Pastoreo Fútbol Club, also known as Pastoreo FC or simply Pastoreo, is a
Paraguayan
football
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club based in
Doctor Juan Manuel Frutos
Doctor Juan Manuel Frutos is a town in the Caaguazú department of Paraguay
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, locally known as ''Pastoreo''. The club was founded in 2020 and plays in the
División Intermedia, the second division in the Paraguayan football league system. It belongs to the
Caaguazú Football Federation and was the 2019–20
Campeonato Nacional de Interligas The Campeonato Nacional de Interligas (Spanish for ''National Championship of Interleague'') is the biggest football event involving teams with combined players from different clubs of every regional leagues in Paraguay from all departments. The to ...
champion.
History
The club was founded on 14 June 2020, based on the team representing the
Pastoreo Sports League (''Liga Deportiva de Pastoreo'') in the Campeonato Nacional de Interligas, which won the competition in its 2019–20 edition after beating the team representing the
Hernandarias league in the final. With this title the Pastoreo league earned the right to compete in the
División Intermedia, however, in order to take part in competitions overseen by the
Paraguayan Football Association such as the División Intermedia, teams promoted from the Campeonato Nacional de Interligas have to be refounded as clubs, causing the Liga de Pastoreo team to be refounded as ''Pastoreo Fútbol Club''.
Although they were entitled to enter the
2021 Paraguayan División Intermedia
The 2021 División Intermedia season, named ''"Cincuentenario del Club Atlético 3 de Febrero y Homenaje al Lic. Miguel Ángel Cañete Alderete"'', was the 103rd season of the second-tier league of Paraguayan football and 24th under the Paraguay ...
competition by having won the 2019–20 Interligas championship, the cancellation of the 2020 División Intermedia season due to the
COVID-19 pandemic meant that they had their debut postponed to 2022 per decision by the APF's Executive Committee, since
Guaraní de Trinidad (who were originally slated to have their debut in 2020) already held the berth reserved to the
Unión del Fútbol del Interior
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(UFI) for that season as 2019 Primera B Nacional champions.
They eventually played the División Intermedia for the first time in 2022 Paraguayan División Intermedia, 2022, ending the season in fourth place after being in contention for promotion to the top tier until the last rounds of the competition.
References
External links
Soccerway Profile
Football clubs in Paraguay
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