2007–08 Honduran Liga Nacional

Liga Nacional

Season	2007–08
Champions	Apertura: Marathón Clausura: Olimpia
Relegated	Atlético Olanchano
Champions League	Marathón Olimpia
Matches played	192
Top goalscorer	Apertura: Martínez Clausura: Velásquez
← 2006–07 2008–09 →

The 2007–08 season in the Honduran Liga Nacional was the 42nd season in the top fight in Honduran football; it ran from August 2007 to May 2008. The season was split into two tournaments (Apertura and Clausura) which defined the 51st and 52nd national champions in the history of the league. C.D. Marathón and C.D. Olimpia as winners of each tournament qualified to the 2008–09 CONCACAF Champions League.

2007–08 teams

Deportes Savio from Santa Rosa de Copán was promoted from the 2006–07 Liga de Ascenso.

Atlético Olanchano Deportes Savio Hispano F.C. C.D. Marathón C.D. Motagua

C.D. Olimpia C.D. Platense Real C.D. España C.D. Victoria C.D.S. Vida

Apertura

The Apertura tournament was played from 11 August to 22 December 2007. C.D. Marathón captured its 6th domestic league.

Regular season

Standings

As of 25 November 2007

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Marathón	18	10	5	3	27	16	+11	35	Qualification to the Semifinals
2	Motagua	18	9	5	4	28	19	+9	32
3	Victoria	18	7	10	1	22	12	+10	31
4	Olimpia	18	6	9	3	19	13	+6	27
5	Deportes Savio	18	5	7	6	14	15	−1	22
6	Real España	18	6	4	8	22	25	−3	22
7	Hispano	18	5	6	7	19	22	−3	21
8	Vida	18	4	8	6	18	22	−4	20
9	Platense	18	3	6	9	17	28	−11	15
10	Atlético Olanchano	18	3	4	11	15	29	−14	13

Results

As of 25 November 2007

Home \ Away	OLA	SAV	HIS	MAR	MOT	OLI	PLA	RES	VIC	VID
Atlético Olanchano		1–2	1–1	0–1	1–2	1–1	4–2	0–1	0–1	3–1
Deportes Savio	0–1		0–2	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–1
Hispano	2–0	2–1		2–2	2–1	0–0	1–2	0–1	0–0	2–3
Marathón	1–0	2–2	3–0		1–0	1–1	1–0	2–0	0–1	1–0
Motagua	2–0	1–0	1–1	4–1		0–0	3–1	2–4	1–0	2–0
Olimpia	1–1	1–0	2–0	1–1	1–2		3–1	1–0	0–0	2–1
Platense	0–0	0–2	1–2	1–3	3–2	0–0		2–2	0–0	0–0
Real España	3–1	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–2	1–3	2–3		1–2	1–1
Victoria	4–0	0–0	2–2	2–2	2–2	2–1	1–1	2–0		1–1
Vida	4–1	0–0	1–0	1–4	0–0	1–1	1–0	2–2	0–1

Source: Soccerway
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Final round

Semifinals

Marathón vs Olimpia

Olimpia v Marathón

2 December 2007 1st leg	Olimpia	1 – 0	Marathón	Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazán
16:00 (UTC−06:00)	Kardeck  59'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino Attendance: 9,467 Referee: Benigno Pineda

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Marathón v Olimpia

8 December 2007 2nd leg	Marathón	2 – 1	Olimpia	San Pedro Sula, Cortés
19:30 (UTC−06:00)	Norales  20' Martínez  72'	Report	Tilguath  45+1'	Stadium: Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano Attendance: 18,638 Referee: Mario Moncada

• Marathón 2–2 Olimpia on aggregate score; Marathón advanced on better regular season performance.

Motagua vs Victoria

Victoria v Motagua

1 December 2007 1st leg	Victoria	1 – 1	Motagua	La Ceiba, Atlántida
19:30 (UTC−06:00)	Rosales  20'	Report	Guevara  2'	Stadium: Estadio Nilmo Edwards Attendance: 9,634 Referee: José Molina

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Motagua v Victoria

9 December 2007 2nd leg	Motagua	2 – 0	Victoria	Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazán
16:00 (UTC−06:00)	Rodas  41' Guevara  84'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino Attendance: 11,899 Referee: Ricardo Zelaya

• Motagua won 3–1 on aggregate score.

Final

Marathón vs Motagua

Motagua v Marathón

16 December 2007 1st leg	Motagua	0 – 0	Marathón	Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazán
16:00 (UTC−06:00)		Report		Stadium: Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino Attendance: 16,042 Referee: José Molina

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Marathón v Motagua

22 December 2007 2nd leg	Marathón	2 – 0	Motagua	San Pedro Sula, Cortés
19:30 (UTC−06:00)	Brown  1' Scott  78'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano Attendance: 26,596 Referee: Ricardo Zelaya

Marathón

Motagua

GK 27 Juan Obelar RB – Astor Henríquez  48' CB – Mario Beata CB – Erick Norales  68' LB – Nilberto da Silva DM – Óscar Bonilla RCM 12 Mariano Acevedo LCM 19 Mario Berríos AM 7 Emil Martínez CF 21 Erick Scott CF 11 Mitchel Brown  75' Substitutions: CB 25 Luis Santamaría  48' CN - Milton Palacios  68' RM 8 Carlos Oliva  75' Manager: Manuel Keosseián

GK – Ricardo Canales RB – Samir García CB – Osman Chávez CB 24 Víctor Bernárdez LB - Emilio Izaguirre CM – Rubén Matamoros  34' CM 14 Luis Guzmán CM 32 Jorge Claros AM - Amado Guevara ST 9 Jairo Martínez  61' ST 10 Jocimar Nascimento Substitutions: CF – Jefferson Bernárdez  34' RB – Milton Reyes  61' Manager: Ramón Maradiaga

• Marathón won 2–0 on aggregate score.

Liga Nacional 2007–08 Apertura Champion
C.D. Marathón 6th title

Top goalscorers

As of 22 December 2007

10 goals

• Emil Martínez (Marathón)

7 goals

• Mitchel Brown (Marathón)
• Abidán Solís (Victoria)

6 goals

• Amado Guevara (Motagua)
• Luis Rodas (Motagua)

5 goals

• Edilson Pereira (Deportes Savio)
• Jocimar Nascimento (Motagua)
• Milton Núñez (Olimpia)
• Marcelo dos Santos (Platense)

4 goals

• Carlos Salinas (Atlético Olanchano)
• Sergio Diduch (Hispano)
• Henry Jiménez (Hispano)
• Allan do Santos (Olimpia)
• José Dias (Real España)
• Everaldo Ferreira (Real España)
• Carlos Fretes (Real España)
• Héctor Flores (Victoria)
• Johnny Calderón (Vida)

3 goals

• Wilmer Ramos (Atlético Olanchano)
• Harrison Róches (Deportes Savio)
• José Güity (Hispano)
• Carlos Oliva (Marathón)
• Óscar Torlacoff (Motagua)
• Reynaldo Tilguath (Olimpia)

2 goals

• Denilson Costa (Atlético Olanchano)
• Walter Hernández (Hispano)
• Rigoberto Padilla (Hispano)
• Milton Palacios (Marathón)
• Pedro Santana (Motagua)
• Danilo Turcios (Olimpia)
• Wilmer Velásquez (Olimpia)
• Quiarol Arzú (Platense)
• Bani Lozano (Platense)
• Marvin Sánchez (Platense)

• Douglas Caetano (Real España)
• Marlon Peña (Real España)
• Melvin Valladares (Real España)
• Marvin Chávez (Victoria)
• Jaime Rosales (Victoria)
• Jerry Bengtson (Vida)
• Ney Costa (Vida)
• Richard Pérez (Vida)

1 goal

• Jorge Lozano (Atlético Olanchano)
• Elmer Marín (Atlético Olanchano)
• Merlyn Membreño (Atlético Olanchano)
• Edgar Núñez (Atlético Olanchano)
• Guillermo Ramírez (Atlético Olanchano)
• Mario Euceda (Deportes Savio)
• Johny Galdámez (Deportes Savio)
• Edgar Mejía (Deportes Savio)
• Óscar Zepeda (Deportes Savio)
• Diktmar Hernández (Hispano)
• Mario Berríos (Marathon)
• Edmilson da Silva (Marathón)
• Astor Henríquez (Marathón)
• Luis López (Marathón)
• Erick Norales (Marathon)
• Luis Santamaría (Marathón)
• Erick Scott (Marathon)
• Víctor Bernárdez (Motagua)
• Fernando Castillo (Motagua)
• Walter López (Motagua)
• Rubén Matamoros (Motagua)
• Maynor Figueroa (Olimpia)
• Jerry Palacios (Olimpia)
• Hendry Thomas (Olimpia)
• David Meza (Platense)
• César Zelaya (Platense)
• Eddy Vega (Platense)
• Elkin González (Real España)
• Allan Lalín (Real España)
• Carlos Palacios (Real España)
• Fernando Cardozo (Victoria)
• Mario Gómez (Victoria)
• Júnior Izaguirre (Victoria)

• Ninrrol Medina (Victoria)
• Mauricio Weber (Victoria)
• Darian Álvarez (Vida)
• Borghi Arbizú (Vida)
• Miguel Farrera (Vida)
• Ángel Hill (Vida)
• Clifford Laing (Vida)
• Modesto Rodas (Vida)

Clausura

The Clausura tournament was played from 12 January to 24 May 2008. C.D. Olimpia captured its 21st domestic league.

Regular season

Standings

As of 3 May 2008

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Olimpia	18	9	6	3	28	13	+15	33	Qualification to the Semifinals
2	Marathón	18	9	3	6	30	23	+7	30
3	Real España	18	8	4	6	26	22	+4	28
4	Motagua	18	8	3	7	23	19	+4	27
5	Hispano	18	7	5	6	24	25	−1	26
6	Victoria	18	6	6	6	17	17	0	24
7	Atlético Olanchano	18	6	3	9	19	25	−6	21
8	Platense	18	5	5	8	18	24	−6	20
9	Deportes Savio	18	4	7	7	18	24	−6	19
10	Vida	18	4	6	8	18	29	−11	18

Results

As of 3 May 2008

Home \ Away	OLA	SAV	HIS	MAR	MOT	OLI	PLA	RES	VIC	VID
Atlético Olanchano		3–2	3–2	0–2	1–0	0–2	1–0	3–2	1–2	3–0
Deportes Savio	0–0		1–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	4–0	2–1	1–2	1–1
Hispano	2–0	3–1		0–1	2–0	1–1	2–2	1–1	2–0	1–0
Marathón	2–1	2–1	5–2		2–1	0–2	2–2	0–1	2–0	3–1
Motagua	2–0	2–0	2–0	3–3		2–1	3–1	2–1	1–1	2–0
Olimpia	0–0	1–1	5–0	1–0	0–1		2–1	3–0	1–0	2–0
Platense	3–1	3–0	0–2	3–2	1–0	0–2		0–0	0–0	0–0
Real España	1–0	4–1	0–0	2–3	2–1	2–0	2–1		2–1	3–1
Victoria	1–0	0–0	1–2	0–0	2–0	2–2	1–0	1–1		0–1
Vida	2–2	1–1	2–2	2–1	2–1	2–2	0–1	2–1	1–3

Source: Soccerway
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Final round

Semifinals

Olimpia vs Motagua

Motagua v Olimpia

7 May 2008 1st leg	Motagua	1 – 4	Olimpia	Danlí, El Paraíso
15:00 (UTC−06:00)	Matamoros  47'	Report	Bruschi  21' Thomas  49' R. Núñez  54' M. Núñez  78'	Stadium: Estadio Marcelo Tinoco Attendance: 5,291 Referee: Mario Moncada

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Olimpia v Motagua

10 May 2008 2nd leg	Olimpia	3 – 1	Motagua	Comayagua, Comayagua
19:00 (UTC−06:00)	Turcios  19' Bruschi  42' Velásquez  62'	Report	Nascimento  38'	Stadium: Estadio Carlos Miranda Referee: Beningno Pineda

• Olimpia won 7–2 on aggregate score.

Marathón vs Real España

Real España v Marathón

7 May 2008 1st leg	Real España	1 – 3	Marathón	San Pedro Sula, Cortés
19:30 (UTC−06:00)	Lalín  71'	Report	da Silva  42' Henríquez  54' Güity  75'	Stadium: Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano Attendance: 10,562 Referee: Óscar Moncada

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Marathón v Real España

10 May 2008 2nd leg	Marathón	2 – 4	Real España	San Pedro Sula, Cortés
19:00 (UTC−06:00)	Güity  4' Ferreira  80'	Report	Lalín  22' Valladares  43' Ferreira  50' Obelar  90+1' (o.g.)	Stadium: Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano Attendance: 7,553 Referee: José Molina

• Marathón 5–5 Real España on aggregate score; Marathón advanced on better regular season performance.

Final

Olimpia vs Marathón

Marathón v Olimpia

18 May 2008 1st leg	Marathón	1 – 1	Olimpia	San Pedro Sula, Cortés
17:00 (UTC−06:00)	Furtado  68'	Report	Turcios  35'	Stadium: Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano Attendance: 29,000 Referee: José Molina

Marathón

Olimpia

GK 1 Víctor Coello RB 23 Mauricio Sabillón CB – Milton Palacios CB 5 Erick Norales LB – Óscar Bonilla CM 13 Dennis Ferrera CM – Reinieri Mayorquín CM – Astor Henríquez  45' CM 19 Mario Berríos CF – José Güity  64' CF 32 Edmilson da Silva  77' Substitutions: MF 10 Eberson Amaral  45' FW 21 Andy Furtado  64' FW 9 Marcelo Ferreira  77' Manager: José de la Paz Herrera

GK 27 Noel Valladares RB – Boniek García CB – Fábio de Souza CB – Sergio Mendoza  74' LB - Edwin Ávila CM – Hendry Thomas CM – Walter Hernández  83' RM – Danilo Turcios LM - Ramón Núñez ST 33 Ramiro Bruschi  79' ST 11 Wilmer Velásquez Substitutions: DF – Rony Morales  74' FW – Allan Kardeck  79' MF – Jesús Navas  83' – Manager: Juan de Dios Castillo

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Olimpia v Marathón

24 May 2008 2nd leg	Olimpia	1 – 0	Marathón	Comayagua, Comayagua
16:00 (UTC−06:00)	Velásquez  60' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Estadio Carlos Miranda Attendance: 9,474 Referee: Mario Moncada

Olimpia

Marathón

GK 27 Noel Valladares RB – Sergio Mendoza CB 5 Fábio de Souza  57' CB – Rony Morales LB – Boniek GFarcía  46' CM – Hendry Thomas CM – Walter Hernández RM – Danilo Turcios LM – Ramón Núñez CF 33 Ramiro Bruschi CF 11 Wilmer Velásquez  77' Substitutions: FW – Milton Núñez  77' MF – Jesús Navas  80' DF – Nahúm Ávila  88' Manager: Juan de Dios Castillo

GK 1 Víctor Coello RB 23 Mauricio Sabillón CB – Erick Norales CB 5 Mario Beata LB – Óscar Bonilla CM – Reinieri Mayorquín CM – Astor Henríquez  23' CM 19 Mario Berríos AM 10 Eberson Amaral  55' CF – José Güity CF 32 Edmilson da Silva Substitutions: DF – Milton Palacios  23'  50' MF – Mariano Acevedo  50' MF 8 Carlos Oliva  55' Manager: José Herrera

• Olimpia won 2–1 on aggregate score.

Liga Nacional 2007–08 Clausura Champion
C.D. Olimpia 21st title

Top goalscorers

10 goals

• Wilmer Velásquez (Olimpia)

9 goals

• Jocimar Nascimento (Motagua)

8 goals

• Edmilson da Silva (Marathón)
• Douglas Caetano (Real España)
• Claudio Cardozo (Vida)

6 goals

• Ney Costa (Deportes Savio)

5 goals

• Carlos Pavón (Real España)
• Eduardo Bennett (Atlético Olanchano)
• Oscar Torlacoff (Motagua)
• Andy Furtado (Marathón)

4 goals

• Marcelo Cabrita (Platense)
• Orvin Paz (Deportes Savio)
• Walter Hernández (Olimpia)
• Danilo Turcios (Olimpia)
• José Güity (Marathón)
• Henry Jiménez (Hispano)

3 goals

• Marcelo Ferreira (Marathón)
• Marvin Chávez (Victoria)
• Júnior Izaguirre (Victoria)
• Sergio Diduch (Hispano)
• Javier Portillo (Hispano)
• Marcelo Segales (Hispano)
• Johnny Calderón (Vida)
• Edgar Nuñez (Atlético Olanchano)
• Ramón Núñez (Olimpia)
• Ramiro Bruschi (Olimpia)
• Carlos Días (Real España)
• Allan Lalín (Real España)
• Carlos Will Mejía (Platense)
• Bani Lozano (Platense)

2 goals

• Elmer Marín (Atlético Olanchano)
• Henry Córdoba (Platense)
• Mario Berríos (Marathón)
• Carlos Oliva (Marathón)
• Astor Henríquez (Marathón)
• Eberso Amaral (Marathón)
• Rigoberto Padilla (Hispano)
• Milton Ruíz (Hispano)

• Avidán Solís (Victoria)
• Luis Rodas (Motagua)
• Fernando Castillo (Motagua)
• Víctor Bernárdez (Motagua)
• Rubén Matamoros (Motagua)
• Elkin González (Real España)
• Erick Vallecillo (Real España)
• Mario César Rodríguez (Real España)
• Allan Kardeck (Olimpia)
• Carlos Alberto Salinas (Atlético Olanchano)
• Richard Pérez (Atlético Olanchano)
• Dicktmar Hernández (Vida)
• José Luis Grant (Vida)
• Lenín Suárez (Deportes Savio)

1 goal

• José Regalado (Hispano)
• Jairo Mosquera (Hispano)
• Leonardo Morales (Hispano)
• Eliu Membreño (Hispano)
• Leonardo Isaula (Hispano)
• Samir Arzú (Atlético Olanchano)
• Wilmer Ramos (Atlético Olanchano)
• José Mario Navarro (Atlético Olanchano)
• José Valladares (Motagua)
• Emilio Izaguirre (Motagua)
• Amado Guevara (Motagua)
• Misael Ruíz (Platense)
• Adán Ramírez (Platense)
• Erick Norales (Marathón)
• Emil Martínez (Marathón)
• Nilberto da Silva (Marathón)
• Óscar Bonilla (Marathón)
• Reinieri Mayorquín (Marathón)
• Oscar Vargas (Marathón)
• Edilson Pereira (Deportes Savio)
• Harrison Róchez (Deportes Savio)
• Onán García (Deportes Savio)
• Víctor Ramírez (Deportes Savio)
• Juliano de Andrade (Deportes Savio)
• Carlos Morán (Victoria)
• Juan Pablo Montes (Victoria)
• Mauricio Weber (Victoria)
• Derrick Hulse (Victoria)
• Ninrrol Medina (Victoria)
• Carin Adipe (Victoria)
• Wilmer Crisanto (Victoria)
• Héctor Flores (Real España)
• Nery Medina (Real España)

• Carlos Fretes (Real España)
• Elder Valladares (Real España)
• Everaldo Ferreira (Real España)ç
• Nahún Ávila (Olimpia)
• Sergio Mendoza (Olimpia)
• Erick Andino (Olimpia)
• Carlos Discua (Olimpia)
• Boniek García (Olimpia)
• Juan Manuel Cárcamo (Olimpia)
• Hendry Thomas (Olimpia)
• Milton Núñez (Olimpia)
• Jerry Bengtson (Vida)
• Modesto Rodas (Vida)
• Angel Hill (Vida)

Aggregate table

Atlético Olanchano made the least points in the aggregated table from both Apertura and Clausura regular seasons, thereby were relegated to the Liga de Ascenso.

As of 3 May 2008

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Marathón	36	19	8	9	57	39	+18	65	Qualified to the 2008–09 CONCACAF Champions League
2	Olimpia	36	15	15	6	47	26	+21	60
3	Motagua	36	17	8	11	51	38	+13	59
4	Victoria	36	13	16	7	39	29	+10	55
5	Real España	36	14	8	14	48	47	+1	50
6	Hispano	36	12	11	13	43	47	−4	47
7	Deportes Savio	36	9	14	13	32	39	−7	41
8	Vida	36	8	14	14	36	51	−15	38
9	Platense	36	8	11	17	35	52	−17	35
10	Atlético Olanchano	36	9	7	20	34	54	−20	34	Relegated to the 2008–09 Liga de Ascenso

External links

• Official website