sentences:  The first President of the Segunda División de Fútbol Salvadoreño was Dr Mauro Alfredo Bernal Silva.The addition of teams worsened the level of competition remarkably having up to twelve teams per zone (36 teams altogether).In 1986 the Legislative Assembly emitted a decree in the Reforms to the Law of Football and the Category of Ascent in which it stated that only 24 teams would be allowed in the Segunda División split into two groups.