The 1987–88 Honduran Liga Nacional season was the 22nd edition of the
Honduran Liga Nacional
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* ...
. The format of the tournament consisted of two groups of five followed by a 5-team playoff round.
Club Deportivo Olimpia
Club Deportivo Olimpia is a professional association football in Honduras, Honduran football club based in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazán Department, Francisco Morazán. The club is the nation's most successful team both ...
successfully defended its
1986–87 title in the final against runner-up
C.D. Marathón. Both teams qualified for berths to the
1988 CONCACAF Champions' Cup
The 1988 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 24th. edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CONCACAF region (North America, Central America and the Caribbean), the CONCACAF Champions' Cup. It determined that year's clu ...
.
1987–88 teams
*
E.A.C.I. (
Isletas)
*
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 701, ...
)
*
Motagua
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The Motagua Rive ...
(
Tegucigalpa
Tegucigalpa ( )—formally Tegucigalpa, Municipality of the Central District ( or ''Tegucigalpa, M.D.C.''), and colloquially referred to as ''Tegus'' or ''Teguz''—is the capital and largest city of Honduras along with its sister city, Comaya ...
)
*
Olimpia (
Tegucigalpa
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)
*
Platense (
Puerto Cortés
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)
*
Real España
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(
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 701, ...
)
*
Sula (
)
*
Universidad (
Tegucigalpa
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, ''promoted'')
*
Victoria
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La Ceiba
La Ceiba () is a municipality, the capital of the Honduran department of Atlántida (department), Atlántida, and a port city on the northern Caribbean coast in Honduras. It forms part of the southeastern boundary of the Gulf of Honduras. With ...
)
*
Vida
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La Ceiba
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)
* ''Platense played its home games at
Estadio Francisco Morazán es:Estadio is the spanish language word for Stadium
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due to renovations to
Estadio Excélsior
Estadio Excelsior is a multi-purpose stadium in Puerto Cortés, Honduras. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Platense. The stadium holds 10,000 people. This stadium was rebuilt during Marlon Lara adminis ...
.''
RadioHouse.hn–Platense arribó a su 56 aniversario de fundación
5 July 2016
* ''E.A.C.I. is from Isletas but played in Olanchito
Olanchito is a municipality in the department of Yoro, Honduras, and a town with a population of 49,750 as of 2023. The municipality was founded in 1530 and comprises 70 villages, approximately 300 hamlets, and a population of 124,286. It is lo ...
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Regular season
Standings Group A
Standings Group B
2nd Place playoff
Final round
Pentagonal standings
Final
* ''Olimpia won 1–0 on aggregate.''
Top scorer
* Gilberto Leonel Machado ( Marathón) with 19 goals
Squads
Known results
Round 1
Round 2
Third place playoff
Pentagonal
Unknown rounds
References
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Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional de Honduras seasons
1987–88 in Honduran football
Honduras
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