Estadio General Francisco Morazán

[4] The Francisco Morazán Stadium has hosted major sporting events Including tournaments and World Cup qualifying matches for the senior Honduran teams.

[5] The General Francisco Morazán Stadium is located between the 12 and 14 Avenue of the modern city of San Pedro Sula in Honduras.

This city is considered or called the industrial capital of Honduras for its commercial importance and its considerable number of inhabitants.

Also, the Francisco Morazán stadium is very close to access roads linking the city of San Pedro Sula, with the capital Tegucigalpa and Puerto Cortes, the country's largest port.

That it was around that time (1938), when teams of the neighborhood and surrounding communities began to carry out their sporting events, right where the stadium is now located.

While other locals support Muñoz's claim, and have repeatedly said, that this was initially a park with basketball, baseball, tennis and football courts.

According to some inhabitants of the city; from the year of 1940, patriotic parades of the city of San Pedro Sula began in Central Park and always ended in the Morazán Boulevard where the colleges and schools, such as the José Trinidad Reyes and the José Cecilio del Valle among many others, crowned the statue of the General Francisco Morazán.

While newspaper La Prensa of San Pedro Sula entitled; "Fans destroyed the Morazán Stadium."

Due to many complaints from different coaches, who argued that the turf was too hard, the stadium's authorities proceeded to resurface the Bermuda Type Grass.

Made their best efforts to make this stadium look good, before the start of the 2015 Under 17 Championship of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF).

Here were held World Cup qualifying games for the senior Honduras national team as well as Under 17, and Under 20 CONCACAF youth championships.

For example, in 1978 CONCACAF awarded Honduras the Under 20 youth tournament for the purpose of qualifying the area's two teams to the world cup to be held in Japan in 1979.

In July 2014 The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football, granted San Pedro Sula the rights to organize the qualifying tournament for the Chile 2015 World Cup for teams Under 17.

While Costa Rica, Canada, Mexico and Trinidad and Tobago went to the Olimpico Metropolitano stadium of the same city of San Pedro Sula.

In modern times, the Francisco Morazan Stadium has also hosted qualifying games for the senior national soccer team.

In 1996, the Honduras national football team played games against Jamaica (0-0), Saint Vincent (11-3), and the historic win (2-1) against Mexico on September 21, 1996.

On May 6, 2015, The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football Asociació announced that Honduras will host the Women's Under-20 CONCACAF Championship, scheduled for December.

"The efforts of the Honduran Federation for having championships in San Pedro Sula demonstrates the growth of women's football in Central America."

"In North America, are already automatically qualified nations of Canada, United States and Mexico, while sorting processes in CFU and UNCAF will be made in the coming months.

Youth World Cup qualifying game at estadio Morazan in 2015