Paraguay. The championship had rather simple formula: three round-robin stages with separate tables. Since one team won them all, there was no final of a kind – only a tournament between the next 6 teams for the second Paraguayan spot in Copa Libertadores.
Little evident from the second level.
2 de Febrero most likely played in the Second Division, but
San Lorenzo won the championship and was promoted to the top league.
River Plate was the second promoted team.
First Division. Too much to list tables for practically 4 separate tournaments, so only winners of each will be mentioned and in the third-stage table places in the previous tables will be given in brackets.
Cerro Porteno won the opening stage with 13 points: 5 wins, 3 ties, 1 lost match, 15-5 goal-difference.
Standing from left: Fernandez, Rivarola, Zavala, Jacquet, Garay, Barrios. Crouching: Struway, Riveros, Rashle, Retamoso, Britez Roman.
Second stage:
Cerro Porteno won a second time, this time with point more: 6 wins, 2 ties, again only 1 lost game, 10-4, 14 points.
Nothing new in the third stage:
Cerro Porteno again and with its best performance too: 6 wins, 2 ties, 1 loss, 11-3, 14 points. Second row: Ovelar, ?, Ramos, Zabala, Florentin, Arce. First row: Tarciso, Sotelo, Joaozinho, Paniagua, Zarate.
Libertad was 2nd at this pahse. (7th and 8th)
Guarani – 3rd (6th and 10th)
General Caballero – 4th (5th and 6th)
Sol de America – 5th (4th and 5th)
Olimpia – 6th (9th and 2nd)
Sport Colombia – 7th (4th and 3rd).
Colegiales – 8th (3rd and 4th).
Sportivo Luqueno – 9th (10th and 7th).
Nacional – 10th (2nd and 9th).
Since there is no something like combined table, it is difficult to guess how relegation was determined and also on what base the teams playing the Copa Libertadores tournament qualified. Nor it is understandable how this final tournament was played. Anyhow, Nacional ended 6th in it, General Caballero was 5th, Colegiales – or Atletico Colegiales – 4th, Libertad – 3rd, Sol de America – 2nd.
Olimpia won the tournament and the second Copa Libertadores spot – which may have been the reason to consider them vice-champions of the country.
But there was no uncertainty about the champions: Cerro Porteno won every phase. 21st title in total, but their first since 1977. Ten years waiting for it, but it was very confident victory.
Standing from left: Alsides Barreto, Pedro Garay, Raul Navarro, Catalino Rivarola, Justo Jacket, Cesar Zavala.
Front row: Tarciso, Jose Domingo Riveros, Sanahoria Britez Roman, Pedro Osvaldo Garcia, Robson Rematoso.