1986–87 Primera División de Fútbol Profesional

Primera División de Fútbol Profesional
Season	1986–87
Champions	Alianza F.C. (3rd Title)
Relegated	UES, Soyapango, UCA
	← 1985 1987–88 →

The 1986–87 Primera División de Fútbol Profesional season is the 36th tournament of El Salvador's Primera División since its establishment of the National League system in 1948. The tournament was scheduled to end in December 1986. On October 10, a 5.7 Earthquake struck San Salvador. The league postponed many games and the final round finally ended in February 1987. At the end of the regular season, the top four teams took part in the final group stage. Alianza, the best team in the final group, won the championship match against a Águila, the best regular season team.

Teams

Team	City	Stadium	Head coach	Captain
Acajutla	TBD	Estadio	TBD
Atletico Marte	TBD	Estadio Cuscutlan
Aguila	TBD	Estadio	TBD
Alianza	TBD	Estadio	TBD
Chalatenango	TBD	Estadio	TBD
FAS	TBD	Estadio	TBD	Jose Luis Rugamas
Firpo	TBD	Estadio	TBD	Arnolo Quintanilla
Marte Soyapango	TBD	Estadio	TBD
Metapan	TBD	Estadio	TBD
Once Lobos	TBD	Estadio	TBD
UCA	TBD	Estadio	TBD
UES	TBD	Estadio	TBD	Mario Bonilla Pacharaca

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
TBD	TBD	Sacked	1989		1990

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	C.D. Águila	33	16	13	4	48	17	+31	45	Qualified to finals. Won the right to play a Championship Game if they fail to win the final round.
2	Once Lobos	33	13	15	5	43	28	+15	41	Qualified to finals.
3	Atlético Marte	33	14	12	7	40	27	+13	40
4	Alianza F.C.	33	13	12	8	38	27	+11	38
5	C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo	33	13	12	8	33	24	+9	38
6	C.D. FAS	33	10	13	10	36	28	+8	33
7	C.D. Chalatenango	33	8	16	9	32	35	−3	32
8	Metapán	33	9	12	12	33	35	−2	30
9	Acajutla	33	9	11	13	25	32	−7	29
10	UES	33	6	16	11	25	36	−11	28	Relegated to Segunda Division.
11	Marte Soyapango	33	7	11	15	33	53	−20	25
12	UCA	33	3	11	19	21	65	−44	17

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

4th Place Playoff

December 28, 1986

Alianza F.C.	1-0	C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo
Rodolfo Alfaro 83'

Estadio Flor Blanca, San Salvador

Final round standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Alianza F.C.	6	5	0	1	13	8	+5	10	Qualified to championship game
2	Atlético Marte	6	3	1	2	9	8	+1	7
3	C.D. Águila	6	3	0	3	9	8	+1	6
4	Once Lobos	6	0	1	5	7	14	−7	1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Final

22 February 1987

C.D. Aguila	0 – 0	Alianza
None		None
Penalties
Ned Barbosa Juan Carlos Carreño Ramón Maradiaga Salvador Coreas	1 – 3	Ruben Alonso Rodolfo Alfaro Hernán Sosa Juan Ramón Pacheco Carlos Reyes

Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador

Referee: Carlos Ortiz Cardoza


Águila:
GK	1	Alcides Caballero
DF	2	Mario Castillo (c)
DF	3	Fredy Orellana
DF	4	Juan Carlos Carreño
DF	25	Carlos Coreas
MF	8	Ramón Maradiaga
MF	6	Eduardo Santana
MF	10	Luis Ramírez Zapata
MF	12	Dagoberto López Medrano
FW	9	Ned Barbosa
FW	11	Salvador Coreas
Substitutes:
MF	21	Julio Herrera x López Medrano
Manager:
Hernán Carrasco Vivanco


Alianza:
GK	15	Raúl Chamagua
DF	5	Carlos Medrano
DF	6	Óscar Rodríguez
DF	7	Antonio García Prieto
DF	12	Jorge Orantes
MF	11	Hernán Sosa
MF	21	Juan Ramón Pacheco
MF	22	Carlos Reyes
FW	10	Joaquín Canales
FW	16	Julio Palacios Lozano (c)
FW	20	Rubén Alonso
Substitutes:
DF	3	Óscar Biegler x García Prieto
FW	13	Rodolfo Alfaro x Palacios Lozano
Manager:
Ricardo Sepúlveda

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.	Jose Mario Figueroa	Atletico Marte	9

List of foreign players in the league

This is a list of foreign players in 1986-1987. The following players:

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

Acajutla