2019–20 Liga Nacional de Guatemala

The 2019–20 Liga Nacional de Guatemala was the 67th professional season of the top-flight football league in Guatemala. The season was divided into two championships—the 2019 Apertura and the 2020 Clausura—each in an identical format and each contested by the same 12 teams.

Liga Nacional de Guatemala

Season	2019–20
Dates	July 2019 – May 2020
Champions	Apertura: Municipal (31st title) Clausura: Tournament cancelled
Relegated	Mixco Siquinalá
CONCACAF League	Municipal Comunicaciones Antigua
Top goalscorer	Apertura: Ramiro Rocca (16 goals) Clausura: Carlos Kamiani (7 goals)
Highest attendance	Apertura: 17,647 Municipal 2–2 Antigua (29 December 2019) Clausura: 5,189 Municipal 2–4 Comunicaciones (25 January 2020)
Average attendance	Apertura: 5,061 Clausura: 2,568
← 2018–19 2020–21 →

Teams

Antigua

Cobán

Comunicaciones

Guastatoya

Iztapa

Malacateco

Mixco

Municipal

Cotzumalguapa

Sanarate

Siquinalá

Xelajú

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

Promotion and relegation (pre-season)

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.

Teams relegated to Primera División de Ascenso

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

Teams promoted from Primera División de Ascenso

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

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Captain	Kitmaker	Shirt Sponsors
Antigua	Víctor Hugo García	Juan Antonio Torres	TBD	TBD	Tigo, TBD
Cobán Imperial	Jimmy Morales	Jorge Rodriguez	TBD	TBD	Tigo, TBD
Comunicaciones	Juan Garcia	Mauricio Tapia	TBD	Nino	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
Municipal	Gerardo Villa	Horacio Cordero	TBD	Umbro	Tigo, TBD
Santa Lucía	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	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
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:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Attendances

Comunicaciones drew the highest average home attendance in the Apertura.

#	Football club	Home games	Average attendance
1	Comunicaciones	11	8,312
2	Antigua GFC	11	7,782
3	CSD Municipal	11	7,578
4	Cobán Imperial	11	7,012
5	Xelaju MC	11	6,674
6	Santa Lucía	11	5,389
7	Deportivo Sanarate	11	5,336
8	Deportivo Siquinalá	11	3,163
9	Deportivo Guastatoya	11	3,012
10	Deportivo Mixco	11	2,769
11	Deportivo Malacateco	11	2,456
12	Deportivo Iztapa	11	1,253

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

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
2	Municipal	35	18	9	8	49	35	+14	63	CONCACAF League round of 16
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
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

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

List of foreign players in the league

This is a list of foreign players in 2019-2020 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. 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

External links

• https://lared.com.gt/deportes/futbol/liga-nacional/ Archived 2019-05-19 at the Wayback Machine
• https://www.guatevision.com/etiqueta/futbol-guatemala/