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2015–16 Guatemalan Liga Nacional
The 2015–16 Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala season was the 17th season in which the Apertura and Clausura season was used. The season began in 2015 and ended in 2016. 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. Teams Apertura The 2015 Torneo Apertura began on 13 August 2015 and ended on 21 December 2015. Personnel and sponsoring Managerial changes Beginning of the season During the season Standings Results Playoffs Quarterfinals First leg ---- Second l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liga Nacional De Fútbol De Guatemala
''Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala'' (National Football League of Guatemala), formerly known as Liga Mayor "A" (Major League "A") is a professional football division in Guatemala, the highest one in the country. It is sanctioned by the ''Federación Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala''. The champion and runner-up teams of the Liga Nacional's official tournaments qualify to participate in international competitions within their regional confederation. Twelve teams currently compete in the league. Municipal and Comunicaciones are the two most successful clubs in the league to date, having won 31 tournaments respectively. History Its first official professional tournament took place in 1942, and succeeded what was known as the ''Liga Capitalina'' (League of the Capital), which was an amateur tournament that started in 1919. The 1942-43 tournament was played by seven teams in a double round-robin tournament. Three teams – Municipal, Tipografía Nacional, and ''Guatemala FC'' & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CSD Municipal
Club Social y Deportivo Municipal, also known as Municipal or ''Los Rojos'' (the Reds), is a Guatemalan football club based in Guatemala City. They compete in the Liga Nacional, the top tier of Guatemalan football, and play their home matches at the Estadio El Trébol. As of 2015, they are the team that has remained the most years at the top level in Guatemala, having done so since the inception of the national league in 1942. They have won the domestic league 31 times; most recently winning the 2019 ''Apertura'' tournament. They won the CONCACAF Champions' Cup in 1974. Municipal is the most winner and popular football club in Guatemala and are traditional arch-rivals of Comunicaciones, who is also based in Guatemala City. History The club was founded on May 17, 1936 by workers of the ''Ayuntamiento'' (city hall) of the Guatemala City municipality, hence the name ''Municipal''. They were first promoted to the top division, (then called '' Liga Capitalina)'' in 1938. They fini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deportivo Mictlan
''Deportivo'' (Spanish, 'sporting') may refer to: * Deportivo de La Coruña, commonly known as simply Deportivo, a Spanish football club * Déportivo, a French rock band * Deportivo (Mexicable), an aerial lift station in Ecatepec, Mexico * Deportivo station, in San Juan agglomeration, Puerto Rico See also * {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estadio Marquesa De La Ensenada
Estadio Marquesa de la ensenada is a football stadium in San Marcos, Guatemala. It is home to top division club Deportivo Marquense (''Los Leones'') and has an 11,000-seat capacity. History Opened on 22 April 1963, it was named after the nobiliary title of Maria Barrios Aparicio, Marquesa viuda de la Ensenada, a native of San Lorenzo, San Marcos, who donated the land and funds for construction of the stadium and other projects. The stadium's construction cost was Q 186,000. On 15 May 1988 the stadium hosted a World Cup qualification match, in which Guatemala drew 1-1 against Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ... in the second leg of a home-and-away elimination series in front of 18,000 people. It was the first time that the Guatemala national team played an o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Marcos, Guatemala
San Marcos (elevation: 7,868 feet (2,398 meters) is a city and municipality in Guatemala. It is the capital of the department of San Marcos. The municipality has a population of 47,063 (2018 census). History 1897 Quetzaltenango Revolt In September 1897, after the failure of both the interoceanic railroad and the Central American Expo and the deep economic crisis that Guatemala was facing after the plummeting of both coffee and silver international prices, the people of Quetzaltenango raised in arms against the decision of president José María Reina Barrios to extend his presidential term until 1902. A group of rebels, among them a former Secretary of Reina Barrios's cabinet - Próspero Morales-, began to combat on 7 September 1897 attacking San Marcos; after several battles and some gains in Ocos, Coatepeque and Colomba the rebels were definitely defeated on 4 October 1897. As a result, on 23 October 1897, San Pedro Sacatepéquez became the capital of San Marcos Dep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estadio Santa Lucía
Estadio Santa Lucía is a soccer stadium located in Malacatán, Guatemala Guatemala ( ; ), officially the Republic of Guatemala ( es, República de Guatemala, links=no), is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico; to the northeast by Belize and the Caribbean; to the east by H .... It is home to Liga Nacional club Malacateco. Its capacity is 7,000 people. Santa Lucia {{Guatemala-sports-venue-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malacatán
Malacatán is a town and municipality in the San Marcos department of Guatemala, located to the west of San Marcos town. It is fairly close to the border with Mexico - the border-crossing point is in the nearby village of El Carmen. History Spanish colony: Mercedarian doctrine After the Spanish conquest of Guatemala in the 1520s, the "Presentación de Guatemala" Mercedarian province was formed in 1565; originally, the order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy had gotten from bishop Francisco Marroquín several doctrines in the Sacatepéquez and Chimaltenango valleys, close to the capital Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala, but they traded those with the Order of Preachers friars in exchange for the doctrines those had in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes area. During the first part of the 17th century they also had doctrine in four town close to the city of Santiago, which eventually became city neighborhoods: Espíritu Santo, Santiago, San Jerónimo and San Anton —whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guastatoya
Guastatoya is a city in Guatemala. It is the capital and largest city of the department of El Progreso. The Guastatoya Water Park is located in the city. It is situated 73 km from the city of Guatemala. The city was leveled in 1976 from an earthquake An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth resulting from a sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes can range in intensity, fr ... with a moment magnitude of 7.5. Sports Deportivo Guastatoya football club play in the first tier of Guatemalan football. Their home venue is the Estadio David Cordón Hichos. References External links Interactive department map Ultimas Noticias de Guastatoya y El Progreso [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estadio Cementos Progreso
The ''Estadio Cementos Progreso'' is a multi-use stadium in Guatemala City. It is also known popularly as '' Estadio La Pedrera'' in reference to its location in the neighborhood of the same name in the Zone 6 of the Guatemalan capital. It was built in 1991 and is named after ''Cementos Progreso'', a local cement manufacturer. Inaugurated on 10 November 1991, the stadium is used mostly for football (soccer) matches, it has hosted international home matches of the Guatemala national football team, and it is the home venue of Comunicaciones reserve team, Comunicaciones B and Aurora. It has a capacity of 14,022 seats, being the second-largest stadium in Guatemala after the Estadio Doroteo Guamuch Flores The Estadio Nacional Doroteo Guamuch Flores is a multi-use national stadium in Guatemala City, the largest venue in Guatemala. It was built in 1948, to host the Central American and Caribbean Games in 1950, and was renamed after long-distance ru .... Originally of natural grass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guatemala City
Guatemala City ( es, Ciudad de Guatemala), known locally as Guatemala or Guate, is the capital and largest city of Guatemala, and the most populous urban area in Central America. The city is located in the south-central part of the country, nestled in a mountain valley called Valle de la Ermita ( en, Hermitage Valley). The city is the capital of the Municipality of Guatemala and of the Guatemala Department. Guatemala City is the site of the Mayan city of Kaminaljuyu, founded around 1500 BC. Following the Spanish conquest, a new town was established, and in 1776 it was made capital of the Kingdom of Guatemala. In 1821, Guatemala City was the scene of the declaration of independence of Central America from Spain, after which it became the capital of the newly established United Provinces of Central America (later the Federal Republic of Central America). In 1847, Guatemala declared itself an independent republic, with Guatemala City as its capital. The city was originally located ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estadio Verapaz
The Estadio Verapaz is a soccer stadium in the city of Cobán Cobán ( kek, Kob'an), fully Santo Domingo de Cobán, is the Capital (political), capital of the Departments of Guatemala, department of Alta Verapaz in central Guatemala. It also serves as the administrative center for the surrounding Cobán mun ... in Guatemala. Its official name is Estadio Verapaz Jose Angel Rossi . It was built in 1936 and its capacity is 15,000. It is home to Liga Nacional club Coban Imperial. Verapaz {{Guatemala-sports-venue-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cobán
Cobán ( kek, Kob'an), fully Santo Domingo de Cobán, is the capital of the department of Alta Verapaz in central Guatemala. It also serves as the administrative center for the surrounding Cobán municipality. It is located 219 km from Guatemala City. As of the 2018 census the population of the city of Cobán was at 212,047. The population of the municipality, which covers a total area of 1,974 km², was at 212,421, according to the 2018 census. Cobán, at a height of above sea level, is located at the center of a major coffee-growing area. Etymology The name "Cobán" comes from Q'eqchi' (between clouds) History Order of Preachers in the Vera Paz Between 1530 and 1531, captain on his way to Ciudad Real accidentally discovered the lagoon and hill of People of that place had historically traded with all the people that the Spaniards had conquered, so, knowing what was coming, they sought refuge in the jungle. The Spaniards tried in vain to conquer the lac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
