2016–17 Guatemalan Liga Nacional

Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala
Season	2016–17
Champions	Apertura:; Antigua (2nd title) ; Clausura:; Municipal (30th title)
Champions League	None due to FA suspension
CONCACAF League	None due to FA suspension
Top goalscorer	TBD (12)
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)
	← 2015–16 2017–18 →

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 in 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

Table

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Municipal	22	13	5	4	36	19	+17	44	Qualified to the Semifinals
2	Antigua GFC	22	11	5	6	28	19	+9	38	Qualified to the Semifinals
3	Comunicaciones	22	11	4	7	26	20	+6	37	Qualified to the Quarterfinals
4	Malacateco	22	10	6	6	29	23	+6	36
5	Guastatoya	22	11	3	8	26	19	+7	36
6	Cobán Imperial	22	10	4	8	26	19	+7	34
7	Xelajú MC	22	8	5	9	24	29	−5	29
8	Marquense	22	7	5	10	25	30	−5	26
9	Petapa	22	7	4	11	23	31	−8	25
10	Suchitepéquez	22	6	6	10	28	41	−13	24
11	Mictlan	22	7	1	14	19	31	−12	22
12	Carchá	22	3	6	13	16	33	−17	15

Updated to match(es) played on 2016. Source: [1]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Positions by round

Results

Playoffs

Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Final

					1	Municipal	0	2	2
4	Malacateco	1	0	1	4	Malacateco	1	0	1
5	Guastatoya	0	0	0						1	Municipal	1	1	2 (4)
										2	Antigua GFC	2	0	2 (5)
					2	Antigua GFC	0	1	1
3	Comunicaciones	1	1	2	3	Comunicaciones	1	0	1
6	Cobán Imperial	0	0	0

Quarterfinals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Guastatoya	0–1	Malacateco	0–1	0–0
Cobán Imperial	0–2	Comunicaciones	0–1	0–1

First leg

November 30, 2016

19:00 UTC−6

Cobán Imperial	0 – 1	Comunicaciones
	Soccerway	55' É. Chinchilla

Estadio Verapaz Jose Angel Rossi, Cobán, Petapa

Attendance: 1,287

Referee: Walter Alexander López Castellanos

December 1, 2016

15:45 UTC−6

Guastatoya	0 – 1	Malacateco
	Soccerway	24' J. Leroyer

Estadio David Cordón Hichos, Guastatoya

Attendance: 2,584

Referee: Mario Alberto Escobar Toca

Second leg

December 3, 2016

20:00 UTC−6

Comunicaciones	1 – 0	Cobán Imperial
G. Tinoco 66'	Soccerway

Estadio Cementos Progreso, Guatemala City

Attendance: 5,435

Referee: Mario Ramírez

Comunicaciones won 2–0 on aggregate.

December 4, 2016

12:00 UTC−6

Malacateco	0 – 0	Guastatoya
	Soccerway

Estadio Santa Lucía, Malacatán

Attendance: 6,548

Referee: Juan Carlos Guerra

Malacateco won 1–0 on aggregate.

Semifinals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Deportivo Malacateco	1–2	Municipal	1–0	0–2
Comunicaciones	1–1	Antigua GFC	1–0	0–1

First leg

December 7, 2016

12:00 UTC−6

Malacateco	1 – 0	Municipal
Edward Santeliz 48'	Soccerway

Estadio Santa Lucía, Malacatán

Attendance: 6,549

Referee: Jonathan Polanco

December 8, 2016

20:00 UTC−6

Comunicaciones	1 – 0	Antigua GFC
E. Lopez 78'	Soccerway

Estadio Cementos Progreso, Guatemala City

Attendance: 7,656

Referee: Oscar Reyna

Second leg

December 10, 2016

15:00 UTC−6

Municipal	2 – 0	Malacateco
E. Guerra 35' Janderson 46'	Soccerway

Estadio El Trébol, Guatemala City

Attendance: 5,825

Referee: Sergio Armando Reyna Moller

Municipal won 2–1 on aggregate.

December 11, 2016

11:30 UTC−6

Antigua GFC	1 – 0	Comunicaciones
A. Herrera 81'	Soccerway

Estadio Pensativo, Antigua

Attendance: 6,525

Referee: Bryan López

1-1 on aggregate. Antigua GFC progresses as the higher seed.

Finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Antigua GFC	2–2 5–4 (p)	Municipal	2–1	0–1

First leg

December 15, 2016

15:30 UTC−6

Antigua GFC	2 – 1	Municipal
A. Galindo 11' M. Russell 68'	Soccerway	26' C. Félix

Estadio Pensativo, Antigua

Attendance: 5,215

Referee: Walter Alexander López Castellanos

Second leg

December 18, 2016

11:00 UTC−6

Municipal	1 – 0 (a.e.t.)	Antigua GFC
G. Puerari 61'	Soccerway
Penalties
	4 – 5

Estadio Doroteo Guamuch Flores, Guatemala City

Attendance: 8,765

Referee: Mario Alberto Escobar Toca

2-2 on aggregate. Antigua GFC wins 5-4 on penalties.

Apertura 2016 champions
Antigua GFC 2nd title

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)
C.D. 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:

have played at least one apertura game for the respective club.
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

Víctor Bolivar
Jorge Zaldívar
Manfred Russell

Coban Imperial

Francisco Ladogana
Orlando Moreira
Víctor Solalinde
Álvaro García

CSD Comunicaciones

Guastatoya

' 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

Darío Flores
Carlos Kamiani
Janderson Pereira
Jaime Alas
Gastón Puerari

Deportivo Petapa

Juan Lovato
Adrian Apellaniz
Matías Quinteros

CD Suchitepéquez

Francisco Ladogana
Mauricio Gerni
Omar Salazar
David Monsalve

Carchá

Pablo Pereira
Cesar Ivan Garcia
Luis Rene Rodas
Kamar Kayode Oshioke

Club Xelajú MC

Cristhian Lagos
Juliano Rangel de Andrade
Juan Baena
José Mendoza

Clausura

The 2017 Torneo Clausura is expected to begin in January 2017 and end in May 2017.

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

Table

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Municipal	22	8	12	2	19	10	+9	36	Qualified to the Semifinals
2	Petapa	22	10	4	8	27	24	+3	34	Qualified to the Semifinals
3	Guastatoya	22	8	8	6	22	16	+6	32	Qualified to the Quarterfinals
4	Comunicaciones	22	7	9	6	21	16	+5	30
5	Suchitepéquez	22	9	3	10	24	28	−4	30
6	Xelajú MC	22	8	5	9	30	25	+5	29
7	Cobán Imperial	22	7	8	7	17	15	+2	29
8	Marquense	22	6	10	6	19	16	+3	28
9	Malacateco	22	6	10	6	17	20	−3	28
10	Mictlan	22	7	7	8	14	25	−11	28
11	Antigua GFC	22	6	9	7	28	30	−2	27
12	Carchá	22	5	5	12	11	24	−13	20

Updated to match(es) played on 2016. Source: [2]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Positions by round

Results

Playoffs

Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Final

					1	Municipal	2	1	3
4	Comunicaciones	0	0	0	5	Suchitepéquez	1	0	1
5	Suchitepéquez	1	0	1						1	Municipal	0	2	2
										3	Guastatoya	0	0	0
					2	Petapa	1	3	4
3	Guastatoya	2	2	4	3	Guastatoya	3	2	5
6	Xelajú MC	2	0	2

Quarterfinals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Xelajú MC	2–4	Guastatoya	2–2	0–2
Suchitepéquez	1–0	Comunicaciones	1–0	0–0

First leg

June 10, 2017

21:00 UTC−6

Xelajú MC	2 – 2	Guastatoya
W. Zapata 13', 58' (pen.)	Soccerway	5' J. Márquez 41' J. Vargas

Estadio Mario Camposeco, Quetzaltenango

Attendance: 5,298

Referee: Oscar Reyna

May 11, 2017

13:00 UTC−6

Suchitepéquez	1 – 0	Comunicaciones
G. Tinoco 81'	Soccerway

Estadio Carlos Salazar Hijo, Mazatenango, Suchitepéquez

Attendance: 3,308

Referee: Mario Alberto Escobar Toca

Second leg

May 13, 2017

15:30 UTC−6

Guastatoya	2 – 0	Xelajú MC
Á. Rodríguez 31', 66'	Soccerway

Estadio David Cordón Hichos, Guastatoya

Attendance: 1,615

Referee: Mario Ramírez

Guastatoya won 4–2 on aggregate.

May 14, 2017

19:00 UTC−6

Comunicaciones	0 – 0	Suchitepéquez
	Soccerway

Estadio Doroteo Guamuch Flores, Guatemala City

Attendance: 2,850

Referee: Sergio Armando Reyna Moller

Suchitepéquez won 1–0 on aggregate.

Semifinals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Suchitepéquez	1–3	Municipal	1–2	0–1
Guastatoya	5–4	Petapa	3–1	2–3

First leg

May 17, 2017

13:00 UTC−6

Suchitepéquez	1 – 2	Municipal
G. Tinoco 32'	Soccerway	22' G. Puerari 26' C. Félix

Estadio Carlos Salazar Hijo, Mazatenango, Suchitepéquez

Attendance: 8,278

Referee: Bryan López

May 18, 2017

16:00 UTC−6

Guastatoya	3 – 1	Petapa
J. Vargas 13', 38' Á. Rodríguez 32'	Soccerway	9' Juliano Rangel

Estadio David Cordón Hichos, Guastatoya

Attendance: 1,440

Referee: Mynor Velásquez

Second leg

May 20, 2017

16:30 UTC−6

Municipal	1 – 0	Suchitepéquez
90+1' M. Pappa	Soccerway

Estadio Doroteo Guamuch Flores, Guatemala City

Attendance: 10,115

Referee: Mario Ramírez

Municipal won 3–1 on aggregate.

May 21, 2017

19:00 UTC−6

Petapa	3 – 2	Guastatoya
Juliano Rangel 15' C. Girard 22' P. Samayoa 65'	Soccerway	78' F. Orellana 90+1' Á. Rodríguez

Estadio Municipal de San Miguel Petapa, San Miguel Petapa

Attendance: 2,200

Referee: Jonathan Polanco

Guastatoya won 5-4 on aggregate.

Finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Guastatoya	0–2	Municipal	0–0	0–2

First leg

May 24, 2017

16:00 UTC−6

Guastatoya	0 – 0	Municipal
	Soccerway

Estadio David Cordón Hichos, Guastatoya

Attendance: 2,200

Referee: Ever López

Second leg

May 27, 2017

20:00 UTC−6

Municipal	2 – 0	Guastatoya
C. Félix 30' G. Puerari 64'	Soccerway

Estadio Doroteo Guamuch Flores, Guatemala City

Attendance: 14,548

Referee: Sergio Armando Reyna Moller

Municipal won 2-0 on aggregate.

Clausura 2017 champions
Municipal 30th title

Aggregate table

Three teams would have qualified for CONCACAF club competitions, but due to FIFA's suspension of Guatemala, these spots were given to other Central American countries.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Municipal	44	21	17	6	55	29	+26	80
2	Comunicaciones	44	19	12	13	56	31	+25	69
3	Guastatoya	44	19	11	14	44	36	+8	68
4	Antigua GFC	44	19	11	14	65	59	+6	68
5	Malacateco	44	16	16	12	46	43	+3	64
6	Cobán Imperial	44	17	12	15	43	34	+9	63
7	Petapa	44	17	8	19	50	55	−5	59
8	Xelajú MC	44	16	10	18	54	54	0	58
9	Marquense	44	13	15	16	44	46	−2	54
10	Suchitepéquez	44	15	9	20	52	69	−17	54
11	Mictlan	44	14	8	22	33	56	−23	50	Relegation play-off
12	Carchá	44	8	11	25	27	57	−30	35	Relegation to 2017-2018 Primera División de Ascenso

Updated to match(es) played on 2016. Source: [3]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

2016–17 Guatemalan Liga Nacional

Format

Apertura

Personnel and sponsoring

Table

Standings

Positions by round

Results

Playoffs

Quarterfinals

First leg

Second leg

Semifinals

First leg

Second leg

Finals

First leg

Second leg

Managerial changes

Beginning of the season

During the season

List of foreign players in the league

Clausura

Personnel and sponsoring

Table

Standings

Positions by round

Results

Playoffs

Quarterfinals

First leg

Second leg

Semifinals

First leg

Second leg

Finals

First leg

Second leg

Aggregate table

External links

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