Primera División de Fútbol Profesional – Apertura 1999

Primera División de Fútbol de El Salvador
Champions	C.D. Águila (th title)
Relegated	None
Top goalscorer	Waldir Guerra (10)
	← Clausura 1999 Clausura 2000 →

The Primera División de Fútbol Profesional Apertura 1999 season (officially "Copa Pilsener Apertura 2000") started on August 28, 1999, and finished on December 26, 1999.

The season saw Águila win its 12th league title after a 1-0 victory over C.D. Municipal Limeño in the final.

Key note[edit]

After round 8 of this season, Árabe Marte reverted to their historic name of Atlético Marte.

Promotion and relegation[edit]

Promoted from Segunda División de Fútbol Salvadoreño as of 1999.

Champions: C.D. Juventud Olimpica Metalio

Relegated to Segunda División de Fútbol Salvadoreño as of 1999.

Last place: C.D. Sonsonate

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		Reno Renucci	TBD	TBD
Árabe Marte	TBD	José Luis Rugamas	TBD	TBD
C.D. Dragón	TBD	Nelson Brizuela	TBD	TBD
FAS	TBD	Juan Carlos Masnik	TBD	TBD
C.D. Juventud Olímpica Metalio	TBD	Walter Cifuentes	TBD	TBD
Firpo	TBD	Julio Escobar	TBD	TBD
Municipal Limeño	TBD	Oscar Emigdio Benítez	TBD	TBD
Santa Clara	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD

Managerial changes[edit]

Before the start of the season[edit]

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
FAS	Óscar Emigdio Benítez	TBD	1999	Juan Carlos Masnik	1999	2nd (Clausura 1999)
Águila	Antonio Carlos Vieira	Sacked	TBA	Hugo Coria	TBA	4th (Clausura 1999)
C.D. Dragón	TBD	TBD	1999	Nelson Brizuela	1999	7th (Clausura 1999)

During the season[edit]

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
C.D. Juventud Olímpica Metalio	Walter Cifuentes	Sacked	1999	Genaro Sermeño	1999
FAS	Juan Carlos Masnik	Resigned	1999	Rubén Guevara	1999
Alianza		Resigned	1999	Hernán Carrasco	1999
Atletico Marte		Resigned	1999	Juan Ramón Paredes	1999

League standings[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	C.D. Municipal Limeño	18	10	5	3	23	12	+11	35	Qualified to finals
2	C.D. Águila	18	9	6	3	32	12	+20	33
3	C.D. FAS	18	9	3	6	29	14	+15	30
4	Alianza F.C.	18	8	6	4	19	11	+8	30
5	C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo	18	7	5	6	21	16	+5	26
6	ADET	18	6	6	6	20	19	+1	24
7	C.D. Dragón	18	5	6	7	18	20	−2	21
8	C.D. Santa Clara	18	6	2	10	18	29	−11	20
9	Atlético Marte	18	3	8	7	17	25	−8	17
10	C.D. Juventud Olímpica Metalio	18	2	3	13	8	47	−39	9	Relegated to Segunda División

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Semifinals 1st leg[edit]

December 9, 1999

Alianza F.C.	1-1	C.D. Municipal Limeño
Oscar Navarro 44		Rudy Corrales 85

Estadio Cuscatlan

December 10, 1999

C.D. Águila	3-2	C.D. FAS
Marcio Sampaio 35, Roberto Hernandez 55, Hector Baloyes 58		Emiliano Pedrozo 10, Miguel Mariano 74

Estadio Juan Francisco Barraza

Semifinals 2nd leg[edit]

December 18, 1999

C.D. FAS	2-1	C.D. Águila
Miguel Mariano 9, Emiliano Pedrozo 59		Carlos Navarro 90

Estadio Oscar Quiteño

December 19, 1999

C.D. Municipal Limeño	1-4	Alianza F.C.
None		None

Estadio Jose Ramon Flores

Final[edit]

December 30, 1999

C.D. Águila	1-0	C.D. Municipal Limeño
Ever Burgos 110'		None

Estadio Nacional de la Flor Blanca


Águila
GK		Raul Garcia
DF		Roberto Martínez
DF		Mario Mayén Meza
DF		Roberto Hernández
DF		Néstor Morales
MF		Ronald Cálix
MF		Erber Burgos
MF		Álex Amaya del Cid
MF		Carlos Escalante
FW		Marcio Sampaio
FW		Héctor Baloyes
Substitutes:
FW		Kilmar Jiménez
MF		Ferrera
MF		Waldir Guerra
Manager:
Hugo Coria


Municipal Limeño:
GK		Santos Rivera
DF		Manuel Carranza
DF		César Hernández
DF		Elmer Martínez
DF		Edwin González
DF		Oris Velásquez
MF		Rene Galan
MF		German Alexis Rodríguez
MF		Deris Umanzor
FW		Magdonio Corrales
FW		Rudis Corrales
Substitutes:
FW		E Bonilla
FW		Roberto Ventura
Manager:
Óscar Emigdio Benítez

Apertura 2000 champion
C.D. Águila 11th title

Top scorers[edit]

Pos	Player	Team	Goals
1.	Waldir Guerra	Águila	10
2.	Rodrigo Osorio	Alianza F.C.	9
3.	Magdonio Corrales	C.D. Municipal Limeño	8
4.	Celio Rodriguez	C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo	7
5.	Juan Carlos Panameño	ADET	7

List of foreign players in the league[edit]

This is a list of foreign players in Clausura 1999. 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