Honduran national soccer team

Honduras
República de Honduras

Nickname (s)	Los Catrachos, La Bicolor La Selección, Garra Catracha
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)
First jersey Second jersey Third jersey
statistics
First international match Guatemala 10: 1 Honduras ( Guatemala City , Guatemala ; September 14, 1921)
Biggest win Honduras 10-0 Nicaragua ( San José , Costa Rica ; March 13, 1946)
Biggest defeat Guatemala 10: 1 Honduras ( Guatemala City , Guatemala ; 14 September 1921)
Successes in tournaments
World Championship
Participation in the finals	3 ( first : 1982 )
Best results	Preliminary round 1982 , 2010 and 2014
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

→ Main article : Honduran National Football Team / 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

→ Main article : Honduran National Football Team / World Cups

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

→ Main article : Football World Cup 1982 / Honduras

rank	country	Gates	Points
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

→ Main article : Soccer World Cup 2010 / Honduras

rank	country	Gates	Points
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

→ Main article : 2014 World Cup / Honduras

rank	country	Gates	Points
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

• 2011 - winner
• 2013 - 2nd place
• 2014 - 5th place
• 2017 - winner

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
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
097 (96)	Wilson Palacios	2003 to 2014
086	Milton Nuñez	1994 to 2008
086	Victor Bernadez	2004 to 2014
086	Elvis Turcios	1999 to 2010
085	Jorge Aaron Claros	since 2007
083	Julio de Leon Daily	1999 to 2011
083	Iván Guerrero	1999 to 2010
078	Carlo Costly	since 2007
071	Samuel Caballero	1998 to 2008
071	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
57	Carlos Pavón	101	0.56	0	9
35	Wilmer Velásquez	048	0.73		3
34	Milton Nuñez	086	0.4		2
32	Carlo Costly	078	0.41	1	8th
27	Nicolás Suazo	051	0.53		?
27	Amado Guevara	138	0.2	0	2
21st	Jerry Bengtson	057	0.37	0	?

Source: RSSSF.com

Other well-known players

Honduran team for the 2008 Olympic Games

• Edgar Anthony Reyes Alvarez
• Maynor René Suazo
• David Suazo
• Julio Suazo

Coach history

Trainer	Period
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
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

→ Main article : Football war

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

1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
2. ↑ FIFA Century Club ( English ) FIFA. December 4, 2019. Retrieved May 3, 2020.
3. ↑ Luis Fernando Passo Alpuin: Honduras - Record International Players ( English ) RSSSF.com. April 30, 2020. Accessed May 3, 2020.
4. ↑ Alexis Mendoza - Profile on soccerway.com , accessed October 16, 2016
5. ↑ 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.