The 2021 División Intermedia season, named ''"Cincuentenario del

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name. The season began on 9 April and ended on 26 October 2021. The fixtures for the season were announced on 15 January 2021. The competition returned after a one-year hiatus as the 2020 seasons of the lower-tier club tournaments of Paraguayan football were cancelled by the

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due to the

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. General Caballero (JLM) won their first División Intermedia title with four matches to spare, following a 4–1 victory over Rubio Ñu on 27 September 2021.

Format

18 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 34 matches. The top three teams at the end of the season were promoted to the

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for the 2022 season, with the champions also qualifying for the

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, while the fourth-placed team will play a play-off against the ninth-placed team of the Primera División relegation table for promotion to the top flight. The bottom three teams in the relegation table at the end of the season were relegated: teams located within 50 kilometres of

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were relegated to Primera División B, while teams from outside Greater Asunción and the Central Department were relegated to

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Teams

18 teams competed in the season: 11 teams from the previous División Intermedia season plus the four teams relegated from Primera División in its

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seasons (

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, General Díaz and

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), the top two teams from the 2019 Primera División B (

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) and the 2019 Primera División B Nacional champions

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. Pastoreo F.C., who were entitled to enter this year's competition as 2019–20 Campeonato Nacional de Interligas champions, had their debut postponed to 2022 per decision by the APF's Executive Committee, since Guaraní de Trinidad already held the berth reserved to the

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(UFI) for this season.

Stadia and locations

Standings

Results

Top scorers

Source
APF
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Promotion play-off

The fourth-placed team in the División Intermedia,

, played a double-legged promotion play-off against

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, the ninth-placed team of the relegation table of the 2021 Primera División season. The winner was promoted to the 2022 Primera División. ---- ''Sportivo Ameliano won 4–3 on aggregate and were promoted to Primera División.''

Relegation

Relegation is 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 the Primera División B or

for the following season, depending on their geographical location. Source
APF

References

External links

División Intermedia on the APF's website
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