Primera División de Fútbol Profesional – Apertura 2010

The Apertura 2010 season (officially known as Torneo Apertura 2010) was the 25th edition of Primera División de Fútbol de El Salvador since its establishment of an Apertura and Clausura format. Isidro Metapán, being the defending champions, kept the title as they won the final against Alianza on penalties. The season begun on July 31 and concluded on December 19, 2010. Like previous years, the league consisted of 10 teams, each playing a home and away game against the other clubs for a total of 18 games, respectively. The top four teams by the end of the regular season took part of the playoffs.

Promotion and relegation[edit]

Teams promoted from 2009–10 Segunda División

• UES
• Once Municipal

Teams relegated to 2010–11 Segunda División

• Alacranes Del Norte
• Municipal Limeño

Team information[edit]

Last updated: June 30, 2010

Stadia and locations[edit]

Alianza

Atlético Balboa

Atlético Marte

C.D. Águila

C.D. FAS

Isidro Metapán

Luís Ángel Firpo

Once Municipal

UES

Vista Hermosa

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Location of teams in Apertura 2010

Personnel and sponsoring[edit]

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
Águila	Will Salgado	Eraldo Correia	Nike	Tigo, Mister Donut
Alianza	Lisandro Pohl	Miloš Miljanić	Lotto	Tigo, Sinai, Fiesta
Atlético Balboa	Pablo Robles	Roberto Gamarra	Aviva	Fila
Atlético Marte	Felix Guardado	Juan Ramón Paredes	Galaxia	Rosvill, Vive, Galaxia
FAS	Byron Rodriguez	Jorge Abrego	Milán	American Airlines, Tigo, Pilsener
Isidro Metapán	Adan Salazar	Edwin Portillo	Milán	Bimbo, Tigo, Salazar
Luis Ángel Firpo	Jozsef Arguedas	Hugo Coria	Joma	Diana, Pilsener
Once Municipal	Andrés Rodríguez	Nelson Ancheta	Milán	La Geo
UES	Rufino Quesada	Edgar Henriquez	Galaxia	MK Medicamentos, ALBA Petroleos
Vista Hermosa	Francisco Benitez	Mario Martínez	Aviva	Tigo

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
FAS	Adolfo Menéndez	Removed from position	April 27, 2010	Alberto Rujana	July 1, 2010	7th (Clausura 2010)
Águila	Rubén Alonso	Sacked	May 25, 2010	Carlos Mijangos	June 4, 2010	2nd (Clausura 2010)
Atlético Balboa	Carlos Mijangos	Signed by Águila	June 3, 2010	Roberto Gamarra	June 3, 2010	5th (Clausura 2010)
UES	Miguel Ángel Díaz	Resigned	June 21, 2010	Rubén Alonso	June 23, 2010	1st (Clausura 2010)

During the regular season[edit]

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Águila	Carlos Mijangos	Sacked	August 31, 2010	Eraldo Correia	September 1, 2010	5th (Apertura 2010)
Atlético Marte	Ramiro Cepeda	Resigned	September 15, 2010	Luis Guevara Mora (interim)	September 18, 2010	9th (Apertura 2010)
FAS	Alberto Rujana	Resigned	September 19, 2010	Jorge Abrego	September 20, 2010	10th (Apertura 2010)
Atlético Marte	Luis Guevara Mora	Resigned	October 25, 2010	Juan Ramón Paredes	October 25, 2010	10th (Apertura 2010)
UES	Rubén Alonso	Resigned	November 10, 2010	Edgar Henriquez	November 12, 2010	10th (Apertura 2010)

League table[edit]

Results[edit]

Playoffs[edit]

Semi-finals[edit]

First leg[edit]

December 4, 2010

19:00 UTC-6

Águila	1–2	Isidro Metapán
Martin 58'		Héctor Mejía 55' Jilbert Álvarez 90+4' (o.g.)

Estadio Juan Francisco Barraza
San Miguel, San Miguel

Referee: Fidel Mejía

December 5, 2010

15:15 UTC-6

Alianza	1–2	Luis Ángel Firpo
Willer 51' (pen.)		Quintanilla 4' Alas 21'

Estadio Cuscatlán
San Salvador, San Salvador

Referee: Jaime Carpio

Second leg[edit]

December 12, 2010

14:30 UTC-6

Luis Ángel Firpo	0–1	Alianza
		Ayala 45'

Sergio Torres Stadium
Usulután, Usulután

Referee: Marlon Mejía

Final[edit]

December 19, 2010

15:15 UTC-6

Isidro Metapán	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Alianza
Penalties
Elías Montes Léster Blanco Jorge Morán Ricardo Alvarado Emerson Umaña	4–3	Willer Souza Julio Enrique Martínez Juan Lazo Christian Castillo Rodolfo Zelaya

Estadio Cuscatlán
San Salvador, San Salvador

Referee: Joel Aguilar

Isidro Metapán: GK 19 Fidel Mondragón DF 23 Ricardo Alvarado DF 2 Milton Molina DF 5 Ernesto Aquino  85' DF 20 Omar Mejía MF 14 Andrés Flores  45'  112' MF 16 Óscar Jiménez MF 10 Paolo Suárez MF 7 Jorge Morán  30' FW 17 Léster Blanco FW 9 Anel Canales  115' Substitutes: DF 4 Carlos Carillo  85' MF 22 Emerson Umaña  112' FW 11 Elías Montes  115' Manager: Edwin Portillo

Alianza: GK 24 Rafael Fuentes DF 5 Mauricio Quintanilla DF 6 Marcelo Messias DF 3 Edwin Martínez DF 4 Carlos Arévalo  74' MF 20 Héctor Salazar MF 13 Julio Martínez MF 14 Herbert Sosa  9'  83' MF 12 Cristian Castillo  60' FW 17 Carlos Ayala  67' FW 22 Rodolfo Zelaya  66' Substitutes: FW 10 Willer Souza  67' MF 12 Juan Lazo  83' Manager: Miloš Miljanić

Top scorers[edit]

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Alexander Campos	Atlético Balboa	9
	Rodolfo Zelaya	Alianza	9
3	Alcides Bandera	Atlético Marte	8
4	Anel Canales	Isidro Metapán	7
	Patricio Barroche	Águila	7
6	Rafael Burgos	UES	6
	Ramiro Carballo	UES	6
	Emerson Umaña	Isidro Metapán	6
9	Harold Alas	UES	5
	Christian Bautista	Atlético Balboa	5
	Léster Blanco	Isidro Metapán	5
	Mauricio Deras	Once Municipal	5
	Javier Hernandez	Vista Hermosa	5
	Gilberto Murgas	FAS	5

Updated to games played on November 28, 2010.
Post-season goals are not included, only regular season goals.

List of foreign players in the league[edit]

This is a list of foreign players in Clausura 2010. The following players:

1. have played at least one apertura game for the respective club.
2. 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 only have three foreign players per club and can only add a new player if there is an injury or player/s is released.

External links[edit]

• El Grafico League Coverage (in Spanish)