National Soccer
The 2025 Clausura Tournament will have a new champion, then Xelajú MC, failed to qualify for the final phase of the championship after a season full of ups and downs, in which he could never find regularity.
The coach Amarini Villatoro considered that not classifying the final phase would be a failure of all, but that he would be the main responsible. (Free Press Photo: Douglas Suruy).
The 2025 Clausura Tournament will have a new monarch. Xelajú MC, the current champion of Guatemalan football, failed to qualify to the final phase of the championship after a season full of ups and downs, in which he never had regularity.
After 20 disputed days, the superchivos say goodbye to the dream of revalidating the title.
Xelajú closed his participation in the Clausura with just 24 pointsproduct of six wins, six draws and eight losses. Although its goals ended positive (+3), with 28 scores in favor and 25 against, The numbers were not enough to get among the eight best teams in the tournament.
From the start, the situation for Quetzaltecos was complicated. A defeat on the first day against Achuapa was the first notice that the road would be difficult. Along the regular phase, Xela let valuable points at home, an aspect that in previous tournaments had been her strength.
In addition to the bad results, the team suffered several expulsions and sanctions that affected the assembly of the starters at key moments. These absences and the lack of forcefulness in decisive parties were factors that ended up condemning their aspirations.
One of the most critical moments of the campaign was when Xelajú accumulated a streak of four consecutive games without winning, A string that sank them in the standings and left them depending on other results to aspire to the classification in the last days.
Despite having important figures and the base of the squad that led them to the title in Opening 2024, Xelajú failed to sustain the competitive level required to stay at the top. The inconsistency was a constant that accompanied them throughout the season.
On the last day, The superchivos rested and observed with impotence as Marquense, with their victory against Malacateco, He displaced them from the eighth place, closing any possibility of accessing the quarterfinals. In this way, the current champion stayed out of the fight.
This early elimination means that in Clausura 2025 there will be a new champion. Teams such as Municipal, Communications, Antigua, Imperial Cobán and Guastatoya will now seek to take the throne that Xelajú leaves vacant.
#CLAUSURA2025 I defined the quarterfinals!
👹 Municipal Super Leader
⚪️ Communications recovered stretch and stayed second place
🦁 Marquense manages to get into the final phase pic.twitter.com/zthu8g4kfe– SPORTS_PL (@todDeportes_PL) April 27, 2025