2011–12 Liga Nacional de Guatemala

The 2011–12 Liga Nacional de Guatemala was the 59th professional season of the top-flight football league in Guatemala. The season was divided into two championships—the 2011 Apertura and the 2012 Clausura—each in an identical format and each contested by the same 12 teams.

Liga Nacional de Guatemala

Season	2011–12
Champions	Apertura: Municipal (29th title) Clausura: Xelajú (5th title)
Relegated	Zacapa Juventud Retalteca
Champions League	Municipal Xelajú
Matches	120
Goals	323 (2.69 per match)
Biggest home win	Apertura: Municipal 5–0 Malacateco
Biggest away win	Apertura: Zacapa 1–4 Suchitepéquez
Highest scoring	Apertura: Peñarol 6–2 Suchitepéquez Clausura: Heredia 6–1 Zacapa
← 2010–11 2012–13 →

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 finishes 1 and 2 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 quarterfinals will advance to the semifinals. The winners of the semifinals will advance to the finals, which will determine the tournament champion.

Teams

USAC and Xinabajul finished in 11th and 12th place, respectively, in the overall table of last season and were relegated to the Primera División. Taking their places were the two winners of the Primera División promotion playoffs, Petapa and Zacapa.

Comunicaciones

Heredia

Juventud

Malacateco

Marquense

Mictlán

Municipal

Peñarol

Petapa

Suchitep.

Xelajú

Zacapa

Location of the 2011–12 Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala teams

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
Comunicaciones	Guatemala	Cementos Progreso	16,000
Heredia	San José	Julián Tesucún	8,000
Juventud Retalteca	Retalhuleu	Óscar Monterroso	8,000
Malacateco	Malacatán	Santa Lucía	7,000
Marquense	San Marcos	Marquesa de la Ensenada	10,000
Mictlán	Asunción Mita	La Asunción	3,000
Municipal	Guatemala	Mateo Flores	30,000
Peñarol	Huehuetenango	Los Cuchumatanes	5,340
Petapa	San Miguel Petapa	Municipal	7,500
Suchitepéquez	Mazatenango	Carlos Salazar Hijo	12,000
Xelajú	Quetzaltenango	Mario Camposeco	11,000
Zacapa	Zacapa	David Ordóñez Bardales	8,000

Apertura

The 2011 Torneo Apertura began on 9 July 2011 and ended on 18 December 2011.

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Suchitepéquez	22	14	1	7	34	21	+13	43	Qualified to the Semifinals
2	Xelajú	22	11	5	6	30	23	+7	38
3	Marquense	22	9	9	4	31	20	+11	36	Qualified to the Quarterfinals
4	Comunicaciones	22	8	11	3	27	20	+7	35
5	Heredia	22	10	5	7	35	30	+5	35
6	Municipal	22	8	10	4	37	22	+15	34
7	Peñarol	22	8	7	7	36	31	+5	31
8	Malacateco	22	4	10	8	29	42	−13	22
9	Zacapa	22	5	6	11	27	43	−16	21
10	Juventud Retalteca	22	4	8	10	24	33	−9	20
11	Mictlán	22	5	5	12	23	39	−16	20
12	Petapa	22	3	9	10	24	33	−9	18

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

Results

Home \ Away	COM	HER	JUV	MAL	MAR	MIC	MUN	PEÑ	PET	SUC	XEL	ZAC
Comunicaciones		3–1	1–0	3–1	0–0	1–1	0–0	2–2	2–1	1–0	1–1	4–3
Heredia	2–2		1–1	2–0	3–2	5–1	3–1	2–1	1–0	2–1	1–0	2–0
Juventud Retalteca	1–1	2–3		2–1	0–0	4–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–3	1–0	2–0
Malacateco	1–1	2–2	3–1		2–0	0–0	3–3	2–2	2–1	2–2	2–2	1–1
Marquense	1–0	3–1	1–0	1–1		4–0	0–3	3–1	3–0	1–0	2–2	4–0
Mictlán	1–2	1–1	3–1	0–1	0–1		0–0	3–3	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–1
Municipal	1–1	3–1	4–2	5–0	0–0	2–1		2–0	3–0	0–1	1–1	2–0
Peñarol	0–1	2–0	2–0	3–1	0–0	2–1	2–2		2–1	6–2	3–1	2–1
Petapa	0–0	1–1	2–2	2–2	1–1	4–3	1–1	1–1		2–0	2–0	0–1
Suchitepéquez	1–0	1–0	2–0	4–1	2–0	3–0	2–1	1–0	2–1		1–0	2–0
Xelajú	1–0	1–0	1–0	3–0	2–2	2–1	2–1	2–1	2–1	1–0		4–1
Zacapa	1–1	2–1	2–2	2–1	2–2	2–1	2–2	2–0	2–2	1–4	1–2

Source: Guatefutbol (in Spanish)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

Pos	Player	Club	Goals
1	Juan Valenzuela	Zacapa	10
	Henry Hernández	Heredia	10
3	Miguel Casanova	Peñarol	8
	Edwin Villatoro	Suchitepéquez	8
5	Neto Mineiro	Marquense	7
	Fernando Gallo	Peñarol	7
	Tránsito Montepeque	Comunicaciones	7
	Carlos Ramírez	Comunicaciones	7

Positions by round

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Suchitepéquez	2	7	4	5	3	1	3	2	2	2	1	2	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Xelajú	4	8	6	11	6	10	6	6	6	5	6	6	5	5	3	5	4	5	5	5	3	2
Marquense	12	5	5	6	8	5	5	5	5	4	2	1	2	1	4	6	6	4	3	4	2	3
Comunicaciones	3	1	1	1	1	2	4	3	3	3	4	4	3	3	5	2	2	2	4	3	4	4
Heredia	5	10	11	7	9	6	9	8	10	7	8	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	6	6	6	5
Municipal	9	3	2	2	4	4	2	4	4	6	5	5	6	6	6	3	3	3	2	2	5	6
Peñarol	1	6	3	4	2	3	1	1	1	1	3	3	4	4	2	4	5	6	7	7	7	7
Malacateco	6	12	8	8	5	7	7	10	9	10	9	11	10	12	10	10	9	8	8	8	8	8
Zacapa	8	2	7	10	10	11	11	12	12	12	11	9	9	10	9	11	11	11	10	9	9	9
Juventud Retalteca	11	9	10	12	11	12	12	11	8	9	10	10	12	9	11	8	8	9	9	10	10	10
Mictlán	7	11	12	9	12	9	10	9	11	11	12	12	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	11
Petapa	10	4	9	3	7	8	8	7	7	8	7	8	8	8	8	9	10	10	11	11	11	12

	Leader
	Qualification to the semifinals
	Qualification to the quarterfinals

Source: Guatefutbol

Playoffs

	Quarterfinals							Semifinals							Final
								2	Xelajú MC	0	2	2
	4	Comunicaciones	1	0	1 (a)			4	Comunicaciones	3	1	4
	5	Heredia	1	0	1										4	Comunicaciones	0	0	0
															6	Municipal	2	2	4
								1	Suchitepéquez	1	1	2
	3	Marquense	0	0	0			6	Municipal	3	0	3
	6	Municipal	2	0	2

Quarterfinals

First legs

1 December 2011

15:00 UTC-6

Heredia	1–1	Comunicaciones
Hernández 65'		81' Herrate  20'  89' Márquez

Estadio Julián Tesucún, San José

Attendance: 3,000

Referee: Jonathan Polanco

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1 December 2011

20:00 UTC-6

Municipal	2–0	Marquense
Oliva 10' Quintanilla 16'

Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City

Attendance: 4,789

Referee: Mario Ramírez

Second legs

4 December 2011

13:00 UTC-6

Marquense	0–0	Municipal
Brown  88'

Estadio Marquesa de la Ensenada, San Marcos

Attendance: 5,119

Referee: Mario Escobar

Municipal progresses 2–0 on aggregate.

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4 December 2011

16:00 UTC-6

Comunicaciones	0–0	Heredia

Estadio Cementos Progreso, Guatemala City

Attendance: 6,993

Referee: Walter López

Comunicaciones progresses on away goals rule.

Semifinals

First legs

7 December 2011

20:00 UTC-6

Comunicaciones	3–0	Xelajú MC
Thompson 51' Ramírez 54' Ceballos 88'

Estadio Cementos Progreso, Guatemala City

Attendance: 6,651

Referee: Oscar Reyna

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8 December 2011

20:00 UTC-6

Municipal	3–1	Suchitepéquez
Castillo 21' Lopez 53' Quintanilla 64'		4' López

Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City

Attendance: 10,963

Referee: Ruben Castellanos

Second legs

10 December 2011

20:00 UTC-6

Xelajú MC	2–1	Comunicaciones
Israel Silva 8' Leal 13'		77' Arreola

Estadio Mario Camposeco, Quetzaltenango

Attendance: 3,395

Referee: Mario Escobar

Comunicaciones progresses 4–2 on aggregate.

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11 December 2011

11:00 UTC-6

Suchitepéquez	1–0	Municipal
Villatoro 1'		63'  86' Evandro Ferreira

Estadio Carlos Salazar Hijo, Mazatenango

Attendance: 6,131

Referee: Jonathan Polanco

Municipal progresses 3–2 on aggregate.

Finals

First leg

15 December 2011

20:05 UTC-6

Municipal	2–0	Comunicaciones
Oliva 37' Quintanilla 44'		41'  88' Morales

Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City

Attendance: 17,751

Referee: Jonathan Polanco

Second leg

18 December 2011

16:20 UTC-6

Comunicaciones	0–2	Municipal
		16' Oliva 76' Samayoa

Estadio Cementos Progreso, Guatemala City

Attendance: 6,775

Referee: Oscar Reyna

2011 Apertura winner
29th title

Clausura

The 2012 Torneo Clausura will begin on 14 January 2012 and will end in May 2012.

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Chairman	Head coach	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
Comunicaciones		Ronald Gonzales	Joma	TBA
Heredia	TBD	TBA	TBA	TBA
Juventud Retalteca	TBD	Manuel Castañeda	DMS	TBA
Malacateco	TBD	Julián Trujillo	TBA	TBA
Marquense	TBD	Francisco Melgar	Lotto Sport Italia	TBA
Mictlán	TBD	Albertico Salguero	TBA	TBA
Municipal	TBD	Javier Delgado	DMS	Pepsi, Banrural
Peñarol La Mesilla	TBD	Pablo Centrone	TBA	TBA
Petapa	TBD	Ramiro Cepeda	TBA	TBA
Suchitepéquez	TBD	Richard Pressa	Milan	TBA
Xelajú	TBD	Hernán Medford	MR	TBA
Zacapa	TBD	Sergio Pardo	TBA	TBA

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Comunicaciones	22	13	3	6	39	23	+16	42	Qualified to the Semifinals
2	Marquense	22	10	8	4	38	18	+20	38
3	Xelajú	22	8	10	4	27	22	+5	34	Qualified to the Quarterfinals
4	Municipal	22	8	7	7	29	25	+4	31
5	Suchitepéquez	22	8	7	7	33	31	+2	31
6	Heredia	22	9	4	9	30	35	−5	31
7	Petapa	22	8	6	8	23	23	0	30
8	Mictlán	22	9	2	11	25	37	−12	29
9	Malacateco	22	7	6	9	21	30	−9	27
10	Peñarol	22	6	7	9	32	26	+6	25
11	Zacapa	22	6	7	9	28	36	−8	25
12	Juventud Retalteca	22	4	5	13	20	39	−19	17

Updated to match(es) played on 29 April 2012. Source: Guatefutbol
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Results

Home \ Away	COM	HER	JUV	MAL	MAR	MIC	MUN	PEÑ	PET	SUC	XEL	ZAC
Comunicaciones		3–0	3–0	2–1	2–0	4–1	2–0	2–0	1–0	4–3	3–1	2–2
Heredia	2–2		2–1	3–1	2–0	2–1	1–0	3–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	6–1
Juventud Retalteca	1–2	1–2		2–0	1–4	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–2	2–0	2–2	1–2
Malacateco	1–1	2–1	2–0		0–0	2–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	3–3
Marquense	1–0	4–0	4–0	1–0		6–0	3–3	2–1	3–2	0–0	3–4	4–0
Mictlán	1–0	2–0	3–0	2–1	0–0		0–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–2	3–0
Municipal	2–1	4–2	1–0	4–0	1–1	1–2		1–1	0–1	0–0	1–0	2–1
Peñarol	2–0	3–0	2–2	2–0	0–1	5–0	3–3		2–0	4–0	2–2	1–1
Petapa	0–1	1–0	2–0	1–1	0–0	3–2	1–1	2–0		2–1	0–0	2–1
Suchitepéquez	2–4	1–0	3–1	2–0	0–0	1–1	3–2	3–2	2–2		3–0	4–2
Xelajú	1–0	4–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–1		0–0
Zacapa	2–0	1–1	0–0	2–3	1–0	4–0	0–1	0–0	3–1	0–2	2–0

Updated to match(es) played on 29 April 2012. Source: Guatefutbol (in Spanish)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

Pos	Player	Club	Goals
1	Henry Hernández	Heredia	16
2	Carlos Asprilla	Mictlán	11
	Terencio de Oliveira	Marquense	11
	Fernando Gallo	Peñarol	11
	Israel Silva	Xelajú	11
5	Gonzalo Gutiérrez	Suchitepéquez	10
	Juan Valenzuela	Zacapa	10
	Sandro Zamboni	Petapa	10
9	Hessler Archila	Suchitepéquez	9
	Diego Estrada	Comunicaciones	9
	Jorge Estrada	Marquense	9

Positions by round

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Comunicaciones	3	4	6	4	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	2	1	1	1	1	1
Marquense	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	2	2	2	2	2
Xelajú	10	10	5	5	4	7	6	7	5	6	6	4	5	5	3	4	3	4	3	3	3	3
Municipal	4	2	3	6	5	8	8	6	7	4	5	6	6	8	6	8	5	6	4	5	6	4
Suchitepéquez	6	6	4	7	6	3	5	5	6	8	8	7	7	6	7	5	8	5	8	6	7	5
Heredia	5	8	7	3	7	4	3	3	3	3	3	5	3	4	5	3	4	3	5	4	4	6
Petapa	9	9	11	10	11	11	10	8	9	7	9	9	8	7	8	6	9	7	6	7	8	7
Mictlán	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	11	11	11	9	9	9	7	9	7	8	5	8
Malacateco	11	5	8	8	8	5	4	4	4	5	4	3	4	3	4	7	6	8	9	9	9	9
Peñarol	7	11	9	9	10	9	9	10	8	10	7	8	10	10	11	10	11	11	10	10	10	10
Zacapa	8	7	10	11	9	10	11	11	11	9	10	10	9	11	10	11	10	10	11	11	11	11
Juventud Retalteca	2	3	2	2	3	6	7	9	10	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12

	Leader
	Qualification to the semifinals
	Qualification to the quarterfinals

Source: Guatefutbol

Playoffs

	Quarterfinals							Semifinals							Final
								1	Comunicaciones	0	1	1
	4	Municipal	1	3	4			4	Municipal	0	2	2
	5	Suchitepéquez	2	0	2										4	Municipal	1	1	2 (1)
															3	Club Xelajú	0	2	2 (3)
								2	Marquense	0	1	1
	6	Heredia	2	2	4			3	Club Xelajú	1	1	2
	3	Xelajú	1	6	7

Quarterfinals

First legs

3 May 2012

20:00 UTC-6

Suchitepéquez	2–1	Municipal
Guzmán 55' Cardozo 68'	Report	Rodríguez 83'

Estadio Carlos Salazar Hijo

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3 May 2012

22:30 UTC-6

Heredia	2–1	Club Xelajú
Márquez 65' Hernández 68'	Report	Israel Silva 7'

Estadio Julián Tesucún

Second legs

7 May 2012

01:00 UTC-6

Municipal	3–0	Suchitepéquez
Lopez 49' Castillo 71' Oliva 90+1'	Report

Estadio Mateo Flores

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7 May 2012

01:00 UTC-6

Club Xelajú	6–2	Heredia
Israel Silva 13', 21', 71' (pen.), 90' Morales 33', 53'	Report	Ramírez 10' Miranda 80'

Estadio Mario Camposeco

Semifinals

First legs

11 May 2012

03:00 UTC-6

Municipal	0–0	Comunicaciones

Estadio Mateo Flores

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11 May 2012

03:00 UTC-6

Club Xelajú	1–0	Marquense
Israel Silva 60'

Estadio Mario Camposeco

Second legs

13 May 2012

19:00 UTC-6

Marquense	1–1	Club Xelajú
Brown 53'		Javier Melgar 38' (o.g.)

Estadio Marquesa de la Ensenada

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14 May 2012

01:00 UTC-6

Comunicaciones	1–2	Municipal
Montepeque 24'		Flores 4' Oliva 56'

Estadio Cementos Progreso

Finals

First leg

17 May 2012

03:00 UTC-6

Municipal	1–0	Club Xelajú
Quintanilla 84'

Estadio Mateo Flores

Second leg

20 May 2012

03:00 UTC-6

Club Xelajú	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Municipal
Israel Silva 7' Caal 78'		León 60'
Penalties
	3–1

Estadio Mario Camposeco

2012 Clausura winner
5th title

Aggregate table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Comunicaciones	44	21	14	9	66	43	+23	77
2	Marquense	44	19	17	8	69	38	+31	74
3	Suchitepéquez	44	22	8	14	67	52	+15	74
4	Xelajú	44	19	15	10	57	45	+12	72	Qualification for 2012–13 CONCACAF Champions League Group Stage
5	Heredia	44	19	9	16	65	65	0	66
6	Municipal	44	16	17	11	66	46	+20	65	Qualification for 2012–13 CONCACAF Champions League Group Stage
7	Peñarol	44	14	14	16	68	57	+11	56
8	Malacateco	44	11	16	17	50	72	−22	49
9	Mictlán	44	14	7	23	48	76	−28	49
10	Petapa	44	11	15	18	47	56	−9	48
11	Zacapa (R)	44	11	13	20	55	79	−24	46	Relegation to the Primera División
12	Juventud Retalteca (R)	44	8	13	23	44	72	−28	37

Updated to match(es) played on 29 April 2012. Source: Guatefutbol
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(R) Relegated

External links

• Guatefutbol (in Spanish)