| Competition: | Primera División |
| Season: | 2012 |
| Winners: | Apertura: Cerro Porteño (29th title) Clausura: Libertad (16th title) |
| Continentalcup1: | Copa Libertadores |
| Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | Cerro Porteño Libertad Olimpia |
| Continentalcup2: | Copa Sudamericana |
| Continentalcup2 Qualifiers: | Cerro Porteño Libertad Nacional Guaraní |
| Matches: | 264 |
| Total Goals: | 675 |
| Prevseason: | 2011 |
| Nextseason: | 2013 |
The 2012 División Profesional season (officially the 2012 Copa TIGO- Visión Banco for sponsorship reasons) was the 78th season of top-flight professional football in Paraguay.
| Team | Home city | Stadium | Capacity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32,000 | ||||
| 10,000 | ||||
| 6,000 | ||||
| 1,500 | ||||
| 10,000 | ||||
| 4,000 | ||||
| 15,000 | ||||
| 5,000 | ||||
| 5,000 | ||||
| 3,000 | ||||
| 25,000 | ||||
| 7,000 |
The Campeonato de Apertura, also the Copa TIGO-Visión Banco for sponsorship reasons, was the 106º official championship of the Primera División, called "Don Jesús Manuel Pallarés", and was the first championship of the 2012 season. It began on February 5 and ended on July 8.
The Campeonato de Clausura, also the Copa TIGO-Visión Banco for sponsorship reasons, was the 107º official championship of the Primera División, called "Centenario Club Cerro Porteñi, and was the second championship of the 2012 season. It began on July 28 and ended on December 16.
In 2012, Paraguay have seven slots in international cups (three in the Copa Libertadores de America and four in the Copa Sudamericana). These seven slots will be filled by five teams.
Relegations is determined at the end of the season by computing an average (Spanish; Castilian: promedio) of the number of points earned per game over the past three seasons. The two teams with the lowest average is relegated to the División Intermedia for the following season.
| width=28 | Pos ! | width=185 | Team ! | width=50 | 2010 Pts ! | width=50 | 2011 Pts ! | width=50 | 2012 Pts ! | width=50 | Total Pts ! | width=50 | Total Pld ! | width=50 | Avg ! | Relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Libertad | 87 | 79 | 91 | 257 | 132 | ||||||||||
| 2 | Cerro Porteño | 91 | 67 | 86 | 244 | 132 | ||||||||||
| 3 | Olimpia | 71 | 88 | 79 | 238 | 132 | ||||||||||
| 4 | Nacional | 77 | 83 | 77 | 237 | 132 | ||||||||||
| 5 | Guaraní | 85 | 58 | 73 | 216 | 132 | ||||||||||
| 6 | Rubio Ñu | 66 | 56 | 36 | 160 | 132 | ||||||||||
| 7 | – | – | 53 | 53 | 44 | |||||||||||
| 8 | Sol de América | 45 | 49 | 60 | 154 | 132 | ||||||||||
| 9 | 42 | 35 | 59 | 136 | 132 | |||||||||||
| 10 | Sportivo Carapeguá | – | – | 45 | 45 | 44 | ||||||||||
| 11 | Tacuary | 37 | 60 | 33 | 130 | 132 | Relegated to the División Intermedia | |||||||||
| 12 | – | 52 | 34 | 86 | 88 |