The following article contains a year-by-year list and statistics of
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
topscorers in the
Primera División de Paraguay
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(''Paraguayan First Division'').
Topscorers by year
The following list only comprises the professional era and is missing data from 1906 to 1934 (amateur era).
Also, since 2008 the Paraguayan football association (
APF) awards two national champions per year; one for the Torneo
Apertura
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and another for the Torneo
Clausura
The ' and ' tournaments is a split season format for Spanish-speaking sports leagues. It is a relatively recent innovation for many Latin American football leagues in which the traditional association football season from August to May is div ...
. Therefore, the following legends are used from 2008 and on:
*
= Apertura
*
= Clausura
*
= Overall topscorer for that year
Topscorers by club
The number of topscorers included in the following table only represent the overall topscorers for the entire year (those labeled with a
since 2008). Topscorers for specific tournaments (like Apertura
and Clausura
are not included.
Records and statistics
*
Juan Samudio
Juan Eduardo "El Magico" Samudio Serna (born 14 October 1978 in Asunción) is a former Paraguayan footballer.
He held the record for most goals scored in the Paraguayan first division with 108 goals, and is the third maximum goal scorer of Pa ...
is the all-time goalscoring leader with 111 goals, all of them scored for
Libertad and
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* Guaraní language, or Paraguayan Guarani, an official language of Paraguay
* ...
from 1997 to the present day.
Mauro Caballero is second on the list with 107 goals between 1992 and 2007, playing for
Olimpia,
Cerro Porteño
Club Cerro Porteño is a professional Paraguayan football club, based in the neighbourhood of Obrero in Asunción. Founded in 1912, Cerro has won 34 Primera División titles and is one of the most popular football clubs in Paraguay. Its presi ...
,
Nacional
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* Transportes Aéreos Nacional, a Brazilian airline defunct in 1961
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and Libertad.
Se cargó el triunfo
* Flaminio Silva is the player to have scored more goals in a single season: 34 goals in 1936, playing for Olimpia.
*Máximo Rolón
Máximo Rolón Villa (born November 18, 1934 in Asunción, Paraguay) is a former Paraguayan footballer who has played for clubs in Paraguay, Chile and Colombia.
Teams
* Libertad 1954-1956
* Everton 1957-1959
* San Luis de Quillota 1960
* ...
is the player with the most consecutive goalscoring titles (3 times): he was the topscorer in 1954, 1955 and 1956; playing for Libertad.
* Héctor Núñez is the only foreign player to win the goalscoring title back-to-back (1994–1995), playing for Cerro Porteño.
See also
*Primera División de Paraguay
Primera may refer to
* Nissan Primera, a car
* Primera Air, a former airline
* Primera división (disambiguation), multiple top division football leagues
* Primera, Texas, a town in Cameron County, Texas
* Alí Primera, Venezuelan musician, compos ...
*Paraguayan football league system
The Paraguayan football league system is a series of interconnected leagues for football clubs in Paraguay.
Overview
At the top is the ''Primera División'' or ''División de Honor'' (first division) with 12 clubs.
Below the 1st level is the '' ...
References
External links
Asociacion Paraguaya de FutbolTeledeportes Digital
{{DEFAULTSORT:Primera Division de Paraguay topscorers
Topscorers
Association football player non-biographical articles