Primera División de Fútbol Profesional Apertura 2003

The Salvadoran Primera División de Fútbol Profesional Apertura 2003 season (officially "Torneo Apertura 2003") started on August 2, 2003.

The season was composed of the following clubs:

Team information

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
Águila		Hugo Coria	TBD	TBD
Alianza		Henry Vanegas	TBD	TBD
Atletico Balboa	Noel Benítez	Garabet Avedissian	TBD	TBD
C.D. Arcense	TBD	Ricardo Guardado	TBD	TBD
Chalatenango	TBD	Luis Roberto Hernández	TBD	TBD
FAS	Reynaldo Valle	Agustín Castillo	TBD	TBD
Firpo	TBD	Gustavo de Simone	TBD	TBD
Isidro Metapan	José Gumercindo Landaverde	Raul Cocherai	TBD	TBD
Municipal Limeno	Gumercindo Ventura	Ruben Guevara	Galaxia	LG
San Salvador F.C.	Marco Flores	Ruben Alonso	TBD	TBD

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Aguila	Ramón Maradiaga	Sacked	June 2003	Hugo Coria	June 2003
Atletico Balboa	Manuel Alberto Solano	TBD	June 2003	Garabet Avedissian	June 2003
Alianza F.C.	Juan Quarterone	TBD	June 2003	Henry Vanegas	June 2003
Municipal Limeno	Antonio Carlos Viera	TBD	May 2003	Ruben Guevara	June 2003
Firpo	Milos Mijanic	TBD	June 2003	Gustavo de Simone	June 2003
Isidro Metapan	Edwin Portillo	TBD	May 2003	Raul Cocherai	June 2003

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Atletico Balboa	Garabet Avedissian	TBD	August 2003	Manuel Solano	September 2003
C.D. Chalatenango	Luis Roberto Hernández	TBD	September 2003	Juan Quarterone	September 2003
Municipal Limeno	Ruben Guevara	TBD	September 2003	Jorge Alberto Garcia	October 2003
Alianza F.C.	Henry Vanegas	TBD	October 2003	Marcelo Javier Zuleta	October 2003
C.D. Arcense	Ricardo Guardado	TBD	October 2003	Ricardo Mena Laguna Interim	October 2003
C.D. Arcense	Ricardo Mena Laguna Interim	TBD	October 2003	Raul Donsati	October 2003
Isidro Metapan	Raul Cocherai	TBD	October 2003	Rene Ramos	November 2003
Atletico Balboa	Manuel Solano	TBD	November 2003	Paulo Roberto de Olivera	November 2003
Isidro Metapan	Rene Ramos	TBD	November 2003	Nelson Brizuela	November 2003
Atletico Balboa	Paulo Roberto de Olivera	TBD	November 2003	Jesus Fuentes	November 2003

Last updated August 2, 2003

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	C.D. FAS	18	10	6	2	27	13	+14	36	Qualified for semifinal
2	C.D. Águila	18	9	4	5	38	26	+12	31
3	C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo	18	7	7	4	25	18	+7	28^[a]
4	San Salvador F.C.	18	8	4	6	31	27	+4	28^[a]	4th place playoff
5	Alianza F.C.	18	8	4	6	26	24	+2	28^[a]	4th place playoff
6	A.D. Isidro Metapán	18	4	9	5	20	23	−3	21
7	Municipal Limeño	18	5	5	8	27	29	−2	20
8	C.D. Arcense	18	2	11	5	23	32	−9	17
9	Chalatenango	18	4	5	9	13	22	−9	17
10	C.D. Atlético Balboa	18	4	3	11	15	31	−16	15

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Notes:

December 3, 2003

San Salvador F.C.	2-3	Alianza F.C.

December 7, 2003

Alianza F.C.	0-3	C.D. FAS
		Williams Reyes 1', 46', 60' (pen.)

December 7, 2003

Firpo	1-1	Águila
Víctor Merino 2'		Alexander Amaya del Cid 51'

December 13, 2003

C.D. FAS	3-2	Alianza F.C.
54' 77' 89'		59' 84'

December 14, 2003

C.D. Águila	3-1	C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo
Alexander Campos 15' Darío Larrosa 42' 88'

December 21, 2003

C.D. FAS	2-2	C.D. Águila
Williams Reyes 13' 123'		Ludwin Meraz 86' Alexander Campos 92'
Penalties
Williams Reyes Rafael Tobar Gilberto Murgas Emerson Umaña Alfredo Pacheco	5 – 3	Dario Larossa Alexander Amaya Del Cid Jorge Rodriguez Alexander Campos

Apertura 2003 champions
C.D. FAS 14th title

This is a list of foreign players in Apertura 2003. 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