Paraguayan Women's Football Championship

Paraguayan Women's Football Championship
Founded1999
CountryParaguay
ConfederationCONMEBOL
International cup(s)Copa Libertadores Femenina
Current championsLibertad
(2024)
Most championshipsUniversidad Autónoma (9)
Top goalscorerLiza Larrea
(104 goals)
Current: 2024 season

The Campeonato Anual FEM (English: Annual W Championship) is the top-level league competition for women's football in Paraguay. The winner and runner-up qualify for the Copa Libertadores Femenina, the South American Women's Champions League. The competition is organised by the Paraguayan Football Association.

Format

The teams play a double round robin. After that the six best teams advance to the Hexagonal Final. 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 Autónoma 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.

Ed. Season Champion Runner-up
–
 1997 Nacional Silvio Pettirossi
1
 1999 Universidad Autónoma (1) Nacional
2
 2000 Nacional (1) Olimpia
–
 2001 Not held
3
 2002 Real Sajonia (1) San Clemente Maria
4
 2003 Universidad Autónoma (2) Nacional
5
 2004 Universidad Autónoma (3) Cerro Porteño
6
 2005 Universidad Autónoma (4) Libertad
7
 2006 Universidad Autónoma (5) Cerro Porteño
8
 2007 Cerro Porteño (1) Universidad Autónoma
9
 2008 Universidad Autónoma (6) Cerro Porteño
10
 2009 Universidad Autónoma (7) Cerro Porteño
11
 2010 Universidad Autónoma (8) Cerro Porteño
12
 2011 Universidad Autónoma[4][5] (9) Cerro Porteño
13
 2012 Cerro Porteño[6][7] (2) Universidad Autónoma[8]
14
 2013 Cerro Porteño[9] (3) —
15
 2014 Cerro Porteño[10][11][12] (4) Sportivo Limpeño[13]
16
 2015[14] Sportivo Limpeño[15] (1) Cerro Porteño[16]
17
 2016[17][18] Sportivo Limpeño[19] (2) Cerro Porteño[20]
18
 2017[21] Cerro Porteño[22] (5) Deportivo Capiatá[23]
19
 2018 Cerro Porteño (6) Libertad/Limpeño
20
 2019 Libertad/Limpeño (1)(3) Sol de América
–
 2020 Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
21
 2021 Cerro Porteño (7) Sol de América
22
 2022 Olimpia (1) Libertad/Limpeño
23
 2023 Olimpia (2) Guaraní
24
 2024 Libertad (2) Olimpia

Titles by club

Club Winners Winning years
Universidad Autónoma 9 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
Cerro Porteño 7 2007, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2021
Sportivo Limpeño 3 2015, 2016, 2019
Olimpia 2 2022, 2023
Libertad 2 2019, 2024
Nacional 1 2000
Real Sajonia 1 2002

References

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  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.
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  8. ^ "Apertura champion 2012 Autonoma" (in Spanish). mundodelfutbolfemenino.blogspot.com. 24 July 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
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  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. Archived from the original on 22 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. ^ "Sportivo Limpeño deja con las manos vacías a Olimpia" (in Spanish). lanacion.com.py. 21 November 2016. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  20. ^ "Cerro Porteño goleó a Limpeño y se quedó con el título del Apertura" (in Spanish). apf.org.py. 30 July 2016. Archived from the original on 4 November 2016. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
  21. ^ "Doble festejo cerrista" (in Spanish). abc.com.py. 19 November 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  22. ^ "Cerro Porteño se consagró campeón del Apertura de fútbol femenino" (in Spanish). ip.gov.py. 14 July 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
  23. ^ "Deportivo Capiatá se consagró campeón del Clausura" (in Spanish). apf.org.py. 11 November 2017. Archived from the original on 13 November 2017. Retrieved 12 November 2017.