Primera División de Fútbol Profesional – Apertura 2000

Primera División de Fútbol de El Salvador
Champions	C.D. Aguila (12th title)
Relegated	C.D. Santa Clara de El Salvador
Top goalscorer	TBD (12)
	← Clausura 2000 Clausura 2001 →

The Primera División de Fútbol Profesional Apertura 2000 season (officially "Torneo Apertura 2000") started on August 26, 2000, and finished on December 30, 2000.

The season saw C.D. Águila win its 12th league title after a 3–2 victory over C.D. Municipal Limeno in the final.

Team information[edit]

Personnel and sponsoring[edit]

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
ADET		Juan Quarterone	TBD	TBD
Águila		Hugo Coria	TBD	TBD
Alianza	Óscar Rodríguez	Jaime Rodriguez	TBD	TBD
Atlético Marte	TBD	Mauricio Pachín González	TBD	TBD
C.D. Dragon	TBD	Nelson Brizuela	TBD	TBD
FAS	Reynaldo Valle	Juan Ramón Paredes	TBD	TBD
Atletico Balboa	TBD	Jose Mario Martinez	TBD	TBD
Firpo	TBD	Julio Escobar	TBD	TBD
Municipal Limeno	TBD	Agustin Castillo	TBD	TBD
Santa Clara	TBD	Saul Molina	TBD	TBD

Managerial changes[edit]

During the season[edit]

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
FAS	Juan Ramón Paredes	Sacked	October 2000	Cesar Acevedo Interim	October 2000
FAS	Cesar Acevedo Interim	moved to assistant	Oct 2000	Roberto Abruzzesse	October 2000
FAS	Roberto Abruzzesse	Resigned	November 2000	Garabet Avedissian	November 2000

League standings[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	C.D. Municipal Limeño	18	12	4	2	43	13	+30	40	Qualified to finals
2	C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo	18	10	6	2	42	19	+23	36
3	C.D. Águila	18	9	4	5	34	28	+6	31
4	C.D. Atlético Balboa	18	8	5	5	31	26	+5	29
5	C.D. Dragón	18	6	7	5	32	29	+3	25
6	Alianza F.C.	18	4	9	5	25	25	0	21
7	ADET	18	4	7	7	23	24	−1	19
8	C.D. FAS	18	3	8	7	15	21	−6	17
9	Atlético Marte	18	3	6	9	28	48	−20	15
10	C.D. Santa Clara	18	1	4	13	13	53	−40	7	Relegated to Segunda Division

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Semifinals 1st leg[edit]

December 16, 2000

C.D. Águila	3-0	C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo

Estadio Juan Francisco Barraza

December 17, 2000

C.D. Municipal Limeño	3-0	Atletico Balboa

Estadio Jose Ramon Flores

Semifinals 2nd leg[edit]

December 23, 2000

C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo	2-2	C.D. Águila

Estadio Sergio Torres

December 23, 2000

Atletico Balboa	1-4	C.D. Municipal Limeño

Estadio Marcelino Imbers

Final[edit]

December 30, 2000

Águila	3–2	Municipal Limeño
Adrián Mahía 22' Deonel Bordón 50' & 84'		César Cahrún 63' Josué Galdámez 66'

Estadio Nacional de la Flor Blanca


Aguila
GK		Juan José Gómez
DF		Néstor Morales
DF		Mario Mayén Meza
DF		Roberto Hernández
DF		Roberto Martínez
MF		William Torres Alegría
MF		Erber Burgos
MF		Jorge Rodríguez
MF		Adrian Mahia
FW		Marcio Sampaio
FW		Fulgencio Deonel Bordón
Substitutes:
FW		Manuel López
MF		Kilmar Jiménez
MF		Waldir Guerra
Manager:
Hugo Coria


Municipal Limeno:
GK		Santos Rivera
DF		Marvin Perico Benítez
DF		Elmer Pando Martínez
DF		César Charum
DF		Deris Umanzor
DF		Rene Galan
MF		Jahir Camero
MF		Oris Velásquez
MF		Manuel Carranza
FW		Rudis Corrales
FW		Carlos Villarreal
Manager:
Agustín Castillo

Apertura 2000 champion
C.D. Águila 12th title

List of foreign players in the league[edit]

This is a list of foreign players in Apertura 2000. 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

ADET