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Football league season

Copa Lubricantes Havoline
Season	2018
Dates	16 February – 16 December 2018
Champions	LDU Quito (11th title)
Copa Libertadores	LDU Quito Emelec Barcelona Delfín
Copa Sudamericana	Universidad Católica Macará Independiente del Valle
Matches played	266
Goals scored	688 (2.59 per match)
Top goalscorer	Jhon Cifuente (37 goals)
Biggest home win	Macará 6–1 Guayaquil City (2 December)
Biggest away win	Guayaquil City 0–3 Emelec (5 March) El Nacional 0–3 Delfín (7 July) Macará 0–3 Técnico Universitario (24 August) Guayaquil City 1–4 LDU Quito (25 August) Guayaquil City 1–4 Emelec (24 November)
Highest scoring	Técnico Universitario 4–5 U. Católica (24 September)
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The 2018 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol Serie A (officially known as the Campeonato Ecuatoriano - Copa Lubricantes Havoline 2018 for sponsorship reasons) was the 60th season of the Serie A, Ecuador's top tier football league. Emelec were the defending champions. First stage winners LDU Quito defeated second stage winners and defending champions Emelec 2–1 on aggregate in the final (third stage) to win their eleventh domestic title.

Teams

Twelve teams competed in the 2018 Serie A season, ten of whom took part in the previous season. Clan Juvenil and Fuerza Amarilla were relegated from the Serie A after accumulating the fewest points during the 2017 season. They were replaced by Técnico Universitario and Aucas, the 2017 Serie B winner and runner-up, respectively. Técnico Universitario were in their 25th top-flight appearance and their first one since 2012, while Aucas returned to the Serie A for their 37th appearance after just one season in the second tier.

Stadia and locations

Independiente del Valle

Macará

Quito

Técnico Universitario

Quito teams:
Aucas
El Nacional
LDU Quito
Universidad Católicaclass=notpageimage| Locations of the 2018 Serie A teams.

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
Aucas	Quito	Gonzalo Pozo Ripalda	21,689
Barcelona	Guayaquil	Monumental Banco Pichincha	57,267
Delfín	Manta	Jocay	17,834
Deportivo Cuenca	Cuenca	Banco del Austro Alejandro Serrano Aguilar	18,549
El Nacional	Quito	Olímpico Atahualpa	35,258
Emelec	Guayaquil	Banco del Pacífico Capwell	38,963
Guayaquil City	Guayaquil	Christian Benítez Betancourt	10,152
Independiente del Valle	Sangolquí	Rumiñahui	7,233
LDU Quito	Quito	Rodrigo Paz Delgado	41,575
Macará	Ambato	Bellavista	16,467
Técnico Universitario	Ambato	Bellavista	16,467
Universidad Católica	Quito	Olímpico Atahualpa	35,258

a: Guayaquil City played its home matches between February and early-June at Estadio Monumental Banco Pichincha and Estadio George Capwell in Guayaquil due to remodeling works at Estadio Christian Benítez Betancourt.

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Aucas	Darío Tempesta	Umbro	CNT Banco del Pacífico
Barcelona	Guillermo Almada	Marathon	Pilsener
Delfín	Fabián Bustos	Spyro	La Esquina de Ales
Deportivo Cuenca	Richard Páez	Joma	Chubb Seguros
El Nacional	Eduardo Favaro	Lotto	Aceros ANDEC Banco General Rumiñahui
Emelec	Mariano Soso	Adidas	Electrocables
Guayaquil City	Pool Gavilánez	Astro	DirecTV
Independiente del Valle	Ismael Rescalvo	Marathon	Chevrolet DirecTV
LDU Quito	Pablo Repetto	Puma	Chevrolet
Macará	Paúl Vélez	Boman	Cooperativa San Francisco Ltda.
Técnico Universitario	Fabián Frías	Boman	Cooperativa San Francisco Ltda.
Universidad Católica	Santiago Escobar	Umbro	Discover Card

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
First stage
Deportivo Cuenca	Gabriel Schürrer	Resigned	9 December 2017	Pre-season	Aníbal Biggeri	9 December 2017
Independiente del Valle	Alexis Mendoza	Sacked	9 December 2017	Pre-season	Gabriel Schürrer	12 December 2017
Delfín	Guillermo Sanguinetti		15 April 2018	9th	Fabián Bustos	15 April 2018
Deportivo Cuenca	Aníbal Biggeri		17 April 2018	11th	Juan Ramón Silva (caretaker)	17 April 2018
Deportivo Cuenca	Juan Ramón Silva	End of caretaker tenure	27 April 2018	11th	Guillermo Sanguinetti	30 April 2018
Emelec	Alfredo Arias	Resigned	19 May 2018	4th	Javier Klimowicz (caretaker)	22 May 2018
Emelec	Javier Klimowicz	End of caretaker tenure	27 May 2018	4th	Mariano Soso	28 May 2018
Deportivo Cuenca	Guillermo Sanguinetti	Signed by Santa Fe	11 June 2018	11th	Juan Ramón Silva (caretaker)	11 June 2018
Deportivo Cuenca	Juan Ramón Silva	End of caretaker tenure	20 June 2018	11th	Richard Páez	21 June 2018
Independiente del Valle	Gabriel Schürrer	Mutual consent	28 June 2018	6th	Álvaro Carcelén (caretaker)	28 June 2018
Independiente del Valle	Álvaro Carcelén	End of caretaker tenure	30 June 2018	6th	Ismael Rescalvo	1 July 2018
Second stage
Técnico Universitario	Patricio Hurtado	Sacked	23 July 2018	12th	Fabián Frías	24 July 2018
Aucas	Luis Soler	Sacked	30 August 2018	11th	Darío Tempesta	1 September 2018

First stage

The First stage began on February 16 and is scheduled to end on July 16.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	LDU Quito	22	14	4	4	32	18	+14	46	Qualification to Third stage and Copa Libertadores group stage
2	Barcelona	22	13	6	3	41	21	+20	45
3	Universidad Católica	22	11	5	6	40	28	+12	38
4	Emelec	22	11	4	7	34	27	+7	37
5	Delfín	22	10	3	9	35	34	+1	33
6	Independiente del Valle	22	9	4	9	30	27	+3	31
7	Aucas	22	6	11	5	25	18	+7	29
8	Macará	22	7	6	9	25	29	−4	27
9	El Nacional	22	6	5	11	24	35	−11	23
10	Deportivo Cuenca	22	5	7	10	21	33	−12	22
11	Guayaquil City	22	3	7	12	15	28	−13	16
12	Técnico Universitario	22	3	6	13	15	39	−24	15

Source: FEF, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) Goal difference, 3) Goals for, 4) Away goals for, 5) Goals against, 6) Head-to-head record, 7) Penalty shootout.
If a penalty shootout is not possible: 7) Drawing of lots or playoff game.

Results

Home \ Away	AUC	BAR	DEL	CUE	NAC	EME	GUA	IDV	LDQ	MAC	TEC	CAT
Aucas	—	1–1	0–0	4–0	3–0	2–0	1–1	3–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	0–1
Barcelona	1–1	—	5–1	2–0	5–1	3–1	0–2	0–0	0–1	4–1	2–0	3–2
Delfín	1–1	0–1	—	4–2	1–3	3–1	1–0	2–1	2–1	1–1	3–1	5–2
Deportivo Cuenca	1–1	0–1	2–1	—	0–0	2–0	1–1	1–2	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–1
El Nacional	1–2	2–2	0–3	1–0	—	1–2	3–1	1–2	2–1	1–2	3–2	0–0
Emelec	1–0	2–2	2–1	4–1	1–0	—	2–1	2–1	0–1	2–0	3–0	2–3
Guayaquil City	2–2	0–1	0–1	1–0	2–1	0–3	—	0–1	0–0	0–2	0–0	1–1
Independiente del Valle	1–0	2–2	0–1	3–1	0–1	0–2	1–1	—	2–3	2–0	3–0	2–1
LDU Quito	1–1	2–1	3–0	0–2	1–0	1–1	2–1	2–1	—	2–1	4–0	2–1
Macará	1–1	0–1	2–1	1–1	2–0	2–2	2–0	1–3	0–1	—	1–1	1–2
Técnico Universitario	0–1	0–1	3–2	0–1	2–2	1–1	1–0	2–1	0–1	0–2	—	0–2
Universidad Católica	2–0	2–3	3–1	3–1	1–1	2–0	2–1	1–1	1–2	3–1	4–0	—

Source: FEF, Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second stage

The Second stage began on July 20 and ended on December 8.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Emelec	22	12	5	5	35	17	+18	41	Qualification to Third stage and Copa Libertadores group stage
2	Macará	22	10	8	4	31	24	+7	38
3	LDU Quito	22	9	10	3	32	19	+13	37
4	Delfín	22	9	9	4	34	22	+12	36
5	Barcelona	22	9	8	5	28	21	+7	35
6	Independiente del Valle	22	9	6	7	31	24	+7	33
7	Aucas	22	10	3	9	25	25	0	33
8	Universidad Católica	22	8	3	11	29	32	−3	27
9	Técnico Universitario	22	8	3	11	33	38	−5	27
10	Deportivo Cuenca	22	6	5	11	23	31	−8	23
11	El Nacional	22	3	7	12	29	47	−18	16
12	Guayaquil City	22	3	5	14	19	49	−30	14

Results

Home \ Away	AUC	BAR	DEL	CUE	NAC	EME	GUA	IDV	LDQ	MAC	TEC	CAT
Aucas	—	0–0	2–0	1–3	3–2	0–1	1–0	1–1	1–3	2–1	3–0	0–1
Barcelona	3–1	—	2–2	2–1	3–1	1–0	0–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	2–1	2–0
Delfín	1–0	1–0	—	3–0	5–1	2–1	3–0	1–1	2–0	0–0	1–1	1–2
Deportivo Cuenca	0–1	1–1	0–1	—	2–0	0–2	0–0	0–1	2–2	1–1	1–3	2–1
El Nacional	1–2	0–0	3–3	3–1	—	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–2	1–2	1–2	1–3
Emelec	2–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	3–1	—	3–0	0–0	0–0	3–1	3–0	3–1
Guayaquil City	0–2	3–4	0–2	1–1	1–0	1–4	—	1–2	1–4	1–1	2–3	2–1
Independiente del Valle	0–1	1–0	3–1	2–3	4–2	3–1	4–0	—	1–1	0–1	1–1	1–3
LDU Quito	1–1	0–0	0–0	1–0	4–0	2–1	4–1	1–0	—	0–0	1–1	1–0
Macará	2–1	1–0	1–1	2–1	2–2	1–1	6–1	2–1	3–2	—	0–3	1–2
Técnico Universitario	3–0	1–2	2–1	1–2	1–3	1–2	3–2	0–2	2–1	0–1	—	4–5
Universidad Católica	0–2	2–2	2–2	1–2	1–2	1–0	0–0	1–2	0–1	0–1	2–0	—

Source: FEF, Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Third stage

LDU Quito and Emelec qualified to the Finals (Third stage) by being the First stage and Second stage winners, respectively. The winners were the Serie A champions and earned the Ecuador 1 berth in the 2019 Copa Libertadores, and the losers were the Serie A runners-up and earned the Ecuador 2 berth in the 2019 Copa Libertadores. By having the greater number of points in the aggregate table, LDU Quito played the second leg at home.

12 December 201820:00 UTC−5

Emelec	1–1	LDU Quito
Angulo 45+1'	Report	A. Julio 59'

Estadio George Capwell, GuayaquilReferee: Carlos Orbe

16 December 201812:00 UTC−5

LDU Quito	1–0	Emelec
A. Julio 10'	Report

Estadio Rodrigo Paz Delgado, QuitoReferee: Luis Quiroz

LDU Quito won 2–1 on aggregate.

Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol 2018 Serie A champions
LDU Quito 11th title

Aggregate table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	LDU Quito (C)	44	23	14	7	64	37	+27	83	Qualification to Copa Libertadores group stage
2	Barcelona	44	22	14	8	69	42	+27	80	Qualification to Copa Libertadores second stage
3	Emelec	44	23	9	12	69	44	+25	78	Qualification to Copa Libertadores group stage
4	Delfín	44	19	12	13	69	56	+13	69	Qualification to Copa Libertadores first stage
5	Universidad Católica	44	19	8	17	69	60	+9	65	Qualification to Copa Sudamericana first stage
6	Macará	44	17	14	13	56	53	+3	65
7	Independiente del Valle	44	18	10	16	61	51	+10	64
8	Aucas	44	16	14	14	50	43	+7	62	Qualification to Copa Sudamericana playoff
9	Deportivo Cuenca	44	11	12	21	44	64	−20	45
10	Técnico Universitario	44	11	9	24	48	77	−29	42
11	El Nacional	44	9	12	23	53	82	−29	39
12	Guayaquil City	44	6	12	26	34	77	−43	30

Source: FEF
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) Goal difference, 3) Goals for, 4) Away goals for, 5) Goals against, 6) Head-to-head record, 7) Penalty shootout.
If a penalty shootout is not possible: 7) Drawing of lots or playoff game.
(C) Champions

Copa Sudamericana playoff

The Copa Sudamericana playoff was played between:

Aucas (Aggregate table 4th best team not qualified for 2019 Copa Libertadores)
Mushuc Runa (2018 Serie B champions)

The winners qualified for the 2019 Copa Sudamericana first stage.

11 December 201812:00 UTC−5

Mushuc Runa	1–0	Aucas
Fábio Renato 88'	Report

Estadio Mushuc Runa, AmbatoReferee: Marlon Vera

15 December 201812:00 UTC−5

Aucas	2–2	Mushuc Runa
Montaño 72' Govea 86'	Report	Estupiñán 42' Rivas 70'

Estadio Gonzalo Pozo Ripalda, QuitoReferee: Vinicio Espinel

Mushuc Runa won 3–2 on aggregate.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Club	Goals
1	Jhon Cifuente	Universidad Católica	37
2	Brayan Angulo	Emelec	29
3	Edson Montaño	Aucas	25
4	Carlos Garcés	Delfín	19
5	Juan Manuel Tévez	Macará	18
6	Juan Anangonó	LDU Quito	16
	Luis Chicaiza	Delfín
	Juan Dinenno	Barcelona
9	Diego Armas	Técnico Universitario	13
10	Anderson Julio	LDU Quito	12

Source: FEF

References

"Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol tiene a Havoline como nuevo auspiciante". eluniverso.com (in Spanish). 23 February 2018. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
"Liga de Quito derrotó 1-0 a Emelec y es el campéon del Ecuador 2018". elcomercio.com (in Spanish). 16 December 2018.
"El DT Gabriel Schürrer se irá de Cuenca, pero seguirá en el fútbol de Ecuador". elcomercio.com (in Spanish). 29 November 2017. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
"Deportivo Cuenca oficializa al técnico Anibal Biggeri". estadio.ec (in Spanish). 9 December 2017. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
"Alexis Mendoza se despedirá mañana de Independiente del Valle". eltelegrafo.com.ec (in Spanish). 8 December 2017. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
"Gabriel Schürrer, nuevo estratega de Independiente del Valle". eluniverso.com (in Spanish). 12 December 2017. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
^ "Guillermo Sanguinetti no va más como DT de Delfín". eluniverso.com (in Spanish). 16 April 2018.
^ "Deportivo Cuenca busca nuevo DT tras la salida de Aníbal Biggeri". eluniverso.com (in Spanish). 17 April 2018.
"Juan Ramón Silva dirige hoy su último partido en D. Cuenca". eltelegrafo.com.ec (in Spanish). 27 April 2018.
"Guillermo Sanguinetti es el nuevo director técnico de Deportivo Cuenca". metroecuador.com.ec (in Spanish). 24 April 2018.
"Alfredo Arias confirmó que dirigirá un partido más con Emelec". elcomercio.com (in Spanish). 17 May 2018. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
^ "Javier Klimowicz dirigirá el primer plantel los dos próximos partidos". emelec.com.ec (in Spanish). 22 May 2018.
"Mariano Soso, nuevo técnico de Emelec". estadio.com (in Spanish). 22 May 2018.
^ "Dep. Cuenca confirmó la salida del técnico Sanguinetti; irá a Colombia". elcomercio.com (in Spanish). 11 June 2018.
"El venezolano Richard Páez es el nuevo técnico del Deportivo Cuenca". elcomercio.com (in Spanish). 17 June 2018.
"Independiente del Valle se queda sin técnico, a dos días de medir a Barcelona". eluniverso.com (in Spanish). 28 June 2018. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
^ "Ismael Rescalvo, flamante DT de Independiente del Valle". eluniverso.com (in Spanish). 28 June 2018. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
"Patricio Hurtado dejó de ser entrenador de Técnico Universitario". elcomercio.com (in Spanish). 23 July 2018.
"Fabián Frías asume el banquillo de Técnico Universitario". eluniverso.com (in Spanish). 24 July 2018. Archived from the original on 12 August 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
"Luis Soler no es más DT del Aucas". eluniverso.com (in Spanish). 30 August 2018.
"Darío Tempesta asume la dirección técnica del Aucas". ecuavisa.com (in Spanish). 2 September 2018.

External links

Official website (in Spanish)

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2024 teams	Aucas Barcelona Cumbayá Delfín Deportivo Cuenca El Nacional Emelec Imbabura Independiente del Valle LDU Quito Libertad Macará Mushuc Runa Orense Técnico Universitario Universidad Católica
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