2016–17 Guatemalan Liga Nacional

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[]

Positions by round[]

Results[]

Playoffs[]

Quarterfinals[]

First leg[]

November 30, 2016 (2016-11-30)

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 (2016-12-01)

15:45 UTC−6

Guastatoya	0 – 1	Malacateco
	Soccerway	24'

, Guastatoya

Attendance: 2,584

Referee: Mario Alberto Escobar Toca

Second leg[]

December 3, 2016 (2016-12-03)

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.

Malacateco won 1–0 on aggregate.

Semifinals[]

First leg[]

December 7, 2016 (2016-12-07)

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 (2016-12-08)

20:00 UTC−6

Comunicaciones	1 – 0	Antigua GFC
78'	Soccerway

Estadio Cementos Progreso, Guatemala City

Attendance: 7,656

Referee: Oscar Reyna

Second leg[]

December 10, 2016 (2016-12-10)

15:00 UTC−6

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

Estadio El Trébol, Guatemala City

Attendance: 5,825

Referee: Sergio Armando Reyna Moller

Municipal won 2–1 on aggregate.

December 11, 2016 (2016-12-11)

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[]

First leg[]

December 15, 2016 (2016-12-15)

15:30 UTC−6

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

Estadio Pensativo, Antigua

Attendance: 5,215

Referee: Walter Alexander López Castellanos

Second leg[]

December 18, 2016 (2016-12-18)

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.

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		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:

1. have played at least one apertura game for the respective club.
2. 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.

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		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		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[]

Positions by round[]

Results[]

Playoffs[]

Quarterfinals[]

First leg[]

June 10, 2017 (2017-06-10)

21:00 UTC−6

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

Estadio Mario Camposeco, Quetzaltenango

Attendance: 5,298

Referee: Oscar Reyna

May 11, 2017 (2017-05-11)

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 (2017-05-13)

15:30 UTC−6

Guastatoya	2 – 0	Xelajú MC
31', 66'	Soccerway

, Guastatoya

Attendance: 1,615

Referee: Mario Ramírez

Guastatoya won 4–2 on aggregate.

Suchitepéquez won 1–0 on aggregate.

Semifinals[]

First leg[]

May 17, 2017 (2017-05-17)

13:00 UTC−6

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

Estadio Carlos Salazar Hijo, Mazatenango, Suchitepéquez

Attendance: 8,278

Referee: Bryan López

May 18, 2017 (2017-05-18)

16:00 UTC−6

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

, Guastatoya

Attendance: 1,440

Referee: Mynor Velásquez

Second leg[]

May 20, 2017 (2017-05-20)

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 (2017-05-21)

19:00 UTC−6

Petapa	3 – 2	Guastatoya
Juliano Rangel 15' 22' 65'	Soccerway	78' 90+1'

Estadio Municipal de San Miguel Petapa, San Miguel Petapa

Attendance: 2,200

Referee: Jonathan Polanco

Guastatoya won 5-4 on aggregate.

Finals[]

First leg[]

Second leg[]

May 27, 2017 (2017-05-27)

20:00 UTC−6

Municipal	2 – 0	Guastatoya
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.

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.

External links[]

• http://www.prensalibre.com/Deportes/FutbolNacional
• https://web.archive.org/web/20150813211930/http://lared.com.gt/pages/sec_noticia/113