Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol de Cuba

The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Fútbol de Cuba is the top football division in Cuba. Currently, it is contested by 16 clubs and is divided into two tournaments – "Apertura" and "Clausura", with the last being the championship tournament. The champion of each tournament, decided via a playoff match ("Final"), are qualified to Supercopa Nacional de Fútbol de Cuba. The league currently has a fixed membership with each club being a representative of a Cuban province, which makes it one of the football leagues that does not have a promotion and relegation process.

Torneo Apertura

In "Torneo Apertura", the 16 clubs are geographically divided into the "Grupo Occidental" and "Grupo Oriental", with 8 clubs each, and playing against its clubs' group on a double round-robin basis a total of 14 games. The top three clubs of each group will advance to the "Torneo Clausura", and with the winners of each group also playing a final match ("Torneo Apertura Final").

Torneo Clausura and Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Fútbol de Cuba

In "Torneo Clausura", the 6 qualified clubs playing against each others on a double round-robin basis a total of 10 games. The top two clubs will play a final match ("Torneo Clausura Final") that also will crown the "Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Fútbol de Cuba" champion.

Supercopa Nacional de Fútbol de Cuba qualification

The "Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Fútbol de Cuba" champion/"Torneo Clausura" winner and "Torneo Apertura" winner are qualified to "Supercopa Nacional de Fútbol de Cuba", a super cup match that will crown the "Supercopa Nacional de Fútbol de Cuba" champion.

2024 season

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Camagüey

Ciego de Ávila

Cienfuegos

Granma

Guantánamo

Isla Juventud

La Habana

Las Tunas

Pinar del Río

Sancti Spíritus

Santiago

Villa Clara

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Locations of the 2018 Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol de Cuba teams

There have been 100 titles won with three years not having a championship. The winner of the greatest number of titles is FC Villa Clara with 14 wins. Centro Gallego (La Habana) and Real Iberia (La Habana) (including Iberia) each have eight wins, Juventud Asturiana (La Habana) and FC Pinar del Río each have seven wins, FC Ciudad de La Habana (without La Habana/La Habana FC) and Deportivo San Francisco each have six wins, FC Ciego de Ávila, Granjeros and Deportivo Hispano América (La Habana) each have five wins, FC Cienfuegos, Industriales (La Habana), and FC La Habana (including La Habana FC) each have four wins, Santiago de Cuba and Mordazo has three wins, Azucareros, Deportivo Puentes Grandes, and Rovers AC (La Habana) each have two wins, and FC Artemisa, FC Camagüey, Casino Español, Cerro (La Habana), Deportivo Español (Santiago de Cuba), Diablos Rojos (Santiago de Cuba), Fortuna, CD Hatüey (La Habana), FC Holguín, and Olimpia each have only one win.^[2]

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Year	Best Scorers	Club	Goals
1978–79	Urbano Ankle	FC Las Tunas	14
1979	Roberto Maya-Pereira Regino Delgado Ramón Núñez Carlos Azcuy	FC Villa Clara FC Villa Clara FC Las Tunas FC Ciudad de La Habana	7
1980	Regino Delgado	FC Villa Clara	9
1981	Agustín Pérez	FC Camagüey	8
1982	Roberto Maya-Pereira Dagoberto "El Tibi" Lara	FC Villa Clara FC Cienfuegos	8
1983	Frank Perez Espinosa	FC Cienfuegos	9
1984	Andrés Roldan	FC Cienfuegos	14
1985	Roberto Maya-Pereira	FC Villa Clara	19
1986	Osvaldo Alonso	FC Pinar del Río	19
1987	Guillermo Matos	FC Cienfuegos	14
1988–89	Frank Perez Espinosa Raimundo "Ruso" García	FC Cienfuegos FC Pinar del Río	6
1989–90	Raul Depestre	FC Villa Clara	7
1990–91	Camilo Kindelán William Sánchez	FC Ciudad de La Habana FC Santiago de Cuba	5
1991–92	Raimundo "Ruso" García	FC Pinar del Río	5
1992	Ariel Betancourt	FC Villa Clara	8
1993	Reemberto Piedra	FC Ciego de Ávila	5
1994	Raimundo "Ruso" García	FC Pinar del Río	7
1995	Raimundo "Ruso" García	FC Pinar del Río	4
1996	Osmín Hernández	FC Pinar del Río	7
1997	Osmín Hernández	FC Pinar del Río	5
1998	Ariel Betancourt	FC Villa Clara	14
1999–00	Lester Moré	FC Ciego de Ávila	13
2000–01	Ariel Betancourt	FC Villa Clara	19
2001–02	Ariel Betancourt	FC Villa Clara	17
2002–03	Serguei Prado	FC Villa Clara	22
2003	Lester Moré	FC Ciego de Ávila	32
2004–05	Serguei Prado	FC Villa Clara	17
2005–06	Yordanis Tielves	FC Matanzas	11
2006–07	Alexei Zuáznabar	FC Guantánamo	15
2007–08	Geovanni Ayala	FC Las Tunas	22
2008–09	Maykel Celada Osmani Montero	FC Las Tunas FC Camagüey	16
2009–10	Sánder Fernández	FC Ciego de Ávila	29
2011	Aliannis Urgellés	FC Guantánamo
2012	Roberto Linares	FC Villa Clara	12
2013	Yénier Márquez	FC Villa Clara	16
2014	Yoandri Puga	FC Villa Clara	13
2015	Sánder Fernández	FC Ciego de Ávila	15
2016	Sánder Fernández	FC Ciego de Ávila	16
2017	Sánder Fernández	FC Ciego de Ávila	13
2018	Ruslan Batista	CF Granma	11
	Allan Pérez	FC Ciego de Avila
2019	Jorge Villalón	FC Santiago de Cuba	15
2019-20	Sánder Fernández	FC Ciego de Ávila	19
2022	Yasnay Rivero	FC Artemisa	21
2023	Cristian Carlos Valiente	FC Holguín	12

Rank	Country	Player	Hat-tricks
1		Geovanni Ayala	6
2		Sánder Fernández	5
3		Reinier Alcantara	2
		Disney Aquino
		Lester More
		Hensi Muñoz
		Yoandri Punga
8		Ciprian Alfonso	1
		Ruslan Batista
		Maikel Celada
		Kanier Dranget
		Maykel Galindo
		Andro Martinez
		Osmani Montero
		Eduardo Morales
		Jensy Muñoz
		Yaisniel Napoles
		Ramon Ocaña
		Diosney Pez
		Yordanis Tielves