2015–16 Guatemalan Liga Nacional

The 2014–15 Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala season was the 17th season in which the Apertura and Clausura season was used. The season began in 2015 and ended in 2016.

Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala

Season	2015–16
Champions League	0Antigua GFC (Apertura) Suchitepéquez (Clausura)
Top goalscorer	Carlos Kamiani Felix (19) (Apertura) Carlos Kamiani Felix (15) (Clausura)
Biggest home win	Apertura Suchitepéquez 6–0 Petapa (31 October 2015) Clausura Malacateco 9–0 Cobán Imperial (8 May 2016)
Biggest away win	Apertura Marquense 0–3 Comunicaciones (13 September 2015) Antigua GFC 1–4 Universidad SC (30 September 2015) Petapa 1–4 Comunicaciones (4 October 2015) Malacateco 0–3 Universidad SC (4 November 2015) Municipal 0–3 Guastatoya (8 November 2015) Clausura Universidad SC 2–6 Suchitepéquez (8 May 2016)
Longest winning run	TBD (4)
Longest unbeaten run	TBD (7)
Longest winless run	TBD (10)
Longest losing run	TBD (3)
← 2014–15 2016–17 →

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

Antigua GFC

Cobán Imperial

Comunicaciones

Petapa

Guastatoya

Halcones FC

Malacateco

Marquense

Municipal

Suchitepéquez

Universidad SC

Xelajú

Locations of the 2014-15 Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala 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	Mita, Jutiapa	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 13 August 2015 and ended on 21 December 2015.

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
Antigua GFC	Rafael Arreaga	Mauricio Tapia	TBD	Pegamex
Cobán Imperial	Irasema Melendez	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	Gerardo Villa	Gustavo Machaín	TBD	DemosPro
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
C.S.D. Municipal	Enzo Trossero	Sacked	2015	Mauricio Wright	2015
Deportivo Malacateco	Emilio Umanzor	Sacked	2015	Nelson Mauricio Ancheta	2015
Marquense	Carlos Washington Blanco	resigned	2015	Juan Melgar	June 2015
Xelajú	Nahúm Espinoza		2015	Hernán Medford	June 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	7th (Apertura 2015)

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
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 match(es) played on 2015. Source:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Results

Home \ Away	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
Cobán 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 match(es) played on 2015. Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Playoffs

	Qualifying stage							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

1. ^† Order of legs reversed.

First leg

December 3, 2015

13:00 UTC−6

Petapa	0–0	Comunicaciones

Estadio Julio Armando Cóbar, San Miguel, Petapa

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December 4, 2015

12:30 UTC−6

Suchitepéquez	3–3	Guastatoya
Wilson Morales  15' Ángel Prudencio  16' Sergio Targua  72'		Víctor Solalinde  41' Henry Suazo  48' Edi Guerra  62'

Estadio Municipal Carlos Salazar Hijo, Mazatenango

Second leg

December 6, 2015

13:00 UTC−6

Comunicaciones	3-0	Petapa
Jose Contreras  10' Rolando Blackburn  15' Emiliano Lopez  72'		None'

Estadio Cementos Progreso, Guatemala City

Comunicaciones won 3–0 on aggregate.

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December 7, 2015

20:30 UTC−6

Guastatoya	0-0	Suchitepéquez
None		None

Estadio David Cordón Hichos, Guastatoya

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

December 10, 2015

8:00pm

Guastatoya	3-0	Xelajú MC
Tomas Castillo  10' Wilson Pineda  70' Nery Oliva  78'		None

Estadio David Cordón Hichos, Guastatoya

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December 11, 2015

Comunicaciones	3-3	Antigua GFC
Emiliano Lopez  22' Brayan Ordóñez  65' Jairo Arreola  78'		Alex Diaz  32' &  76' Manfred Russell  86'

Estadio Cementos Progreso, Guatemala city

Second leg

December 13, 2015

13:00

Xelajú MC	2-2	Guastatoya
Kevin Arriola pen  54' Junior Andrade  79'		Tomás Castillo  33' Fredy Orellana  91'

Estadio Mario Camposeco, Quetzaltenango

Guastatoya won 5–2 on aggregate.

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December 14, 2015

4:30

Antigua GFC	1-0	Comunicaciones
Edgar Chinchilla  91'		None

Estadio Pensativo, Antigua

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

December 18, 2015

8:00

Guastatoya	2-1	Antigua GFC
Juan Manuel Klug  16' Edi Guerra  86'		Alejandro Díaz  49'

Estadio David Cordón Hichos, Guastatoya

Second leg

December 21, 2015

Antigua GFC	2-0	Guastatoya
Oscar Isaula  19' Edgar Chinchilla  74'		None

Estadio Pensativo, Antigua

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.

Antigua GFC Mandred Russell Alexander Robinson Mekeil Williams Akeem Priestley Justin Arboleda Cobán Imperial Victor Guay Argenis Fernandez Mario Piñeyro Jesus Darwin Ramirez CSD Comunicaciones Joel Benítez Rolando Blackburn Agustín Herrera Jesús Jonathan Lozano Emiliano Lopez Guastatoya Victor Solalinde Agustín Arigon Álvaro García ' Deportivo Mictlan Juan Aguirre Marlon Negrete William Negrete Ricardo Romero Deportivo Malacateco Martin Edwin Garcia Nestor Asprilla Juan Carlos Meza Juan Carlos Silva Ricardo Rocha Jerrel Britto (player released during the season)

Deportivo Marquense None CSD Municipal Johnny Woodly Lambert Carlos Hernández Keilor Soto Jaime Alas Deportivo Petapa Minor Alvarez Lucas Trecarichi Juan Lovato Adrian Apellaniz Ignacio Flores CD Suchitepéquez Ángel Prudencio Shane Orio Jhon Cardona Jhon Jairo Córdoba Luis Lobo Universidad SC Paulo Centurion Jonathan Rodríguez Cuenu Michel Rivera Carlos Kamiani Alexis Egea Club Xelajú MC Juliano Rangel de Andrade Juan Baena Brunet Hay

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	Gerardo Villa	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
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 match(es) played on 8 May 2016. Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Results

Home \ Away	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
Cobán 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 match(es) played on 8 May 2016. Source:
Legend: 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	2	4
								4	Malacateco	1	0	1
															1	Suchitepéquez	1	3	4
	3	Comunicaciones	3	1	4										3	Comunicaciones	2	0	2
	6	Marquense	3	0	3
								2	CSD Municipal	0	2	2
								3	Comunicaciones	1	1	2
	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

1. ^† Order of legs reversed.

First leg

May 12, 2016

Antigua GFC	2–0	Deportivo Malacateco
Alexis Matta  35' Óscar Isaula  58'

Estadio Pensativo, Antigua Guatemala

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May 12, 2016

Marquense	3–3	Comunicaciones
Kevin Elias Castellanos  17' Fank De León  35', 61'		Rolando Blackburn  30' Emiliano López  58', 85'

Estadio Marquesa de la Ensenada, San Marcos

Second leg

May 15, 2016

Comunicaciones	1-0	Marquense
Rolando Blackburn  72'

Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City

Comunicaciones won 4–3 on aggregate.

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May 15, 2016

Deportivo Malacateco	3 – 0	Antigua GFC

Estadio Santa Lucía, Malacatán

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

May 18, 2016

13:00 UTC−6

Deportivo Malacateco	1-2	Suchitepéquez
J. Valenzuela  71'		O. Salazar  9' G. Esquivel  62'

Estadio Municipal Santa Lucía, Malacatán

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May 19, 2016

21:00 UTC−6

Comunicaciones	1-0	CSD Municipal
Jairo Arreola  2'

Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City

Second leg

May 21, 2016

20:00 UTC−6

Suchitepéquez	2-0	Deportivo Malacateco

Estadio Municipal Carlos Salazar Hijo, Mazatenango

Suchitepéquez won 4–1 on aggregate.

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May 22, 2016

12:00 UTC−6

CSD Municipal	2-1	Comunicaciones

Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City

Comunicaciones won 2-2 on aggregate.

Finals

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

First leg

	v

Second leg

	v

won – on aggregate.

Aggregate table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
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 match(es) played on 2016. Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champion; (Q) Qualified to the phase indicated.

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.

Antigua GFC Mandred Russell Alexander Robinson Mekeil Williams Agustín Herrera Justin Arboleda Cobán Imperial Arnulfo Beitar Victor Guay Mario Piñeyro CSD Comunicaciones Juan Barrera Joel Benítez Rolando Blackburn Emiliano Lopez Guastatoya Orlando Moreira Víctor Solalinde Álvaro García Deportivo Mictlan Juan Aguirre Marlon Negrete William Negrete Ricardo Romero Deportivo Malacateco Juan Carlos Meza Jhon Jairo Palacios Carlos Díaz Ricardo Rocha (player released during the season)

Deportivo Marquense Matías Triofini CSD Municipal Janderson Pereira Jaime Alas Gastón Puerari Keylor Soto Deportivo Petapa Juan Lovato Adrian Apellaniz Matías Quinteros CD Suchitepéquez Francisco Ladogana Mauricio Gerni Omar Salazar David Monsalve Universidad SC Guillermo Chavasco Rafael Burgos Michel Rivera Carlos Kamiani Club Xelajú MC Cristhian Lagos Juliano Rangel de Andrade Juan Baena José Mendoza

References

External links

• http://www.prensalibre.com/Deportes/FutbolNacional
• https://web.archive.org/web/20150813211930/http://lared.com.gt/pages/sec_noticia/113