2024 Paraguayan División Intermedia Explained

Competition:División Intermedia
Season:2024
Dates:5 April – 14 October 2024
League Topscorer:Lucas González (16 goals)
Matches:168
Total Goals:388
Biggest Home Win:
(15 April)
Biggest Away Win:Martín Ledesma 0–4 Tembetary
(26 May)
Resistencia 0–4 12 de Junio
(20 July)
Highest Scoring:Martín Ledesma 4–4 Rubio Ñu
(21 June)
Prevseason:2023
Nextseason:2025
Updated:19 August 2024

The 2024 División Intermedia season, named "Homenaje a Daniel Giménez, Félix Quiñonez e Isidoro Benítez", is the 106th season of the second-tier league of Paraguayan football and the 27th under the División Intermedia name. The season began on 5 April and is scheduled to end on 14 October 2024, and the fixtures for the season were drawn on 28 November 2023.[1] [2]

Format

16 teams take part in the competition, which is played under a double round-robin system with teams playing each other twice, once at home and once away for a total of 30 matches. The top two teams at the end of the season will be promoted to the Paraguayan Primera División for the 2025 season, while the bottom three teams in the relegation table at the end of the season will be relegated: teams located within 50 kilometres of Asunción are relegated to Primera División B, while teams from outside Greater Asunción and the Central Department are relegated to Primera División B Nacional.

Teams

Team changes

16 teams compete in the season: 11 teams from the previous División Intermedia season plus the two teams relegated from Primera División in its 2023 season (Guaireña and Resistencia), the 2023 Primera División B champions Tembetary, the 2023 Primera División B Nacional champions 12 de Junio, and the 2022–23 Campeonato Nacional de Interligas champions Encarnación.[3]

Stadia and locations

TeamCityStadiumCapacity
23,500
6,000
4,500
CARDIF[4] 1,800
8,000
16,000
6,000
11,000
4,000
5,000
Liga Caaguazú de Fútbol[5] 5,000
3,500
8,000
5,000
10,000
11,000
Notes

Top scorers

RankPlayerClubGoals
align=center 1 Lucas GonzálezDeportivo Recoletaalign=center 16
align=center 2 Luis GaleanoFernando de la Moraalign=center 10
align=center 3 Fernando EscobarResistencia / Encarnaciónalign=center 9
4 Juan RoaTembetary7
Carlos DuarteGuaireña
César VillagraRubio Ñu
7 Daniel Fernández12 de Junio6
Richart OrtizEncarnación
Augusto GiménezSportivo Carapeguá
10 Roland EscobarDeportivo Santaní5
William SantanderEncarnación
Jesús CáceresGuaireña
Iván SalcedoSportivo Carapeguá
Tomás Rojas12 de Junio
Willian CandiaTembetary-15 Juan LucumíAtlético Colegiales4
Ronald AcuñaEncarnación
Wilfrido BáezDeportivo Recoleta
Osmar LeguizamónSportivo Carapeguá
Alex CáceresEncarnación
Víctor AyalaSan Lorenzo -->

Source: APF

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 three teams with the lowest average will be relegated to Primera División B or Primera División B Nacional for the following season, depending on their geographical location.

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1 Tembetary45 45 21
2 Deportivo Recoleta51 46 97 51
3 Encarnación37 37 21
4 Sportivo Carapeguá43 41 84 51
5 San Lorenzo54 42 31 127 81
6 48 48 25 121 81
7 Rubio Ñu44 44 27 115 81
8 Independiente (CG)41 51 23 115 81
9 Pastoreo53 43 19 115 81
10 Guaireña29 29 21
11 27 27 21
12 Resistencia27 27 21
13 Martín Ledesma45 31 27 103 81
14 Deportivo Santaní33 44 25 102 81 Relegation to Primera B Metropolitana or Primera B Nacional
15 3 de Febrero35 39 20 94 81
16 Atlético Colegiales36 32 7 75 81
Updated to match(es) played on 19 August 2024. Source: APF

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Competencia 2024 de la Intermedia, entre abril y octubre . 2024 Intermedia competition, from April to October . es . . 15 December 2023 . 26 March 2024.
  2. Web site: Así se jugará el torneo de la Intermedia 2024 . This is how the 2024 Intermedia tournament will be played . es . Versus . 29 November 2023 . 26 March 2024.
  3. Web site: Estos serán los 16 equipos de Intermedia que lucharán por subir a Primera . These will be the 16 Intermedia teams that will fight to promote to Primera . es . Versus . 30 December 2023 . 26 March 2024.
  4. Web site: Intermedia: El "Canario" anida en el Cardif . Intermedia: The Canary nests at the Cardif . es . . 20 April 2023 . 15 April 2024.
  5. Web site: Intermedia: Pastoreo juega de local en el nuevo estadio de Caaguazú . Intermedia: Pastoreo play at home at Caaguazú's new stadium . es . Desde Caaguazú . 11 April 2024 . 26 June 2024.