2022 APF División de Honor

The 2022 División Profesional season was the 88th season of the Paraguayan Primera División, the top-flight professional football league in Paraguay. The season began on 4 February and ended on 13 November 2022. The fixtures for the season were announced on 14 December 2021.
In the Torneo Apertura Libertad won their twenty-second league championship, clinching the title with one match in hand after beating Cerro Porteño by a 1–0 score on 25 June, whilst the Torneo Clausura was won by Olimpia, who claimed their forty-sixth league title after drawing 1–1 with Nacional on the last matchday played on 12 November. Cerro Porteño were the defending champions, having won the 2021 Clausura tournament.

Teams

Twelve teams competed in the season: the top eight teams in the relegation table of the 2021 season, the top three teams in the 2021 Paraguayan División Intermedia, as well as Sportivo Ameliano, winners of the promotion/relegation play-off. The promoted teams replaced River Plate and Sportivo Luqueño, who were relegated to the second tier at the end of the previous season.

Stadia and locations

Team

Manager

City

Stadium

Capacity

12 de Octubre

Managerial changes

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Torneo Apertura

The Campeonato de Apertura, named "Homenaje a Luis Alberto Pettengill Castillo", was the 125th official championship of the Primera División and the first championship of the 2022 season. It started on 4 February and ended on 3 July.

Top scorers

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Torneo Clausura

The Campeonato de Clausura, named "Homenaje to Alexandro Arce Añazco", was the 126th official championship of the Primera División and the second championship of the 2022 season. It began on 14 July and ended on 13 November.

Top scorers

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Relegation

Relegation was 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 two teams with the lowest average were relegated to the División Intermedia for the following season.

Pos	Team	2020 Pts	2021 Pts	2022 Pts	Total Pts	Total Pld	Avg	Relegation
1	Cerro Porteño	69	66	98	233	113	'
2	Libertad	62	65	91	218	113	'
3	Olimpia	62	51	92	205	113	'
4	Guaraní	59	61	55	175	113	'
5	Nacional	44	50	71	165	113	'
6	Tacuary	—	—	53	53	44	'
7	Guaireña	41	44	50	135	113	'
8		—	—	51	51	44	'
9	Resistencia	—	—	49	49	44	'
10	Sportivo Ameliano	—	—	48	48	44	'
11	Sol de América '	35	42	46	123	113	'
12	12 de Octubre '	41	43	29	113	113	'

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Season awards

On 14 November 2022 a ceremony was held at the Sheraton Hotel in Asunción to announce the winners of the season awards, who were chosen based on voting by the managers of the 12 Primera División teams, local sports journalists, the APF's Referee Commission, the public as well as official statistics.