2008–09 Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala

Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala

Season	2008–09
Champions	Apertura: Comunicaciones (22nd title) Clausura: Jalapa (2nd title)
Relegated	Petapa
CONCACAF Champions League	Comunicaciones Jalapa
Top goalscorer	Apertura: Adrián Apellaniz (10) Clausura: Carlos González (10) Season: Carlos Castillo (16)
← 2007–08 2009–10 →

The league season of the Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala is divided into two tournaments, the Apertura, which is played from August to December, and the Clausura which is played from January to May. The first six clubs in the standings at the end of each competition participate in the playoffs (a two-leg knock-out phase) to determine the champion: the first and second place teams qualify directly to the semi-finals, while the other two have to play in the quarter-finals. The winners of the Apertura and Clausura tournaments participate in the 2009–10 CONCACAF Champions League.

Torneo Apertura

Final Standings.

Pos	Team	Pts	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Municipal	29	18	7	8	3	29	18	+11
2	Comunicaciones	29	18	7	8	3	27	23	+4
3	Zacapa	28	18	8	4	6	21	17	+4
4	Xelajú	28	18	7	7	4	23	20	+3
5	Marquense	24	18	7	3	8	22	27	-5
6	Xinabajul	23	18	5	8	5	20	27	-7
7	Heredia	21	18	6	3	9	23	24	-1
8	Petapa	21	18	6	3	9	16	20	-4
9	Suchitepéquez	20	18	4	8	6	31	29	+2
10	Jalapa	18	18	4	6	8	17	24	-7

Final Update: December 1, 2008, * League Stats (Spanish)

	Qualified to the playoffs semifinals.
	Qualified to the playoffs quarterfinals.

Top scorers

Final Standings.

Position	Player	Team	Goals
1	Adrián Apellaniz	Comunicaciones	10
2	Fabián Muñoz	Zacapa	9
	Gastón Linares	Heredia
	Carlos Castillo	Suchitepéquez
5	Rolando Fonseca	Comunicaciones	7
	Jhonny Cubero	Xelajú
7	Francisco Pavón	Xelajú	6
	Jorge Estrada	Marquense

Final Update: December 1, 2008.

Results

Home team is listed in the left-hand column

Torneo Apertura Final Results	COM	HER	JAL	MAR	MUN	PET	SUC	XEL	XIN	ZAC
Comunicaciones		3–3	2–1	2–0	0–3	2–1	3–2	1–1	2–2	0–2
Heredia	2–2		2–0	0–1	1–2	2–1	2–1	2–0	2–0	2–0
Jalapa	0–2	1–0		3–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–2	1–0
Marquense	1–2	2–1	3–0		1–1	1–2	3–2	3–4	1–0	1–0
Municipal	0–0	3–1	5–4	1–1		2–0	3–2	1–1	0–1	4–0
Petapa	0–0	2–1	1–0	1–0	1–1		1–2	2–0	1–0	0–1
Suchitepéquez	2–2	1–1	1–1	1–2	1–1	3–1		1–1	2–0	3–0
Xelajú	1–3	2–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	3–2		2–2	0–0
Xinabajul	1–0	2–1	1–1	2–2	2–1	1–1	2–2	0–0		2–1
Zacapa	1–1	1–0	1–0	3–0	1–1	1–0	2–2	1–0	6–0

Colors: Blue = home team win; White = draw; Red = away team win.

Playoffs

	Quarterfinals							Semifinals							Final
								1	Municipal	2	2	4
	3	Zacapa	0	0	0			6	Xinabajul	1	1	2
	6	Xinabajul	1	1	2										1	Municipal	1	1	2
															2	Comunicaciones	2	1	3
								2	Comunicaciones	0	5	5
	4	Xelajú	3	3	6			4	Xelajú	1	2	3
	5	Marquense	2	3	5

Apertura Tournament Champion

Comunicaciones as tournament champion has qualified to the CONCACAF Champions League 2009–10.

Apertura 2008 winner
Comunicaciones 22nd National Title

Relegation

There is no relegation after the Apertura.

Torneo Clausura

Final standings.

Pos	Team	Pts	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Municipal	32	18	9	5	4	26	13	+13
2	Heredia	29	18	9	2	7	26	24	+2
3	Jalapa	28	18	7	7	4	17	13	+4
4	Suchitepéquez	27	18	7	6	5	25	23	+2
5	Xelajú	27	18	6	9	3	18	16	+2
6	Comunicaciones	23	18	6	5	7	25	22	+3
7	Xinabajul	23	18	6	5	7	24	26	-2
8	Marquense	19	18	4	7	7	15	22	-7
9	Petapa	16	18	3	7	8	22	30	-8
10	Zacapa	16	18	3	7	8	14	23	-9

Source: RSSSF

Top scorers

Final standings.

Position	Player	Team	Goals
1	Carlos González	Municipal	10
2	Carlos Asprilla	Petapa	8
	Walter Estrada	Xinabajul
4	Carlos Castillo	Suchitepéquez	7
	Carlos Leguizamón	Suchitepéquez
6	Evandro Ferreira	Heredia	6
	Mario Castellanos	Heredia

Results

Home team is listed in the left-hand column

Torneo Clausura As of May 24, 2009	COM	HER	JAL	MAR	MUN	PET	SUC	XEL	XIN	ZAC
Comunicaciones		1–2	0–2	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–2	0–1	3–1	1–1
Heredia	0–0		3–1	4–1	0–3	3–2	2–0	1–1	2–0	1–0
Jalapa	2–1	1–0		0–0	2–0	2–1	0–0	0–0	1–0	2–0
Marquense	2–2	1–0	1–0		0–0	2–1	0–0	0–0	3–2	0–2
Municipal	2–3	2–0	1–1	1–0		3–2	4–0	2–1	0–0	2–1
Petapa	0–3	2–1	1–1	4–2	1–1		3–3	1–1	1–1	2–0
Suchitepéquez	1–1	2–4	2–0	2–1	0–0	3–0		1–0	4–3	4–0
Xelajú	3–2	3–2	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–0		1–1	2–1
Xinabajul	3–2	0–1	2–1	3–2	0–2	3–1	1–0	3–1		0–0
Zacapa	1–2	4–0	0–0	0–0	0–3	0–0	3–1	1–1	1–1

Colors: Blue = home team win; White = draw; Red = away team win.

Playoffs

	Quarterfinals 1st leg: May 27/28 – 2nd leg: May 30/31							Semifinals 1st leg: June 4 – 2nd leg: June 7							Final 1st leg: June 11 – 2nd leg: June 14
								2	Heredia	0	2	2
	3	Jalapa	1	3	4			3	Jalapa	1	2	3
	6	Comunicaciones	0	0	0										3	Jalapa	3	1	4
															1	Municipal	1	0	1
								1	Municipal (aet)	0	2 (1)	3
	4	Suchitepéquez	1	4	5			4	Suchitepéquez	2	0 (0)	2
	5	Xelajú	3	0	3

Clausura Tournament Champion

Jalapa as tournament champion has qualified to the CONCACAF Champions League 2009–10.

Clausura 2009 winner
Jalapa 2nd National Title

Relegation

At the end of the season, the 10th placed team (the team with the least number of points) in the aggregate table standings (the combined standings of both, the Apertura and Clausura tournaments) is relegated to the First division automatically at the end of the Clausura tournament in late May.

Aggregate table

Final standings.

Pos	Team	Pts	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Municipal	61	36	16	13	7	55	31	+24
2	Xelajú	55	36	13	16	7	41	36	+5
3	Comunicaciones	52	36	13	13	10	52	45	+7
4	Heredia	50	36	15	5	16	49	48	+1
5	Suchitepéquez	47	36	11	14	11	56	52	+4
6	Jalapa	46	36	11	13	12	34	37	-3
7	Xinabajul	46	36	11	13	12	44	53	-9
8	Zacapa	44	36	11	11	14	35	40	-5
9	Marquense	43	36	11	10	15	37	49	-12
10	Petapa	37	36	9	10	17	38	50	-12

Relegated to the First division.

See also

• Liga Nacional de Guatemala
• 2008–09 in Guatemalan football

External links

• Guatemala National Football Federation (Spanish)
• Guatefutbol (Spanish)
• RSSSF – Liga Nacional stats