Primera División de Fútbol Profesional – Clausura 2015

Primera División de Fútbol Profesional de El Salvador

Season	Clausura 2015
Champions	Santa Tecla F.C.
Relegated	Atletico Marte
Champions League	Santa Tecla F.C.
Matches played	96
Goals scored	234 (2.44 per match)
Top goalscorer	Hector Ramos (10)
Biggest home win	C.D. Aguila 5-1 C.D. Dragon A.D. Isidro Metapan 4-0 UES (TBD)
Biggest away win	C.D. Pasaquina 0-4 Alianza F.C. (TBD)
Highest scoring	C.D. Aguila 4-3 A.D. Isidro Metapan
Longest winning run	- games by: TBD
Longest unbeaten run	- games by: TBD
Longest winless run	- games by: TBD
Longest losing run	- games by: TBD
Highest attendance	8,748 people, Alianza F.C. vs C.D. FAS
Lowest attendance	71 people, C.D. Universidad de El Salvador vs C.D. Dragon
Average attendance	1,549 people (average)
← Apertura 2014 Apertura 2015 →

The Clausura 2014 season is the 34th edition of El Salvador's Primera Division since its establishment of an Apertura and Clausura format. Isidro Metapán were the defending champions. The league will consist 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 at the end of the regular season will take part of the playoffs.

Team information

A total of 10 teams will contest the league

Stadia and locations

Alianza

Atlético Marte

Águila

Dragon

C.D. FAS

Isidro Metapán

Juventud Independiente

Pasaquina

Santa Tecla

UES

Location of teams in Apertura 2014/Clausura 2015

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
Águila	San Miguel	Juan Francisco Barraza	10,000
Alianza	San Salvador	Estadio Jorge "Mágico" González	32,000
Atlético Marte	San Salvador	Estadio Cuscatlán	45,925
C.D. Dragon	San Miguel	Juan Francisco Barraza	10,000
FAS	Santa Ana	Estadio Óscar Quiteño	15,000
Isidro Metapán	Metapán	Estadio Jorge Calero Suárez	8,000
Juventud Independiente	San Juan Opico	Complejo Municipal	5,000
C.D. Pasaquina	Pasaquina	Estadio San Sebastián	5,000
Santa Tecla	Santa Tecla	Estadio Las Delicias	10,000
UES	San Salvador	Estadio Universitario UES	10,000

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
Águila	Pedro Arieta	Julio Dely Valdés	Joma	Tigo
Alianza	Lisandro Pohl	Ramiro Cepeda	Lotto	UNO, Pepsi, Dominos Pizza
Atlético Marte	Hugo Carrillo	Jorge Garcia	Galaxia	Lemus, Evisal, Galaxia, Techos Eureka
C.D. Dragon	Carlos Meza	Roberto Gamarra	Milan	Texas Casino, Hotel Real Centro, Pepsi, Pharmacia La bueno
FAS	Byron Rodriguez	Agustin Castillo	Galaxia	Coop-1 de R.L. , Galaxia, Pilsener, Lays Chips, Tigo
Isidro Metapán	Rafael Morataya	Jorge Rodriguez	Milán (Jaguar Sportic)	Bimbo, Arroz San Pedro, Holcim, Pepsi,
Juventud Independiente	Romeo Barillas	Juan Ramón Sánchez	Milán (Jaguar Sportic)	Ria
Pasaquina	Abilio Menjivar	Juan Andrés Sarulyte	Jaguar Sportic	Ria, Port
Santa Tecla	Oscar Ortiz	Osvaldo Escudero	Reto	Rio, La Curaco, Pollo, Plaza Merliot, Bingo Cup
UES	Rufino Quesada	Willian Renderos Iraheta	Maca	Alba Petróleos, Gatorade

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
Atletico Marte	Guillermo Rivera	Contract not renewed	December 2014	Jorge Garcia	December 2014	9th (Apertura 2014)
C.D. Pasaquina	Jorge Garcia	Contract not renewed	December 2014	Juan Andrés Sarulyte	December 2014	10th (Apertura 2014)
C.D. Aguila	Daniel Messina	Contract finished	December 2014	Julio Dely Valdés	30 December 2014	3rd and runner up (Apertura 2014)

During the season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
C.D. Dragon	Roberto Gamarra	Resigned	Feb 2015	Guillermo Rivera	Feb 2015	10th (Clausura 2015)
Atletico Marte	Jorge Garcia	Sacked	Feb 2015	Daniel Fernández	Feb 2015	9th (Clausura 2015)
C.D. Dragon	Guillermo Rivera	Sacked	March 2015	Santos Rivera/Abel Blanco	March 2015	9th (Clausura 2015)
Alianza F.C.	Ramiro Cepeda	Sacked	March 2015	Rubén Alonso	March 2015	5th (Clausura 2015)

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Isidro Metapán (Q)	18	10	3	5	27	15	+12	33	Qualification to playoffs
2	Juventud Independiente (Q)	18	9	2	7	26	22	+4	29
3	Santa Tecla (Q)	18	8	5	5	26	23	+3	29
4	Alianza	18	7	6	5	22	17	+5	27
5	FAS (Q)	18	7	6	5	20	16	+4	27
6	Águila	18	7	3	8	22	20	+2	24
7	Pasaquina	18	6	5	7	19	25	−6	23
8	Atlético Marte	18	6	3	9	19	20	−1	21
9	UES	18	5	3	10	19	29	−10	18
10	Dragón	18	4	6	8	15	28	−13	18

Updated to games played on 11 March 2015.
Source: []
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹FAS won the extra game by 6-5 on penalties (after the game was tied 2-2 in extra time) against Alianza F.C. for the last place of the playoffs.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home \ Away	ÁGU	ALI	ATM	DRA	FAS	MET	JUV	PAS	STE	UES
Águila		1–1	0–0	5–1	1–2	4–3	2–1	3–0	1–2	1–0
Alianza	1–0		1–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–0	1–2	1–4
Atlético Marte	2–0	0–2		4–1	1–2	0–1	2–3	1–1	2–0	1–0
Dragón	1–0	1–1	1–0		1–3	1–2	1–1	1–0	2–2	0–1
FAS	0–1	1–0	2–0	0–1		0–0	1–2	0–0	3–1	1–1
Isidro Metapán	2–0	0–1	2–1	1–0	2–0		1–1	2–1	1–0	4–0
Juventud Independiente	0–1	1–0	0–2	3–0	1–0	0–3		4–2	3–0	2–1
Pasaquina	2–1	0–4	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–1	1–0		1–2	3–1
Santa Tecla	0–0	3–2	1–2	2–0	0–0	1–0	3–1	2–2		3–0
UES	2–1	0–1	2–0	1–1	2–3	2–1	0–3	0–1	2–2

Updated to games played on 18 January 2015.
Source: []
1 ^{^} 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: William Maldonado for Santa Tecla F.C. against UES, 10 minutes (17 January 2015)
• Fastest goal in a match: TBD minute - TBD for TBD against TBD (TBD TBD 2015)
• Goal scored at the latest point in a match: 94 minutes - Elman Rivas for UES against Santa Tecla F.C. (17 January 2015)
• First penalty Kick of the season: Elman Rivas for UES against Santa Tecla F.C., 56 minutes (17 January 2015)
• Widest winning margin: 4 goals
  • Alianza F.C. 4–0 C.D. Pasaquina (2015)
• First hat-trick of the season: Ricardo de Ferreria for Santa Tecla F.C. against Juventud Independiente (TBD TBD 2015)
• First own goal of the season: TBD (TBD) for TBD (2015)
• Most goals in a match: 7 Goals C.D. Aguila 4–3 A.D. Isidro Metapan (2015)
• Most goals by one team in a match: 4 Goals
  • C.D. Aguila 5–1 C.D. Dragon (TBD 2015)
• Most goals in one half by one team: 4 Goals C.D. Aguila 5–1 C.D. Dragon (2015)
• Most goals scored by losing team: 3 Goals
  • A.D. Isidro Metapan 3–4 C.D. Aguila (2015)
• Most goals by one player in a single match: 3 Goals
  • Ricardo de Ferreria for Santa Tecla F.C. against Juventud Independiente (January 2015)
  • Nicolas Munoz for C.D. Aguila against A.D. Isidro Metapan (1 February 2015)

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Hector Ramos	Isidro Metapan	13
2	Nicolas Munoz	C.D. Aguila	11
3	Tony Rugamas	Juventud Independiente	11
4	Irvin Herrera	Santa Tecla F.C.	8
5	Jonathan Philippe	Alianza F.C.	8
6	Ricardo Ferreira da Silva	Santa Tecla F.C.	6
7	Elman Rivas	UES	5
8	Herbert Sosa	Juventud Independiente	5
9	Julian Di Cosmo	C.D. FAS	5
10	Dustin Coreas	C.D. FAS	4

Playoffs

	Semifinals							Final
	1	Isidro Metapan	2	0	2
	4	FAS	0	1	1
								1	Isidro Metapan	1 (1)
								3	Santa Tecla	1 (3)
	2	Juventud Independiente	3	1	4
	3	Santa Tecla	3	3	6

Semi-finals

First leg

Santa Tecla v Juventud Independiente

May 9, 2015 4:00pm

Santa Tecla	3-3	Juventud Independiente
Iván Mancía  11' Irvin Herrera  47',  85'	[1]	Luis Mauricio Perla  9',  45' Juan Díaz  58'

Estadio Las Delicias, Santa Tecla, El Salvador Attendance: 1,729 Referee: German Martínez

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FAS v Isidro Metapán

May 10, 2015 3:45pm

FAS	0-2	Isidro Metapán
	[2]	Romeo Parkes  14' Héctor Ramos  91'

Estadio Óscar Quiteño, Santa Ana, El Salvador Attendance: 7,051

Second leg

Isidro Metapán v C.D. FAS

May 16, 2015 7:00 pm

Isidro Metapán	0-1	C.D. FAS
		Cristian Álvarez  64'

Estadio Jorge Calero Suarez, Metapán

Isidro Metapan won 2–1 on aggregate.

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Juventud Independiente v Santa Tecla FC

May 17, 2015

Juventud Independiente	1-3	Santa Tecla FC
Rodrigo Rivera  47'	[3]	Ricardo Ferreira  13' Irvin Herrera  42' Gerson Mayén  87'

Complejo Municipal San Juan Opico Attendance: 2,368 Referee: Joel Aguilar Chicas

Santa Tecla won 6–4 on aggregate.

Final

Isidro Metapán v Santa Tecla FC

24 May 2015 15:00 UTC-6

Isidro Metapán	1-1	Santa Tecla FC
Ricardo Ulloa  82'	[4]	William Maldonado  21'
	Penalties
Héctor Ramos Víctor Merino Medardo Max Guevara Josué Flores	1-3	Ricardinho Paraiba Gerson Mayen Marlon Cornejo Diego Chavarría Juan Barahona

Estadio Cuscatlan, San Salvador Attendance: 6,152 Referee: Marlon Mejía

Isidro Metapán: GK TBD Henry Hernández DF TBD Francisco Jovel Alvarez DF TBD Jonathan Barrios  80' DF TBD Milton Molina DF TBD José Peraza  113' MF TBD Marvin Monterrosa MF TBD Christian Sanchez  78' MF TBD Narciso Orellana  64' MF TBD Romeo Ovando Parkes FW TBD Héctor Ramos FW TBD Josué Flores Substitutes: FW TBD Víctor Merino  64' FW TBD Medardo Guevara  78' MF TBD Ricardo Ulloa  80' Manager: Jorge Rodriguez

Santa Tecla: GK 1 Derby Carrillo DF TBD Bryan Tamacas  91' DF TBD Ivan Mancia DF TBD Giovanni Zavaleta DF TBD Juan Barahona MF TBD Gerson Mayen MF TBD Diego Chavarría MF TBD William Maldonado  15'  62' MF TBD Marlon Cornejo FW TBD Ricardinho Paraiba  115' FW TBD Irvin Herrera  69' Substitutes: MF TBD Aldair Rivera  62' MF TBD Kevin Ayala  69' MF TBD William Mancia  91' Manager: Osvaldo Escudero

Clausura 2015 Champions

Santa Tecla FC

1st Title

List of foreign players in the league

This is a list of foreign players in Clausura 2014. 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 a few season ago, 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.

C.D. Águila

• Eder Arias
• Miguel Camargo
• TBD

Alianza F.C.

• Jorge Drovandi
• Matías Córdoba
• Jonathan Philippe

Atlético Marte

• Nestor Asprilla
• Martín García
• Agustin Adorni

C.D. Dragón

• Jhony Rios
• Jimmy Valoyes
• Sean Fraser

Juventud Independiente

• Yohance Marshall
• Juan Díaz
• Andrés Giraldo

(player released during the season)

C.D. FAS

• Glauber Rodrigues
• Alejandro Bentos
• Julián Di Cosmo
• Cristian González

A.D. Isidro Metapán

• Héctor Ramos
• David López
• Romeo Parkes

Pasaquina

• Miguel Romeo
• Glaúber da Silva
• Samuel Kordell

Santa Tecla F.C.

• Rodrigo de Brito
• Ricardinho
• Ignacio Colombo

UES

• Garrick Gordon
• Francisco Ladogano
• Santiago Davio

Aggregate table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Isidro Metapán	36	17	10	9	47	34	+13	61	2015–16 CONCACAF Champions League
2	Santa Tecla	36	16	11	9	46	38	+8	59
3	FAS	36	14	13	9	38	27	+11	55
4	Juventud Independiente	36	16	6	14	52	46	+6	54
5	Águila	36	15	8	13	37	31	+6	53
6	Alianza	36	12	12	12	40	37	+3	48
7	Dragón	36	11	10	15	35	46	−11	43
8	UES	36	11	9	16	36	44	−8	42
9	Pasaquina	36	9	11	16	31	54	−23	38
10	Atlético Marte (R)	36	9	10	17	38	43	−5	37	Relegation to Segunda División

Updated to games played on 18 January 2015.
Source: []
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.