Tallest: 3 · Year
By quarter-hour; stoppage time counts as the 45th or 90th minute.
Tallest: 2 · Minute
El Salvador's matches with known line-ups from their first recorded cap to their last.
| With them | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0% |
| Without them | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Aarón Padilla | Mexico | 1 |
| Albert Shesternyov | Russia | 1 |
| Anatoliy Byshovets | Russia | 1 |
| Anatoliy Puzach | Russia | 1 |
| Antonio Munguía | Mexico | 1 |
| Anzor Kavazashvili | Russia | 1 |
| Enrique Borja | Mexico | 1 |
| Gennady Yevriuzhikin | Russia | 1 |
| Gustavo Peña | Mexico | 1 |
| Horacio López Salgado | Mexico | 1 |
Finals and qualifying campaigns alike.
| 11 Apr 1965 | v Haiti | 3–1 | 34′ | — | Equaliser | 1–1 | CONCACAF Championship 1965 · Final round |
| 4 Apr 1965 | v Guatemala | 1–4 | 58′ | — | Pulled one back | 1–3 | CONCACAF Championship 1965 · Final round |
| 14 Mar 1965 | v Honduras | 3–1 | 48′ | — | Winning goal | 2–0 | CONCACAF Championship qualification 1965 |
In a recorded line-up, on the scoresheet or booked. “—” where the line-up isn't known.
| 10 Jun 1970 | v Russia | 0–2 | started | 90 | — | — | FIFA World Cup 1970 · Group stage |
| 7 Jun 1970 | v Mexico | 0–4 | came on 58′ | 32 | — | — | FIFA World Cup 1970 · Group stage |
| 11 Apr 1965 | v Haiti | 3–1 | — | — | 1 | — | CONCACAF Championship 1965 · Final round |
| 4 Apr 1965 | v Guatemala | 1–4 | — | — | 1 | — | CONCACAF Championship 1965 · Final round |
| 14 Mar 1965 | v Honduras | 3–1 | — | — | 1 | — | CONCACAF Championship qualification 1965 |
Caps, goals and cards count what the sources record: line-ups from about 2003 (World Cups from 1970, friendlies from about 2016), and few scorers in older friendlies — so career totals run low.