Mictlán’s stay in Guatemala’s top flight ended in Amatitlán on the final day of the Clausura 2026, where it drew 1-1 with Aurora and was relegated alongside Achuapa. Aurora went ahead in the 11th minute through Eddie Ibargüen, and Mictlán answered in the 71st through Pablo Meza at Estadio Guillermo Slowing.
The result closed a brief run in the Liga Nacional for Mictlán, which had been promoted from the Primera División at the start of the 2025-2026 season. The club had reached the final matchday needing help from other results to avoid the drop, but Guastatoya and Malacateco both won their games on the day and moved clear of danger. Mictlán, meanwhile, finished 11th in the accumulated table with 51 points.
The match turned more difficult in the 64th minute when Renny Folleco was sent off, leaving Mictlán with 10 men for the closing stretch. Even so, Meza’s equalizer briefly gave the visitors a foothold, but it was not enough to change the season’s outcome. For Mictlán, the damage had already been done by the table around it, and the final whistle confirmed that its return to the top division lasted only the Apertura 2025 and Clausura 2026.
That is the hard part of the final-day math in a relegation fight: a team can do enough in its own match and still go down when the results elsewhere break the wrong way. Mictlán did not lose at Aurora, but it still left Amatitlán knowing the league had run out of room for error.
