Deportivo Lenca was a Honduran soccer club based on
El Progreso,
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 ...
.
It played in
Liga de Ascenso de Honduras
Liga de Ascenso (Promotion League) is the second division of Honduran football; it was founded on 17 December 1979 as ''Segunda División'' (Second Division) and renamed ''Liga de Ascenso'' (Promotion League) on 21 July 2002. The league is divide ...
but in 2008 it was bought by ''Club Junior'' from
El Negrito
El Negrito () is a town, with a population of 12,790 (2020 calculation), and a municipality in the department of Yoro, Honduras.
Villages
El Negrito has a total of 29 villages:
* El Negrito
* Battán
* Aldea Paujiles Norte
* Campo Perdeíz
* ...
,
Yoro
Yoro, with a population of 25,560 (2020 calculation), is the capital city of the Yoro Department of Honduras and the municipal seat of Yoro Municipality. It is notable for a local event known as Lluvia de Peces, where it is claimed that strong ...
. They currently play in
Liga Mayor de Honduras.
Their name derives from the
Lenca people
The Lenca or Lepawiran "people of the jaguar" are from present day southwest Honduras and eastern El Salvador in Central America. They once spoke many Dialects such as Chilanga, Putun, Kotik etc. Although there were different dialects, they un ...
and their emblem once feature the Chief
Lempira, a national hero in Honduras.
Achievements
*
Segunda División / Liga de Ascenso
::Winners (1):
2005–06 C
::Runners-up (2):
1970–71,
1975
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe.
Events
January
* January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
*
Yoro Championship
::Winners (1):
1961
Events January
* January 3
** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015).
** Aero Flight 311 ...
References
Defunct football clubs in Honduras
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