List of foreign Segunda División de Fútbol Salvadoreño players

This is a list of foreign players in the Segunda Division (formally Liga Ascenio), which commenced play in 1999. The following players must meet both of the following two criteria: Have played at least one Segunda Division regular season game. Players who were signed by Segunda Divisiom clubs, but only played in playoff games or did not play in any competitive games at all, are not included. Are considered foreign, i.e., outside El Salvador determined by the following: A player is considered foreign if he is not eligible to play for the national team of El Salvador. More specifically, If a player has been capped on international level, the national team is used; if he has been capped by more than one country, the highest level (or the most recent) team is used. These include Salvadoran players with dual citizenship. If a player has not been capped on international level, his country of birth is used, except those who were born abroad from El Salvador parents, or El Salvador at a young age, and those who clearly indicated to have switched his nationality to another nation. In bold: players who have played at least one Segunda Division game in the current season (2020 Apertura season), and are still at the clubs for which they have played. This does not include current players of a Segunda division club who have not played a Segunda division game in the current season.

Naturalized Players [lower-alpha 1]

Africa – CAF

Ghana

Nigeria

Togo

South America – CONMEBOL

Argentina

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

Paraguay

Peru

Uruguay

CONCACAF

Belize

Costa Rica

Dominican Republic

Guatemala

Honduras

Jamaica

Mexico

Panama

St. Kitts and Nevis

Trinidad and Tobago

Notes
  1. Players that have been born abroad, moved to El Salvador later than the age of twelve, acquired El Salvador citizenship and waived the opportunity to play for the national teams of their native countries in order to be eligible to play for El Salvador

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