2008–09 Honduran Liga Nacional

2008–09 teams

A total of 10 teams competed in the tournament, including 9 sides from the 2007–08 season plus C.D. Real Juventud, promoted from the 2007–08 Liga de Ascenso.

• Deportes Savio also used Estadio Roberto Martínez Ávila due to field renovations.
• C.D. Motagua also used Estadio Marcelo Tinoco due to field renovations.
• C.D. Olimpia also used Estadio Carlos Miranda due to field renovations.
• C.D. Platense also used Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano due to a dispute between the club and the city of Puerto Cortés.

Apertura

Scouting reports

In the 2007–08 season, C.D. Platense suffered great adversity avoiding relegation in their last match. Their manager Nahúm Espinoza is the mastermind for which the 'dogfish' have changed their form of play and have transformed into a dangerous team aiming for great things. A key benchmarks for Platense is midfielder Carlos Mejía, with his talent will try to carry the team on a good path and hopefully a fight for the title. Platense has not fallen behind in signing new players for this tournament. New arrivals include Edilson Pereira, who played previously with Deportes Savio, Willian Veloso, who has shown in preseason matches to be a prominent goalscorer, and Evandro Ferreira, with his speed will try to unbalance the opposing defenses. To add to this is the experience of Walter López, who will be in charge of creating plays and give dynamism to the goalkeepers.

Despite C.D. Victoria's manager Javier Padilla insisting the main objective is save their position, the fans think the opposite because they know they have a good lineup to aspire for more. The fans think of nothing more than to lift another trophy, considering that Victoria maintains the fundamental parts of the team from the previous tournaments. They have reinforced the squad with talented and nationally experienced players like José Pineda, Juan Cárcamo, and Carlos Discua. They also signed the Uruguayans Richard Pérez and Mauricio Webber and have promoted from their reserves forwards Erick Ayala and Víctor Maldonado. With their current squad, Victoria can reach at the least the playoff round to satisfy their fans, who expected something more dignified in the previous tournament but finished in sixth place despite the strong investment from their patroness. The team had a good preseason and aims to bring honor to their name.

Recently promoted C.D. Real Juventud have prepared for one goal: to maintain the position in the league. Since their establishment on 30 May 30 1965, the team never had the opportunity to be able to ascend and play in the Liga Nacional but they now find the opportunity to assemble their own history. Their manager Emilio Umanzor have stated in addition to staying in the league, the team will try to classify as one of the best four in the league and not playing a relegation battle like the majority of the sporting people and press have insisted. Real Juventud arrives with great expectations for the Apertura tournament. Real Juventud will fall upon the success of their Liga de Ascenso campaign and aim for decent position.

A team with the squad and budget of Deportes Savio obviously won't compete for the title. This does not stop them from causing harm to other clubs with greater aspirations. They will be playing their home matches on an unfamiliar field: Estadio Roberto Martínez Ávila in Siguatepeque, since their stadium is being remodeled. A key loss for the team is the Brazilian Edilson Pereira who signed with Platense. On the other hand, important arrivals include goalie Hugo Caballero, the midfielders Marco Mejía and Elmer Marín, and forward Édgar Núñez. Deportes Savio will seek to grab points early on to avoid suffering like the previous tournament and with that seek, maybe not the playoff rounds, but their permanency in the league.

C.D.S. Vida will participate in the tournament with a modest team filled with prospects that intend to shine in the league. The directive administration will wage at their inferior categories that they intend to remain in the league. The challenges their manager Alberto Romero faces are difficult because he must erase the frustration from the fans and support the team's president character, who at the moment of saying things says it first and then thinks. The team president and manager have clashed before with Romero threatening to quit the team due to some unilateral decision but soon was resolved. Vida had a good preseason with many matches in the United States and Guatemala.

Regular season

Standings

Results

: As of 22 November 2008

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Round 7

Round 8

Round 9

Round 10

Round 11

Round 12

Round 13

Round 14

Round 15

Round 16

Round 17

Round 18

• On 12 August, Real España obtained 2 additional points and Deportes Savio had 1 deducted for fielding an ineligible player in round 1; the goal records of both clubs remain unchanged.

Postseason

Semifinals

Turcios Lalín Bruschi

• Real España 4–4 Olimpia on aggregated. Real España advanced on regular season record.

• Marathón 1–1 Motagua on aggregated. Marathón advanced on regular season record.

Final

• Marathón won 2–1 on aggregate.

Top goalscorers

: As of 13 December 2008 13 goals

• Brazil Everaldo Ferreira (Real España) 9 goals
• Brazil Marcelo Cabrita (Platense) 8 goals
• Honduras Leonardo Isaula (Hispano)
• Honduras Allan Lalín (Real España) 7 goals
• Colombia Mauricio Copete (Victoria)
• Brazil Ney Costa (Deportes Savio)
• Honduras Milton Ruiz (Hispano) 6 goals
• Uruguay Oscar Torlacoff (Motagua)
• Uruguay Ramiro Bruschi (Olimpia)
• Honduras Carlos Pavón (Real España) 5 goals
• Honduras Saúl Martínez (Marathón)
• Uruguay Nicolás Cardozo (Vida)
• Brazil Jocimar Nascimento (Motagua)
• Honduras Rigoberto Padilla (Hispano)
• Honduras Nery Medina (Real España)
• Honduras Wilmer Velásquez (Olimpia)
• Honduras Carlos Will Mejía (Marathón) 4 goals
• Honduras Marvin Chávez (Marathón)
• Honduras Jorge Lozano (Deportes Savio) 3 goals
• Honduras Mario Rodríguez (Real España)
• Brazil Marcelo Cabecao (Hispano)
• Honduras Mauricio Sabillón (Marathón)
• Honduras Juan Manuel Cárcamo (Victoria)
• Honduras Georgie Welcome (Motagua)
• Brazil Evandro Ferreira (Platense)
• Honduras Danilo Turcios (Olimpia)
• Honduras Carlos Paez (Real Juventud) 2 goals
• Honduras Oscar Vargas (Vida)
• Honduras Mario Euceda (Deportes Savio)
• Honduras Carlos Discua (Victoria)
• Honduras Harrison Róchez (Deportes Savio)
• Colombia Charles Córdova (Real Juventud)
• Honduras Carlos Morán (Victoria)
• Uruguay Mauricio Weber (Victoria)
• Honduras Adán Ramírez (Platense)
• Honduras Reinaldo Tilguath (Motagua)
• Honduras Milton Núñez (Marathón)
• Honduras Javier Portillo (Hispano)
• Brazil Marcelo Ferreira (Platense)
• Honduras David Molina (Motagua)
• Honduras Ninrod Medina (Victoria)
• Brazil Juliano Rangel (Deportes Savio)
• Honduras Carlos Navarro (Real Juventud)
• Honduras Mariano Acevedo (Marathón)
• Honduras Oscar Zepeda (Deportes Savio)
• Honduras David Meléndez (Real Juventud)
• Honduras Ramón Núñez (Olimpia)
• Honduras Erick Norales (Marathón) 1 goal
• Honduras Rubén Rivera (Motagua)
• Brazil Willian Veloso (Platense)
• Honduras Miguel Castillo (Motagua)
• Honduras Orvin Paz (Marathón)
• Honduras Lenín Suárez (Deportes Savio)
• Honduras Diktmart Hernández (Victoria)
• Honduras Bani Lozano (Platense)
• Honduras Shannon Welcome (Motagua)
• Brazil Carlos Dias (Real España)
• Honduras Maynor Gómez (Real Juventud)
• Honduras Rubén Matamoros (Hispano)
• Honduras Walter Hernández (Olimpia)
• Brazil Edilson Pereira (Platense)
• Honduras Rony Morales (Olimpia)
• Honduras John Pérez (Hispano)
• Honduras Johnny Galdámez (Deportes Savio)
• Brazil Nilberto da Silva (Motagua)
• Honduras Francisco Díaz (Platense)
• Honduras Elkin González (Real España)
• Honduras Oscar Fortín (Deportes Savio)
• Argentina Pablo Genovese (Hispano)
• Argentina Gabriel Casas (Vida)
• Honduras Juan Carlos García (Marathón)
• Honduras Luis López (Marathón)
• Honduras Edgar Núñez (Deportes Savio)
• Honduras Luis Pérez (Platense)
• Honduras Henry Bermúdez (Victoria)
• Honduras Francisco Aguilar (Real Juventud)
• Honduras Hendry Thomas (Olimpia)
• Honduras Román Castillo (Vida)
• Honduras Cristian Altamirano (Deportes Savio)
• Honduras Ronald del Cid (Real Juventud)
• Brazil Allan Kardeck (Olimpia)
• Honduras Carlos Salinas (Vida)
• Honduras Jerry Palacios (Marathón)
• Honduras Angel Rodríguez (Real Juventud)
• Honduras Víctor Bernárdez (Motagua)
• Costa Rica Andy Furtado (Marathón)
• Honduras Mario Martínez (Real España)
• Brazil Fabio de Souza (Olimpia)
• Honduras Abner Méndez (Hispano)
• Honduras Erick Zepeda (Platense)
• Honduras Henry Jiménez (Hispano)
• Honduras Richard Pérez (Victoria)
• Honduras Francisco Valladares (Motagua)
• Honduras Víctor Arzú (Victoria)
• Argentina Sergio Diduch (Hispano)
• Honduras Oscar Bonieck García (Olimpia)
• Honduras Fernando Castillo (Motagua)
• Honduras Mario Berríos (Marathón)
• Belize Elroy Smith (Deportes Savio) (o.g.)

Squads

The 2008–09 Clausura was the second part of the 2008–09 season of the Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Honduras, the first division national football league in Honduras. The season started on 10 January 2009 and finished on 24 May 2009. It followed the 2008–09 Apertura season. The winner will compete in the 2009-10 CONCACAF Champions League.

Clausura

Regular season

Standings

On 2 May, Honduras was awarded a 3rd spot in the 2009–10 CONCACAF Champions League due to lack of adequate stadia in Belize. The 3rd spot would go to the short tournament runner-up with the highest overall season points total. Because of Real C.D. Espana's overall season point total of 68 being highest in the league, they clinch a spot in the 2009–10 CONCACAF Champions League. Already a runner-up from Apertura 2008, it is guaranteed that the Clausura 2009 runner-up would not have a higher overall season point total than Real Espana.

Results

: As of 2 May 2009

: Platense–Hispano not played due to irrelevance.

Round 1

Núñez Ramírez

Round 2 Valladares Dias

Diduch
Méndez Santamaría

Cárcamo

Round 3

Round 4

Brown

Round 5

Ramírez Sosa (pen)

Round 6 Copete Medina

Round 7

Ruiz Paz

Fernández

Round 8 Ulloa OG Mejía

Ramírez
Ruiz Torlacoff (pen) Welcome

Pavón

Roches

Round 9 Delgado

Diduch
Flores Osorio Hernández Cabrita

Cicogna

Martínez Palacios (pen)

Round 10 Chávez

Róchez Zepeda

Round 11

Chávez

Mejía Hernández

Costa

Round 12

Isaula

Chávez

Chávez OG Calderón

Round 13

Palacios (OG) Velásquez

Round 14

Flores Lozano

Acevedo Brown Núñez

Thomas Rojas

Round 15 Arzú

Norales

Antúnez

Round 16 Flores
Palacios

Chávez Mejía Sabillón Núñez Rivera Díaz

Martínez

Round 17 Chávez

Rojas Velásquez

Round 18

Salinas

Lalín

Copete Discua

Postseason

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Semifinals

Turcios

• Olimpia won 2–1 on aggregate.

Caetano González Palacios

• Real España won 6–2 on aggregate.

Final

Caetano Cigogna de Souza

• Olimpia won 4–3 on aggregate.

Marathon is classified as HON1 for the 2009–10 CONCACAF Champions League, due to their tiebreaker over Olimpia (higher goal differential since both teams had a total of 66 points). Olimpia gets HON2. Real Espana gets HON3, being the only runner-up to short tournaments in the 2008–2009 Honduran National Football League season.

Top goalscorers

: As of 24 May 2009

10 goals

• Argentina Sergio Diduch (Hispano) 6 goals
• Honduras Bani Lozano (Platense)
• Honduras Milton Núñez (Marathón)
• Honduras Wilmer Velásquez (Olimpia)
• Brazil Douglas Caetano (Real España)
• Uruguay Ramiro Bruschi (Olimpia) 5 goals
• Brazil Ney Costa (Deportes Savio)
• Honduras Héctor Flores (Real Juventud)
• Honduras Mitchel Brown (Marathón)
• Honduras Allan Lalín (Real España)
• Colombia Mauricio Copete (Victoria) 4 goals
• Honduras Jerry Palacios (Marathón)
• Honduras José Güity (Vida)
• Honduras Saul Martínez (Marathón)
• Costa Rica Erick Scott (Marathón)
• Honduras Carlos Will Mejía (Marathón)
• Honduras Osman Chávez (Platense) (2 o.g.) 3 goals
• Honduras Luis Ramírez (Marathón)
• Honduras Adán Ramírez (Platense)
• Honduras Oscar Zepeda (Deportes Savio)
• Brazil Marcelo Cabrita (Platense)
• Honduras Carlos Morán (Victoria)
• Honduras Jorge Lozano (Deportes Savio)
• Brazil Edmilson Da Silva (Real España)
• Colombia Charles Córdoba (Real Juventud)
• Honduras Wilson Güity (Victoria)
• Honduras Henry Martínez (Real España)
• Honduras Marvin Chávez (Marathón)
• Argentina Daniel Cicogna (Olimpia)
• Uruguay Guillermo Díaz (Motagua) (2 o.g.)
• Honduras Milton Palacios Suazo (Marathón) (1 o.g.) 2 goals
• Honduras Víctor Arzú (Victoria)
• Honduras Rony Paz (Real Juventud)
• Uruguay Oscar Torlacoff (Motagua)
• Honduras Carlos Pavón (Real España)
• Honduras Milton Ruiz (Hispano)
• Honduras Shannon Welcome (Motagua)
• Honduras Harrison Róchez (Deportes Savio)
• Honduras Georgie Welcome (Motagua)
• Honduras Mario Martínez (Real España)
• Honduras Walter Hernández (Olimpia)
• Honduras Hendry Thomas (Olimpia)
• Honduras Pedro Fernández (Victoria)
• Honduras Johnny Calderón (Olimpia)
• Honduras Carlos Navarro (Real Juventud)
• Honduras Sergio Antúnez (Vida)
• Honduras Mario Beata (Marathón)
• Honduras Jaime Rosales (Olimpia)
• Honduras Roger Rojas (Olimpia)
• Honduras Brayan Beckele (Vida)
• Honduras Facundo Argüello (Vida)
• Brazil Fábio de Souza Loureiro (Olimpia)
• Honduras Melvin Valladares (Real España)
• Honduras Fabio Ulloa (Real Juventud) (1 o.g.) 1 goal
• Honduras Quiarol Arzú (Platense)
• Brazil Carlos Dias (Real España)
• Honduras Eliu Membreño (Hispano)
• Honduras Abner Méndez (Hispano)
• Honduras Walter Williams (Vida)
• Honduras Luis Santamaría (Vida)
• Honduras Juan Manuel Cárcamo (Victoria)
• Honduras Oscar Vargas (Vida)
• Argentina Marcelo Segales (Victoria)
• Honduras Carlos Solórzano (Vida)
• Argentina Franco Sosa (Marathón)
• Honduras Julio Ocampo (Real Juventud)
• Honduras Víctor Ortiz (Victoria)
• Honduras Ninrod Medina (Victoria)
• Honduras Mario Berríos (Marathón)
• Honduras Misael Ruiz (Platense)
• Honduras Carlos Cruz (Motagua)
• Honduras Eder Delgado (Real España)
• Honduras Efraín Flores (Platense)
• Honduras Ian Osorio (Platense)
• Honduras Gabriel Hernández (Platense)
• Honduras Emil Martínez (Marathón)
• Honduras David Molina (Motagua)
• Honduras Ramón Castillo (Real España)
• Honduras Diktmar Hernández (Victoria)
• Honduras Mario Gómez (Victoria)
• Honduras Leonardo Isaula (Motagua)
• Honduras Mario Chávez (Vida)
• Honduras Anael Figueroa (Deportes Savio)
• Honduras Edgar Ferreira (Vida)
• Honduras Mariano Acevedo (Marathón)
• Honduras Máximo Arzú (Hispano)
• Honduras Irvin Guerrero (Platense)
• Honduras Erick Norales (Marathón)
• Honduras Jerry Bengtson (Vida)
• Honduras Henry Jiménez (Hispano)
• Honduras José Luis Palacios (Hispano)
• Honduras Christian Altamirano (Deportes Savio)
• Uruguay Mauricio Weber (Victoria)
• Honduras Mauricio Sabillón (Marathón)
• Honduras Daniel Lloyd (Motagua)
• Honduras Rubén Rivera (Motagua)
• Belize Elroy Smith (Deportes Savio)
• Honduras Emilio Izaguirre (Motagua)
• Honduras Carlos Salinas (Vida)
• Honduras Carlos Discua (Victoria)
• Honduras Elkin González (Real España)
• Honduras Carlos Palacios (Real España)
• Honduras Danilo Turcios (Olimpia)
• Honduras Erick Vallecillo (Real España)
• Mexico Juan Carlos García (Marathón) (o.g.)
• Honduras Johnny Salgado (Hispano) (o.g.)

Aggregate table

2009–10 CONCACAF Champions League

References

References

1. [https://web.archive.org/web/20081207184019/http://www.concacaf.com/view_article.aspx?id=4553 CONCACAF.com – Champions League qualifying simplified for Central America] – 2 December 2008