Primera División de Fútbol Profesional Apertura 2006

Primera División de Fútbol Profesional de El Salvador

Champions	Once Municipal (2nd title)
Relegated	None
Top goalscorer	TBD
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The Primera División de Fútbol Profesional Apertura 2006 season (officially "Torneo Apertura 2006") started on August 12, 2006 and concluded on December 17.

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
Águila		Vladan Vicevic	TBD	TBD
Alianza		Miguel Mansilla	TBD	TBD
C.D. Chalatenango		Agustin Castillo
FAS	Reynaldo Valle	Julio Asad	TBD	TBD
Firpo	TBD	Leonel Carcamo	TBD	TBD
Independiente Nacional 1906		Juan Ramon Paredes	TBD	TBD
Isidro Metapan	José Gumercindo Landaverde	Ruben Alonso	TBD	TBD
Once Municipal	TBD	Nelson Mauricio Ancheta	TBD	TBD
San Salvador F.C.	Marco Flores	Hugo Coria	TBD	TBD
C.D. Vista Hermosa	TBD	Jose Mario Martinez	TBD	TBD

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
FAS	Carlos de los Cobos	TBD	June 2006	Julio Asad	June 2006
San Salvador F.C.	Leonel Carcamo	TBD	June 2006	Hugo Coria	June 2006
Firpo	Milos Mijanic	TBD	June 2006	Leonel Carcamo	June 2006
Alianza F.C.	Oscar Emigdio Benitez	TBD	June 2006	Miguel Mansilla	June 2006
Once Municipal	Miguel Mansilla	TBD	June 2006	Nelson Mauricio Ancheta	June 2006

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Independiente Nacional 1906	Juan Ramon Paredes	TBD	October 2006	Juan Quarterone	October 2006
Metapan	Ruben Alonso	TBD	October 2006	Edwin Portillo	October 2006
Alianza F.C.	Miguel Mansilla	TBD	October 2006	Nelson Brizuela	October 2006

The fourth place match was played on November 30. The winner advances to the semifinals.

The team with the lower league position played home in the 1st leg. The 1st legs were played on December 2 and December 3. The 2nd legs were played on December 9 and December 10.

December 3, 2006

Alianza F.C.	2-1	C.D. FAS
Aparicio 78' Rodríguez 88'		Ayala 74'

15:00 - Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador

The final game was played on December 17.

Once Municipal GK 22 Adolfo Menéndez DF 14 Libardo Carbajal DF 20 Mario Elias Guevara DF 3 Ernesto Noel Aquino  58' DF 12 Aníbal Ávalos  99' MF 17 Oscar Jiménez MF 23 Nelson Nerio  74'  75' MF 11 Mario Pablo Quintanilla MF 10 William Antonio Torres FW 8 Christian Javier Bautista  9'  61' FW 7 Juan Carlos Reyes Substitutes: FW 21 Ovidio Guzmán  91'  61' MF 5  75' MF 9 James Owusu-Ansah  99' Manager: Nelson Mauricio Ancheta

FAS: GK 1 Santos Rivera DF 4 Ramon Flores  88' DF 3 Marvin Gonzalez  95'  110' DF 7 Rafael Tobar DF 15 Alfredo Pacheco MF 6 Carlos Menjívar  94' MF 18 Gilberto Murgas  23' MF 8 Cristian Álvarez MF 13 Juan Carlos Moscoso  35'  46' FW 23 Néstor Ayala  32' FW 17 Alejandro Bentos Substitutes: MF 22 Emerson Umaña  46' FW 28 César Larios  88' DF 14 Victor Fuentes  94' Manager: Julio Asad

This is a list of foreign players in Apertura 2006. The following players:

1. have played at least one apertura game for the respective club.
2. have not been capped for the El Salvador national football team on any level, independently from the birthplace

A new rule was introduced this season that clubs can only have three foreign players per club and can only add a new player if there is an injury or player/s is released.

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