Atyrá Fútbol Club is a Paraguayan

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club based in the city of

Atyrá Atyrá is one of the oldest cities of Paraguay, alongside Yaguarón, Villarrica, Encarnación, Pilar, San Lorenzo, Humaitá among others. Atyrá is 61 KM East from the country's capital, Asunción, located in the Altos Cordillera, as it i ...

. It was founded on 7 April 2018 and will play in the

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, one of the third division leagues of the

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in 2024, after their relegation from the

Paraguayan División Intermedia The División Intermedia (), also known as the Segunda División (), is the third highest professional football league in Paraguay. It is organized by the Asociación Paraguaya de Fútbol. Overview Since 1910 the second division tournaments have ...

at the end of the 2023 season.

History

The club was founded on 7 April 2018 based on the team representing the Liga Atyreña de Deportes in the

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, the third tier competition for regional leagues affiliated to the

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(UFI). With

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as manager, the Liga Atyreña team won the 2017–18 Campeonato Nacional de Interligas by beating the team representing the Liga Pilarense in the final, thus earning the right to compete in the División Intermedia for the 2019 season. That same year, the Liga Atyreña won the

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by beating Durazno, the champions of the Uruguayan

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. Since league teams promoted from the Campeonato Nacional de Interligas have to be refounded as clubs in order to take part in competitions overseen by the

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such as the División Intermedia, the Liga Atyreña team was refounded as ''Atyrá Fútbol Club''. For their first campaign in the División Intermedia, Atyrá hired the former Paraguayan footballer Ángel Martínez Rotela as manager. Their first match in the competition ended in victory, defeating Ovetense at home by a 3–0 score. Atyrá's performance in their first participation in the División Intermedia was consistent, however they fell short of reaching promotion to the

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as they finished the season in fourth place with 49 points, trailing the eventually promoted sides Guaireña and 12 de Octubre by eight and seven points, respectively. Atyrá played in División Intermedia for four seasons, being relegated on the final round of the 2023 season after losing 3–2 to

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at home and placing in the bottom three of the relegation table.

Stadium

The club plays its home matches at

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in Atyrá, which has a capacity of 10,000 spectators.

Honours

As Liga Atyreña de Deportes: *

**Champions (1): 2017–18 **Runners-up (1): 2015–16 *

**Champions (1): 2018

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Atyrá F.C. Football clubs in Paraguay Association football clubs established in 2018 2018 establishments in Paraguay