The 2023 Primera División season (officially the Copa de Primera Tigo – Ueno 2023 for sponsorship reasons) was the 89th 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
Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the Argentina–Paraguay border, south and southwest, Brazil to the Brazil–Paraguay border, east and northeast, and Boli ...
. The season consisted of two tournaments, Apertura and Clausura, and it began on 27 January and ended on 1 December 2023.
The fixtures for the season were announced on 14 November 2022.
In the Torneo Apertura,
Libertad were the champions, clinching their twenty-third title with three matches in hand following a 1–0 win over
Olimpia and a 2–1 defeat for
Cerro Porteño
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against
General Caballero (JLM) on 20 May. Libertad also won the Torneo Clausura, securing their twenty-fourth league championship with two games in hand and a 1–0 victory over
Sportivo Luqueño
Club Sportivo Luqueño is a Paraguayan football club, based in the city of Luque on the outskirts of the capital Asunción. It currently plays in the Paraguayan Primera División, the country's top tier of football, where it has won thrice, in 19 ...
on 12 November. Olimpia started the season as defending champions, having won the
2022 Clausura tournament.
Teams
Twelve teams competed in this season: the top ten teams in the relegation table of the
2022 season, and the top two teams in the
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 ...
(
Sportivo Trinidense
Sportivo Trinidense is a Paraguayan football club based in the barrio of Santísima Trinidad, in Asunción. The club was founded on 11 August 1935. Their home games are played at the Estadio Martín Torres. Their traditional rival is Rubio Ñu ...
and
Sportivo Luqueño
Club Sportivo Luqueño is a Paraguayan football club, based in the city of Luque on the outskirts of the capital Asunción. It currently plays in the Paraguayan Primera División, the country's top tier of football, where it has won thrice, in 19 ...
). The promoted teams replaced
Sol de América and
12 de Octubre, who were relegated to the second tier at the end of the previous season.
Stadia and locations
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Personnel and kits
Managerial changes
Torneo Apertura
The Torneo Apertura, named "Homenaje al Dr.
Marcelo Pecci
Marcelo Daniel Pecci Albertini (28 September 1976 – 10 May 2022) was a Paraguayan prosecutor. He prosecuted many high-profile criminal cases, involving Paraguayan and international drug cartels, as well as celebrities, including a 2020 case when ...
", was the 127th official championship of the Primera División and the first championship of the 2022 season. It started on 27 January and ended on 11 June.
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Standings
Results
Top scorers
Source
Soccerway
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Torneo Clausura
The Torneo Clausura, named "Centenario del Club Tacuary", was the 128th official championship of the Primera División and the second and last championship of the 2022 season. It began on 7 July and ended on 1 December.[
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Standings
Results
Top scorers
Source
Soccerway
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Aggregate table
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 two teams with the lowest average were relegated to the División Intermedia for the following season.
Source
APF
Season awards
On 4 December 2023, a ceremony was held at the headquarters of the Paraguayan Football Association
The Paraguayan Football Association ( ; APF) (Guarani language, Guarani: ''Paraguái Mangapy Atyguasu''), is the omnibus governing body of football (soccer), football in Paraguay. It organizes the Paraguayan football league system, Paraguayan fo ...
in Luque
Luque () is a city in Central Department of Paraguay, part of the Gran Asunción metropolitan area. Both 1635 and 1750 have been recorded as dates of its founding. It was temporarily the capital of Paraguay in 1868 during the Paraguayan War ...
to announce the winners of the season awards (''Premios de Primera''), who were chosen based on voting by the managers of the Primera División teams, local sports journalists, the APF's Referee Commission, the public, as well as the tournament's official broadcaster Tigo Sports and official statistics.
See also
* 2023 Copa Paraguay
* 2023 Paraguayan División Intermedia
References
External links
APF's official website
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Paraguay
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Paraguayan Primera División seasons
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