Primera División de Fútbol Profesional Apertura 2002

The Salvador Primera División de Fútbol Profesional Apertura 2002 season (officially "Torneo Apertura 2002") started on August 3, 2002.

Primera División de Fútbol Profesional Apertura 2002 season was composed of the following clubs:

Team information

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
Águila		Hugo Coria	TBD	TBD
Alianza	Ricardo Padilla Pinto	German Guiterrez	TBD	TBD
Atletico Balboa	TBD	Juan Quarterone	TBD	TBD
C.D. Arcense	TBD	Ricardo Guardado	TBD	TBD
C.D. Dragon	TBD	Antonio Carlos Viera	TBD	TBD
FAS	Reynaldo Valle	Agustín Castillo	TBD	TBD
Firpo	TBD	Milos Mijanic	TBD	TBD
Isidro Metapan	José Gumercindo Landaverde	Roberto Fabrizio	TBD	TBD
Municipal Limeno	TBD	Henry Vanegas	TBD	TBD
San Salvador F.C.	Marco Flores	Ruben Alonso	TBD	TBD

The following people associated with the Primera Division have died between the middle of 2002 and end of 2002.

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Aguila	Rubén Guevara	Resigned	June 2002	Hugo Coria	June 2002
Municipal Limeño	Óscar Emigdio Benítez	TBD	May 2002	Henry Vanegas	June 2002
Alianza F.C.	Juan Ramon Paredes	TBD	June 2002	German Guiterrez	July 2002
Firpo	Abraham Vasquez	TBD	June 2002	Miloš Miljanić	July 2002

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Alianza F.C.	German Guiterrez	TBD	September 2002	Julio Escobar	September 2002
C.D. Dragon	Antonio Carlos Viera	TBD	September 2002	Jose Mario Martinez	September 2002
Isidro Metapan	Roberto Fabrizio	TBD	September 2002	Edwin Portillo	October 2002

Last updated August 3, 2002

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	C.D. FAS	18	10	5	3	24	20	+4	35	Qualified for semifinals
2	Municipal Limeño	18	9	4	5	33	19	+14	31
3	San Salvador F.C.	18	7	7	4	28	21	+7	28
4	C.D. Águila	18	6	9	3	26	20	+6	27	4th place playoff
5	C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo	18	7	6	5	23	24	−1	27	4th place playoff
6	A.D. Isidro Metapán	18	5	6	7	22	24	−2	21
7	C.D. Arcense	18	5	6	7	15	17	−2	21
8	C.D. Atlético Balboa	18	4	5	9	21	31	−10	17
9	Alianza F.C.	18	3	7	8	17	22	−5	16
10	C.D. Dragón	18	3	7	8	20	31	−11	16

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

December 8, 2002

C.D. Águila	1-3	C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo

December 12, 2002

San Salvador F.C.	4-3	Municipal Limeño

December 12, 2002

C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo	0-2	C.D. FAS

December 9, 2006

Municipal Limeño	2-1 (pen 2-3)	San Salvador F.C.

December 15, 2002

C.D. FAS	3-0	C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo

December 22, 2002

C.D. FAS	3-1	San Salvador F.C.
Williams Reyes 6', 15' (pen.) & 51'		Orlando Garcés 5'

Primera División Apertura 2002 champions
C.D. FAS 13th title

This is a list of foreign players in Apertura 2002. 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

C.D. Águila