2004–05 Honduran Liga Nacional

The 2004–05 Honduran Liga Nacional was the 40th season in the Honduran football top division; it determined the 46th and 47th national champions in the league's history.^[1]

Liga Nacional

Season	2004–05
Champions	Apertura: C.D. Marathón Clausura: C.D. Olimpia
Relegated	Atlético Olanchano
UNCAF Interclub Cup	C.D. Marathón C.D. Olimpia
Top goalscorer	Apertura: Luciano Emílio (16) Clausura: Francisco Ramírez (10)
← 2003–04 2005–06 →

2004–05 teams

Atlético Olanchano

Marathón

Motagua

Olimpia

Platense

Real España

Universidad

Municipal Valencia

Victoria

Vida

Location of teams in 2004–05 season

• Atlético Olanchano (Catacamas)
• Marathón (San Pedro Sula)
• Motagua (Tegucigalpa)
• Olimpia (Tegucigalpa)
• Platense (Puerto Cortes)
• Real España (San Pedro Sula)
• Universidad (Danlí)
• Municipal Valencia (Choluteca)
• Victoria (La Ceiba)
• Vida (La Ceiba)
• Note: Both Universidad and Valencia are from Tegucigalpa but had to play their home matches at Danlí and Choluteca respectively.

Apertura

Regular season

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Olimpia	18	12	3	3	39	17	+22	39	Qualification to the Final round
2	Marathón	18	10	4	4	23	17	+6	34
3	Real España	18	9	4	5	23	12	+11	31
4	Victoria	18	8	7	3	32	26	+6	31
5	Vida	18	6	4	8	20	23	−3	22
6	Platense	18	6	3	9	21	28	−7	21
7	Atletico Olanchano	18	4	8	6	23	27	−4	20
8	Municipal Valencia	18	4	7	7	17	25	−8	19
9	Motagua	18	4	6	8	20	25	−5	18
10	Universidad	18	2	4	12	12	30	−18	10

Updated to match(es) played on 14 November 2004. Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results table

Home \ Away	OLA	MAR	MOT	OLI	PLA	RES	UNI	VAL	VIC	VID
Atlético Olanchano		2–2	2–2	2–3	0–1	1–0	1–0	4–2	2–2	2–1
Marathón	3–1		0–0	1–0	2–1	2–0	0–2	2–0	2–1	1–0
Motagua	2–1	1–1		0–1	2–0	0–1	2–0	1–1	3–4	1–2
Olimpia	3–0	3–0	3–1		2–1	0–1	1–0	1–1	5–2	3–1
Platense	1–1	1–2	2–0	0–3		2–1	2–0	3–0	0–1	2–1
Real España	2–1	2–0	2–0	0–0	5–0		3–0	2–1	2–2	0–1
Universidad	1–1	0–0	1–3	0–5	1–1	0–1		1–2	0–2	3–1
Municipal Valencia	0–0	1–0	1–1	2–4	2–0	1–1	0–0		0–0	1–0
Victoria	1–1	2–3	2–0	1–1	4–4	1–0	2–1	3–1		1–0
Vida	1–1	0–2	1–1	4–1	1–0	0–0	3–2	2–1	1–1

Source: RSSSF.com–Honduras 2004/05
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Final round

Semifinals

Olimpia vs Victoria

Victoria v Olimpia

24 November 2004 1st leg	Victoria	3–6	Olimpia	La Ceiba, Atlántida
19:30 (UTC−06:00)	Ramírez 25' 47' 90+1'		Emílio 6' 44' 89' Velásquez 28' 39' Palacios 70'	Stadium: Estadio Nilmo Edwards Attendance: 7,346

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Olimpia v Victoria

27 November 2004 2nd leg	Olimpia	5–0	Victoria	Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazán
19:30 (UTC−06:00)	Morales 32' Emílio 45' Velásquez 46' J. Luis Pineda			Stadium: Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino Referee: Marcio Carranza

• Olimpia won 11–3 on aggregate score.

Marathón vs Real España

Real España v Marathón

25 November 2004 1st leg	Real España	1–2	Marathón	San Pedro Sula, Cortés
19:30 (UTC−06:00)	Santana 40'		Simovic 78' Berríos 89'	Stadium: Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano

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Marathón v Real España

28 November 2004 2nd leg	Marathón	1–1	Real España	San Pedro Sula, Cortés
(UTC−06:00)	Núñez 83'		Santana 30'	Stadium: Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano

• Marathón won 3–2 on aggregate score.

Final

Olimpia vs Marathón

Marathón v Olimpia

12 December 2004 1st leg	Marathón	3–2	Olimpia	San Pedro Sula, Cortés
(UTC−06:00)	Pacheco 18' Simovic 25' Núñez 75'		Tosello 24' Emílio 42'	Stadium: Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano Attendance: 13,000

Marathón

Olimpia

GK 1 Víctor Coello RB 23 Mauricio Sabillón CB 4 Anthony Torres CB 5 Darwin Pacheco LB 3 Behiker Bustillo DM 13 Dennis Ferrera RM 18 Pablo Genovese LM 20 Narciso Fernández AM 8 Juan Yalet  71' CF 17 Edgardo Simovic  86' CF 10 Denilson Costa  61' Substitutions: FW 11 Milton Núñez  61' FW 15 Walter Martínez  71' FW 27 Óscar Vargas  86' Manager: Nicolás Suazo

GK – Ricardo James RB – Wilson Palacios CB – Fabio Ulloa CB – Mario Beata LB 6 Maynor Figueroa CM – Óscar Bonilla CM – Elmer Marín AM 18 Danilo Tosello  55' RF 9 Juan Manuel Cárcamo CF 11 Wilmer Velásquez  78' LF 21 Luciano Emílio Substitutions: DF 16 Walter López  55' FW – Jerry Palacios  78' Manager: Alejandro Domínguez

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Olimpia v Marathón

19 December 2004 2nd leg	Olimpia	1–2 (a.e.t.)	Marathón	Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazán
16:00 (UTC−06:00)	Cárcamo 67'		Simovic 95' 102'	Stadium: Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Marcio Carranza

Olimpia

Marathón

GK 27 César Velásquez RB 16 Walter López RB – Wilson Palacios  86' CB – Fabio Ulloa CB – Mario Beata LB – Rony Morales  61' CM – Óscar Bonilla AM 20 Danilo Tosello  100' RF - Jerry Palacios CF 11 Wilmer Velásquez LF 21 Luciano Emílio Substitutions: FW 9 Juan Manuel Cárcamo  61' MF - Elmer Marín  86' MF - Reynaldo Tilguath  100' Manager: Alejandro Domínguez

GK 1 Víctor Coello RB 23 Mauricio Sabillón CB 4 Anthony Torres  50' CB 5 Darwin Pacheco LB 19 Mario Berríos DM 13 Dennis Ferrera RM 18 Pablo Genovese LM 20 Narciso Fernández  64' AM 8 Juan Yalet CF 17 Edgardo Simovic CF 11 Milton Núñez Substitutions: DF 6 José Luis López  50' DF 3 Behiker Bustillo  64' Manager: Nicolás Suazo

• Marathón won 5–3 on aggregate score.

Liga Nacional 2004–05 Apertura champion
C.D. Marathón 5th title

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Squads

Atlético Olanchano
Ney Costa	Gustavo Brizio	Antonio Cálix
Alexander Cálix	Reynaldo Escobar	Mario Euceda
Nelson Guevara	Félix Joel Hernández	Mauro Henríquez
Malcon Hernández	Olman Lagos	Óscar Lobo
Allan Lalín	Edas Mendoza	Miguel Árcangel Meza
Óscar Morales	Erlyn Morán	Ivis Najera
Edgar Núñez	Charles de Oliveira	Juan Palacios
Marvin Paz	Mario Peri	Guillermo Armando Ramírez
Mario Rivera	Edgar Sierra	Fredy Vallecillo
Harold Yépez
Marathón
José Anthony Torres	Mauricio Sabillón	Edgardo Simovic
Emil Martínez	Donaldo González	Víctor Coello
Ilich Arias	Darwin Pacheco	Mario Berríos
Behiker Bustillo	Denilson Costa	José "Babá" Güity
Óscar Vargas	Dennis Ferrera	Narciso "Kalusha" Fernández
Pablo Genovese	Luis Guifarro	José Luis López
Erick Fuentes	Juan Yalet	David Cáceres
Roberto López	Milton "Tyson" Núñez	Walter "Pery" Martínez
Luis Ramos	José Rivera	Héctor Rosales
Edwin Salvador	Henry Suazo	Irving Guerrero
Luis Santamaría	Julián Rápalo
Motagua
Elmer Montoya	Júnior Izaguirre	Mauricio "Pipo" Castro
Marcelo Dapuerto	Noel Valladares	Víctor "Muma" Bernárdez
Néstor Holweber	Henry Enamorado	Rony García
Derrick Hulse	Nery Medina	Rubén Matamoros
Víctor Mena	Donaldo Morales	Pedro Fernández
Milton "Jocón" Reyes	Pompilio Cacho	Eddy Vásquez
Emilio Izaguirre	Mario Chirinos	Fernando Garrasino
Abidán Solís	Juan José Tablada	Jairo "Kikí" Martínez
Olimpia
Danilo Tosello	Ricardo James	Wilmer Velásquez
Donis Escober	Luciano Emílio	Mario Beata
José Luis Pineda	Hendry Thomas	Walter López
Rony Morales	Fabio Ulloa	Reynaldo Tilguath
Marcelo Ferreira	Juan Manuel Cárcamo	Elmer Marín
Óscar "Pescado" Bonilla	Milton Palacios	Wilson Palacios
Elvis Scott	Maynor Figueroa	José Burgos
Jesús Alberto Navas	Nahúm Ávila	Everaldo Ferreira
Jerry Palacios	César Velásquez
Platense
Alex Andino	Lucio Argueta	Edwin Yobani Ávila
Cruz Fernando Ávila	Félix Álvarez	Osman Chávez
Ronald del Cid	José Díaz	Miguel Farrera
Ronald García	Carlos Will Mejía	David Mélendez
Bryan Oliva	Adalid Puerto	Francisco Ramírez
Carlos Salinas	Marvin Sánchez	Eddy Vega
Edwin Zaldívar
Real España
Erick Vallecillo	Marlon José Peña	Júnior Morales
Carlos Oliva	Antonio Arita	Leonardo Isaulas
Samir Arzú	Walter Hernández	Elder Valladares
Héctor Medina	Clifford Laing	Reynaldo González
Pedro Santana	Yermy Hernández	Sergio Mendoza
José Pacini	Abraham Handal	Pablo Iglesias
Luis Castillo	Gustavo López
Universidad
Santos Arrivillaga	Alex Roberto Bailey	Robel Bernárdez
David Cárcamo	Jorge Cardona	Miguel Castillo
Héctor Mauricio Cardona	Héctor Enrique Cardona	Hernán Contreras
Carlos Discua	Rony Flores	Dennis Girón
Mario Herrera	Luis "Güicho" Guzmán	Carlos Guevara
Astor Henríquez	Óscar Isaula	Jaime López
Aminadán Laínez	Juan Rosa Lagos	Luis Licona
Elvit Martínez	Justo Norales	Francisco Pérez
Límber Pérez	Hessler Phillips	Abel Rodríguez
Moisés Zúñiga
Valencia
José Barahona	Josué Guzmán	Johnny Gáldameza
José Álvarez	Carlos Navarro	Luis Miguel Ramos
Eder Guzmán	Meylin Soto	Carlos Pérez
Jaime Ruíz	Gerson Martínez	Ricky García
Glendon Cruz	Noel Flores	Christian Mitry
Jeffrey Brooks	Mariano Echeverría	Melvin Valladares
Erick Chacón	Nery Barrientos	Santiago Autino
Alberto Zapata
Victoria
Ricardo Gabriel "Gato" Canales	John Bodden	Carlos Lino
Porciano Ávila	Ronald "Cuervo" Maradiaga	Luis Banegas
Dionisio Bátiz	Eduardo Bennett	Carlos "Tatín" Morán
Carlos Escobar	Héctor "Tanqueta" Flores	Mario Chávez
Óscar García Fernández	Nahún Güity	Elvin López
Alex Martínez	Javier Omar Martínez	Edward Mejía
Ignacio Mejía	Merlyn Membreño	Luis "Bombero" Ramírez
Néstor Reyes	José Rodríguez	Marvin Ortíz
Vida
Pedro Álvarez	Christian Garden	Leonardo Morales
Jorge Ocampo	Lenín Suárez	Christian Efraín Martínez
Darío Rivera	José Luis García	Marco "Maco" Mejía
Diktmar Hernández	Orvin "Pato" Cabrera	Diego de Rosa
Martín Paradiso	Luis "Tanque" Oseguera	Johnny Calderón
Hernán Fúnez	José Navarro	Erick Norales
Fabián Cuneo	Nelson Andino	Walter Ramírez
Borghy Arbizú	Jorge Claros	Joel Lagos
Enrique Centeno Reneau	José García

Top goalscorers

As of 19 December 2004

16 goals

• Luciano Emílio (Olimpia)

14 goals

• Eduardo Bennett (Victoria)

11 goals

• Luis Ramírez (Victoria)

10 goals

• Ney Costa (Atlético Olanchano)

9 goals

• Wilmer Velásquez (Olimpia)

8 goals

• Edgardo Simovic (Marathón)

7 goals

• Pedro Santana (Real España)
• Danilo Tosello (Olimpia)

6 goals

• José Francisco Ramírez (Platense)
• José Pacini (Real España)

5 goals

• Eddy Vega (Platense)
• Rudy Lormera (Universidad)

4 goals

• Milton Núñez (Marathón)
• Mario Berríos (Marathón)
• Santiago Autino (Valencia)
• Charles de Oliveira (Atlético Olanchano)
• Carlos Morán (Victoria)

3 goals

• Limbert Pérez (Universidad)
• Elvis Scott (Olimpia)
• Elmer Montoya (Motagua)
• Dirkmart Hernández (Vida)
• Edgar Nuñez (Real España)
• Pompilio Cacho (Motagua)
• Meilin Soto (Valencia)
• Jesús Navas (Olimpia)

2 goals

• Nery Medina (Motagua)
• Jairo Martínez (Motagua)
• Luis Rodas (Motagua)
• Marvin Chávez (Victoria)
• Emil Martínez (Marathón)
• Walter Hernández (Real España)
• Enrique Renau (Vida)
• José Navarro (Vida)
• Luis Oseguera (Vida)
• Jorge Ocampo (Vida)
• Diego de Rosa (Vida)
• Mario Peri (Atlético Olanchano)
• Denilson Costa (Marathón)
• José Güity (Marathón)
• Jerry Palacios (Olimpia)
• Mario César Rodríguez (Platense)
• Lucio Argueta (Platense)
• Juan Manuel Cárcamo (Olimpia)
• Mauricio Castro (Valencia)
• Darwin Pacheco (Marathón)

1 goal

• Mauricio Sabillón (Marathón)
• Nelson Morales (Victoria)
• Walter Martínez (Marathón)
• Clifford Laing (Real España)

Clausura

Regular season

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Olimpia	18	11	5	2	29	14	+15	38	Qualified to the Final round[a]
2	Marathón	18	7	6	5	24	22	+2	27
3	Universidad	18	6	8	4	7	8	−1	26
4	Platense	18	6	6	6	24	19	+5	24
5	Motagua	18	4	11	3	18	18	0	23
6	Real España	18	5	7	6	22	22	0	22
7	Vida	18	5	7	6	16	19	−3	22
8	Victoria	18	5	6	7	19	24	−5	21
9	Municipal Valencia	18	3	9	6	10	13	−3	18
10	Atlético Olanchano	18	3	5	10	21	31	−10	14

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Notes:

1. Top 4 qualified to the Final round.

Results table

Home \ Away	OLA	MAR	MOT	OLI	PLA	RES	UNI	VAL	VIC	VID
Atlético Olanchano		1–2	2–2	1–2	1–1	3–2	2–0	1–1	2–1	0–1
Marathón	0–0		3–1	0–0	1–4	4–3	1–0	2–1	0–1	0–0
Motagua	2–2	1–1		0–0	1–1	2–1	0–0	0–0	2–1	1–1
Olimpia	3–2	1–2	2–0		1–0	2–2	0–0	2–1	5–0	1–0
Platense	6–2	1–3	0–0	4–2		2–1	0–1	1–0	1–1	0–0
Real España	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	3–1		1–0	0–0	0–0	3–4
Universidad	1–0	2–1	0–0	0–3	1–0	0–0		0–0	0–0	1–0
Municipal Valencia	1–0	2–1	0–1	0–1	1–0	0–0	0–0		1–2	1–1
Victoria	2–0	3–2	2–2	1–2	0–2	1–2	0–0	0–0		1–2
Vida	3–2	0–0	1–3	0–1	0–0	1–0	0–1	1–1	1–3

Source: RSSSF.com–Honduras 2004/05
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Final round

Semifinals

Olimpia vs Platense

Platense v Olimpia

12 May 2005 1st leg	Platense	1–1	Olimpia	Puerto Cortés, Cortés
19:30 (UTC−06:00)	Lozano		Velásquez	Stadium: Estadio Excélsior

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Olimpia v Platense

15 May 2005 2nd leg	Olimpia	3–0	Platense	Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazán
16:00 (UTC−06:00)	Turcios Bonilla			Stadium: Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino

• Olimpia won 4–1 on aggregate.

Marathón vs Universidad

Universidad v Marathón

11 May 2005 1st leg	Universidad	1–1	Marathón	Comayagua, Comayagua
15:00 (UTC−06:00)	Scott		Simovic	Stadium: Estadio Carlos Miranda

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Marathón v Universidad

14 May 2005 2nd leg	Marathón	0–0	Universidad	San Pedro Sula, Cortés
19:30 (UTC−06:00)				Stadium: Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano

• Marathón 1–1 Universidad on aggregate; Marathón won on better regular season performance.

Final

Olimpia vs Marathón

Marathón v Olimpia

22 May 2005 1st leg	Marathón	1–1	Olimpia	San Pedro Sula, Cortés
15:00 CST	Núñez		Velásquez	Stadium: Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano Referee: Ricardo Zelaya

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Olimpia v Marathón

29 May 2005 2nd leg	Olimpia	2–1	Marathón	Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazán
16:00 CST	Cárcamo 3' Tosello 75'		Núñez 37' (pen.)	Stadium: Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino Attendance: 30,000

Olimpia

Marathón

GK 27 Donis Escober RB – Wilson Palacios CB – Rony Morales  86' CB – Mario Beata CB – Maynor Figueroa CM – José Luis Pineda CM – Boniek García RM 16 Walter López  52' LM - Dani Turcios LS 11 Wilmer Velásquez  57' RS 9 Juan Manuel Cárcamo Substitutions: AM 18 Danilo Tosello  52' CM - Óscar Bonilla  57' Manager: Nahúm Espinoza

GK - Donaldo González RB 23 Mauricio Sabillón  61' CB 4 Anthony Torres CB 5 Darwin Pacheco LB 3 Behiker Bustillo CM 19 Mario Berríos CM – Pablo Genovese CM 24 Luis Guifarro AM 8 Juan Yalet  69' LS 17 Edgardo Simovic RS 11 Milton Núñez Substitutions: RB 29 David Cáceres  61' CM 7 Emil Martínez  69' Manager: Nicolás Suazo

• Olimpia won 3–2 on aggregate.

Top goalscorers

As of 29 May 2005

10 goals

• Francisco Ramírez (Platense)

Relegation table

Relegation was determined by the aggregate table of both Apertura and Clausura tournaments.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Olimpia	36	23	8	5	68	31	+37	77	Qualified to the 2005 Copa Interclubes UNCAF[a]
2	Marathón	36	17	10	9	47	39	+8	61
3	Real España	36	14	11	11	45	33	+12	53
4	Victoria	36	13	13	10	51	50	+1	52
5	Platense	36	12	9	15	45	47	−2	45
6	Vida	36	11	11	14	36	42	−6	44
7	Motagua	36	8	17	11	38	43	−5	41
8	Municipal Valencia	36	7	16	13	27	38	−11	37
9	Universidad	36	8	12	16	19	38	−19	36
10	Atlético Olanchano	36	7	13	16	44	58	−14	34	Relegated to the 2005–06 Liga de Ascenso

Updated to match(es) played on 7 May 2005. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Notes:

1. Marathón and Olimpia qualified to the 2005 Copa Interclubes UNCAF as winners the Apertura and Clausura tournament respectively.