Primera División de Fútbol Profesional Apertura 2004

The Salvador Primera División de Fútbol Profesional Apertura 2004 season (officially "Torneo Apertura 2004") started on August 7, 2004.

The season was composed of the following clubs:

Team information[edit]

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
Águila		Julio Cesar Cortez	TBD	TBD
Alianza		Juan Mujica	TBD	TBD
Atletico Balboa	Noel Benítez	Jorge Alberto Garcia	TBD	TBD
FAS	Reynaldo Valle	Agustín Castillo	TBD	TBD
Firpo	TBD	Gustavo de Simone	TBD	TBD
Isidro Metapan	José Gumercindo Landaverde	Marcelo Javier Zuleta	TBD	TBD
Municipal Limeno	Gumercindo Ventura	Ricardo Ortiz "Tato"	Galaxia	LG
Once Lobos	TBD	Carlos Recinos	TBD	TBD
Once Municipal	TBD	Oscar Emigdio Benitez	TBD	TBD
San Salvador F.C.	Marco Flores	Saul Rivero	TBD	TBD

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Atletico Balboa	Oscar Emigdio Benitez	TBD	May 2004	Jorge Alberto Garcia	June 2004
San Salvador F.C.	Ruben Alonso	TBD	June 2004	Saul Rivero	June 2004
Municipal Limeno	Jorge Alberto Garcia	TBD	June 2004	Ricardo Ortiz "Tato"	July 2004

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Isidro Metapan	Marcelo Javier Zuleta	TBD	August 2004	Edwin Portillo	August 2004
Alianza F.C.	Juan Mujica	TBD	September 2004	Juan Ramon Paredes	September 2004
Municipal Limeno	Ricardo Ortiz Tato	TBD	September 2004	Raul Cocherai	September 2004
C.D. Aguila	Julio Cesar Cortez	TBD	October 2004	Carlos Alberto de Toro	October 2004
Atletico Balboa	Jorge Alberto Garcia	TBD	October 2004	Juan Quarterone	October 2004
Once Municipal	Oscar Emigdio Benitez	TBD	November 2004	Henry Rojas	November 2004

Last updated August 2, 2004

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	C.D. FAS	18	9	5	4	26	19	+7	32	Qualified for semifinal
2	San Salvador F.C.	18	9	5	4	30	33	−3	32
3	C.D. Atlético Balboa	18	7	9	2	26	13	+13	30
4	C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo	18	7	8	3	26	13	+13	29	4th place playoff
5	A.D. Isidro Metapán	18	8	5	5	25	24	+1	29	4th place playoff
6	C.D. Águila	18	5	8	5	24	20	+4	23
7	Alianza F.C.	18	6	3	9	19	25	−6	21
8	Once Lobos	18	4	7	7	22	21	+1	19
9	Once Municipal	18	5	4	9	15	26	−11	19
10	Municipal Limeño	18	0	6	12	12	31	−19	6

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

December 5, 2004

C.D. Luis AngelFirpo	0-2	A.D. Isidro Metapán
		Johnny Descolines 6', Alcides Banderas 8'

December 5, 2004

C.D. Atlético Balboa	1-1	San Salvador F.C.
Franklin Vinosis Webster 20'		Rodrigues 27'

December 5, 2004

A.D. Isidro Metapán	2-1	C.D. FAS
Escobar 23' J. Reyes 26'		W. Reyes 85'

December 12, 2004

San Salvador F.C.	1-3	C.D. Atlético Balboa
Alexander Obregon 44'		Carlos Asprilla 116' Nildeson 20', 119'

December 12, 2004

C.D. FAS	3-0	A.D. Isidro Metapán
Mafla 10' W. Reyes 70' Bentos 88'

December 21, 2003

C.D. FAS	0–0	C.D. Atlético Balboa

Penalties
Gilberto Murgas Ernesto Góchez Víctor Mafla Emerson Umaña Alfredo Pacheco Víctor Velásquez Marcelo Messias	4–3	Nildeson Hídzar Henríquez Eugenio Valerio Carlos Asprilla Yubini Salamanca Armando Mercado Lisandro González

Apertura 2004 champions
C.D. FAS 15th title

Pos.	Nat.	Player	Team	Goals
1		Nicolás Muñoz	C.D. FAS	12

This is a list of foreign players in Apertura 2004. The following players:

have played at least one apetura 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