2011–12 Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala season

Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala
Season 2011–12
Champions Apertura: Municipal
Clausura: Xelajú
Relegated Juventud Retalteca
Champions League Municipal
Xelajú
Matches played 120
Goals scored 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

The 2011–12 Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala season is the 13th season in which the Apertura and Clausura season is used. The season began on 9 July 2011 and will end in May 2012.

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 semifinals of the playoff stage, 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.

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

Torneo 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 or relegation
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
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home \ Away[1] COM HER JUVMALMARMICMUNPEÑPETSUCXELZAC
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 (Spanish)
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

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

Positions by round

Team \ Round 12345678910111213141516171819202122
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

Source: Guatefutbol

Leader
Qualification to the semifinals
Qualification to the quarterfinals

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
Yellow cardYellow cardRed card 20', 89' Márquez
Estadio Julián Tesucún, San José
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Jonathan Polanco

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 Red card 88'

Municipal progresses 2–0 on aggregate.

4 December 2011
16:00 UTC-6
Comunicaciones 0 – 0 Heredia

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

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

Comunicaciones progresses 4–2 on aggregate.

11 December 2011
11:00 UTC-6
Suchitepéquez 1 – 0 Municipal
Villatoro  1' Yellow cardYellow cardRed card 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' 		Yellow cardYellow cardRed card 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
Municipal
29th Title

Torneo 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 Mexico Costa Rica Ronald Gonzales Joma TBA
Heredia TBD TBA TBA TBA
Juventud Retalteca TBD Guatemala Manuel Castañeda DMS TBA
Malacateco TBD Argentina Julián Trujillo TBA TBA
Marquense TBD Guatemala Francisco Melgar Lotto Sport Italia TBA
Mictlán TBD Guatemala Albertico Salguero TBA TBA
Municipal TBD Costa Rica Javier Delgado DMS Pepsi, Banrural
Peñarol La Mesilla TBD Argentina Pablo Centrone TBA TBA
Petapa TBD Argentina Ramiro Cepeda TBA TBA
Suchitepéquez TBD Uruguay Richard Pressa Milan TBA
Xelajú TBD Costa Rica Hernán Medford MR TBA
Zacapa TBD Chile Sergio Pardo TBA TBA

Standings

Pos
 Team
 Pld
 W
 D
 L
 GF
 GA
 GD
 Pts
Qualification or relegation
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 games played on 29 April 2012.
Source: Guatefutbol
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home \ Away[1] COM HER JUVMALMARMICMUNPEÑPETSUCXELZAC
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 games played on 29 April 2012.
Source: Guatefutbol (Spanish)
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

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

Positions by round

Team \ Round 12345678910111213141516171819202122
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

Source: Guatefutbol

Leader
Qualification to the semifinals
Qualification to the quarterfinals

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'

3 May 2012
22:30 UTC-6
Heredia 2 – 1 Club Xelajú
Márquez  65'
Hernández  68' 		Report Israel Silva  7'

Second legs

7 May 2012
01:00 UTC-6
Municipal 3 – 0 Suchitepéquez
Lopez  49'
Castillo  71'
Oliva  90+1' 		Report

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'

Semifinals

First legs

Second legs

13 May 2012
19:00 UTC-6
Marquense 1 – 1 Club Xelajú
Brown  53' Javier Melgar  38' (o.g.)

Finals

First leg

Second leg

20 May 2012
03:00 UTC-6
Club Xelajú 2 – 1 (a.e.t.) Municipal
Israel Silva  7'
Caal  78' 		León  60'
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2012 Clausura winner
Club Xelajú
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 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 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 games played on 29 April 2012.
Source: Guatefutbol
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

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