Club Deportivo Real Juventud is a Honduran

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club based in Santa Bárbara, Santa Bárbara. The club currently plays in the Honduran second division, after being promoted from the Honduran top tier in summer 2011.

History

Real Juventud was founded in 1966. Since their foundation, Real Juventud used to play in the ''Fraternidad Junquera'' league in Santa Barbara. In 1983, the club started playing in

Liga Nacional de Ascenso de Honduras Liga de Ascenso (Promotion League) is the second division of Honduran football; it was founded on 17 December 1979 as ''Segunda División'' (Second Division) and renamed ''Liga de Ascenso'' (Promotion League) on 21 July 2002. The league is divide ...

after they bought a category in that league. For the rest of their history, they played in Liga de Ascenso de Honduras until 2008 when they earned a promotion to

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, the highest league in Honduras, by winning both

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and

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championships after defeating

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from

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and

Social Sol Club Deportivo Social Sol is a Honduran football team based in Olanchito, Yoro. The club was promoted to the Honduran Liga Nacional for the first time in 2016 and competed in the 2016–17 season. History Social Sol was founded on 13 April ...

from

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respectively. Their games for the 2008/2009 Apertura tournament will be televised by Honduran Channel 11. Since playing in

Liga de Ascenso de Honduras Liga de Ascenso (Promotion League) is the second division of Honduran football; it was founded on 17 December 1979 as ''Segunda División'' (Second Division) and renamed ''Liga de Ascenso'' (Promotion League) on 21 July 2002. The league is divide ...

, Real Juventud has had a working relationship with Marathon. For the upcoming tournament, Marathon has promised to loan out players to Real Juventud that are not part of the plans of their manager Manuel Keosseian.

Relegation and merge with Gualala

Before the start on the 2009–10 Apertura season, ''

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'' achieved promotion to first division on 2008–09, however before the start of the tournament they choose to merge with Real Juventud who had recently relegated the same season, and then decided to stay with the name Real Juventud. Juventud were relegated in April 2010 after they had 4 points deducted after a group of former players claimed the club still owed them money. This decision by the National Arbitration Tribunal saved

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from the drop.Savio se salva de milagro
– La Prensa

Achievements

Liga de Ascenso Liga (Spanish and Portuguese: ''League'') or LIGA may refer to: Sports Basketball * Liga ACB, men's professional basketball league in Spain * Liga Femenina de Baloncesto, women's professional basketball league in Spain Football Latin Ameri ...

**Winners (2): 2007–08 A, 2007–08 C **Runners-up (1): 2005–06 C

League performance

References

External links

Official Website
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