2018 Paraguayan Primera División season

Primera División
Season	2018
Dates	2 February – 8 December 2018
Champions	Apertura: Olimpia (41st title); Clausura: Olimpia (42nd title)
Relegated	Independiente; 3 de Febrero
Copa Libertadores	Olimpia; Cerro Porteño; Libertad; Nacional
Copa Sudamericana	Sol de América; Independiente; Deportivo Santaní; Guaraní (cup winners)
Matches played	264
Goals scored	736 (2.79 per match)
Top goalscorer	Apertura: Néstor Camacho (14 goals); Clausura: Óscar Cardozo (15 goals)
Biggest home win	Cerro Porteño 5–0 Nacional; (13 April); Guaraní 5–0 3 de Febrero; (11 November)
Biggest away win	Deportivo Santaní 0–5 Olimpia; (15 October)
Highest scoring	Guaraní 6–2 Sol de América; (3 February); 3 de Febrero 4–4 Libertad; (17 November)
	← 2017 2019 →

The 2018 División Profesional season (officially the Copa de Primera TIGO-Visión Banco 2018 for sponsorship reasons) was the 84th season of top-flight professional football in Paraguay. The season began on 2 February and ended on 8 December. Cerro Porteño were the defending champions.

In the Torneo Apertura, Olimpia won their forty-first league title with two matches to spare following a 2–1 win over Libertad on 30 May.^[1] Olimpia also clinched their forty-second league title in the Torneo Clausura with two matches to spare after beating Guaraní 4–1 on 28 November.^[2]

Teams

Stadia and locations

Sportivo Luqueño

Dep. Santaní

3 de Febrero

Asunción

Asunción teams:
Cerro Porteño
Guaraní
Independiente (CG)
Libertad
Nacional
Olimpia

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Locations of the 2018 Primera División teams

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Team	Manager	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
3 de Febrero	Eduardo Rivera	Ciudad del Este	Antonio Aranda	23,500
Cerro Porteño	Fernando Jubero	Asunción	General Pablo Rojas	45,000
Deportivo Capiatá	Julio Cabrera (caretaker)	Capiatá	Lic. Erico Galeano Segovia	10,000
Deportivo Santaní	Héctor Marecos	San Estanislao	Juan José Vázquez^a	8,000
General Díaz	Florencio Villalba	Luque	General Adrián Jara	3,500
Guaraní	Gustavo Florentín	Asunción	Rogelio Livieres^b	6,000
Independiente	Mario Jara	Asunción	Ricardo Gregor	1,500
Libertad	Leonel Álvarez	Asunción	Dr. Nicolás Leoz	10,000
Nacional	Fernando Gamboa	Asunción	Arsenio Erico	4,000
Olimpia	Daniel Garnero	Asunción	Manuel Ferreira	25,000
Sol de América	Ever Hugo Almeida	Villa Elisa	Luis Alfonso Giagni	10,000
Sportivo Luqueño	Pedro Sarabia	Luque	Feliciano Cáceres	25,000

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Torneo Apertura
General Díaz	Mario Jara	Resigned	6 December 2017^[3]	Pre-season	Aldo Bobadilla	15 December 2017^[4]
Guaraní	Daniel Garnero	Signed by Olimpia	7 December 2017^[5]		Sebastián Saja	8 December 2017^[6]
Olimpia	Aldo Bobadilla	Mutual consent	11 December 2017^[7]		Daniel Garnero	13 December 2017^[8]
Libertad	Fernando Jubero	Resigned	23 December 2017^[9]		Aldo Bobadilla	28 December 2017^[10]
General Díaz	Aldo Bobadilla	Resigned	28 December 2017^[10]		Florencio Villalba (caretaker)	2 January 2018^[11]
General Díaz	Florencio Villalba	End of caretaker spell	24 January 2018		Francisco Arce	24 January 2018^[12]
Cerro Porteño	Leonel Álvarez	Resigned	31 January 2018^[13]		Jorge Núñez (caretaker)	31 January 2018^[13]
Cerro Porteño	Jorge Núñez	End of caretaker spell	5 February 2018	10th	Luis Zubeldía	5 February 2018^[14]
Sportivo Luqueño	Javier Sanguinetti	Sacked	25 February 2018^[15]	12th	Eduardo Rivera	25 February 2018^[15]
3 de Febrero	Marcio Marolla	Sacked	4 March 2018^[16]	12th	José Arrúa	5 March 2018^[17]
Deportivo Santaní	Pedro Sarabia	Mutual consent	14 March 2018^[18]	11th	Mario Jara	15 March 2018^[19]
Guaraní	Sebastián Saja	Resigned	25 March 2018^[20]	9th	Fernando Burgo (caretaker)	25 March 2018^[20]
Sportivo Luqueño	Eduardo Rivera	Resigned	3 April 2018^[21]	8th	Fernando Ortiz	4 April 2018^[22]
General Díaz	Francisco Arce	Sacked	8 April 2018^[23]	8th	Florencio Villalba (caretaker)	9 April 2018^[23]
Deportivo Capiatá	Gustavo Florentín	Resigned	26 May 2018^[24]	8th	Diego Gavilán	27 May 2018^[25]
Sportivo Luqueño	Fernando Ortiz	Sacked	27 May 2018^[26]	11th	Héctor Schönhauser (caretaker)	28 May 2018^[27]
Guaraní	Fernando Burgo	End of caretaker spell	30 May 2018	7th	Juan Manuel Azconzábal	31 May 2018^[28]
Sol de América	Héctor Marecos	Sacked	31 May 2018^[29]	6th	Alfredo Vera (caretaker)	1 June 2018^[29]
Sol de América	Alfredo Vera	End of caretaker spell	8 June 2018	6th	Fernando Ortiz	9 June 2018^[30]
Sportivo Luqueño	Héctor Schönhauser	End of caretaker spell	9 June 2018	10th	Gustavo Florentín	9 June 2018^[31]
Torneo Clausura
Libertad	Aldo Bobadilla	Mutual consent	21 July 2018^[32]	9th	Eduardo Villalba (caretaker)	21 July 2018^[33]
General Díaz	Florencio Villalba	End of caretaker spell	22 July 2018	6th	Aldo Bobadilla	22 July 2018^[34]
3 de Febrero	José Arrúa	Resigned	5 August 2018^[35]	7th	Eduardo Rivera	5 August 2018^[35]
Cerro Porteño	Luis Zubeldía	Sacked	20 August 2018^[36]	3rd	Fernando Jubero	22 August 2018^[37]
Sol de América	Fernando Ortiz	Resigned	24 August 2018^[38]	10th	Ever Hugo Almeida	25 August 2018^[39]
Deportivo Santaní	Mario Jara	Sacked	26 August 2018^[40]	9th	Héctor Marecos	28 August 2018^[41]
Guaraní	Juan Manuel Azconzábal	Sacked	9 September 2018^[42]	10th	Gustavo Florentín	10 September 2018^[43]
Sportivo Luqueño	Gustavo Florentín	Signed by Guaraní	9 September 2018^[44]	5th	Javier Sanguinetti	10 September 2018^[45]
Independiente (CG)	Pablo Caballero	Resigned	23 September 2018^[46]	12th	Víctor Genes	24 September 2018^[47]
Libertad	Eduardo Villalba	End of caretaker spell	8 October 2018	3rd	Leonel Álvarez	9 October 2018^[48]
Deportivo Capiatá	Diego Gavilán	Resigned	20 October 2018^[49]	6th	Pablo Caballero	20 October 2018^[49]
Sportivo Luqueño	Javier Sanguinetti	Sacked	22 October 2018^[50]	12th	Pedro Sarabia	23 October 2018^[51]
Independiente (CG)	Víctor Genes	Health issues	2 November 2018^[52]	11th	Osvaldo Cohener (caretaker)	2 November 2018^[52]
Independiente (CG)	Osvaldo Cohener	End of caretaker spell	4 November 2018^[53]	12th	Mario Jara	4 November 2018^[53]
Nacional	Celso Ayala	Resigned	5 November 2018^[54]	8th	Fernando Gamboa	6 November 2018^[55]
General Díaz	Aldo Bobadilla	Mutual consent	13 November 2018^[56]	12th	Florencio Villalba	13 November 2018^[57]
Deportivo Capiatá	Pablo Caballero	Sacked	8 December 2018^[58]	8th	Julio Cabrera (caretaker)	8 December 2018^[58]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Olimpia (C)	22	16	5	1	52	22	+30	53	Qualification to Copa Libertadores group stage
2	Cerro Porteño	22	12	6	4	43	17	+26	42
3	Libertad	22	11	6	5	37	24	+13	39
4	Nacional	22	10	8	4	32	21	+11	38
5	Independiente	22	9	4	9	30	32	−2	31
6	Sol de América	22	8	6	8	36	40	−4	30
7	General Díaz	22	6	6	10	27	39	−12	24
8	Guaraní	22	6	5	11	25	39	−14	23
9	Deportivo Santaní	22	4	10	8	22	25	−3	22
10	Sportivo Luqueño	22	5	6	11	25	37	−12	21
11	Deportivo Capiatá	22	5	6	11	31	44	−13	21
12	3 de Febrero	22	2	8	12	21	40	−19	14

Home \ Away	3FE	CCP	CAP	SAN	GEN	GUA	IND	LIB	NAC	OLI	SOL	SLU
3 de Febrero	—	1–1	3–0	0–0	2–2	1–2	0–2	1–4	1–1	0–4	2–1	0–2
Cerro Porteño	3–1	—	2–2	0–0	4–1	2–1	4–0	0–2	5–0	1–0	2–0	2–0
Deportivo Capiatá	2–1	2–3	—	2–1	1–1	0–1	2–1	2–4	0–1	2–2	1–1	4–1
Deportivo Santaní	1–0	1–1	3–3	—	0–1	2–0	1–1	1–2	1–1	1–5	2–0	3–0
General Díaz	3–2	1–0	1–1	1–0	—	0–3	1–1	0–2	1–2	1–2	1–1	2–1
Guaraní	1–1	0–4	2–1	1–1	2–2	—	0–1	0–2	1–4	0–0	6–2	1–4
Independiente	1–1	0–3	3–1	1–0	2–3	2–1	—	3–1	0–3^[a]	1–2	3–1	4–1
Libertad	2–0	1–1	3–2	1–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	—	0–0	0–1	1–2	1–2
Nacional	0–0	2–1	4–0	0–0	3–1	3–0	1–0	1–1	—	0–0	1–1	0–2
Olimpia	3–2	1–0	1–0	2–1	3–1	5–2	4–2	2–1	4–2	—	3–3	3–0
Sol de América	4–1	0–3	5–1	3–2	4–3	0–0	0–1	3–3	1–0	0–3	—	3–1
Sportivo Luqueño	1–1	1–1	1–2	0–0	2–0	0–1	1–1	2–2	1–3	2–2	0–1	—

Rank	Name	Club	Goals
1	Néstor Camacho	Olimpia	14
2	Sebastián Ferreira	Independiente	11^{[note 1]}
2	William Mendieta	Olimpia	11
4	Antonio Bareiro	Libertad	10
5	Adam Bareiro	Nacional	9
5	César Villagra	Sol de América	9
7	Óscar Cardozo	Libertad	8
7	Fabio Escobar	Deportivo Santaní	8
9	Enrique Borja	General Díaz	7
10	Ernesto Álvarez	Sol de América	6
10	Diego Churín	Cerro Porteño	6

2018 Paraguayan Primera División season

Teams

Stadia and locations

Managerial changes

Torneo Apertura

Standings

Results

Top goalscorers

Torneo Clausura

Standings

Results

Top goalscorers

Aggregate table

Relegation

References

External links

Pos	Team	2016 Pts	2017 Pts	2018 Pts	Total Pts	Total Pld	Avg	Relegation
1	Olimpia	90	78	102	270	132	2.045
2	Libertad	83	75	76	234	132	1.773
3	Cerro Porteño	66	80	82	228	132	1.727
4	Guaraní	83	85	48	216	132	1.636
5	Sol de América	63	62	63	188	132	1.424
6	Nacional	54	50	65	169	132	1.28
7	Deportivo Capiatá	67	50	45	162	132	1.227
8	General Díaz	46	60	46	152	132	1.152
9	Deportivo Santaní	—	—	50	50	44	1.136
10	Sportivo Luqueño	53	50	46	149	132	1.129
11	Independiente (R)	—	47	51	98	88	1.114	Relegation to División Intermedia
12	3 de Febrero (R)	—	—	39	39	44	0.886	Relegation to División Intermedia