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.^[1] 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 Club Deportivo Olimpia as winners of each tournament qualified to the 2008–09 CONCACAF Champions League.

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2007–08 teams

Deportes Savio from Santa Rosa de Copán was promoted from the 2006–07 Liga de Ascenso.^[2]

Apertura

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

Regular season

Standings

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

Updated to match(es) played on 25 November 2007. Source: ^{[citation needed]}

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
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Final round

Semifinals

Marathón vs Olimpia

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

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

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

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

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

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
CM	12	Mariano Acevedo
CM	19	Mario Berríos
AM	7	Emil Martínez
CF	21	Erick Scott
CF	11	Mitchel Brown	75'
Substitutions:
DF	25	Luis Santamaría	48'
DF	-	Milton Palacios	68'
MF	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
CF	9	Jairo Martínez	61'
CF	10	Jocimar Nascimento
Substitutions:
FW	–	Jefferson Bernárdez	34'
DF	–	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)