Primera División de Fútbol Profesional – Clausura 2012

The Clausura 2012 season was the 28th edition of Primera División de Fútbol de El Salvador since its establishment of an Apertura and Clausura format. Isidro Metapán headed into this tournament as the defending champions. The season began on January 8, 2012 and concluded in mid-year. Like previous years, the league consisted of 10 teams, each playing a home and away game against the other clubs for a total of 18 games, respectively. The top four teams by the end of the regular season took part in the playoffs.

Second leg
Isidro Metapán won 3-2 on aggregate.

Águila won 5-2 on aggregate.

Top scorers
Updated to games played on April 15, 2012. Post-season goals are not included, only regular season goals.

Bookings
Updated to games played on April 15, 2012.

Goalkeepers
Updated to games played on April 15, 2012. Post-season goals are not included, only regular season goals.

Scoring

 * First goal of the season: 🇸🇻 José Otoniel Salinas for Vista Hermosa against FAS, 4 minutes (January 7, 2012)
 * Fastest goal in a match:2 minutes - 🇸🇻 José Lemus for Atlético Marte against Alianza (March 4, 2012)
 * Goal scored at the latest point in a match: 90+10 minutes 🇸🇻 Alexander Larin for Atlético Marte against FAS (January 21, 2012)
 * First penalty Kick of the season: 🇵🇦 Anel Canales for Luis Ángel Firpo against Atlético Marte, 48 minutes (January 8, 2012)
 * Widest winning margin: 5 Goals
 * Once Municipal 5–0 FAS (January 25, 2012)
 * Águila 5–0 Atlético Marte (March 8, 2012)
 * Juventud Independiente 5–0 UES (April 4, 2012)
 * Águila 5–0 Vista Hermosa (April 4, 2012)
 * First hat-trick of the season: 🇸🇻 Marvin Monterrosa for Isidro Metapán against Vista Hermosa (March 28, 2012)
 * First own goal of the season: 🇸🇻 Carlos Arévalo (Alianza) for UES, 37 minutes (January 7, 2012)
 * Most goals by one team in a match: 5 Goals
 * Once Municipal 5–0 FAS (January 25, 2012)
 * Águila 5–0 Atlético Marte (March 8, 2012)
 * Juventud Independiente 5–0 UES (April 4, 2012)
 * Águila 5–0 Vista Hermosa (April 4, 2012)
 * Most goals in one half by one team:
 * Most goals scored by losing team: 3 Goals
 * UES 3–4 Luis Ángel Firpo (April 15, 2012)
 * Most goals by one player in a single match: 3 Goals
 * 🇸🇻 Marvin Monterrosa for Isidro Metapán against Vista Hermosa (March 28, 2012)
 * Juan Carlos Reyes for Juventud Independiente against UES (April 4, 2012)

Discipline

 * First yellow card of the season: 🇸🇻 Nelson Bonilla for Alianza against UES, 5 minutes (January 7, 2012)
 * First red card of the season: 🇸🇻 Nelson Bonilla for Alianza against UES, 9 minutes (January 7, 2012)
 * Card given at latest point in a game: Red 🇸🇻 José Enrique Rodríguez for Juventud Independiente, 90+3 minutes against UES (February 11, 2012)

List of foreign players in the league
This is a list of foreign players in Clausura 2012. The following players:
 * 1) have played at least one apertura game for the respective club.
 * 2) have not been capped for the El Salvador national football team on any level, independently from the birthplace

A new rule was introduced a few season ago, that clubs can only have three foreign players per club and can only add a new player if there is an injury or player/s is released.

C.D. Águila
 * 🇧🇷 Glaúber da Silva
 * 🇧🇷 Rómulo
 * TBA

Alianza F.C.
 * 🇨🇺 Yaikel Pérez
 * 🇯🇲 Sean Fraser
 * 🇧🇷 Willer Souza

Atlético Marte
 * 🇬🇭 James Owusu-Ansah
 * 🇺🇾 Alcides Bandera
 * 🇯🇲 Garrick Gordon

Juventud Independiente
 * 🇺🇾 Juan Carlos Reyes
 * 🇨🇴 Cristian Adolfo González
 * 🇦🇷 Maximiliano Alexis Villega

C.D. FAS
 * 🇦🇷 Alejandro Bentos
 * 🇨🇷 Rodolfo Rodríguez (footballer)
 * 🇧🇷 Marcio Teruel

(player released mid season)

C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo
 * 🇵🇦 Anel Canales
 * 🇨🇴 Luis Torres
 * 🇨🇴 Ederson Buendía

A.D. Isidro Metapán
 * 🇭🇳 Ernesto Aquino
 * 🇧🇷 Allan Kardeck
 * 🇧🇷 Leonardo Da Silva

Once Municipal
 * 🇲🇽 Pablo Hütt
 * 🇨🇴 Andrés Medina
 * 🇵🇦 Anthony Basile

UES
 * 🇨🇴 John Castillo
 * 🇨🇷 Gustavo Peña
 * TBA

Vista Hermosa
 * 🇭🇳 Bonel Ávila
 * 🇨🇴 Juan Camilo Mejía
 * 🇭🇳 Pompilio Cacho Valerio
 * 🇭🇳 Hugo Sarmiento