2008–09 Clausura Honduran Liga Nacional

The 2008-09 Clausura was the second part of the 2008-09 season of the Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Honduras, the first division national football league in Honduras. The season started on 10 January 2009 and finished on 24 May 2009. It followed the 2008-09 Apertura season. The winner will compete in the 2009-10 CONCACAF Champions League.

Contents 1 2008-09 teams 2 Regular season 2.1 Box score 2.2 Round 1 2.3 Round 2 2.4 Round 3 2.5 Round 4 2.6 Round 5 2.7 Round 6 2.8 Round 7 2.9 Round 8 2.10 Round 9 2.11 Round 10 2.12 Round 11 2.13 Round 12 2.14 Round 13 2.15 Round 14 2.16 Round 15 2.17 Round 16 2.18 Round 17 2.19 Round 18 2.20 Standings 3 Final round 3.1 Bracket 3.2 Semifinals 3.3 Final 3.4 2008-09 Clausura Champion 4 Goal scorers 5 2008-09 relegation table

2008-09 teams

Deportes Savio Hispano Marathón Motagua Olimpia

Platense Real España Real Juventud Victoria Vida

Regular season

Box score

Home \ Away	SAV	HIS	MAR	MOT	OLI	PLA	ESP	JUV	VIC	VID
Deportes Savio		1 - 0	4 - 1	0 - 0	0 - 1	1 - 0	1 - 1	0 - 1	2 - 0	1 - 2
Hispano	1 - 1		0 - 4	1 - 2	1 - 4	3 - 5	0 - 1	3 - 2	2 - 1	4 - 2
Marathón	5 - 0	3 - 0		6 - 3	1 - 3	1 - 1	0 - 0	3 - 1	2 - 2	4 - 1
Motagua	0 - 2	1 - 0	0 - 1		0 - 1	1 - 0	1 - 0	0 - 0	0 - 3	0 - 0
Olimpia	2 - 0	1 - 0	2 - 2	1 - 0		3 - 0	0 - 2	0 - 0	3 - 1	0 - 0
Platense	0 - 0	n/p	1 - 2	4 - 3	1 - 2		2 - 1	1 - 1	1 - 0	1 - 1
Real España	2 - 1	2 - 0	0 - 3	0 - 0	0 - 0	3 - 0		2 - 1	1 - 1	0 - 1
Real Juventud	2 - 2	3 - 2	1 - 2	1 - 1	1 - 0	1 - 0	0 - 2		0 - 0	0 - 0
Victoria	2 - 1	3 - 0	2 - 1	1 - 1	0 - 1	2 - 2	1 - 1	1 - 0		1 - 1
Vida	1 - 0	1 - 1	2 - 1	0 - 0	1 - 0	1 - 1	0 - 2	2 - 0	2 - 3

Round 1

2009-01-10 19:30	Platense	1 - 0	Victoria	Estadio Excelsior, Puerto Cortés Attendance: 1,447 Referee: Erick Andino
	Arzú  44'

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2009-01-10 19:30	Real España	2 - 0	Hispano	Estadio Francisco Morazan, San Pedro Sula Attendance: 1,794 Referee: Miguel Torres
	Da Silva  29'  80'

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2009-01-11 15:00	Vida	1 - 0	Olimpia	Estadio Nilmo Edwards, La Ceiba Attendance: 4,742
	Güity  63'

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2009-01-11 16:00	Motagua	0 - 0	Real Juventud	Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino, Tegucigalpa Attendance: 3,157 Referee: Luis Flores

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2009-01-14 19:30	Marathón	5 - 0	Deportes Savio	Estadio Olimpico Metropolitano, San Pedro Sula Attendance: 1,539 Referee: Héctor Rodríguez
	Brown  28'  45' Núñez  46' Ramírez  76'  88'

Round 2

2009-01-17 19:30	Real España	3 - 0	Platense	San Pedro Sula Attendance: 757 Referee: Héctor Rodríguez
	Martínez  24' Valladares  41' Dias  80'

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2009-01-17 19:30	Olimpia	0 - 0	Real Juventud	Tegucigalpa Attendance: 2,645 Referee: José Sandoval

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2009-01-18 14:00	Deportes Savio	0 - 0	Motagua	Santa Rosa Attendance: 1,542 Referee: Miguel Torres

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2009-01-18 15:30	Hispano	4 - 2	Vida	Comayagua Attendance: 1,546 Referee: Ricardo Zelaya
	Membreño  7' Diduch  31'  49' Méndez  85'		Williams  59' Santamaría  90'

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2009-01-18 15:30	Victoria	2 - 1	Marathón	La Ceiba Attendance: 1,038 Referee: Luis Flores
	García  46' (og) Cárcamo  47'		Palacios  70'

Round 3

2009-01-24 19:30	Marathón	0 - 0	Real España	San Pedro Sula Attendance: 4,026

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2009-01-25 15:00	Real Juventud	0 - 0	Victoria	Santa Bárbara Attendance: 1,506

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2009-01-25 15:00	Platense	1 - 2	Olimpia	Puerto Cortés Attendance: 2,721
	Cabrita  88'		Bruschi  20'  54'

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2009-01-25 15:00	Vida	1 - 0	Deportes Savio	La Ceiba Attendance: 1,189
	Vargas  88'

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2009-01-25 16:00	Motagua	1 - 0	Hispano	Comayagua Attendance: 2,637 Referee: Armando Castro
	Torlacoff  89' (pen)

Round 4

2009-01-31 19:30	Hispano	1 - 1	Deportes Savio	Comayagua Attendance: 1,500
	Diduch  40'		Zepeda  30'

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2009-01-31 19:30	Real España	1 - 1	Victoria	San Pedro Sula Attendance: 1,465 Referee: Ricardo Zelaya
	Lalín  39'		Segales  79'

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2009-02-01 15:30	Real Juventud	1 - 0	Platense	Santa Bárbara Attendance: 1,005
	Navarro  70'

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2009-02-01 15:30	Vida	0 - 0	Motagua	La Ceiba Attendance: 2,594 Referee: José Gaspar Molina

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2009-02-03 19:30	Olimpia	2 - 2	Marathón	Tegucigalpa Attendance: 3,244 Referee: Oscar Moncada
	Bruschi  10'  15'		Palacios  17' (pen) Brown  21'

Round 5

2009-02-07 19:30	Platense	1 - 1	Vida	Puerto Cortés Attendance: 1,290
	Lozano  78' (pen)		Solórzano  21'

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2009-02-07 19:30	Marathón	3 - 0	Hispano	San Pedro Sula Attendance: 753
	Núñez  21' Ramírez  25' Sosa  70' (pen)

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2009-02-08	Deportes Savio	0 - 1	Real Juventud	Santa Rosa de Copán Attendance: 1,033
			Ocampo  70'

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2009-02-08	Victoria	0 - 1	Olimpia	La Ceiba Attendance: 4,040
			Velásquez  8'

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2009-02-08 16:00	Motagua	1 - 0	Real España	Tegucigalpa Attendance: 3,778 Referee: Oscar Moncada
	Welcome  67'

Round 6

2009-02-14	Victoria	3 - 0	Hispano	La Ceiba Attendance: 441
	Ortiz  26' Copete  32' Medina  90+1'

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2009-02-14	Marathón	1 - 1	Platense	San Pedro Sula Attendance: 752
	Palacios  23'		Lozano 44'

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2009-02-15	Real Juventud	0 - 0	Vida	Santa Bárbara Attendance: 1,577

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2009-02-15	Deportes Savio	1 - 1	Real España	Santa Rosa de Copán Attendance: 1,132
	Costa  65' (pen)		Pavón  42'

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2009-02-15	Olimpia	1 - 0	Motagua	Tegucigalpa Attendance: 9,463 Referee: Gaspar Molina
	Thomas  76' (pen)

Round 7

2009-02-21	Platense	0 - 0	Deportes Savio	Puerto Cortés Attendance: 947

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2009-02-21	Real España	0 - 0	Olimpia	San Pedro Sula Attendance: 5,404

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2009-02-22	Hispano	3 - 2	Real Juventud	Comayagua Attendance: 979
	Diduch  12'  45' Ruiz  42'		Salgado  57' OG Paz  74'

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2009-02-22	Vida	2 - 3	Victoria	La Ceiba Attendance: 3,989
	Guity  8'  48'		Arzú  29'  90' Fernández  42'

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2009-02-22	Motagua	0 - 1	Marathón	Tegucigalpa Attendance: 2,798
			Palacios  54'

Round 8

2009-02-18	Marathón	3 - 1	Real Juventud	San Pedro Sula Attendance: 1,070
	Berríos  10' Ulloa  59' OG Mejía  88'		Paz  70'

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2009-02-25	Platense	4 - 3	Motagua	Puerto Cortés Attendance: 1,287
	Lozano  15' (pen) Ramírez  38'  45' Ruiz  63'		Cruz  5' Torlacoff  35' (pen) Welcome  75'

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2009-02-25	Vida	0 - 2	Real España	La Ceiba Attendance: 1,119
			Caetano  25' Pavón  42'

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2009-02-25	Olimpia	1 - 0	Hispano	Tegucigalpa Attendance: 1,637
	Cicogna  69'

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2009-02-25	Deportes Savio	2 - 0	Victoria	Santa Rosa de Copán Attendance: 647
	Lozano  47' Roches  64'

Round 9

2009-03-01	Real Juventud	0 - 2	Real España	Santa Bárbara Attendance: 1,390
			Caetano  38' Delgado  59'

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2009-03-01	Hispano	3 - 5	Platense	Comayagua Attendance: 1,326
	Ruiz  59' Diduch  62'  82'		Ramírez  23' Flores  45' Osorio  45' Hernández  48' Cabrita  85'

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2009-03-01	Victoria	1 - 1	Motagua	La Ceiba Attendance: 1,662
	Morán  75'		Welcome  72'

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2009-03-01	Olimpia	2 - 0	Deportes Savio	Tegucigalpa Attendance: 2,424
	Hernández  27' Cicogna  55'

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2009-03-25	Marathón	4 - 1	Vida	San Pedro Sula Attendance: 1,020
	Scott  20'  40' Martínez  75' Palacios  90+4' (pen)		Ferreira  14'

Round 10

2009-03-07	Victoria	2 - 2	Platense	La Ceiba Attendance: 874
	Copete  29'  29'		Lozano  70' Chávez  90'

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2009-03-07	Hispano	0 - 1	Real España	Comayagua Attendance: 1,636
			Lalín  7'

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2009-03-08	Deportes Savio	4 - 1	Marathón	Santa Rosa de Copán Attendance: 1,439
	Costa  8'  23' Róchez  27' Zepeda  57'		Martínez  83'

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2009-03-08	Real Juventud	1 - 1	Motagua	Santa Bárbara Attendance: 1,159
	Córdoba  78'		Molina  45'

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2009-03-08	Olimpia	0 - 0	Vida	Tegucigalpa Attendance: 4,236

Round 11

2009-03-11	Real Juventud	1 - 0	Olimpia	Santa Rosa de Copán Attendance: 1,857
	Córdoba  22'

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2009-03-11	Platense	2 - 1	Real España	Puerto Cortés Attendance: 2,757
	Lozano  38' (Pen) Chávez  57'		Castillo  73'

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2009-03-11	Vida	1 - 1	Hispano	La Ceiba Attendance: 805
	Arguello  87'		Diduch  57'

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2009-03-11	Marathón	2 - 2	Victoria	San Pedro Sula Attendance: 840
	Palacios  16' Mejía  71'		Morán  25' Hernández  59'

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2009-03-11	Motagua	0 - 2	Deportes Savio	Tegucigalpa Attendance: 1,281
			Díaz  81' (OG) Costa  87'

Round 12

2009-03-14	Victoria	1 - 0	Real Juventud	La Ceiba Attendance: 780
	Gómez  89'

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2009-03-14	Real España	0 - 3	Marathón	San Pedro Sula Attendance: 3,451 Referee: José Sandoval
			Martínez  11'  34'  58'

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2009-03-14 19:30	Hispano	1 - 2	Motagua	Tegucigalpa Attendance: 1,137
	Díaz  86' OG		Welcome  6' Isaula  65'

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2009-03-15	Deportes Savio	1 - 2	Vida	Santa Rosa de Copán Attendance: 1,204 Referee: Ricardo Zelaya
	Zepeda  16'		Güity  7' Chávez  57'

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2009-03-15 16:00	Olimpia	3 - 0	Platense	Tegucigalpa Attendance: 4,142 Referee: Mario Moncada
	de Souza  11' Chávez  55' OG Calderón  59'

Round 13

2009-03-21 19:30	Platense	1 - 1	Real Juventud	Puerto Cortés Attendance: 1,287
	Cabrita  57'		Flores  34'

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2009-03-21 15:00	Victoria	1 - 1	Real España	La Ceiba Attendance: 1,265
	Copete  18'		Martínez  83'

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2009-03-21 19:30	Marathón	1 - 3	Olimpia	San Pedro Sula Attendance: 4,770
	Núñez  78' (pen)		Hernández  43' (pen) Palacios  55' (OG) Velásquez  89'

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2009-03-22 14:00	Deportes Savio	1 - 0	Hispano	Santa Rosa de Copán Attendance: 548 Referee: Evaristo Soriano
	Figueroa  63'

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2009-03-22 16:00	Motagua	0 - 0	Vida	Tegucigalpa Attendance: 1,659 Referee: Geovani Mendoza

Round 14

2009-04-04 19:30	Real España	0 - 0	Motagua	San Pedro Sula Attendance: 2,133 Referee: Benigno Pineda

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2009-04-05	Real Juventud	2 - 2	Deportes Savio	Santa Bárbara Attendance: 572
	Ulloa  12' Flores  36'		Costa  33' Lozano  86'

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2009-04-05 15:30	Hispano	0 - 4	Marathón	Comayagua Attendance: 760
			Mejía  48' Acevedo  58' Brown  71' Núñez  88'

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2009-04-05	Vida	1 - 1	Platense	La Ceiba Attendance: 1,770
	Chávez  42' (OG)		Lozano  78'

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2009-04-05 16:00	Olimpia	3 - 1	Victoria	Tegucigalpa Attendance: 2,562
	Velásquez  6' Thomas  58' Rojas  87'		Morán  8'

Round 15

2009-04-15	Hispano	2 - 1	Victoria	Comayagua Attendance: 922 Referee: José Sandoval
	Diduch  10' (pen) Arzú  68'		Fernández  19'

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2009-04-15	Platense	1 - 2	Marathón	Puerto Cortés Attendance: 2,254 Referee: Geovani Mendoza
	Guerrero  49'		Beata  20' Norales  61'

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2009-04-15	Vida	2 - 0	Real Juventud	La Ceiba Attendance: 2,990 Referee: Ricardo Zelaya
	Bengtson Antúnez

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2009-04-15	Real España	2 - 1	Deportes Savio	San Pedro Sula Attendance: 833 Referee: Armando Castro
	Lalín  1'  76'		Lozano  54'

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2009-04-16	Motagua	0 - 1	Olimpia	Tegucigalpa Attendance: 7,358 Referee: Mario Moncada
			Calderón  70'

Round 16

2009-04-19 15:30	Real Juventud	3 - 2	Hispano	Santa Bárbara Attendance: 442
	Navarro  3' Flores  67'  88'		Jiménez  30' Palacios  89'

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2009-04-19 14:00	Deportes Savio	1 - 0	Platense	Santa Rosa de Copán Attendance: 798
	Altamirano  68'

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2009-04-19 15:00	Victoria	1 - 1	Vida	La Ceiba Attendance: 5,544
	Weber  11'		Antúnez  63'

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2009-04-19 18:00	Marathón	6 - 3	Motagua	San Pedro Sula Attendance: 3,246 Referee: Marlon Muñoz
	Scott  20'  50' Chávez  42' Mejía  44' Sabillón  67' Núñez  85'		Lloyd  11' Rivera  52' Díaz  78'

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2009-04-19 16:00	Olimpia	0 - 2	Real España	Tegucigalpa Attendance: 5,058
			da Silva  2' Martínez  58'

Round 17

2009-04-26 15:30	Real Juventud	1 - 2	Marathón	Santa Bárbara Attendance: 1,125
	Flores  82'		Beata  10' Chávez  90'

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2009-04-26 15:30	Hispano	1 - 4	Olimpia	Comayagua Attendance: 2,229
	Diduch  76'		Rosales  9'  61' Rojas  24' Velásquez  62'

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2009-04-26 15:30	Victoria	2 - 1	Deportes Savio	La Ceiba Attendance: 836
	Güity  39'  72'		Smith  34'

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2009-04-26 15:30	Real España	0 - 1	Vida	San Pedro Sula Attendance: 1,081
			Beckele  52'

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2009-04-26 15:30	Motagua	1 - 0	Platense	Tegucigalpa Attendance: 1,930
	Izaguirre  17'

Round 18

2009-05-02 15:30	Deportes Savio	0 - 1	Olimpia	Santa Rosa de Copán Attendance: 1,962
			Velásquez  35'

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2009-05-02 15:30	Platense	canceled	Hispano	Puerto Cortés

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2009-05-02 15:30	Vida	2 - 1	Marathón	La Ceiba Attendance: 4,118
	Beckele  26' Salinas  58'		Brown  50'

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2009-05-02 15:30	Real España	2 - 1	Real Juventud	San Pedro Sula Attendance: 520
	Martínez  50' Lalín  56'		Córdova  30' (pen)

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2009-05-02 15:30	Motagua	0 - 3	Victoria	Tegucigalpa Attendance: 859
			Güity  18' Copete  32' Discua  45'

Standings

• As of 2009-05-02

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Olimpia	18	11	4	3	24	10	+14	37	Qualified to the Final round
2	Marathón	18	10	4	4	42	23	+19	34
3	Real España	18	8	6	4	20	12	+8	30
4	Vida	18	6	8	4	18	19	−1	26
5	Victoria	18	6	7	5	24	21	+3	25
6	Deportes Savio	18	5	5	8	17	21	−4	20
7	Real Juventud	18	4	7	7	15	21	−6	19
8	Motagua	18	4	7	7	13	21	−8	19
9	Platense	17	4	6	7	20	26	−6	18
10	Hispano	17	3	2	12	18	37	−19	11

• Top 4 qualify to final round.
• The match between Platense and Hispano from Round 18 was not played due to lack of interest.

On May 2, Honduras was awarded a 3rd spot in the 2009-2010 CONCACAF Champions League due to lack of adequate stadia in Belize. The 3rd spot would go to the short tournament runner-up with the highest overall season points total. Because of Real Espana's overall season point total of 68 being highest in the league, they clinch a spot in the 2009-2010 CONCACAF Champions League. Already a runner-up from Apertura 2008, it is guaranteed that the Clausura 2009 runner-up would not have a higher overall season point total than Real Espana. At this point, a bye to the Group Stage of the 09-10 CONCACAF CL is still up for grabs.

Final round

Bracket

	Semifinals							Final
	1	Olimpia	0	2	2
	4	Vida	1	0	1
								1	Olimpia (aet)	2	2	4
								3	Real España	2	1	3
	2	Marathón	1	1	2
	3	Real España	3	3	6

Semifinals

2009-05-07	Vida	1 - 0	Olimpia	La Ceiba Attendance: 14,700 Referee: José Sandoval
	Argüello  62'

2009-05-07	Real España	3 - 1	Marathón	San Pedro Sula Attendance: 5,610 Referee: Gaspar Molina
	Martínez  3' Caetano  11' González  47'		Chávez  63'

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2009-05-09 19:30	Marathón	1 - 3	Real España	San Pedro Sula Attendance: 6,520 Referee: Marlon Muñoz
	Núñez  44'		Caetano  37'  41' Palacios  82'

2009-05-10 16:00	Olimpia	2 - 0	Vida	Tegucigalpa Attendance: 12,505 Referee: Benigno Pineda
	Velásquez  34' Turcios

Olimpia clinches a spot in the 2009-2010 CONCACAF Champions League with their victory over Vida. An Olimpia victory in the Final would clinch a Group Stage bye for Marathon. A loss would give Real Espana the bye. Either way, the Honduran representatives for the 09-10 CONCACAF CL are Marathon, Real Espana and Olimpia.

Final

2009-05-16 19:30	Real España	2 - 2	Olimpia	San Pedro Sula Attendance: 7,216 Referee: Benigno Pineda
	Vallecillo  8' Caetano  70'		Bruschi  51' Cigogna  80'

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2009-05-24 16:00	Olimpia	2 - 1 (a.e.t.)	Real España	Tegucigalpa Attendance: 28,355 Referee: Ricardo Zelaya
	Bruschi  44' de Souza  100'		Valladares  86'

2008-09 Clausura Champion

2008-09 Clausura champion
Olimpia 22nd National title

Marathon is classified as HON1 for the CONCACAF Champions League 2009–10, due to their tiebreaker over Olimpia (higher goal differential since both teams had a total of 66 points). Olimpia gets HON2. Real Espana gets HON3, being the only runner-up to short tournaments in the 2008-2009 Honduran National Football League season.

Goal scorers

• As of 2009-05-24

10 goals Sergio Diduch (Hispano) 6 goals Bani Lozano (Platense) Milton Núñez (Marathón) Wilmer Velásquez (Olimpia) Douglas Caetano (Real España) Ramiro Bruschi (Olimpia) 5 goals Ney Costa (Deportes Savio) Héctor Flores (Real Juventud) Mitchel Brown (Marathón) Allan Lalín (Real España) Mauricio Copete (Victoria) 4 goals Jerry Palacios (Marathón) José Güity (Vida) Saul Martínez (Marathón) Erick Scott (Marathón) Carlos Will Mejía (Marathón) Osman Chávez (Platense) (2 o.g.) 3 goals Luis Ramírez (Marathón) Adán Ramírez (Platense) Oscar Zepeda (Deportes Savio) Marcelo Cabrita (Platense) Carlos Morán (Victoria) Jorge Lozano (Deportes Savio) Edmilson Da Silva (Real España) Charles Córdoba (Real Juventud) Wilson Güity (Victoria) Henry Martínez (Real España) Marvin Chávez (Marathón) Daniel Cicogna (Olimpia) Guillermo Díaz (Motagua) (2 o.g.) Milton Palacios Suazo (Marathón) (1 o.g.) 2 goals Víctor Arzú (Victoria) Rony Paz (Real Juventud) Oscar Torlacoff (Motagua) Carlos Pavón (Real España) Milton Ruiz (Hispano) Shannon Welcome (Motagua) Harrison Róchez (Deportes Savio) Georgie Welcome (Motagua) Mario Martínez (Real España) Walter Hernández (Olimpia) Hendry Thomas (Olimpia) Pedro Fernández (Victoria) Johnny Calderón (Olimpia) Carlos Navarro (Real Juventud) Sergio Antúnez (Vida) Mario Beata (Marathón) Jaime Rosales (Olimpia) Roger Rojas (Olimpia) Brayan Beckele (Vida) Facundo Argüello (Vida) Fábio de Souza Loureiro (Olimpia) Melvin Valladares (Real España) Fabio Ulloa (Real Juventud) (1 o.g.)

1 goal Quiarol Arzú (Platense) Carlos Dias (Real España) Eliu Membreño (Hispano) Abner Méndez (Hispano) Walter Williams (Vida) Luis Santamaría (Vida) Juan Manuel Cárcamo (Victoria) Oscar Vargas (Vida) Marcelo Segales (Victoria) Carlos Solórzano (Vida) Franco Sosa (Marathón) Julio Ocampo (Real Juventud) Víctor Ortiz (Victoria) Ninrod Medina (Victoria) Mario Berríos (Marathón) Misael Ruiz (Platense) Carlos Cruz (Motagua) Eder Delgado (Real España) Efraín Flores (Platense) Ian Osorio (Platense) Gabriel Hernández (Platense) Emil Martínez (Marathón) David Molina (Motagua) Ramón Castillo (Real España) Diktmar Hernández (Victoria) Mario Gómez (Victoria) Leonardo Isaula (Motagua) Mario Chávez (Vida) Anael Figueroa (Deportes Savio) Edgar Ferreira (Vida) Mariano Acevedo (Marathón) Máximo Arzú (Hispano) Irvin Guerrero (Platense) Erick Norales (Marathón) Jerry Bengtson (Vida) Henry Jiménez (Hispano) José Luis Palacios (Hispano) Christian Altamirano (Deportes Savio) Mauricio Weber (Victoria) Mauricio Sabillón (Marathón) Daniel Lloyd (Motagua) Rubén Rivera (Motagua) Elroy Smith (Deportes Savio) Emilio Izaguirre (Motagua) Carlos Salinas (Vida) Carlos Discua (Victoria) Elkin González (Real España) Carlos Palacios (Real España) Danilo Turcios (Olimpia) Erick Vallecillo (Real España) Juan Carlos García (Marathón) (o.g.) Johnny Salgado (Hispano) (o.g.)

2008-09 relegation table

As of 2009-05-02

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Real España (+2)	36	18	12	6	53	30	+23	68
2	Marathón	36	19	9	8	68	43	+25	66
3	Olimpia	36	19	9	8	43	27	+16	66
4	Motagua	36	13	10	13	37	42	−5	49
5	Deportes Savio (-1)	36	13	10	13	41	40	+1	48
6	Victoria	36	12	11	13	46	48	−2	47
7	Platense	35	10	11	14	43	51	−8	41
8	Hispano	35	10	6	19	49	65	−16	36
9	Vida	36	7	14	15	29	45	−16	35
10	Real Juventud (R)	36	7	10	19	28	45	−17	31	Relegation to the Second division

Source:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

• Real Juventud relegated to second division, however bought Atlético Gualala's franchise.

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