2024–25 Primera División de El Salvador
| 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[edit]
Promotion and relegation[edit]
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[edit]
Notable death from Apertura 2024 season and 2025 Clausura season[edit]
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[edit]
Before the start of the season[edit]
| 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 [3]
|
May 27, 2024 | th (2024 Clausura) |
| Fuerte San Francisco | Nelson Ancheta
|
Contract Finished | May 27, 2024 |  Jorge Martinez Merino [4]
|
June 29, 2024 | th (2024 Clausura) |
| TBD | TBD
|
Mutual Consent | June 21, 2023 |  TBD
|
June 22, 2023 | None (2023 Clausura) |
Apertura 2024[edit]
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Clausura 2025[edit]
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List of foreign players in the league[edit]
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
Dionatan Machado
Carlos Salazar- Ronaldinho Caicedo
Alianza
- Mitchel Mercado
Sebastián Julio
Ányelo Rodríguez
Dragon
- Kevin Moreno
- Manuel Chala
- Manuel Murrillo
- Yerson Tobar
FAS
Firpo
- Wilber Arizala
- Tardelis Pena
- Guilherme Silva
Jomal Williams
Fuerte San Francisco
- Luis Angulo
Colorado Murray
Samuel Gimenez- Carlos Alberto Gonzalez Saracho
- Edward Peñaloza
Jamal Charles- Michel Poon-Angeron
Isidro Metapán
- Luca Orozco
Javier Cetre
Diego Gregori- Jose Andres Ortiz
Jocoro
- Germán Aguila
Elmer Guity- Junior Padilla
Municipal Limeno
- Juan Diego Lasso
- Éver Alvarado
Luis Ángel Landín- Yair Delgadillo
Once Deportivo
- Manuel Murrillo
- Kevin Chaurand
- Jhonathan Urrutia
Platense
- Sandro Melgarejo
- Eber Caicedo
Jair Catuy
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[edit]
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.