The following article presents a summary of the 1909
football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
season in
Paraguay
Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to th ...
.
Liga Paraguaya
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results
The
championship
In sport, a championship is a competition in which the aim is to decide which individual or team is the champion.
Championship systems
Various forms of competition can be referred to by the term championship.
Title match system
In this system ...
was played for the "Copa El Diario", a
trophy
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issued by the newspaper of the same name. Six teams participated in the
tournament
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# One or more competitions held at a single venue and concentr ...
which was played in a two-round
all-play-all system, being the team with the most points at the end of the two rounds the champion.
Club Nacional
Club Nacional is a Paraguayan professional football club based in the neighbourhood of Obrero in Asunción. Founded in 1904, the club currently plays in the Paraguayan Primera División, and holds its home games at Estadio Arsenio Erico.
Inte ...
won its first championship after defeating
Libertad in a playoff game.
*Note: Since both Nacional and Libertad finished with the same number of points, a playoff game was played to decide to championship. The game was won 3-1 by Nacional.
References
Paraguay - League History 1906-1964by Karel Stokkermans at
RSSSF
The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF) is an international organization dedicated to collecting statistics about association football. The foundation aims to build an exhaustive archive of football-related information from around the ...
Historia de la APF
External links
APF Website
Paraguayan Primera División seasons
Para
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