The 2000–01 Honduran Liga Nacional was the 36th season in the history of the Honduran top division; this was the third tournament under the

Apertura and Clausura The ' and ' tournaments is a split season format for Spanish-speaking sports leagues. It is a relatively recent innovation for many Latin American football leagues in which the traditional association football season from August to May is div ...

format;

C.D. Olimpia Club Deportivo Olimpia is a professional Honduran football club based in Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazán. The club is the nation's most successful team both in the domestic league and in international club competitions. History Olimpia was f ...

managed to beat

C.D. Platense Platense Football Club S.A. de C.V. or simply Platense is a Honduran football club, located in Platense, Puerto Cortés, Cortés. The club was founded on 4 July 1960 and in 1965 became the first champions of the Honduran National Football Lea ...

in the Apertura Final and obtained its 15th league title; in the Clausura C.D. Platense took revenge over C.D. Olimpia and won its 2nd title. The league games started 30 September 2000 and ended on 22 July 2001. RSSSF.com–Honduras 2000/01
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2000–01 teams

* Broncos ( Choluteca) *

Deportes Savio Deportes Savio Fútbol Club, commonly known as Deportes Savio, is a professional Association football in Honduras, Honduran football club based in Santa Rosa de Copán. The club was founded in 1974, and participates in the Liga Nacional de Fútb ...

(

Santa Rosa de Copán Santa Rosa de Copán () is a municipality in Honduras. The city of Santa Rosa de Copán is the municipal seat and the departmental capital of the Honduran department of Copán. It is located approximately above mean sea level. Santa Rosa de ...

) (promoted) * Marathón (

San Pedro Sula San Pedro Sula () is the capital of Cortés Department, Honduras. It is located in the northwest corner of the country in the Sula Valley, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Puerto Cortés on the Caribbean Sea. With a population of 671,460 ...

) *

Motagua The Motagua River () is a river in Guatemala. It rises in the western highlands of Guatemala where it is also called Río Grande, and runs in an easterly direction to the Gulf of Honduras. The final few kilometres of the river form part of the ...

( Tegucigalpa) * Olimpia ( Tegucigalpa) * Platense (

Puerto Cortés Puerto Cortés, originally known as Puerto de Caballos, is a port city and municipality on the north Caribbean coast of Honduras, right on the Laguna de Alvarado, north of San Pedro Sula and east of Omoa, with a natural bay. The present city ...

) *

Real España Real may refer to: Currencies * Brazilian real (R$) * Central American Republic real * Mexican real * Portuguese real * Spanish real * Spanish colonial real Music Albums * ''Real'' (L'Arc-en-Ciel album) (2000) * ''Real'' (Bright album) (2010) ...

(

) * Universidad ( Tegucigalpa) * Victoria ( La Ceiba) *

Vida Vida means “life” in Spanish and Portuguese. It may refer to: Geography * Vida (Gradačac), village in Bosnia and Herzegovina * Lake Vida, Victoria Valley, Antarctica * U.S. settled places: ** Vida, Montana ** Vida, Oregon ** Vida, Missour ...

( La Ceiba)

Apertura

The Apertura tournament was the first half of the 2000–01 season in the Honduran football; Club Deportivo Olimpia set a record of 10 wins in a row, the first nine composed a whole round-robin. In the Final match Olimpia conquered its 15th title after defeating

2–1 on aggregated score.

Regular season

Standings

Results

: ''As of 13 January 2001''

Final round

Hexagonal

=Olimpia vs Vida

= ---- * ''Olimpia won 2–1 on aggregate score.''

=Motagua vs Universidad

= ---- * ''Universidad won 3–2 on aggregate score.''

=Platense vs Real España

= ---- * ''Platense 2–2 Real España; Platense advances on better Regular season performance. Real España advances as best losers.''

Semifinals

=Olimpia vs Real España

= ---- * ''Olimpia won 2–0 on aggregate score.''

=Platense vs Universidad

= ---- * ''Platense won 3–2 on aggregate score.''

Final

=Olimpia vs Platense

= ----

Top goalscorers

13 goals * Marcelo Verón ( Platense) 8 goals * Denilson Costa ( Olimpia) 6 goals *

José Pacini José Mauricio Pacini (born 8 June 1976) is an Argentine football player who most recently played for Platense F.C. in the Honduran national league. Club career He played in Honduras for several years. He started his career at Universidad in ...

( Platense) * Danilo Tosello ( Olimpia) 1 goal *

Saúl Martínez Saúl Asael Martínez Álvarez (; born 29 January 1976) is a Honduran former football forward who last played for USA fourth tier-side Miami United. Club career Nicknamed ''Speedy'', Saúl Martínez was born in Colón, Honduras. He started ...

( Olimpia)

Clausura

In the Clausura tournament of the 2000–01 season;

took revenge on

and achieved its second championship in its history. On the other hand, C.D. Broncos although they finished fifth in the Regular season, they were not allow to participate in the ''Hexagonal'', due to their condition of relegated team;

C.D. Motagua Club de Fútbol Motagua (), formerly Club Deportivo Motagua up to 2017, is an association football club, located in Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras. F.C. Motagua was founded as ''Club Deportivo Motagua'' on 29 August 1928. The club competes ...

replaced them instead.

Regular season

Standings

Results

: ''As of 17 June 2001''

Final round

Hexagonal

=Olimpia vs Motagua

= ---- * ''Olimpia won 3–2 on aggregate score.''

=Platense vs Victoria

= ---- * ''Platense won 3–2 on aggregate score.''

=Marathón vs Real España

= ---- * ''Marathón 1–1 Real España on aggregate score; Marathón advanced on better Regular season performance; Real España advanced as best loser''

Semifinals

=Olimpia vs Real España

= ---- * ''Olimpia 1–1 Real España on aggregate score; Olimpia advanced on better Regular season record.''

=Platense vs Marathón

= ---- * ''Platense won 4–3 on aggregate score.''

Final

=Olimpia vs Platense

= ----

Top goalscorers

13 goals *

Pompilio Cacho Pompilio Cacho Valerio (born 22 December 1976) is a former List of Hondurans, Honduran Association football, football player who plays as Forward (association football), forward. Club career A much-travelled striker, Cacho started his career a ...

( Marathón) 10 goals * Marcelo Verón ( Platense) 8 goals *

( Platense) *

(

) 7 goals * Danilo Tosello ( Olimpia) 5 goals * Denilson Costa ( Olimpia) 2 goals * Julio de León ( Olimpia) *

Narciso Fernández Narciso Fernández Cayetano (born November 5, 1978) is a Honduran former footballer who played as a full back, midfielder and forward. Club career Nicknamed ''Kalusha'', Fernández played the majority of his career for Marathón and also had ...

( Marathón)

Relegation

Relegation was determined by the aggregated table of both Apertura and Clausura tournaments.

Relegation playoff

* ''Deportes Savio won Relegation playoff 4–3 on penalty shootouts; Broncos were relegated to the

2001–02 Segunda División The 2001–02 Segunda División season saw 22 teams participate in the second flight Spanish league. The teams that promoted to La Liga were Atlético Madrid, Racing de Santander and Recreativo de Huelva. The teams that relegated to Segunda Divis ...

.''

References

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Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...