{"id":107135,"date":"2026-02-06T20:54:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T00:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/cibao-fc-vs-pantoja-ldf-classic-defines-matchday-5-of-the-playoffs\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T20:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T00:54:24","slug":"cibao-fc-vs-pantoja-ldf-classic-defines-matchday-5-of-the-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/cibao-fc-vs-pantoja-ldf-classic-defines-matchday-5-of-the-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Cibao FC vs Pantoja: LDF Classic defines Matchday 5 of the Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Cl\u00e1sico Cibao FC vs. Atl\u00e9tico Pantoja Closes Matchday 5 of the LDF<\/h2>\n\nThe expected &#8220;Cl\u00e1sico de Cl\u00e1sicos&#8221; of the Dominican Republic Football League (LDF) will star in the closing of matchday 5 of the Liguilla. Cibao FC will face Club Atl\u00e9tico Pantoja on Sunday at 3:30 in the afternoon at the Panamericano stadium, in an event dedicated to doctor Jos\u00e9 Rafael Abinader.\n\nThe 5th matchday finds Cibao FC sharing the top of the table with Delfines del Este and Moca FC, all with 7 accumulated points. For their part, Pantoja is in fourth position, tied with Salcedo FC, remembering that the top four teams advance to the semifinals.\n\nCibao FC presents a record of two victories, one draw and one defeat, with 7 goals for and 5 against, resulting in a positive balance of +2. Atl\u00e9tico Pantoja, for its part, arrives at the match with one victory, two draws and one defeat, adding five points, with 5 goals for and 3 against, also with a balance of +2.\n\nCibao FC and Pantoja are the only clubs with more than one title in the LDF since its inception in 2015.\n\nThe orange eleven has conquered five titles and is currently the defending champion, while Pantoja has lifted the cup on two occasions. In the regular season, both teams demonstrated their dominance, with Pantoja leading the table with 43 points and Cibao FC in second place with 41.\n\nIn matchday 4, the Junior Scheldeur team, despite injuries, defeated Universidad O&amp;M with a score of 4-2, thanks to a brace from Rivaldo Correa and goals from Omar De la Cruz and Julio C\u00e9sar Murillo. The three Cibao FC goalscorers, along with Ernesto \u201cChe\u201d Trinidad, were included in the Team of the Week.\n\nThe top scorer for Cibao FC is \u00c1ngel P\u00e9rez with 8 goals, followed by Edwarlyn Reyes with 6, Rivaldo Correa with 5, Julio C\u00e9sar Murillo and Carlos \u201cCaballo\u201d Ventura with 3 each, and Wilman Modesta, Javier Roces, Walter Acu\u00f1a, Juli\u00e1n G\u00f3mez and Leonardo Villalba.\n\nCompleting the list of goalscorers with one goal are Gabriel Peguero, Yunior Peralta, Cesar\u00edn Ortiz, Gonzalo Alarc\u00f3n, Eli\u00e1n L\u00f3pez and Omar De la Cruz. The orange team&#8217;s goal is protected by Miguel Lloyd, Edwin \u201cGato\u201d Fr\u00edas and Eli\u00e1n Beras.\n\nOn Pantoja&#8217;s side, Carlos Sarante leads the goalscoring chart with 6 goals, followed by Luis Espinal with 5, Fabricio Moreno and Gerard Lavergne with 3, Yordi \u00c1lvarez and Edison Guerrero with 2, and Jos\u00e9 Jaquez, Ismael \u201cPinta\u201d D\u00edaz and Jeremy B\u00e1ez with one goal each.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other Matches of the Day<\/h2>\n\n\nThe 5th matchday of the Liguilla will begin on Saturday with two matches. Moca FC will visit Universidad O&amp;M at the Panamericano stadium at 3:30 in the afternoon. Simultaneously, Salcedo FC will host Delfines del Este at the Domingo Polonia stadium.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cl\u00e1sico Cibao FC vs. Atl\u00e9tico Pantoja Closes Matchday 5 of the LDF The expected &#8220;Cl\u00e1sico de Cl\u00e1sicos&#8221; of the Dominican Republic Football League (LDF) will star in the closing of matchday 5 of the Liguilla. Cibao FC will face Club Atl\u00e9tico Pantoja on Sunday at 3:30 in the afternoon at the Panamericano stadium, in an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[1548,2123,1549,4745],"class_list":{"0":"post-107135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-cibao-fc","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ldf","11":"tag-pantoja"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}