Primera División de Fútbol Profesional Clausura 2003

The Primera División de Fútbol Profesional Clausura 2003 season (officially "Torneo Apertura 2002") started on January 21, 2003.

The season was composed of the following clubs:

Team information

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
Águila		Ramón Maradiaga	TBD	TBD
Alianza	Ricardo Padilla Pinto	Juan Quarterone	TBD	TBD
Atletico Balboa	Noel Benítez	Nelson Brizuela	TBD	TBD
C.D. Arcense	TBD	Ricardo Guardado	TBD	TBD
C.D. Dragon	Domingo Ramos	Jose Mario Martinez	TBD	TBD
FAS	Reynaldo Valle	Agustín Castillo	TBD	TBD
Firpo	TBD	Milos Mijanic	TBD	TBD
Isidro Metapan	José Gumercindo Landaverde	Edwin Portillo	TBD	TBD
Municipal Limeno	Gumercindo Ventura	Henry Vanegas	Galaxia	LG
San Salvador F.C.	Marco Flores	Ruben Alonso	TBD	TBD

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Aguila	Hugo Coria	Resigned	December 2002	Ramón Maradiaga	Jan 2003
Atletico Balboa	Juan Quarterone	TBD	NOV 2002	Nelson Brizuela	Jan 2003
Alianza F.C.	Julio Escobar	TBD	December 2002	Juan Quarterone	Jan 2002

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Municipal Limeno	Henry Vanegas	TBD	April 2003	Antonio Carlos Viera	April 2003
C.D. Dragon	Jose Mario Martinez	TBD	April 2003	Domingo Ramos Interim	April 2003
Atletico Balboa	Nelson Brizuela	TBD	April 2003	Carlos Barone	April 2003
Atletico Balboa	Carlos Barone	TBD	April 2003	Manuel Alberto Solano	April 2003

Last updated August 3, 2002

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	C.D. FAS	18	13	5	0	35	12	+23	44
2	San Salvador F.C.	18	7	7	4	29	26	+3	28
3	Alianza F.C.	18	6	10	2	23	20	+3	28
4	C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo	18	7	6	5	25	21	+4	27
5	A.D. Isidro Metapán	18	6	8	4	24	18	+6	26
6	Municipal Limeño	18	6	6	6	34	27	+7	24
7	C.D. Águila	18	6	4	8	28	27	+1	22
8	C.D. Atlético Balboa	18	3	9	6	15	28	−13	18
9	C.D. Arcense	18	1	8	9	10	19	−9	11
10	C.D. Dragón	18	1	5	12	18	43	−25	8	Relegated to Segunda División de Fútbol Salvadoreño

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

June 1, 2003

Alianza F.C.	2-2	San Salvador F.C.

June 1, 2003

C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo	2-1	C.D. FAS

June 8, 2003

San Salvador F.C.	2-1	Alianza F.C.
Garcés 19' Víctor Merino 90'		Pedrozo 74'

June 8, 2003

C.D. FAS	2-1 pen (3-4)	C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo
Bentos 81' Murgas 90'		Sevillano 91'

June 15, 2003

San Salvador F.C.	3-1 (AET)	C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo
Guillermo Morán 7' (o.g.) Víctor Merino 113' José Martínez 116'		Santos Cabrera 48'

Clausura Champions 2002/03
San Salvador F.C. 1st title

This is a list of foreign players in Clausura 2003. 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

C.D. Águila