2020–21 Liga FPD explained

The 2020–21 Liga FPD season, is the 100th season since its establishment.

Competition:	Liga FPD
Season:	2020–21
Nextseason:	2021–22
Prevseason:	2019–20

Managerial changes

During the Apertura season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
TBD	TBD	Sacked	2020	TBD	2020	th (Apertura 2020)
TBD	TBD	Sacked	2020	TBD	2020	th (Apertura 2020)
TBD	TBD	Sacked	2020	TBD	2020	th (Apertura 2020)
TBD	TBD	Sacked	2020	TBD	2020	th (Apertura 2020)
Municipal Grecia	Luis Diego Arnaez	Sacked	2020	Luis Rodriguez	2020	th (Apertura 2020)

Between the Apertura and Clausura season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Herediano	Jafet Soto	Sacked	December 2020	Fernando Palomeque ^[1]	December 2020	th (Apertura 2020)
Grecia	José Rodríguez	Interimship finished	December 2020	Gilberto Martínez	December 2020	th (Apertura 2020)
Sporting San José	Randall Row	Sacked	December 2020	José Giacone	December 2020	th (Apertura 2020)
		Sacked	December 2020		December 2020	th (Apertura 2020)
		Sacked	December 2020		December 2020	th (Apertura 2020)
		Sacked	December 2020		December 2020	th (Apertura 2020)

During the Clausura season

Apertura

Standings

Clausura

Standings

List of foreign players in the league

This is a list of foreign players in the 2020–21 season. The following players:

1. Have played at least one game for the respective club.
2. Have not been capped for the Costa Rica 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's before the close of the season transfer window.^[2]

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Former Players
Alajuelense	Facundo Zabala	Alexander López	Adolfo Machado
Cartaginés	Joaquin Aguirre	Marcel Hernández	Byron Bonilla
Grecia		Naël Élysée
Guadalupe	Lautaro Ayala
Herediano	Leandrinho
Jicaral	Ismael Gómez	Kennedy Rocha Pereira	Joaquin Santellan
Limón	Carlos Soza
Pérez Zeledón	Hernan Fener	Enrique Moura	Craig Foster
San Carlos	Javon East	Julio Cruz	Jorman Aguilar
Santos de Guápiles	Jason Ingram	Víctor Griffith
Deportivo Saprissa	Esteban Espíndola	Mariano Torres	Aubrey David
Sporting

(player released during the Apertura season) (player released between the Apertura and Clausura seasons) (player released during the Clausura season)

References

1. Web site: Fernando Palomeque: Nuevo DT del Herediano de Costa Rica. 21 December 2020.
2. Web site: UNAFUT - SITIO OFICIAL - Extranjeros . 2020-12-24 . 2021-01-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210121144502/http://unafut.com/index.php/estadisticas-fpd/extranjeros . dead .