Primera División de Fútbol Profesional – Clausura 2011

Primera División de Fútbol de El Salvador
Season	Clausura 2011
Champions	Alianza; 10th title
Relegated	Atlético Balboa
2011–12 CONCACAF Champions League	Alianza
Matches played	90
Goals scored	224 (2.49 per match)
Top goalscorer	Rodolfo Zelaya (13 Goals)
Biggest home win	Alianza 5–0 ; UES ; (Mar. 31, 2011)
Biggest away win	Atlético Balboa 0–4 ; Águila ; (Mar. 31, 2011)
Highest scoring	Atlético Marte 5–2 ; Once Municipal ; (Feb. 6, 2011)
	← Apertura 2010 Apertura 2011 →

The Clausura 2011 season (officially known as Torneo Clausura 2011 or also known as the Copa Capri for sponsoring reasons) will be the 26th edition of Primera División de Fútbol de El Salvador since its establishment of an Apertura and Clausura format. Isidro Metapán will be heading into this tournament as the defending champions. The season will begin in early 2011 and conclude in mid year. Like previous years, 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 by the end of the regular season will take part of the playoffs.

Team information

Last updated: December 29, 2010

Stadia and locations

Location of teams in Apertura 2010

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
Águila	San Miguel	Juan Francisco Barraza	10,000
Alianza	San Salvador	Estadio Cuscatlán	45,925
Atlético Balboa	La Unión	Estadio Marcelino Imbers	4,000
Atlético Marte	San Salvador	Estadio Cuscatlán	45,925
FAS	Santa Ana	Estadio Óscar Quiteño	15,000
Isidro Metapán	Metapán	Estadio Jorge Calero Suárez	8,000
Luís Ángel Firpo	Usulután	Estadio Sergio Torres	5,000
Once Municipal	Ahuachapán	Estadio Simeón Magaña	5,000
UES	San Salvador	Estadio Universitario UES	10,000
Vista Hermosa	San Francisco Gotera	Estadio Correcaminos	12,000

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
Águila	Julio Sosa	Hugo Coria		Mister Donuts, Volkswagen, Impressa Repuestos
Alianza	Lisandro Pohl	Roberto Gamarra	Lotto	Tigo, SINAI,
Atlético Balboa	Pablo Robles	Mario Martínez		Anorye en Acacua
Atlético Marte	Felix Guardado	Juan Ramón Paredes	Galaxia	Rosvill, Vive, Canal 4
FAS	Victor Aleman	Agustín Castillo	Milan	American Airlines, Tigo, Pilsener
Isidro Metapán	Óscar Flores	Edwin Portillo	Milán	Bimbo, Tigo, arraz San Pedro, Holan
Luis Ángel Firpo	Enrique Escobar	Ramiro Cepeda	Joma	Pilsener, Volkswagen, Diana, Tigo
Once Municipal	Andrés Rodríguez	Nelson Ancheta	Milan	La Geo, Canal 4
UES	Rufino Quesada	Eraldo Correia	Galaxia	ALBA
Vista Hermosa	Francisco Benitez	Víctor Coreas	Aviva	None

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
FAS	Jorge Abrego	Removed from position	TBA	Agustín Castillo	tba	8th (Apertura 2010)
Águila	Eraldo Correia	Sacked	TBA	Hugo Coria	TBA	4th (Apertura 2010)
Atlético Balboa	Roberto Gamarra	Released	December, 2010	José Mario Martínez	December, 2010	5th (Apertura 2010)
Firpo	Hugo Coria	Resigned	TBA	Ramiro Cepeda	TBA	3rd (Apertura 2010)
C.D. Vista Hermosa	José Mario Martínez	Sacked	29 November 2010	Victor Coreas	27 December 2010	6th (Apertura 2010)

During the regular season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Once Municipal	Nelson Mauricio Ancheta	Sacked	February 6, 2011	Marcos Pineda (interim)	February 8, 2011	10th (Clausura 2011)
UES	Edgar Henriquez	Sacked	March 7, 2011	Eraldo Correia	March 8, 2011	8th (Clausura 2011)
Alianza F.C.	Miloš Miljanić	Resigned	March 7, 2011	Roberto Gamarra	March 8, 2011	5th (Clausura 2011)
Once Municipal	Marcos Pineda	Sacked	March 16, 2011	Juan Andrés Sarulyte	March 17, 2011	th (Clausura 2011)

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Alianza	18	8	5	5	32	21	+11	29	Qualification for playoffs
2	FAS	18	7	8	3	29	24	+5	29
3	Isidro Metapán	18	9	2	7	26	24	+2	29
4	Luis Ángel Firpo	18	8	4	6	24	15	+9	28
5	Águila	18	7	6	5	27	21	+6	27
6	Atlético Marte	18	8	3	7	25	24	+1	27
7	Vista Hermosa	18	6	8	4	19	15	+4	26
8	UES	18	3	8	7	14	25	−11	17
9	Once Municipal	18	2	9	7	17	27	−10	15
10	Atlético Balboa	18	3	5	10	11	28	−17	14

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored

Results

Home \ Away	ÁGU	ALI	BAL	ATM	FAS	FIR	MET	OMU	UES	VIS
Águila		3–2	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–1	3–1	2–0	1–1
Alianza	4–2		1–1	1–0	4–0	0–0	1–4	3–0	5–0	4–1
Atlético Balboa	0–4	2–1		3–0	0–0	0–2	1–0	1–1	1–2	0–2
Atlético Marte	3–3	2–1	2–0		1–2	1–0	1–2	5–2	1–0	0–1
C.D. FAS	2–0	1–1	3–0	2–0		2–0	1–3	2–2	1–1	1–1
Luis Ángel Firpo	2–1	3–0	4–0	4–1	2–2		2–0	2–1	1–1	1–0
Isidro Metapán	2–1	0–1	2–1	2–2	2–4	2–1		2–2	2–0	1–0
Once Municipal	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–1	3–3	1–0	0–1		1–1	1–1
C.D. Universidad de El Salvador	1–0	1–2	1–1	0–2	1–2	0–0	1–0	0–0		2–2
Vista Hermosa	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–2	2–0	2–0	3–0	1–0	2–2

Source: soccerway.com
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Playoffs

Semifinals					Finals

1	FAS	2	2	4

4	Isidro Metapán	3	0	3
					1	FAS	1

					2	Alianza	2
2	Alianza	1	1	2

3	Luis Ángel Firpo	1	1	2

Semi-finals

First leg

30 April 2011

18:30 UTC-6

Isidro Metapán	3–2	FAS
Moscoso 38' (o.g.) Blanco 40' Canales 85'	Report	Bentos 4' Reyes 79'

Estadio Jorge Calero Suárez, Metapán

Referee: Fidel Mejía

1 May 2011

15:15UTC-6

Alianza	1–1	Luis Ángel Firpo
Zelaya 84'	Report	Quintanilla 45'

Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador

Referee: Edenilson Ventura

Second leg

8 May 2011

TBA UTC-6

Luis Ángel Firpo	1–1	Alianza
Erazo 89'		Zelaya 83'

Sergio Torres Stadium, Usulután

8 May 2011

TBA UTC-6

FAS	2–0	Isidro Metapán
Bentos 67' Reyes 78'

Estadio Óscar Quiteño, Santa Ana

Final

15 May 2011

15:00 UTC-6

Alianza	2–1	FAS
Zelaya 41' (pen.), 74'	[1]	Velásquez 85'

Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador

Attendance: 23,419

Referee: Marlon Alfonso Mejía


Alianza:
GK	25	Henry Hernández
DF	5	Mauricio Quintanilla
DF	6	Marcelo Messias	42'
DF	3	Edwin Martínez
MF	12	Cristian Castillo	90+1'
MF	20	Héctor Salazar
MF	23	Roberto Alvarado
MF	14	Herbert Sosa
MF	8	Abraham Amaya	69'
FW	17	Carlos Ayala 47'	90+6'
FW	22	Rodolfo Zelaya		87'
Substitutes:
DF	16	Roberto García		69'
MF	21	Jonathan Barrios		90+1'
FW	11	Rafael Burgos		90+6'
Manager:
Roberto Gamarra


FAS:
GK	1	Luis Contreras
DF	5	Víctor Velásquez 21'
DF	26	Mardoqueo Henríquez	86'
DF	6	José Granadino
DF	4	Ramón Flores 90+6'
MF	24	Roberto Peña
MF	7	William Maldonado	46'
MF	8	Cristian Álvarez
MF	13	Juan Carlos Moscoso	74'
FW	9	Alejandro Bentos		50'
FW	11	Williams Reyes
Substitutes:
FW	20	Márcio Teruel		46'
MF	23	Carlos Aparicio		74'
FW	21	Óscar Ulloa		86'
Manager:
Agustín Castillo

Clausura 2011 champions
Alianza F.C. 10th title

Top scorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Rodolfo Zelaya	Alianza F.C.	13
2	Nicolás Muñoz	C.D. Águila	12
3	Alcides Bandera	Atlético Marte	9
4	Juan Carlos Moscoso	C.D. FAS	7
5	Alexander Campos	Atlético Balboa	5
5	Christian Bautista	A.D. Isidro Metapán	5

Updated to games played on April 21, 2011.
Post-season goals are not included, only regular season goals.

Aggregate table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Isidro Metapán (C)	36	19	6	11	60	51	+9	63	Qualification for 2011–12 CONCACAF Champions League Preliminary Round
2	Alianza (C)	36	17	11	8	57	34	+23	62
3	Luis Ángel Firpo	36	16	11	9	48	32	+16	59
4	Águila	36	16	10	10	48	40	+8	58
5	FAS	36	11	13	12	48	52	−4	46
6	Vista Hermosa	36	9	18	9	39	40	−1	45
7	Atlético Marte	36	12	8	16	47	52	−5	44
8	Atlético Balboa (R)	36	10	13	13	40	43	−3	43	Relegation to Segunda Division^[a]
9	UES	36	6	15	15	37	52	−15	33
10	Once Municipal	36	5	14	17	30	52	−22	29

Source: El Gráfico
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ Atlético Balboa were relegated due to failure to pay members of their organization and other problems which caused them to not play in their final two league matches of the season.^[1] Once Municipal have claimed that this should spare them from relegation. On 13 June 2011, the league voted for Once Municipal to remain in the competition for next season.^[2]

List of foreign players in the league

This is a list of foreign players in Clausura 2011. The following players:

have played at least one apertura 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 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

Alianza F.C.

None

Atlético Marte

Atlético Balboa

C.D. FAS

(player released mid season)

C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo

Fernando Leguizamón
José Oliveira de Souza

A.D. Isidro Metapán

Once Municipal

UES

Vista Hermosa

References

External links

El Grafico League Coverage (in Spanish)

[table_note_res_R0.95811898911284-3] Atlético Balboa were relegated due to failure to pay members of their organization and other problems which caused them to not play in their final two league matches of the season.^[1] Once Municipal have claimed that this should spare them from relegation. On 13 June 2011, the league voted for Once Municipal to remain in the competition for next season.^[2]

[1] ttp://www.elsalvadornoticias.net/2011/05/10/fesfut-reafirma-envio-de-atletico-balboa-a-la-segunda-division/

[2] ttp://www.elsalvadornoticias.net/2011/06/23/11-municipal-ha-sido-invitado-a-participar-en-la-primera-division/

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