Primera División de Fútbol Profesional Apertura 2001 explained

Winners:	Alianza F.C. (8th title)
Relegated:	None
League Topscorer:	TBD (12)
Nextseason:	Clausura 2002

The Primera División de Fútbol Profesional Apertura 2001 season (officially "Torneo Apertura 2001"), started on August 26, 2001, and finished on December 23, 2001.

This season saw Alianza F.C. win its 8th league title after a 2-1 victory over C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo in the final.

This was the first season that saw promotion/relegation used on a once a year basis, rather than every six months as had been a custom in previous years. This meant that teams could now only be promoted/relegated once a year, after both the Apertura and Clausura seasons had ended. At which time, the teams promoted/relegated would be decided by comparing accumulated points on aggregate over both Apertura and Clausura seasons. At this point, the bottom team would automatically be relegated to the Segunda División de Fútbol Salvadoreño, while the winner of that division would be brought up to take their spot.

Promotion and relegation

Promoted from Segunda División de Fútbol Salvadoreño as of August 26, 2001.

A.D. Isidro Metapán

Team information

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
ADET		Juan Quarterone	TBD	TBD
Águila		Saul Lorenzo Rivero	TBD	TBD
Alianza	Óscar Rodríguez	Juan Ramón Paredes	TBD	TBD
Atlético Marte	TBD	Jorge Martinez	TBD	TBD
C.D. Dragon	TBD	Miguel Aguilar	TBD	TBD
FAS	Reynaldo Valle	Agustín Castillo	TBD	TBD
Atletico Balboa	TBD	Oscar Benítez	TBD	TBD
Firpo	TBD	Milos Miljanic	TBD	TBD
Municipal Limeno	TBD	Kiril Dojcinovski	TBD	TBD
A.D. Isidro Metapán	José Gumercindo Landaverde	Edwin Portillo	TBD	TBD

Managerial changes

Before the season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
FAS	Rubén Guevara	Resigned	June 2001	Agustin Castillo	June 2001
Alianza F.C.	Carlos Reyes	TBD	June 2001	Juan Ramón Paredes	June 2001
Municipal Limeno	Hernan Carrasco	Sacked	July 2001		July 2001
Atletico Marte	Mauricio Pachin Gonzales	TBD	July 2001	Jorge Martinez	July 2001

During the season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Atletico Marte	Jorge Martinez	TBD	September 2001	Nelson Brizuela	September 2001
Dragon	Miguel Aguilar	TBD	September 2001	Alfredo Encalada	September 2001
Atletico Marte	Nelson Brizuela	TBD	October 2001	Mauricio Pachin Gonzales	October 2001
Atletico Balboa	Óscar Emigdio Benítez	TBD	November 2001	Saul Molina	November 2001
Isidro Metapan		TBD	October 2001	Oscar "Lagarto" Ulloa Interim	October 2001
Isidro Metapan	Oscar "Lagarto" Ulloa Interim	TBD	November 2001	José Calazán Interim	November 2001

Semifinals 1st leg

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Semifinals 2nd leg

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Final


Alianza
GK		Miguel Montes
DF
DF		Ramiro Carballo
DF		Mario Elias Guevara
DF		Alexander Merino
MF
MF		Jorge Sandoval
MF		Juan Carlos Serrano
MF
FW		José Roberto Castillo
FW
Substitutes:
FW
MF		Hugo Escobar
MF		Miguel Riquelmi
Manager:
Juan Ramón Paredes


Firpo:
GK		Misael Alfaro
DF		Wilman González
DF		Hidsar Henríquez
DF
DF		Diego Alvarez
MF
MF		Guillermo Morán
MF
MF
FW
FW
Substitutes:
DF		René Durán
FW
FW		Guillermo García
Manager:
Milos Miljanic

List of foreign players in the league

This is a list of foreign players in Apertura 2001. 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

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