The 2023 División Intermedia season, named ''"Homenaje a Don Alejandro Dos Santos"'', was the 105th season of the second-tier league of Paraguayan football and 26th under the División Intermedia name. The season began on 31 March and ended on 9 October 2023, and the fixtures for the season were announced on 14 December 2022. Sol de América won their fourth title in the competition, securing the championship with two rounds to go after a 2–1 victory over Martín Ledesma on 25 September. The other promoted team was 2 de Mayo, who clinched their promotion two rounds prior to the end of the season with a 1–1 draw with

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on 23 September.

Format

16 teams took part in the competition, which was played under a double round-robin system with teams playing each other twice, once at home and once away for a total of 30 matches. The top two teams at the end of the season were promoted to the

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for the 2024 season, while the bottom three teams in the relegation table at the end of the season were relegated: teams located within 50 kilometres of

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are relegated to Primera División B, while teams from outside Greater Asunción and the Central Department are relegated to

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Teams

Team changes

16 teams competed in the season: 11 teams from the previous División Intermedia season plus the two teams relegated from Primera División in its 2022 season ( Sol de América and 12 de Octubre), the top two teams from the 2022 Primera División B (

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and 24 de Setiembre (VP)) and the 2022 Primera División B Nacional champions

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and

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did not compete since they earned promotion to Primera División at the end of the previous season, nor did Guaraní (T),

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, and River Plate, who were relegated at the end of the 2022 season by finishing in the bottom three places of the relegation table.

Stadia and locations

Standings

Results

Top scorers

Source
APF
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Relegation

Relegation is determined at the end of the season by computing an average of the number of points earned per game over the past three seasons. The three teams with the lowest average were relegated to Primera División B or

for the following season, depending on their geographical location. Source
APF

References

External links

División Intermedia on the APF's website
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