2014–15 Guatemalan Liga Nacional

Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala
Season	2014–15
Dates	19 July 2014 - 23 May 2015
Champions	Apertura:; Comunicaciones (29th title) ; Clausura:; Comunicaciones (30th title)
Champions League	Comunicaciones ; TBD
Matches played	120
Goals scored	300 (2.5 per match)
Top goalscorer	Carlos Ruíz (12)
Biggest home win	Municipal 6 ; Coatepeque 0; (September 21, 2014)
Biggest away win	Xelajú 1; Comunicaciones 3; (August 24, 2014) ; Suchitepéquez 1 ; Deportivo Petapa 3; (August 31, 2014)
Longest winning run	Municipal (4)
Longest unbeaten run	Municipal (7)
Longest winless run	Antigua GFC (10)
Longest losing run	Coatepeque (3)
	← 2013–14 2015–16 →

The 2014–15 Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala season was the 16th season in which the Apertura and Clausura season was used. The season began on 19 July 2014 and ended on 23 May 2015.

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

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
Coatepeque	Coatepeque, Quetzaltenango	Israel Barrios	20,000
Comunicaciones	Guatemala, Guatemala	Cementos Progreso	16,000
Guastatoya	Guastatoya, El Progreso	David Cordón Hichos	3,000
Halcones FC	La Mesilla, Huehuetenango	Comunal	5,340
Malacateco	Malacatán, San Marcos	Santa Lucía	7,000
Marquense	San Marcos, Guatemala	Marquesa de la Ensenada	10,000
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

Torneo Apertura

The 2014 Torneo Apertura began on July 19, 2014 and ended on December 20, 2014.

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Comunicaciones	22	13	4	5	34	15	+19	43	Qualified to the Semifinals
2	Marquense	22	13	3	6	30	19	+11	42	Qualified to the Semifinals
3	Municipal	22	11	6	5	37	19	+18	39	Qualified to the Quarterfinals
4	Suchitepéquez	22	9	4	9	28	28	0	31
5	Petapa	22	9	3	10	35	32	+3	30
6	Antigua GFC	22	7	9	6	24	21	+3	30
7	Xelajú MC	22	8	6	8	29	29	0	30
8	Universidad SC	22	7	5	10	25	28	−3	26
9	Malacateco	22	5	11	6	21	24	−3	26
10	Guastatoya	22	7	4	11	20	31	−11	25
11	Halcones FC	22	6	5	11	24	42	−18	23
12	Coatepeque	22	3	8	11	15	34	−19	17

Updated to match(es) played on November 19, 2014. Source: Guatefutbol- Estadisticas Liga Nacional
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Results

Home \ Away	ANT	COA	COM	GUA	HAL	MAL	MAR	MUN	PET	SUC	USC	XEL
Antigua GFC		1–1	0–2	2–0	4–2	2–0	0–1	1–1	1–0	2–0	2–2	0–0
Coatepeque	0–2		0–1	3–1	1–1	1–1	0–1	0–1	2–0	0–0	0–0	2–3
Comunicaciones	3–0	2–0		2–0	1–0	1–0	5–0	1–1	3–3	0–1	3–0	1–0
Guastatoya	1–1	1–1	1–0		2–0	0–0	0–1	2–1	1–0	3–0	3–2	1–0
Halcones FC	1–1	3–1	2–2	1–0		0–0	1–1	1–0	3–1	3–2	1–0	1–2
Malacateco	0–0	0–0	0–1	3–1	2–0		1–0	2–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–1
Marquense	1–0	3–0	1–1	2–0	4–0	4–0		4–0	4–1	2–1	2–0	2–1
Municipal	0–0	6–0	0–2	2–1	5–1	1–1	1–0		4–1	3–1	1–0	4–1
Petapa	1–2	1–0	2–0	4–0	6–1	3–3	3–1	2–1		1–0	1–0	1–1
Suchitepéquez	2–1	4–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	3–1	2–1	1–2	1–3		2–1	4–1
Universidad SC	2–1	1–1	2–0	2–1	2–0	3–2	2–0	0–1	3–1	0–0		1–3
Xelajú MC	1–1	1–2	1–3	3–0	4–2	0–0	0–1	0–0	2–1	2–0	2–1

Updated to match(es) played on November 9, 2014. Source: Guatefutbol - Central de partidos: Campeonato Apertura 2014
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Playoffs

Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Finals

5	Deportivo Petapa	0	2	2

4	Suchitepéquez	3	1	4
					1	Comunicaciones	1	1	2

					4	Suchitepéquez	0	1	1
5

4
										1	Comunicaciones	1	2	3

										3	Municipal	1	1	2
3	Municipal	1	1	2

6	Antigua GFC	0	1	1
					2	Marquense	0	1	1

					3	Municipal	3	2	5
7

2

Quarterfinals

First leg

4 December 2014

Antigua GFC	1– 1	Municipal
Roberto Carlos Pena 35'		Claudio Albizuris 43'

Estadio Pensativo, Antigua

Attendance: 5,223

Referee: Mario Escobar

5 December 2014

Deportivo Petapa	2 – 1	C.D. Suchitepéquez
Adrian Apellaniz 89' Marbel Aragon 90'		Emiliano Ariel Lopez 35'

Estadio Julio Armando Cóbar, San Miguel, Petapa

Attendance: 1,388

Referee: Rueben Castellanos

Second leg

7 December 2014

Municipal	1 – 0	Antigua GFC
Kevin Santamaria 45'		None

Estadio El Trébol, Guatemala City

Attendance: 2,587

Referee: Oscar Reyna

8 December 2014

C.D. Suchitepéquez	3 – 0	Petapa
Carlos Barrios 54' Hugo Prieto 66' German Esquivel 85'		None

Estadio Municipal Carlos Salazar Hijo, Mazatenango

Attendance: 5,256

Referee: Jonathon Polanco

Semifinals

First leg

12 December 2014

C.D. Suchitepequez	1 – 1	C.S.D. Comunicaciones
Luis Mora 46'		Joel Francisco Benitez 75'

Estadio Municipal Carlos Salazar Hijo, Mazatenang

12 December 2014

C.S.D. Municipal	3 – 0	Deportivo Marquense
Maximiliano Callorda 40' 71' Kevin Santamaria 43'

Estadio El Trébol, Guatemala City

Second leg

14 December 2014

C.S.D. Comunicaciones	1 – 0	C.D. Suchitepequez
Rolando Blackburn 38'

Estadio Cementos Progreso, Guatemala City

15 December 2014

Deportivo Marquense	1 – 2	Municipal
Kevin Norales 59'		Hamilton López 6' Osman López 39'

Estadio Marquesa de la Ensenada, San Marcos

Finals

First leg

18 December 2014

20:00 GMT-6

Municipal	1 – 1	Comunicaciones
Maximiliano Callorda 64'		Joel Francisco Benitez 69'

Estadio Nacional Mateo Flores,
Guatemala City

Attendance: 12,175

Referee: Mario Escobar

Second leg

20 December 2014

16:00 GMT-6

Comunicaciones	2 – 1	Municipal
Agustín Herrera 4', 25'		Cristian Jiménez 71'

Estadio Nacional Mateo Flores,
Guatemala City

Top Goalscorers

As of November 19th, 2014

Rank	Player	Club	Home	Away	Goals^[1]
1	Carlos Ruíz	Municipal	8	4	12
2	Fernando Gallo	Halcones FC	9	2	11
3	Emiliano Ariel López	Suchitepéquez	8	2	10
3	Wilber Pérez	Petapa	7	3	10
4	Adrián Apellaniz	Petapa	5	4	9
5	Rolando Blackburn	Comunicaciones	7	1	8

List of foreign players in the league

This is a list of foreign players in Clausura 2014. 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

Israel Silva
Tomas de Souza
Roberto Carlos Pena
Mario Pineiro

Deportivo Coatepeque

Jose Calderon
Miguel Lavie

CSD Comunicaciones

Paolo Suarez

Guastatoya

Diner Cordova
Jose de Santiago
Victor Solalinde
Lelis Roman

Halcones FC

TBD

Deportivo Malacateco

TBD

(player released during the season)

Deportivo Marquense

None

C.S.D. Municipal

Kevin Santamaria
Santiago Morandi
Maximiliano Callorda
Diego de Souza

Deportivo Petapa

Juan Lovato
Adrian Apellaniz

C.D. Suchitepéquez

Shane Mooney Orio

Universidad de San Carlos (Guatemalan football club)

Fernando Gallo
Sergio Mendoza
Guillermo Reyes

Club Xelajú MC

TBD

Torneo Clausura

The 2015 Torneo Clausura began on 18 January 2015 and ended on 23 May 2015.

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
Antigua GFC	Rafael Arreaga	Mauricio Tapia	TBD	Pegamex
Coatepeque	Eduardo Avila	Manuel Castañeda	Puma	TBD
Comunicaciones	Pedro Portilla	William Coito Olivera	TBD	TBD
Guastatoya		Ariel Sena	TBD	TBD
Halcones	TBD	Ronald Gomez	TBD	TBD
Malacateco	TBD	Emilio Umanzor	TBD	TBD
Marquense	TBD	Carlos Washington Blanco	TBD	TBD
Municipal	TBD	Enzo Trossero	TBD	TBD
Deportivo Petapa	TBD	Pablo Centrone	TBD	TBD
Suchitepéquez	TBD	Walter Claverí	TBD	TBD
Universidad SC	TBD	Francisco Melgar Samayoa	TBD	TBD
Xelajú	TBD	Nahúm Espinoza	RetoSports	TBD

During the season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Deportivo Coatepeque	Manuel Castañeda	Sacked	Feb 2015	Héctor Julián Trujillo	Feb 2015	12th (Clausura 2015)
Universidad SC	Francisco Melgar Samayoa	Sacked	2015	Roberto Gamarra	2015	9th (Clausura 2015)
Deportivo Coatepeque	Héctor Julián Trujillo	resigned	2015	Sergio Pardo	2015	12th (Clausura 2015)
Deportivo Coatepeque	Sergio Pardo	Sacked	April 2015	Otto Muñoz	April 2015	12h (Clausura 2015)

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Comunicaciones	22	15	3	4	50	14	+36	48	Qualified to the Semifinals
2	Municipal	22	12	6	4	31	16	+15	42	Qualified to the Semifinals
3	Suchitepéquez	22	11	5	6	33	30	+3	38	Qualified to the Quarterfinals
4	Antigua GFC	22	10	5	7	25	19	+6	35
5	Xelajú	22	8	7	7	28	24	+4	31
6	Malacateco	22	8	5	9	29	37	−8	29
7	Deportivo Petapa	22	7	7	8	24	31	−7	28
8	Marquense	22	6	9	7	22	29	−7	27
9	Universidad SC	22	6	8	8	19	24	−5	26
10	Guastatoya	22	6	4	12	19	25	−6	22
11	Halcones	22	5	5	12	24	34	−10	20
12	Coatepeque	22	5	2	15	12	33	−21	17

Updated to match(es) played on 15 March 2015. Source: [1]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Results

Home \ Away	ANT	COA	COM	GUA	HAL	MAL	MAR	MUN	PET	SUC	USC	XEL
Antigua GFC		1–0	1–0	1–0	4–0	2–2	0–1	0–0	1–1	2–0	2–0	1–1
Coatepeque	0–1		0–2	0–2	2–1	2–1	1–1	0–1	2–1	0–1	0–1	1–0
Comunicaciones	0–1	4–0		1–0	3–0	1–1	2–1	0–2	1–0	7–1	5–0	2–0
Guastatoya	0–1	1–0	3–3		3–1	1–0	3–0	1–1	2–0	0–2	0–2	2–2
Halcones FC	2–1	2–0	0–1	1–0		5–2	2–2	0–1	0–0	1–1	0–0	5–0
Malacateco	2–3	4–1	0–3	1–0	2–1		1–0	1–0	1–1	3–0	2–0	3–2
Marquense	0–0	2–1	0–2	1–0	1–1	3–1		1–4	3–0	1–1	0–0	2–3
Municipal	4–2	3–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	0–0	0–1		4–1	1–0	2–0	1–0
Petapa	1–0	1–1	0–5	1–0	2–1	0–0	1–1	3–1		4–0	1–0	2–1
Suchitepéquez	2–1	1–0	1–5	4–0	2–1	4–0	5–0	2–0	2–1		1–1	1–0
Universidad SC	2–0	0–1	1–2	1–0	3–0	4–2	1–1	1–1	2–2	0–0		0–2
Xelajú MC	1–0	2–0	1–0	0–0	3–0	4–0	0–0	1–1	3–1	2–2	0–0

Updated to match(es) played on 2015. Source: [2]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Playoffs

Quarterfinals

First leg

7 May 2015

Deportivo Malacateco	0– 0	C.D. Suchitepéquez
None		None

Estadio Municipal Santa Lucía, Malacatán

Attendance: 1,077

Referee: J. Polanco

8 May 2015

Club Xelajú MC	1 – 0	Antigua GFC
Luis Javier Guarino 86'		None

Estadio Mario Camposeco, Quetzaltenango

Attendance: 4,455

Referee: O. Aldana

Second leg

10 May 2015

C.D. Suchitepéquez	1 – 0	Deportivo Malacateco
Emiliano Ariel Lopez 13'		None

Estadio Municipal Carlos Salazar Hijo, Mazatenango

Suchitepéquez won 1–0 on aggregate.

11 May 2015

Antigua GFC	3 – 0	Club Xelajú MC
Oscar Isula 41' Alejandro Galindo 47' Oscar Isula 54'		None

Estadio Pensativo, Antigua

Antigua won 3–1 on aggregate.

Semifinals

First leg

14 May 2015

Antigua GFC	1 – 5	C.S.D. Comunicaciones
Alejandro Galindo 30'	[3]	Jairo Arreola 9' 77' Carlos Castrillo 11' Agustin Herrera 23' Ruben Morales 43'

Estadio Pensativo, Antigua

15 May 2015

C.D. Suchitepéquez	0 – 0	C.S.D. Municipal
None		None

Estadio Municipal Carlos Salazar Hijo, Mazatenango

Second leg

17 May 2015

C.S.D. Comunicaciones	1-1	Antigua GFC
Carlos Fernandez 24'		b 29'

TBD

Comunicaciones won 6-2 on aggregate.

18 May 2015

C.S.D. Municipal	3-1	C.D. Suchitepéquez
Carlos Ruiz 40' Cristian Noriega 50' Mauro Portillo 88'	[]	Emerson Cabrera 26'

Estadio Nacional Mateo Flores

Municipal won 3-1 on aggregate.

Finals

First leg

20 May 2015

22:00 CST

Municipal	0 – 2	C.S.D. Comunicaciones
	Report	Jose M. Contreras 40' Agustin E. Herrera 43'

Estadio El Trebol,
Guatemala City

Referee: M. Escobar (Guatemala)

Second leg

23 May 2015

20:00 CST

C.S.D. Comunicaciones	2 – 3	Municipal
Jose M. Contreras 77' Agustin E. Herrera 82'	Report	Maximiliano Callorda 15' Carlos Ruiz 21', 89'

Estadio Cementos Progreso,
Guatemala City

Referee: W. Lopez (Guatemala)

Comunicaciones won 4-3 on aggregate.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Emiliano Ariel López	C.D. Suchitepéquez	12
2	Rolando Blackburn	CSD Comunicaciones	11
3	José Manuel Contreras	CSD Comunicaciones	9
4	Carlos Ruiz	C.S.D. Municipal	7
5	Luis Javier María Guarino	Club Xelajú MC	6
6	Adrian Apellaniz	Deportivo Petapa	5
7	Jonny Brown	Deportivo Marquense	5
8	Agustín Herrera	CSD Comunicaciones	5
9	Oscar Isaula	Antigua GFC	5
10	Wilber Perez	Deportivo Petapa	5

List of foreign players in the league

This is a list of foreign players in Clausura 2014. 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