The Nicaraguan women's football championship is the top level women's football league in the Nicaraguan football league system. The league was first played in the 1996 season. Record champions are UNAN Managua with six titles.

Competition format

The current format which was adopted in 2002 features ten teams playing a double round-robin. After those the six best placed teams advance to the playoffs. Three matches are played over two legs. The three winners and the best loser advance to the semi-finals. Those and the final are the contested over two legs too.

Champions

The list of all finals:

Tournament	Winner	Score	Runner up
1996	UCA
1997	UCA
1998/99	UCA		UAM
1999	UCA
2000	Diriangén Diriangén FC Diriangén FC is a Nicaraguan football team playing at the top level. It is based in Diriamba. Their home stadium is Estadio Cacique Diriangén. It is the most successful club in Nicaragua's football history and it shares a feisty rivalry with Nicaragua's second big club, Real Estelí-Current...		UCA
2001	Diriangén	2-1	UAM
2002	UAM	1-0	Estelí
2003	Diriangén	4-1, 6-0	Jalapa
2004	UNAN Managua	0-1, 2-0	Diriangén
2005	UNAN Managua	0-0, 0-0 aet (3-2 pen Penalty shootout The shootout is a method of determining a winner in sports matches that would have otherwise been drawn or tied. The rules for penalty shootouts vary between sports and even different competitions; however, the usual form is similar to penalty shots in that a single player takes one shot on goal... )	Estelí
2006	UNAN Managua	0-0, 1-0 aet	Las Segovias
2007	UNAN Managua	3-0, 4-3	UAM
2008	UNAN Managua	0-0, 0-0 aet (4-3 pen)	UAM
2009	UNAN Managua	1–0, 2–1	All Stars
2010	Diriangén	1–0, 1–2 (a)	UNAN Managua

• UAM is the team of the Universidad Americana
• UCA is the team of the Universidad Centroamericana.
• UNAN is the team of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua

Teams

The 2010 season was started with 10 teams, of which three withdrew during the season.

• UNAN Managua
• Cacique Diriangén
  Diriangén FC
  Diriangén FC is a Nicaraguan football team playing at the top level. It is based in Diriamba. Their home stadium is Estadio Cacique Diriangén. It is the most successful club in Nicaragua's football history and it shares a feisty rivalry with Nicaragua's second big club, Real Estelí-Current...
  
  
• Caruna RL
• Deportivo Estelí
• Deportivo Kolocho
• Saúl Álvarez
• Deportivo Matagalpa
• Rivas FC (withdrew)
• San Marcos FC (withdrew)
• Santo Junior (withdrew)

External links

• Nicaragua Football Federation