2016–17 Primera División de Fútbol Profesional season

Primera División de Fútbol Profesional de El Salvador
Season	2016–17
Champions	TBD
Relegated	TBD
Champions League	TBD
Biggest home win	TBD 8–0 TBD (February 12, 2016)
Biggest away win	TBD 0–5 TBD (November 22, 2015)
Highest scoring	TBD 3–4 TBD (August 9, 2015)
Longest winning run	games by: TBD
Longest unbeaten run	games by: TBD
Longest winless run	games by: TBD
Longest losing run	games by: TBD
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The 2016–17 Primera División de Fútbol Profesional season (also known as the Liga Pepsi) is the 18th season and 35th and 36th tournament of El Salvador's Primera División since its establishment of an Apertura and Clausura format. Alianza and Dragon were the defending champions of the Apertura and Clausura, respectively. The league will consist of 12 teams. There will be two seasons conducted under identical rules, with each team playing a home and away game against the other clubs for a total of 22 games per tournament. At the end of each half-season tournament, the top 8 teams in that tournament's regular season standings will take part in the playoffs. The champions of Apertura and Clausura will both qualify for the 2017–18 CONCACAF Champions League. Should the same team win both tournaments, the runners-up with the best aggregate record will qualify for the Champions League.

Team information

A total of 12 teams will contest the league, including 11 sides from the 2015-16 Primera División and 1 promoted from the 2015–16 Segunda División.

C.D. Atlético Marte were relegated to 2016–17 Segunda División the previous season.

The relegated team was replaced by the 2015–16 Segunda División playoffs promotion winner. C.D. Municipal Limeno won the Apertura 2015 and Clausura 2016 title, meaning there was no need for a promotion playoff and were promoted automatically.

Promotion and relegation

Promoted from Segunda División de Fútbol Salvadoreño as of June, 2016.

Champions: C.D. Municipal Limeño

Relegated to Segunda División de Fútbol Salvadoreño as of June, 2016.

Last Place: Atlético Marte

Stadia and locations

Location of teams in Apertura 2016/Clausura 2017

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
Águila	San Miguel	Juan Francisco Barraza	10,000
Alianza	San Salvador	Estadio Cuscatlán	53,400
Chalatenango	Chalatenango	Estadio José Gregorio Martínez	15,000
Dragón	San Miguel	Juan Francisco Barraza	10,000
FAS	Santa Ana	Estadio Óscar Quiteño	15,000
Firpo	Usulután	Estadio Sergio Torres	5,000
Isidro Metapán	Metapán	Estadio Jorge Calero Suárez	8,000
Limeño	Santa Rosa de Lima	Estadio Jose Ramon Flores	5,000
Pasaquina	Pasaquina	Estadio San Sebastián	5,000
Santa Tecla	Santa Tecla	Estadio Las Delicias	10,000
Sonsonate	Sonsonate	Estadio Anna Mercedes Campos	8,000
UES	San Salvador	Estadio Universitario UES	32,000

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
Águila	Pedro Arieta	Edgardo Malvestiti	Joma	Tigo, Canal 4, Pollo Campesto
Alianza	Lisandro Pohl	Daniel Fernández	Lotto	Canal 4, Mister Donut, Tigo, Gatorade, Veca airlines, Brahva
Chalatenango	Francisco Peraza	Rubén Alonso	Milán	Ferreteria Lemus, Alcaldía Municipal de Chalatenango, Canal 4, Agua Fria,Galletas Choco Risas, Funerales la Nueva Proteccion
Dragón	Roberto Pérez	Omar Sevilla	Milán	Canal 4, L.A. Pizza, credito segguro 4orro
FAS	Guillermo Morán	Osvaldo Escudero	Milán	Coop-1 de R.L., Pilsener, Tigo, Canal 4
Firpo	Raúl Galo	Jose Mario Martinez	Galaxia	Dial Fm, Pilsener
Isidro Metapán	Rafael Morataya	Jorge Rodríguez	Milán	Arroz San Pedro, Gumarsal, Don Frijol, Canal 4, Sistema Porcredita
Limeño	Rómulo Gómez	Mauricio Alfaro	Galaxia	Innova S Sport, Panama Electronic, Royal, Fanny
Pasaquina	Óscar Ramírez	Hugo Ovelar	Milán	Canal 4, Tigo, Tienda Libre, Farmacias Brasil, ZZpita
Sonsonate	Pedro Contreras	Agustín Castillo	Rush Atletic wear	ProACES, Caja de Crédito de Sonsonate, Alcadia Municipal Sonsonate, Canal 4, Leche salud, Ferreteria Santa Sofia, Coop-1
Santa Tecla	José Vidal Hernández	Ernesto Corti	Milán	Powerade, DLC, Canal 21, Plaza Merliot, Pollo Indio, Petrox, Claro, Dizucar, Bolivar,Toledo , the moustache
UES	Rufino Quezada	Edgar Henríquez	Galaxia	Canal 4

Managerial changes

Before the start of the season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Sonsonate	Mario Elias Guevara	Interim finished	2016	Agustín Castillo	2016	7th (Clausura 2015)
FAS	Roberto Gamarra	Resigned	2016	Osvaldo Escudero	2016	th (Clausura 2016)
Chalatenango	Ricardo Serrano	Contract not extended	2016	Rubén Alonso	2016	8th (Clausura 2016)
Santa Tecla	Osvaldo Escudero	Resigned, hired as FAS coach	2016	Ernesto Corti	June 2016	1st (Clausura 2016)
Águila	Juan Ramón Sánchez	Sacked	June 2016	Edgardo Malvestiti	June 2016	1st (Clausura 2016)
Municipal Limeño	Carlos Romero	Mutual consent	July 2016	Mauricio Alfaro	July 2016	Newly promoted

During the Apertura season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Alianza F.C.	Daniel Fernández	Resigned	August 2016	Milton Melendez	August 2016	11th (Apertura 2015)
Firpo	Jose Mario Martinez	Sacked	September 2016	Juan Ramón Sánchez	September 2016	11th (Apertura 2015)
Dragon	Omar Sevilla	Resigned	September 2016	Nelson Mauricio Ancheta	September 2016	12th (Apertura 2015)
Chalatenango	Ruben Alonso	Resigned	October 2016	Geovanni Portillo	October 2016	11th (Apertura 2015)
UES	Edgar Henríquez	Resigned	October 2016	Horacio Reyes	October 2016	12th (Apertura 2015)
UES	Horacio Reyes	Interim Finished	October 2016	Efrain Burgos	October 2016	12th (Apertura 2015)
Municipal Limeno	Mauricio Alfaro	Resigned (due to family issues)	November 2016	Francisco Robles	November 2016	9th (Apertura 2015)
Aguila	Edgardo Malvestiti	Sacked	November 2016	Darío Larrosa	November 2016	1st (Apertura 2015)

Between Apertura and Clausura seasons

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Pasaquina	Hugo Ovelar	Resigned	December 2016		December 2016	8th (Apertura 2016)

Apertura 2016

League table

Template:2016–17 Primera División de Fútbol Profesional season Apertura table

Results

Home ╲ Away	ÁGU	ALI	CHA	DRA	FAS	FIR	MET	LIM	PAS	STE	SON	UES
Águila		2–1	0–1	0–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	5–1
Alianza	1–2		4–0	4–2	1–2	4–1	1–1	0–1	2–2	4–2	4–1	2–0
Chalatenango	0–2	2–3		3–4	1–1	2–0	1–2	1–2	2–1	1–2	2–2	2–2
Dragón	0–0	0–1	1–2		0–0	0–1	2–1	1–2	0–1	1–2	0–0	1–2
FAS	0–0	2–2	0–0	2–0		1–0	1–0	1–2	2–1	1–2	0–3	3–1
Firpo	2–2	0–4	1–0	0–0	1–1		0–3	2–3	1–0	1–1	0–1	3–0
Isidro Metapán	1–1	1–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–3		1–1	4–1	3–2	3–2	2–0
Limeno	1–2	0–2	2–0	3–2	2–2	0–0	0–0		3–1	1–1	1–1	1–1
Pasaquina	2–1	2–1	3–1	1–1	2–1	0–4	1–2	1–0		2–0	0–2	0–0
Santa Tecla	1–2	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	2–2	2–1	3–0	1–1		0–0	2–1
Sonsonate	0–0	2–2	0–1	3–0	1–2	2–1	1–0	4–2	4–1	2–0		1–0
UES	0–1	1–1	3–3	2–2	1–2	1–2	1–2	2–4	3–5	2–1	2–3

The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Scoring

First goal of the season: Guillermo Stradella for C.D. FAS against UES, 21 minutes (July 29, 2016)
First goal by a foreign player: Guillermo Stradella for C.D. FAS against UES, 21 minutes (July 29, 2016)
Fastest goal in a match: 2 minutes
- Eder Arias for C.D. Chalatenango against A.D. Isidro Metapan (August 16, 2016)
Goal scored at the latest point in a match: 90+1 minutes
- Johnathan Aguila for C.D. FAS against UES (July 29, 2016)
First penalty Kick of the season: TBD for TBD against TBD, 89 minutes (August 3, 2016)
Widest winning margin: 4 goals
- Alianza F.C. 4–0 C.D. Chalatenango (, 2016)
- Aguila 5-1 UES (, 2016)
First hat-trick of the season: Girvon Brown for Metapan against C.D. Pasaquina (September 28, 2016)
First own goal of the season: Kevin Carabantes (C.D. Chalatenango) for A.D. Isidro Metapan (August 16, 2016)
Most goals in a match: 7 goals
- C.D. Chalatenango 3–4 C.D. Dragon (September 28, 2016)
Most goals by one team in a match: 5 goals
- Aguila 5-1 UES (, 2016)
Most goals in one half by one team: 4 goals
- TBD 5–2(1–2) TBD (2nd half, September 30, 2016)
Most goals scored by losing team: 3 goals
- C.D. Chalatenango 3–4 C.D. Dragon (September 28,2016)
Most goals by one player in a single match: 3 goals
- Girvon Brown for Metapan against C.D. Pasaquina (September 17, 2016)
- Gustavo Guerreño for Pasaquina against C.D. Universidad de El Salvador (September 2016)
- Williams Reyes for Firpo against C.D. Pasaquina (October 9, 2016)

Club

Most clean sheets: C.D. Aguila
- 11
Fewest clean sheets: UES
- 1
Best Home record during the Apertura season: Sonsonate
- 23 out of 33 points (7 wins, 2 draws, and 2 loss)
Worst Home record during the Apertura season: Dragon and UES
- 6 out of 33 points (1 win, 3 draws, and 7 losses)
Best Away record during the Apertura season: Aguila
- 20 out of 33 points (5 wins, 5 draws, and 1 losses)
Worst Away record during the Apertura season: UES
- 6 out of 33 points (1 win, 3 draws, and 7 losses)
Highest scoring team: Alianza F.C.
- 45 goals
Lowest scoring team: UES
- 48 goals

Top goalscorers

Top assists

Rank	Player	Nation	Club	Assists
1	Yuvini Salamanca	SLV	Limeno	13
2	Óscar Cerén	SLV	Alianza	8

Playoffs

Santa Tecla

Isidro Metapán/Santa Tecla

Águila/FAS

FAS

Águila

TBD

TBD

Limeno

Alianza

Limeno/Alianza F.C.

C.D. Sonsonate

Pasaquina

C.D. Sonsonate

Quarterfinals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Pasaquina	2 – 2 (s)	Sonsonate	2 – 1	1 – 0
FAS	1 – 3	Águila	1 – 1	2 – 0
Isidro Metapán	3 – 4	Santa Tecla	2 – 2	2 – 3
Alianza	1 – 2^{[^†]}	Limeno	1 – 2	1 – 2

^† Order of legs reversed.

First leg

Pasaquina v Sonsonate

November 30, 2016
15:00 UTC−6

Pasaquina	2-1	Sonsonate
Kevin Sagastizado 50' Miguel Solís Estupiñián 81'		Ricardo Ulloa 4'

Estadio San Sebastián, Pasaquina
Referee: Elmer Martinez

FAS v Aguila

November 30, 2016
19:00 UTC−6

FAS	1 – 1	Aguila
Jairo Henríquez 50'		Alvaro Lizama 87'

Estadio Óscar Quiteño, Santa Ana
Referee: Joel Aguilar Chicos

Limeno v Alianza

December 1, 2016
15:00 UTC−6

Limeno	1-2	Alianza
Christopher Galeas 37'		Herbert Sosa 66' Alexander Larín 75'

Estadio Jose Ramon Flores, Santa Rosa de Lima

Isidro Metapán v Santa Tecla

December 1, 2016
19:00 UTC−6

Isidro Metapán	2-2	Santa Tecla
Romeo Parkes 56' Josue Flores 98'		Gerson Mayen 18' Marlon Cornejo 92'

Estadio Jorge Calero Suárez, Metapán

Second leg

Sonsonate v Pasaquina

December 3, 2016
15:00 UTC−6

Sonsonate	1-0	Pasaquina
Paolo Suárez 11'		None

Estadio Anna Mercedes Campos, Sonsonate

2-2. Sonsonate advanced as the higher seeded team.

Aguila v FAS

December 3, 2016
19:00 UTC−6

Aguila	2-0	FAS
Henry Romero 36' Nicolas Fagúndez 58'

Estadio Jose Ramon Flores, Santa Rosa de Lima

Aguila won 3 – 1 on aggregate.

Alianza v Limeno

December 1, 2016
15:00 UTC−6

Alianza	v	Limeno

Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador

TBD won 2 – 0 on aggregate.

Santa Tecla v Isidro Metapán

December 1, 2016
19:00 UTC−6

Santa Tecla	v	Isidro Metapán
TBD 33'

Estadio Las Delicias, Santa Tecla

TBD won 2 – 0 on aggregate.

Clausura 2017

League table

Template:2016–17 Primera División de Fútbol Profesional season Clausura table

Results

Home ╲ Away	ÁGU	ALI	CHA	DRA	FAS	FIR	MET	LIM	PAS	STE	SON	UES
Águila
Alianza
Chalatenango
Dragón
FAS
Firpo
Isidro Metapán
Limeno
Pasaquina
Santa Tecla
Sonsonate
UES

The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

List of foreign players in the league

This is a list of foreign players in the 2016–17 season. The following players:

Have played at least one game for the respective club.
Have not been capped for the El Salvador national football team on any level, independently from the birthplace

A new rule was introduced this season, that clubs can have four foreign players per club and can only add a new player if there is an injury or a player/s is released and its before the close of the season transfer window.

Águila

Alianza

Iván Garrido
Oscar Guerrero
Fabricio Silva
Walter Vázquez

Chalatenango

Bladimir Díaz
Eder Arias
Rodrigo Cubilla

Dragón

Álvaro Bely
Kenroy Howell
Jamal Jack
Luis Valencia

FAS

Guillermo Stradella
Juan Aimar
Facundo Martínez
Facundo Simioli

Firpo

Jhony Rios
Allan Muraldo
Maximiliano Morales Roldán
Joel Perucci

Isidro Metapán

Henry Rúa
Romeo Parkes
Girvon Ricardo Brown
Akeem Priestley

Limeño

Carlos del Giorno
Jefferson Viveros
Clayvin Zúniga
Jesús Toscanini

Pasaquina

Julián Chávez Ruíz
Gustavo Guerreño
Javier Lezcano
Andres Insfran Britez

Sonsonate

Zé Paulo
Carlos Hidalgo
Jackson de Oliveira
Elenilson Ferreira Garcia

Santa Tecla

Ricardinho
Joel Almeida
Sebastián Abreu
Osvaldo Dasilva Filho
Sergio Souza

UES

(player released during the Apertura season) (player released between the Apertura and Clausura seasons) (player released during the Clausura season)

References

Primera División de Fútbol Profesional of El Salvador

Clubs	Águila Alianza Chalatenango Dragón FAS Firpo Isidro Metapán Limeno Pasaquina Santa Tecla Sonsonate UES

Year-long seasons	1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946 1947 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1955 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1959 1960–61 1961–62 1962 1963–64 1964 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98

Apertura and Clausura seasons	1998–99 A C 1999–2000 A C 2000–01 A C 2001–02 A C 2002–03 A C 2003–04 A C 2004–05 A C 2005–06 A C 2006–07 A C 2007–08 A C 2008–09 A C 2009–10 A C 2010–11 A C 2011–12 A C 2012–13 A C 2013–14 A C 2014–15 A C 2015–16 2016–17

Miscellaneous	Coaches Foreign players (Apertura 1998-Present) Foreign players (1926-1998) Top goalscorers Former Teams Records

2016–17 in North and Central America and Caribbean association football (CONCACAF)

« 2015–16 Club tournaments in CONCACAF member countries between July 2016 and June 2017 2017–18 »

Domestic leagues	Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Aruba Bahamas Barbados '16 '17 Belize Bermuda British Virgin Islands Canada '16 '17 Cayman Islands Costa Rica Cuba '16 '17 Curaçao '16 '17 Dominica Dominican Republic '16 '17 El Salvador French Guiana Grenada '16 '17 Guadeloupe Guatemala Guyana Haiti '16 '17 Honduras Jamaica Martinique Mexico Nicaragua Panama Puerto Rico '16 '17 Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia '16 '17 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines '16 '17 Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Islands '16 '17 United States '16 '17 United States Virgin Islands

Domestic cups	Canada Costa Rica Honduras Mexico '16 A (Final) '17 C (Final) Trinidad and Tobago United States '16 (Final) '17 (Final)

Supercups	Honduras Mexico (Campeón de Campeones, Supercopa MX)

CONCACAF competitions	Champions League (Group stage, Knockout stage, Finals) CFU Club Championship Supercopa Centroamericana

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