# 1974–75 Honduran Liga Nacional

The 1973–74 Honduran Liga Nacional season was the 9th edition of the Honduran Liga Nacional. The format of the tournament consisted of a four round-robin schedule followed by a 4-team playoff round. C.D. España won the title after defeating C.D. Motagua in the final. Both teams qualified to the 1975 CONCACAF Champions' Cup.

## 1974–75 teams

* Atlético Indio (Tegucigalpa)
* C.D. Broncos (Choluteca)
* C.D. España (San Pedro Sula)
* C.D. Federal (Tegucigalpa, promoted)
* C.D. Marathón (San Pedro Sula)
* C.D. Motagua (Tegucigalpa)
* C.D. Olimpia (Tegucigalpa)
* C.D. Platense (Puerto Cortés)
* Universidad (Tegucigalpa)
* C.D.S. Vida (La Ceiba)

## Regular season
### Standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Motagua | 36 | 18 | 15 | 3 | 44 | 19 | +25 | 71 | Qualified to the Final round |
| 2 | Olimpia | 36 | 13 | 18 | 5 | 28 | 20 | +8 | 67 | Qualified to the Final round |
| 3 | España | 36 | 12 | 15 | 9 | 44 | 36 | +8 | 58 | Qualified to the Final round |
| 4 | Marathón | 36 | 13 | 14 | 9 | 36 | 26 | +10 | 55 | Qualified to the Final round |
| 5 | Platense | 36 | 12 | 13 | 11 | 41 | 40 | +1 | 52 | |
| 6 | Broncos | 36 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 28 | 31 | −3 | 48 | |
| 7 | Federal | 36 | 11 | 10 | 15 | 33 | 38 | −5 | 45 | |
| 8 | Vida | 36 | 6 | 16 | 14 | 25 | 41 | −16 | 45 | |
| 9 | Universidad | 36 | 9 | 11 | 16 | 29 | 36 | −7 | 43 | |
| 10 | Atlético Indio | 36 | 9 | 9 | 18 | 28 | 49 | −21 | 38 | Relegated to Segunda División |
* ↑ Motagua clinched final spot as Regular season winner.
* ↑ Top 4 qualified to Final round.
* ↑ Atlético Indio relegated.
* Draws were decided by penalty kicks on the first 9 rounds, 1 point for winner and 0 points for loser.
* Draws were decided by penalty kicks from round 10 to round 36, 2 points for winner and 1 point for loser.

## Final round
### Cuadrangular standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | España | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 8 | Qualified to the Final |
| 2 | Olimpia | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 6 | |
| 3 | Motagua | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 2 | |
| 4 | Marathón | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | −3 | 2 | |
* ↑ Cuadrangular won by España and clinched final spot.
* Draws were decided by penalty kicks, 2 points for winner and 1 point for loser.

### Final

* Liga Nacional 1974–75 Champion
* C.D. España 1st title

## Top scorer

* Rubén Rodríguez (Platense) with 15 goals

## Squads

Atlético Indio :
| Amílcar "Verde" Aceituno | Víctor Hugo Álvarez | Luis Brand |
| Ramón Antonio "Pilín" Brand | Marco Antonio Calderón | Ricardo Calona |
| Pedro "Poquitito" Carbajal | Miguel Angel Escalante | Jorge "Cruz Azul" Escoto |
| "Yuyuga" Flores | Joaquín Enrique "Quicón" Fonseca | Francisco "Panchón" Guerra |
| Alfonso "Garrincha" Gutiérrez | Marco Tulio "Coyol" López | Joaquín "Alianza" Maldonado |
| Carlos Arturo Matute | David Levy McCalla | Aquiles Mendoza |
| Héctor "Yeto" Montoya | Oscar Nolasco | Roy Posas |
| Orlando "Calavera" Rodríguez | Expedito Serafín | Jorge Sierra |
| Edgardo Sosa | Ramón Ugarte | José Armando Ayala |
| Broncos |||
| Wilfredo Caballero | Wilson Fernández Da Silva | Hernán Santiago "Cortés" García Martínez |
| Jorge Alberto "Perro" Gonzáles | Marco Tulio Gonzales | Javier "el Uno" Rodríguez |
| Jacobo Sarmiento | Jose Boanerges Villalobos Moreno | |
| Real España |||
| Mauricio "Mozambique" Alvarez | Carlos Luis "Macho" Arrieta | Julio César "El Tile" Arzú |
| Jimmy James Bailey | Julio Campos | José Edelmín "Pando" Castro |
| Carlos Roberto Consany | Dagoberto Cubero | César Augusto Dávila Puerto |
| Arnulfo Echeverría | Alberto Ferreira da Silva | Adalberto "Chino" Menjívar |
| José Estanislao "Tanayo" Ortega | Antonio "Gato" Pavón Molina | José López "Rulo" Paz |
| Washington Pereira | Gil Josué Rodríguez | Jaime Villegas |
| Gilberto Gerónimo Yearwood | | |
| Federal |||
| Ramón Bustillo | Roberto "Toto" Cáceres | Pedro Caetano Da Silva |
| Arturo del Carmen Díaz | Dagoberto Espinal | Leroy Foster |
| Alfonso "Garrincha" Gutiérrez | Gustavo Izaguirre | Carlos Arturo Matute |
| Julio Meza | Manuel "Micobrinco" Rodríguez | Oscar Teherán |
| Domingo "Yuyo" Tróchez | Orlando "Bimbo" Vásquez | Francisco Zelaya Pastrana |
| Marathón |||
| Rafael Argeñal | Mauro "Nayo" Caballero | Miguel Angel "Pianito" Castro |
| Linauro Di Paula | Julio César "Cucaracha" Fonseca | Exequiel "Estupiñán" García |
| Luis Alonso Guzmán Velásquez | Alberto Mancía | Wilfredo Medina |
| Allard Plummer | Daniel Argelio Romero | Arturo Torres "Pacharaca" Bonilla |
| Allan Ricardo Young | | |
| Motagua |||
| Marcos Banegas | Mario Blandón "Tanque" Artica | José Luis Cruz Figueroa |
| Salvador Dubois Leiva | José María "Chema" Durón | Mariano Godoy |
| Rubén "Chamaco" Guifarro | Óscar Rolando "Martillo" Hernández | Roger Mayorga |
| Angel Antonio "Toño" Obando | Ronald Quilter | Rigoberto Sosa |
| Francisco "Pantera" Velásquez | Arnaldo "Chuluyo" Zelaya | Héctor "Lin" Zelaya |
| Olimpia |||
| Dennis Allen | Selvin Cárcamo | Egdomilio "Milo" Díaz |
| Óscar García | Rigoberto "Shula" Gómez | Alfredo Hawit Banegas |
| Miguel Angel "Shinola" Matamoros | Reynaldo Mejía Ortega | Marco Antonio "Tonín" Mendoza |
| Ángel Ramón "Mon" Paz | Manuel "Candado" Williams | Samuel Sentini |
| 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 | "Che" Guerrero | Juan Noyola |
| Mario Ortega | Arturo Payne | Oscar Piedrahíta |
| Roberto Rich | Samuel Rivera | Rubén Rodríguez Peña Llantén |
| Jimmy Steward | | |
| Universidad |||
| Santos "Cocodrilo" González | Roger Macedo | David Levy McCalla |
| 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 | | |

## Controversy

* According to the regulations of the competition, the final series (enforced for the first time this season) were supposed to be played in a home and away format. However, after C.D. España defeated C.D. Motagua 0–1 in the first leg, they traveled back to San Pedro Sula claiming the title and went on to celebrate in front of their fan base, thus misunderstanding the newly implemented rules. Motagua's president Pedro Atala Simón in order to avoid further conflicts, desisted in playing the second leg and granted the title which at that time represented the first championship to España and to the city of San Pedro Sula itself.