Paraguayan women's football championship

Paraguayan women's football championship

Country	Paraguay
Confederation	CONMEBOL
Founded	1999
International cup(s)	Copa Libertadores de Fútbol Femenino
Current champions	Sportivo Limpeño
Most championships	Universidad Autonoma (9)

The Paraguayan women's football championship is the top level league competition for women's football in Paraguay. The winner qualifies for the Copa Libertadores de Fútbol Femenino, the South American Champions League. The competition is organised by the Paraguayan Football Association.

Format

The teams play a double round robin. After that the four best teams advance to the semi-finals. After participation in the late 2000s has declined to around 6 clubs, there were some seminars by the Football Organisation as how to increase participation. In 2011 12 teams did enter the championship.^[1]

List of champions

In 1997 an experimental tournament was held and won by Nacional. Then, from 1999, the competition was held annually, except for 2001. Universidad Autonoma won 9 times out of 13.^[2][3]

Since at least 2004 an Apertura and Clausura format was adopted. The winners of those are not considered champions but play a playoff for the championship.

Year	Overall champion	Result	Runners-up	Apertura winners	Clausura winners
1999	Universidad Autonoma		Nacional
2000	Nacional		Olimpia
2001	not held
2002	Real Sajonia		San Clemente Maria
2003	Universidad Autonoma		Nacional
2004	Universidad Autonoma	4–4 H, 3–1 A	Cerro Porteño
2005	Universidad Autonoma	2–0 H, 3–1 A	Libertad	Libertad	Universidad Autonoma
2006	Universidad Autonoma	2–0 H, 1–2 A	Cerro Porteño	Universidad Autonoma	Cerro Porteño
2007	Cerro Porteño			Cerro Porteño
2008	Universidad Autonoma	no final played	—	Universidad Autonoma	Universidad Autonoma
2009	Universidad Autonoma	3–3 A, 3–1 H	Cerro Porteño	Cerro Porteño	Universidad Autonoma
2010	Universidad Autonoma		Cerro Porteño	Cerro Porteño	Universidad Autonoma
2011	Universidad Autonoma[4]	1–1, 1–1 (3–1 pen)	Cerro Porteño	Universidad Autonoma[5]	Cerro Porteño
2012	Cerro Porteño[6]	2–1, 2–2	Universidad Autonoma	Universidad Autonoma[7]	Cerro Porteño [8]
2013	Cerro Porteño	no final played[9]	—	Cerro Porteño	Cerro Porteño
2014	Cerro Porteño	5–3,[10] 5–1[11]	Sportivo Limpeño	Sportivo Limpeño[12]	Cerro Porteño[13]
2015[14]	Sportivo Limpeño	1–2, 1–0 (5–4 pen)	Cerro Porteño	Sportivo Limpeño[15]	Cerro Porteño[16]
2016[17][18]	Sportivo Limpeño	1–1, 3–1	Cerro Porteño	Cerro Porteño[19]	Sportivo Limpeño[20]

References

1. "Paraguay - The emergence of women's football". mundodelfutbolfemenino.blogspot.com. April 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2011.
2. "Paraguay - List of Women Champions". RSSSF. 2010. Retrieved 23 April 2011.
3. "Champion and runners-up history". mundodelfutbolfemenino.blogspot.com. 3 January 2012. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
4. "2011 finals report". mundodelfutbolfemenino.blogspot.com. 18 December 2011. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
5. "Apertura champion 2011 Autonoma" (in Spanish). mundodelfutbolfemenino.blogspot.com. 28 August 2011. Retrieved 6 September 2011.
6. "Cerro Porteño es campeón absoluto de fútbol femenino" (in Spanish). mundodelfutbolfemenino.blogspot.de. 5 November 2012. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
7. "Apertura champion 2012 Autonoma" (in Spanish). mundodelfutbolfemenino.blogspot.com. 24 July 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
8. Cerro Porteño is Clausura champion 2012
9. "Fútbol femenino: Cerro, bicampeón y a la Libertadores". paraguay.com. 24 November 2013. p. Spanish. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
10. http://www.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/deportes/cerro-porteno-triunfa-en-primera-final-1316025.html
11. "Cerro Porteño tricampeón de fútbol femenino de Paraguay" (in Spanish). conmebol.com. 22 December 2014. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
12. http://www.hoy.com.py/deportes/limpeo-es-campen-en-el-apertura-femenino
13. http://www.ip.gov.py/index.php/deportes/item/14160-cerro-porteno-campeon-del-clausura-en-femenino
14. "Sportivo Limpeño es campeón absoluto" (in Spanish). hoy.com.py. 27 December 2015. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
15. "Limpeño es campeón del Apertura en el fútbol femenino (Limepno is Apertura champion 2015)" (in Spanish). ip.gov.py. 23 August 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
16. "El Clausura se tiñó de Azulgrana" (in Spanish). apf.org.py. 13 December 2015. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
17. "Fútbol femenino: ¡Sportivo Limpeño bicampeón!" (in Spanish). lanacion.com.py. 26 November 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
18. "Sportivo Limpeño con "absolutamente" todo" (in Spanish). abc.com.py. 26 November 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
19. "Cerro Porteño goleó a Limpeño y se quedó con el título del Apertura" (in Spanish). apf.org.py. 30 July 2016. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
20. "Sportivo Limpeño deja con las manos vacías a Olimpia" (in Spanish). lanacion.com.py. 21 November 2016. Retrieved 23 November 2016.

External links

• Paraguayan Football Association - Portal on women's football