The 2022 División Profesional season (officially the Copa de Primera TIGO-Visión Banco 2022 for sponsorship reasons) was the 88th season of the
Paraguayan Primera División
The División Profesional de la Paraguayan Football Association, Asociación Paraguaya de Fútbol (; "Professional Division of the Paraguayan Football Association"), also known as the Primera División (; "first division"), or due to sponsorship ...
, the top-flight professional football league in
Paraguay
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. The season began on 4 February and ended on 13 November 2022.
The fixtures for the season were announced on 14 December 2021.
In the Torneo Apertura
Libertad won their twenty-second league championship, clinching the title with one match in hand after beating
Cerro Porteño
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by a 1–0 score on 25 June, whilst the Torneo Clausura was won by
Olimpia, who claimed their forty-sixth league title after drawing 1–1 with
Nacional
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on the last matchday played on 12 November. Cerro Porteño were the defending champions, having won the
2021 Clausura tournament.
Teams
Twelve teams competed in the season: the top eight teams in the relegation table of the
2021 season
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, the top three teams in the
2021 Paraguayan División Intermedia (
General Caballero (JLM),
Resistencia, and
Tacuary
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Tacuary qualified for the Copa Libertadores tournament twice (in 2005 and 2007) and the Copa Sudamerican ...
), as well as
Sportivo Ameliano, winners of the
promotion/relegation play-off. The promoted teams replaced
River Plate and
Sportivo Luqueño, who were relegated to the second tier at the end of the previous season.
Stadia and locations
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Managerial changes
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Torneo Apertura
The Campeonato de Apertura, named "Homenaje a Luis Alberto Pettengill Castillo", was the 125th official championship of the Primera División and the first championship of the 2022 season. It started on 4 February and ended on 3 July.
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Standings
Results
Top scorers
Source
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Torneo Clausura
The Campeonato de Clausura, named "Homenaje to Alexandro Arce Añazco", was the 126th official championship of the Primera División and the second championship of the 2022 season. It began on 14 July and ended on 13 November.[
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Standings
Results
Top scorers
Source
Soccerway
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Aggregate table
Relegation
Relegation was 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 two teams with the lowest average were relegated to the División Intermedia for the following season.
Source
APF
Season awards
On 14 November 2022 a ceremony was held at the Sheraton Hotel in Asunción to announce the winners of the season awards (''Premios de Primera''), who were chosen based on voting by the managers of the 12 Primera División teams, local sports journalists, the APF's Referee Commission, the public as well as official statistics.
See also
* 2022 Copa Paraguay
*2022 Paraguayan División Intermedia
The 2022 División Intermedia season, named ''"Homenaje al Doctor Luis Lezcano Pastore y al Escribano Julio César Ortiz Duarte"'', was the 104th season of the second-tier league of Paraguayan football and 25th under the Paraguayan División Inter ...
References
External links
APF's official website
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Paraguay
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Paraguayan Primera División seasons
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