1985–86 Honduran Liga Nacional
| Season | 1985–86 |
|---|---|
| Champions | Marathón (2nd) |
| Relegated | Universidad |
| CONCACAF Champions' Cup | Marathón Motagua |
| Matches | 104 |
| Goals | 186 (1.79 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Flores (9) |
← 1984–85 1986–87 → | |
The 1985–86 Honduran Liga Nacional season was the 20th edition of the Honduran Liga Nacional. The format of the tournament consisted of two groups of five followed by a 4-team playoff round. C.D. Marathón won the title[1] after winning the final round and qualified to the 1986 CONCACAF Champions' Cup along with C.D. Motagua.
1985–86 teams
- Juventud de Sula (La Lima)
- Marathón (San Pedro Sula)
- Motagua (Tegucigalpa)
- Olimpia (Tegucigalpa)
- Platense (Puerto Cortés)
- Real España (San Pedro Sula)
- Tela Timsa (Tela, promoted)
- Universidad (Tegucigalpa)
- Victoria (La Ceiba)
- Vida (La Ceiba)
Regular season
Standings Group A
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Olimpia | 18 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 20 | 11 | +9 | 23 | Qualified to the Final round[a] |
| 2 | Marathón | 18 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 23 | 15 | +8 | 23 | |
| 3 | Platense | 18 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 15 | 16 | −1 | 18 | |
| 4 | Victoria | 18 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 11 | 14 | −3 | 17 | |
| 5 | Tela Timsa | 18 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 20 | −8 | 14 | Relegation playoff[b] |
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Standings Group B
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vida | 18 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 24 | 12 | +12 | 22 | Qualified to the Final round[a] |
| 2 | Motagua | 18 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 12 | 17 | −5 | 19 | |
| 3 | Real España | 18 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 22 | 20 | +2 | 17 | |
| 4 | Juventud de Sula | 18 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 16 | −6 | 15 | |
| 5 | Universidad | 18 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 22 | −9 | 12 | Relegation playoff[b] |
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Final round
Cuadrangular standings
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marathón[a] | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 9 |
| 2 | Vida | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 7 |
| 3 | Motagua | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 4 | Olimpia | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | −4 | 2 |
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- ^ Marathón declared champions as winner of cuadrangular.
Results
Relegation playoff
| 1st leg | Universidad | 0–0 | Tela Timsa | Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazán |
| CST | Stadium: Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino |
| 2nd leg | Tela Timsa | 1–0 | Universidad | Tela, Atlántida |
| CST | Stadium: Estadio León Gómez |
- Universidad relegated to second division.
Top scorer
- Juan Flores (Olimpia) with 9 goals
Squads
| Juventud de Sula | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Marco Antonio "Machaca" Soriano | Jorge Hibrán Maldonado | Ramón Edgardo Moradel Zapata | |
| José Manuel Enamorado Díaz | Julián Núñez | Pedro Manzanares | |
| Celso Fredy Güity | Antonio "Machangay" Amaya | Jimmy Stewart | |
| Marathón | |||
| Erasmo "Chícharo" Guerrero | Francisco Adelmo Herrera | Óscar "Moro" Bardales | |
| Ciro Paulino "Palic" Castillo | Pastor Martínez | Vicente Suazo | |
| Herminio Villalobos | Osmán Madrid | Suamy Álvarez | |
| David Ponce | Norman Lobo | Gilberto Leonel Machado García | |
| Amílcar Lanza | Erasmo Castillo | Jorge Alberto "Cuca" Bueso Iglesias | |
| Rodolfo Richardson Smith | José Luis "Joche" Alvarado | Roy Arturo Padilla Bardales | |
| Árnold Vladimir López | Oswaldo Zaldívar | Juan Contreras | |
| Aparicio Colón | Jorge Martínez | Miguel Lanza | |
| Mario "El Chino" Romero | Nicolas "Nico" Suazo | Roy Padilla Bardales | |
| Marco "Tono" García | Delio Billonay Fajardo | ||
| Árnold López | Pablo Madrid | ||
| Motagua | |||
| José Luis Cruz Figueroa | Juan Gómez Ortiz | Marco Tulio "Pollo" Suazo | |
| Amílcar Leonel Suazo | Oscar Medina | Luis Oswaldo "Che" Altamirano | |
| Antonio "Toño" Obando | Frank Ponce | Eber Ramírez | |
| Luis Cruz | Isidro Arriola | Orlin Banegas | |
| Antonio Obando | Olvin Elvir | Reynaldo Colon | |
| Ernesto "Neto" Isaula | Karl Benneth | Moisés "Tanque" Velasquez | |
| roberto "Muñiña" Escalante | |||
| Olimpia | |||
| Raúl Martínez Sambulá | Juan Alberto Flores Maradiaga | Jorge Alberto "Perro" González | |
| José Emilio Martínez | Fernando Tovar Durón | Roberto Reynaldo "Robot" Bailey Sargent | |
| Juan Carlos Espinoza | Carlos "Gigio" Maldonado | Roger Javier Valladares | |
| Óscar Banegas | Juan Ramón Soler | Osman Madrid | |
| Antonio "Flaco" Hernández | Francisco "Pancho" González | Dario Mejía | |
| Prudencio "Tecate" Norales | |||
| Platense | |||
| Manuel Zúniga | Juan Jerezano | Jorge Arita Neals | |
| Wilfredo Brown | Tomás Centeno López | Iván Chavarría | |
| Luis Núñez | Carlos Deras | Eleázar Peña | |
| Noé Meza | Florentino Arriola | Mauro Rivas | |
| Hever Miranda | Ramón Cruz Colíndrez | Domingo Drummond | |
| Pedro Alvarez | Marco Antonio Valdez | Oscar Claros | |
| Guillermo Bernárdez | Carlos Zavala | Armando López "Babalaba" Bodden | |
| Eugenio Dolmo Flores | Obdulio Vásquez | Leo Assís | |
| Armando Rivera | German "Niño" Bernárdez | Gerald Vargas Droumond | |
| Raúl Centeno Gamboa | Luis Rodríguez | Juan Ramón Palacios | |
| Jorge Irías | Martín García | Eduardo Gámez | |
| Carlos Velásquez | Juan "Nito" Anariba | Carlos Aguilar | |
| Eduardo Laing | Gerardo "Coco" Urbina | German Guzmán | |
| Real España | |||
| José Mauricio "Guicho" Fúnez | Wilmer "Supermán" Cruz | Karl Antonio Roland | |
| Esteban Centeno Pitillo | Luis Laing | Junior Rashford Costly | |
| Manuel Fuentes López | Carlos Orlando Caballero | Óscar Machigua | |
| Jaime Villegas | Luis Fuentes | José Ramos | |
| Arnaldo Herrera | Pedro Castro | Nelson Benavídez | |
| Hernán Santiago "Cortés" García Martínez | Edgardo Emilson Soto Fajardo | Marco "Maco" Antonio Anariba | |
| Jimmy Steward | Nahúm Alberto Espinoza | Edith Hernando "Tibombo" Contreras | |
| Miguel Antonio "Hino" Mathews | Moisés "El Chafa" Barahona | Juan Manuel "Nito" Anariba | |
| Clinton Campbell | Ildefonso Bonilla | Álex Geovany Ávila | |
| Pablo Orellana | |||
| Tela Timsa | |||
| Julio César "El Tile" Arzú | Raúl David Fúnez | Jimmy James Bailey | |
| Francisco Javier Toledo | Víctor Hugo Salgado | Luis "Gavilán" Cálix | |
| Carlos Acosta | Carlos Flores | Mario Coto | |
| Allan Anthony Costly | Noel Omar "Carguero" Renderos | Gustavo Cálix | |
| Salvador "Vayoy" Martínez | Víctor Laboriel | ||
| Universidad | |||
| José Omar Macedo | José Marcial "Canelo" Murillo | Antonio Aguilar | |
| Olman Flores | Osorto | Samuel Armijo | |
| Salomón Nazzar | Hector Orlando Ortega | Iván Canales | |
| Roberto "Chele" Barahona | Víctor Romero | Jorge Montenegro | |
| Victoria | |||
| Jorge Alberto "Camioncito" Duarte | Luis Azneth Ortiz | Miguel Angel "Primitivo" Ortiz | |
| Ramón Berckling | José Manuel Vaquedano | David Goff | |
| Vida | |||
| Marvin Geovany "Mango" Henríquez | Wilson Omar Reyes Martínez | Juan Dolmo "Juanito" Arzú | |
| Carlos Humberto "Papeto" Lobo | Ramón "Pollo" Calderón | Oscar Escobar | |
| Rolando "Pipo" Valladares Laguna | Natividad Morales Barrios | Matilde Selím Lacayo | |
| Rudy Alberto Williams | Marco Tulio "Zocadito" Zelaya | ||
Trivia
- The clubs were divided into two groups of five for the first time in the League.
- Positions in the regular season were irrelevant. The team with most points in the Final round were declared champions.
- This was the season with the less goals scored so far, only 187 goals in 104 games.[2]
External links
References
- ^ RSSSF.com–Honduras - Final Tables 1965/66-1994/95–11 December 2009
- ^ LaPrensa.hn–Viene el gol 16,000 Archived December 16, 2013, at the Wayback Machine–7 August 2010 (in Spanish)