1975–76 Primera División de Fútbol Profesional

Primera División de Fútbol Profesional
Season	1975–76
Champions	Aguila (7th Title)
Relegated	Municipal Limeno
	← 1974-75 1976–77 →

The 1975–76 Primera División de Fútbol Profesional season is the th tournament of El Salvador's Primera División since its establishment of the National League system in 1948. The tournament began on 6 April 1975 and finished on 25 January 1976. Aguila secured the club first Primera División title after defeating Alianza F.C. in two series.

Team Information

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Captain	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
ANTEL	TBD	Jorge Tupinambá	TBD	TBD	TBD
Águila	TBD	Conrado Miranda	TBD	TBD	TBD
Alianza	TBD	Ricardo Sepúlveda	TBD	Nil	Nil
Atlético Marte	TBD	Julio Marcos Baldovino	TBD	TBD	TBD
FAS	TBD	Mauricio Mora	TBD	Nil	Nil
Luis Angel Firpo	TBD	Jorge Venegas	TBD	TBD	TBD
Municipal Limeno	TBD	Juan Francisco Barraza	TBD	TBD	TBD
Negocios Internacionales/Juventud Olímpica	TBD	Victor Manuel Ochoa	TBD	TBD	TBD
Platense	TBD	Juan Quarterone	TBD	TBD	TBD
Sonsonate	TBD	Carlos Campuzano Ramos	TBD	TBD	TBD
Tapachulteca	TBD	Mauricio Rodriguez	TBD	TBD	TBD
Universidad	TBD	Carlos Javier Mascaró	TBD	TBD	TBD

Notable events

Notable death from January 1975 season and January 1976 season

The following people associated with the Primera Division have died between the middle of 2022 and middle of 2023.

TBD (ex player_

Change of team

On 19 September 1975 Negocios Internacionales decided to sell their spot to a new ownership group which rebranded themselves back

New stadium

The new national stadium Estadio Cuscatlán opened in July, 1975; however the stadium held its first division game on 19 October, 1975 with Platense defeating Juventud Olimpico 2-1, with Rafael Bucaro scored the first goal in the stadium. [1]

Managerial changes

During the season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Sonsonate	Carlos Campuzano Ramos	Sacked	24 April 1974	Gregorio Bundio	25 April 1974
FAS	Mauricio Mora	Resigned	22 May 1975	Raul Miralles	23 May 1975
Municipal Limeno	Juan Francisco Barraza	Resigned	3 July 1975	Luis “Chispo” Santana	July 1975
LA Firpo	Jorge Venegas	Sacked	July 1975	Raúl Magaña	24 July 1975
ANTEL	Jorge Tupinambá	Sacked	July 1975	TBD	July 1975
Negocios Internacionels	Victor Manuel Ochoa	Sacked	1975	Luis Grill Prieto	1975
Juventud Olímpica	Luis Grill Prieto	Club sold their spot	September 1975	Julio “Búho” Ruano, Gualberto “Pulpo” Fernández and René Toledo Castro	September 1975
Alianza	Ricardo Sepúlveda	Sacked	22 September 1975	Mario Rey	23 September 1975
Juventud Olímpica	Julio “Búho” Ruano, Gualberto “Pulpo” Fernández and René Toledo Castro	Sacked	October 1975	Jorge Tupinambá	October 1975

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	C.D. Aguila	33	22	5	6	79	41	+38	49	Champion
2	C.D. FAS	33	18	7	8	55	38	+17	43
3	Alianza F.C.	33	18	5	10	53	32	+21	41
4	UES	33	17	6	10	53	40	+13	40
5	Platense	33	17	5	11	53	41	+12	39
6	Sonsonate	33	16	6	11	40	48	−8	38
7	Tapachulteca FC	33	13	5	15	39	49	−10	31
8	Firpo	33	12	5	16	43	51	−8	29
9	Atletico Marte	33	10	7	16	39	41	−2	27
10	ANTEL	33	9	7	17	37	49	−12	25
11	Juventud Olimpico	33	7	4	22	33	55	−22	18
12	Limeno	33	6	4	23	37	76	−39	16	Relegated to the Liga B

Updated to match(es) played on April 2023. Source: [2] (in Spanish)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Playoffs

Semifinals 1st leg

December 21, 1975

UES	3-1	Aguila
Mauricio Quintanilla 34' 69' Julio Rolando Aguirre 89'		Luis Ramirez Zapata 84'

Estadio Cuscatlán

December 28, 1974

FAS	2-1	Alianza
David Cabrera 37' Roberto Casadei 52'		Julio Cesar Cortez penalty 3'

Estadio Cuscatlán

Semifinals 2nd leg

January 4, 1974

Aguila	5-1	UES
Ismael “Cisco” Díaz 16' 63' Joaquin Alonso Ventura 32' Luis Ramírez Zapata 51' Félix Pineda 54'		Herbert Hernández 60'

Estadio Cuscatlán

January 11, 1976

Alianza	2-1	FAS
Armando Cortez Sandoval 13' 28'		Guillermo Bou Rodriguez 65'

Estadio Cuscatlán

January 14, 1976

Alianza	1-0	FAS
Fernando Alva 62'		Nil

Estadio Nacional Flor Blanca

3rd Place Match

January 25, 1976

FAS	4-1	UES
David Cabrera Cesar Acevedo 3' José Girón own goal 68'		Julio Sánchez 10'

Estadio Cuscatlán

Final

January 18, 1976

Alianza	1-1	Aguila
Moisés González 38'		Hugo Otenssen 63'

Estadio Cuscatlán

January 25, 1976

Aguila	3-1	Alianza
Moisés González 1' Ismael “Cisco” Díaz 17' Félix Pineda 65'		Victor Manuel Valencia 24'

Estadio Cuscatlán

1975-1976
Aguila 7th title

Records

Team Records

Best home records: TBD (00 points out of 33 points)
Worst home records: TBD (0 points out of 33 points)
Best away records : TBD (00 points out of 33 points)
Worst away records : TBD (0 points out of 33 points)
Most goals scored: Aguila (79 goals)
Fewest goals scored: Juventud Olimpico (33 goals)
Fewest goals conceded : Alianza (32 goals)
Most goals conceded : Limeno (76 goals)

Top scorers

Pos	Player	Team	Goals
1.	Luis Ramirez Zapata	Aguila	23
2.	David Cabrera	FAS	21
3.	Rafael Bucaro	Platense	17
4.	Juan Ramon Martinez	Alianza	15
5.	Oscar Guerrero Lotario	Platense	12
6.	Roberto Casadei	FAS	12
7.	Moises Gonzalez	Aguila	11
8.	Helio Rodriguez	Aguila	10
9.	Felix Pineda	Aguila	10
10.	Roberto Salala	Alianza F.C.	10
11.	Jose Luis Rugamas	Atletico Marte	10
12.	Elmer Rosas	LA Firpo	10
13.	Dimas Blanco	Municipal Limeno	10

Scoring

First goal of the season: Luis Ramírez Zapata for Aguila against Sonsonate, 2 minutes (April 6, 1975)
First goal by a foreign player: Domingo Albil for FAS against Alianza, 16 minutes (April 6, 1975)
Fastest goal in a match: 2 Minutes
- Luis Ramírez Zapata for Aguila against Sonsonate (April 6, 1975)
Goal scored at the latest goal in a match: 101 minutes
- Moisés González goal for Aguila against Alianza, (September 21, 1975)
First penalty Kick of the season: Pepe Orellana for LA Firpo against Atletico Marte, th minutes (April 6, 1975)
Widest winning margin: 6 goals
- Aguila 7-1 Sonsonate (April 6, 1975)
First hat-trick of the season: Luis Ramírez Zapata for Aguila against UES (May 11, 1975)
First own goal of the season: Norberto Zafanella (Platense) for UES (April 9, 1975)
Most goals in a match: 9 goals
- FAS 5–4 Municipal Limeno (May 1, 1975)
Most goals by one team in a match: 7 goals
- Aguila 7-1 Sonsonate (April 6, 1975)
Most goals in one half by one team: 4 goals
- Aguila 4-0 (7-1) Sonsonate (1st half, April 6, 1975)
Most goals scored by losing team: 4 goals
- Municipal Limeno 4–5 FAS (May 1, 1975)
Most goals by one player in a single match: 4 goals
- Luis Ramírez Zapata for Aguila against Tapachulteca FC (July 16, 1975)
- David Cabrera for FAS against Sonsonate (October 12, 1975)
Players that scored a hat-trick':
- Luis Ramírez Zapata for Aguila against UES (May 11, 1975)
- Herbert Hernández for UES against Platense (June 30, 1975)
- Luis Ramírez Zapata for Aguila against Tapachulteca FC (July 16, 1975)
- Enos Pereira for ANTEL against Municipal Limeno (August 24, 1975)
- David Cabrera for FAS against Sonsonate (October 12, 1975)

List of foreign players in the league

This is a list of foreign players in 1975-76 Campeonato. The following players:

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

ANTEL