[citation needed] In the territories that are now Honduras, the Mayans in Copán played the game of Pok-ta-pok in fields within their cities.

The practice of this new sport attracted the curiosity of the inhabitants of the port, who saw how the English sailors had fun playing football.

In 1906, the republic's government hired a Guatemalan professor named Miguel Arcangel to teach football at the Escuela Normal de Varones in Tegucigalpa.

Three years later, the Spanish monk Niglia introduced the game at the Instituto Salesiano San Miguel in Comayagua.

It for that reason that, in 1906, the government hired the services of Miguel Saravia, a Guatemalan, to give football classes for the students of the School of Men of Tegucigalpa.

Three years later, Saravia would be joined by his Spanish father, Niglia, to teach football, but this time in the Salesian Institute San Miguel of Comayagüela.

Other clubs were founded in Tegucigalpa, such as Lituania, Signos, Trebol, Honduras, Atletico Deportes, La Nueva Era, Colon and Spring.

None of them exist now.After the foundation of the Club Olimpia, football in Honduras was reaching greater levels of growth through the 1920s.

Further north, the city of Puerto Cortés saw the foundation of the club Excelsior in 1925, and in La Ceiba a team known as Naco appeared in 1929.

In other places around the country, community leaders and football fans followed the example of these clubs and formed local teams.

[5] In the second most important city, San Pedro Sula, football began to gain strength only with the foundation of C.D.

Bad financial management, its lack of planning, and in some cases its politicisation, has sometimes provoked chaos in this sporting entity.

The first championship began in 1948 in the recently inaugurated Estadio Tiburcio Carias Andino, when Victoria became champions by beating Motagua.

Due to the high support the League received at this time, the Confederacy Sports School Extra of Honduras (F.N.D.E.H.)

A decade later, under the leadership of Hémerito F. Hernández and Féderico Bunker Aguilar (who had pioneered the creation of CONCACAF at the same time), the idea of the First National League of Football took shape between 1962 and 1963.

Several teams, including Olimpia, Troya, España, Honduras de El Progreso, Vida, Marathón, Motagua, La Salle, and Atlético Español Glidden, sent delegates, who were selected as the first Provisional Board of Directors, comprising: President Oscar Lara Mejía, Secretary José T. Castañeda, Treasurer Jesus J. Handal, with Humberto Soriano Aguilar, Oscar Kirckonell, Alfredo Bueso and René Bendeck.

The first matches of the new National League were played on 18 July 1965 with the following results: Olimpia 3–0 Marathón; España 1–0 Troya; Honduras 3–0 Atlético Español; Vida 4–1 Motagua; and Platense 6–2 La Salle.

Pedro Deras of El Progreso de Honduras was the first scorer of the National League in the 5th minute against Atlético Español.

More recent stories of success include David Suazo and Julio César de León in Italy.

Honduras have several stadiums, most of them of medium size.The average home attendances of the Apertura edition of the 2023-24 Liga Betcris: