2015–16 Guatemalan Liga Nacional

Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala
Season	2015–16
Champions	Apertura:; Antigua (1st title) ; Clausura:; Suchitepéquez (2nd title)
Champions League	Antigua; Suchitepéquez;
Top goalscorer	Carlos Kamiani Félix (19) (Apertura) ; Carlos Kamiani Félix (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 →

The 2015–16 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.

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
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	Qualified to the Semifinals
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: ^{[citation needed]}
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: [1]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Playoffs

Qualifying stage					Semifinals					Finals

					1	Xelajú MC	0	2	2

					3	Guastatoya	3	2	5
4	Guastatoya	3	0	3

5	Suchitepéquez	3	0	3
										3	Guastatoya	2	0	2

										2	Antigua GFC	1	2	3
3	Comunicaciones	0	3	3

6	Petapa	0	0	0
					2	Antigua GFC	3	1	4

					4	Comunicaciones	3	0	3
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Quarterfinals

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

^† Order of legs reversed.

First leg

December 3, 2015

13:00 UTC−6

Petapa	0–0	Comunicaciones

Estadio Julio Armando Cóbar, San Miguel, Petapa

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.

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.Tooltip Aggregate score	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

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.

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.Tooltip Aggregate score	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:

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

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 Félix
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	Qualified to the Semifinals
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: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Playoffs

Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Finals

					1	Suchitepéquez	2	2	4

					4	Malacateco	1	0	1
4	Malacateco	0	3	3

5	Antigua GFC	2	0	2
										1	Suchitepéquez	1	3	4

										3	Comunicaciones	2	0	2
3	Comunicaciones	3	1	4

6	Marquense	3	0	3
					2	CSD Municipal	0	2	2

					3	Comunicaciones	1	1	2
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Quarterfinals

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

^† 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

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.

May 15, 2016

Deportivo Malacateco	3 – 0	Antigua GFC

Estadio Santa Lucía, Malacatán

Malacateco won 3–2 on aggregate.

Semifinals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	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

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.

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.Tooltip Aggregate score	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	2016–17 CONCACAF Champions League group stage
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) Champions; (Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

List of foreign players in the league

This is a list of foreign players in Clausura 2016. 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