2025–26 Primera División de El Salvador
The 2025–26 Primera División de El Salvador, also known as Liga Pepsi, is the top football league’s two-tournament season. It runs with Apertura and Clausura formats.
Season dates
- Apertura 2025: 19 July 2025 – 20 December 2025
- Clausura 2026: 17 January 2026 – 23 May 2026
Format
- The league has 12 teams. Each tournament (Apertura and Clausura) features 20 regular-season games, with teams playing home and away against every other club.
- After the regular season, the top six teams advance to the playoffs.
- The Apertura and Clausura champions earn spots in the CONCACAF Central American Cup. A third berth goes to the team with the better aggregate record across both tournaments. If the same team wins both tournaments, the runners-up qualify. If the final features the same two teams, the better aggregate semi-finalist advances.
Teams and promotion
- 12 teams compete: 11 from the 2024–25 Primera División and 1 promoted from the 2024–25 Segunda División.
- Zacatecoluca F.C. was promoted on 17 May 2025.
- No relegation this season because the league had 11 teams earlier, and due to franchise changes.
Franchise changes and venues
- Hercules (formerly Once Deportivo) took the Apertura 2025 spot.
- Inter Formando un Atleta bought Dragon’s spot for Apertura 2025.
- Aguila will play its Apertura 2025 matches at Estadio Cuscatlan due to renovations.
- In December 2025, Zacatecoluca FC announced a move to Estadio Cuscatlan in San Salvador.
Awards and notable facts (Apertura 2025)
- Top scorer: Juan Carlos Argueta with 12 goals.
- Best goalkeeper: Cristopher Rauda.
- The Clausura 2026 champion, top scorer, and other awards will be decided later.
Foreign players
- A new rule allows up to four foreign players per club. A club can add a new foreign player only if there is an injury or a release and only before the transfer window closes. This applies to all clubs, including Águila, Alianza, Cachuatique, FAS, Firpo, Fuerte San Francisco, Hercules, Inter, Isidro Metapán, Municipal Limeño, Platense, and Zacatecoluca.
This page was last edited on 2 February 2026, at 05:42 (CET).