CSD Municipal and Deportivo Mixco are preparing the final details of the two most important games of the 2023-2024 national soccer season.
Both teams are in the grand final of the 2024 Clausura Tournament and It will be from May 11 to 19 that they will compete in search of crowning a new champion.
For Mixco this is an unprecedented opportunity since The Chicharronero team will play its first final, an achievement that he achieved just 5 years after his first foray into the highest division of Guatemalan soccer.
It was May 31, but in 2019 that Mixco rose to the Major League for the first time. The Mixqueño team defeated Sansare 1-0 in the promotion match.
Municipal, on the other hand, has a long football tradition in Guatemala and has 31 championship titles, only surpassed by Comunicaciones which has 32. However, The last time the scarlet team celebrated was in 2019, when they beat Antigua GFC in the 2019 Apertura final.
Below, a review of the rivalry between Mixco and Municipal prior to their confrontation in an unprecedented national football final.
Municipal titles in the Major League
The scarlet team became accustomed to being the protagonist since the beginning of soccer in Guatemala. In fact, the red team was the first champion in the history of the country’s Major League. It was in the 1942-1943 season that the CSD Municipal was consecrated for the first time and since then it has added another 30 titles.
The most glorious era in its history at the national level occurred between 2004 and 2006 since those were the years in which Municipal dominated the Guatemalan league and achieved its historic five-time championship. Communications, three times, Suchitepéquez and Marquense were the victims of that Municipal.
In total the Municipal titles are distributed as follows:
- Champion 1942-43 / Trainer: Manuel Felipe Carrera
- Champion 1947 / Trainer: Manuel Felipe Carrera
- Champion 1950-51 / Coach: José Alberto Cevasco
- Champion 1954-55 / Trainer: Manuel Felipe Carrera
- Champion 1963 / Trainer: Luis Grill Prieto
- Champion 1965 / Trainer: Marvin Rodríguez
- Champion 1970 / Trainer: Luis Grill Prieto
- Champion 1973 / Coach: Rubén Amorín
- Champion 1974 / Coach: Rubén Amorín
- Champion 1976 / Trainer: Salvador Pericullo
- Champion 1987 / Trainer: Miguel Ángel Brindisi
- Champion 1988 / Trainer: Miguel Ángel Brindisi
- Champion 1989-90 / Coach: Wálter Ormeño
- Champion 1991-92 / Coach: Rubén Amorín
- Champion 1993-94 / Trainer: Horacio Cordero
- Clausura Champion 2000 / Coach: Horacio Cordero
- Apertura Champion 2000 / Coach: Horacio Cordero
- 2001 Reordering Tournament Champion / Coach: Éver Hugo Almeida
- Clausura Champion 2002 / Coach: Éver Hugo Almeida
- Apertura Champion 2003 / Coach: Éver Hugo Almeida
- Apertura Champion 2004 / Coach: Enzo Trossero
- Closing 2005 / Coach: Enzo Trossero
- Apertura 2005 / Coach: Enzo Trossero
- Closing 2006 / Coach: Enzo Trossero
- Apertura 2006 / Coach: Enzo Trossero
- Clausura 2008 / Coach: Horacio Cordero
- Apertura 2009 / Coach: Jorge Habegger
- Closing 2010 / Coach: Manuel Keosseian
- Apertura 2011 / Coach: Javier Delgado
- Closing 2017 / Coach: Gustavo Machaín
- Apertura 2019 / Coach: Sebastián Bini
Mixco’s honors on the rise
Mixco, on the other hand, has in its history two promotions to the Major League and two championship titles in the First Division.
He won his first title in the Clausura 2019 after a resolution by Fedefut where Quiché (the other finalist) was excluded from the season for fielding players with the wrong identity and it was determined that Mixco would be champion.
This resulted in the Chicharronero team playing the promotion match against Sansare (runner-up in the 2018 Apertura) and ended up winning 1-0 to achieve their first promotion.
However, his stay in the Major League did not last long and in the 2020 Apertura Tournament he returned to the First Division.
Then, in the 2021 Apertura Tournament of the First Division, the Mixqueño team returned to prominence and finished as runner-up after losing to Marquense. In the following tournament, in the Clausura 2022, Mixco had a dream season and was crowned for the second time by beating Xinabajul 4-3 in the final.
These results allowed Mixco to be promoted to the Major League for the second time and Marquese and Xinabajul played for the other ticket that finally went to the Huehuetecos.
What was the first result between Municipal and Mixco
In the Apertura 2019, the first match in history between both teams took place, the winner was the scarlet club by a score of 1-0 in a duel played at the Manuel Felipe Carrea stadium.
Goals scored
In total, Mixco and Municipal have faced each other 11 times. The scarlet team has 17 goals while the chicharronero team has 14.
Victory history
In these 11 matches prior to the Clausura 2024 final, the clear dominator is the red team. There are six victories for Municipal against four for Mixco. The other result was a 2-2 draw.
The next Guatemalan soccer champion will be known on May 19 when Mixco and Municipal complete the second leg to be held at the Manuel Felipe Carrera stadium.
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