2013 Paraguayan Primera División season explained

Competition:Primera División
Season:2013
Winners:Apertura: Nacional (9th title)
Clausura: Cerro Porteño (30th title)
Continentalcup1:Copa Libertadores
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers:Cerro Porteño
Nacional
Guaraní
Continentalcup2:Copa Sudamericana
Continentalcup2 Qualifiers:Cerro Porteño
Libertad
General Díaz
Capiatá
League Topscorer:Apertura: Julián Benítez (Nacional  - 13 goals)
Clausura: Guillermo Beltrán (Cerro Porteño  - 3 goals)
Matches:132
Total Goals:351
Prevseason:2012
Nextseason:2014

The 2013 División Profesional season (officially the 2013 Copa TIGO- Visión Banco for sponsorship reasons) was the 79th season of top-flight professional football in Paraguay.

Teams

TeamHome cityStadiumCapacity
32,000
5,000
6,000
6,000
3,500
10,000
4,000
15,000
5,000
5,000
6,500
25,000

Torneo Apertura

The Campeonato de Apertura, also the Copa TIGO-Visión Banco for sponsorship reasons, was the 108º official championship of the Primera División, called "Don Osvaldo Domínguez Dibb", and was the first championship of the 2013 season. It began on February 9 and ended on June 30.

Standings

Attendances

TeamTotalLowHighAverage
1Olimpia53,00434018,2634,818
2Cerro Porteño38,34932015,8673,486
3Capiatá17,2681944,8121,569
4Sportivo Luqueño16,5723006,8581,506
5Sportivo Carapeguá15,4162464,1451,401
6Libertad13,3682014,7861,215
7Guaraní11,7854434,8731,071
8General Díaz9,5731052,737870
9Cerro Porteño (PF)9,2471282,311840
10Nacional8,1442122,164740
11Rubio Ñu7,5491072,444686
12Sol de América5,336962,292485
TOTALApertura205,6119618,2631,557

Topscorers

PlayerClubGoals
1 Julián BenítezNacional13
2 Rodrigo TeixeiraGuaraní11
3 Ángel RomeroCerro Porteño9

Torneo Clausura

The Campeonato de Clausura, also the Copa TIGO-Visión Banco for sponsorship reasons, was the 109º official championship of the Primera División, and was the second championship of the 2013 season.

Standings

Attendances

TeamTotalLowHighAverage
1Olimpia16,8717,2189,6538,435
2Libertad9,1783618,8174,589
3Cerro Porteño13,7561,9127,5084,585
4Nacional7,5575796,9783,778
5Sportivo Luqueño2,6262,6262,6262,626
6Sportivo Carapeguá1,7111,7111,7111,711
7Deportivo Capiatá1,9855001,485992
8Rubio Ñu2,5481232,094849
9Cerro Porteño (PF)1,368498870684
10Sol de América1,231238993615
11General Díaz829350479414
12Guaraní806101705403
TOTALClausura60,4661019,6532,519

Topscorers

Aggregate table

In 2013, 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.

Relegation

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.

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1 Libertad79 91 75 245 132
2 Cerro Porteño67 86 87 240 132
3 Nacional83 77 79 239 132
4 Olimpia88 79 55 222 132
5 Guaraní58 73 77 208 132
6 65 65 44
7 General Díaz61 61 44
8 Sol de América49 60 46 155 132
9 35 59 54 148 132
10 Rubio Ñu58 36 50 144 132
11 53 35 88 88 Relegated to the División Intermedia
12 45 38 83 88

See also

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