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The tournament started in July 2018 and ended in June 2019.  The season was divided into two halves (Apertura and Clausura), each crowning one champion.  F.C. Motagua as winners of both tournaments, qualified to the 2019 CONCACAF League as HON1.  Club Deportivo Olimpia as runner-ups and C.D. Marath\u00f3n as the team with the third best record, also qualified to international contention for next season.Table of Contents2018\u201319 teams[edit]Managerial changes[edit]Apertura[edit]Regular season[edit]Standings[edit]Results[edit]Playoffs[edit]Results[edit]Clausura[edit]Regular season[edit]Standings[edit]Results[edit]Playoffs[edit]Results[edit]Top goalscorers[edit]Aggregate table[edit]Relegation playoffs[edit]Controversies[edit]References[edit]External links[edit]2018\u201319 teams[edit]Location of teams in 2018\u201319 seasonA total of 10 teams will contest the tournament, including 9 sides from the 2017\u201318 season plus C.D. Real de Minas, promoted from the 2017\u201318 Liga de Ascenso.TeamLocationStadiumCapacityHonduras ProgresoEl ProgresoEstadio Humberto Micheletti5,000JuticalpaJuticalpaEstadio Juan Ram\u00f3n Brev\u00e9 Vargas20,000Marath\u00f3nSan Pedro SulaEstadio Yankel Rosenthal15,000MotaguaTegucigalpaEstadio Tiburcio Car\u00edas Andino35,000OlimpiaTegucigalpaEstadio Tiburcio Car\u00edas Andino35,000PlatensePuerto Cort\u00e9sEstadio Exc\u00e9lsior7,910Real de MinasTegucigalpaEstadio Tiburcio Car\u00edas Andino35,000Real Espa\u00f1aSan Pedro SulaEstadio Francisco Moraz\u00e1n26,781UPNFMTegucigalpaEstadio Tiburcio Car\u00edas Andino35,000VidaLa CeibaEstadio Nilmo Edwards18,000Real de Minas changed its name from Infop RNP to Club Deportivo Real de Minas.C.D. Real de Minas will use Danl\u00ed and Siguatepeque as alternate venues.Lobos UPNFM will use Choluteca as alternate venue.Club Deportivo Olimpia used San Pedro Sula as alternate venue for one game.Managerial changes[edit]Apertura[edit]The Apertura tournament was the first half of the 2018\u201319 season which run from 28 July to 16 December 2018.  The schedule of the Apertura was released on 13 July.[4]F.C. Motagua finished at the top of the standings for their first time since 2010.  Meanwhile, Lobos UPNFM reached their best regular season performance finishing third.  C.D. Real de Minas finished last in their first league appearance.  Club Deportivo Olimpia eliminated Real C.D. Espa\u00f1a and qualified to their first final series since  2016.[5]  Motagua, their rivals on the other side, qualified to their fifth consecutive final.[6]  With a 2\u20131 aggregate score, Motagua conquered their 16th national title.[7]Regular season[edit]Standings[edit]Source: SoccerwayRules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.Results[edit]Updated to match(es) played on 11 November 2018. Source: SoccerwayLegend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.For upcoming matches, an “a” indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.Notes:Playoffs[edit]Results[edit]Clausura[edit]The Clausura tournament was the second half of the 2018\u201319 season which ran from January to June 2019.  The schedule was released on 20 December 2018.[8]Club Deportivo Olimpia finished on top of the standings for the first time since 2017.  Lobos UPNFM made history in the play-offs stage after beating Real C.D. Espa\u00f1a and qualifying to their first ever semifinal.[9]  Just as it happened in the Apertura tournament, F.C. Motagua defeated their city rivals in the final series and conquered their 17th national title.Regular season[edit]Standings[edit]Source: SoccerwayRules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.Results[edit]Updated to match(es) played on 27 April 2019. Source: SoccerwayLegend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.For upcoming matches, an “a” indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.Playoffs[edit]Results[edit]Top goalscorers[edit]The top scorer was determined by the addition of goals of both Apertura and Clausura tournaments in all their phases.As of 2 June 2019Aggregate table[edit]Relegation was determined by the aggregated table of both Apertura and Clausura tournaments.  After 36 rounds, C.D. Real de Minas, Juticalpa F.C. and C.D. Honduras Progreso finished with 31 points each, with the goal difference being irrelevant.  All three teams had to play a one round-robin playoff to determine the team to be relegated.  It was only the second time in league’s history that three teams were involved in a relegation triangular, the first one being held back in 1989.[10]Source: Soccerway SoccerwayRules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.(Q) Qualified for the phase indicatedNotes:^ As Apertura and Clausura runners-up (HON2)^ As Apertura and Clausura champions (HON1)^ As semi-finalists with best aggregate record (HON3)^ To decide the team relegated, tiebreakers are not applied to teams tied on points, so the three bottom teams enter the relegation playoffs.Relegation playoffs[edit]Updated to match(es) played on 12 May 2019. Source: SoccerwayRules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.Controversies[edit]Right off the start of the season, week 1 was involved with controversy.  Platense F.C. accused F.C. Motagua for instructing the ball boys of hiding and holding the sideline balls in the last minutes of play, making it difficult to resume the game when the match ball went out of play.  Motagua was later fined for this action.[11]  That same day, in San Pedro Sula, C.D. Marath\u00f3n requested C.D.S. Vida players to pay tribute to the club with El Pasillo, (the act of acknowledging the winners of the previous season), a tradition which is very popular in Spain, but not in Honduras.  The Vida footballers strongly rejected the request.[12]  One week later, Vida simulated the Pasillo action after scoring a goal against Juticalpa F.C., a clear sign of mockery.After a 1\u20131 draw between C.D. Marath\u00f3n and Club Deportivo Olimpia in the Cl\u00e1sico Nacional on week 3, a very irritated Marath\u00f3n’s coach H\u00e9ctor Vargas, criticized the referee’s performance and insinuated Olimpia’s intervention at halftime by calling the referees to fix the match.[13]  Vargas also stated that his team with few resources is fighting on all fronts, and others with greater investments made a fool of themselves at international competitions; a clear dart to Real C.D. Espa\u00f1a who were eliminated from the 2018 CONCACAF League a few days earlier.  Olimpia’s manager, Nah\u00fam Espinoza decided not to comment.  However, Real Espa\u00f1a’s Mart\u00edn Garc\u00eda expressed that Vargas is a very harmful person and his comments only reflect cowardice.[14]  Vargas replied back and called Garc\u00eda a fat man.[15]  Vargas later announced that he will keep silent for 90 days; however, the Northern Discipline Commission cited Vargas to testify for violating discriminatory codes.[16]  He was suspended for three games.[17]On week 5, Real C.D. Espa\u00f1a faced C.D. Marath\u00f3n in the Cl\u00e1sico Sampedrano.  In the pre-match, the game was already heated.  Real Espa\u00f1a as hosts, announced that only people dressed with the home team colors would be allowed to access the stadium.  The game elapsed with normalcy until Real Espa\u00f1a missed a penalty kick, which provoked the fury of the local crowd.  A few fans invaded the pitch but were easily controlled by the police.  A few minutes before the end, Marath\u00f3n’s keeper D\u00e9novan Torres hit one of the sideline ball boys.  This action triggered an energetic response from the Real Espa\u00f1a’s subs which were warming up nearby.  Torres and the entire Marath\u00f3n’s technical staff were expelled from the game.  Some Marath\u00f3n fans, including women, were beaten in the stands by their counterparts.  Marath\u00f3n requested the league the closure of the venue and Real Espa\u00f1a sued Torres for his actions.  These and many other sanctions were imposed by the league.[18]On 28 August 2018, the Central Discipline Regional Commission ruled in favor of C.D. Marath\u00f3n awarding them a 3\u20130 victory over Juticalpa F.C. as a result of Juticalpa fielding defender Carlos Palacios on week 4.  Palacios was ineligible to play due to his misconduct on the previous game against C.D. Honduras Progreso.  Consequently, Marath\u00f3n submitted the complaint and was granted the win.  The original score ended in a 1\u20131 tie; therefore Marath\u00f3n was awarded two points and Juticalpa was deducted one.[19]Real C.D. Espa\u00f1a’s player \u00c1ngel Tejeda was suspended for six games after spitting a fan during the Cl\u00e1sico Sampedrano against C.D. Marath\u00f3n on week 14.[20]  Former Real Espa\u00f1a’s president Mateo Yibr\u00edn annotated on his Twitter account that the Discipline Commission are “social misfits”.Through Jorge Pineda (assistant for H\u00e9ctor Vargas), C.D. Marath\u00f3n announced their intention to protest the match against F.C. Motagua on week 7.  This game, which ended 1\u20131 was postponed for several weeks.  Marath\u00f3n is alleging that Motagua’s players Omar Elvir and Wilmer Crisanto were lined up in the reserves encounter a month prior.[21]  Marath\u00f3n had already protested the game against Juticalpa F.C. on week 4 with success.The Apertura’s final series between F.C. Motagua and Club Deportivo Olimpia were involved in controversies from start to finish.  Before the first leg, the board of directors of Motagua expressed their discomfort for the designation of referee H\u00e9ctor Rodr\u00edguez for the first leg, claiming they have felt harmed in previous games due to his controversial decisions against the club.[22]  Rodr\u00edguez did finally refereed the game which was ironically criticized by Olimpia.  Olimpia’s coach Manuel Keossei\u00e1n said in an interview he was not “a weepy”, but contradictory, he called for a press conference the following day where he expressed his reasons why they lost in the first game, mostly blaming the referees.[23]  Olimpia’s defender Jonathan Paz was ejected from the first leg due to two successive yellow cards.  The Discipline Commission, presided by Allan Pineda, a well known Olimpia supporter, called for a meeting and determined that Paz was severally penalized by the refs and nullified one of the bookings, enabling the defender to take part in the return leg.[24]  The second match evolved with normality until the final whistle, as Motagua were celebrating their victory, Olimpia’s coach Keossei\u00e1n stroked a punch to one of Motagua’s fan entertainer.[25]On 14 March 2019, a very peculiar incident happened in the Cl\u00e1sico Nacional between Club Deportivo Olimpia and C.D. Marath\u00f3n, as both teams goalkeepers were ejected from the match due to violent conduct.  Both managers had already burnt all their substitutions; therefore, in the last few minutes of the game two outfield players had to cover the goalies.In the early morning of 7 April 2019, C.D. Marath\u00f3n’s goalkeeper D\u00e9novan Torres was arrested due to domestic violence.References[edit]External links[edit]"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki43\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki43\/2018-19-liga-nacional-de-honduras\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"2018\u201319 Liga Nacional de Honduras"}}]}]