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Segunda División de Fútbol Salvadoreño
Season	2020–21
Champions	Apertura: Platense, Clausura: AD Destroyer
Relegated	TBD and TBD
	← 2019–20 2021–22 →

The 2020–21 season (officially known as Liga de Plata and also as Torneo Luis Baltazar Ramírez) will be El Salvador's Segunda División de Fútbol Salvadoreño. The season will be split into two championships Apertura 2020 and Clausura 2021. 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 2020–21 seasons

Due to the Pandemic, several teams opted out to participate this season, with only 14 teams available to compete

Teams promoted to 2020–21 Primera División de El Salvador

No teams promoted

Teams relegated to Segunda División de Fútbol Salvadoreño - Apertura 2019

No teams relegated

Teams relegated to Tercera Division de Fútbol Salvadoreño - Apertura 2019

No teams relegated

Teams promoted from Tercera Division De Fútbol Profesional - Apertura 2019

No teams promoted

New Teams or teams that purchased a spot in the Segunda division

El Vencedor (Traded their spot with Atletico Marte) ^[1]
A.D. Destroyer (Purchased spot of Brujos de Izalco)

Teams that failed to register for the Apertura 2020

Atletico Marte (bought the spot of El Vencedor in the Primera division.
Brujos de Izalco (sold their spot to AD Destroyer)
Once Lobos (Opted to no Participate due to COVID-19 Pandemic)
Racing Junior (Opted to no Participate due to COVID-19 Pandemic)
Topilzin (Opted to no Participate due to COVID-19 Pandemic)
El Vencedor (Opted to no Participate due to COVID-19 Pandemic)
Gerardo Barrios (Opted to no Participate due to COVID-19 Pandemic)

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Pre-Apertura changes
Sonsonate	TBD	Mutual Consent	2020	TBD	2020	Preseason
Apertura changes
C.D. Liberal	Nelson Mauricio Ancheta	Mutual Consent	October 2020	Esteban Melara	October 2020	Group th
C.D. Vendaval Apopa	Byron Alvarez	Sacked	November 2020	Luis Ernesto Moisa	November 2020	Th
C.D. Marte Soyapango	Rudy Cecilios	Sacked	November 2020	Edson Flores	November 2020	Th
Pre-Clausura changes
Aspirante	Jorge Calles	End of contract	January 2021	Carlos Martinez	January 2021	Preseason
C.D. Vendaval Apopa	Luis Ernesto Moisa	End of contract	January 2021	Alonzo Aguilar	January 2021	Preseason
Ilopaneco	Ricardo Garcia	End of contract	February 2021	Jorge Abrego	February 2021	Preseason
C.D. Dragon	Juan Carlos Marjano	End of contract	February 2021	Mártir Paredes	February 2021	Preseason
Clausura changes
C.D. Vendaval Apopa	Alonzo Aguilar	Sacked	March 2021	Angel Orellana	March 2021	1st
C.D. Cacahuatique	Marvin Hernandez	Mutual Consent	April 2021	Efrain Solano	April 2021	1st
Municipal FC	Ruben Alonso	Sacked	2021	Ennio Mendoza	2021	th
San Palo	Wilber Aguilar	Sacked	2021	Rafael Mariona	2021	th

Apertura

Teams

Only 14 teams chose to Participate in this season Competition

Team	City	Stadium	Head coach	Captain	Foreign Players
Aspirante	Jucuapa	Estadio Municipal de Jucuapa	Jorge Calles	N/A
AD Destroyer	Puerto de La Libertad	Cancha Chilama	Juan Ramon Paredes	N/A	Jefferson Viveros Edgar Medrano
Cacahuatique	Ciudad Barrios, San Miguel	Complejo Deportivo Chapeltique	Marvin Hernandez	N/A	Fary Mancilla
Dragón	San Miguel	Estadio Jose Eliseo Reyes	Juan Carlos Marjano	N/A
Fuerte San Francisco	San Francisco Gotera, Morazan	Estadio Joe Amilcar Moreno	Omar Sevilla	N/A
Ilopaneco	TBD	Estadio Joaquin Gutierrez Apopa	Ricardo Garcia	N/A	Camilo Gomez
Juayua (Municipal FC)	Nahuizalco, Sonsonate	Estadio Municipal Flor Blanco, Sonsonate	Ruben Alonso	N/A
Liberal	Quelapa, San Miguel	Estadio Municipal de Quelapa	Nelson Mauricio Ancheta	N/A	Gregory Costly
Marte Soyapango	Soyapango	Cancha Jorgito Melendez	Rudy Cedillos	N/A	Jhony Moran Chan William Gurero
Platense	Zacatecoluca	Complejo Deportivo en Tecoluca/ EstadioTopilitzin de Jiquilisco	Guillermo Rivera	N/A	Juan Camilo Delgado
San Pablo Municipal	San Pabo Tacahico	Cancha Municipal Valle Meza	Wilber Aguilar	N/A	Bryan Obregon
AD Santa Rosa Guachipilín	Santa Rosa Guachipilín, Santa Ana	Estadio Jose Hernandez	Samuel Maldonado	N/A	Héctor Lemus
Titan	Texistepeque, Santa Ana	Estadio Titan	Edgar Batres	N/A	Breiner Ortiz
Vendaval	Apopa	Estadio Joaquin Gutierrez	Byron Alvarez	N/A

Regular-season standings

Finals

Quarter-finals

First leg

January 4, 2021

Titan	2-3	A.D. Destroyer
Breiner Ortiz 66' 68' (pen.)		Reynaldo Carpio 23' Denis Garcia 68' TBD 68'

January 4, 2021

Marte Soyapango	2-1	San Pablo Municipal
José Mauricio Rodríguez Douglas Moises Rivas		TBD 23'

January 4, 2021

Aspirante	0-1	Platense
nil		Camilio Delgado 67' (pen.)

January, 2021

Fuerte San Francisco	1-0	Cacahuatique
Carlos Trejo 68'		nil

Second leg

January 11, 2021

A.D. Destroyer	1-1	Titan
Cristian Martínez 30'		Julio Borjas 23'

A.D. Destroyer won 4-3 on Aggregate.

January 11, 2021

San Pablo Municipal	2-1	Marte Soyapango
Oscar Alexander Ulloa 26' (pen.) Kevin Ernesto Belasquez 68'		Douglas Moises Ramirez 23'

Marte Soyapango tied 3-3 on Aggregate, won penalties

January 11, 2021

Platense	0-0	Aspirante
‘’’Nil‘’’		‘’’Nil‘’’

Estadio Sergio Torrez, Usulutan

Platense won 1-0 on Aggregate.

January, 2021

Cacahuatique	2-0	Fuerte San Francisco
Francisco Valladares Juan Carlos Argueta		‘’’Nil‘’’

Cacahuatique won 2-1 on Aggregate.

Semi-finals

First leg

January 17, 2021

3:00pm

Cacahuatique	1-2	Platense
Cristin Martínez 26'		Steve Alfaro 49' Juan Camilo Delgado 65'

Cancha Centro Ecológico, El Amaton

January 17, 2021

Marte Soyapango	3-1	A.D. Destroyer
TBD 26' (pen.) TBD 68' TBD 68'		TBD 23'

Cancha Jorgito Meléndez

Second leg

January 25, 2021

Platense	1-1	Cacahuatique
José Antonio Maravilla 80'		Hugo Hernández 6'

Estadio Cuscatlan, San Salvador

Attendance: 3,000

Platense won 3-2 on Aggregate.

January 25, 2021

A.D. Destroyer	3-1	Marte Soyapango
Denis García Rosemberg Cuevas Jefferson Viveros		Johnathan Alexander Pineda

Cancha Chilama, Puerto de La Libertard

AD Destroyer tied 4-4 on aggregate, won on penalties.

Final

January 30, 2021

14:30pm

Platense	2-2	A.D. Destroyer
Wilber Arizala 15' Camilo Delgado 70'	[1]	Jonathan Nolasco 39' Jefferson Viveros 73'
Penalties
Camilo Delgado TBD Wilber Arizala Ruiz Aguilar Brayan Martinez	5-4	TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD

Estadio Cuscatlan, San Salvador

Platense won 5-4 on Penalties.

Apertura 2020 champions
Platense 3rd title

Individual awards

Hombre GOL	Best Goalkeeper Award
Johnny Moran Marte Soyapango	Johnathan Valle Platense