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Paraguayan Football Association

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Paraguayan Football Association
CONMEBOL
Asociación Paraguaya de Fútbol logo.svg
Founded1906; 117 years ago (1906)
HeadquartersLuque
FIFA affiliation1925
CONMEBOL affiliation1921
PresidentRobert Harrison[1]
Websiteapf.org.py

The Paraguayan Football Association (Spanish: Asociación Paraguaya de Futbol [asosjaˈsjom paɾaˈɣwaʝa ðe ˈfuðβol]; APF) (Guarani: Paraguái Mangapy Atyguasu), is the omnibus governing body of football in Paraguay.[2] It organizes the Paraguayan football league, including futsal and beach soccer, as well as and the Paraguay national football team. It is based in the city of Luque, near the capital city, Asunción. Football is the most popular sport in Paraguay.[2]

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Spanish language

Spanish language

Spanish is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula. Today, it is a global language with about 486 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain. Spanish is the official language of 20 countries. It is the world's second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese; the world's fourth-most spoken language overall after English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu); and the world's most widely spoken Romance language. The largest population of native speakers is in Mexico.

Guarani language

Guarani language

Guaraní, specifically the primary variety known as Paraguayan Guarani, is a South American language that belongs to the Tupi–Guarani family of the Tupian languages. It is one of the official languages of Paraguay, where it is spoken by the majority of the population, and where half of the rural population are monolingual speakers of the language.

Omnibus

Omnibus

Omnibus may refer to:

Governing body

Governing body

A governing body is a group of people that has the authority to exercise governance over an organization or political entity. The most formal is a government, a body whose sole responsibility and authority is to make binding decisions in a taken geopolitical system by establishing laws. Other types of governing include an organization, a socio-political group, or another, informal group of people.

Paraguay

Paraguay

Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. It has a population of 7 million, nearly 3 million of whom live in the capital and largest city of Asunción, and its surrounding metro. Although one of only two landlocked countries in South America, Paraguay has ports on the Paraguay and Paraná rivers that give exit to the Atlantic Ocean, through the Paraná-Paraguay Waterway.

Paraguayan football league system

Paraguayan football league system

The Paraguayan football league system is a series of interconnected leagues for football clubs in Paraguay.

Futsal

Futsal

Futsal is a football-based game played on a hard court like a basketball court, smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It has similarities to five-a-side football and indoor football.

Paraguay national football team

Paraguay national football team

The Paraguay national football team represents Paraguay in men's international football competitions, and are controlled by the Paraguayan Football Association. Paraguay is a member of CONMEBOL. Their nickname is the Albirroja, or red and white. The Albirroja has qualified for eight FIFA World Cup competitions, with their best performance coming in 2010 when they reached the quarter-finals. A regular participant at the Copa América, Paraguay have been crowned champions of the competition on two occasions. Paraguay's highest FIFA World Rankings was 8th and their lowest was 103. Paraguay was awarded second place with Best Move of the Year in 1996 for their rise in the FIFA Rankings.

Luque

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 before relocation to San Estanislao. It is located at around 25°16′12″S 57°29′14″W. Luque is one of the most important cities in the country. The city counts as home of Paraguay's main international airport, Silvio Pettirossi International Airport and the Ñu Guasú Park, which is where the Paraguayan Olympic Committee is also located. The continental governing body of association football in South America, CONMEBOL, has its headquarters approximately 3 minutes from the Airport, consisting of the South American Football Museum and walking distance from the Bourbon CONMEBOL Asunción Convention Hotel. When it existed, ARPA – Aerolíneas Paraguayas had its headquarters in the ARPA Terminal on the grounds of the airport. It is a center of production of Guitars and Paraguayan harps as well as Filigranas, gold and silver filigree jewelry including the seven-band ring Carretón de Siete Ramales. On 27 January 2016, Paraguayan Newspaper La Nación had reported that Carlos Echeverría Estigarribia, the elected intendent of the city of Luque, states his intention of wanting Luque to be one of the most important cities.

Asunción

Asunción

Asunción is the capital and the largest city of Paraguay.

History

In the late 1890s William Paats brought soccer to Paraguay, when it was then played at an Asunción teacher’s college. Escuela Normal de Maestros.[2][3]

In 1906, five existing Paraguayan football teams (Olimpia, Guaraní, Libertad, General Díaz, and Nacional) created the governing body of football in Paraguay, the Paraguayan Football League.[2] In 1998 it adopted its current name.[2] In June 18, 1906,[4] the representatives of the five existing football teams in Paraguay at that time (Olimpia, Guaraní, Libertad, General Díaz, and Nacional) met to establish the Paraguayan Football League, named Liga Paraguaya de Football Association.[5] The first match was played on a Sunday, July 8, 1906.[6] Adolfo Riquelme, who was a well known Paraguayan journalist, was the organization’s first president.[2]

In 1921, during the presidency of Enrique Pinho, the Paraguayan Football League joined the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL).[7] In 1925 it became a member of FIFA.[2][8][3]

In 1941 it changed its name to Liga Paraguaya de Football and in 1957 the name was Hispanicized as Liga Paraguaya de Fútbol.[9]

On December 3, 1998, its name was changed to its current denomination, Asociación Paraguaya de Fútbol,[2][5] which coincidentally is one of the names that had been adopted by a dissident football association that brought together some teams, which would later join the League, and which organized championships between 1911 and 1917.[4]

In 2016, APF appointed Robert Harrison, the former head of Club Nacional, as president.[10] Harrison succeeded Alejandro Domínguez, who resigned to run for president of CONMEBOL, after Juan Ángel Napout stepped down from that role in December 2015.[10]

In 2019, APF hired Argentinian Eduardo Berizzo as manager of the Paraguay's national men's team.[11]

Paraguay have not previously hosted the FIFA World Cup. In August 2022, APF joined up with the football associations of Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile to jointly bid to host the World Cup in 2030.[12][13]

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Asunción

Asunción

Asunción is the capital and the largest city of Paraguay.

Club Olimpia

Club Olimpia

Club Olimpia is a Paraguayan professional sports club based in the city of Asunción. The club promotes the practice of various sports with most importance given to the football, rugby and basketball sides, the former being the highest priority and most successful. They were founded on July 25, 1902 by a group of young Paraguayans, and the name stems from the idea of its principal founding member, William Paats, a Dutchman based in Paraguay, who is considered the father of Paraguayan football for having introduced the practice of the sport in the South American country. Internationally, the club is referred to as Olimpia Asunción in order to distinguish itself from Latin American football clubs of the same name.

Club Guaraní

Club Guaraní

Club Guaraní is a Paraguayan football team, based in the neighbourhood of Pinozá in outer Asunción. Founded on 12 October 1903, it is one of the oldest and one of the most successful in the country, with eleven Primera División titles, and has never been relegated to a lower division.

Club Libertad

Club Libertad

Club Libertad is a professional football club based in Asunción, Paraguay that currently plays in the Paraguayan Primera División. The club plays its home games at Estadio Tigo La Huerta; which holds 10,100 people.

Club General Díaz (Luque)

Club General Díaz (Luque)

General Díaz Football Club is a Paraguayan football club from Luque that currently plays in the División Intermedia. Founded in 1917, it plays at the Estadio General Adrián Jara in Luque.

Club Nacional

Club Nacional

Club Nacional is a Paraguayan professional football club based in the neighbourhood of Obrero in Asunción. Founded in 1904, the club currently plays in the Paraguayan Primera División, and holds its home games at Estadio Arsenio Erico.

Journalist

Journalist

A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism.

CONMEBOL

CONMEBOL

The South American Football Confederation is the continental governing body of football in South America and it is one of FIFA's six continental confederations. The oldest continental confederation in the world, its headquarters are located in Luque, Paraguay, near Asunción. CONMEBOL is responsible for the organization and governance of South American football's major international tournaments. With 10 member soccer associations, it has the fewest members of all the confederations in FIFA.

FIFA

FIFA

The Fédération internationale de football association is the international governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal. It was founded in 1904 to oversee international competition among the national associations of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. Headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland, its membership now comprises 211 national associations. These national associations must each also be members of one of the six regional confederations into which the world is divided: CAF (Africa), AFC, UEFA (Europe), CONCACAF, OFC (Oceania) and CONMEBOL.

Alejandro Domínguez (football executive)

Alejandro Domínguez (football executive)

Alejandro Guillermo Domínguez Wilson–Smith is a Paraguayan football administrator, president of CONMEBOL, a vice-president of FIFA and a member of the FIFA Council.

Eduardo Berizzo

Eduardo Berizzo

Manuel Eduardo Berizzo Magnolo is an Argentine retired footballer who played as a central defender, currently manager of the Chile national team.

FIFA World Cup

FIFA World Cup

The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested among the senior men's national teams of the 211 members by the sport's global governing body - Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). The tournament has been held every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not held because of the Second World War. The current reigning champions are Argentina, who won their third title at the 2022 tournament.

Institutional Succession

From its foundation in 1906 until it adopted its final name in 1998, the APF followed the following institutional trajectory::

Founded: 18 June 1906[14]
Liga Paraguaya de Football Association (LPFA)[15]
Affiliation to the Conmebol: 1921[16]
The Paraguayan Football League becomes a member of the South American Football Confederation, during the presidency of Enrique Pinho.
Afiliación a la FIFA: 1925
The LPF joins the Member Associations of the International Federation of Association Football.
Change of name: 1941
Paraguayan Football League

LPF

Castellanisation: 1957
Paraguayan Football League

LPF

Change of name: December 1998[17]
Paraguayan Football Association

APF

Honours

The Paraguay national team appeared in the World Cup finals eight times, reaching the quarter finals in the world FIFA event in South Africa (2010), losing to the eventual tournament victor, a Spanish team.[2]

The Club Olimpia has been indomitable: 38 Paraguayan championship titles; 3 in the Copa Libertadores — the continental South American soccer tournament (1979, 1990, 2002); and Intercontinental cup.[2]

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Copa América

Copa América

The Copa América or CONMEBOL Copa América, known until 1975 as the South American Football Championship, is the top men's football tournament contested among national teams from South America. It is the oldest still-running continental football competition, as well as the third most watched in the world. The competition determines the champions of South America. Since the 1990s, teams from North America and Asia have also been invited to compete.

Olympic Games

Olympic Games

The modern Olympic Games or Olympics are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are considered the world's foremost sports competition with more than 200 teams, representing sovereign states and territories, participating. The Olympic Games are normally held every four years, and since 1994, have alternated between the Summer and Winter Olympics every two years during the four-year period.

FIFA World Cup

FIFA World Cup

The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested among the senior men's national teams of the 211 members by the sport's global governing body - Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). The tournament has been held every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not held because of the Second World War. The current reigning champions are Argentina, who won their third title at the 2022 tournament.

Club Olimpia

Club Olimpia

Club Olimpia is a Paraguayan professional sports club based in the city of Asunción. The club promotes the practice of various sports with most importance given to the football, rugby and basketball sides, the former being the highest priority and most successful. They were founded on July 25, 1902 by a group of young Paraguayans, and the name stems from the idea of its principal founding member, William Paats, a Dutchman based in Paraguay, who is considered the father of Paraguayan football for having introduced the practice of the sport in the South American country. Internationally, the club is referred to as Olimpia Asunción in order to distinguish itself from Latin American football clubs of the same name.

Copa Libertadores

Copa Libertadores

The CONMEBOL Libertadores, also known as the Copa Libertadores de América, is an annual international club football competition organized by CONMEBOL since 1960. It is the highest level of competition in South American club football. The tournament is named after the Libertadores, the leaders of the Latin American wars of independence, so a literal translation of its former name into English is "America's Liberators Cup".

South America

South America

South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the southern subregion of a single continent called America.

Intercontinental Cup (football)

Intercontinental Cup (football)

The European/South American Cup, more commonly known as the Intercontinental Cup and from 1980 to 2004 as the Toyota European/South American Cup for sponsorship reasons, was an international football competition endorsed by UEFA (Europe) and CONMEBOL, contested between representative clubs from these confederations, usually the winners of the UEFA Champions League and the South American Copa Libertadores. It ran from 1960 to 2004, when it was succeeded by the FIFA Club World Championship, although they both ran concurrently in 2000.

Leadership and staff

Presidents[18]

Liga Paraguaya de Football Association

Name Period
Dr. Adolfo Riquelme 1906–1908
Dr. Eusebio Ayala 1908–1909
Don William Paats 1909–1910
Don Emilio Mantera 1910–1910
Don Junio Quinto Godoi 1910–1911
Don Alejandro Gatti 1911–1913
Dr. Enrique L. Pinho 1913–1923
Dr. Juan Manuel Álvarez 1923–1924
Dr. Esteban Semidei 1924–1926
Prof. Dr. Adriano Irala 1926–1928
Don Manuel Bedoya 1928–1931
Don Juan Pablo Gorostiaga 1931–1932
Dr. Ignacio L. Parra 1932–1932
Dr. Francisco Esculies 1935–1936
Don Ramón T. Cartes 1936–1937
Don Manuel Galiano 1937–1938
Dr. Juan Arturo Lavigne 1939–1940
Cnel. Sampson Harrison 1940–1940

Liga Paraguaya de Football

Name Period
Dr. Manuel Bedoya 1941–1941
Dr. Julio César Airaldi 1942–1944
Dr. Crispín Insaurralde 1944–1945
Don Fulgencio R. Moreno 1945–1946
Don Oscar Pinho Insfrán 1946–1947
Dr. Lorenzo N. Livieres 1947–1948
Clte. Ramón Martino 1948–1948
Dr. Blas A. Dos Santos 1948–1950
Don Lidio Quevedo 1950–1951
Dr. Blas A. Dos Santos 1951–1952
Dr. Alfonso Capurro 1952–1954
Don Lidio Quevedo 1954–1955
Dr. Raimundo Paniagua 1955–1956
Dr. Alfonso Capurro 1956–1957

Liga Paraguaya de Fútbol

Name Period
Dr. Pedro Recalde 1957–1957
Dr. Ernesto Gavilán 1958–1959
Dr. Hassel Aguilar Sosa 1959–1960
Dr. Tulio Manuel Quiroz 1960–1961
Dr. Manuel Duarte Pallarés 1961–1963
Dr. Anastacio Mendoza Sánchez 1963–1965
Dr. Jerónimo Angulo Gastón 1965–1967
Cnel. Raúl Fernández 1967–1968
Don Juan Antonio Sosa Gautier 1969–1970
Dr. Nicolás Leoz 1971–1972
Don Humberto Domínguez Dibb 1973–1976
Don Oscar Barchini 1977–1979
Dr. Nicolás Leoz 1979–1984
Don Jesús Manuel Pallarés 1985–1994
Esc. Oscar J. Harrison 1994–1998

Asociación Paraguaya de Fútbol

Name Period
Esc. Oscar J. Harrison 1998–2007
Lic. Juan Ángel Napout 2007–2014
Lic. Alejandro Domínguez 2014–2016
Lic. Ramón González Daher 2016
Lic. Robert Harrison 2016–Present

Association staff (2022)[19]

Name Position
Paraguay Robert Harrison President
Paraguay Carlos Sosa Vice President
Paraguay Javier Díaz de Vivar 2nd Vice President
Paraguay Luis Kanonnikoff General Secretary
Paraguay Hugo Kuroki Treasurer
Paraguay Douglas Martínez Technical Director
Argentina Guillermo Barrios Schelotto Team Coach (Men's)
Brazil Marcello Frigerio Team Coach (Women's)
Paraguay Fernando Ortiz Media/Communications Manager
Paraguay Jose Luis Alder Futsal Coordinator
Paraguay Cynthia Franco

Argentina Horacio Elizondo

Referee Coordinator

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Eusebio Ayala

Eusebio Ayala

Eusebio Ayala was an intellectual and statesman, and President of Paraguay from 7 November 1921 to 12 April 1923 and again from 15 August 1932 to 17 February 1936. He was a member of the Liberal Party. He was overthrown by Rafael Franco.

Adriano Irala

Adriano Irala

Adriano Irala was a Paraguayan intellectual, professor and journalist.

Fulgencio R. Moreno

Fulgencio R. Moreno

Fulgencio R. Moreno was a Paraguayan journalist, financial expert, statesman and one of the most serious researchers of the Paraguayan history.

Nicolás Leoz

Nicolás Leoz

Nicolás Leoz Almirón was President of CONMEBOL from 1986 to 2013. Leoz assumed the presidency in 1986 and in February 2006, he was reelected as President for a sixth term. He was Paraguayan and received Colombian citizenship in 2008. On April 23, 2013, Leoz resigned from both the FIFA Executive Committee and the CONMEBOL presidency, citing health issues.

Juan Ángel Napout

Juan Ángel Napout

Juan Ángel Napout Barreto is a Paraguayan football executive and businessman. He was head of the Paraguayan Football Association from 2007 to 2014. Napout served as President of CONMEBOL from August 2014 until his resignation on 11 December 2015 after his arrest in Zürich, Switzerland in relation to the 2015 FIFA corruption case. In December 2015, he was banned by the FIFA Ethics Committee for 90 days.

Alejandro Domínguez (football executive)

Alejandro Domínguez (football executive)

Alejandro Guillermo Domínguez Wilson–Smith is a Paraguayan football administrator, president of CONMEBOL, a vice-president of FIFA and a member of the FIFA Council.

Robert Harrison (football executive)

Robert Harrison (football executive)

Robert Alexis Luis Harrison Paleari is a Paraguayan businessman and football executive, president of the Paraguayan Football Association (APF) since April 2016.

Paraguay

Paraguay

Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. It has a population of 7 million, nearly 3 million of whom live in the capital and largest city of Asunción, and its surrounding metro. Although one of only two landlocked countries in South America, Paraguay has ports on the Paraguay and Paraná rivers that give exit to the Atlantic Ocean, through the Paraná-Paraguay Waterway.

Argentina

Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of 2,780,400 km2 (1,073,500 sq mi), making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the eighth-largest country in the world. It shares the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, and is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. Argentina is a federal state subdivided into twenty-three provinces, and one autonomous city, which is the federal capital and largest city of the nation, Buenos Aires. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system. Argentina claims sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and a part of Antarctica.

Guillermo Barros Schelotto

Guillermo Barros Schelotto

Guillermo Barros Schelotto is an Argentine football manager and former forward who currently manages the Paraguay national team.

Brazil

Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America and in Latin America. At 8.5 million square kilometers (3,300,000 sq mi) and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh most populous. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 states and the Federal District. It is the only country in the Americas to have Portuguese as an official language. It is one of the most multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass immigration from around the world, and the most populous Roman Catholic-majority country.

Marcello Frigério

Marcello Frigério

Marcello Maria Frigério, also known as Tchelo, is an Italian-born Brazilian football manager and former player. He currently coaches the Paraguay women's national team.

Paraguayan football league system

Main article: Paraguayan football league system

The football in Paraguay has four levels in men's tournaments (five in the interior of the country) and one division in women's tournaments.[20] The Paraguayan Football Association with an affiliated association called the Interior Football Union (UFI) -which consists of 17 federations, one for each department of the country, excluding the city of Asunción-, organizes the different championships.[21]

The most popular football teams in Paraguay are Olimpia,[3] Cerro Porteño, Guaraní, Libertad and Nacional. All of them are from Asunción.[22]

The Supercopa Paraguay is a national cup played since 2021.[23] It is single match, on a neutral field that faces the champion of Primera División and the champion of Copa Paraguay, a competition created in 2018 with teams of all categories, including the federations that belong to UFI.[24]

There is also a category for the reserve of the football teams called Categoría Reserva[25] and then the formative divisions from 14 to 19 years.[26] The women’s division also has a U-18 category.[27]

Regarding futsal, it is organized in four categories: a premium league, the Honor Category, Primera and Intermedia.[28][29] There is also a category for women.[30]

The APF also organizes two beach soccer championships, the Tournament of Stars[31] and the Women’s Beach Soccer Tournament.[32]

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Paraguayan football league system

Paraguayan football league system

The Paraguayan football league system is a series of interconnected leagues for football clubs in Paraguay.

Unión del Fútbol del Interior

Unión del Fútbol del Interior

The Unión del Fútbol del Interior or UFI is an association affiliated to the Paraguayan Football Association that was founded in 1927 to organize and govern football outside of Asunción, specifically on each of the different Departments of Paraguay.

Asunción

Asunción

Asunción is the capital and the largest city of Paraguay.

Club Olimpia

Club Olimpia

Club Olimpia is a Paraguayan professional sports club based in the city of Asunción. The club promotes the practice of various sports with most importance given to the football, rugby and basketball sides, the former being the highest priority and most successful. They were founded on July 25, 1902 by a group of young Paraguayans, and the name stems from the idea of its principal founding member, William Paats, a Dutchman based in Paraguay, who is considered the father of Paraguayan football for having introduced the practice of the sport in the South American country. Internationally, the club is referred to as Olimpia Asunción in order to distinguish itself from Latin American football clubs of the same name.

Cerro Porteño

Cerro Porteño

Club Cerro Porteño is a professional Paraguayan football club, based in the neighbourhood of Obrero in Asunción. Founded in 1912, Cerro has won 34 Primera División titles and is one of the most popular football clubs in Paraguay. Its president is Raúl Zapag and the manager is Facundo Sava. Its main rival is Club Olimpia. They play their home games at the 45,000 seat General Pablo Rojas Stadium, also known as La Nueva Olla.

Club Guaraní

Club Guaraní

Club Guaraní is a Paraguayan football team, based in the neighbourhood of Pinozá in outer Asunción. Founded on 12 October 1903, it is one of the oldest and one of the most successful in the country, with eleven Primera División titles, and has never been relegated to a lower division.

Club Libertad

Club Libertad

Club Libertad is a professional football club based in Asunción, Paraguay that currently plays in the Paraguayan Primera División. The club plays its home games at Estadio Tigo La Huerta; which holds 10,100 people.

Club Nacional

Club Nacional

Club Nacional is a Paraguayan professional football club based in the neighbourhood of Obrero in Asunción. Founded in 1904, the club currently plays in the Paraguayan Primera División, and holds its home games at Estadio Arsenio Erico.

Supercopa Paraguay

Supercopa Paraguay

The Supercopa Paraguay is an annual one-match football official competition in Paraguay organised by the Paraguayan Football Association (APF) which is played by the Primera División champions with the best record in the season's aggregate table and the Copa Paraguay champions, starting from 2021. This competition, created in October 2019, serves as the season's closing event and is scheduled to be played in December each year, one week after the end of the league season.

Copa Paraguay

Copa Paraguay

The Copa Paraguay is a knockout football competition in men's domestic Paraguayan football, starting in 2018 and succeeding the defunct Torneo República. The project for its creation was officially presented in December 2017 and approved by the Paraguayan Football Association's Executive Committee on 20 February 2018.

Futsal

Futsal

Futsal is a football-based game played on a hard court like a basketball court, smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It has similarities to five-a-side football and indoor football.

Beach soccer

Beach soccer

Beach soccer, also known as beach football, sand football or beasal, is a variant of association football played on a beach or some form of sand.

Controversy

The freedom of players to be contractually released and transfer between clubs and negotiate contracts (commonly called a "buyout clause") has been controversial, and subject to both scholarly inquiry and legal proceedings.[33][34][35][36]

Source: "Paraguayan Football Association", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, February 2nd), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguayan_Football_Association.

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Further Reading

Paraguay national football team

Francisco Arce

Paraguayan Primera División

Estadio Defensores del Chaco

List of top-division football clubs in CONMEBOL countries

Football in Paraguay

Vladimir Marín

Paraguay national under-20 football team

Campeonato Paraguayo de Fútbol Femenino

Isidro Pitta

Robert Harrison (football executive)
See also
References
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