# 2024–25 Segunda División de Fútbol Salvadoreño

The 2024–25 season, officially known as Liga de Plata will be El Salvador's Segunda División de Fútbol Salvadoreño. The season will be split into two championships Apertura 2024 and Clausura 2025. The champions of the Apertura and Clausura play the direct promotion playoff every year. The winner of that series ascends to Primera División de Fútbol de El Salvador.

## Changes to the 2024–25 seasons

Teams promoted to 2024–25 Primera División de El Salvador
* Cacahuatique
Teams relegated to Segunda División de Fútbol Salvadoreño - Apertura 2024
* Santa Tecla F.C.
Teams relegated to Tercera Division de Fútbol Salvadoreño - Apertura 2024
* Vendaval
* Pipil
* Topiltzín
* Chalatenango
* AD Inter San Salvador
* AD Municipal Juayúa
Teams promoted from Tercera Division de Fútbol Salvadoreño - Apertura 2024
* Zacatecoluca
* Brasilia
* Espartano
* Olímpico Litoral
* Batanecos
* Cangrejera
New Teams or teams that purchased a spot in the Segunda division
* Jocoro
Tercera Division de Fútbol Salvadoreño Apertura 2024
* Atletico Balboa
* San Pablo Tacachico
* Racing Jr
* Corinto F.C.
* Santuagueno
* Jocoro
* Santa Tecla F.C.

## Notable events
### Titan purchase of Jocoro FC spot in the Primera Division

On 13 July 2024, Titan acquired the spot of Jocoro in the Primera division. This ended years of Jocoro FC being in the Primera division, which included finishing runners up twice.

### Several teams selling their spot in the Segunda division

On June 18, Atletico Balboa announced due to lack of financial support the club would be selling their spot in the Segunda Division.
On June 29, EF San Pablo Tacachico announced on the team social media platform that due to several sponsors pulling support, high team cost and lack of fans support, the club announced they would be withdrawing from the Segunda Division.
On July 18, Rácing Jr announced, due to economic reasons, they will not be competing in the Segunda division.
On July 20, Brasilia announced on their social media account that due to unable settle financial debt from the previous season, they will no longer be able to meet the requirements and will not be participating in the Segunda division.

### New guidelines for the Segunda division

On July 24, 2024 New guidelines were announced for inscription in the Segunda division, this included main coach requires coaching A License, while assistant coach requires coaching B licenses, Segunda division requires coaching staff to include utility equipment, kinesiologist, medic and goalkeeping coach, only one foreign player is allowed, only 3 players over the age of 32 years old allowed to be signed, while 8 players must be under the age of 22 years old, only one foreign player will be allowed to join

### Suspension of the first game of the season (Apertura 2024)

The first game of the season was programmed on the 24th of August, 2024 between El Roble de Ilobasco and Zacatecoluca F.C., however it was announced the game would be suspended, as El Roble de Ilobasco did not meet the league guidelines registering the 5 youth players and coaching staff that have coaching credentials . Later El Roble Ilobasco were not registered for the season

### Three Teams withdrawing from the Clausura 2025

On January 11, 2025 C.D. Titan announced on the team social media platform that due to several sponsors pulling support, high team cost and lack of fans support, the club announced they would be withdrawing from the Clausura 2025 season.
On 16 January, 2025 Tiburones de Sonsonate announced via their social media pages, they would be withdrawing from the Clausura 2025 due to lack of financial and fans support.

### Clausura 2025 Change of format

Due to three team dropping out, FESFUT announced that Segunda division will be played three rounds despite the complaints of the remaining clubs with expenses

### Notable death from Apertura 2024 season and 2025 Clausura season

The following people associated with the Primera Division have died between the middle of 2024 and middle of 2025.
* Alexander Longa (ex Colombian Topiltzin player)
* Gerson Menjívar (ex Atletico Marte player)
* Óscar "Chino" Portillo (ex Liberal, ADI and Dragon Player)
* Cesar Ivan Rodriguez (ex Marte Soyapango player)

## Managerial changes
### Before the start of the season

| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Replaced by | Date of appointment | Position in table |
| Once Lobos | Cesar Acevedo | Mutual Agreement | June 2024 | Francisco Sibrián | June 2024 | th (2024 Apertura) |
| Olímpico Litoral | Kilmar Jiminez | Moved to be assistant coach | 2024 | David Paz | 2024 | th (2024 Apertura) |
| Los Laureles | Mario Elias Guevara | Contract Finished | July 2024 | Ruben Alonso | July 2024 | th (2024 Apertura) |
| Tiburones | Juan Carlos Palma | Contract Finished | July 2024 | Mario Elias Guevara | July 2024 | th (2024 Apertura) |
| Cruzeiro | Guillermo Rivera | Contract Finished | July 2024 | Ivan Ruiz | July 2024 | th (2024 Apertura) |
| Batanecos | Ricardo Garcia | Sacked | June 2024 | Edgardo Flores | June 2024 | th (2024 Apertura) |
| Brasilia | Walter Casco | Moved to be assistant coach | July 2024 | Jorge Alberto Gonzalez | July 2024 | th (2024 Apertura) |
| Titan | Omar Mejia | Contract Ended | July 2024 | Guiodac Jamac | September 2024 | th (2024 Apertura) |

### During the Apertura season

| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Replaced by | Date of appointment | Position in table |
| Los Laureles | Ruben Alonso | Mutual Consent, to go coach Fuerte San Francisco | October 18, 2024 | Ricardo López | October 2024 | 5th Centro Oriente (2024 Apertura) |
| Once Lobos | Francisco Sibrian | Mutual Consent | October 2024 | TBD | 2024 | 5th Centro Oriente (2024 Apertura) |
| Tiburones de Sonsonate | Mario Elias Guevara | Mutual Consent | October 25, 2024 | Juan Ramon Paredes | October 27, 2024 | 5th Centro Oriente (2024 Apertura) |

### Between the Apertura and Clausura season

| Zacatecoluca | William Osorio | Contract Finished | 2024 | Guillermo Rivera | 2024 | Champion (2024 Apertura) |
| Fuerte Aguilares | Alexis Guerra | Contract Finished | December 2024 | Rafael Mariona | January 5, 2025 | Runners up (2024 Apertura) |
| Olímpico Litoral | David Paz | Sacked | December 2024 | Francisco Robles | January 2025 | th (2023 Clausura) |
| Brasilia | Jorge Armando Goznalez | Sacked | December 2024 | Alexi Guerra | January 2025 | th (2023 Clausura) |
| Tiburones de Sonsonate | Juan Ramon Paredes | Contract finished | December 2024 | None (as club withdrew from the Segunda Division) | January 2025 | th (2023 Clausura) |
| Once Lobos | TBD | Interimship finished | December 2024 | Juan Carlos Moscoso | January 2025 | th (2023 Clausura) |

### During the Clausura season

| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Replaced by | Date of appointment | Position in table |
| Zacatecoluca | Guillermo Rivera | Mutual Consent | February 9, 2025 | Edgar Enrique (Interim) | February, 2025 | TBD |
| Zacatecoluca | Edgar Enrique | Interim ship ended | February , 2025 | Edgar Henríquez | February, 2025 | TBD |
| Olímpico Litoral | Fransico Robles | Sacked | February 9, 2025 | Ángel Piazzi | March, 2025 | TBD |
| Los Laureles | Ricardo Lopez | Sacked | March, 2025 | Lazaro Gutierrez | March 4, 2025 | TBD |

## Apertura 2024
### Regular Seasons
#### Centro Oriente

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Cruzeiro | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 10 | +2 | 18 | Advance to Playoffs |
| 2 | Fuerte Aguilares | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 8 | +4 | 17 | Advance to Playoffs |
| 3 | Zacatecoluca | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 16 | Advance to Playoffs |
| 4 | Olímpico Litoral | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 14 | Advance to Playoffs |
| 5 | Brasilia | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 16 | −2 | 10 | |
| 6 | Batanecos | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 13 | −4 | 10 | |

#### Centro Occidente

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Tiburones de Sonsonate | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 13 | +6 | 21 | Advance to Playoffs |
| 2 | Los Laureles | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 20 | −3 | 20 | Advance to Playoffs |
| 3 | Titan | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 28 | 12 | +16 | 19 | Advance to Playoffs |
| 4 | INCA | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 23 | 21 | +2 | 17 | Advance to Playoffs |
| 5 | Espartano | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 17 | +3 | 16 | |
| 6 | Cangrejera | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 24 | 33 | −9 | 16 | |
| 7 | Once Lobos | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 24 | −15 | 6 | |

## Finals
### Conference Quarter finals

Tiburones de Sonsonate won 3-2 on Aggregate.
Zacatecoluca won 2-1 on Aggregate.
Fuerte Aguilares won 3-2 on Aggregate.
Cruzeiro won 5-2 on Aggregate.

### Conference Semi finals

Fuerte Aguilares won 1-0 on Aggregate
Zacatecoluca won 2-1 on Aggregate

### Final

Zacatecoluca won 4-2 on Aggregate
* Apertura 2024 champions
* Zacatecoluca 1st title

## Clausura 2025
### Current teams

Cangrejera FC, Titan and Tiburones de Sonsonate withdrawn from the competition