1994 Paraguayan Primera División season

**1994 Paraguayan Primera División season**
Season	1994
Champions	Cerro Porteño
Promoted	Deportivo Humaitá; Sportivo Trinidense; 6 teams from the interior
Relegated	River Plate; Sportivo Trinidense; Guaraní (Coronel Oviedo); Other interior teams
Matches played	382
Goals scored	1,012 (2.65 per match)
Average goals/game	2.65
	← 1993 1995 →

The 1994 Paraguayan Primera División Championship was the 84th season of the Primera División de Paraguay, the top-flight football league in Paraguay, organized by the Paraguayan Football League (LPF).

In the end, Cerro Porteño won their 23rd national title by defeating Olimpia in the final match.^[1]

Competition system

The tournament was played in two stages using a single round-robin format, meaning each team played 19 matches. The winners of each stage faced each other in a final to determine the overall champion.^[2]

Due to a reform in the championship structure, six teams from outside the capital were included in the tournament.^[2] The six promoted clubs were:

Annual club changes

Promoted to Primera División
Deportivo Humaitá (Champion of the 1993 Primera de Ascenso)
Sportivo Trinidense (Runner-up of the 1993 Primera de Ascenso)

Relegated to Primera de Ascenso
None

Participating teams

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity
8 de Diciembre	Caaguazú	?	?
12 de Octubre	Itauguá	?	?
Cerro Corá	Asunción	General Andrés Rodríguez	6,000
Cerro Porteño	Asunción	General Pablo Rojas	45,000
Cerro Porteño PF	Presidente Franco	?	?
Colegiales	Asunción	Luciano Zacarías	15,000
Deportivo Boquerón	Ciudad del Este	?	?
Humaitá FBC	Mariano Roque Alonso	Pioneros de Corumba Cué	7,000
Guaraní	Asunción	Rogelio Livieres	6,000
Guaraní (Coronel Oviedo)	Coronel Oviedo	?	?
Libertad	Asunción	Dr. Nicolás Leoz	10,000
Nacional	Asunción	Arsenio Erico	4,000
Olimpia	Asunción	Manuel Ferreira	15,000
Pettirossi	Encarnación	?	?
Presidente Hayes	Asunción	Kiko Reyes	5,000
River Plate	Asunción	Jardines del Kelito	5,000
Sol de América	Villa Elisa	Luis Alfonso Giagni	5,000
Sport Colombia	Fernando de la Mora	Alfonso Colmán	7,000
Sportivo Luqueño	Luque	Feliciano Cáceres	25,000
Sportivo Trinidense	Asunción	Martín Ledesma	3,000

First stage

Standings

Pos.	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1.	Cerro Porteño	19	13	5	1	40	16	24	31
2.	Olimpia	19	10	7	2	33	12	21	27
3.	Sport Colombia	19	11	4	4	27	17	10	26
4.	Colegiales	19	9	8	2	39	17	22	26
5.	Sportivo Luqueño	19	11	3	5	35	19	16	25
6.	Guaraní	19	10	4	5	36	24	12	24
7.	Cerro Corá	19	9	6	4	23	13	10	24
8.	Nacional	19	6	9	4	23	19	4	21
9.	Presidente Hayes	19	7	6	6	24	20	4	20
10.	12 de Octubre	19	5	10	4	22	18	4	20
11.	Deportivo Boquerón	19	8	4	7	22	22	0	20
12.	Humaitá FBC	19	6	7	6	26	26	0	19
13.	Libertad	19	4	7	8	23	29	−6	15
14.	River Plate	19	4	7	8	23	31	−8	15
15.	Sol de América	19	5	5	9	21	32	−11	15
16.	Cerro Porteño (PF)	19	4	6	9	25	33	−8	14
17.	Sportivo Trinidense	19	2	8	9	14	24	−10	12
18.	Guaraní (Coronel Oviedo)	19	1	8	10	15	33	−18	10
19.	Pettirossi	19	1	7	11	13	40	−27	9
20.	8 de Diciembre	19	0	7	12	9	48	−39	7

Pos = Position; Pld = Matches played; W = Wins; D = Draws; L = Losses; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

Second stage

Standings

Pos.	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1.	Olimpia	19	16	2	1	47	13	34	34
2.	Cerro Porteño	19	11	6	2	45	19	26	28
3.	Humaitá FBC	19	10	4	5	35	26	9	24
4.	Sport Colombia	19	7	9	3	25	19	6	23
5.	Nacional	19	8	7	4	24	23	1	23
6.	Presidente Hayes	19	8	6	5	32	23	9	22
7.	Guaraní	19	8	6	5	30	22	8	22
8.	Sol de América	19	7	7	5	21	18	3	21
9.	Sportivo Luqueño	19	6	9	4	29	29	0	21
10.	Libertad	19	7	7	5	20	22	−2	21
11.	Cerro Porteño (PF)	19	7	4	8	24	43	−19	18
12.	Colegiales	19	5	6	8	21	19	2	16
13.	Deportivo Boquerón	19	2	12	5	21	21	0	16
14.	Cerro Corá	19	3	10	6	21	22	−1	16
15.	River Plate	19	6	4	9	23	32	−9	16
16.	8 de Diciembre	19	3	9	7	29	31	−2	15
17.	12 de Octubre	19	3	8	8	15	27	−12	14
18.	Sportivo Trinidense	19	4	5	10	16	28	−12	13
19.	Pettirossi	19	2	5	12	18	32	−14	9
20.	Guaraní (Coronel Oviedo)	19	2	4	13	21	48	−27	8

Pos = Position; Pld = Matches played; W = Wins; D = Draws; L = Losses; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

Final match

Cerro Porteño	1–1	Olimpia

Olimpia	0–0 (3–4 pen.)	Cerro Porteño

Champion
Cerro Porteño
23rd title

Qualification for international cups

Two teams qualified for the 1995 Copa Libertadores: the champions (Cerro Porteño) and the runners-up (Olimpia).

Relegation

Aggregate points

The aggregate points of a team are the sum of those earned in the first and second stages of the 1994 Championship. This determined, at the end of the tournament, the relegation to the Second Division of the team that finished last in the table.

Pos.	Teams	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1.	Olimpia	38	26	9	3	80	25	55	61
2.	Cerro Porteño	38	24	11	3	85	35	50	59
3.	Sport Colombia	38	18	13	7	52	36	16	49
4.	Guaraní	38	18	10	10	66	46	20	46
5.	Sportivo Luqueño	38	17	12	9	64	48	16	46
6.	Nacional	38	14	16	8	47	42	5	44
7.	Deportivo Humaitá	38	16	11	11	61	52	9	43
8.	Colegiales	38	14	14	10	60	36	24	42
9.	Presidente Hayes	38	15	12	11	56	43	13	42
10.	Cerro Corá	38	12	16	10	44	35	9	40
11.	Deportivo Boquerón	38	10	16	12	43	43	0	36
12.	Libertad	38	11	14	13	43	51	-8	36
13.	Sol de América	38	12	12	14	42	50	-8	36
14.	12 de Octubre	38	8	18	12	37	45	-8	34
15.	Cerro Porteño (PF)	38	11	10	17	49	76	-27	32
16.	River Plate	38	10	11	17	46	63	-17	31
17.	Sportivo Trinidense	38	6	13	19	30	52	-22	25
18.	8 de Diciembre	38	3	16	19	38	79	-41	22
19.	Pettirossi^{[n 1]}	38	3	12	23	31	72	-41	18
20.	Guaraní (Coronel Oviedo)^{[n 1]}	38	3	12	23	36	81	-45	18

Pos=Position; Pld=Played; W=Won; D=Drawn; L=Lost; GF=Goals for; GA=Goals against; GD=Goal difference; Pts=Points

^ ^a ^b Pettirossi and Guaraní from Coronel Oviedo finished the tournament tied in last place, so they played a playoff match to determine which team would be relegated. Pettirossi won 3–1, resulting in the relegation of Guaraní from Coronel Oviedo to their regional league.

Relegated to regional league.

Additional relegations

Due to a structural reorganization of the tournament, teams that did not belong to the metropolitan area of Asunción were excluded from the following championship, and thus the five remaining clubs from the countryside were returned to their respective regional leagues.

In addition, River Plate and Sportivo Trinidense were relegated to the Second Division as they were the two lowest-ranked teams from the metropolitan area based on accumulated points.

References

^ Juan Pablo Andrés and Osvaldo José. "Paraguay - List of Champions and Runners Up". RSSSF. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
^ ^a ^b RSSSF. "Paraguay 1994". Enda Mulcahy. Retrieved 21 April 2025.

[DesPG-3] Pettirossi and Guaraní from Coronel Oviedo finished the tournament tied in last place, so they played a playoff match to determine which team would be relegated. Pettirossi won 3–1, resulting in the relegation of Guaraní from Coronel Oviedo to their regional league.

[1] Juan Pablo Andrés and Osvaldo José. "Paraguay - List of Champions and Runners Up". RSSSF. Retrieved 21 April 2025.

[rsssf1994-2] RSSSF. "Paraguay 1994". Enda Mulcahy. Retrieved 21 April 2025.

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