2016 Paraguayan Primera División season

Primera División
Season	2016
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The 2016 División Profesional season (officially the 2016 Copa TIGO- Visión Banco for sponsorship reasons) is the 82st season of top-flight professional football in Paraguay.

Teams

Stadia and location

Sol de América

Sportivo Luqueño

Asunción

Asunción teams:
Cerro Porteño
General Caballero
Guaraní
Libertad
Nacional
Olimpia
Rubio Ñú

Locations of the 2016 Primera División teams

Team	Manager	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
Cerro Porteño	Roberto Torres	Asunción	General Pablo Rojas	32,000
Capiatá	Humberto García	Capiatá	Capiatá	6,000
Guaraní	Fernando Jubero	Asunción	Rogelio Livieres	6,000
General Caballero	Aldo Bobadilla	Asunción	Hugo Bogado Vaceque	5,000
General Díaz	Mario Jara	Luque	General Adrián Jara	3,500
Libertad	Pedro Sarabia	Asunción	Dr. Nicolás Leoz	10,000
Nacional	Daniel Raschle	Asunción	Arsenio Erico	4,000
Olimpia	Francisco Arce	Asunción	Manuel Ferreira	15,000
River Plate	Gabino Román	Asunción	River Plate	5,000
Rubio Ñu	Alicio Solalinde	Asunción	La Arboleda	5,000
Sol de América	Mario Jacquet	Villa Elisa	Luis Alfonso Giagni	5,000
Sportivo Luqueño	Eduardo Rivera	Luque	Feliciano Cáceres	25,000

Torneo Apertura

The Campeonato de Apertura, also the Copa TIGO-Visión Banco for sponsorship reasons, was the 113º official championship of the Primera División, called "Abraham Zapag", and is the first championship of the 2016 season. It began on January 22 and ended on May 22.

Standings


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Olimpia	18	11	1	6	46	25	+21	34	2017 Copa Libertadores Second Stage
2	Libertad	18	11	1	6	34	23	+11	34
3	Sol de América	19	9	7	3	36	29	+7	34
4	Guaraní	18	8	4	6	28	26	+2	28
5	Rubio Ñu	17	8	3	6	25	22	+3	27
6	Cerro Porteño	17	7	3	7	31	25	+6	24
7	Sportivo Luqueño	19	6	6	7	25	27	−2	24
8	Capiatá	18	6	5	7	36	37	−1	23
9	General Díaz	19	6	5	8	28	36	−8	23
10	Nacional	19	6	4	9	31	35	−4	22
11	General Caballero	18	5	4	9	28	39	−11	19
12	River Plate	18	2	5	11	13	37	−24	11

Updated to games played on May 4, 2016.
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
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
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References

↑ http://www.espnfc.us/primera-division-de-paraguay/1892/table

External links

APF's official website (Spanish)
2016 season on RSSSF

División Profesional

2014 clubs

Seasons

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2016 in South American football (CONMEBOL)

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Domestic leagues	Argentina (2016, 2016–17) Bolivia (2015–16, 2016–17) Brazil Chile (2015–16, 2016–17) Colombia Ecuador Paraguay Peru Uruguay (2015–16, 2016–17) Venezuela

Domestic cups	Argentina (2015–16, 2016–17) Brazil Chile Colombia Venezuela

CONMEBOL competitions	Copa Libertadores (first stage, second stage, final stages, finals) Copa Sudamericana (elimination stages, final stages, finals) Recopa Sudamericana Suruga Bank Championship Copa Libertadores Femenina

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