2024–25 F.C. Motagua season

Motagua
2024–25 season
Chairman	Eduardo Atala
Manager	Diego Vásquez
Stadium	Estadio Nacional
Apertura	TBD
Clausura	TBD
CONCACAF Central American Cup	TBD
	← 2023–24 2025–26 →
	All statistics correct as of 25 June 2024.

The 2024–25 season will be F.C. Motagua's 78th season in existence and the club's 59th consecutive season in the top fight of Honduran football. In addition to the domestic league, the club will also compete in the 2024 CONCACAF Central American Cup.

Overview[edit]

The club will try to improve their 2023–24 season where they finished title-less.

Kits[edit]

The 2024–25 home, away and third kits were published on 25 June.

Manufacturer		Main sponsor
Joma		Pepsi
Home	Away	Alternative	Goalkeeper

Players[edit]

Transfers in[edit]

Player	Contract date	Moving from
Jhen Portillo	21 May 2024	Vida^[1]
Óscar Padilla	22 May 2024	Génesis^[2]

Transfers out[edit]

Player	Released date	Moving to
Marcelo Pereira	13 June 2024	Cartaginés

Squad[edit]

As of 13 June 2024

Only league matches into account

No.	Pos.	Player name	Date of birth and age	Games played			Goals scored
				< 23/24	24/25	Total	< 23/24	24/25	Total
2	DF	Kevin Álvarez	(1996-08-03)3 August 1996 (aged 27)	33	0	33	1	0	1
3	DF	Carlos Meléndez	(1997-12-08)8 December 1997 (aged 26)	77	0	77	5	0	5
4	MF	Luis Vega	(2002-02-28)28 February 2002 (aged 22)	24	0	24	3	0	3
6	DF	Ricky Zapata	(1997-11-23)23 November 1997 (aged 26)	25	0	25	0	0	0
7	MF	Jorge Serrano	(1998-01-19)19 January 1998 (aged 26)	17	0	17	1	0	1
8	MF	Walter Martínez	(1991-03-26)26 March 1991 (aged 33)	237	0	237	23	0	23
9	FW	Rubilio Castillo	(1991-11-26)26 November 1991 (aged 32)	188	0	188	105	0	105
10	MF	Yeison Mejía	(1998-01-18)18 January 1998 (aged 26)	35	0	35	7	0	7
11	FW	Agustín Auzmendi	(1997-02-01)1 February 1997 (aged 27)	41	0	41	26	0	26
12	MF	Raúl Santos	(1992-08-02)2 August 1992 (aged 31)	202	0	202	7	0	7
14	MF	Carlos Argueta	(1999-01-06)6 January 1999 (aged 25)	38	0	38	3	0	3
15	MF	Edwin Maldonado	(1994-03-04)4 March 1994 (aged 30)	41	0	41	0	0	0
16	MF	Carlos Mejía	(2000-02-19)19 February 2000 (aged 24)	96	0	96	10	0	10
17	DF	Wesly Decas	(1999-08-11)11 August 1999 (aged 24)	134	0	134	1	0	1
19	GK	Jonathan Rougier	(1987-10-29)29 October 1987 (aged 36)	235	0	235	1	0	1
21	MF	Rodrigo Gómez	(1993-01-02)2 January 1993 (aged 31)	17	0	17	1	0	1
22	FW	Edwin Munguía	(2006-05-04)4 May 2006 (aged 18)	1	0	1	0	0	0
23	MF	Juan Delgado	(1992-07-21)21 July 1992 (aged 31)	127	0	127	9	0	9
24	FW	Antony García	(2004-10-29)29 October 2004 (aged 19)	7	0	7	0	0	0
25	GK	Marlon Licona	(1991-02-09)9 February 1991 (aged 33)	142	0	142	0	0	0
26	MF	Denis Meléndez	(1995-07-22)22 July 1995 (aged 28)	26	0	26	1	0	1
27	DF	Cristopher Meléndez	(1997-11-25)25 November 1997 (aged 26)	125	0	125	5	0	5
29	FW	Rodrigo Auzmendi	(2001-01-02)2 January 2001 (aged 23)	7	0	7	1	0	1
32	MF	Jonathan Núñez	(2001-11-26)26 November 2001 (aged 22)	83	0	83	3	0	3
33	MF	Héctor Castellanos	(1992-12-28)28 December 1992 (aged 31)	242	0	242	4	0	4
34	DF	Giancarlos Sacaza	(2004-01-18)18 January 2004 (aged 20)	3	0	3	0	0	0
38	FW	Mathías Vásquez	(2006-12-15)15 December 2006 (aged 17)	1	0	1	1	0	1
47	–	Santos Sambulá	(2004-08-29)29 August 2004 (aged 19)	1	0	1	0	0	0
50	FW	Aaron Barrios	(2004-10-19)19 October 2004 (aged 19)	13	0	13	0	0	0
51	–	Jordan García	(2006-03-31)31 March 2006 (aged 18)	1	0	1	0	0	0
–	DF	Jhen Portillo	(2002-12-02)2 December 2002 (aged 21)	0	0	0	0	0	0
–	MF	Óscar Padilla	(1992-11-07)7 November 1992 (aged 31)	0	0	0	0	0	0
Manager		Diego Vásquez	(1971-07-03)3 July 1971 (aged 52)	26 November 2023 –

Goalkeeper's action[edit]

As of 2 June 2024

Goalkeeper	Years evaluated	Games	Goals	Per.
Jonathan Rougier	2017–present	235	237	1.009
Marlon Licona	2010–2017, 2018–2023, 2024–present	142	154	1.085

International caps[edit]

As of 2 June 2024

This is a list of players that were playing for Motagua during the 2024–25 season and were called to represent Honduras at different international competitions.

Player	Team	Event	Caps	Goals
TBD	TBD	TBD	0	0

Results[edit]

All times are local CST unless stated otherwise

Preseason and friendlies[edit]

7 July 2024 Friendly	Motagua	v	Municipal	New Orleans, United States
17:00				Stadium: Behrman Stadium

12 July 2024 Friendly	Horizon Houston	v	Motagua	Houston, United States
				Stadium: Sheldon ISD Panther Stadium

14 July 2024 Friendly	Miami United	v	Motagua	Hialeah, United States
17:30 EST				Stadium: Ted Hendricks Stadium

16 July 2024 Friendly	Comunicaciones	v	Motagua	Hartford, United States
17:00 EST				Stadium: Trinity Health Stadium

Apertura[edit]

Week 1

v

Clausura[edit]

Week 1

v

CONCACAF Central American Cup[edit]

F.C. Motagua qualified to the 2024 CONCACAF Central American Cup as the third best placed non-champion from the 2023–24 domestic league.^[3]

30 July 2024 Group A	Diriangén	v	Motagua	Diriamba, Nicaragua
18:00				Stadium: Estadio Cacique Diriangén
Note: This will be the first ever encounter between these two teams.

7 August 2024 Group A	Motagua	v	San Francisco	Tegucigalpa, Honduras
18:00				Stadium: Estadio Nacional
Note: This will be the first encounter between these two teams since 2007.

13 August 2024 Group A	Motagua	v	Tauro	Tegucigalpa, Honduras
18:00				Stadium: Estadio Nacional
Note: This will be the first encounter between these two teams since 2022.

28 August 2024 Group A	Herediano	v	Motagua	Heredia, Costa Rica
20:00				Stadium: Estadio Eladio Rosabal Cordero
Note: This will be the first encounter between these two teams since 2018.

Statistics[edit]

As of 2 June 2024

Competition	GP	GW	GD	GL	GF	GA	GD	CS	SG	Per
Liga Nacional	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00%
CONCACAF Central American Cup	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00%
Others	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00%
Totals	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00%

References[edit]

^ "Clever Portillo nuevo jugador del Motagua". Motagua.com. Motagua.com. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
^ "Oscar Discua segundo refuerzo de Motagua". DiarioMas.hn. Diario Mas. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
^ "Alianza FC, San Francisco complete Central American Cup field". Concacaf.com. CONCACAF. Retrieved 23 May 2024.

External links[edit]

Official website

[1] "Clever Portillo nuevo jugador del Motagua". Motagua.com. Motagua.com. Retrieved 21 May 2024.

[2] "Oscar Discua segundo refuerzo de Motagua". DiarioMas.hn. Diario Mas. Retrieved 22 May 2024.

[3] "Alianza FC, San Francisco complete Central American Cup field". Concacaf.com. CONCACAF. Retrieved 23 May 2024.

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v t e F.C. Motagua
Founded in 1928 Based in Tegucigalpa
Seasons	1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25
Reserve team	F.C. Motagua Reserves
Players and managers	Players Managers
Rivalries	Honduran Superclásico Motagua–Real España football rivalry Clásico de las M's
Grounds	Campo La Isla (1928–1948) Estadio Nacional Chelato Uclés (1948–)
Others	Records and statistics Copa Ciclón
Honors (29)
Liga Nacional (18)	1968–69 1970–71 1973–74 1978–79 1991–92 1997–98 A 1997–98 C 1999–00 A 1999–00 C 2001–02 A 2006–07 A 2010–11 C 2014–15 A 2016–17 A 2016–17 C 2018–19 A 2018–19 C 2021–22 C
Honduran Cup (1)	1968
Honduran Supercup (2)	1999 2017
UNCAF Interclub Cup (1)	2007
Amateur League (2)	1948 1950–51
Francisco Morazán Major League (5)	1947 1948 1950 1951 1954
Website: www.motagua.com

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Domestic leagues	Liga Nacional Liga de Ascenso Liga Mayor
Domestic cups	Honduran Cup Honduran Supercup
CONCACAF club competitions	CONCACAF Champions Cup CONCACAF Central American Cup
Related to national teams	Results FIFA World Cup qualification CONCACAF U-20 Championship
Club seasons
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