2021–22 Liga Nacional de Guatemala

The 2021–22 Liga Nacional de Guatemala season was the 24th season of the Liga Nacional de Guatemala, the top football league in Guatemala, in which the Apertura and Clausura season is used. The season began on 30 July 2021 and ended on 29 May 2022.

Team Information
A total of 12 teams will contest the league, including 10 sides from the 2020–21 Guatemala Liga Nacional and 2 promoted from the 2020–21 Primera División.

Sacachispas and Sanarate were relegated to 2020–21 Primera División the previous season.

The relegated team were replaced by the 2020–21 Primera División winners Nueva Concepción and Sololá.

Promotion and relegation
Promoted from Primera División de Ascenso as of August 2021.


 * Nueva Concepción and Sololá

Relegated to Primera División de Ascenso as of August 2021.


 * Sanarate and Sacachispas

Championship Playoffs

 * Qualified teams
 * Antigua
 * Comunicaciones
 * Municipal
 * Malacateco
 * Santa Lucía
 * Xelajú
 * Iztapa
 * Sololá

Championship Playoffs

 * Qualified teams
 * Comunicaciones
 * Municipal
 * Antigua
 * Malacateco
 * Cobán Imperial
 * Guastatoya
 * Achuapa
 * Santa Lucía

List of Foreign Players
This is a list of foreign players in 2021-2022 season. The following players:
 * 1) have played at least one apertura game for the respective club.
 * 2) have not been capped for the Guatemala national football team 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.

Achuapa
 * 🇺🇾 Álvaro García
 * 🇨🇴 Orlando Osorio
 * 🇵🇦 Roberto Nurse
 * 🇨🇷 Jorge Gatgens
 * 🇦🇷 Julián Cardozo

Antigua
 * 🇲🇽 Antonio López
 * 🇨🇷 José Mena
 * 🇨🇷 Alexander Robinson
 * 🇭🇳 Juan Yax
 * 🇭🇳 Santos Crisanto
 * 🇵🇪 Julio García
 * 🇧🇷 Romario da Silva
 * 🇵🇾 Pedro Báez
 * 🇨🇴 Deyner Padilla

Cobán Imperial
 * 🇧🇷 Janderson
 * 🇨🇷 Aaron Navarro
 * 🇨🇷 Minor Álvarez
 * 🇦🇷 Angel Díaz
 * 🇦🇷 Esteban Espíndola
 * 🇦🇷 Hernan Gustavo Fener
 * 🇦🇷 Javier Colli
 * 🇦🇷 Nicolas Pietrani

Comunicaciones 
 * 🇨🇺 Karel Espino
 * 🇨🇷 Andrés Lezcano
 * 🇸🇻 Alexander Larín
 * 🇭🇳 Kevin López
 * 🇪🇨 Juan Anangonó
 * 🇪🇨 José Ayoví
 * 🇨🇴 Jose Corena
 * 🇵🇦 Manuel Gamboa

Guastatoya
 * 🇨🇷 Adrián de Lemos
 * 🇲🇽 Luis Landín
 * 🇲🇽 Omar Dominguez
 * 🇦🇷 Nicolás Martínez
 * 🇦🇷 Matías Galvaliz

Iztapa
 * 🇦🇷 Nicolás Foglia
 * 🇦🇷 Christian Hernández
 * 🇦🇷 Gianluca Conforti
 * 🇲🇽 Carlos Kamiani Felix
 * 🇨🇷 Jordan Smith
 * 🇨🇷 Manfred Russell
 * 🇨🇷 Anllel Porras

Malacateco
 * 🇺🇾 Darío Silva
 * 🇺🇾 Enzo Herrera x
 * 🇲🇽 Elmer Morales
 * 🇨🇷 Kenneth Cerdas
 * 🇧🇷 Lucas Ventura
 * 🇪🇨 Diego Avila

Municipal 
 * 🇵🇾 Milciades Portillo
 * 🇦🇷 Matías Rotondi
 * 🇺🇾 Steve Makuka
 * 🇸🇻 Jaime Alas
 * 🇨🇺 Yasnier Matos
 * 🇲🇽 Jesús Isijara

Nueva Concepción
 * 🇧🇷 Aelcio dos Santos
 * 🇨🇴 Jonathan Muñoz
 * 🇨🇴 Jhon Balanta
 * 🇦🇷 Bruno Mariani
 * 🇦🇷 Leandro Martin
 * 🇲🇽 Darío Carreño

Santa Lucía
 * 🇧🇷 Thales Moreira
 * 🇻🇪 Charles Martínez
 * 🇲🇽 Isaac Acuna
 * 🇲🇽 Omar Morales
 * 🇨🇴 Juan Osorio
 * 🇦🇷 Facundo Aranda

Sololá
 * 🇨🇷 Víctor Bolivar
 * 🇺🇾 Camilo Nassi
 * 🇺🇾 Facundo Tancredi
 * 🇵🇪 Juan Gutiérrez
 * 🇧🇷 Marco Morgon
 * 🇨🇴 Elieser Quinones

Xelajú
 * 🇺🇾 Rafael García
 * 🇵🇾 Orlando Moreira
 * 🇳🇮 Juan Barrera
 * 🇦🇷 Alejandro Díaz
 * 🇨🇴 Jesús Arrieta