# 1975–76 Honduran Liga Nacional

The 1975–76 Honduran Liga Nacional season was the 10th edition of the Honduran Liga Nacional. The format of the tournament consisted of a three round-robin schedule followed by a 4-team playoff round. C.D. España won the title after defeating Club Deportivo Olimpia in the finals. Both teams qualified to the 1976 CONCACAF Champions' Cup.

## 1975–76 teams

* Atlántida (La Ceiba, promoted)
* Broncos (Choluteca)
* España (San Pedro Sula)
* Federal (Tegucigalpa)
* Marathón (San Pedro Sula)
* Motagua (Tegucigalpa)
* Olimpia (Tegucigalpa)
* Platense (Puerto Cortés)
* Universidad (Tegucigalpa)
* Vida (La Ceiba)

## Regular season
### Standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Olimpia | 27 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 35 | 9 | +26 | 40 | Qualified to the Final round |
| 2 | Motagua | 27 | 9 | 14 | 4 | 27 | 18 | +9 | 32 | Qualified to the Final round |
| 3 | España | 27 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 23 | 14 | +9 | 31 | Qualified to the Final round |
| 4 | Universidad | 27 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 24 | 17 | +7 | 30 | Qualified to the Final round |
| 5 | Platense | 27 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 28 | 18 | +10 | 29 | |
| 6 | Broncos | 27 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 27 | 24 | +3 | 29 | |
| 7 | Vida | 27 | 6 | 12 | 9 | 22 | 32 | −10 | 24 | |
| 8 | Marathón | 27 | 5 | 13 | 9 | 23 | 26 | −3 | 23 | |
| 9 | Federal | 27 | 3 | 15 | 9 | 21 | 36 | −15 | 21 | |
| 10 | Atlántida | 27 | 3 | 5 | 19 | 12 | 48 | −36 | 11 | Relegated to Segunda División |
* ↑ Olimpia secured final spot as regular season winner.
* ↑ Olimpia, Motagua, España and Universidad qualified to Final round.
* ↑ Atlántida relegated to second division.

## Final round
### Cuadrangular standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | España | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 7 | Qualified to the Final playoff |
| 2 | Motagua | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 7 | Qualified to the Final playoff |
| 3 | Universidad | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | −3 | 6 | |
| 4 | Olimpia | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 4 | |
* 1 2 España and Motagua played an extra match for final spot on 3 December 1975 in San Pedro Sula, the final result was 0–0 after 120 minutes, España qualified to the final as better goal difference in all rounds.

### Final
## Top scorer

* Marco Tulio "Coyol" López (Olimpia) with 11 goals

## Squads

Atlántida :
| Óscar Acosta | German "Niño" Bernárdez | Arnulfo "Yuyuga" Flores |
| Eduardo Gámez | Carlos "Papeto" Lobo | Mario "Flecha" López |
| Camilo Mejía | "Diablo" Ramos | Apolonio Sambulá |
| Jorge Sierra | Osman Zelaya | |
| Broncos |||
| Hernán Santiago "Cortés" García Martínez | Jorge Alberto "Perro" Gonzáles | "Yeto" Montoya |
| Jacobo Sarmiento | | |
| Real España |||
| Carlos Luis "Macho" Arrieta | Julio César "El Tile" Arzú | Jimmy James Bailey |
| Ramón Cano | José Luis Cruz Figueroa | Arnulfo Echeverría |
| Alberto Ferreira da Silva | Walter Humberto Jimminson | Roger Macedo |
| José Estanislao "Tanayo" Ortega | Reynaldo Mejía Ortega | Antonio "Gato" Pavón Molina |
| José López "Rulo" Paz | Ernesto "Tractor" Ramírez | Gil Josué Rodríguez |
| Jimmy Steward | Gilberto Gerónimo Yearwood | |
| Federal |||
| José Ernesto "Toto" Cáceres | Alfonso "Garrincha" Gutiérrez | Julio Meza |
| Oscar Teherán | | |
| Marathón |||
| Antonio Almendárez | Roberto Bailey | Carlos Banegas |
| Julio "Ruso" Bonilla | Mario Bonilla | Mauro "Nayo" Caballero |
| Francisco Castillo | Miguel Castillo | Roscoe Charles |
| Miguel Chavarría | César Augusto "Papi" Dávila Puerto | Antonio "Camalote" Dueñas |
| Pablo "Payique" Espinoza | Héctor Julián Fiallos | Wilfredo Garay |
| Exequiel "Estupiñán" García | Reynaldo González | Bleer Greeneech |
| Luis Alonso Guzmán Velásquez | Óscar McLean | Wilfredo Medina |
| Adalberto "Chino" Menjívar | Ramón "Albañil" Osorio | Andro Piña |
| Allard Plummer | Jaime Ramírez Jr. | Daniel Argelio Romero |
| Eduardo Ruiz | Francisco Ruiz | Rafael "Avioneta" Sauceda |
| Arturo Torres "Pacharaca" Bonilla | Luis Urbina | Óscar Urbina |
| Gil "Fátima" Valerio | Allan Ricardo Young | Bertín Zelaya |
| Motagua |||
| Víctor Hugo Alvarez | Marcos Banegas | Salvador Bernárdez |
| José María "Chema" Durón | Mariano Godoy | Rubén "Chamaco" Guifarro |
| Óscar Rolando "Martillo" Hernández | Roger Mayorga | Angel Antonio "Toño" Obando |
| Ronald Quilter | Edgardo Sosa | Rigoberto Sosa |
| Francisco "Pantera" Velásquez | Héctor "Lin" Zelaya | |
| Olimpia |||
| Ramón Antonio "Pilín" Brand | Selvin Cárcamo | Egdomilio "Milo" Díaz |
| Rigoberto "Shula" Gómez | Alfredo Hawit Banegas | Marco Tulio "Coyol" López |
| Marco Antonio "Tonín" Mendoza | Ángel Ramón "Mon" Paz | Samuel Santini |
| Platense |||
| Alejandro Aguirre | Carlos "Care" Alvarado | Neptaly Argeñal |
| Rafael Argeñal | Eduardo Castillo | Martín Castillo |
| "Cacique" Castro | "Rigo" Castro | Ricardo Castro |
| Jhony Chavarría | Arturo Coto | Tomás Cedricks Ewens "Quito" Wagner |
| "Cuco" Flores | Manuel de Jesús Fuentes | "Toro" Garay |
| Rossvelth Garbut | Erasmo "Chícharo" Guerrero | Juan Noyola |
| Mario Ortega | Arturo Payne | Oscar Piedrahíta |
| Roberto Rich | Víctor Samuel Rivera | Rubén Rodríguez Peña Llantén |
| Jimmy Steward | | |
| Universidad |||
| Roger Macedo | Ramón "Mon" Medina | José Salomón "Turco" Nazzar |
| Ricardo Nuila | Daniel "Diablo" Sambulá | Roberto Virgilio Santos |
| Vida |||
| Óscar "Burra" Acosta | César "Cesarín" Aguirre | Carlos Humberto Alvarado Osorto |
| Manuel Bernárdez Calderón | Peter Buchanan | Jorge Caballero |
| Jesús Octavio Cifuentes | Gustavo Adolfo "Gorcha" Collins | Zacarías "Frijolito" Collins |
| Juan David | Fredy Delgado | Arturo "Junia" Garden |
| Morris Garden | Ramón Neptally "Liebre" Guardado | Dennis "Bomba" Hinds |
| Mario McKoy | Matilde Selím Lacayo | Jairo López |
| José López "Rulo" Paz | Tomás "Tommy" Marshall | Enrique "Palanca" Mendoza |
| Mario Murillo | Hermenegildo Orellana | Marco Antonio Marcos Peña |
| Jorge Peralta | Wilfredo "Wil" Rodríguez | José María "Chema" Salinas |
| Vicente Suazo | Antonio "Danto" Urbina | Edgardo Williams |
| Osman Zelaya | | |

## Trivia

* Atlántida from La Ceiba made only 11 points in 27 games, being this the worst record in Liga Nacional up to date.