Estadio Tiburcio CarÃas Andino
CD Olimpia CD Motagua
- Games for CD Olimpia and CD Motagua
- Matches the Honduran national football team
The Estadio Nacional de Tegucigalpa is a football stadium in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa. It can accommodate approximately 35,000 spectators and is the home ground of CD Olimpia and CD Motagua, the two most successful clubs in the country. Olimpia won in 1972 and 1988, the Concacaf Champions League. 1982, the Central American finalist \ qualifying for the Fussballweltrmeisterschaft in Spain in 1982 took place here. The stadium is state-owned and managed by the Comisión Nacional Pro Instalaciones Deportivas ( CONAPID ).
The stadium, Estadio Tiburcio Carias Andino often after the former president of Honduras, Tiburcio Carias Andino, called, was built in 1948 during his term of office. On March 15, 1948, was a baseball match between Honduras and Cuba. A short time later, the stadium was used for a four - nation tournament of national teams from Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Panama. Until today, achieved a number of Central American soccer tournaments were held, such as the Norceca 1967 or the Youth Central America Championships 1990. The stadium also served as the site of the last qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup in Spain in 1982, when the national team of Honduras in this stadium by victories over Haiti, Mexico. Cuba, Canada and the old rival El Salvador secured the first participation in a World Cup. In Spain, however Honduras failed after the first round.