Primera División de Fútbol Profesional – Clausura 2012

Primera División de Fútbol de El Salvador
Season	Clausura 2012
Champions	Águila; (15th Title)
Relegated	Vista Hermosa
Champions League	Águila; FAS
Matches played	90
Goals scored	254 (2.82 per match)
Top goalscorer	Nicolás Muñoz (12); Anel Canales (12)
Biggest home win	Once Municipal 5-0 FAS; (January 25, 2012); Águila 5-0 Atlético Marte; (March 3, 2012); Juventud Independiente 5-0 UES; (April 4, 2012); Águila 5-0 Vista Hermosa; (April 4, 2012)
Biggest away win	Atlético Marte 0-4 Luis Ángel Firpo; (January 8, 2012)
Highest scoring	Luis Ángel Firpo 4-4 Alianza; (January 26, 2012)
Longest winning run	4 games by: Águila and Isidro Metapán
Longest unbeaten run	18 games by: Isidro Metapán
Longest winless run	7 games by: Alianza and UES
Longest losing run	4 games by: Vista Hermosa
	← Apertura 2011 Apertura 2012 →

The Clausura 2012 season was the 28th edition of Primera División de Fútbol de El Salvador since its establishment of an Apertura and Clausura format. Isidro Metapán headed into this tournament as the defending champions. The season began on January 8, 2012 and concluded in mid-year. 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 in the playoffs.

Stadia and locations

Juventud Independiente

Location of teams in Apertura 2011/Clausura 2012

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
Águila	San Miguel	Juan Francisco Barraza	10,000
Alianza	San Salvador	Estadio Cuscatlán	45,925
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
Juventud Independiente	San Juan Opico	Complejo Municipal	5,000
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	Eraldo Correia	Galaxia	Mister Donuts, Volkswagen, Impressa Repuestos, Soccerway
Alianza	Lisandro Pohl	Vladan Vićević	Lotto	Tigo, SINAI, Maseca, BIC
Atlético Marte	Felix Guardado	Fausto Omar Vásquez	Galaxia	Foskrol, La Curacao, UFG
FAS	David Lineras	Ricardo Mena Laguán	Milan (Jaguar Sportic)	Pepsi, Farmacia San Lorenzo, Alba Petróleos
Isidro Metapán	Rafael Morataya	Edwin Portillo	Milán (Jaguar Sportic)	Grupo Bimbo, Tigo, Arroz San Pedro
Juventud Independiente	Romeo Barillas	Juan Ramón Sánchez	Milán (Jaguar Sportic)	Alcaldía Municipal de San Juan Opico, Ria, CP Portillo
Luis Ángel Firpo	Enrique Escobar	Nelson Ancheta	Joma	Pilsener, Volkswagen, Redes, Burger King
Once Municipal	Andrés Rodríguez	Juan Andrés Sarulyte	Milan (Jaguar Sportic)	LA GEO, Milan (Jaguar Sportic), Tropigas
UES	Rufino Quesada	Roberto Gamarra	Galaxia	Alba Petróleos
Vista Hermosa	Francisco Benitez	Carlos Romero	Milan (Jaguar Sportic)	MK Medicamentos, Cetron, Comercial René

Managerial changes

Before the start of the season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Replaced by	Position in table
Águila	Omar Sevilla	resigned to manage the reserves	Eraldo Correia	5th (Clausura 2011)
FAS	Willian Renderos Iraheta	Resigned	Ricardo Mena Laguán	2nd (Clausura 2011)
Vista Hermosa	José Rolando Pérez	Moved to Aguila	Carlos Romero	10th (Clausura 2011)
UES	Jorge Abrego	replaced and moved to coaching reserves	Roberto Gamarra	9th (Clausura 2011)

During the regular season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Alianza	Vladan Vićević	Resigned	January 19, 2012	Leonel Cárcamo	January 25, 2012	7th (Clausura 2012)
Atlético Marte	Fausto Omar Vásquez	Resigned	January 29, 2012	Jorge Alberto García	January 29, 2012	10th (Clausura 2012)
Águila	Eraldo Correia	Sacked	January 30, 2012	Victor Coreas	January 30, 2012	7th (Clausura 2012)
Vista	Carlos Romero	Sacked	February 5, 2012	José Efraín Núñez	February 6, 2012	9th (Clausura 2012)
Alianza	Leonel Cárcamo	Replaced and moved to assistant coach	February 6, 2012	Juan Ramón Paredes	February 6, 2012	7th (Clausura 2012)
FAS	Ricardo Mena Laguán	Sacked	February 9, 2012	Agustín Castillo	February 9, 2012	8th (Clausura 2012)

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Isidro Metapán	18	10	8	0	34	15	+19	38	Qualification for playoffs^[a]
2	Águila (C)	18	9	2	7	28	18	+10	29
3	Luis Ángel Firpo	18	7	7	4	30	23	+7	28
4	Once Municipal	18	7	6	5	25	13	+12	27
5	FAS	18	6	9	3	24	23	+1	27
6	Juventud Independiente	18	6	7	5	31	24	+7	25
7	UES	18	5	4	9	24	36	−12	19
8	Atlético Marte	18	4	5	9	17	29	−12	17
9	Alianza	18	3	6	9	25	40	−15	15
10	Vista Hermosa	18	3	6	9	17	34	−17	15

Updated to match(es) played on April 15, 2012. Source: elgrafico.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions
Notes:

^ FAS won the extra game by 3-0 against Once Municipal for the last place of the playoffs.

Positions by round

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Team ╲ Round
Isidro Metapán	2	3	4	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Águila	9	9	8	6	7	5	4	2	2	3	3	3	4	3	3	2	2	2
Luis Ángel Firpo	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3
Once Municipal	4	6	3	5	4	4	3	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	4	4	4
FAS	6	7	6	7	8	8	8	6	7	7	7	6	5	5	5	5	5	5
Juventud Independiente	8	4	5	8	5	6	6	7	5	6	6	7	7	6	6	6	6	6
UES	3	2	2	3	3	3	5	5	6	5	5	5	6	7	7	7	7	7
Atlético Marte	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	8	9	8	9	9	10	10	10	8	8	8
Alianza	7	5	7	4	6	7	7	9	8	9	8	8	8	9	9	10	9	9
Vista Hermosa	5	8	9	9	9	9	9	10	10	10	10	10	9	8	8	9	10	10

Source: soccerway.com
= Leader; = Qualification to the playoffs; = Last place

Results

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

Updated to match(es) played on April 15, 2012. Source: soccerway.com
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Playoffs

Semifinals					Final

1	Isidro Metapán	0	3	3

4	FAS	2	0	2
					1	Isidro Metapán	1

					2	Águila	2
2	Águila	4	1	5

3	L.A. Firpo	0	2	2

Semi-finals

First leg

April 22, 2012

16:00 UTC-6

FAS	2–0	Isidro Metapán
Reyes 11' Ulloa 43'	Report

Estadio Óscar Quiteño, Santa Ana

Attendance: 12,053

Referee: Jaime Ahid Carpio

April 22, 2012

15:00 UTC-6

Luis Ángel Firpo	0–4	Águila
	Report	Darwin Bonilla 8', 39' Osael Romero 70' Rolando Torres 86'

Estadio Cuscatlan, San Salvador

Referee: Marlon Mejía

Second leg

April 28, 2012

19:00 UTC-6

Isidro Metapán	3–0	FAS
Alfredo Pacheco 55' Christian Bautista 62' Edwin Sánchez 77'	Report

Estadio Jorge Calero Suarez, Metapán

Attendance: 4,214

Referee: Joel Aguilar

Isidro Metapán won 3-2 on aggregate.

April 28, 2012

19:00 UTC-6

Águila	1–2	Luis Ángel Firpo
Nicolás Muñoz 90'	Report	Ederson Buendía 36' Jaime Alas 80'

Estadio Juan Francisco Barraza, San Miguel

Attendance: 6,065

Referee: Elmer Bonilla

Águila won 5-2 on aggregate.

Final

May 6, 2012

15:00 UTC-6

Isidro Metapán	1–2	Águila
Ramón Sánchez 78'	Report	Osael Romero 38' (pen.) Nicolás Muñoz 70'

Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador

Attendance: 18,506

Referee: Joel Aguilar


Isidro Metapán:
GK	1	Miguel Montes	37'
DF	23	Ricardo Alvarado	54'
DF	19	Alexander Escobar
DF	2	Milton Molina
DF	15	Alfredo Pacheco	26'
MF	20	Omar Mejía
MF	53	Marvin Monterrosa	54'
MF	16	Ramón Sánchez	68'
MF	12	Edwin Sánchez
FW	17	Léster Blanco
FW	9	Allan Kardeck	60' 67'
Substitutes:
FW	11	Christian Bautista	54'
MF	6	Julio Martínez	54'
FW	30	Leonardo Da Silva	67'
Manager:
Edwin Portillo


Águila:
GK	22	Benji Villalobos	84'
DF	23	Luis Anaya
DF	6	Mardoqueo Henríquez
DF	4	Glaúber da Silva	17'
DF	13	Deris Umanzor
MF	24	Darwin Bonilla	80'
DF	3	Isaac Zelaya
MF	8	Osael Romero
MF	15	Ronald Torres
FW	33	Irza Santos	42' 59'
FW	19	Nicolás Muñoz
Substitutes:
DF	48	Henry Romero	17' 63'
MF	7	Irving Flores	59'
DF	2	Rolando Torres	80'
Manager:
Víctor Coreas

Clausura 2012 champions
C.D. Águila 15th title

Player statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Nicolás Muñoz	Águila	12
1	Anel Canales	Luis Ángel Firpo	12
3	Juan Carlos Reyes	Juventud Independiente	10
4	Alexander Campos	Once Municipal	7
	Sean Fraser	Alianza	7
	Christian Bautista	Isidro Metapán	7
	César Larios	UES	7
	Álex Erazo	Juventud Independiente	7
	Marvin Monterrosa	Isidro Metapán	7
10	Osael Romero	Águila	6

Updated to games played on April 15, 2012.
Post-season goals are not included, only regular season goals.

Bookings

Rank	Team			Total
1	Vista Hermosa	27	1	28
2	Luis Ángel Firpo	39	2	41
3	Juventud Independiente	40	4	44
4	Atlético Marte	42	4	46
5	Águila	44	6	50
6	Isidro Metapán	49	3	52
7	UES	49	6	55
8	Once Municipal	55	4	59
9	FAS	54	6	60
10	Alianza	56	10	76
	Total	455	46	501

Updated to games played on April 15, 2012.

Goalkeepers

Goalkeeper	Goals	Matches	Average	Team
Miguel Montes	10	12	0.83	Isidro Metapán
Rafael Fuentes	11	12	0.92	Once Municipal
Benji Villalobos	15	15	1.00	Águila
Javier Gómez	19	16	1.19	Atlético Marte
Luis Contreras	22	18	1.22	FAS
Dagoberto Portillo	22	18	1.22	Luis Ángel Firpo
Wilber Ramírez	22	17	1.29	Juventud Independiente
Manuel González	26	15	1.73	UES
Aníbal Peña	34	18	1.89	Vista Hermosa
Yimmy Cuéllar	19	10	1.90	Alianza

Updated to games played on April 15, 2012.
Post-season goals are not included, only regular season goals.

Hat-tricks

Player	No. of goals	Time of goals	Representing	Final score	Opponent	Round
Marvin Monterrosa	3	15', 66', 90'	Isidro Metapán	3–1	Vista Hermosa	12th
Juan Carlos Reyes	3	7', 38', 74'	Juventud Independiente	5–0	UES	17th

Individual awards

Hombre GOL	Best Coach Award	Best Goalkeeper Award	Fair Player Award	Rookie Player Award
Nicolás Muñoz Águila Anel Canales Luis Ángel Firpo	Edwin Portillo Isidro Metapán	Miguel Montes Isidro Metapán	César Larios UES	Otoniel Salinas Vista Hermosa

Season statistics

Scoring

First goal of the season: José Otoniel Salinas for Vista Hermosa against FAS, 4 minutes (January 7, 2012)
Fastest goal in a match:2 minutes - José Lemus for Atlético Marte against Alianza (March 4, 2012)
Goal scored at the latest point in a match: 90+10 minutes Alexander Larin for Atlético Marte against FAS (January 21, 2012)
First penalty Kick of the season: Anel Canales for Luis Ángel Firpo against Atlético Marte, 48 minutes (January 8, 2012)
Widest winning margin: 5 Goals
- Once Municipal 5–0 FAS (January 25, 2012)
- Águila 5–0 Atlético Marte (March 8, 2012)
- Juventud Independiente 5–0 UES (April 4, 2012)
- Águila 5–0 Vista Hermosa (April 4, 2012)
First hat-trick of the season: Marvin Monterrosa for Isidro Metapán against Vista Hermosa (March 28, 2012)
First own goal of the season: Carlos Arévalo (Alianza) for UES, 37 minutes (January 7, 2012)
Most goals by one team in a match: 5 Goals
- Once Municipal 5–0 FAS (January 25, 2012)
- Águila 5–0 Atlético Marte (March 8, 2012)
- Juventud Independiente 5–0 UES (April 4, 2012)
- Águila 5–0 Vista Hermosa (April 4, 2012)
Most goals in one half by one team:
Most goals scored by losing team: 3 Goals
- UES 3–4 Luis Ángel Firpo (April 15, 2012)
Most goals by one player in a single match: 3 Goals
- Marvin Monterrosa for Isidro Metapán against Vista Hermosa (March 28, 2012)
- Juan Carlos Reyes for Juventud Independiente against UES (April 4, 2012)

Discipline

First yellow card of the season: Nelson Bonilla for Alianza against UES, 5 minutes (January 7, 2012)
First red card of the season: Nelson Bonilla for Alianza against UES, 9 minutes (January 7, 2012)
Card given at latest point in a game: Red José Enrique Rodríguez for Juventud Independiente, 90+3 minutes against UES (February 11, 2012)

Aggregate table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Isidro Metapán (C)	36	21	11	4	66	36	+30	74	Qualification for 2012–13 CONCACAF Champions League Group stage^[a]
2	FAS	36	15	14	7	48	40	+8	59
3	Águila (C)	36	17	7	12	62	43	+19	58
4	Once Municipal	36	15	12	9	54	32	+22	57
5	Luis Ángel Firpo	36	15	12	9	61	50	+11	57
6	Juventud Independiente	36	11	9	16	49	54	−5	42
7	Atlético Marte	36	10	10	16	38	50	−12	40
8	Alianza	36	9	12	15	43	57	−14	39
9	UES	36	7	12	17	39	65	−26	33
10	Vista Hermosa (R)	36	4	13	19	28	59	−31	25	Relegation to Segunda División

Source: elgrafico.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ Because Belize does not have a stadium which meets CONCACAF'S minimum standards for the Champions League, the spot normally reserved for Belize's club champion was reallocated to El Salvador, since it was the only Central American nation to send a team to the 2011–12 CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinals.

List of foreign players in the league

This is a list of foreign players in Clausura 2012. 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 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