2005–06 Primera División (Costa Rica)

Primera División de Costa Rica (Costa Rica First Division) is a Costa Rican football tournament composed of two short tournaments that take up the entire year to determine the champion of Costa Rican football.

In both the Apertura and Clausura, 2 groups of 6 teams are conformed, they will play twice (Home and away) with the teams of their own group (10 games) and once game with the teams of the other group (6 games), for a total of 16 games. The top 2 teams from each group after the final round of the Apertura and the Clausura qualify for the playoffs.

Apertura 2005

Group stage

Group A

	Club	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	+/-	Points
1.	Alajuelense	16	9	5	2	29	9	+20	32
2.	Puntarenas F.C.	16	8	4	4	23	15	+8	28
3.	Herediano	16	8	4	4	23	16	+7	28
4.	Santacrucena	16	6	2	8	17	19	-2	20
5.	Liberia	16	2	2	12	9	33	-24	8
6.	Ramonense	16	0	3	13	7	32	-25	3

Group B

	Club	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	+/-	Points
1.	Saprissa	16	11	4	1	28	12	+16	37
2.	Pérez Zeledón	16	7	5	4	21	18	+3	26
3.	Cartaginés	16	7	4	5	30	22	+8	25
4.	Brujas F.C.	16	6	7	3	16	12	+4	25
5.	Santos	16	5	6	5	22	23	-1	21
6.	Carmelita	16	2	4	10	11	25	-14	10

	Teams qualified to the playoffs

Playoffs

	Semifinals							Finals
	1A	Alajuelense	0	1	1 (4)
	2B	Perez Zeledon	1	0	1 (5)				Saprissa	1	1	1 (4)
	1B	Saprissa	0	4	4				Perez Zeledon	1	1	1 (2)
	2A	Puntarenas F.C.	2	1	3

Apertura 2005 winners:
Saprissa

Clausura 2006

Group stage

Group A

	Club	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	+/-	Points
1.	Puntarenas F.C.	16	11	4	1	29	12	+17	37
2.	Saprissa	16	10	3	3	22	16	+6	33
3.	Liberia	16	10	2	4	28	18	+10	32
4.	Herediano	16	7	2	7	19	18	+1	23
5.	Ramonense	16	6	1	9	16	19	-3	19
6.	Santacrucena	16	2	1	13	9	29	-20	7

Group B

	Club	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	+/-	Points
1.	Brujas F.C.	16	7	3	6	19	17	+2	24
2.	Alajuelense	16	7	2	7	20	15	+5	23
3.	Pérez Zeledón	16	6	4	6	20	16	+4	23
4.	Carmelita	16	5	4	7	18	19	-1	19
5.	Cartaginés	16	4	5	7	15	22	-7	17
6.	Santos	16	4	3	9	15	29	-14	15

	Teams qualified to the playoffs

Playoffs

	Semifinals							Finals
	1A	Puntarenas F.C.	0	1	1
	2B	Alajuelense	2	1	3				Saprissa	1	2	3
	1B	Brujas F.C.	0	1	1				Alajuelense	1	1	2
	2A	Saprissa	1	2	3

Clausura 2006 winners:
Saprissa

Final

No Final was played as Saprissa won both the Apertura and Clausura tournaments.

Champion

Primera División de Costa Rica 2005-06: Saprissa 25th Title

Aggregate Table

	Club	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	+/-	Points
1.	Saprissa	32	21	7	4	50	28	+22	70
2.	Puntarenas F.C.	32	19	8	5	52	28	+24	65
3.	Alajuelense	32	16	7	9	49	24	+25	55
4.	Herediano	32	15	6	11	42	34	+8	51
5.	Brujas F.C.	32	13	10	9	35	29	+6	49
6.	Pérez Zeledón	32	13	9	10	41	34	+7	48
7.	Cartaginés	32	11	9	12	45	44	+1	42
8.	Liberia	32	12	4	16	37	51	-14	40
9.	Santos	32	9	9	14	37	52	-15	36
10.	Carmelita	32	7	8	17	29	44	-15	29
11.	Santacrucena	32	8	3	21	26	48	-22	27
12.	Ramonense	32	6	4	22	23	51	-28	22

	Primera División Champion 2005-06

	Relegated to Segunda Division