Copa El Salvador

Copa El Salvador

Region	El Salvador
Number of teams	32
Current champions	Santa Tecla (2nd title)
Most successful club(s)	Águila (2 titles) Santa Tecla (2 titles)
2018–19 Copa El Salvador

The Copa El Salvador is the top knock-out football tournament in El Salvador. The first edition was played in 1999, resulting champion C.D. Águila of El Salvador. From 2000 to 2006, the competition was played two more times with Atlético Balboa and Once Municipal winning the cup. After a lengthy hiatus that began in 2006, was restored in 2016 The cup is currently sponsored by Claro and thus officially known as the Copa Claro. The Cup tournament is played as a separate tournament from the league (played between First, Second and Third Division).

Format Change

In 2014, the tournament was briefly brought back played between Águila and FAS. However, the cup turned out to be a one-off event.

Re-launch

On June 16, 2016 it was announced that a new cup competition would be played during Apertura 2016 and Clausura 2017. The tournament will involve 12 teams from the First Division, plus 10 of the Second Division and 10 of the Third Division for a total of 32 participants. The teams will be placed into 8 groups of 4. The 8 group winners, plus the 8 group runners-up, move on to the new round (round of 16).

The cup will be called Copa Claro for sponsorship reason and the winner will receive 15,000 dollars.

List of finals

Copa Presidente (1939–2023)

Year	Champion	Score	Runner-up	Goalscorers for the Champion	Goalscorers for the runner up	Manager
1930-31	CD 33	1-0	Firpo
1931-32	CD 33	0-0(4-2)	Aguilas
1932-33
1933-34
1934-35
1935-36
1936-37
1937-38
1938-39	Corsario del Puerto Libertard	4-0	El 44 (Santa Ana)
1939-40
1940-41
1941-42
1942-43
1943-44
1944-45
1945-46
1946-47
1947-48
1948-49
1949-50
1950-51
1951-52
1952-53
1953-54
1954-55
1955-56
1956-57
1957-58
1958-59
1959-60
1960-61
1961-62
1962-63
1963-64
1964-65
1965-66
1966-67
1967-68
1968-69
1969-70
1970-71
1971-72
1972-73
1973-74
1974-75
1975-75
1976-77
1977-78
1978-79
1979-80
1980-81
1981-82
1982-83
1983-84
1984-85
1985-86
1986-87
1987-88
1988-89
1989-90
1990-91	Atletico Marte	2-1	LA Firpo	Nildeson Misael Rodriguez	Mauricio Cienfuegos	Armando Contreras Palma
1991-92
1992-93
1993-94
1994-95
1995-95
1996-97
1997-1998
1998-1999
1999-2000	Águila	3–2	Luis Ángel Firpo	Adrián Mahía (2) Paul Cominges	Celio Rodríguez (2)	Hugo Coria
2000-2001
2005-2006	Atlético Balboa	2–0	Independiente Nacional 1906	Nelson Reyes (2)	None	Jorge García
2006-2007	Once Municipal	1–0	Águila	Mario Deras	None	Nelson Ancheta
2007-08
2008-09
2009-10
2010-11
2011-12
2012-13
2013-14

Copa Presidente/Independencia (2014–15)

Year	Champion	Score	Runner-up	Goalscorers for the Champion	Goalscorers for the runner up	Manager
2014–15	Águila	2–0	FAS	Sean Fraser Ronaille Calheira	None	Daniel Messina
2015-16	FAS	3-2	Lobos

Copa Claro (2016–present)

Year	Champion	Score	Runner-up	Manager
2016–17	Santa Tecla	1–0	FAS	Ernesto Corti
2017-2018
2018–19	Santa Tecla	1–0	Audaz	Sebastian Abreu
2019-2020
2020-21
2021-22
2022-23
2023-24
2024-25

List of winners

Club	Winners	Runners-up	Winning Years
Santa Tecla	2	0	2016–17, 2018–19
Águila	2	1	1999–2000, 2014–15
Atlético Balboa	1	0	2005–06
Once Municipal	1	0	2006–07

External links

• http://www.elsalvador.com/noticias/2006/11/23/deportes/dep1.asp
• El Salvador - List of Cup Finals, RSSSF.com