C.D. Honduras Progreso

Club Deportivo Honduras Progreso (commonly referred to as Honduras Progreso or simply Honduras), is a Honduran football club based in El Progreso, Honduras. It was founded in 1965 and currently plays in the Honduran Liga Nacional.

Honduras Progreso

Full name	Club Deportivo Honduras Progreso
Nickname(s)	El Honduras Los Diablos Progreseños Los Vagos Los enanos Los Ribereños Conjunto de la Perla del Ulúa
Founded	7 November 1965; 59 years ago (1965-11-07) as Club Deportivo Honduras
Ground	Estadio Humberto Micheletti El Progreso, Honduras
Capacity	5,000
Chairman	Elías Nazar
Manager	John Jairo López
League	Liga Nacional
2019 Apertura	Liga Nacional, 10th (regular season) DNQ (postseason)
Website	https://www.lnphn.com/team/progreso/
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Estadio Humberto Micheletti

History

Club Deportivo Honduras

The club was founded in 1965 under the name Club Deportivo Honduras and is one of the League's founding clubs. They were in top flight football until 1969 where they finished last and were relegated to Segunda División (Second Division), and soon after dissolved.

Honduras Progreso

After many years of absence in Honduran professional football, the club was brought back as Club Deportivo Honduras Progreso in 2011.^[1]

Former national goalkeeper Wilmer Cruz became manager in 2013 but only earned his coaching licence in summer 2013.^[2] In December 2015 they beat Motagua 4–1 to win the 2015 Apertura league title with The honduran coach, Héctor Castellón.^[3]

Honours

• Liga Nacional

Winners (1): 2015–16 A

Runners-up (1): 2016–17 C

• Liga de Ascenso

Winners (2): 2013–14 A, 2013–14 C

Rivalries

Not a big rivalry, but when Honduras Progreso was in Segunda División de Honduras they played a lot of friendlies and Copa del Supercampeon against Real España, those have been really good games. In second division Yoro FC, Juticalpa FC, Atlético Municipal, and Atlético de Choloma.

League and cups performance

Regular season			Postseason		Others
Season	Finish	Record	Finish	Record	Cup	Supercup	International
1965–66	6th	8–3–7 (26:25)	Not applicable		Not held		Didn't enter
1966–67	6th	7–4–7 (25:30)
1967–68	3rd	8–4–6 (31:23)
1968–69	9th	5–8–14 (20:53)			Group stage	Not held
1969–70	10th	5–7–15 (28:45)			Not held
2014–15 A	4th	7–7–4 (34:31)	Playoffs	1–0–1 (4:4)	Quarterfinals	Not held
2014–15 C	8th	5–3–10 (26:35)	Didn't enter
2015–16 A	1st	11–3–4 (31:21)	Winners	1–3–0 (5:4)	Quarterfinals	Didn't enter
2015–16 C	8th	3–6–9 (21:30)	Didn't enter
2016–17 A	7th	7–3–8 (23:31)			Round of 32	Runners-up	Group stage (Champions League)
2016–17 C	4th	9–4–5 (28:26)	Runners-up	2–1–3 (8:12)
2017–18 A	10th	4–1–13 (26:37)	Didn't enter		Not held	Didn't enter	Round of 16 (CONCACAF League)
2017–18 C	5th	8–2–8 (22:30)	Playoffs	0–2–0 (1:1)
2018–19 A	7th	6–4–8 (27:31)	Didn't enter		Round of 32	Didn't enter
2018–19 C	10th	2–3–13 (11:37)	Saved	2–0–0 (5:3)

International performance

Competition	Record	Finish
2016–17 CONCACAF Champions League	2–1–1 (4:4)	Group stage
2017 CONCACAF League	0–0–2 (0:2)	Round of 16

All-time record v other clubs

As of 9 August 2017

Club	Record	Goals
Chorrillo	0–0–2	0:2
UNAM	1–0–1	2:3
W Connection	1–1–0	2:1
Totals	2–1–3	4:6

Current squad

As of 20 January 2023

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  HON Rafael Zúniga 2 DF  HON Ángel Barrios 3 DF  COL Deivy Balanta 4 DF  HON Fabricio Galindo 5 MF  HON José Quiroz 6 DF  HON Nelson Marín 7 FW  COL Rodin Quiñones 9 MF  HON Ilce Barahona 11 FW  COL Harold Sandoval

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 FW  HON Andy Hernández 16 DF  HON Osbed Pérez 17 MF  HON Ángel Domínguez 18 MF  COL Jhan Mora 19 DF  HON Alberto Paredes 20 DF  HON Carlos Pérez 22 FW  HON Brayan Castillo 27 MF  HON Julián Martínez 55 MF  HON Nixon Cruz

Historical list of coaches

Name	Dates
Tulio Castellanos	2011-2012
Allan Bennett	2012
Leonel Machado	2012-2013
Wilmer Cruz	2013-2015
Héctor Castellón	2015-2017
Wilmer Cruz	2017
Nerlin Membreño	2017
Horacio Londoño	2018
Mauro Reyes	2018
Hernán García	2019
Reynaldo Clavasquín	2019
Luis Alvarado (interim)	2019
Horacio Londoño	2019
Ovidio Fúnez (interim)	2019
Héctor Castellón	2020
Julio “Palomo” Rodríguez	2020
Mauro Reyes	2020
David Fúnez (interim)	2020
Fernando Araújo	2021
John Jairo López	2021- Present