2024–25 Primera División de El Salvador
Primera División tournament
Football league season
| Season | 2024–25 |
|---|---|
| Dates | August 2024 – December 2024 (Apertura), 2025 – 2025 (Clausura) |
| Champions | TBD (Apertura 2024) TBD (Clausura 2025) |
| Relegated | TBD |
| CONCACAF Central American Cup | TBD |
| CONCACAF Central American Cup | TBD |
| CONCACAF Central American Cup | TBD |
| Top goalscorer |  TBD (15 goals Apertura 2024)  TBD (15 goals Clausura 2025) |
| Best goalkeeper | TBD (Apertura 2024) TBD (Clausura 2025) |
← 2023–24 2025–26 → All statistics correct as of June 2, 2024. | |
The 2024–25 Primera División de El Salvador, also known as the Liga Pepsi, is the 26th season and 50th and 51st Primera División tournament, El Salvador's top football division, since its establishment of an Apertura and Clausura format. Aguila and Alianza are the defending champions of the Apertura and Clausura tournament 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 six teams in that tournament's regular season standings will take part in the playoffs.
The champions of Apertura and Clausura will qualify for the CONCACAF Central American Cup, the third team to qualify is the team with better aggregate record. Should the same team win both tournaments, both runners-up will qualify for CONCACAF Central American Cup. Should the final of both tournaments features the same two teams, the semi-finalist with the better aggregate record will qualify for CONCACAF Central American Cup.
Teams
Promotion and relegation
A total of 12 teams will contest the league, including 11 sides from the 2023–24 Primera División and 1 promoted from the 2023–24 Segunda División.
TBD was promoted to the Primera División on June 25, 2023, after defeating TBD in a playoff match by a score of 3–0 in penalties, after the team were tied 0–0 after 120 minutes.[1]
Santa Tecla was relegated to the 2024–25 Segunda División.[2]
Notable events
Changes for 2024-2025 Season
On the 13th of June, 2024 The President of the Primera Division Samuel Gálvez announced changes for the Apertura 2024 and Clausura 2025 included the final being played over two legs instead just one game, the finals will be held at the finalist stadiums. The four foreign players quota will remain. One reserve or under 1 player must be played for 90 minutes per game. [3]
Notable death from Apertura 2024 season and 2025 Clausura season
The following people associated with the Primera Division have died between the middle of 2022 and middle of 2023.
- TBD (ex TBD player)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aguila |  Ernesto Corti | Contract finished, | May 27, 2024 | Daniel Messina[4] | May 27, 2024 | th (2024 Clausura) |
| Fuerte San Francisco | Nelson Ancheta | Contract Finished | May 27, 2024 |  Jorge Martinez Merino [5] | June 29, 2024 | th (2024 Clausura) |
| Dragon | Manuel Acevedo | Mutual Consent | June 7, 2024 | Marvin Benítez | June 7, 2024 | th (2023 Clausura) |
| TBD | TBD | Mutual Consent | June 21, 2023 |  TBD | June 22, 2023 | None (2023 Clausura) |
Apertura 2024
Clausura 2025
List of foreign players in the league
This is a list of foreign players in the 2023–24 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 is released and it is before the close of the season transfer window.
Águila
Gonzalo Ramirez- Blas Sosa
Dionatan Machado
Carlos Salazar
Alianza
- Mitchel Mercado
Sebastián Julio
Ányelo Rodríguez
Dragon
- Kevin Moreno
- Manuel Chala
- Yerson Tobar
FAS
- TBD
- TBD
- TBD
- TBD
Firpo
- Wilber Arizala
- Tardelis Pena
- Guilherme Silva
Jomal Williams
Fuerte San Francisco
- Edward Peñaloza
- Wilson Rios
Jamal Charles- Michel Poon-Angeron
Isidro Metapán
- Luca Orozco
Javier Cetre
Diego Gregori
Yair Delgadillo
Jocoro
- Germán Aguila
Elmer Guity- Junior Padilla
Municipal Limeno
- Lucas do Santos
- Juan Diego Lasso
- German Mejia
Once Deportivo
- Manuel Murrillo
- Kevin Chaurand
- Jhonathan Urrutia
Platense
Sandro Melgarejo- Eber Caicedo
Jair Catuy
TBD
- TBD
- TBD
- TBD
(player released beginning the Apertura season, Never played a game) 
(player released during the Apertura season) 
(player released between the Apertura and Clausura seasons) 
(player released during the Clausura season) 
(player naturalized for the Clausura season) 
(player released beginning the Clausura season, Never played a game)
References
- ^ "Fuerte San Francisco regresa a la Primera División" [Fuerte San Francisco returns to thefirst division]. elsalvador.com (in Spanish). elsalvador.com. 25 June 2023. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
- ^ "Santa Tecla se despide de la Primera Division tras caer ante Firpo" [Santa Tecla says goodbye to the first division after losing to Firpo]. elsalvador.com (in Spanish). elgrafico.com. 7 May 2023. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
- ^ "Oficial: la final del Apertura 2024 se jugará a ida y vuelta" [Official: the final of the Apertura 2024 will be played over two legs]. elsalvador.com (in Spanish). elsalvador.com. 13 June 2024. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
- ^ "Daniel Messina No lo pense dos veces en acepatar regresar al Aguila" [Daniel Messina did not think twice to accept returning to Aguila]. elgrafico.com (in Spanish). elgrafico.com. 27 May 2024. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
- ^ "El mexicano Jorge Martinez nuevo entrenador del Fuerte San Francisco" [The Mexican Jorge Martinez new coach of Fuerte San Francisco]. elgrafico.com (in Spanish). elgrafico.com. 27 May 2024. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
External links
- [1] (Official website)
- [2] (El Grafico)
- [3] (El Salvador.com)
- [4] (La Prense Grafica)
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