Primera División de Fútbol Profesional 1995–96

Primera División de Fútbol Profesional
Season	1995–96
Champions	FAS (11th Title)
Relegated	Tiburones
	← 1994-95 1996-97 →

The 1995–96 Primera División de Fútbol Profesional season is the 44th tournament of El Salvador's Primera División since its establishment of the National League system in 1948. The tournament began on 3 September 1995 and it was scheduled to end on May 26, 1996. FAS won the replay championship match against LA Firpo 1–0. After the first game was tied 1-1.

Teams[edit]

Team	City	Stadium	Head coach	Captain
Aguila	TBD	Estadio de San Miguel	Oscar Emigdio Benitez
Alianza	TBD	Estadio	Hernan Carrasco Vivcano
Atletico Marte	TBD	Estadio Cuscutlan	Helio Rodriguez	Carlos Castro
Baygon-ADET	TBD	Estadio	Armando Contreras Palma
Dragon	TBD	Estadio de San Miguel	Jose Mario Martinez
El Roble	TBD	Estadio de Ilobasco	Conrado Miranda	TBD
FAS	TBD	Estadio	Saul Lorenzo Rivero	William Osorio
Firpo	TBD	Estadio de Usulutan	Julio Escobar
C.D. Municipal Limeno	TBD	Estadio	Victor Manuel Pacheco
Tiburones	TBD	Estadio Ana Mercedes	Jorge Patrick	William Santillana

Managerial changes[edit]

Before the season[edit]

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
TBD	Conrado Miranda	Sacked	September 1995	Luis Angel Leon	1995	September 1995
Municipal Limeno	TBD	Sacked	September 1995	Saul Molina	September 1995

During the season[edit]

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Firpo	Julio Escobar	Resigned	1995	Victor Manuel Pacheco	1995
Atletico Marte	Helio Rodriguez	Resigned	October 1995	Juan Lopez	October 1995	9th
Tiburones	Jorge Patris	Resigned	October 1995	Raimundo Amaya Revelo	October 1995
Tiburones	Victor Manuel Pacheco	Resigned	October 1995	Carlos Melendez	October 1995
Atletico Marte	Juan Lopez	Interimship finished	October 1995	Rene Renucci	October 1995	th
Dragon	Mario Martinez	Sacked	1995	Didier Castro	1995
Alianza	Hernan Carrasco Vivcano	Sacked	1995	Jorge Aude	November 1995
Aguila	Oscar Emigdio Benitez	Resigned	December 1995	Milovan Đorić	January 1996
Municipal Limeno	Saul Molina	Sacked	December 1995	Abraham Vasquez (El Penero)	January 1996
Municipal Limeno	Abraham Vasquez (El Penero)	Resigned	January 1996	Juan Quarterone	February 1996
Municipal Limeno	Juan Quarterone	Resigned	March 1996	Victor Coreas (Player/coach)	April 1996
Municipal Limeno	Victor Coreas (Player/coach)	Interimship finished	April 1996	Alfredo Ruano	April 1996

Semifinals[edit]

First legs[edit]

30 April 1996

15:30 (UTC-6)

LA Firpo	1-1	Aguila
Juan Castro		Luis Oseguera

Estadio

30 April 1996

15:30 (UTC-6)

Municipal Limeno	0-1	FAS
Nil		TBD 83'

Estadio Sergio Torres

Second legs[edit]

5 July 1997

15:00 (UTC-6)

FAS	3-2	Municipal Limeno
TBD 67' Jorge Moccecci Allan Oviedo		TBD 59' TBD 76'

Estadio

LA Firpo won 3-2 on aggregate

6 July 1997

15:00 (UTC-6)

Aguila	1-2	LA Firpo
Agustin Castillo 22'		William Renderos Iraheta 43' Luis Oseguera 75'

Estadio

Attendance: 10,575

Firpo won 3-2 on aggregate

Final[edit]

May 19, 1996

Firpo	1-1	FAS
Luis Oseguera 88'	[ ]	Floyd Guthrie 79' (o.g.)

Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador

May 26, 1996

FAS	1-0	Firpo
Agustin Gámez 67' (o.g.)	[ ]	Nil

Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador

Top scorers[edit]

Pos	Player	Team	Goals
1.	Raul Diaz Arce	LA Firpo	25
2	Carlos Villareal	Dragon	20
3.	Douglas Videl	ADET	15
4.	Jorge Martinez	Municipal Limeno	14
5.	Raul Falero	Atletico Marte	14
6.	Diego Aguirre	FAS	13
7.	Abdul Conteh	Atletico Marte	13
8.	Rene Martinez	Dragon	12
9.	Milton Melendez	Alianza F.C.	12
10.	Victor Zuninga	Aguila	11
11.	Alejandro Larrea	Atletico Marte	10
12.	Ruben Alonso	TBD	9

List of foreign players in the league[edit]

This is a list of foreign players in 1995-1996. The following players:

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

C.D. Águila