2017–18 Guatemalan Liga Nacional
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The 2017–18
Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala The Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala (National Football League of Guatemala), officially known as the Liga Guate Banrural for sponsorship reasons, formerly known as Liga'' ''Mayor A (Major League A) is a professional football division in Guat ...
season is the 20th season in which the
Apertura and Clausura The ' () and ' () tournaments is a split Season (sports), season format for Spanish-speaking sports leagues. It is a relatively recent innovation for many Latin American soccer, football sports league, leagues in which the traditional association ...
season is used. The season began on 28 July 2017 and will ended in May 2018.


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.


Managerial changes


Beginning of the season


During the Apertura season


Between Apertura and Clausura seasons


During the Apertura season


Apertura

The 2017 Torneo Apertura began on 28 July 2017 and will end in December 2017.


Personnel and sponsoring


Table


Standings


Results


Playoffs


Quarterfinals

Cobán Imperial wins on away goals


First leg

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Second leg

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Semifinals

Antigua GFC wins on away goals


First leg

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Second leg

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Finals


First leg


Second leg


Clausura

The 2018 Torneo Clausura is expected to begin in January 2018 and end in May 2018.


Personnel and sponsoring


Table


Standings


(May 07, 2018) Publication of the date=15/04/2018 page 60


Results


Playoffs


Quarterfinals


First leg

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Second leg

''Xelaju won 3-0 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Guastatoya won 5-1 on aggregate.''


Semifinals


First leg

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Second leg

''Xelajú MC won 3-2 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Guastatoya won 1-0 on aggregate.''


Finals


First leg


Second leg


List of foreign players in the league

This is a list of foreign players in 2017-2018 season. The following players: #have played at least one apertura game for the respective club. #have not been capped for the
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on any level, independently from the birthplace 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 Antigua Guatemala Fútbol Club is a Guatemalan professional football team based in Antigua Guatemala. They compete in the Liga Nacional, the top tier of Guatemalan football. They play their home games at the '' Estadio Pensativo''. They are nic ...
* Agustin Herrera * Alejandro Diaz * José Antonio Mena * Adrián De Lemos Calderón * Allan Miranda * Fabián Arsenio Castillo * Manfred Russell * Devaughn Elliot Coban Imperial * Maximiliano Lombardi * Ignacio Flores * Álvaro García * Victor Guay
CSD Comunicaciones Comunicaciones Fútbol Club S.A., better known as Comunicaciones F.C. or Comunicaciones, is a professional football club based in Guatemala City. They compete in the Liga Nacional, the top tier of Guatemalan football. One of the most popular a ...
* Javier Irazún * Manfred Russell * Isaac Acuna * Cesar Morales * Emiliano Lopez * Diego Estrada * Éric Scott Guastatoya * Josue Flores * Omar Dominguez * Miguel Puglia * Jose Coreno * Aaron Navarro * José Gabriel Ríos
Deportivo Malacateco Club Deportivo Malacateco is a Guatemalan professional football club based in Malacatán, San Marcos. They play their home games in the '' Estadio Santa Lucía''. They compete in the Liga Nacional, the top tier of Guatemalan football. History ...
* Rafael Lezcano * Jhon Hurtado * Juan Camilo Aguirre * Anllel Porras Conejo
Deportivo Marquense Club Deportivo Marquense, or simply Marquense, is a Guatemalan professional football club based in San Marcos, Department of San Marcos. They compete in the Liga Nacional, the top tier of Guatemalan football following promotion from qualifying ...
* Gerardo Putten * Juan Osorio Tobón * Danilo Suarez * Jonathan Piñeiro Correa ''(player released during the Apertura season)'' ''(player released between the Apertura and Clausura seasons)'' ''(player released during the Clausura season)''
CSD Municipal Club Social y Deportivo Municipal, also known as Municipal or ''Los Rojos'' (the Reds), are a Guatemalan professional football club based in Guatemala City. They compete in the Liga Nacional, the top tier of Guatemalan football, and play their h ...
* Blas Perez * Gastón Puerari *
Jaime Alas Jaime Enrique Alas Morales (born 30 July 1989) is a Salvadoran professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Liga Nacional club Guastatoya. Club career Alas' professional career began in July 2006, at the age of 16, when he signed a ...
* Felipe Baloy Deportivo Petapa * Víctor Bolivar * Janderson Pereira * Juliano Rangel * Francois Swaby * Hugo Acosta * Rodrigo Cubilla Sanarate * Juan Lovato * William Zapata
Siquinalá Siquinalá is a town, with a population of 18,150 (2018 census), and a municipality in the Escuintla department of Guatemala. The population of the municipality is 22,968 (2018 census).CD Suchitepéquez The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. It employs the Compact Disc Digital Audio (CD-DA) standard and was capable of holding of uncompr ...
* Kevin Santamaria * Jesus Lozano * Ze Paulo * Othoniel Jaramillo
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* Vladimir Castellon * Juan Carlos Silva * Juan Yax * Brayan Adan Martinez


Aggregate table


CONCACAF Champions League playoff

After the suspension of the
National Football Federation of Guatemala The National Football Federation of Guatemala (), known as Fedefut Guate or FENAFUTG, is the governing body of association football, football in Guatemala. It organizes the football league, Liga Nacional de Guatemala, Primera División de Ascenso, ...
was lifted by FIFA in June 2018, it was decided that the representative of Guatemala in the
2019 CONCACAF Champions League The 2019 CONCACAF Champions League (officially the 2019 Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League) was the 11th edition of the CONCACAF Champions League under its current name, and overall the 54th edition of the premier football club competition orga ...
would be decided by a two-legged playoff between the 2017 Apertura champions (
Antigua GFC Antigua Guatemala Fútbol Club is a Guatemalan professional football team based in Antigua Guatemala. They compete in the Liga Nacional, the top tier of Guatemalan football. They play their home games at the '' Estadio Pensativo''. They are nic ...
) and the 2018 Clausura champions ( Guastatoya). The draw for the order of legs was held on 27 June 2018.


References


External links

* http://www.prensalibre.com/Deportes/FutbolNacional * https://web.archive.org/web/20150813211930/http://lared.com.gt/pages/sec_noticia/113 * http://es.fifa.com/live-scores/nationalleagues/nationalleague=guatemala-liga-nacional-de-guatemala-2000000113/index.html {{DEFAULTSORT:2017-18 Liga Nacional de Futbol de Guatemala season Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala seasons 1
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