Paraguayan Tercera División

Tercera División de Paraguay (Third Division of Paraguay, in English), is the third division of Paraguayan football (soccer), and it is organized by the Paraguayan Football Association in the metropolitan area, and organized by the Unión del Fútbol del Interior, in the rest of the country, except Asunción and Central department.

The Paraguayan Third Division is divided into three leagues:

The Primera División B (disputed within Asunción and the Central Department).
The Primera División B Nacional (disputed by clubs in Paraguay's interior).
The Campeonato Nacional de Interligas (disputed by representative teams of each of the 17 departments of Paraguay with the exception of Asunción and the Central Department).

Primera División B Nacional[]

The Primera División B Nacional tournament is being played since 2011. Teams from the all departaments of Paraguay (except Asunción and Central department) take part in this third division league. Since 2014, in even years the champion does not earn direct promotion, but gets the chance to play a repechage against the runner-up of the Primera División B, in odd years the champion is directly promoted and the runner-up is the one who wins the right to play the repechage.

List of champions[]

Season	Champion	Runner-up
2011	Sportivo 2 de Mayo	Sol del Este ^{[n 1]}
2012	Liga Caacupeña	Liga Concepcionera ^{[n 2]}
2013	Liga Caaguaceña	Liga Ovetense ^{[n 2]}
2014	Liga Ovetense ^{[n 3]}	Liga Guaireña ^{[n 1]}
2015	Liga Ovetense	22 de Septiembre ^{[n 2]}
2016	22 de Septiembre ^{[n 4]}	^{[n 1]}
2017	Sportivo 2 de Mayo	^{[n 4]}
2018	Club General Caballero (JLM) ^{[n 4]}	Club Nacional (PM) ^{[n 1]}
2019	Club Guaraní (T)	Liga Carapegüeña ^{[n 1]}

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e The runner-up didn't have a promotion quota.
^ ^a ^b ^c Lost repechage against runner-up of the Primera División B.
^ Lost repechage against runner-up of the Primera División B.
^ ^a ^b ^c Won the repechage against runner-up of the Primera División B.

2021 teams[]

Clubs in the 2021 Primera B Nacional season:^[1]

Primera División B[]

The Primera División B (metropolitan tournament) is being played since 1939. Since that year, the number of teams, rules and names for the tournament have changed, but as of now it's called "Primera de Ascenso" and 16 teams take part.

Only teams from the Gran Asunción metropolitan area and Central Department take part in this third division league. Teams from all other parts of Paraguay that are not part of the Gran Asunción area play the Primera División B Nacional tournament in order to get promoted to the Paraguayan Division Intermedia.

The last champion is Sportivo Ameliano (2019).

Campeonato Nacional de Interligas[]

Campeonato Nacional de Interligas

External links[]

^ "Primera B Nacional; 20 goles en 7 partidos en el inicio del campeonato". 26 July 2021.

[na-1] The runner-up didn't have a promotion quota.

[perdiorepechaje-2] Lost repechage against runner-up of the Primera División B.

[campeonrepechaje-3] Lost repechage against runner-up of the Primera División B.

[ganorepechaje-4] Won the repechage against runner-up of the Primera División B.

[5] "Primera B Nacional; 20 goles en 7 partidos en el inicio del campeonato". 26 July 2021.

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