2008–09 Guatemalan Liga Nacional

The 2008–09 Guatemalan Liga Nacional season was the 10th season in which the Apertura and Clausura format was used.

Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala

Season	2008–09
Champions	Apertura: Comunicaciones (22nd title) Clausura: Jalapa (2nd title)
Relegated	Petapa
CONCACAF Champions League	Comunicaciones Jalapa
Top goalscorer	Apertura: Adrián Apellaniz (10) Clausura: Carlos González (10) Season: Carlos Castillo (16)
← 2007–08 2009–10 →

The season was divided into two tournaments; the Apertura, which is played from August to December, and the Clausura, which is played from January to May. The first six clubs in the standings at the end of each competition participate in the playoffs (a two-leg knock-out phase) to determine the champion; the first and second place teams qualify directly to the semi-finals, while the other two have to play in the quarter-finals. The winners of the Apertura and Clausura tournaments participate in the 2009–10 CONCACAF Champions League.

Torneo Apertura

Final standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Municipal	18	7	8	3	29	18	+11	29	Qualified to the playoffs semifinals.
2	Comunicaciones	18	7	8	3	27	23	+4	29
3	Zacapa	18	8	4	6	21	17	+4	28	Qualified to the playoffs quarterfinals.
4	Xelajú	18	7	7	4	23	20	+3	28
5	Marquense	18	7	3	8	22	27	−5	24
6	Xinabajul	18	5	8	5	20	27	−7	23
7	Heredia	18	6	3	9	23	24	−1	21
8	Petapa	18	6	3	9	16	20	−4	21
9	Suchitepéquez	18	4	8	6	31	29	+2	20
10	Jalapa	18	4	6	8	17	24	−7	18

Source: League Stats (in Spanish)

Top scorers

Position	Player	Team	Goals
1	Adrián Apellaniz	Comunicaciones	10
2	Fabián Muñoz	Zacapa	9
	Gastón Linares	Heredia
	Carlos Castillo	Suchitepéquez
5	Rolando Fonseca	Comunicaciones	7
	Jhonny Cubero	Xelajú
7	Francisco Pavón	Xelajú	6
	Jorge Estrada	Marquense

Final Update: December 1, 2008.

Results

Home \ Away	COM	HER	JAL	MAR	MUN	PET	SUC	XEL	XIN	ZAC
Comunicaciones		3–3	2–1	2–0	0–3	2–1	3–2	1–1	2–2	0–2
Heredia	2–2		2–0	0–1	1–2	2–1	2–1	2–0	2–0	2–0
Jalapa	0–2	1–0		3–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–2	1–0
Marquense	1–2	2–1	3–0		1–1	1–2	3–2	3–4	1–0	1–0
Municipal	0–0	3–1	5–4	1–1		2–0	3–2	1–1	0–1	4–0
Petapa	0–0	2–1	1–0	1–0	1–1		1–2	2–0	1–0	0–1
Suchitepéquez	2–2	1–1	1–1	1–2	1–1	3–1		1–1	2–0	3–0
Xelajú	1–3	2–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	3–2		2–2	0–0
Xinabajul	1–0	2–1	1–1	2–2	2–1	1–1	2–2	0–0		2–1
Zacapa	1–1	1–0	1–0	3–0	1–1	1–0	2–2	1–0	6–0

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Colors: Blue = home team win; White = draw; Red = away team win.

Playoffs

	Quarterfinals Dec. 3-7							Semifinals Dec. 10-14							Finals Dec. 17-21
								1	Municipal	2	2	4
	3	Zacapa	0	0	0			6	Xinabajul	1	1	2
	6	Xinabajul	1	1	2										1	Municipal	1	1	2
															2	Comunicaciones	2	1	3
								2	Comunicaciones	0	5	5
	4	Xelajú	3	3	6			4	Xelajú	1	2	3
	5	Marquense	2	3	5

Comunicaciones as tournament champion qualified to the 2009–10 CONCACAF Champions League.

2008 Apertura winner
Comunicaciones 22nd title

Torneo Clausura

Final standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Municipal	18	9	5	4	26	13	+13	32	Qualified to the playoffs semifinals.
2	Heredia	18	9	2	7	26	24	+2	29
3	Jalapa	18	7	7	4	17	13	+4	28	Qualified to the playoffs quarterfinals.
4	Suchitepéquez	18	7	6	5	25	23	+2	27
5	Xelajú	18	6	9	3	18	16	+2	27
6	Comunicaciones	18	6	5	7	25	22	+3	23
7	Xinabajul	18	6	5	7	24	26	−2	23
8	Marquense	18	4	7	7	15	22	−7	19
9	Petapa	18	3	7	8	22	30	−8	16
10	Zacapa	18	3	7	8	14	23	−9	16

Source: RSSSF

Top scorers

Position	Player	Team	Goals
1	Carlos González	Municipal	10
2	Carlos Asprilla	Petapa	8
	Walter Estrada	Xinabajul
4	Carlos Castillo	Suchitepéquez	7
	Carlos Leguizamón	Suchitepéquez
6	Evandro Ferreira	Heredia	6
	Mario Castellanos	Heredia

Results

Home \ Away	COM	HER	JAL	MAR	MUN	PET	SUC	XEL	XIN	ZAC
Comunicaciones		1–2	0–2	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–2	0–1	3–1	1–1
Heredia	0–0		3–1	4–1	0–3	3–2	2–0	1–1	2–0	1–0
Jalapa	2–1	1–0		0–0	2–0	2–1	0–0	0–0	1–0	2–0
Marquense	2–2	1–0	1–0		0–0	2–1	0–0	0–0	3–2	0–2
Municipal	2–3	2–0	1–1	1–0		3–2	4–0	2–1	0–0	2–1
Petapa	0–3	2–1	1–1	4–2	1–1		3–3	1–1	1–1	2–0
Suchitepéquez	1–1	2–4	2–0	2–1	0–0	3–0		1–0	4–3	4–0
Xelajú	3–2	3–2	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–0		1–1	2–1
Xinabajul	3–2	0–1	2–1	3–2	0–2	3–1	1–0	3–1		0–0
Zacapa	1–2	4–0	0–0	0–0	0–3	0–0	3–1	1–1	1–1

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Colors: Blue = home team win; White = draw; Red = away team win.

Playoffs

	Quarterfinals 1st leg: May 27/28 – 2nd leg: May 30/31							Semifinals 1st leg: June 4 – 2nd leg: June 7							Finals 1st leg: June 11 – 2nd leg: June 14
								2	Heredia	0	2	2
	3	Jalapa	1	3	4			3	Jalapa	1	2	3
	6	Comunicaciones	0	0	0										3	Jalapa	3	1	4
															1	Municipal	1	0	1
								1	Municipal (aet)	0	2 (1)	3
	4	Suchitepéquez	1	4	5			4	Suchitepéquez	2	0 (0)	2
	5	Xelajú	3	0	3

Jalapa as tournament champion qualified to the 2009–10 CONCACAF Champions League.

2009 Clausura winner
Jalapa 2nd title

Relegation

At the end of the season, the 10th placed team (the team with the fewest points) in the aggregate table standings (the combined standings of both the Apertura and Clausura tournaments) is relegated to the second division automatically at the end of the Clausura tournament.

Aggregate table

Final standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
1	Municipal	36	16	13	7	55	31	+24	61
2	Xelajú	36	13	16	7	41	36	+5	55
3	Comunicaciones	36	13	13	10	52	45	+7	52
4	Heredia	36	15	5	16	49	48	+1	50
5	Suchitepéquez	36	11	14	11	56	52	+4	47
6	Jalapa	36	11	13	12	34	37	−3	46
7	Xinabajul	36	11	13	12	44	53	−9	46
8	Zacapa	36	11	11	14	35	40	−5	44
9	Marquense	36	11	10	15	37	49	−12	43
10	Petapa (R)	36	9	10	17	38	50	−12	37	Relegated to the First division

Source:
(R) Relegated

See also

• Liga Nacional de Guatemala
• 2008–09 in Guatemalan football

External links

• Guatemala National Football Federation (in Spanish)
• Guatefutbol (in Spanish)
• RSSSF – Liga Nacional stats