Club Atlético Pinares was a Honduran

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club, based in Nueva Ocotepeque in the department of

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History

They won promotion to the

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in summer 2010.

Comayagua FC

In July 2012, the Honduran football arbitration court (''Tribunal de Arbitraje de Fútbol'') set due the accumulated debts of second division

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, which had reached almost one million lempiras (at the time 40,000 EUR / 31,500 GBP / US$51,000) to be paid within five days. This target proved out of scope for the club. Therefore, management decided to dissolve Hispano and purchase the franchise of Atlético Pinares and rebrand it as Comayagua F.C.
El club Hispano de Comayagua ya es historia
', El Heraldo, 3 July 2012.

Achievements

::Winners (1): 2019–20 A

References

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