1972–73 Honduran Liga Nacional
# 1972–73 Honduran Liga Nacional

The 1972–73 Honduran Liga Nacional season was expected to be the 8th edition of the Honduran Liga Nacional. However, on 12 August 1972, due to economic problems the tournament was cancelled after nine weeks completed. It's unclear how Club Deportivo Olimpia and C.D.S. Vida obtained berths to the 1973 CONCACAF Champions' Cup.

## 1972–73 teams

* Atlético Indio (Tegucigalpa)
* Broncos (Choluteca)
* España (San Pedro Sula)
* Marathón (San Pedro Sula)
* Motagua (Tegucigalpa)
* Olimpia (Tegucigalpa)
* Platense (Puerto Cortés)
* Troya (Tegucigalpa)
* Universidad (Tegucigalpa, promoted)
* Vida (La Ceiba)
* Broncos bought Verdún's franchise

## Regular season

### Standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Motagua | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 18 | 7 | +11 | 15 |
| 2 | Olimpia | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 7 | +6 | 12 |
| 3 | Vida | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 8 | +10 | 11 |
| 4 | Platense | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 7 | +9 | 11 |
| 5 | España | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 8 | +3 | 10 |
| 6 | Atlético Indio | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 13 | −3 | 10 |
| 7 | Broncos | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 7 |
| 8 | Troya | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 19 | −13 | 6 |
| 9 | Universidad | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 18 | −11 | 5 |
| 10 | Marathón | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 19 | −9 | 3 |

* The tournament was canceled after nine rounds.

## 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 |
| Broncos |||
| Hernán Santiago "Cortés" García Martínez | Adalberto "Chino" Menjívar | |
| España |||
| Carlos Luis "Macho" Arrieta | Dagoberto Cubero | Arnulfo Echeverría |
| Flavio Ortega | José Estanislao "Tanayo" Ortega | Domingo "Mingo" Ramos |
| Jacobo Sarmiento | Rigoberto "Aserradero" Velásquez | Jaime Villegas |
| Marathón |||
| Roberto Bailey | Arturo Torres "Pacharaca" Bonilla | Alexander "Nina" Guillén |
| Alberto Mancía | Allard Plummer | Martín "Piruleta" Rodríguez |
| Gil "Fátima" Valerio | Allan Ricardo Young | |
| Motagua |||
| Marcos Banegas | Nelson Benavídez | José Luis Cruz Figueroa |
| Salvador Dubois Leiva | Óscar Rolando "Martillo" Hernández | Julio Meza |
| Francisco "Pantera" Velásquez | Héctor "Lin" Zelaya | |
| Olimpia |||
| Arnulfo "Nuco" Aguilar | Óscar Banegas | Jorge Alberto "Cejas" Brand Guevara |
| Selvin Cárcamo | Domingo "Toncontín" Ferrera | Conrado "Chorotega" Flores |
| Rigoberto "Shula" Gómez | Juan Isidro "Juanín" Lanza | Mario Mairena |
| Miguel Angel "Shinola" Matamoros | Reynaldo Mejía Ortega | Marco Antonio "Tonín" Mendoza |
| Roberto Crisanto "Manga" Norales | Ángel Ramón "Mon" Paz | German Quijano |
| René "Reno" Rodríguez | Rolando "Piropo" Rodríguez | Samuel Sentini |
| Raúl Suazo Lagos | Jorge Alberto "Indio" Urquía Elvir | Juan Ventura "Gata" López |
| Manuel "Candado" Williams | | |
| Platense |||
| Carlos "Care" Alvarado | Miguel "Miguelín" Bernárdez |
| Martín Castillo | Tomás Cedricks Ewens "Quito" Wagner | Luis Alonso Guzmán Velásquez |
| Óscar Marino Piedrahíta | Jimmy Steward | |
| Troya |||
| Gilberto "Chorro" Acosta | Juan Manuel "Chino" Aguilar | Santiago Anderson |
| Geraldo Baptista | Jorge Emilio Cabrera | Carlos Cabrera |
| Domingo "Toncontín" Ferrera | Gerardo García | José Lito Godoy |
| Edgardo Lagos | Edgardo Lanza | Camilo Mejía |
| Carlos Ochoa | Domingo "Yuyo" Tróchez | |
| Universidad |||
| Egdomilio "Milo" Díaz | Ramón "Mon" Medina | José Salomón "Turco" Nazzar |
| Victoria |||
| José Dagoberto Tejeda | | |
| Vida |||
| Carlos Humberto Alvarado Osorto | Manuel Bernárdez Calderón | Morris Garden |
| José López "Rulo" Paz | Marco Antonio Marcos Peña | José María "Chema" Salinas |
