Honduran national soccer team
Nickname (s) | Los Catrachos, La Bicolor La Selección, Garra Catracha |
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Association | Federación Nacional Autónoma de Fútbol de Honduras | |||
confederacy | CONCACAF | |||
Technical sponsor | Joma | |||
Head coach | Fabián Coito (since 2019) | |||
Record scorer | Carlos Pavon (57) | |||
Record player | Maynor Figueroa (162) | |||
Home stadium | Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano | |||
FIFA code | HON | |||
FIFA rank | 62nd (1377 points) (as of July 16, 2020) |
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First international match Guatemala 10: 1 Honduras ( Guatemala City , Guatemala ; September 14, 1921)
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Biggest win Honduras 10-0 Nicaragua ( San José , Costa Rica ; March 13, 1946)
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Biggest defeat Guatemala 10: 1 Honduras ( Guatemala City , Guatemala ; 14 September 1921)
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Successes in tournaments | ||||
World Championship | ||||
Participation in the finals | 3 ( first : 1982 ) | |||
Best results | Preliminary round 1982 , 2010 and 2014 |
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North and Central American Championship | ||||
Participation in the finals | 20 ( first : 1963 ) | |||
Best results | Winner 1981 | |||
South American Championship | ||||
Participation in the finals | 1 | |||
Best results | Third 2001 | |||
(As of November 17, 2019) |
The Honduran national football team (nickname Los Catrachos ) is the selection team of the Central American state of Honduras put together by the Federación Nacional Autónoma de Fútbol de Honduras .
The Honduran footballers achieved their greatest successes to date with qualifications for the 1982 World Cup in Spain , the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and the 2014 World Cup in Brazil . Further successes were winning the CONCACAF Nations Cup in 1981 and third place at the Copa America 2001 , which included defeating the Brazilian selection 2-0.
Tournaments
Olympic games
The Honduran national team has so far participated in the qualifying games for the soccer tournament at the Olympic Games three times : for the 1976 Games in Montreal , 1984 in Los Angeles and 1988 in Seoul . In all qualifying tournaments, the Honduran team failed to qualify for the Olympic Games.
After 1988 the senior national team no longer took part in the Olympic Games and the qualifying games; instead, an Olympic team that was independent of the senior national team played the tournaments. The Olympic team has so far qualified four times for participation in the Olympic Games. In 2000 and 2008 , the Honduran team was eliminated in the preliminary round.
The Olympic team also qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games in London and reached the quarter-finals with two draws against Morocco and Japan and a 1-0 win against Spain , where they were eliminated 3-2 against Brazil .
In 2016 the team will take part for the fourth time after the U-23 qualified second in the CONCACAF qualification.
World championships
The Honduran national soccer team has taken part in the finals of a soccer world championship three times : 1982 in Spain , 2010 in South Africa and 2014 in Brazil .
1962 to 1978
For the first time Honduras took part in the qualification for the World Cup in 1962 , but failed in the qualification against the national team of Costa Rica . In the following years, too, the qualification did not succeed: Honduras failed in qualifying for the 1966 World Cup to Mexico , for the 1970 World Cup to El Salvador (after the game there were serious riots with four deaths, which led to the football war between El Salvador Honduras and attracted) by themselves and for the 1974 World Cup in Haiti . For the 1978 World Cup , Honduras withdrew the message prematurely.
World Championship 1982
rank | country | Gates | Points |
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1 | Northern Ireland | 2: 1 | 4th |
2 | Spain | 3: 3 | 3 |
3 | Yugoslavia | 2: 2 | 3 |
4th | Honduras | 2: 3 | 2 |
The first participation in the finals followed at the Soccer World Cup in Spain in 1982 . Under coach José de la Paz Herrera, Honduras played in a group with hosts Spain as well as Northern Ireland and Yugoslavia . Against Spain, Honduras managed a surprising 1-1 draw. Also 1: 1 separated the Honduran team from Northern Ireland; Eduardo Laing scored the goal for the Hondurans . In the subsequent game a 0-1 defeat against the representatives from Yugoslavia followed. With two points, Honduras finished the group stage in fourth place in the table and was consequently eliminated from the tournament. Nevertheless, participation in the finals and the two points from the games against Spain and Northern Ireland was the Honduran team's greatest success so far.
World Championship 2010
rank | country | Gates | Points |
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1 | Spain | 4: 2 | 6th |
2 | Chile | 3: 2 | 6th |
3 | Switzerland | 1: 1 | 4th |
4th | Honduras | 0: 3 | 1 |
After Honduras first participated in the World Cup in Spain in 1982, it was no longer possible to qualify for a second participation in the finals in the following six qualifying rounds. The Honduran selection was only able to qualify again for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa .
In the preliminary round of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the Honduran national team met Chile (0: 1), Spain (0: 2) and Switzerland (0: 0) in Group H. With one point and no scoring, Honduras dropped out of the tournament as last group in 2010, just like in 1982.
World Championship 2014
rank | country | Gates | Points |
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1 | France | 8: 2 | 7th |
2 | Switzerland | 7: 6 | 6th |
3 | Ecuador | 3: 3 | 4th |
4th | Honduras | 1: 8 | 0 |
After participating in the finals of the 2010 World Cup, Honduras also qualified for the finals of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil . France , Ecuador and Switzerland were drawn as group opponents of group E. The first game against France, the Honduran team lost 3-0, with Honduras goalkeeper Noel Valladares undercutting an own goal and Wilson Palacios of the field. Honduras lost the second game against Ecuador 2-1, in the third group game the Swiss team lost 3-0 despite many good chances to score. Xherdan Shaqiri scored all three of the Swiss goals . This means that the Honduran national team was eliminated in fourth place in the preliminary round when they took part in the final round.
Championship of CONCACAF
CONCACAF Nation's Cup
In the years before the World Cup, the tournament also served as a World Cup qualifier.
- 1963 : fourth
- 1965 : not qualified
- 1967 : third
- 1969 : Disqualified due to the football war with El Salvador
- 1971 : sixth
- 1973 : fourth
- 1977 : Participation withdrawn before qualification began
- 1981 : winner
- 1985 : second
- 1989 : not qualified
CONCACAF Gold Cup
- 1991 - second
- 1993 - preliminary round
- 1996 - preliminary round
- 1998 - preliminary round
- 2000 - quarter-finals
- 2002 - did not qualify
- 2003 - preliminary round
- 2005 - semi-finals
- 2007 - quarter-finals
- 2009 - semi-finals
- 2011 - semi-finals
- 2013 - semi-finals
- 2015 - preliminary round
- 2017 - quarter-finals
- 2019 - preliminary round
- 2021 - qualified
Central American Championship
UNCAF Nations Cup
- 1991 - 2nd place
- 1993 - winner
- 1995 - winner
- 1997 - 4th place
- 1999 - 3rd place
- 2001 - preliminary round
- 2003 - 4th place
- 2005 - 2nd place
- 2007 - 5th place
- 2009 - 3rd place
Copa Centroamericana
Copa America
Honduras has so far participated once ( 2001 ) as a visiting team to replace Argentina in the Copa America and finished third. They defeated Brazil 2-0 in the quarter-finals, the only win against Brazil to date.
Record player
As of November 17, 2019
Games | Surname | Period |
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162 (156) | Maynor Figueroa | since 2003 |
138 (137) | Amado Guevara | 1994 to 2010 |
135 (134) | Noel Valladares | 2000 to 2016 |
125 (121) | Boniek García | since 2005 |
110 (105) | Emilio Izaguirre | since 2007 |
101 (100) | Carlos Pavón | 1993 to 2010 |
97 (96) | Wilson Palacios | 2003 to 2014 |
86 | Milton Nuñez | 1994 to 2008 |
86 | Victor Bernadez | 2004 to 2014 |
86 | Elvis Turcios | 1999 to 2010 |
85 | Jorge Aaron Claros | since 2007 |
83 | Julio de Leon Daily | 1999 to 2011 |
83 | Iván Guerrero | 1999 to 2010 |
78 | Carlo Costly | since 2007 |
71 | Samuel Caballero | 1998 to 2008 |
71 | Mario Roberto Martínez | since 2010 |
- Note: International matches against FIFA members counted by FIFA in brackets according to FIFA Century Club.
Record goal scorers
Gates | Surname | Games | Quota | World Cup goals | Gold Cup gates |
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57 | Carlos Pavón | 101 | 0.56 | 0 | 9 |
35 | Wilmer Velásquez | 48 | 0.73 | 3 | |
34 | Milton Nuñez | 86 | 0.4 | 2 | |
32 | Carlo Costly | 78 | 0.41 | 1 | 8th |
27 | Nicolás Suazo | 51 | 0.53 | ? | |
27 | Amado Guevara | 138 | 0.2 | 0 | 2 |
21st | Jerry Bengtson | 57 | 0.37 | 0 | ? |
Source: RSSSF.com
Other well-known players
Coach history
Trainer | Period |
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Peter Lange | 1974-1976 |
/ Flavio Ortega | 1991-1992, 2006 |
Estanislao Malinowski | 1993-1994 |
Carlos Carranza | 1995-1996 |
Miguel Company | 1997-1998 |
Ramón Maradiaga | 1999-2002 |
/ Bora Milutinović | 2003-2004 |
José de la Paz Herrera | 2005 |
Flavio Ortega | 2006 |
Reinaldo Rueda | 2006-2010 |
Alexis Mendoza | 2010 |
Juan de Dios Castillo | 2010-2011 |
Luis Fernando Suarez | 2011-2014 |
Hernan Medford | 2014 |
Jorge Luis Pinto | 2014-2017 |
Carlos Tábora | 2018 |
Jorge Jimenez | 2018-2019 |
Fabian Coito | 2019– |
International matches against German-speaking national soccer teams
date | place | Home team | result | Visiting team | |
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1. | June 25, 2010 | Bloemfontein ( ) | Honduras | 0-0 | Switzerland |
2. | June 25, 2014 | Manaus ( ) | Honduras | 0: 3 | Switzerland |
So far there have been no games against Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein.
Special occurrences
Football war with El Salvador
On June 26, 1969, after a playoff in qualifying for the 1970 World Cup between the Honduran and Salvadoran national teams in Mexico City , serious unrest broke out. The conflict over the immigration of Salvadorans to Honduras, which had been simmering for some time, caused riots after the second semi-final match, which were put down by the El Salvador police and military .
After the unrest that followed the play-off that El Salvador won in extra time, El Salvador decided to launch a military attack on Honduras with the aim of annexing the border areas in Honduras inhabited by Salvadoran emigrants or at least asserting a right of residence for the Salvadorans . The attack began on July 14, 1969, around three weeks after the playoff, and went down in history as the football war . The last international match between the conflicting parties is generally considered to be the trigger for the military escalation, even if the underlying reason for the war was different.
The Organization of American States was able to at least settle the armed conflict after a few days by threatening sanctions, so that the military intervention, sometimes also known as the 100-hour war , ended five days later, on July 18, 1969. In total, it cost 2100 lives, the Central American Free Trade Area was suspended for 24 years and the forced return of 300,000 Salvadorans from Honduras created a humanitarian and socially tense situation in El Salvador.
See also
- Honduran national soccer team
- Honduran National Football Team (U-17 Juniors)
- Honduran National Football Team (U-20 Men)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 .
- ↑ FIFA Century Club ( English ) FIFA. December 4, 2019. Retrieved May 3, 2020.
- ↑ Luis Fernando Passo Alpuin: Honduras - Record International Players ( English ) RSSSF.com. April 30, 2020. Accessed May 3, 2020.
- ↑ Alexis Mendoza - Profile on soccerway.com , accessed October 16, 2016
- ↑ Colombian Pinto new national coach in Honduras ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.