2012 Paraguayan Primera División season

Primera División
Season	2012
Champions	Apertura: Cerro Porteño (29th title); Clausura: Libertad (16th title)
Relegated	Tacuary ; Independiente
Copa Libertadores	Cerro Porteño; Libertad; Olimpia
Copa Sudamericana	Cerro Porteño; Libertad; Nacional; Guaraní
Matches played	264
Goals scored	675 (2.56 per match)
	← 2011 2013 →

The 2012 División Profesional season (officially the 2012 Copa TIGO- Visión Banco for sponsorship reasons) was the 78th season of top-flight professional football in Paraguay.

Teams

Asunción

Asunción teams:
Cerro Porteño
Guaraní
Independiente
Libertad
Nacional
Olimpia
Rubio Ñú
Tacuary

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Locations of the 2012 Primera División teams

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
Cerro Porteño	Asunción	General Pablo Rojas	32,000
Cerro Porteño (PF)	Presidente Franco	Cerro Porteño	10,000
Guaraní	Asunción	Rogelio Livieres	6,000
Independiente	Asunción	Ricardo Gregor	1,500
Libertad	Asunción	Dr. Nicolás Leoz	10,000
Nacional	Asunción	Arsenio Erico	4,000
Olimpia	Asunción	Manuel Ferreira	15,000
Rubio Ñu	Asunción	La Arboleda	5,000
Sol de América	Villa Elisa	Luis Alfonso Giagni	5,000
Sportivo Carapeguá	Carapeguá	Tte. 1º Alcides González	3,000
Sportivo Luqueño	Luque	Feliciano Cáceres	25,000
Tacuary	Asunción	Roberto Béttega	7,000

Torneo Apertura

The Campeonato de Apertura, also the Copa TIGO-Visión Banco for sponsorship reasons, was the 106º official championship of the Primera División, called "Don Jesús Manuel Pallarés", and was the first championship of the 2012 season. It began on February 5 and ended on July 8.

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Cerro Porteño	22	16	1	5	40	23	+17	49	2013 Copa Libertadores Second Stage and 2013 Copa Sudamericana First Stage
2	Olimpia	22	14	5	3	30	20	+10	47
3	Libertad	22	13	5	4	40	19	+21	44
4	Sol de América	22	11	2	9	38	27	+11	35
5	Nacional	22	10	3	9	40	32	+8	33
6	Guaraní	22	8	6	8	28	25	+3	30
7	Cerro Porteño (PF)	22	7	6	9	26	29	−3	27
8	Sportivo Luqueño	22	6	8	8	23	30	−7	26
9	Independiente	22	6	7	9	28	42	−14	25
10	Sportivo Carapeguá	22	4	8	10	23	29	−6	20
11	Rubio Ñu	22	5	3	14	24	40	−16	18
12	Tacuary	22	1	8	13	15	39	−24	11

Updated to match(es) played on July 8, 2012. Source: APF
Rules for classification: 1st points. If two teams are tied on points, a playoff game will be held to break the tie. If more than two clubs are tied on points, the following will be used as a tiebreaker: 1st goal difference; 2nd goals scored; 3rd away-goals scored; 4th draw of lots

Results

Home \ Away	CEP	CPF	GUA	IND	LIB	NAC	OLI	RÑU	SOL	SCA	SPL	TAC
Cerro Porteño		1–0	1–0	1–2	1–0	2–1	0–1	5–3	2–0	1–0	3–0	2–0
Cerro Porteño (PF)	1–2		2–1	1–1	0–2	5–0	0–0	3–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	2–1
Guarani	0–1	0–0		3–1	2–3	1–3	0–1	1–0	2–1	2–1	3–1	4–0
Independiente	1–4	1–1	0–1		1–4	2–5	3–0	1–0	2–4	1–1	1–1	2–1
Libertad	2–1	2–0	2–2	1–1		1–0	0–1	1–0	0–1	1–1	1–0	2–1
Nacional	2–0	2–1	1–1	5–0	1–2		0–0	0–2	2–1	3–1	2–1	2–0
Olimpia	1–2	3–3	2–0	1–1	2–1	2–1		1–0	1–0	3–2	2–1	2–1
Rubio Ñu	2–3	1–2	2–1	2–1	1–5	3–3	2–3		0–3	1–2	0–0	1–0
Sol de América	2–2	4–1	0–1	1–2	0–3	3–2	0–1	2–0		1–0	2–3	2–0
Sportivo Carapeguá	1–2	1–2	0–0	3–0	2–2	2–1	1–2	2–1	0–2		0–0	1–1
Sportivo Luqueño	2–0	3–0	2–2	1–3	0–4	2–1	2–1	1–1	0–2	1–1		1–1
Tacuary	2–4	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–3	0–0	0–1	2–6	1–1	0–0

Updated to match(es) played on 8 July 2012. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Copa TIGO-VISION BANCO 2012 Apertura champion
Cerro Porteño 29th title

Torneo Clausura

The Campeonato de Clausura, also the Copa TIGO-Visión Banco for sponsorship reasons, was the 107º official championship of the Primera División, called "Centenario Club Cerro Porteñi, and was the second championship of the 2012 season. It began on July 28 and ended on December 16.

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Libertad	22	13	8	1	44	16	+28	47	2013 Copa Libertadores Second Stage and 2013 Copa Sudamericana First Stage
2	Nacional	22	14	2	6	36	16	+20	44
3	Guaraní	22	13	4	5	28	19	+9	43
4	Cerro Porteño	22	10	7	5	39	21	+18	37
5	Sportivo Luqueño	22	9	6	7	23	24	−1	33
6	Olimpia	22	8	8	6	33	31	+2	32
7	Cerro Porteño (PF)	22	7	5	10	19	31	−12	26
8	Sportivo Carapeguá	22	7	4	11	30	34	−4	25
9	Sol de América	22	4	10	8	22	29	−7	22
10	Tacuary	22	6	4	12	31	39	−8	22
11	Rubio Ñu	22	4	6	12	18	38	−20	18
12	Independiente	22	1	6	15	14	44	−30	9

Updated to match(es) played on 16 December 2012. Source: APF
Rules for classification: 1st points. If two teams are tied on points, a playoff game will be held to break the tie. If more than two clubs are tied on points, the following will be used as a tiebreaker: 1st goal difference; 2nd goals scored; 3rd away-goals scored; 4th draw of lots

Results

Home \ Away	CEP	CPF	GUA	IND	LIB	NAC	OLI	RÑU	SOL	SCA	SPL	TAC
Cerro Porteño		2–2	1–2	2–0	3–3	1–1	4–1	3–0	2–3	1–0	1–1	5–1
Cerro Porteño (PF)	0–5		1–0	1–1	0–1	2–3	2–2	1–0	0–1	1–0	0–1	2–0
Guarani	2–1	1–0		3–1	0–2	0–1	2–1	2–0	3–2	2–1	1–0	2–0
Independiente	0–1	2–1	1–1		0–5	0–3	1–1	2–2	1–1	0–1	0–1	0–2
Libertad	1–0	3–0	0–0	3–0		1–0	1–1	3–0	1–1	2–1	2–0	2–2
Nacional	0–1	3–0	1–2	5–1	1–2		4–1	2–0	1–0	2–0	0–0	2–0
Olimpia	0–0	0–0	0–1	3–1	2–2	1–0		3–2	1–0	3–0	2–0	2–2
Rubio Ñu	1–2	0–0	1–0	1–0	2–7	0–1	0–3		0–0	1–1	1–1	3–1
Sol de América	2–1	0–2	1–1	1–1	0–0	2–0	1–1	1–1		1–3	2–2	3–1
Sportivo Carapeguá	1–1	1–2	1–2	2–0	2–0	1–3	4–1	2–1	1–1		5–1	0–4
Sportivo Luqueño	0–0	1–2	1–1	1–0	0–2	1–2	2–1	2–0	1–0	3–1		2–0
Tacuary	0–2	4–0	2–0	3–2	1–1	0–1	2–3	1–2	2–1	2–2	1–2

Updated to match(es) played on 16 December 2012. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Copa TIGO-VISION BANCO 2012 Clausura champion
Libertad 16th title

Aggregate table

In 2012, Paraguay have seven slots in international cups (three in the Copa Libertadores de America and four in the Copa Sudamericana). These seven slots will be filled by five teams.

For the 2013 Copa Libertadores, the winner of the Apertura and Clausura tournaments qualify automatically. The third representative (going into the first round play-off) is the best placed non-champion from the cumulative table of both the Apertura and Clausura.
For the 2013 Copa Sudamericana, the champion of the Apertura and Clausura tournaments qualify automatically, with the 4th and 5th best placed teams from the Apertura and Clausura cumulatives.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Libertad	44	26	13	5	84	35	+49	91	2013 Copa Libertadores Second Stage and 2013 Copa Sudamericana First Stage^[a]
2	Cerro Porteño	44	26	8	10	79	44	+35	86
3	Olimpia	44	22	13	9	63	51	+12	79	2013 Copa Libertadores First Stage
4	Nacional	44	24	5	15	76	48	+28	77	2013 Copa Sudamericana First Stage
5	Guaraní	44	21	10	13	56	44	+12	73	2013 Copa Sudamericana First Stage
6	Sol de América	44	16	12	16	62	53	+9	60
7	Sportivo Luqueño	44	15	14	15	46	54	−8	59
8	Cerro Porteño (PF)	44	14	11	19	45	60	−15	53
9	Sportivo Carapeguá	44	11	12	21	53	63	−10	45
10	Rubio Ñu	44	9	9	26	42	78	−36	36
11	Independiente	44	7	13	24	42	86	−44	34
12	Tacuary	44	7	12	25	46	78	−32	33

Updated to match(es) played on 16 December 2012. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1st points. If two teams are tied on points, a playoff game will be held to break the tie. If more than two clubs are tied on points, the following will be used as a tiebreaker: 1st goal difference; 2nd goals scored; 3rd away-goals scored; 4th draw of lots
Notes:

^ Cerro Porteño and Libertad are qualified for the 2013 Copa Libertadores and 2013 Copa Sudamericana as the Apertura and Clausura champions respectively.

Relegation

Relegations is determined at the end of the season by computing an average (Spanish: promedio) of the number of points earned per game over the past three seasons. The two teams with the lowest average is relegated to the División Intermedia for the following season.

Pos	Team	2010 Pts	2011 Pts	2012 Pts	Total Pts	Total Pld	Avg	Relegation
1	Libertad	87	79	91	257	132	1.947
2	Cerro Porteño	91	67	86	244	132	1.8485
3	Olimpia	71	88	79	238	132	1.803
4	Nacional	77	83	77	237	132	1.7955
5	Guaraní	85	58	73	216	132	1.6364
6	Rubio Ñu	66	56	36	160	132	1.2121
7	Cerro Porteño (PF)	–	–	53	53	44	1.2045
8	Sol de América	45	49	60	154	132	1.1667
9	Sportivo Luqueño	42	35	59	136	132	1.0303
10	Sportivo Carapeguá	–	–	45	45	44	1.0227
11	Tacuary	37	60	33	130	132	0.9848	Relegated to the División Intermedia
12	Independiente	–	52	34	86	88	0.9773	Relegated to the División Intermedia

Last updated: 16 December 2012.
Source: ^{[citation needed]}

External links

APF's official website (in Spanish)
- Season rules (in Spanish)
2012 season on RSSSF

[table_note_res_SSFS0.73703696287099-1] Cerro Porteño and Libertad are qualified for the 2013 Copa Libertadores and 2013 Copa Sudamericana as the Apertura and Clausura champions respectively.

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2012 Paraguayan Primera División season

Teams

Torneo Apertura

Standings

Results

Torneo Clausura

Standings

Results

Aggregate table

Relegation

See also

External links

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