2025 Copa de Primera


The 2025 Copa de Primera was the 91st season of the División de Honor, the top-flight professional football league in Paraguay. The season, which consisted of two tournaments, began on 24 January and ended on 30 November 2025. The fixture draw for the season was held on 9 December 2024.
In the Torneo Apertura, Libertad won its twenty-sixth league championship, clinching the title with a 1–0 win over 2 de Mayo on 1 June, the final matchday of the tournament. The Torneo Clausura was won by Cerro Porteño, who claimed their thirty-fifth league title after defeating Tembetary 2–0 on 30 November. Olimpia entered the season as defending champions, having won the 2024 Clausura tournament.

Teams

Twelve teams competed in this season: the top ten teams in the relegation table of the 2024 season, and the top two teams in the 2024 Paraguayan División Intermedia: Deportivo Recoleta and Tembetary. Deportivo Recoleta, who rebranded to Recoleta Football Club for this season, returned to the top flight after 23 years, clinching promotion with a 2–0 win over Pastoreo on 22 September 2024, while Tembetary sealed their return to Primera División for the first time since 1997 by defeating Fernando de la Mora on 29 September 2024. The promoted teams replaced Sol de América and Tacuary, who ended in the bottom two places of the relegation table and were relegated to the second tier at the end of the previous season.
Pos.Relegated from 2024 Copa de Primera
11thSol de América
12thTacuary

Pos.Promoted from 2024 División Intermedia
1stRecoleta
2ndTembetary

Stadia and locations

TeamCityStadiumCapacity
2 de MayoPedro Juan CaballeroRío Parapití25,000
Cerro PorteñoAsunciónGeneral Pablo Rojas45,000
General Caballero Juan León MallorquínKa'arendy10,000
GuaraníAsunciónRogelio Livieres6,000
LibertadAsunciónLa Huerta14,000
NacionalAsunciónArsenio Erico7,500
OlimpiaAsunciónOsvaldo Domínguez Dibb25,000
RecoletaAsunciónRicardo Gregor4,000
Sportivo AmelianoVilletaAmeliano Villeta7,000
Sportivo LuqueñoItauguáLuis Alberto Salinas10,000
Sportivo TrinidenseAsunciónMartín Torres3,000
TembetaryVilla ElisaLuis Alfonso Giagni11,000

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Personnel and kits

Managerial changes

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Torneo Apertura

The Torneo Apertura, named "Osvaldo Domínguez Dibb", was the 131st official championship of the Primera División and the first championship of the 2025 season. It began on 24 January and ended on 2 June 2025.

Standings

Results

Top scorers

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Torneo Clausura

The Torneo Clausura, named "Homenaje a los 90 años del Club Sportivo Trinidense", was the 132nd official championship of the Primera División and the second and last championship of the 2025 season. It began on 4 July and ended on 30 November 2025.

Standings

Results

Top scorers

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Aggregate table

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
2023
Pts
2024
Pts
2025
Pts
Total
Pts
Total
Pld
AvgRelegation
1Libertad997470243132'
2Cerro Porteño817485240132'
3Guaraní656683214132'
4Olimpia628059201132'
5Nacional655560180132'
6Sportivo Trinidense654667178132'
7Recoleta595944'
82 de Mayo655111688'
9Sportivo Ameliano575648161132'
10Sportivo Luqueño516147159132'
11494746142132'
12Tembetary '333344
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Season awards

On 3 December 2025, a ceremony was held at the CARDIF Social Pavilion in Luque to announce the winners of the season awards, who were chosen based on voting by the managers of the División de Honor teams, local sports journalists, the APF's Referee Commission, the public, as well as the tournament's official broadcaster Tigo Sports and official statistics.