relegation to	Suspended
TV partners	Cable Onda Sports
Sponsor(s)	Tigo Panamá
Website	Official website

Segunda División de Panamá also known as Liga Prom, is a professional league for association football clubs in Panamá. It is the country's second-tier football competition, contested by 24 clubs with no promotion or relegation. The competition was formed in 2021.

History

ANAPROF ERA

The Anaprof era is remembered for establishing the Primera A branding with a format of two short tournaments per season (Apertura and Clausura), similar to many Latin American championships. Champions teams required promotional playoff games with ANAPROF's (top-tier league) last placed team.

LNA ERA

The Liga Nacional de Ascenso was formed in 2009 to replace the governing body of the league and forced ANAPROF top tier league to accept a direct promotion team. Other important goals were league expansion to 16 teams, later reduced to 14 teams after the 2011-12 season. The league was successful with attendance records since it had several popular teams like Río Abajo FC, C.A. Independiente, SUNTRACS FC and Atlético Nacional. This severely affected ANAPROF and LPF (top-tier league) attendance numbers and reputation.

LPF ERA

The Ascenso LPF (2016–2020) era organised by Panamanian Football Federation was mostly remembered for reducing participating teams to eight and disaffiliating several teams for missing documentation and requirements.

Liga PROM

After Manuel Arias won the Panamanian Football Federation election, the General Board accepted his proposal for a new structure for Panamanian football at all levels starting in 2021; for the second division tier, will have a 24-team league named Liga PROM, with promotion and relegation suspended. It added 12 LPF Under-20 teams, kept 7 remaining Ascenso LPF teams and invited 5 teams.

Teams

The following teams are expected to play in the Liga Prom Apertura 2021 season.

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity	Founded	Joined	Head coach	LPF affiliate
Eastern Conference
Zona Norte
Árabe Unido U-20	Colón	Estadio Armando Dely Valdés^[i]	4,000	1994	2021	Julio Medina	C.D. Árabe Unido
Champions FC Academy	Colón	Estadio Armando Dely Valdés^[i]	4,000	2016	2021	Ausberto Valencia
Colón C3 FC	Colón	Estadio Armando Dely Valdés^[i]	4,000	2010	2021	Carlos Miranda
C.D. Centenario	Colón	Estadio Armando Dely Valdés^[i]	4,000	2011	2021	Javier Miller
UMECIT FC	San Miguelito	Estadio UMECIT^[ii]	300	2020	2021	Fredy Romero
Sporting San Miguelito U-20	San Miguelito	Estadio Javier Cruz	2,500	1989	2021	Jorge Santos	Sporting San Miguelito
Zona Sur
Alianza FC U-20	Juan Díaz	Estadio Cascarita Tapia^[i]	900	1963	2021	José Soriano	Alianza FC
C.D. Plaza Amador U-20	El Chorrillo	Estadio Maracaná^[i]	5,500	1955	2021	Cesar Morales	C.D. Plaza Amador
C.D. del Este U-20	Pacora	Estadio Maracaná^[i]	5,500	2008	2021	Rubén Chávez	C.D. del Este
Panamá City FC	Panama City	Eagles Stadium	300	2014	2021	Pablo Falquez
San Martín FC	San Martín	Estadio Cascarita Tapia^[i]	900	2010	2021	Alejandro Quezada R.
Tauro FC	Pedregal	Estadio Javier Cruz	2,500	1984	2021	Javier Ainstein	Tauro FC
Western Conference
Zona Norte
Atlético Chiriquí U-20	David	Estadio San Cristóbal^[i]	2,500	2002	2021	Jonathan Parra	Atlético Chiriquí
Herrera FC U-20	Chitré	Estadio Los Milagros^[i]	1000	2019	2021	Hugo Domínguez	Herrera FC
Mario Mendez FC	David	Estadio San Cristóbal^[i]	2,500	2019	2021	Mario Méndez
Unión Coclé / San Antonio FC	Penonomé	Estadio Virgilio Tejeira^[i]^[iii]	900	2019	2021	Jorge González
Universitario	Penonomé	Estadio Universitario^[i]	3,500	2016	2021	Mike Stump	U.D. Universitario
Veraguas C.D. U-20	Santiago	Complejo de Atalaya^[iv]	300	2020	2021	José Anthony Torres	Veraguas C.D.
Zona Sur
C.A. Independiente U-20	La Chorrera	Estadio Agustín Sánchez^[i]	3,100	1982	2021	Franklin Narvaez	C.A. Independiente
San Francisco FC U-20	La Chorrera	Estadio Agustín Sánchez^[i]	3,100	1992	2021	Luis Ureña	San Francisco FC
S.D. Atlético Nacional	Juan Díaz	Estadio Oscar Suman Carrillo^[v]	1,000	2001	2021	Gustavo Ávila
S.D. Panamá Oeste	Capira	Estadio Agustín Sánchez^[i]	3,100	2010	2021	Andrés Corbillon
UDELAS FC	San Miguelito	CAI Sports Center^[vi]	500	2020	2021	Jayro Benavides
Universidad de Panamá Águilas	Panama City	Estadio Oscar Suman Carrillo^[v]	1,000	2020	2021	David Acosta

LPF team-affiliated

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p Soccer specific stadium
^ aka as Colegio Instituto Bilingüe Internacional De Panamá soccer field at Villa Zaita.
^ aka as Proyecto Gol.
^ Temporary
^ ^a ^b Shared facility; not a soccer-specific stadium
^ Soccer training facility

Media coverage

The LPF has been partnered with local cable sports network Cableonda Sports (subsidiary of Tigo Panamá) to broadcast live games on the Cableonda tv cable system. In addition all teams are authorize to produce live streaming broadcasts using YouTube platform with no home or away matches restrictions, however is required to add Liga Prom logo and grant copyright to the LPF organization.

Champions

Champions Timeline^[1]
Season	Champions	Runners–up	Notes
1989-90	Panamá Viejo FC	Los Toros (La Chorrera)	PVJ gain promotion to ANAPROF
1990-91	Sporting Colón	UTP	SPC gain promotion to ANAPROF
1992	UTP	Río Mar (Puerto Armuelles)	ROM gain promotion to ANAPROF
1997	Sporting 89	Atlético Municipal Colón	S89 gain promotion to ANAPROF
1998	Atlético Municipal Colón	Chorrillo FC	AMC gain promotion to ANAPROF
1999	Alianza FC	Atlético Guadalupe	AFC gain promotion to ANAPROF
2000	Chorrillo FC	CD Pan de Azucar	CFC gain promotion to ANAPROF
2001-02	Primavera FC	Zona Libre FC	PFC gain promotion to ANAPROF
2002	cancelled
2003-A	CD Pan de Azucar	CA Independiente
2003-C	River Plate Colón	Río Abajo FC	CDP and RPC gain promotion to ANAPROF due to league expansion
2004	Atlético Chiriquí	Sabanitas FC	ATC gain promotion to ANAPROF
2005	CD Policia Nacional	Dep. Atalanta
2006	Chepo FC	CD Pan de Azucar
2007	cancelled
2008-A	AD Orión	Chorrillito FC
2008-C	Río Abajo FC	Chorrillito FC	RAB lost promotion match against CD Plaza Amador
2009-A-I	Río Abajo FC	CA Independiente
2009-A-II	AD Orión	Río Abajo FC	RAB lost promotion match against Alianza FC
2010-C	cancelled
2010-A	Colón C3 FC	FC Veraguas 2010
2011-C	SUNTRACS FC	CAI La Chorrera	CC3 gain promotion to LPF
2011-A	Río Abajo FC	Santa Gema FC
2012-C	CAI La Chorrera	Tierra Firme FC	RAB gain promotion to LPF
2012-A	Millennium UP	S.D. Atlético Nacional
2013-C	CAI La Chorrera	Millennium UP	CAI gain promotion to LPF
2013-A	Atlético Chiriquí	S.D. Atlético Nacional
2014-C	SUNTRACS FC	Atlético Chiriquí	ATC gain promotion to LPF
2014-A	SD Atlético Nacional	SUNTRACS FC
2015-C	SUNTRACS FC	Colón C3 FC	ATN gain promotion to LPF
2015-A	Santa Gema FC	Millenium UP
2016-C	Atlético Veragüense	Colón C3 FC	STG gain promotion to LPF
2016-A	Costa del Este FC	CAI La Chorrera
2017-C	CAI La Chorrera	Deportivo Municipal SM	CAI gain promotion to LPF
2017-A	Costa del Este FC	S.D. Atlético Nacional
2018-C	Costa del Este FC	C.D. Centenario	CDE gain promotion to LPF
2018-A	Leones de América	Colón C3 FC
2019-C	Atlético Chiriquí	S.D. Atlético Nacional	ATC gain promotion to LPF
2019-A	S.D. Atlético Nacional	Azuero FC
2020	cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021-A

References

^ Fepafut Competencias

[fn1-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p Soccer specific stadium

[2] s Colegio Instituto Bilingüe Internacional De Panamá soccer field at Villa Zaita.

[3] s Proyecto Gol.

[4] Temporary

[fn2-5] Shared facility; not a soccer-specific stadium

[fn3-6] Soccer training facility

[7] Fepafut Competencias

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v t e Second level association football leagues of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean (CONCACAF)
North America	Mexico United States
Central America	Belize Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Panama
Caribbean	Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Aruba Bahamas Grand Bahama New Providence Barbados Bermuda² British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Cuba Curaçao Dominica Dominican Republic French Guiana^{1 3} Grenada Guadeloupe¹ Guyana³ Haiti Jamaica Eastern Kingston–St. Andrews South Central Western Martinique¹ Montserrat Puerto Rico Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Martin¹ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Sint Maarten¹ Suriname³ Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Islands United States Virgin Islands St. Croix St. Thomas
1: Full CONCACAF member, but not affiliated to FIFA. 2: North American member but affiliated to CFU. 3: South American member but affiliated to CONCACAF and to CFU.