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El Salvador

National team · El Salvador

«La Selecta»

86 Matches
22 wins
25 draws
39 losses
85–116 Goals
−31 Difference
1.0 Scored per game
Form D 6 Jun · Away Qatar · 0:0 W 3 Jul · Away Los Angeles Galaxy · 3:0 L 5 Jul · Away Los Angeles FC · 0:3 D 10 Jul · Away Club Tijuana · 2:2 W 26 Sep · Home Martinique · 3:1 L 29 Sep · Away Guatemala · 0:6

Ten goals to one, against Hungary at the 1982 World Cup in Spain, and El Salvador's only other appearance came twelve years earlier, in Mexico. Both times the team went out in the group stage, but the road to 1970 had already given the country its own name for a fixture rarely spoken of lightly: the qualifying matches against Honduras spilled into a war, and the meetings between the two since carry a weight no scoreline explains, known in the region as the Football War Derby.

La Selecta played its first international in Guatemala City on 14 September 1921, losing 7–0 to Costa Rica at the Independence Centenary Games — a rough start for a federation that would take until the following decades to find its footing regionally. That footing came in 1943, with the CCCF Championship, and again in 1954, with gold at the Central American and Caribbean Games. Beyond that, the record reads as a long string of near misses: runners-up in the CONCACAF Championship in 1963 and 1981, third in 1977, and third six times over in the UNCAF Nations Cup between 1995 and 2017, without ever winning it.

Raúl Díaz Arce scored 39 goals for the side between 1992 and 2001, while Darwin Cerén's 108 caps stand as the appearance record. The team now trains under Hernán Darío Gómez, who took charge in March 2025, working out of the Estadio Cuscatlán — at just over 44,800 seats on its FIFA-regulated capacity, the largest ground in Central America and the Caribbean, and the stage La Selecta will need to fill if a third World Cup is ever going to follow the first two.

Latest results

Fixtures and results
5 Oct CONCACAF Nations League Martinique A
29 Sep CONCACAF Nations League Guatemala A 0:6 L
26 Sep CONCACAF Nations League Martinique H 3:1 W
10 Jul Friendlies Club Tijuana A 2:2 D
5 Jul Friendlies Los Angeles FC A 0:3 L
3 Jul Friendlies Los Angeles Galaxy A 3:0 W

Standing

World Cup - Qualification CONCACAF

Group stage · Group A

# Team M W D L Goals Pts
1 Panama 6 3 3 0 9:4 12
2 Suriname 6 2 3 1 9:6 9
3 Guatemala 6 2 2 2 8:7 8
4 El Salvador 6 1 0 5 2:11 3
Full table

Team statistics

matches counted in total: 86
86 Matches
22 wins
25 draws
39 losses
85–116 Goals
−31 Difference
1.0 Scored per game
Match outcomes matches counted in total: 86
22wins: 22 · 25% 25draws: 25 · 29% 39losses: 39 · 45%
wins draws losses
Scored and conceded last matches
6 Jun · Away Qatar · 0:0
3 Jul · Away Los Angeles Galaxy · 3:0
5 Jul · Away Los Angeles FC · 0:3
10 Jul · Away Club Tijuana · 2:2
26 Sep · Home Martinique · 3:1
29 Sep · Away Guatemala · 0:6
scored — above the line conceded — below the line
Metric Total Home Away
Matches 86 40 46
Scored 85 33 52
Conceded 116 42 74
Scored per game 1.0 0.8 1.1
Conceded per game 1.3 1.1 1.6
Difference −31 −9 −22

Key players

by appearances over the last year
Julio Enrique Sibrián Molina Defender 3 Matches Mayer Andrés Gil Hurtado Forward 3 Matches Diego Ortez Midfielder 3 Matches Rudy Geovanny Clavel Mendoza Defender 3 Matches Jefferson Leonel Valladares Rivas Midfielder 3 Matches Mario Antonio González Martínez Goalkeeper 3 Matches R. Tedaja Forward 2 Matches A. Enriquez Defender 2 Matches

Squad of El Salvador

by appearances over the last year
Number Player Position Age Matches
2 Julio Enrique Sibrián Molina Defender 3
8 SV Mayer Andrés Gil Hurtado Forward 23 3
23 Diego Ortez Midfielder 3
5 Rudy Geovanny Clavel Mendoza Defender 3
15 Jefferson Leonel Valladares Rivas Midfielder 3
1 Mario Antonio González Martínez Goalkeeper 3
19 R. Tedaja Forward 2
21 A. Enriquez Defender 2
9 SV Brayan Alexander Gil Hurtado Forward 25 2
4 H. Cruz Defender 2
10 N. Ordaz Forward 2
14 SV K. Martínez Midfielder 32 1
18 K. Carabantes Goalkeeper 1
18 G. Barrera Goalkeeper 1
8 Harold Daniel Osorio Moreno Midfielder 1
14 Christian Alonso Martínez Mena Midfielder 1
7 Luis Styven Vásquez Velásquez Forward 1
22 Benji Villalobos Goalkeeper 1
18 Heonathan Barrera Goalkeeper 1
21 Alejandro Ismael Henríquez Ferrufino Defender 1
24 Alejandro Caño Defender 1
8 Brayan Balmore Landaverde Álvarez Midfielder 1
17 Jairo Mauricio Henríquez Ferrufino Midfielder 1
3 Isaac Antonio Portillo Molina Midfielder 1
13 Danick Cerritos Midfielder 1
6 Kevin Reyes Midfielder 1
9 Cristian David Gil Hurtado Forward 1
19 Rafael Tejada Forward 1
23 L. Menchivar Midfielder 1
20 SV Mauricio Josué Cerritos Saravia Midfielder 22 1
4 Jorge Cruz Defender 1
16 Diego Flores Defender 1
12 Herberth Marcelo Díaz Rivas Midfielder 1

Fixtures of El Salvador

Honours of El Salvador

  • CCCF Championship 1943 1
  • Central American and Caribbean Games 1954 1
  • CONCACAF Championship 1963, 1981 2
  • UNCAF Nations Cup 1995, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2013, 2017 6
  • CONCACAF Championship 1977 1