San Salvador Fútbol Club was a professional

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club located in

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that participated in Primera División de Fútbol Profesional from 2002 to 2008. The club played its home games at

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, which is the largest stadium in

History

The club was only founded on 7 January 2002 and bought the licence of ADET to compete in the 2002 Clausura season of the Salvadoran Premier Division. They boasted an impressive squad of Salvadoran internationals, most prominently Salvadoran legend

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, and won the 2003 Clausura league title. After the Clausura 2008 season, San Salvador finished second last in the league and as a result had to take part in a playoff with

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runner-up Juventud Independiente to stay in the First division. San Salvador lost the home and away playoff 4–2 on aggregate and was relegated. Following this San Salvador continued to have problems, although this time it was due to players complaining that they had not been paid. San Salvador could not afford to pay its players, so it decided to sell its spot in the

, and paid its players with the money that they got. This effectively killed the club, and it has since ceased operations.

Home stadium

(2002–2008)

Honours

* Clausura 2003: 1 ::2003

Year-by-year

Head coaches

Jaime Rodríguez Jaime Alberto Rodríguez Jiménez (born 17 January 1959) is a former Association football, football player from El Salvador. He represented his country at the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain. Playing career Club career From a very early age on ...

(Jan 2002 -) *

Rubén Alonso Rubén Rudesindo Alonso Alves (born 1 September 1962) is a former Uruguayan professional football player and currently manager of second division team Cruzeiro. Playing career He won titles with Alianza and Real España, and was the top goalsco ...

(Aug 2002 – Dec 2003) *

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(Dec 2003 – Feb 2004) *

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(Feb 2004 – April 2004) * Saul Lorenzo Rivero (June 2004 – Dec 2004) *

Hugo Coria Hugo Norberto Coria Boianello (born 1 April 1961) is a former Argentina, Argentine football (soccer), football player and manager. He played football for San Martín de Mendoza and C.D. Águila. Coria has had two spells as manager of C.D. Águi ...

(Jan 2005– June 2005) *

Juan Ramón Paredes Juan Ramón Paredes Zelaya (born 23 May 1950) is a former Salvadoran professional football player and currently manager. Coaching career Alianza He became the coach of Alianza at the beginning of 2000 season, he went on to win the Apertura 2 ...

(July 2005 – October 2005) *

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(October 2005 – Feb 2006) * Antonio Orellana Rico (Feb 2006–Sep 2006) *

(Sep 2006 – Dec 2006) * Antonio Orellana Rico (Feb 2007 – April 2007) * Saul Lorenzo Rivero (April 2007– August 2007) *

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(Apertura 2007 – Jan 2008) *

(March 2008– July 2008)

Team records

*Games:
TBD (100) *Goals:
Alexander Obregon (37) *Assists:
TBD (36) *Clean Sheets:
TBD

Top goalscorers

Note: ''Players in bold text are still active with San Salvador

External links

* http://www.elgrafico.com/index.php?eqp=10 Association football clubs established in 2002 San Salvador Defunct football clubs in El Salvador Association football clubs disestablished in 2008 2002 establishments in El Salvador 2008 disestablishments in El Salvador {{ElSalvador-footyclub-stub