Primera División de Fútbol Profesional 1996–97 explained

Competition:	Primera División de Fútbol Profesional
Season:	1996–97
Winners:	Alianza (5th Title)
Relegated:	Once Lobos
Prevseason:	1995-96
Nextseason:	1997-98

The 1996–97 Primera División de Fútbol Profesional season is the 45th tournament of El Salvador's Primera División since its establishment of the National League system in 1948. The tournament began 1 September 1996 and was scheduled to end on July 27, 1997. Alianza won the two legged final over LA Firpo 3–2.

Teams

Team	City	Stadium	Head coach	Captain
Aguila	San Miguel, El Salvador	Estadio San Miguel	Milovan Đorić
Alianza	San Salvador, El Salvador	Estadio Cuscatlan	Juan Carlos Masnik
Atletico Marte	San Salvador, El Salvador	Estadio Cuscutlan	Javier Frogoso
Baygon-ADET	La Libertad	Estadio	Armando Contreras Palma
Dragon	San Miguel, El Salvador	Estadio San Miguel	Didier Castro
EL Roble	Ilobasco, El Salvador	Estadio Ilobasco	Conrado Miranda	TBD
FAS	Santa Ana, El Salvador	Estadio de Santa Ana	Saul Lorenzo Rivero
Firpo	Usulután, El Salvador	Estadio Usulutan	Jorge Aude
Municipal Limeno	Santa Rosa de Lima, La Unión	Estadio de Santa Rosa Lima	Helio Rodriguez
Once Lobos	Chalchuapa, Santa Ana, El Salvador	Estadio El Progreso	Mauricio Alvarenga

Managerial changes

Before the season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
TBD	TBD	Sacked	1996	TBD	1996	September 1995
Municipal Limeno	Alfredo Ruano	Sacked	July 1996	Helio Rodriguez	August 1996

During the season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
C.D. Aguila	Milovan Đorić	Mutual consent, Joined the national team	December 1996	Mario Rey	January 1997
C.D. Aguila	Mario Rey	Interimship finished	2 February 1997	Mladen Stefanovic	3 February 1997
EL Roble	Conrado Miranda	Sacked	1997	Victor Manuel Pacheco	1997
Atletico Marte	Javier Frogoso	Sacked	1997	Juan Quarterone	1997
LA Firpo	Juan Cortez	Interimship finished	1997	Jorge Aude	1997
LA Firpo	Mario Perez	Sacked	1997	Juan Cortez	1997
Once Lobos	Mauricio Alvarenga	Sacked	1997	Cesar Acevedo	1997
Municipal Limeno	Helio Rodriguez	Sacked	October 1996	Manuel Solano Madrigal	November 1996
FAS	Saul Lorenzo Rivero	Mutual Consent	January 1997	Valdeir Vieira	15 February 1997
Firpo	Jorge Aude	Sacked	February 1997	Julio Escobar	February 1997
C.D. Dragon	Didier Castro	Sacked	November 1996	Juan Ramón Paredes	November 1996
C.D. Dragon	Juan Ramón Paredes	Sacked	December 1996	Gilberto Yearwood	January 1997
Municipal Limeno	Manuel Solano Madrigal	Resigned	February 1997	Carlos Ventura	February 1997
Municipal Limeno	Carlos Ventura	Resigned	April 1997	Cesar Rincon	April 1997
Municipal Limeno	Cesar Rincon	Resigned	May 1997	Alfredo Romero (Intermship)	June 1997

Playoffs

Preliminary finals

Second legs

1-1. Aguila won 4-2 on penalty LA Firpo won 7-5 on aggregate Atletico Marte won 4-2 after extra time. Both team progressed

Semifinals

Second legs

LA Firpo won 3-2 on aggregareAlianza won 2-0 on aggregare

Final

Alianza FC won 3-2 on Aggregate.

Top scorers

Pos	Player	Team	Goals
1.	Jorge Garay	Aguila	21
2	Ivan Nolasco	El Roble de Ilobasco	20
3.	Carlos Villareal	FAS	19
4.	Alejandro Larrea	Atletico Marte	17
5.	Waldir Guerra	Aguila	16
6.	Juan Manuel Villarreal	Once Lobos	15
7.	Abdul Thompson Conteh	Atletico Marte	14
8.	Oscar Diaz	FAS	13
9.	Israel Castro Franco	Luis Angel Firpo	13
10.	Rodrigo Osorio	Alianza FC	12

List of foreign players in the league

This is a list of foreign players in 1996-1997. The following players:

1. have played at least one game for the respective club.
2. have not been capped for the El Salvador national football team on any level, independently from the birthplace

C.D. Águila

• Rogerio Martins Rocha
• Vladimir Avramovic
• Dragan Kovacevic
• Jorge Garay
• Jorge Villar

Alianza F.C.

• Leonardo Gaston Fioroto
• Horacio Lugo
• Marcelo Bauza
• Pedro Cubillo
• Washington de la Cruz

Atletico Marte

• Alex Lopez
• Abdul Thompson Conteh
• Alejandro Larrea
• Raul Falero

Baygon-ADET

• Fernando de Moura
• Jorge Martinez Ogaldes

Dragon

• M.Ferreira
• Dennis Antonio Piedy
• P.Guidi
• Peter Mendez

(player released mid season) (player Injured mid season) Injury replacement player

El Roble

• Ivan Nolasco

C.D. FAS

• Daniel Boscoso
• Onix Vargas
• Agustin Castillo
• Carlos Edgar Villarreal
• Jorge Mocecchi

C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo

• Fabio de Freitas
• Israel Castro Franco
• Raul Toro
• Richardson Smith
• Percibal Piggott

Limeno

• German Rodriguez
• Radames Avila
• Franklin Delgado

Once Lobos

• Enriquez
• Juan Manuel Villarreal
• Marcelo Bruno
• Emiliano Pedrozo

External links

• https://www.rsssf.org/tablese/elsal97.html
• http://archivo.elsalvador.com/noticias/2006/11/29/deportes/dep1.asp
• https://www.taringa.net/posts/deportes/14126292/25-aniversario-de-la-final-Alianza-Aguila-1987.html