2015–16 Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala season

Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala

Season	2015–16
Champions League	Antigua GFC (Apertura) Suchitepéquez (Clausura)
Top goalscorer	Carlos Kamiani Felix (19) (Apertura) Carlos Kamiani Felix (15) (Clausura)
Biggest home win	TBDl 6 TBD 0 (2015)
Biggest away win	TBD 1 TBD 3 (2015)
Longest winning run	TBD (4)
Longest unbeaten run	TBD (7)
Longest winless run	TBD (10)
Longest losing run	TBD (3)
← 2014–15 2016–17 →

The 2014–15 Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala season is the 18th season in which the Apertura and Clausura season is used. The season began on 2015 and will end in 2016.

Format

The format for both championships are identical. Each championship will have two stages: a first stage and a playoff stage. The first stage of each championship is a double round-robin format. The teams that finish first and second in the standings will advance to the playoffs semifinals, while the teams that finish 3–6 will enter in the quarterfinals. The winner of each quarterfinal will advance to the semifinals. The winners of the semifinals will advance to the finals, which will determine the tournament champion.

Teams

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
Antigua GFC	Antigua Guatemala, Sacatepequez	Pensativo	9,000
Cobán Imperial	Cobán, Guatemala	Estadio José Ángel Rossi	15, 000
Comunicaciones	Guatemala, Guatemala	Cementos Progreso	16,000
Guastatoya	Guastatoya, El Progreso	David Cordón Hichos	3,000
Malacateco	Malacatán, San Marcos	Santa Lucía	7,000
Marquense	San Marcos, Guatemala	Marquesa de la Ensenada	10,000
Mictlan	Mictlan	Estadio La Asunción	3,000
Municipal	Guatemala, Guatemala	Manuel Felipe Carrera	7,500
Petapa	San Miguel Petapa, Guatemala	Julio Armando Cobar	7,000
Suchitepéquez	Mazatenango, Suchitepéquez	Carlos Salazar Hijo	12,000
Universidad SC	Guatemala, Guatemala	Revolución	5,000
Xelajú MC	Quetzaltenango	Mario Camposeco	11,000

Apertura

The 2015 Torneo Apertura began on 2015 and will end in 2015.

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
Antigua GFC	Rafael Arreaga	Mauricio Tapia	TBD	Pegamex
Cobán Imperial		Fabricio Chapa Benitez	Puma	TBD
Comunicaciones	Pedro Portilla	William Coito Olivera	TBD	TBD
Guastatoya		Ariel Sena	TBD	TBD
Malacateco	TBD	Nelson Mauricio Ancheta	TBD	TBD
Marquense	TBD	Juan Melgar	TBD	TBD
Mictlan	TBD	Sergio Guevara	TBD	TBD
Municipal	TBD	Gustavo Machaín	TBD	TBD
Deportivo Petapa	TBD	Pablo Centrone	TBD	TBD
Suchitepéquez	TBD	Walter Claverí	TBD	TBD
Universidad SC	TBD	Roberto Gamarra	TBD	TBD
Xelajú	TBD	Hernán Medford	RetoSports	TBD

Managerial changes

Beginning of the season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
C.S.D. Municipal	Enzo Trossero	Sacked	2015	Mauricio Wright	2015	th (Clausura 2015)
Deportivo Malacateco	Emilio Umanzor	Sacked	2015	Nelson Mauricio Ancheta	2015	th (Clausura 2015)
Marquense	Carlos Washington Blanco	resigned	2015	Juan Melgar	June 2015	th (Clausura 2015)
Xelajú	Nahúm Espinoza		2015	Hernán Medford	June 2015	th (Clausura 2015)

During the season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Universidad SC	Roberto Gamarra	Resigned	September 2015	Ramiro Cepeda	September 2015	12th (Apertura 2015)
Deportivo Malacateco	Nelson Mauricio Ancheta	Resigned	November 2015	Ronald Gomez	November 2015	12th (Apertura 2015)
C.S.D. Municipal	Mauricio Wright	Sacked	November 2015	Gustavo Machain	November 2015	th (Apertura 2015)

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Xelajú MC	22	13	2	7	22	17	+5	41	Qualified to the Semifinals
2	Antigua GFC	22	11	5	6	28	19	+9	38
3	Comunicaciones	22	11	4	7	26	20	+6	37	Qualified to the Quarterfinals
4	Guastatoya	22	9	7	6	33	23	+10	34
5	Suchitepéquez	22	10	4	8	36	27	+9	34
6	Petapa	22	9	6	7	29	31	−2	33
7	Municipal	22	9	4	9	28	27	+1	31
8	Marquense	22	8	5	9	22	28	−6	29
9	Cobán Imperial	22	7	7	8	20	26	−6	28
10	Mictlan	22	7	5	10	24	28	−4	26
11	Universidad SC	22	4	6	12	31	36	−5	18
12	Malacateco	22	4	5	13	24	41	−17	17

Updated to games played on 2015.
Source: []
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home \ Away[1]

ANT

COB

COM

GUA

MAL

MAR

MIC

MUN

PET

SUC

USC

XEL

Antigua GFC

0–0

0–1

3–0

2–0

2–1

2–1

0–0

1–2

1–0

1–4

3–0

Coban Imperial

0–0

2–1

2–2

1–0

1–0

1–0

1–0

2–3

3–3

2–2

0–0

Comunicaciones

1–0

2–1

0–0

2–1

2–2

2–1

1–0

0–2

0–1

1–0

2–0

Guastatoya

1–2

2–0

1–1

4–1

2–0

0–0

3–1

1–1

3–0

2–3

2–0

Malacateco

1–3

1–0

2–1

0–2

4–0

2–0

2–2

1–1

0–2

0–3

0–1

Marquense

1–1

0–1

0–3

2–0

2–2

3–1

2–1

0–0

2–0

2–1

1–0

Mictlan

1–2

3–0

2–0

2–2

2–2

0–0

1–0

1–0

2–0

1–1

3–1

Municipal

1–1

1–0

0–1

0–3

1–0

3–1

2–0

4–1

3–2

3–2

0–0

Petapa

0–2

1–0

1–4

0–0

4–1

0–2

3–0

3–0

1–1

2–1

2–1

Suchitepéquez

3–1

1–1

2–0

1–0

4–1

3–0

2–3

0–2

6–0

2–0

1–0

Universidad SC

0–1

1–2

1–1

2–3

2–2

0–1

2–0

2–4

2–0

2–2

1–2

Xelajú MC

1–0

3–0

1–0

2–0

2–1

1–0

1–0

1–0

2–1

2–0

1–0

Updated to games played on 2015.
Source:
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Playoffs

	Quarterfinals							Semifinals							Finals
	4	Guastatoya	3	0	3
	5	Suchitepéquez	3	0	3
								1	Xelajú MC	0	2	2
								3	Guastatoya	3	2	5
															3	Guastatoya	2	0	2
	3	Comunicaciones	0	3	3										2	Antigua GFC	1	2	3
	6	Petapa	0	0	0
								2	Antigua GFC	3	1	4
								4	Comunicaciones	3	0	3
	3
	6

Quarterfinals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Comunicaciones	QF1	Petapa	0–0	3-0
Guastatoya	QF2	Suchitepéquez	3–3	0-0

First leg

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Second leg

Comunicaciones won 3–0 on aggregate.

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1–1 on aggregate. Guastatoya advanced on the away goal rule.

Semifinals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Xelajú MC	2-5	Guastatoya	0-3	2-2
Antigua GFC	4-3	Comunicaciones	3-3	1-0

First leg

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Second leg

Guastatoya won 5–2 on aggregate.

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Antigua GFC won 4-3 on aggregate.

Finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Guastatoya	2-3	Antigua GFC	2-1	0-2

First leg

Second leg

Antigua GFC won 3-2 on aggregate.

Apertura 2015 Champions

Antigua GFC

1st Title

List of foreign players in the league

This is a list of foreign players in Apertura 2015. The following players:

1. have played at least one apertura game for the respective club.
2. have not been capped for the Guatemala national football team on any level, independently from the birthplace

A new rule was introduced a few season ago, that clubs can only have five foreign players per club and can only add a new player if there is an injury or player/s is released.

Clausura

The 2016 Torneo Clausura began on 2016 and will end in 2016.

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
Antigua GFC	Rafael Arreaga	Mauricio Tapia	TBD	Pegamex
Cobán Imperial		Fabricio Chapa Benitez	Puma	TBD
Comunicaciones	Pedro Portilla	Iván Franco Sopegno	TBD	TBD
Guastatoya		Francisco Melgar	TBD	TBD
Malacateco	TBD	Rónald Gómez	TBD	TBD
Marquense	TBD	Néstor Emilio Soria	TBD	TBD
Mictlan	TBD	Sergio Guevara	TBD	TBD
Municipal	TBD	Gustavo Machain	TBD	TBD
Deportivo Petapa	TBD	Pablo Centrone	TBD	TBD
Suchitepéquez	TBD	Walter Claverí	TBD	TBD
Universidad SC	TBD	Ramiro Cepeda	TBD	TBD
Xelajú	TBD	Hernán Medford	RetoSports	TBD

Managerial changes

Beginning of the season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Comunicaciones	William Coito Olivera	Sacked	December 2015	Ivan Sopengo	December 2015	th (Apertura 2015)
Guastatoya	Ariel Sena	Resigned	December 2015	Francisco Melgar	2015	th (Apertura 2015)
Deportivo Marquense	Francisco Melgar	Resigned due to personal reason	December 2015	Néstor Emilio Soria	December 2015	th (Apertura 2015)
Suchitepéquez	Walter Claverí	Resigned due to become head of the national team	January 2016	Douglas Zamora	January 2016	th (Apertura 2015)

During the season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Cobán Imperial	Fabricio Chapa Benitez	Sacked	2016	Héctor Julián Trujillo	2016	th (Clausura 2016)
Guastatoya	Francisco Melgar	Sacked	2016	Roque Alfaro	2016	th (Apertura 2016)
Xelajú	Hernán Medford	Resigned	2016	Carlos Jurado	2016	th (Apertura 2016)

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Suchitepéquez	22	12	3	7	36	23	+13	39	Qualified to the Semifinals
2	Municipal	22	9	9	4	29	21	+8	36
3	Comunicaciones	22	9	5	8	32	27	+5	32	Qualified to the Quarterfinals
4	Malacateco	22	9	4	9	35	24	+11	31
5	Antigua GFC	22	8	7	7	27	23	+4	31
6	Marquense	22	8	7	7	30	29	+1	31
7	Guastatoya	22	10	1	11	26	28	−2	31
8	Mictlan	22	8	6	8	21	28	−7	30
9	Universidad SC	22	8	5	9	32	29	+3	29
10	Xelajú MC	22	5	9	8	19	25	−6	24
11	Petapa	22	5	8	9	33	40	−7	23
12	Cobán Imperial	22	5	8	9	17	40	−23	23

Updated to games played on 8 May 2016.
Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home \ Away[1]

ANT

COB

COM

GUA

MAL

MAR

MIC

MUN

PET

SUC

USC

XEL

Antigua GFC

0–0

1–3

3–0

1–1

2–4

2–1

2–0

4–1

0–1

1–0

0–0

Coban Imperial

1–1

1–3

0–0

3–2

2–1

1–0

0–1

3–2

2–1

2–2

0–0

Comunicaciones

2–1

4–0

1–2

1–0

2–2

4–0

1–2

1–1

1–2

0–4

1–0

Guastatoya

1–0

3–0

0–1

2–0

3–4

2–0

2–0

3–1

1–0

3–1

2–0

Malacateco

2–1

9–0

1–1

1–0

1–1

3–0

1–0

3–2

4–1

2–0

2–0

Marquense

1–2

1–1

1–0

2–0

2–1

1–0

1–0

1–0

1–1

2–4

2–2

Mictlan

0–0

1–0

2–0

2–1

1–0

0–0

3–3

2–2

1–0

1–0

3–2

Municipal

0–0

0–0

2–2

1–0

1–0

1–0

1–1

8–2

3–2

1–1

2–1

Petapa

1–1

1–1

1–1

6–0

1–0

2–1

3–1

0–0

2–1

2–3

2–2

Suchitepéquez

0–1

3–0

2–1

2–1

4–1

3–1

2–0

0–0

2–0

1–0

1–1

Universidad SC

3–1

4–0

1–2

2–0

2–1

0–0

0–1

1–2

0–0

2–6

0–0

Xelajú MC

1–3

1–0

1–0

1–0

0–0

2–1

1–1

1–1

2–1

0–1

1–2

Updated to games played on 8 May 2016.
Source: []
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Playoffs

	Quarterfinals							Semifinals							Finals
	4	Malacateco	0	3	3
	5	Antigua GFC	2	0	2
								1	Suchitepéquez	2
								4	Malacateco	1
	3	Comunicaciones	3	1	4
	6	Marquense	3	0	3
								2	CSD Municipal
								3	Comunicaciones
	3
	6

Quarterfinals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Deportivo Malacateco	3-0	Antigua GFC	0–2	–
Comunicaciones	4–3	Marquense	3–3	1–0

First leg

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Second leg

Comunicaciones won 4–3 on aggregate.

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Malacateco won 3–2 on aggregate.

Semifinals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Suchitepéquez	–	Deportivo Malacateco	2–1	–
CSD Municipal	–	Comunicaciones	0–1	–

First leg

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Second leg

Suchitepéquez won 4–1 on aggregate.

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Comunicaciones won 2-2 on aggregate.

Finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
	–		–	–

First leg

Second leg

won – on aggregate.

Aggregate table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Suchitepéquez (C) (Q)	44	22	7	15	72	50	+22	73	2016–17 CONCACAF Champions League group stage
2	Antigua GFC (C) (Q)	44	19	12	13	55	42	+13	69
3	Comunicaciones	44	20	9	15	58	47	+11	69
4	Municipal	44	18	13	13	57	48	+9	67
5	Guastatoya	44	19	8	17	59	51	+8	65
6	Xelajú MC	44	18	11	15	41	42	−1	65
7	Marquense	44	16	12	16	52	57	−5	60
8	Petapa	44	14	14	16	62	71	−9	56
9	Mictlan	44	15	11	18	45	56	−11	56
10	Cobán Imperial	44	12	15	17	37	66	−29	51
11	Malacateco	44	13	9	22	59	65	−6	48
12	Universidad SC	44	12	11	21	48	76	−28	47

Updated to games played on 2016.
Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

List of foreign players in the league

This is a list of foreign players in Clausura 2016. The following players:

1. have played at least one apertura game for the respective club.
2. have not been capped for the Guatemala national football team on any level, independently from the birthplace

A new rule was introduced a few season ago, that clubs can only have five foreign players per club and can only add a new player if there is an injury or player/s is released.

References

External links

• http://www.prensalibre.com/Deportes/FutbolNacional
• http://www.lared.com.gt/pages/sec_noticia/113