1968–69 C.D. Motagua season
# 1968–69 C.D. Motagua season

The 1968–69 C.D. Motagua season was F.C. Motagua's 4th season in the Honduran Liga Nacional and the 18th overall. Motagua was able to achieve both domestic League and Cup, thus becoming the first Honduran club to win a double.

## League

After three season of poor performance, the club strengthened its squad with well talented Brazilian players, one of them being Roberto Abrussezze who finished top goal-scorer at the end of the season. On 9 March 1969, Motagua secured its first ever professional national championship in the 1–1 draw against all-time archrivals C.D. Olimpia; that result made them unreachable in the standings.

### Squad

* All data is updated prior the beginning of the season.

| No. | Pos. | Player | DoB | Caps | Goals |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | GK | Salvador Dubois | (1935-08-16)16 August 1935 (aged 32) | – | 0 |
| 2 | DF | Lenard Welsh | (1935-11-13)13 November 1935 (aged 32) | – | – |
| 3 | DF | Marco Banegas | – | – | – |
| 4 | DF | Elio Banegas | – | – | – |
| 5 | DF | Roberto Jerez | – | – | – |
| 6 | FW | Abrussezze | (1948-03-29)29 March 1948 (aged 20) | – | – |
| 7 | FW | Geraldo Baptista | – | – | – |
| 8 | MF | Pedro Colón | – | – | – |
| 9 | – | Fermín Navarro | – | – | – |
| 10 | FW | Óscar Hernández | (1950-06-10)10 June 1950 (aged 17) | – | – |
| 11 | DF | Nelson Benavídez | – | – | – |
| 12 | – | Julio Meza | – | – | – |
| 13 | DF | Alfonso Navarro | – | – | – |
| 14 | – | Yaponá de Souza | – | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | FW | Pedro da Silva | – | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | – | Jesús Castillo | – | – | – |
| 17 | MF | Rubén Guifarro | (1946-10-15)15 October 1946 (aged 21) | – | – |
| 18 | FW | Mario Blandón | – | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | – | Rino Fanconi | – | – | – |
| 20 | – | Mariano Godoy | – | – | – |
| 21 | – | Juan Ramos | – | – | – |
| 22 | – | Marco González | – | – | – |
| 23 | – | Linauro di Paula | – | 0 | 0 |

**Transfer in**

| No. | Pos. | Player | Moving from |
| - | - | - | - |
| 7 | FW | Geraldo Baptista | – |
| 14 | – | Yaponá de Souza | – |
| 15 | FW | Pedro da Silva | – |
| 18 | FW | Mario Blandón | none |
| 23 | FW | Linauro di Paula | – |

### Standings

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Motagua (C) | 27 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 45 | 23 | +22 | 39 | Qualified to the 1969 CONCACAF Champions' Cup |
| 2 | Olimpia | 27 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 45 | 20 | +25 | 36 | |
| 3 | Platense | 27 | 15 | 6 | 6 | 40 | 21 | +19 | 36 | |
| 4 | Atlético Indio | 27 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 34 | 24 | +10 | 34 | |
| 5 | España | 27 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 37 | 30 | +7 | 25 | |

* ↑ Motagua champions as regular season winner.
* ↑ Olimpia runner-up as finishing second.

### Matches

**Regular season**


       Some matches missing, will include when available.

## Cup

The 1968 Honduran Cup was the first knock-out tournament played in Honduran football, Motagua were seeded in Group A along Atlético Indio, C.D. Atlético Español, C.D. Olimpia and C.D. Victoria from which they advanced to the semifinals; once there, they faced Atlético Indio who defeated 1–0. On 22 December 1968, Motagua captured its first official cup by overcoming C.D. España on penalty shoot-outs in the final match at Estadio General Francisco Morazán in San Pedro Sula.

