2016–17 Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala season

The 2016–17 Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala season is the 19th season in which the Apertura and Clausura season is used. The season began on 2016 and will end in 2017.

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.

Apertura

The 2016 Torneo Apertura began on July 2016 and will end in December 2016.

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
Antigua GFC	Rafael Arreaga	Mauricio Tapia	TBD	Pegamex
Deportivo Carchá	Douglas Delgado	Javier Martínez	TBD	TBD
Cobán Imperial		Ariel Sena	Puma	TBD
Comunicaciones	Pedro Portilla	Iván Franco Sopegno	TBD	TBD
Guastatoya		Amarini Villatoro	TBD	TBD
Malacateco	TBD	Ronald Gómez	TBD	TBD
Marquense	TBD	Néstor Emilio Soria	TBD	TBD
Mictlan	TBD	Sergio Guevara	TBD	TBD
Municipal	TBD	Gustavo Machaín	TBD	TBD
Deportivo Petapa	Mynor Morales	Ramiro Cepeda	TBD	TBD
Suchitepéquez	TBD	Enrique Maximiliano Meza	TBD	TBD
Xelajú	TBD	Rafael Loredo	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
Deportivo Petapa	Pablo Centrone	Sacked	May 2016	Ramiro Cepeda	May 2016	th (Clausura 2016)
Xelajú	Carlos Jurado	Contract not extended	May 2016	Rafael Loredo	May 2016	th (Clausura 2016)
Deportivo Carcha	Daniel Orlando Berta	Contract not extended	May 2016	Javier Martínez	June 2016	th (Clausura 2016)
Suchitepéquez	Douglas Zamora	Sacked	June 2016	Enrique Maximiliano Meza	June 2016	th (Clausura 2016)
Cobán Imperial	Héctor Julián Trujillo	Sacked	June 2016	Ariel Sena	June 2016	th (Clausura 2016)

During the season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
TBD	TBD	Resigned	2016	TBD	2016	th (2016)
Deportivo Carcha	Javier Martínez	Resigned	2016	Héctor Julián Trujillo	2016	th (Apertura 2015)
Deportivo Marquense	Néstor Emilio Soria	Sacked	2016	Sergio Pardo	2016	th (Apertura 2015)
Deportivo Guastatoya	Roque Raúl Alfaro	Sacked	2016	Amarini Villatoro	2016	th (Apertura 2015)
TBD	TBD	Sacked	2016	TBD	2016	th (Apertura 2015)

List of foreign players in the league

This is a list of foreign players in 2016-2017 season. 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 July 2016 and will end in December 2016.

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
Antigua GFC	Rafael Arreaga	Mauricio Tapia	TBD	Pegamex
Deportivo Carchá	TBD	Daniel Orlando Berta	TBD	TBD
Cobán Imperial		Fabricio Chapa Benitez	Puma	TBD
Comunicaciones	Pedro Portilla	Iván Franco Sopegno	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
Xelajú	TBD	Hernán Medford	RetoSports	TBD

External links

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