The National Stadium of Tegucigalpa's construction was approved during the administration of Tiburcio Carías Andino with a decree issued by then Minister of Education Ángel G. Hernández[1] and finished in 1948.

With the purpose of getting the qualifying matches of the Honduran soccer team towards South Africa 2010, for the National stadium; the president of the National Commission for Sports Facilities (CONAPID), officially announced on April 9, 2007, the purchase abroad of synthetic grass by the government of the Republic.

On February 8, 2009, the giant screen placed in the national stadium was turned on for the first time; many years went by without a suitable electronic scoreboard for this monument to sport.

It weighs about 4,500 pounds (2,041 kg) and has a capacity of 549 trillion colors, built in blocks, to facilitate future repairs.

Since the stadium had not received mentoring for more than a decade and since it was becoming obsolete due to the new standards, the change of its grass was announced, since it was imported from Europe, in addition to the installation of 18,000 new seats in the other areas of the stadium, this in addition to the process of repair and remodeling of the bathrooms of the same.