1988–89 Primera División de Fútbol Profesional

Primera División de Fútbol Profesional
Season	1988–89
Champions	C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo (1st Title)
Relegated	ADET
	← 1987-88 1989-90 →

The 1988–89 Primera División de Fútbol Profesional season is the 37th tournament of El Salvador's Primera División since its establishment of the National League system in 1948. The tournament was scheduled to end on April 2, 1989. Luis Angel Firpo, the best team in the final group, won the championship match against Cojutepeque, the best regular season team.

Teams[]

Team	City	Stadium	Head coach
Acajutla	TBD	Estadio	TBD
Atletico Marte	TBD	Estadio Cuscutlan
Aguila	TBD	Estadio	TBD
Alianza	TBD	Estadio	TBD
ADET	TBD	Estadio	TBD
Chalatenango	TBD	Estadio	TBD
Cojutepeque	TBD	Estadio	Conrado Miranda
FAS	TBD	Estadio	TBD
Firpo	TBD	Estadio	Juan Quarterone
Metapan	TBD	Estadio	TBD

Managerial changes[]

During the season[]

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
TBD	TBD	Sacked	1989		1990
Firpo	Juan Quarterone	Sacked	February, 1989	Julio Escobar	February, 1989

League standings[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Cojutepeque	36	14	15	7	50	39	+11	43	Qualified to finals. Won the right to play a Championship Game if they fail to win the final round.
2	C.D. Águila	36	12	17	7	34	26	+8	41	Qualified to finals.
3	C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo	36	12	16	8	41	30	+11	40
4	Acajutla	36	11	18	7	38	31	+7	40
5	Atlético Marte	36	12	15	9	40	34	+6	39
6	C.D. FAS	36	9	20	7	35	34	+1	38
7	Metapán	36	11	11	14	43	42	+1	33
8	C.D. Chalatenango	36	7	17	12	30	33	−3	31
9	Alianza F.C.	36	9	11	16	34	53	−19	29
10	ADET	36	5	16	15	28	51	−23	26	Relegated to Segunda Division.

Source: http://www.rsssf.com/tablese/elsalhist.html#88/89

Final round standings[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	C.D. Luis Angel Firpo	6	2	4	0	11	8	+3	8	Qualified to championship game
2	Acajutla	6	2	3	1	10	5	+5	7
3	C.D. Águila	6	1	4	1	10	9	+1	6
4	Cojutepeque F.C.	6	0	3	3	5	14	−9	3

Source:^{[citation needed]}

Final[]

2 April 1989

C.D. Luis Angel Firpo	2-2	Cojutepeque
Jose Maria Batres 5 91	[ ]	Percival Piggot 6 Hugo Ventura 118
Penalties
Miguel Seminario Abraham Vásquez Martín Duffó Kiko Henríquez Fernando De Moura Leonel Carcamo	4 – 3	Hugo Ventura Walter Martinez Mauricio Alfaro Ruben Guevara Percival Piggot W Ventura

Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador

Attendance: 60, 000


Luis Angel Firpo:
GK	1	Raúl Chamagua
DF	2	Arnoldo Quintanilla (c)
DF	3	Martín Duffo
DF	4	Leonel Carcamo
DF	25	Geovani Trigueros
MF	8	Miguel Estrada
MF	6	Jose Maria Batres
MF	10	Mauricio Cienfuegos
MF	12	Fernando De Moura
FW	9	Edgar Henriquez
FW	11	Miguel Seminario
Substitutes:
MF	21	Abraham Vasquez
MF	21	Manuel Ayala
Manager:
Julio Escobar


Cojutepeque:
GK	15	Mauricio Vargas
DF	5	Mauricio Quintanilla
DF	6	Jose Luis Rugamas
DF	7	Guillermo Ragazzone
DF	12	Walter Ventura
MF	11	Julio Molina
MF	21	René Sorto
MF	22	Mauricio Alfaro
FW	10	Percibal Piggot
FW	16	Hugo Ventura
FW	20	Ruben Guevara
Substitutes:
DF	3	Rodolfo Barrientos
FW	13	Luis López Corcio
Manager:
Conrado Miranda

Top scorers[]

Pos	Player	Team	Goals
1.	Ruben Alonso	Alianza F.C.	TBD
2	TBD	TBD	TBD
3.	TBD	TBD	TBD
4.	TBD	TBD	TBD
5.	TBD	TBD	TBD
6.	TBD	TBD	TBD
7.	TBD	TBD	TBD
8.	TBD	TBD	TBD
9.	TBD	TBD	TBD
10.	TBD	TBD	TBD

List of foreign players in the league[]

This is a list of foreign players in 1988-1989. 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

Acajutla

Eraldo Correia
Asdrúbal Padin
Raul Esnal

ADET

C.D. Águila

Alianza F.C.

Óscar Biegler
Ruben Alonso
Carlos Reyes
Hernán Sosa

Atletico Marte

(player released mid season) (player Injured mid season) Injury replacement player

Chalatenango

Arnaldo Martínez
Marco Pereira

Cojutepeque

Percibal Piggot
Ruben Guevara

C.D. FAS

C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo

Fernando De Moura
Martín Duffo
Miguel Seminario

Metapan

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