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
← 2010–11 2012–13 →

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 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.

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

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 (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	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

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

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Second legs

Municipal progresses 2–0 on aggregate.

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Comunicaciones progresses on away goals rule.

Semifinals

First legs

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Second legs

Comunicaciones progresses 4–2 on aggregate.

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Municipal progresses 3–2 on aggregate.

Finals

First leg

Second leg

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		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 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

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 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	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

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

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Second legs

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Semifinals

First legs

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Second legs

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Finals

First leg

Second leg

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.

External links

• Guatefutbol (Spanish)