NATIONAL FOOTBALL HISTORY

The Guatemalan National Soccer League is the highest category of professional soccer in
Guatemala.

The championship began in 1919 as the Capital League, and in 1942 it became professional and
was renamed the League Championship. Previously, the competition system was defined through
confrontations between all the clubs in round-trip matches, so that the club that obtained the highest
score was proclaimed champion. Currently it is played with the Apertura Tournament and Clausura
Tournament format, dividing the season into two championships, all the clubs continue to face each
other in round-trip matches, and until the 2011-2012 season six teams qualified for a play-off key
between the 3rd to 6th place and semi-finals between the winners and 1st. and 2nd, where all
matches are played over two legs, including the championship final. Recently, in an Assembly of the
National League, a new league format was approved in which the first 8 places qualify to compete
in the quarterfinals, semifinals and final in round-trip series where the winner of the qualifying phase
will have the right to play in a series extra (if not reaching the final) against the winner of the final to
define the champion.

The top scorer in the history of the National League Tournament is Juan Carlos Plata with 296
scores, of which 99 were scored in the so-called long tournaments, as they last a full season, and
197 in short tournaments, since the season is divided into Tournaments. Opening and Closing.

The national classic is disputed between Municipal, the club with the most league titles, 29, and
Comunicaciones, the second most winners of the tournament with 25.

The current Champion is Comunicaciones, who won his 26th title, by beating Heredia Jaguares, in
the final of the Clausura 2013.

The Guatemalan National League is in 68th place worldwide according to the official ranking of the
International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS), published in January 2010.1 It
also occupies third place as the strongest league in the last decade in North and Central America
published by the same institution

From its creation until the 1989 season, the competition format was governed as follows: the
championships were held from September to June of the following year, where the twelve teams
that made up said league competed in a qualifying phase all against all in three rounds, according
to the calendar approved for this purpose.

1989-1999

Later, starting with the 1989-90 season, a competition format was established with a qualifying
phase, all against all with reciprocal visits, according to the calendar approved for this purpose. The
first six teams in the qualifying phase qualified for a final hexagonal for the title against each other.
At the end, the first place in the hexagonal faced the first place in the qualifying phase. The
remaining six teams played a hexagonal for permanence, also all against all, where the team that
occupied the last place was relegated in category and the teams positioned in the penultimate and
penultimate place played a playoff series against teams from the First Division.

This format was used until the 1998-99 season with the exception of the 1995-96 season,3 where
after the qualifying phase concluded, the first eight teams qualified for a final octagonal and the
remaining four teams played a quadrangular for permanence.

Era of short tournaments

Starting with the 1999-2000 season, it was decided to radically modify the competition system of the
League championships, organizing two short tournaments within the annual Season: Apertura
Tournament from July to December and the Clausura Tournament from January to June. Each
tournament is made up of a qualifying phase and another final phase.

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