2022 Paraguayan División Intermedia

División Intermedia
Season	2022
Dates	1 April – 11 October 2022
Champions	Sportivo Trinidense (2nd title)
Promoted	Sportivo Trinidense; Sportivo Luqueño
Relegated	Guaraní (T); Sportivo Iteño; River Plate
Matches played	239
Goals scored	564 (2.36 per match)
Top goalscorer	Diego Fernández (12 goals)
Biggest home win	Pastoreo 4–0 Deportivo Santaní; (31 July); Fdo. de la Mora 5–1 Atl. Colegiales; (20 August)
Biggest away win	Sportivo Iteño 0–6 Fdo. de la Mora; (9 October)
Highest scoring	Independiente (CG) 5–2 Martín Ledesma; (22 April); San Lorenzo 5–2 Sportivo Iteño; (3 September)
	← 2021 2023 →

The 2022 División Intermedia season, named "Homenaje al Doctor Luis Lezcano Pastore y al Escribano Julio César Ortiz Duarte", was the 104th season of the second-tier league of Paraguayan football and 25th under the Paraguayan División Intermedia name. The season began on 1 April and ended on 11 October 2022.^[1] The fixtures for the season were announced on 15 December 2021.^[2]

Sportivo Trinidense and Sportivo Luqueño ensured their promotion to the Paraguayan Primera División with two matches in hand; the former by drawing 1–1 with 2 de Mayo at home on 25 September 2022,^[3] while the latter clinched promotion with a 1–0 victory against Atlético Colegiales coupled with a 2–0 loss for Pastoreo against Fernando de la Mora the following day.^[4] Sportivo Trinidense ended up clinching the tournament's title the following weekend, with a win over Atlético Colegiales and a loss for Sportivo Luqueño against San Lorenzo.^[5]

Format

16 teams took part in the competition, which was played under a double round-robin system with teams playing each other twice, once at home and once away for a total of 30 matches. The top two teams at the end of the season were promoted to the Paraguayan Primera División for the 2023 season, while the bottom three teams in the relegation table at the end of the season were relegated: teams located within 50 kilometres of Asunción were relegated to Primera División B, while teams from outside Greater Asunción and the Central Department were relegated to Primera División B Nacional.^[1]

Teams

16 teams competed in the season: 11 teams from the previous División Intermedia season plus the two teams relegated from Primera División in its 2021 season (River Plate and Sportivo Luqueño), the top two teams from the 2021 Primera División B (Atlético Colegiales and Martín Ledesma) and the 2019–20 Campeonato Nacional de Interligas champions Pastoreo.

Stadia and locations

Gran Asunción

Gran Asunción teams:
Atlético Colegiales
Fernando de la Mora
Independiente (CG)
Martín Ledesma
River Plate
Rubio Ñu
San Lorenzo
Sportivo Luqueño
Sportivo Trinidense

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Locations of the 2022 División Intermedia teams

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity
2 de Mayo	Pedro Juan Caballero	Río Parapití	25,000
3 de Febrero	Ciudad del Este	Antonio Aranda	23,500
Atlético Colegiales	Lambaré	Luciano Zacarías	4,500
Atyrá	Atyrá	San Francisco de Asís	10,000
Deportivo Santaní	San Estanislao	Juan José Vázquez	8,000
Fernando de la Mora	Asunción	Emiliano Ghezzi	6,000
Guaraní (T)	Trinidad	Carlos Memmel	5,000
Independiente (CG)	Asunción	Ricardo Gregor	4,000
Martín Ledesma	Capiatá	Enrique Soler	5,000
Pastoreo	Juan Manuel Frutos	Complejo Municipal Campo 9	5,000
River Plate	Asunción	Jardines del Kelito	6,500
Rubio Ñu	Asunción	La Arboleda	8,000
San Lorenzo	San Lorenzo	Gunther Vogel	5,000
Sportivo Iteño	Itá	Salvador Morga	4,500
Sportivo Luqueño	Luque	Feliciano Cáceres	23,000
Sportivo Trinidense	Asunción	Martín Torres	3,000

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sportivo Trinidense (C, P)	30	19	9	2	54	24	+30	66	Promotion to Primera División
2	Sportivo Luqueño (P)	30	18	7	5	42	26	+16	61	Promotion to Primera División
3	San Lorenzo	30	16	6	8	47	26	+21	54
4	Pastoreo	30	14	11	5	44	28	+16	53
5	Fernando de la Mora	30	13	9	8	48	31	+17	48
6	Martín Ledesma	30	12	9	9	30	29	+1	45
7	Rubio Ñu	30	12	8	10	39	30	+9	44
8	Independiente (CG)	30	11	8	11	33	36	−3	41
9	Atyrá	30	10	6	14	24	28	−4	36
10	Atlético Colegiales	30	10	6	14	32	42	−10	36
11	3 de Febrero	30	8	11	11	29	36	−7	35
12	Deportivo Santaní	30	9	6	15	30	42	−12	33
13	Guaraní (T)	30	8	7	15	29	41	−12	31
14	2 de Mayo	30	7	8	15	32	39	−7	29
15	River Plate	30	7	5	18	27	39	−12	26
16	Sportivo Iteño	30	4	8	18	27	70	−43	20

Source: APF, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points, 2) Playoff game (only if needed to decide championship or promotion between two teams), 3) Goal difference, 4) Goals for, 5) Away goals for, 6) Drawing of lots.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted

Results

Home \ Away	2DM	3FE	CAC	ATY	SAN	FDM	GUA	IND	MAL	PAS	RIV	RUB	SSL	SPI	SLU	TRI
2 de Mayo	—	0–3	3–0	0–2	1–2	3–0	1–0	1–2	0–0	2–2	1–2	2–2	0–2	3–1	3–0	2–3
3 de Febrero	0–0	—	1–3	0–2	2–0	2–1	0–1	2–3	1–1	1–1	0–1	0–0	2–1	2–0	2–4	1–1
Atlético Colegiales	2–2	1–1	—	0–0	0–0	1–3	1–3	3–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	0–1	1–2	1–0	0–1
Atyrá	0–1	1–2	2–1	—	0–2	0–1	0–0	0–0	2–0	1–2	1–0	0–2	1–0	2–0	0–1	0–0
Deportivo Santaní	3–1	1–1	0–1	2–3	—	2–2	2–4	0–1	0–1	0–2	3–0	0–4	1–0	0–1	0–1	2–2
Fernando de la Mora	2–1	3–0	5–1	0–0	0–1	—	3–1	3–1	0–0	2–0	0–0	0–2	0–2	4–1	0–0	0–2
Guaraní (T)	1–0	1–1	0–0	2–1	0–2	1–2	—	2–1	2–1	1–2	1–1	0–2	0–1	1–1	0–2	1–2
Independiente (CG)	1–0	2–0	0–3^[a]	1–2	2–0	2–2	1–1	—	5–2	1–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	1–1
Martín Ledesma	2–1	1–1	2–0	1–0	0–2	1–1	1–0	0–0	—	0–0	3–2	0–2	3–0	3–0	0–1	0–2
Pastoreo	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	4–0	1–4	1–1	0–0	1–0	—	1–0	0–0	1–1	1–2	1–1	1–3
River Plate	0–1	0–1	1–2	0–1	2–0	1–1	1–2	2–0	0–1	1–2	—	0–2	1–1	4–1	1–2	0–4
Rubio Ñu	1–1	1–1	1–2	1–0	2–2	0–0	3–1	1–0	0–1	0–4	0–1	—	2–1	2–0	0–1	0–2
San Lorenzo	1–0	3–0	4–1	3–0	1–0	1–3	2–0	2–0	1–1	1–2	0–0	4–1	—	5–2	2–0	3–0
Sportivo Iteño	1–1	0–1	3–3	1–1	0–1	0–6	3–1	0–2	1–1	0–5	1–4	1–5	1–1	—	0–0	1–3
Sportivo Luqueño	2–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–2	2–0	2–1	3–1	1–2	1–1	2–1	2–1	1–2	2–2	—	0–0
Sportivo Trinidense	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	3–1	2–2	3–1	0–0	2–0	4–1	2–4	—

Source: APF, Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

^ Match suspended and awarded to Atlético Colegiales by walkover since Independiente (CG) failed to provide an ambulance.^[6]

Top scorers

Rank	Name	Club	Goals
1	Diego Fernández	Sportivo Luqueño	12
2	Emmanuel Morales	Rubio Ñu	10
3	Ariel Roa	Fernando de la Mora	9
	Renzo Carballo	Pastoreo
	Rodrigo Arévalo	3 de Febrero / Sportivo Trinidense
6	Juan Isidro Núñez	Sportivo Luqueño	8
	Marcelo Ferreira	Independiente (CG)
	Jorge Quintana	San Lorenzo
	Juan Marcelo Villamayor	San Lorenzo
	Óscar Giménez	Sportivo Trinidense

Source: APF

Relegation

Relegation was determined at the end of the season by computing an average of the number of points earned per game over the past three seasons. The three teams with the lowest average were relegated to Primera División B or Primera División B Nacional for the following season, depending on their geographical location.

Pos	Team	2019 Pts	2021 Pts	2022 Pts	Total Pts	Total Pld	Avg	Relegation
1	Sportivo Luqueño	—	—	61	61	30	2.033
2	Pastoreo	—	—	53	53	30	1.767
3	Sportivo Trinidense	40	52	66	158	94	1.681
4	San Lorenzo	—	53	54	107	64	1.672
5	Martín Ledesma	—	—	46	46	30	1.533
6	Fernando de la Mora	43	45	48	136	94	1.447
7	Independiente (CG)	41	51	41	133	94	1.415
8	Atyrá	49	43	36	128	94	1.362
9	3 de Febrero	39	48	35	122	94	1.298
10	2 de Mayo	55	36	29	120	94	1.277
11	Rubio Ñu	35	39	44	118	94	1.255
12	Atlético Colegiales	—	—	36	36	30	1.2
13	Deportivo Santaní	—	41	33	74	64	1.156
14	Guaraní (T) (R)	—	41	31	72	64	1.125	Relegation to Primera División B Nacional
15	Sportivo Iteño (R)	36	39	20	95	94	1.011	Relegation to Primera División B Metropolitana
16	River Plate (R)	—	—	26	26	30	0.867	Relegation to Primera División B Metropolitana