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tournament - one of two tournaments held in one year. It begins February 9, 2008 and it will run until May 18.

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and

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will inaugurate the season. Reigning champions Luis Ángel Firpo will try to defend their title and after eighteen rounds and the calculation of the aggregate table

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were relegated to the Segunda División de Fútbol Salvadoreño.

Team information

Personnel and sponsoring

Managerial changes

Before the season

During the season

Clausura 2008 standings

''Last updated May 23, 2008''

Aggregate table

Semifinals 1st leg

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Semifinals 2nd leg

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Final

Champion

Since C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo already qualified for

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, A.D. Isidro Metapán also qualified.

Top scorers

List of foreign players in the league

This is a list of foreign players in Clausura 2008. The following players: #have played at least one apertura game for the respective club. #have not been capped for the

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on any level, independently from the birthplace A new rule was introduced this season that clubs can only have three foreign players per club and can only add a new player if there is an injury or player/s is released. C.D. Águila *

Nicolás Muñoz Nicolás Armando Muñoz Jarvis (born 21 December 1981) is a Panamanian professional footballer who plays as a forward. Club career Nicknamed ''Yuyu'', Muñoz has spent most of his career in his native Panama and in El Salvador, but also had a ...

* Fernando Zuleta * Fabio Ulloa * Juan Camilo Mejía Alianza F.C. *

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Chalatenango * Franklin Webster * Alexander Lugo * John Jairo García * Julio Manrique * Ricardo Magallanes C.D. FAS * Alejandro Bentos * Orlando Rodríguez * Yussuf Sindeh * Jairo Hurtado C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo *

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* Fernando Leguizamón *

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Ramón Ávila Ramón Patricio Ávila Castro (born February 20, 1982) is a Chilean former footballer who played as a forward for clubs in Chile and El Salvador. Club career Born in Villa Alegre, Chile, Ávila played in the Colo Colo youth teams before joining ...

''(player released mid season)'' Blue x

''Injury replacement player'' Nejapa FC * Juan Carlos Reyes *

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* Luis Espindola * Hilario Suma A.D. Isidro Metapán *

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Williams Reyes Williams Enrique Reyes Rodríguez (born October 30, 1976, in La Ceiba, Honduras) is a Honduran-born Salvadoran professional forward. Club career Reyes started his professional career at Deportes Savio, but crossed the Salvadoran border to pla ...

Marcelo Messias Marcelo Messias (born November 9, 1981, in Paranaguá) is a Brazilian-Salvadoran professional football defender. Club career FAS Messias signed with FAS of the Salvadoran Primera División in 2003. With the Santa Ana team, he won the Apertu ...

Gabriel Garcete Gabriel Garcete Jimenez (born 7 January 1982) is a Paraguayan professional footballer. He started his career with Sportivo Luqueño in 2000. The next season, he moved on to play for Municipal Limeño. In 2005, he made a transfer to Atlético ...

Once Municipal *

Ernesto Noel Aquino Ernesto Noel Aquino Pérez (born October 16, 1975) is a former Honduran footballer. Club career Aquino started his professional career with hometown club Victoria de la Ceiba but moved abroad to join Salvadoran side Atlético Balboa Club De ...

* Dimas Braz * Carlos Escalante * Moisés Cuero * Javier Angulo * Harry Huayta San Salvador F.C. * Francisco Portillo * Bernardo Jaramillo * Cristian Mosquera *

Lucas Abraham Lucas Daniel Abraham López (born February 23, 1979) is a retired Argentine retired football forward. Abraham started his career in the lower divisions of Argentine football with All Boys. He has gone on to play for a number of clubs across Lat ...

Vista Hermosa *

Pompilio Cacho Valerio Pompilio Cacho Valerio (born 22 December 1976) is a former List of Hondurans, Honduran Association football, football player who plays as Forward (association football), forward. Club career A much-travelled striker, Cacho started his career a ...

Luis Torres Rodriguez Luis Alberto Torres Rodríguez (born December 5, 1981) is a Colombian footballer who currently plays for Luis Ángel Firpo in El Salvador El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República ...

Elder Figueroa Elder José Figueroa Sarmiento (born October 14, 1980 in Riohacha) is a Colombian and naturalized Salvadoran football player. Figueroa became a naturalized citizen of El Salvador in 2011, and received his first call-up to the El Salvador nati ...

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20080423080746/http://216.75.63.183/?cat=4 {{DEFAULTSORT:Primera Division de Futbol Profesional Clausura 2008 Primera División de Fútbol Profesional Clausura seasons El 1