2019–20 Liga Nacional de Guatemala

Liga Nacional de Guatemala
Season	2019–20
Dates	July 2019 – May 2020
Champions	Apertura:; Municipal (31st title) ; Clausura:; Cancelled, not awarded
Relegated	Mixco; Siquinalá
CONCACAF League	Municipal; Comunicaciones; Antigua
Top goalscorer	TBD (TBD) - 0 goals
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The 2019–20 Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala season is the 22nd season of the Liga Nacional de Guatemala, the top football league in Guatemala, in which the Apertura and Clausura season is used. The season will begin in July 2019 and will end in May 2020.

Team information

Cotzumalguapa

Location of the 2019–20 Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala teams

A total of 12 teams will contest the league, including 10 sides from the 2017–18 Liga Nacional and 2 promoted from the 2017–18 Primera División.

Deportivo Petapa and Chiantla were relegated to 2018–19 Primera División the previous season.

The relegated team was replaced by the 2018–19 Primera División winners. F.C. Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa and Deportivo Mixco.

Promotion and relegation

Promoted from Primera División de Ascenso as of June 2019.

Champions: F.C. Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa and Mixco^[1]

Relegated to Primera División de Ascenso as of June 2019.

Last Place: Petapa and Chiantla

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Captain	Kitmaker	Shirt Sponsors
Antigua GFC	Víctor Hugo García	Juan Antonio Torres	TBD	TBD	Tigo, TBD
Coban Imperial	Jimmy Morales	Jorge Rodriguez	TBD	TBD	Tigo, TBD
Comunicaciones	Juan Garcia	Mauricio Tapia	TBD	TBD	Tigo, TBD
Guastatoya	Léster Rodríguez	Daniel Alberto Casas Lago	TBD	TBD	Tigo, TBD
Iztapa	Mario Mejía	Alberto Salguero	TBD	TBD	Tigo, TBD
Malacateco	Carlos Gutiérrez	Ronald Gomez	TBD	TBD	Tigo, TBD
Mixco		Julio Gomez	TBD	TBD	Tigo, TBD
CSD Municipal	Gerardo Villa	Horacio Cordero	TBD	TBD	Tigo, TBD
F.C. Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa	TBD	Francisco Melgar	TBD	TBD	Tigo, TBD
Sanarate	Jahiro Otzoy	Rafael Díaz	TBD	TBD	Tigo, TBD
Siquinalá	Juan Pablo Godíne	Antonio Acosta		Kelme	TBD
Xelajú MC	Francisco Santos	Walter Horacio González	TBD	TBD	Tigo, TBD

Managerial changes

Beginning of the season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Iztapa		Resigned	May 2019	Alberto Salguero	May 2019	th (Clausura 2018)
Guastatoya	Amarini Villatoro	Resigned	May 2019	Daniel Alberto Casas Lago	May 2019	th (Clausura 2018)
Sanarate	Ariel Sena	Contract finished	July 2019	Rafael Díaz	July 2019	th (Clausura 2018)
Coban Imperial	Fabricio Benitez	Resigned	May 2019	Jorge Rodriguez	June 2019	th (Clausura 2018)
Comunicaciones	William Coito Olivera	Resigned	May 2019	Mauricio Tapia	May 2019	th (Clausura 2018)
Santa Lucía Cotz	Ramiro Cepeda	Resigned	June 2019	Francisco Melgar	June 2019	th (Clausura 2018)
Siquinalá	Otto Rodriguez	Resigned	June 2019	Antonio Acosta	June 2019	th (Clausura 2018)
Antigua GFC	Juan Antonio Torres	Resigned	June 2019	Roberto Montoya	June 2019	th (Clausura 2018)

During the Apertura season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Municipal	Horacio Cordero	Resigned	August 2019	Sebastián Bini	August 2019	th (Clausura 2018)
Guastatoya	Daniel Casas	Sacked	September 2019	Fabricio Benitez	September 2019	th (Clausura 2018)
Mixco	Julio Gomez	Sacked	September 2019	Walter Claverí	September 2019	th (Clausura 2018)
Izatapa	Alberto Salguero	Sacked	September 2019	Ramiro Cepeda	September 2019	th (Clausura 2018)
Xelaju MC	Walter Horacio González	Resigned	November 2019	TBD	November 2019	th (Clausura 2018)

Between Apertura and Clausura seasons

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
TBD	TBD	Resigned	July 2019	TBD	July 2019	th (Clausura 2018)

During the Clausura season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
TBD	TBD	Resigned	July 2019	TBD	July 2019	th (Clausura 2018)

Apertura

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Cobán Imperial	22	12	5	5	34	23	+11	41	Advance to Playoffs (Semifinals)
2	Municipal	22	12	4	6	32	23	+9	40	Advance to Playoffs (Semifinals)
3	Comunicaciones	22	11	6	5	33	21	+12	39	Advance to Playoffs (Quarterfinals)
4	Antigua GFC	22	11	4	7	30	23	+7	37
5	Sanarate	22	11	4	7	27	24	+3	37
6	Guastatoya	22	10	5	7	29	22	+7	35
7	Malacateco	22	9	4	9	29	24	+5	31
8	Iztapa	22	9	4	9	28	26	+2	31
9	Xelajú	22	7	7	8	26	27	−1	28
10	Santa Lucía	22	5	7	10	21	29	−8	22
11	Mixco	22	4	4	14	18	41	−23	16
12	Siquinalá	22	2	4	16	20	44	−24	10

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Results

Home \ Away	ANT	LUC	COB	COM	GUA	IZT	MAL	MUN	MIX	SAN	SIQ	XEL
Antigua GFC
Santa Lucía
Cobán Imperial
Comunicaciones
Guastatoya
Iztapa
Malacateco
Municipal
Mixco
Sanarate
Siquinalá
Xelajú

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Playoffs

Clausura

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Comunicaciones	13	8	4	1	26	15	+11	28	Advance to Playoffs (Semifinals)
2	Municipal	13	6	5	2	17	12	+5	23	Advance to Playoffs (Semifinals)
3	Guastatoya	13	6	3	4	13	10	+3	21	Advance to Playoffs (Quarterfinals)
4	Iztapa	13	5	5	3	19	18	+1	20
5	Antigua GFC	13	5	4	4	15	11	+4	19
6	Siquinalá	13	4	4	5	17	17	0	16
7	Mixco	13	4	3	6	14	14	0	15
8	Santa Lucía	13	3	6	4	13	18	−5	15
9	Xelajú	13	2	7	4	12	15	−3	13
10	Malacateco	13	3	4	6	9	14	−5	13
11	Sanarate	13	4	3	6	13	17	−4	12
12	Cobán Imperial	13	2	4	7	8	15	−7	10

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Results

Home \ Away	ANT	LUC	COB	COM	GUA	IZT	MAL	MUN	MIX	SAN	SIQ	XEL
Antigua GFC
Santa Lucía
Cobán Imperial
Comunicaciones
Guastatoya
Iztapa
Malacateco
Municipal
Mixco
Sanarate
Siquinalá
Xelajú

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Playoffs

Aggregate table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Comunicaciones	35	19	10	6	59	36	+23	67	CONCACAF League preliminary round^[a]
2	Municipal	35	18	9	8	49	35	+14	63	CONCACAF League round of 16^[b]
3	Guastatoya	35	16	8	11	42	32	+10	56
4	Antigua GFC	35	16	8	11	42	35	+7	56	CONCACAF League preliminary round^[c]
5	Cobán Imperial	35	14	9	12	42	38	+4	51
6	Iztapa	35	14	9	12	47	44	+3	51
7	Sanarate	35	15	7	13	40	41	−1	49
8	Malacateco	35	12	8	15	38	34	+4	44
9	Xelajú	35	9	14	12	38	42	−4	41
10	Santa Lucía	35	8	13	14	34	47	−13	37
11	Mixco	35	8	7	20	32	55	−23	31	Relegated to Primera División de Ascenso
12	Siquinalá	35	6	8	21	37	61	−24	26	Relegated to Primera División de Ascenso

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
Notes:

^ As Clausura champions (GUA2)
^ As Apertura champions (GUA1)
^ As runners-up with better aggregate record (GUA3)

List of foreign players in the league

This is a list of foreign players in 2019-2020 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. [1] Archived 2018-07-29 at the Wayback Machine

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

Jose Mena
Anllel Porras
Rafael Lezcano
Edgar Pacheco
Ricardo Álvarez Arce

Coban Imperial

Janderson Pereira
Josue Flores
Victor Guay
Jorge Luis Sotomayor
Lauro Ramón Cazal
Josue Mitchell Omier
Gerson Mayen
Derby Carrillo

CSD Comunicaciones

Michael Umaña
José Calderón
Maximiliano Lombardi
Darío Carreño
Cristian Alexis Hernández
Agustin Herrera
Rafael Lezcano
Bladimir Díaz
Jostin Daly

Guastatoya

Luis Landín
Omar Dominguez
Daniel Guzman
Aaron Navarro
Jorge Ignacio Gatgens
Santos Crisanto
Adrián de Lemos
Irvin Herrera

Deportivo Iztapa

Sergio Blancas
Ramiro Rocca
Liborio Vicente Sánchez
Kevin Santamaria
Byron Rodríguez
Carlos Felix

Deportivo Malacateco

Daniel Cambronero
Andrey Francis
Claudio Inella
Enzo Herrera
Henry Hernandez
Luis Hurtado

(player released during the Apertura season) (player released between the Apertura and Clausura seasons) (player released during the Clausura season)

Mixco

Dustin Corea
Ronny Stuart Mora

CSD Municipal

Othoniel Arce
Orlando Moreira
Alejandro Diaz
Ramiro Rocca
Mekeil Andy Williams
Nicolás Martínez Ramos

F.C. Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa

Rafael Da Roza
Ángel Tejeda
Diego Sanchez
Juan Leroyer
Santos Crisanto

Sanarate

Dario Silva
Jorge Zaldivar
Jonathan Posas
William Zapata
Juan Carlos Silva

Siquinalá

Alvaro Portero Diez
José Ortega
You Ki Sun
Marlon Negrete
Willinton Techera

Club Xelajú MC

Carlos Felix
Juan Yax
Darío Ferreira
Álvaro García
Gonzalo Vivanco
José Carlos Pérez
Jhonatan Souza Motta
Oscar Belinetz
David Rugamas

References

^ "¡El Deportivo Mixco es de Liga Mayor!". May 31, 2019. Archived from the original on June 2, 2019. Retrieved June 2, 2019.

External links

[table_note_res_CLA0.58746583507744-2] As Clausura champions (GUA2)

[table_note_res_APE0.58746583507744-3] As Apertura champions (GUA1)

[table_note_res_CL30.58746583507744-4] As runners-up with better aggregate record (GUA3)

[1] "¡El Deportivo Mixco es de Liga Mayor!". May 31, 2019. Archived from the original on June 2, 2019. Retrieved June 2, 2019.

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