1973–74 Honduran Liga Nacional
# 1973–74 Honduran Liga Nacional

The 1973–74 Honduran Liga Nacional season was the 8th edition of the Honduran Liga Nacional. The format of the tournament remained the same as the previous season. C.D. Motagua won the title on 9 September 1973 in the 1–1 away draw against C.D. España and qualified to the 1974 CONCACAF Champions' Cup along with runners-up C.D. Marathón.

## 1973–74 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)
* Vida (La Ceiba)

## Regular season

### Standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Motagua | 27 | 13 | 13 | 1 | 39 | 15 | +24 | 39 | Qualified to the 1974 CONCACAF Champions' Cup |
| 2 | Marathón | 27 | 12 | 13 | 2 | 39 | 24 | +15 | 37 | Qualified to the 1974 CONCACAF Champions' Cup |
| 3 | Olimpia | 27 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 37 | 24 | +13 | 32 | |
| 4 | España | 27 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 35 | 24 | +11 | 31 | |
| 5 | Vida | 27 | 8 | 11 | 8 | 25 | 27 | −2 | 27 | |
| 6 | Platense | 27 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 30 | 28 | +2 | 26 | |
| 7 | Universidad | 27 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 26 | 28 | −2 | 25 | |
| 8 | Atlético Indio | 27 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 26 | 29 | −3 | 25 | |
| 9 | Broncos | 27 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 27 | 51 | −24 | 18 | |
| 10 | Troya | 27 | 3 | 4 | 20 | 16 | 50 | −34 | 10 | Relegated to Segunda División |

* ↑ Motagua 1973–74 champions.
* ↑ Marathón runner-up.
* ↑ Troya relegated.

## Top scorers

* Mario Blandón Artica (Motagua) with 13 goals
* Allard Plummer (Marathón) with 13 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 | |
| Broncos |||
| "Coquí" Berríos | Hernán Santiago "Cortés" García Martínez | Jorge Alberto "Perro" González |
| Adalberto "Chino" Menjívar | | |
| España |||
| "Mozambique" Alvarez | Carlos Luis "Macho" Arrieta | Julio César "El Tile" Arzú |
| "Roby" Arzú | Dagoberto Cubero | César Augusto Dávila Puerto |
| Linauro Di Paula | Arnulfo Echeverría | Flavio Ortega |
| José Estanislao "Tanayo" Ortega | Antonio "Gato" Pavón Molina | Domingo "Mingo" Ramos |
| Gil Rodríguez | Jacobo Sarmiento | Rigoberto "Aserradero" Velásquez |
| Jaime Villegas | | |
| Marathón |||
| Roberto Bailey | Ramón Cano | Alexander "Nina" Guillén |
| Alberto Mancía | Wilfredo Medina | Allard Plummer |
| Martín "Piruleta" Rodríguez | Arturo Torres "Pacharaca" Bonilla | Gil "Fátima" Valerio |
| Allan Ricardo Young | | |
| Motagua |||
| Marcos Banegas | Adilson Batista | Nelson Benavídez |
| Salvador "Pichini" Bernárdez | Mario Blandón "Tanque" Artica | José Luis Cruz Figueroa |
| Salvador Dubois Leiva | José María "Chema" Durón | Mariano Godoy |
| Rubén "Chamaco" Guifarro | Alfonso "Garrinchita" Gutiérrez | Óscar Rolando "Martillo" Hernández |
| Roger Mayorga | Julio Meza | Angel Antonio "Toño" Obando |
| Ronald Quilter | Rigoberto Sosa | Francisco "Pantera" Velásquez |
| Arnaldo "Chuluyo" Zelaya | Héctor "Lin" Zelaya | |
| Olimpia |||
| Selvin Cárcamo | Miguel Angel "Shinola" Matamoros | Reynaldo Mejía Ortega |
| Marco Antonio "Tonín" Mendoza | Ángel Ramón "Mon" Paz | Raúl Suazo Lagos |
| Jorge Alberto "Indio" Urquía Elvir | Samuel Sentini | |
| Platense |||
| Carlos "Care" Alvarado | Miguel "Miguelín" Bernárdez | Martín Castillo |
| Tomás Cedricks Ewens "Quito" Wagner | Manuel de Jesús Fuentes | Luis Alonso Guzmán Velásquez |
| Mario Ortega | Oscar Marino Piedrahíta | Jimmy Steward |
| Troya |||
| Geraldo Baptista | | |
| Universidad |||
| Egdomilio "Milo" Díaz | Roger Macedo | Ramón "Mon" Medina |
| José Salomón "Turco" Nazzar | | |
| 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 |
| Matilde Selím Lacayo | Jairo López | José López "Rulo" Paz |
| Tomás "Tommy" Marshall | Mario McKoy | 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 | |
