{"id":506334,"date":"2026-04-30T21:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T01:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/cibao-fc-will-face-pantoja-in-their-ninth-ldf-semifinal\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T21:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T01:44:09","slug":"cibao-fc-will-face-pantoja-in-their-ninth-ldf-semifinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/football\/cibao-fc-will-face-pantoja-in-their-ninth-ldf-semifinal\/","title":{"rendered":"Cibao FC will face Pantoja in their ninth LDF semifinal"},"content":{"rendered":"SANTIAGO.- Cibao FC will be in a semifinal of the Dominican Football League (LDF) for the ninth time, when they face Club Atl\u00e9tico Pantoja this Saturday, a match that will begin at 4:00 in the afternoon at the Panamericano stadium, in the event dedicated to the memory of Dr. Jos\u00e9 Rafael Abinader.\n\n\n

You may be interested in:<\/strong> Infantino: \u00abOf course, Iran is going to play in the United States\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nIn the previous eight occasions, the orange eleven has advanced to the finals seven times, where it has accumulated five crowns, including four consecutive ones and two runner-up finishes.\n\n\n

Their first semifinal was in 2016 against Pantoja, in home and away matches, where Cibao FC won one and drew the other to advance to the final where they fell to Club Barcelona.<\/p>\n\n\nIn their second semifinal in 2017, Cibao FC faced Atl\u00e1ntico FC and lost in a disputed series that went to penalties, finishing 4-2.\n\n\n

Their third semifinal run was in 2018, where they defeated Pantoja and then lifted the champions’ cup with San Francisco de Macor\u00eds.<\/p>\n\n\nIn 2019, Cibao FC had to play two semi-finals, as there was an opening and closing tournament, surpassing Moca FC and Atl\u00e9tico Vega Real.\n\nIn the Pandemic tournament in 2020, they fell in the semifinals against the Delfines del Este, who lost the last stretch of the O&M university.\n\nThe 2021 semi-final was won against Pantoja and they were crowned again against Vega Real in the final.\n\nThe Mocanos were once again victims of the Naranjas in the 2022 semi-final and then in the final, the Cibao troop defeated the Guerreros de Pantoja.\n\nAtl\u00e1ntico FC was defeated by Cibao FC in the 2023 semi-final and they were crowned against Moca FC.\n\nThe penultimate stretch of 2024 was against the aurinegros of the City of Viaduct and in front of their public they defeated the Universidad O&M in the final for their fourth consecutive crown.\n\nCibao FC was first in the Liguilla with 30 points, the result of 8 wins, 6 draws and one defeat.\n\nPantoja occupied the fourth position with 19 points, which were the sum of 4 wins, 7 draws, and 4 losses.\n\nAs the best goalscorers of Junior Scheldeur’s team, Rivaldo Correa and \u00c1ngel P\u00e9rez arrive with 10 goals each, Edwarlyn Reyes has 6, Julio C\u00e9sar Murillo, Wilman Modesta and Cesar\u00edn Ortiz have 4, Yunior Peralta, Javier Roces, Walter Acu\u00f1a, Juli\u00e1n G\u00f3mez and Leonardo Villalba with 2.\n\nPantoja has Louka Bertran with 14 goals, Carlos Sarante 8, Fabricio Moreno with 5, Jos\u00e9 Jaquez has 3, the same as Jeremy B\u00e1ez.\n\n\n

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SANTIAGO.- Cibao FC will be in a semifinal of the Dominican Football League (LDF) for the ninth time, when they face Club Atl\u00e9tico Pantoja this Saturday, a match that will begin at 4:00 in the afternoon at the Panamericano stadium, in the event dedicated to the memory of Dr. Jos\u00e9 Rafael Abinader. You may be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":506335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40943],"tags":[611,40231,41186],"class_list":["post-506334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-theperiodicodelatruth"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-27IG","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/Foto-Trabjando-duro-en-Cibao-FC.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Football"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/Foto-Trabjando-duro-en-Cibao-FC.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}