# 2009–10 C.D. Motagua season

The 2009–10 F.C. Motagua season was the fifty-fifth season of Motagua's professional football lifetime. It consisted of two halves, the Apertura, which ran from July to November 2009, and the Clausura, which ran from January to May 2010.

## Players
### Transfers in

| Player | Contract date | Moving from |
| Sergio Diduch | — | Hispano |
| Mauricio Weber | — | Victoria |
| Romel Murillo | — | |
| Eugenio Klein | — | Alvarado |
| Mario Gómez | — | Victoria |
| David Meléndez | — | |
| Marcelo dos Santos | — | Platense |
| Amado Guevara | — | Toronto FC |
| Sergio Mendoza | — | Olimpia |

### Transfers out

| Player | Released date | Moving to |
| Steven Morris | — | |
| Miguel Castillo | — | Olimpia |
| Jocimar Nascimento | — | Olimpia |
| Óscar Torlacoff | — | Hispano |
| José Burgos | — | |
| Fernando Castillo | — | Marathón |
| Jefferson Bernárdez | — | Hispano |
| Guillermo Santo | — | Yaracuyanos |
| Kevin Osorio | — | |
| Víctor Zúniga | — | |
| Milton Palacios | — | |
| Marvin Sánchez | — | Hispano |
| Levon Smith | — | |
| Nilberto da Silva | — | |

### Squad

| No. | Pos. | Player name | Date of birth and age |
| 1 | GK | Ricardo Canales | (1982-05-30)30 May 1982 (aged 27) |
| 2 | DF | Gustavo Alvarado | (1990-11-10)10 November 1990 (aged 18) |
| 3 | DF | Guillermo Díaz | (1979-12-31)31 December 1979 (aged 29) |
| 4 | DF | Johnny Leverón | (1990-02-07)7 February 1990 (aged 19) |
| 5 | DF | Milton Reyes | (1974-05-02)2 May 1974 (aged 35) |
| 6 | MF | Mauricio Weber | (1982-10-28)28 October 1982 (aged 26) |
| 7 | FW | Georgie Welcome | (1985-03-09)9 March 1985 (aged 24) |
| 8 | MF | Jorge Claros | (1986-01-08)8 January 1986 (aged 23) |
| 9 | FW | Shannon Welcome | (1988-11-22)22 November 1988 (aged 20) |
| 10 | FW | Sergio Diduch | (1976-10-23)23 October 1976 (aged 32) |
| 11 | FW | Marcelo dos Santos | (1979-03-17)17 March 1979 (aged 30) |
| 12 | DF | Iván Guerrero | (1977-11-30)30 November 1977 (aged 31) |
| 13 | MF | Ronald Martínez | (1990-07-26)26 July 1990 (aged 18) |
| 14 | MF | Luís Guzmán | (1979-12-19)19 December 1979 (aged 29) |
| 15 | DF | David Meléndez | — |
| 15 | DF | Gabriel Balladares | (1991-12-14)14 December 1991 (aged 17) |
| 17 | DF | Rommel Murillo | (1983-11-05)5 November 1983 (aged 25) |
| 17 | DF | Ramón Amador | (1994-01-23)23 January 1994 (aged 15) |
| 18 | FW | Meller Sánchez | (1988-06-26)26 June 1988 (aged 21) |
| 19 | MF | Emilson Cruz | (1987-10-24)24 October 1987 (aged 21) |
| 20 | MF | Amado Guevara | (1976-05-02)2 May 1976 (aged 33) |
| 21 | DF | Emilio Izaguirre | (1986-05-10)10 May 1986 (aged 23) |
| 22 | GK | Donaldo Morales | (1982-10-13)13 October 1982 (aged 26) |
| 23 | MF | Daniel Lloyd | (1988-10-17)17 October 1988 (aged 20) |
| 23 | DF | Sergio Mendoza | (1981-05-23)23 May 1981 (aged 28) |
| 25 | GK | Marlon Licona | (1991-02-09)9 February 1991 (aged 18) |
| 26 | DF | David Molina | (1988-03-14)14 March 1988 (aged 21) |
| 27 | DF | Mario Gómez | (1981-08-12)12 August 1981 (aged 27) |
| 28 | DF | Samir García | (1980-01-10)10 January 1980 (aged 29) |
| 29 | MF | Eugenio Klein | (1982-01-17)17 January 1982 (aged 27) |
| 29 | MF | Alejandro Aguiluz | (1992-10-11)11 October 1992 (aged 16) |
| 30 | MF | Rubén Rivera | (1987-05-18)18 May 1987 (aged 22) |
| 31 | MF | Carlos Cruz | (1990-11-02)2 November 1990 (aged 18) |
| 32 | MF | Leonardo Isaula | (1977-02-08)8 February 1977 (aged 32) |
| 33 | DF | Esdras Padilla | (1989-09-04)4 September 1989 (aged 19) |
| 35 | FW | José Valladares | (1989-07-16)16 July 1989 (aged 19) |
| 36 | MF | Javier Portillo | (1981-06-10)10 June 1981 (aged 28) |
| 37 | GK | Eduardo Sánchez | — |
| 43 | FW | Jairo Martínez | (1978-05-14)14 May 1978 (aged 31) |
| – | FW | José Rivera | — |
| – | DF | Eleazar Padilla | — |
| – | DF | Carlos Pineda | — |

## Results
### Apertura

During the preseason, several members of the team suffered from food poisoning, complaining of stomach pain and four of them were admitted to a clinic. Iván Guerrero, Johnny Leverón, Romel Murillo and Carlos Padilla, were the players that were taken to the hospital due to severe dehydration. The rest of the team took a medical evaluation at the headquarters of the club. Following this incident, the coach Juan de Dios Castillo suspended training for a couple of days.
* Motagua 1–2 Olimpia on aggregate.

### Clausura

The 2009–10 Clausura season for C.D. Motagua was somewhat bittersweet, they manage to finish on first position in the Regular season, an honor not accomplished since December 2001; they overcame in Semifinals beating C.D. Platense with difficulties; however lost in the Final against Club Deportivo Olimpia in spite of having shown great football.
* Motagua 2–2 Platense on aggregate; Motagua advanced on better Regular season performance.
* Motagua 2–3 Olimpia on aggregate.