2016–17 Segunda División de Fútbol Salvadoreño

Segunda División de Fútbol Salvadoreño

Season	2016–17
Champions	Apertura: Independiente , Clausura: Audaz
Relegated	Vendaval and Leones de Occidente
← 2015–16 2017–18 →

The 2016–17 season (officially known as Liga de Plata and also as Torneo Luis Baltazar Ramírez) will be El Salvador's Segunda División de Fútbol Salvadoreño The season will be split into two championships Apertura 2016 and Clausura 2017. The champions of the Apertura and Clausura play the direct promotion playoff every year. The winner of that series ascends to Primera División de Fútbol de El Salvador.

Changes from the 2016-2017 seasons

Teams promoted to 2016–17 Primera División de Fútbol Profesional season

• C.D. Municipal Limeño

Teams relegated to Segunda División de Fútbol Salvadoreño - Apertura 2016

• Atletico Marte

Teams relegated to Tercera División de Fútbol Profesional - Apertura 2016

• Ciclón del Golfo

Teams promoted from Tercera Division De Fútbol Profesional - Apertura 2016

• Turin FESA
• Jocoro F.C.
• Rácing Jr

New Teams or teams that purchased a spot in the Segunda division

• Brujos de Izalco (Quequeisque changed their name and location to Brujos de Izalco)
• EF San Pablo Tacachico (originally de-registered but bought the spot of Toros FC)

Teams that failed to register for the Apertura 2016

• EF San Pablo Tacachico (Team de-registered due to breaking player rules)
• C.D. Brasilia (Team de-registered due to not paying their debts)
• C.D. UDET (they were given a spot from Brasilia who had failed to pay their debts, however since they had formally joined terceea division they were not allowed)
• Toros (sold their spot to San Pablo)

Team information

A total of 23 teams will contest the league, including sides from the 2015–16 Segunda División and 3 promoted from the Tercera Division.

Zona Occidental
Team	Stadium	Capacity
Once Municipal
Once Lobos
Leones de Occidente
Brujos de Izalco
Rácing Jr
EF San Pablo Tacachico
Atl Apopa
Turin FESA

Zona Central
Team	Stadium	Capacity
Atletico Comalapa
Marte Soyapango
Atletico Marte
Vendaval
San Rafael Cedros
Audaz
El Roble

Zona Oriental
Team	Stadium	Capacity
La Asuncion
Fuerte San Francisco
Jocoro
Firpo
Topiltzin
Aspirante
Platense
Independiente

Teams

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity	Manager	Captain	Kit Sponsor	Primera Division Affiliate or Partnership
Atletico Apopa	Apopa	Estadio Joaquin Gutierrez	5,000	Marcos Antonio Portillo
Atletico Marte	Ilopango	Estadio Azteca	2,000	Juan Carlos Carreño
Aspirante	Usulutan	Estadio Municipal de Jucuapa	3,000	Joaquin Perez
Audaz	Apastepeque, San Vicente	Estadio La Coyotera	2,000	Efrain Burgos
Brujos de Izalco	Izalco	Estadio Salvador Mariona		Jorge Calles		None	Smart Office Business Center
Comalapa	Chalatenango	Estadio Municipal de Comalapa		Pablo Quiñones		None
El Roble	Ilobasco	Estadio Mauricio Vides	4,000	Fausto Vasquez		KS
Firpo II	Usultutan	Sergio Torres Stadium	5,000	Carlos Mario Joya		TBD	Firpo
Fuerte San Francisco	San Francisco Gotera, Morazan	Estadio Correcaminos	12,000	Yahir Camero
Independiente	San Vicente	Estadio Vicentino	8,000	Nelson Ancheta			Caja de Credito San Vicente, Injiboa
Jocoro	Jocoro, Morazan	Complejo Deportivo Tierra de Fuego		Edwin Garay
La Asuncion	Anamoros	Estadio Jose Eliseo Reyes	5,000	Eraldo Correia	TBD		MAXH3,
Leones de Occidente	Metapan	Estadio Jorge Calero Suarez	8,000	Hector Jara
Marte Soyapango	Soyapango	Complejo Deportivo Espana	5,000	Ricardo Serrano
Once Lobos	Chalchuapa	Estadio Once Lobos	2,000	Ivan Ruiz
Once Municipal	Ahuachapan	Estadio Simeon Magana	5,000	Víctor Coreas
Platense	Zacatecoluca	Estadio Antonio Toledo Valle	10,000	Miguel Aguilar Obando
Rácing Jr	Armenia, Sonsonate	Estadio 21 de Noviembre		Carlos Romero
EF San Pablo Tacachico	San Pablo Tacachico	Cancha Municipal Valle Meza		Bairon Ernesto Garcia
San Rafael Cedros	San Rafael Cedros, Cuscatlan	Estadio Anastacio Aquino		Victor Giron
Topiltzin	Usulutan	Estadio Topiltzin de Jiquilisco	5,000	Sebastian Hernandez
Turin FESA	Santa Tecla	Estadio Las Delicias	10,000	Pablo Andrés Leguizamo
Vendaval	Apopa	Estadio Joaquin Gutierrez	5,000	Carlos Orellana

  Affiliate

  Partnership

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Pre-Apertura Changes
		Resigned	2016		2016	th
		Resigned	2016		2016	th
Apertura Changes
Audaz	Wilson Angulo	Resigned	September 2016	Jorge Abrego	September 2016	th
Independiente	Nelson Ancheta	Resigned to become coach of Dragon	September 2016	Willy Mirnda (interim)	September 2016	th
Fuerte San Francisco	Yahir Camero	Sacked	September 2016	Luis Dagoberto Sosa (interim)	September 2016	th
Leones de Occidente	Hector Jara	Resigned due to lack of payment	October 2016	Edwin Portillo	October 2016	th
Platense	Miguel Aguilar Obando	Resigned	September 2016	Ervin Loza (interim)	September 2016	th
Fuerte San Francisco	Luis Dagoberto Sosa	Interimship finished	October 2016	Omar Sevilla	October 2016	th
Platense	Ervin Loza	Interimship finished	October 2016	Salvador Velasquez Lovo	October 2016	th
Independiente	Willy Mirnda (interim)	Interimship finished	October 2016	Ruben Alonso	October 2016	th
		Resigned	2016		2016	th
Pre-Clausura Changes
FC San Rafael Cedros	Victor Giron	Resigned	2016	Juan Ramon Paredes	2016	th
C.D. Vendaval Apopa	Carlos Orellana	Resigned	2016	Francisco Hernandez	2016	th
Atletico Comalapa	Pablo Quiñones	Resigned	2016	Jorge Abrego	2016	th
Atletico Marte	Juan Carlos Carreño	Resigned	2016	Luis Guevara Mora	2016	th
Fuerte San Francisco	Omar Sevilla	Mutual Consent, Later went on to become coach of Pasaquina	2016	Luis Carlos Asprilla	2016	th
Once Municipal	Víctor Coreas	Resigned	2016	Juan Andrés Sarulyte	2016	th
Audaz	Jorge Abrego	Resigned	2016	German Perez	2016	th
		Resigned	2016		2016	th
		Resigned	2016		2016	th
Clausura Changes
Platense	Salvador Velasquez Lovo	Sacked	February 2017	Mario Martinez	February 2017	th
		Resigned	2016		2016	th
		Resigned	2016		2016	th

Apertura 2016

Group A

Results

Home \ Away	APO	BRU	LEO	OLB	OMU	RAC	SAN	TUR
Atlético Apopa		2–3	2–2	2–3	1–2	3–1	0–3	3–3
Brujos de Izalco	2–1		1–2	2–2	1–0	1–4	1–0	1–1
Leones de Occidente	1–2	2–2		0–1	1–2	1–0	1–0	0–0
Once Lobos	5–1	2–2	3–2		1–0	0–0	0–0	2–2
Once Municipal	2–0	0–2	2–0	3–1		1–1	1–0	0–1
Rácing Jr	4–0	1–0	5–1	1–3	2–1		2–2	1–1
San Pablo	3–1	3–0	4–2	4–0	3–2	1–0		0–1
Turin	5–0	2–1	4–1	2–0	1–1	1–2	2–1

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Group B

Results

Home \ Away	AUD	COM	ROB	MAR	SOY	SRC	VEN
Audaz		1–2	1–0	0–0	1–2	2–0	1–1
Compala	1–1		0–1	1–0	1–1	2–2	1–0
El Roble	1–0	3–1		1–2	0–2	1–1	3–2
Marte	2–1	0–1	1–6		1–1	2–3	1–1
Marte Soyapango	2–1	2–1	2–0	4–1		1–1	0–0
San Rafael Cedros	3–4	2–1	1–1	4–1	1–3		2–1
Vendaval	1–2	1–2	2–1	2–1	0–1	1–1

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Group C

Results

Home \ Away	ASP	FIR	FSF	IND	JOC	ASU	PLA	TOP
Aspirante		1–2	3–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	1–1	2–0
Firpo	0–1		0–1	2–1	4–0	1–0	2–2	2–0
Fuerte San Francisco	2–3	2–2		1–0	0–1	2–1	1–1	1–2
Independiente F.C.	1–0	1–0	2–0		1–0	1–0	0–0	0–0
Jocoro	1–0	2–0	1–0	1–2		0–0	4–2	0–0
La Asunción	2–1	3–4	2–5	1–1	2–2		3–2	2–2
Platense	2–1	0–0	0–2	2–1	1–2	4–0		1–1
Topiltzín	2–0	3–2	2–2	1–2	0–0	2–2	3–1

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Final Series

	Quarterfinals							Semifinals							Preminilaryfinals							Finals
	El Roble de Ilobasco		0	2	2
	Jocoro F.C. (s)		0	2	2
								Jocoro F.C.		0	0	0
								Turin		0	'1	1
	FC San Rafael Cedros		4	3	7
	Turin (s)		3	4	7
															Turin		4	1	5
															San Pablo FC		1	1	2
	Topiltzín		0	1	1
	Marte Soyapango		0	0	0
								Topiltzín		0	0	0
								San Pablo FC (s)		0	0	0
	Firpo B		2	0	2
	San Pablo FC		1	2	3
																						Turin		1	0	1
																						Independiente		2	1	3
	Rácing Jr		0	0	0
	Independiente		0	1	1
								Once Lobos (s)		0	1	1
								Independiente		3	0	3
	Once Lobos		4	2	6
	Compala		1	3	4
															Independiente (s)		1	1	2
															Once Lobos		1	1	2
	7
	10
	2
	15

Finals

First leg

24 December 2016

Turin	1-2	Independiente
Jonathan Aguilar 23'	[1]	José Maldonado 52' 63'

Estadio Las Delicias, Santa Tecla

Second leg

31 December 2016

Independiente	1-0	Turin
Farid Mancilla 60'	[2]	None

Estadio Jiboa, San Vicente

Referee: TBD

Independiente won 3-1 on aggregate.

Apertura 2016 champions
Independiente ? title

Individual awards

Hombre GOL	Best Goalkeeper Award
Marvin Medrano San Rafael Cedros	Luis Chamagua Soyapango

Clausura 2017

Group A

Results

Home \ Away	APO	BRU	LEO	OLB	OMU	RAC	SAN	TUR
Atlético Apopa
Brujos de Izalco
Leones de Occidente
Once Lobos
Once Municipal
Rácing Jr
San Pablo
Turin

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Group B

Results

Home \ Away	AUD	COM	ROB	MAR	SOY	SRC	VEN
Audaz
Compala
El Roble
Marte
Marte Soyapango
San Rafael Cedros
Vendaval

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Group C

Results

Home \ Away	ASP	FIR	FSF	IND	JOC	ASU	PLA	TOP
Aspirante
Firpo
Fuerte San Francisco
Independiente F.C.
Jocoro
La Asunción
Platense
Topiltzín

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Final Series

	Quarterfinals							Semifinals							Preminilaryfinals							Finals
	Once Lobos		1	1	2
	FC San Rafael Cedros		0	0	0
								Once Lobos		1	3	4
								Compala		0	3	3
	C.D. La Asuncion		2	0	2
	Compala		2	3	5
															Once Lobos		0	2	2 (3)
															C.D. Audaz		0	2	2 (4)
	Audaz (s)		2	2	4
	Fuerte San Francisco		2	2	4
								Audaz (s)		1	0	1
								Once Municipal		1	0	1
	Once Municipal (s)		0	1	1
	Jocoro F.C.		0	1	1
																						C.D. Audaz		1	3	4
																						Independiente		1	0	1
	Independiente (s)		2	2	4
	San Pablo FC		3	1	4
								Independiente (s)		0	1	1
								Turin		0	1	1
	Marte Soyapango		1	1	2
	Turin		1	2	3
															Independiente (s)		1	1	2
															Once Municipal		2	0	2
	7
	10
	2
	15

Finals

First leg

28 May 2017

C.D. Audaz	1-1	Independiente
Víctor Durán 33'	[3]	José Pérez 90'

La Coyotera,

Second leg

4 May 2017

Independiente	0-3	Audaz
None	[4]	Santos Guzmán 31', Levy Martínez 66' and 76'

Estadio Vicentino, San Vicente

Referee: TBD

Audaz won 4-1 on aggregate.

Clausura 2017 champions
Audaz 1st title

Individual awards

Hombre GOL	Best Goalkeeper Award
Andrés Vallecilla Fuerte San Francisco	Edwin Driotis Independiente

Relegation table

The three teams that finished last in their respective group would normally be relegated . However, all three teams will play a series of home and away games and only two will be relegated to the Tercera Division this season. Platense finished top and survived relegation. While Vendaval and Leones de Occidente were relegated.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		PLA	VEN	LEO
1	Platense	4	3	1	0	12	4	+8	10			2–1	3–0
2	Vendaval	3	1	1	1	8	4	+4	4		N/A		3–3
3	Leones de Occidente	3	0	0	3	1	11	−10	0		0–4	1–4

Source:

External links

• https://archive.today/20130807152309/http://www.futbolsv.com/category/segunda-division/
• http://www.culebritamacheteada.com.sv/category/nacional/segunda-division-nacional/ Archived 2017-06-04 at the Wayback Machine
• http://www.edhdeportes.com/futbol-nacional/segunda-division/