# 2020–21 Liga FPD

The 2020–21 Liga FPD season, is the 100th season since its establishment.

## 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 |
| TBD | TBD | Resigned | 2020 | TBD | 2020 | TBD (2019-2020) |

### During the Apertura season

| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Replaced by | Date of appointment | Position in table |
| TBD | TBD | Sacked | 2020 | TBD | 2020 | th (Apertura 2020) |
| TBD | TBD | Sacked | 2020 | TBD | 2020 | th (Apertura 2020) |
| TBD | TBD | Sacked | 2020 | TBD | 2020 | th (Apertura 2020) |
| TBD | TBD | Sacked | 2020 | TBD | 2020 | th (Apertura 2020) |
| Municipal Grecia | Luis Diego Arnaez | Sacked | 2020 | Luis Rodriguez | 2020 | th (Apertura 2020) |

### Between the Apertura and Clausura season

| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Replaced by | Date of appointment | Position in table |
| Herediano | Jafet Soto | Sacked | December 2020 | Fernando Palomeque | December 2020 | th (Apertura 2020) |
| Grecia | José Rodríguez | Interimship finished | December 2020 | Gilberto Martínez | December 2020 | th (Apertura 2020) |
| Sporting San José | Randall Row | Sacked | December 2020 | José Giacone | December 2020 | th (Apertura 2020) |
| | | Sacked | December 2020 | | December 2020 | th (Apertura 2020) |
| | | Sacked | December 2020 | | December 2020 | th (Apertura 2020) |
| | | Sacked | December 2020 | | December 2020 | th (Apertura 2020) |

### During the Clausura season

| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Replaced by | Date of appointment | Position in table |
| TBD | TBD | Sacked | 2021 | TBD | 2021 | th (Clausura 2021) |

## Apertura
### Standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Alajuelense (C) | 16 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 36 | 18 | +18 | 37 | Advance to Playoffs and (if necessary) Grand final |
| 2 | Saprissa (A) | 16 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 29 | 16 | +13 | 30 | Advance to Playoffs |
| 3 | Cartaginés | 16 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 32 | 16 | +16 | 29 | Advance to Playoffs |
| 4 | Herediano | 16 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 27 | 19 | +8 | 26 | Advance to Playoffs |
| 5 | San Carlos | 16 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 15 | −1 | 23 | |
| 6 | Limón | 16 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 24 | −9 | 23 | |
| 7 | Guadalupe | 16 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 25 | 27 | −2 | 21 | |
| 8 | Jicaral | 16 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 15 | −1 | 18 | |
| 9 | Sporting San José | 16 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 20 | 24 | −4 | 18 | |
| 10 | Pérez Zeledón | 16 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 20 | 34 | −14 | 15 | |
| 11 | Santos de Guápiles | 16 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 12 | 24 | −12 | 14 | |
| 12 | Grecia | 16 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 26 | −12 | 10 | |

## Clausura
### Standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Alajuelense (Q) | 22 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 49 | 12 | +37 | 50 | Advance to Playoffs and (if necessary) Grand final |
| 2 | Santos de Guápiles (Q) | 22 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 36 | 29 | +7 | 36 | Advance to Playoffs |
| 3 | Herediano | 22 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 35 | 29 | +6 | 30 | Advance to Playoffs |
| 4 | Saprissa | 22 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 31 | 29 | +2 | 29 | Advance to Playoffs |
| 5 | San Carlos | 22 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 21 | 24 | −3 | 29 | |
| 6 | Jicaral | 22 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 21 | 24 | −3 | 28 | |
| 7 | Pérez Zeledón | 22 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 22 | 29 | −7 | 28 | |
| 8 | Cartaginés | 22 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 23 | 27 | −4 | 26 | |
| 9 | Sporting San José | 22 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 18 | 31 | −13 | 23 | |
| 10 | Grecia | 22 | 4 | 11 | 7 | 22 | 29 | −7 | 23 | |
| 11 | Guadalupe | 22 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 33 | 31 | +2 | 22 | |
| 12 | Limón | 22 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 25 | 42 | −17 | 21 | |

## List of foreign players in the league

This is a list of foreign players in the 2020–21 season. The following players:
* Have played at least one game for the respective club.
* Have not been capped for the Costa Rica national football team on any level, independently from the birthplace
A new rule was introduced this season, that clubs can have four foreign players per club and can only add a new player if there is an injury or a player is released and it's before the close of the season transfer window.
| Club | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 |
| Alajuelense | Facundo Zabala | Alexander López | Adolfo Machado |
| Cartaginés | Joaquin Aguirre | Marcel Hernández | Byron Bonilla |
| Grecia | Leonel Peralta | Naël Élysée | Aldo Magaña |
| Guadalupe | Lautaro Ayala | | |
| Herediano | Leandrinho | | |
| Jicaral | Ismael Gómez | Kennedy Rocha Pereira | Joaquin Santellan |
| Limón | Carlos Soza | | |
| Pérez Zeledón | Hernan Fener | Enrique Moura | Craig Foster |
| San Carlos | Javon East | Julio Cruz | Jorman Aguilar |
| Santos de Guápiles | Jason Ingram | Víctor Griffith | |
| Deportivo Saprissa | Esteban Espíndola | Mariano Torres | Aubrey David |
| Sporting | | | |
(player released during the Apertura season) (player released between the Apertura and Clausura seasons) (player released during the Clausura season)