Primera División de Fútbol Profesional 1996–97

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.

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''

Second legs
LA Firpo won 3-2 on aggregare

Alianza won 2-0 on aggregare

Final
Alianza FC won 3-2 on Aggregate.

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

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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
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 * 🇵🇦 Percibal Piggott

Limeno
 * German Rodriguez
 * 🇵🇦 Radames Avila
 * 🇵🇦 Franklin Delgado

Once Lobos
 * 🇦🇷 Enriquez
 * 🇦🇷 Juan Manuel Villarreal
 * 🇦🇷 Marcelo Bruno
 * 🇦🇷 Emiliano Pedrozo