Copa Presidente (El Salvador)

The Copa Presidente was created at the behest of the dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, who provided the trophy and had it named after him.^[1] not contested until the 1990s when CONCACAF ordered that El Salvador must have a mandatory national cup in order to gain access to intercontinental competitions and ruled that the regional cups competed for before were insufficient.^[2] In 2014, the tournament was briefly brought back played between Águila and FAS. However, the cup turned out to be a one-off event.^[3]

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.^[4]

In 2025, Yamil Bukele, the director of the National Institute of Sports of El Salvador, announced that the Copa Presidente would return the following year.^[5]