Primera División de Fútbol Profesional Apertura 2001

Primera División de Fútbol de El Salvador
Champions	Alianza F.C. (8th title)
Relegated	None
Top goalscorer	TBD (12)
	← Clausura 2001 Clausura 2002 →

The Primera División de Fútbol Profesional Apertura 2001 season (officially "Torneo Apertura 2001"), started on August 26, 2001, and finished on December 23, 2001.

This season saw Alianza F.C. win its 8th league title after a 2-1 victory over C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo in the final.

This was the first season that saw promotion/relegation used on a once a year basis, rather than every six months as had been a custom in previous years. This meant that teams could now only be promoted/relegated once a year, after both the Apertura and Clausura seasons had ended. At which time, the teams promoted/relegated would be decided by comparing accumulated points on aggregate over both Apertura and Clausura seasons. At this point, the bottom team would automatically be relegated to the Segunda División de Fútbol Salvadoreño, while the winner of that division would be brought up to take their spot.

Promotion and relegation

Promoted from Segunda División de Fútbol Salvadoreño as of August 26, 2001.

A.D. Isidro Metapán

Team information

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
ADET		Juan Quarterone	TBD	TBD
Águila		Saul Lorenzo Rivero	TBD	TBD
Alianza	Óscar Rodríguez	Juan Ramón Paredes	TBD	TBD
Atlético Marte	TBD	Jorge Martinez	TBD	TBD
C.D. Dragon	TBD	Miguel Aguilar	TBD	TBD
FAS	Reynaldo Valle	Agustín Castillo	TBD	TBD
Atletico Balboa	TBD	Oscar Benítez	TBD	TBD
Firpo	TBD	Milos Miljanic	TBD	TBD
Municipal Limeno	TBD	Kiril Dojcinovski	TBD	TBD
A.D. Isidro Metapán	José Gumercindo Landaverde	Edwin Portillo	TBD	TBD

Managerial changes

Before the season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
FAS	Rubén Guevara	Resigned	June 2001	Agustin Castillo	June 2001
Alianza F.C.	Carlos Reyes	TBD	June 2001	Juan Ramón Paredes	June 2001
Municipal Limeno	Hernan Carrasco	Sacked	July 2001	Kiril Dojcinovski	July 2001
Atletico Marte	Mauricio Pachin Gonzales	TBD	July 2001	Jorge Martinez	July 2001

During the season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Atletico Marte	Jorge Martinez	TBD	September 2001	Nelson Brizuela	September 2001
Dragon	Miguel Aguilar	TBD	September 2001	Alfredo Encalada	September 2001
Atletico Marte	Nelson Brizuela	TBD	October 2001	Mauricio Pachin Gonzales	October 2001
Atletico Balboa	Óscar Emigdio Benítez	TBD	November 2001	Saul Molina	November 2001
Isidro Metapan	Edwin Portillo	TBD	October 2001	Oscar "Lagarto" Ulloa Interim	October 2001
Isidro Metapan	Oscar "Lagarto" Ulloa Interim	TBD	November 2001	José Calazán Interim	November 2001

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Alianza F.C.	18	12	4	2	42	23	+19	40	Qualified to finals
2	C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo	18	9	6	3	36	21	+15	33
3	C.D. Águila	18	9	5	4	49	26	+23	32
4	C.D. Municipal Limeño	18	8	6	4	28	21	+7	30
5	C.D. FAS	18	7	8	3	30	15	+15	29
6	A.D. Isidro Metapán	18	7	5	6	29	27	+2	26
7	C.D. Atlético Balboa	18	5	3	10	19	32	−13	18
8	C.D. Dragón	18	4	3	11	18	34	−16	15
9	ADET	18	4	2	12	22	49	−27	14
10	Atlético Marte	18	1	6	11	16	41	−25	9

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Semifinals 1st leg

Dec 9, 2001

C.D. Águila	2-2	C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo

Estadio Juan Francisco Barraza

Dec 9, 2001

C.D. Municipal Limeño	2-2	Alianza F.C.

Estadio Jose Ramon Flores

Semifinals 2nd leg

Dec 16, 2001

C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo	1-1	C.D. Águila

Estadio Sergio Torres

Dec 16, 2001

Alianza F.C.	0-0	C.D. Municipal Limeño

Estadio Cuscatlán

Final

December 23, 2001

Alianza F.C.	2-1	C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo
Sandoval 31' Martínez 119'		Montes 20'

Estadio Cuscatlán


Alianza
GK	Miguel Montes
DF	Washington La Cruz
DF	Ramiro Carballo
DF	Mario Elias Guevara
DF	Alexander Merino	60'
MF	Óscar Navarro 84'
MF	Jorge Sandoval
MF	Juan Carlos Serrano 42'	90'
MF	Adonai Martínez
FW	José Roberto Castillo	61'
FW	Martín García 61'
Substitutes:
FW	Carlos Asprilla	61'
MF	Hugo Escobar	90'
MF	Miguel Riquelmi	105'
Manager:
Juan Ramón Paredes


Firpo:
GK	Misael Alfaro
DF	Wilman González	89'
DF	Hidsar Henríquez 104'
DF	Mauricio Quintanilla
DF	Diego Alvarez
MF	Héctor Canjura
MF	Guillermo Morán 18'	68'
MF	Rafael Barrientos
MF	Santos Cabrera	65'
FW	Elias Montes
FW	Celio Rodríguez
Substitutes:
DF	René Durán 68'	60'
FW	Fredy González Víchez	80'
FW	Guillermo García	89'
Manager:
Milos Miljanic

Apertura 2001 champion
Alianza F.C. 8th title

List of foreign players in the league

This is a list of foreign players in Apertura 2001. 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