This article is about Honduran club, for the Spanish club see CD Victoria.

Victoria

Full name	Club Deportivo Victoria
Nickname(s)	Jaibas Bravas Lecheros
Founded	15 November 1935
Ground	Estadio Ceibeño La Ceiba, Honduras (Capacity: 18,000)
Chairman	César Nastash Butto
Manager	Ricardo Ortiz
League	LINA
2007-08 Clausura	6th
Home colours Away colours

Club Deportivo Victoria is an Honduran football club based in La Ceiba, Atlántida. The club has been champions once and runners-up once.

[edit] History

Club Deportivo Victoria was founded on November 15, 1935 in La Ceiba. The club started out as the Instituto Manuel Bonilla which later was renamed Club Deportivo Victoria. The club was founded by the Hungarian Francisco Detari Olah. He first started out as a soccer player in Puerto Cortez with Excelsior soccer club (now known as Platense), eventually being nationalized to play with the Honduran national team. He then took over the Instituto Manuel Bonilla and the club won the first national tournament in 1947 beating Motagua 3-2. His legacy is still remember in La Ceiba as the guy who made Victoria who they are now. Later Miguel J. Kawas became president leading Victoria to their league title in the 1994-1995 league.^[1]

In 1995, the club managed to win their first championship in 47 years by defeating Club Deportivo Olimpia in a two-legged final. The club has also had some international success. In 2006, they manage to beat Deportivo Saprissa of Costa Rica on their way to finish in fourth place in the UNCAF tournament.

[edit] Honours

[edit] National level

• Champions at Liga Amateur de Honduras: 1

1947-48

• Champions at Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Honduras: 1

1994-95

• Runner Up at Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Honduras: 1

2005-06 Clausura

• Runner Up at Honduran Cup: 2

1992-93, 1996-97

[edit] International level

• 4th place at Copa Interclubes UNCAF: 1

2006

[edit] All time top scorers

(As of 29 March 2007)

• Luis Alonso "Chorompo" Zúniga (39 goals)
• Enrique Reneau (37 goals)
• Reynaldo Mejía (33 goals)
• Héctor “Tanqueta” Flores (31 goals)

[edit] Longest unbeaten record

• 18 games

[edit] International competition

• 2006 Copa Interclubes UNCAF
  • First Round v. San Francisco F.C. -- 1:0, 3:1
  • Quarterfinals v. Saprissa -- 0:1, 2:0
  • Semifinals v. CD Olimpia -- 2:2, 0:2
  • 3rd place v. Marquense -- 0:3, 1:1

• 1996 CONCACAF Champions' Cup
  • Round 1 v. FC Corozal (Blz) -- 1:3, 2:4
  • Round 2 v. Arabe Unido (Pan)-- 1:0, 2:2
  • Round 3 v. Cruz Azul (Mex) -- 1:0, 0:2

[edit] League performance

• Data since 1994-95

• Victoria were relegated on 2002-03 Clausura but bought Honduras Salzburg's franchise for next season.

[edit] Records

[edit] Current squad

Apertura 2007-2008

No. Position Player GK John Bodden GK Diego Vásquez GK Kenneth Zapata DF Ninrod Medina DF Mario Gómez DF Júnior Izaguirre DF Pablo Montes DF Orleans Fúnez DF Henry Bermúdez DF Pedro Fernández MF Juan Raudales MF Carlos Moran MF Richard Pérez

No. Position Player MF José Pineda MF Dictmar Hernández FW Carlos Discua FW Víctor Mena Ortiz FW Juan Cárcamo FW Johnny Avila FW Leonel Maldonado FW Erick Ayala FW Mauricio Copete

[edit] List of coaches

• Ricardo Ortiz
• Ramón Maradiaga
• Jorge Tupinambá dos Santos

[edit] References