2023 APF División de Honor


The 2023 Primera División season was the 89th season of the Paraguayan Primera División, the top-flight professional football league in Paraguay. The season consisted of two tournaments, Apertura and Clausura, and it began on 27 January and ended on 1 December 2023. The fixtures for the season were announced on 14 November 2022.
In the Torneo Apertura, Libertad were the champions, clinching their twenty-third title with three matches in hand following a 1–0 win over Olimpia and a 2–1 defeat for Cerro Porteño against General Caballero (JLM) on 20 May. Libertad also won the Torneo Clausura, securing their twenty-fourth league championship with two games in hand and a 1–0 victory over Sportivo Luqueño on 12 November. Olimpia started the season as defending champions, having won the 2022 Clausura tournament.

Teams

Twelve teams competed in this season: the top ten teams in the relegation table of the 2022 season, and the top two teams in the 2022 Paraguayan División Intermedia. The promoted teams replaced Sol de América and 12 de Octubre, who were relegated to the second tier at the end of the previous season.
Pos.Relegated from 2022 Primera División
11thSol de América
12th12 de Octubre

Pos.Promoted from 2022 División Intermedia
1stSportivo Trinidense
2ndSportivo Luqueño

Stadia and locations

TeamCityStadiumCapacity
Cerro PorteñoAsunciónGeneral Pablo Rojas45,000
General Caballero (JLM)Juan León MallorquínKa'arendy10,000
GuaireñaVillarricaParque del Guairá12,000
GuaraníAsunciónRogelio Livieres6,000
LibertadAsunciónTigo La Huerta10,000
NacionalAsunciónArsenio Erico4,000
OlimpiaAsunciónTigo Manuel Ferreira25,000
ResistenciaAsunciónLuis Alfonso Giagni11,000
Sportivo AmelianoAsunciónMartín Torres3,000
Sportivo LuqueñoLuqueFeliciano Cáceres23,000
Sportivo TrinidenseAsunciónMartín Torres3,000
TacuaryAsunciónLuis Alfonso Giagni11,000

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Torneo Apertura

The Torneo Apertura, named "Homenaje al Dr. Marcelo Pecci", was the 127th official championship of the Primera División and the first championship of the 2022 season. It started on 27 January and ended on 11 June.

Top scorers

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Torneo Clausura

The Torneo Clausura, named "Centenario del Club Tacuary", was the 128th official championship of the Primera División and the second and last championship of the 2022 season. It began on 7 July and ended on 1 December.

Top scorers

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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 two teams with the lowest average were relegated to the División Intermedia for the following season.
Pos
Team
2021
Pts
2022
Pts
2023
Pts
Total
Pts
Total
Pld
AvgRelegation
1Libertad659199255124'
2Cerro Porteño669881245124'
3Olimpia519262205124'
4Nacional507165186124'
5Sportivo Trinidense——656544'
6Guaraní615565181124'
7Sportivo Ameliano—485710588'
8Sportivo Luqueño——515144'
9—514910088'
10Tacuary—53449788'
11Guaireña '445041135124'
12Resistencia '—49368588'
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Season awards

On 4 December 2023, a ceremony was held at the headquarters of the Paraguayan Football Association in Luque to announce the winners of the season awards, who were chosen based on voting by the managers of the Primera División teams, local sports journalists, the APF's Referee Commission, the public, as well as the tournament's official broadcaster Tigo Sports and official statistics.