American football team
CD Olimpia
Club · Honduras · Liga Nacional
«Los Merengues»
Tegucigalpa sits crowded into a bowl of hills, its streets pitched steep enough that a flat pitch feels like a small miracle, and for over a century the capital has measured its own sporting weight against one club above the rest.
Club Deportivo Olimpia began in 1912 as a baseball side named for the Olympic Games, and only later, in the 1920s, did football become its business. The club marked its centenary in 2012, keeping 1912 as the year it counts from regardless of when the round ball took over.
Nothing in Honduran football rivals what Olimpia has built domestically. Thirty league titles have come since the professional era started in 1965, and the run of dominance produced a stretch few clubs anywhere can claim: in 2005–06, Olimpia won three consecutive championships. The side went through the 1969–70 season and, decades later, the 2023 Apertura, without losing a single match.
Continentally, the club's signature night came in 1988, in the semi-final of the CONCACAF Champions' Cup, when Olimpia beat Mexican giants Cruz Azul 2–1 at the Azteca Stadium itself, a result that still gets repeated in Tegucigalpa as proof the club could go into the lion's den and win there. That tournament was lifted twice, in 1972 and 1988, and the newer CONCACAF League followed the same pattern of doubling up, won in 2017 and again in 2022, the second time against Alajuelense on penalties after a 5–4 aggregate.
Home games are played at the Estadio Nacional Chelato Uclés, which holds 35,000, under the white shirts that give the club its nickname, Los Merengues, though supporters just as often call the team Los Leones, after the lion that has stood as its symbol since the founding.
Ask anyone in the capital which Olimpia team they'd point to first, and the 1988 Azteca night still gets mentioned before any trophy count does — a single result carrying more weight than the ledger it sits inside.
Latest results
All matches| 14 Sep | Liga Nacional |
CD Marathon
A
|
0:1 | L |
| 11 Sep | Concacaf Central American Cup |
Firpo
A
|
3:0 | W |
| 4 Sep | Liga Nacional |
Platense FC
H
|
4:1 | W |
| 30 Aug | Liga Nacional |
Estrella Roja
A
|
2:2 | D |
| 28 Aug | Concacaf Central American Cup |
Deportivo Saprissa
H
|
2:1 | W |
| 24 Aug | Liga Nacional |
Olancho
A
|
1:1 | D |
Standing
Liga NacionalGroup stage · Liga Nacional - Center Group
| # | Team | M | W | D | L | Goals | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 |
CD Olimpia
|
7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 15:7 | 14 |
| 4 |
 CD Motagua
|
7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 11:7 | 13 |
| 6 |
Olancho
|
7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 6:5 | 10 |
| 8 |
Estrella Roja
|
7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 13:14 | 9 |
| 9 |
 Lobos Upnfm
|
7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5:12 | 5 |
| 12 |
 Juticalpa
|
7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5:17 | 3 |
Team statistics
matches counted in total: 331| Metric | Total | Home | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matches | 331 | 164 | 167 |
| Scored | 634 | 368 | 266 |
| Conceded | 284 | 114 | 170 |
| Scored per game | 1.9 | 2.2 | 1.6 |
| Conceded per game | 0.9 | 0.7 | 1.0 |
| Difference | +350 | +254 | +96 |
Key players
by appearances over the last year
Edwin Alexander Rodríguez Castillo
Midfielder
1 Matches
E. Lobo
Defender
1 Matches
F. Garcia
Defender
1 Matches
José Mario Pinto Paz
Midfielder
1 Matches
R. Garcia
Defender
1 Matches
Jorge Renán Benguché Ramírez
Forward
1 Matches
Facundo Queiroz Martínez
Defender
1 Matches
Yustin Arboleda Buenaños
Defender
1 Matches
Squad of CD Olimpia
by appearances over the last year| Number | Player | Position | Age | Matches | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | |
Edwin Alexander Rodríguez Castillo |
Midfielder | 1 | |
| 44 | |
E. Lobo |
Defender | 21 | 1 |
| 6 | |
F. Garcia |
Defender | 22 | 1 |
| 7 | José Mario Pinto Paz |
Midfielder | 1 | ||
| 18 | R. Garcia |
Defender | 1 | ||
| 9 | Jorge Renán Benguché Ramírez |
Forward | 1 | ||
| 3 | Facundo Queiroz Martínez |
Defender | 1 | ||
| 19 | Yustin Arboleda Buenaños |
Defender | 1 | ||
| 77 |  D. Flores |
Forward | 1 | ||
| 40 |  K. Bennett |
Forward | 1 | ||
| 15 |  K. Guty |
Midfielder | 1 | ||
| 1 |  Edrick Eduardo Menjívar Jonhnson |
Goalkeeper | 1 | ||
| 23 |  Jorge Daniel Álvarez Rodas |
Forward | 1 | ||
| 32 |  Agustín Nicolás Mulet |
Midfielder | 1 | ||
| 31 |  Carlos Alfredo Sánchez Sánchez |
Defender | 1 | ||
| 2 |  Juan Emanuel Hernández Rodríguez |
Defender | 1 | ||
| 22 |  Onan Rodriguez |
Goalkeeper | 1 | ||
| 38 |  Rodbin Mejia |
Goalkeeper | 1 | ||
| 21 |  Josman Figueroa |
Defender | 1 | ||
| 5 |  Elison David Rivas Mejía |
Defender | 1 | ||
| 12 |  Minor Arsu |
Midfielder | 1 | ||
| 27 |  Jerry Ricardo Bengtson Bodden |
Forward | 1 |
Fixtures of CD Olimpia
-
18 Sep · 04:15
Firpo
H
Concacaf Central American Cup
-
21 Sep · 00:15
Atletico Independiente
H
Liga Nacional
-
14 Sep
CD Marathon
A
0:1
L
-
11 Sep
Firpo
A
3:0
W
-
4 Sep
Platense FC
H
4:1
W
-
30 Aug
Estrella Roja
A
2:2
D
-
28 Aug
Deportivo Saprissa
H
2:1
W
-
24 Aug
Olancho
A
1:1
D
-
21 Aug
Alianza FC
A
3:1
W
-
17 Aug
CD Motagua
H
3:1
W
Honours of CD Olimpia
- Liga Nacional 1967, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1978, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2012, 2013, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 30
- CONCACAF Champions' Cup 1972, 1988 2
- CONCACAF League 2017, 2022 2
Transfers
TransfersArrivals
- Roque Santa Cruz Olimpia U19 98/99
- Marino Arzamendia Dep. Riestra 27/28
- Nicolás Dibble Mushuc Runa SC 26/27
- Cesar Mingo Guaraní 26/27
- J. Barreto Atlético-GO 26/27
- Axel Alfonso Limache 26/27
Departures
- Roque Santa Cruz Bayern Munich 99/00 €5.00M
- Facundo Insfran Al-Wahda 26/27 €613.97K
- Jerry Bengtson Olancho FC 26/27
- Minor Arsu Platense FC 26/27
- Josman Figueroa Génesis PN 26/27
- Carlos Sánchez CD Victoria 26/27