# 1980–81 Honduran Liga Nacional

The 1980–81 Honduran Liga Nacional season was the 15th edition of the Honduran Liga Nacional. The format of the tournament remained the same as the previous season. Real C.D. España won the title after defeating C.D. Marathón in a 3-series final. Both teams qualified to the 1981 CONCACAF Champions' Cup. Additionally, Real España, Marathón, Club Deportivo Olimpia and C.D.S. Vida obtained berths to the 1981 Copa Fraternidad. Due to the national team's participation at the 1982 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, the league defined that no relegation was to take place this season. C.D. Platense which finished last, was financially penalized though.

## 1980–81 teams

* Atlético Morazán (Tegucigalpa, promoted)
* Broncos (Choluteca)
* Marathón (San Pedro Sula)
* Motagua (Tegucigalpa)
* Olimpia (Tegucigalpa)
* Platense (Puerto Cortés)
* Real España (San Pedro Sula)
* Universidad (Tegucigalpa)
* Victoria (La Ceiba)
* Vida (La Ceiba)

## Regular season
### Standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Real España | 27 | 14 | 6 | 7 | 35 | 26 | +9 | 34 | Qualified to the Final round |
| 2 | Vida | 27 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 33 | 30 | +3 | 31 | Qualified to the Final round |
| 3 | Marathón | 27 | 8 | 13 | 6 | 39 | 32 | +7 | 29 | Qualified to the Final round |
| 4 | Olimpia | 27 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 31 | 32 | −1 | 29 | Qualified to the Final round |
| 5 | Victoria | 27 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 27 | 33 | −6 | 28 | Qualified to the Final round |
| 6 | Motagua | 27 | 6 | 15 | 6 | 32 | 30 | +2 | 27 | |
| 7 | Universidad | 27 | 10 | 3 | 14 | 33 | 35 | −2 | 23 | |
| 8 | Broncos | 27 | 6 | 11 | 10 | 28 | 30 | −2 | 23 | |
| 9 | Atlético Morazán | 27 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 28 | 32 | −4 | 23 | |
| 10 | Platense | 27 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 22 | 27 | −5 | 23 | |
* ↑ Real España clinched Final spot as regular season winner.
* ↑ Top five qualify to Final round.
* No relegation this season.

## Final round
### Pentagonal standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Marathón | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 6 | +7 | 11 | Forced to play extra round |
| 2 | Olimpia | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 4 | +8 | 11 | Forced to play extra round |
| 3 | Real España | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 9 | +3 | 11 | Forced to play extra round |
| 4 | Vida | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11 | −7 | 5 | |
| 5 | Victoria | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 14 | −11 | 2 | |
* ↑ After a three-way tie between Marathón, Olimpia, and Real España with 11 points; an extra one-robin round was required, however all games finished leveled and the tie persisted, therefore Marathón qualified to the Final by goal difference on all rounds together.

### Final
## Top scorer

* Luis O. Altamirano (Broncos) with 13 goals

## Squads

Atlético Morazán :
| José Luis Cruz Figueroa | José Estanislao "Tanayo" Ortega | Noel Omar Renderos |
| Héctor "Lin" Zelaya | | |
| Broncos |||
| Luis Oswaldo "Che" Altamirano | Iván Ramos | Dennis Williams |
| Iván Guerra | César Humberto Carranza | Luis Rosales Brand |
| German "Loco" Guzmán | Carlos Mondragón | Orlando Flores |
| Cruz Ramón Serrano "Guaya" Cruz | Pedro Pinheiro | Rubén Guardado |
| Marcial Bonilla | Orlando Rodríguez | Luis Alberto Escaurizza |
| José Marcial "Canelo" Murillo | "Yuyuguita" Flores | Marco Tulio Cacho |
| Samuel "Chucho" Armijo | Marco Tulio Cárcamo | Isidro Arriola |
| Enrique "Pilo" Soriano | José Ramón Hinds | Antonio Almendárez |
| Jairo Lezama | Rigoberto "Chombo" Aguilar | Mario López |
| Oscar "Zorro" Lezama | | |
| Marathón |||
| Jorge Phoyoú | Wilfredo Brown | Jorge Alberto "Cuca" Bueso Iglesias |
| Roberto Reynaldo "Robot" Bailey Sargent | Jorge Martínez | Alberto Merelles |
| Francisco Javier Toledo | Ramón "Albañil" Osorio | Arturo Torres "Pacharaca" Bonilla |
| Carlos Mejía | José Ángel Peña | Oswaldo Zaldívar |
| Alfredo Dimaio | Antonio "Gato" Pavón Molina | Hernán Santiago "Cortés" García Martínez |
| René "Maravilla" Suazo | José Martínez | Juan Carlos Weber |
| Francisco Zelaya Pastrana | Arturo Payne | Richard Kenneth Payne |
| Félix Concepción Carranza | Gilberto Leonel Machado García | Celso Fredy Güity |
| Rigoberto Castro | Rolando Padilla "Moro" Bardales | Margarito Castillo |
| Fernando Figueroa | Carlos Guevara | Luis Alonso Guzmán Velásquez |
| Juan Contreras | Óscar Romero | |
| Motagua |||
| German "Loco" Guzmán | Mario Hernán Juviny Carreño | Luis Alberto "Chito" Reyes |
| Rigoberto Sosa | Víctor Manuel Chávez | José Salomón "Turco" Nazzar |
| Olimpia |||
| Óscar Banegas | Darío Cribas | Roberto Valentín "Pirata" Fernández |
| Alejandro "Indio" Ruiz | José Batiz | Víctor Calero Lozano |
| Rigoberto Ruiz | Emilio Martínez | Fredy Ríos |
| Basilio Avila | Ramón Antonio "Pilín" Brand | Rigoberto "Shula" Gómez |
| Raúl Cocherari | José Luis Januario | Jorge Alberto "Perro" González |
| Carlos Solís | Óscar García | Víctor Romero |
| Daniel Zapata | Antonio Alemán | Héctor Uclés |
| Nelson de Moraes | Alcides Carota | Arturo Cáceres |
| Horacio Parham Castro | | |
| Platense |||
| Juan Jerezano | Jorge Luis Mancía | Tomás Cedricks Ewens "Quito" Wagner |
| Alex Rodríguez | Carlos Cruz Colindres | Antonio Laing |
| Modesto Ayestas | | |
| Real España |||
| Julio César "El Tile" Arzú | Jimmy Steward | Clinton Campbell |
| Didier Gutiérrez | Carlos Orlando Caballero | Jorge Alberto Centurión |
| Walter Jimminson | Allan Costly | Víctor Hugo Salgado |
| Julio Roberto "Chino" Ortiz | Francisco García | Marcos Campbell |
| German "Cacique" Castro | Javier Latreza | Miguel Antonio "Hino" Mathews |
| Edith Hernando Contreras | Enrique "Fantasma" Mendoza | Jimmy James Bailey |
| Javier Chavarría | Julio del Carmen Tapia Callao | Jaime Villegas |
| Junior Rashford Costly | Roberto "Sargento" Barahona | Juan Carlos Espinoza |
| Carlos Solano | Marcos Lacayo | José Antonio "Gin" García |
| Oscar Velásquez | Roscoe Charles | Carlos Rivera |
| Edelmín "Pando" Castro | Alberto Chedrany | |
| Universidad |||
| Raúl David Fúnez | Olvin Elvir | Walter "Estupiñán" Amador |
| Daniel "Diablo" Sambulá | Edimar Luiz Marques | |
| Victoria |||
| Jorge Alberto "Camioncito" Duarte | Luis Alonso "Chorompo" Zúniga | Francisco Jiménez |
| Efraín Martínez "Diablillo" Amaya | José Reynaldo Villagra | Fausto Humberto "Chiva" Ruiz |
| Benedicto Ordóñez | Ramón Nectaly "Liebre" Guardado | Miguel Angel "Primitivo" Ortiz |
| David Goff | | |
| Vida |||
| Matilde Selím Lacayo | Roberto "Macho" Figueroa | Junior Mejía |