Guaireña Fútbol Club is a Paraguayan professional football club based in
Villarrica, competing in 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 ...
, having been relegated from the
Primera División at the end of the 2023 season.
History
The club was founded in 2016, based on the team representing the
Liga Guaireña de Fútbol, which was founded in 1916 and was five-time winner of the
Campeonato Nacional de Interligas, third tier competition for regional leagues affiliated to the
Unión del Fútbol del Interior
The Unión del Fútbol del Interior (; UFI) is an association affiliated to the Asociación Paraguaya de Fútbol, Paraguayan Football Association that was founded in 1927 to organize and govern football (soccer), football outside of Asunción, spe ...
(UFI). With the title won in the 2015–16 season, it earned the right to compete in the
División Intermedia for the 2017 season, however, in order to take part in competitions overseen by the
Paraguayan Football Association
The Paraguayan Football Association ( ; APF) (Guarani language, Guarani: ''Paraguái Mangapy Atyguasu''), is the omnibus governing body of football (soccer), football in Paraguay. It organizes the Paraguayan football league system, Paraguayan fo ...
such as the División Intermedia, teams promoted from the Campeonato Nacional de Interligas have to be refounded as clubs, causing the Liga Guaireña team to be refounded as ''Guaireña Fútbol Club''.
They won their first official game in the División Intermedia in 2017, defeating
River Plate 1–0 at home.
They became champions of the Paraguayan División Intermedia in 2019, earning promotion to the Primera División. For their inaugural top flight campaign, the club hired Mario Jacquet as manager. However, Jacquet stepped down a few days ahead of the start of the season, prompting previous manager
Troadio Duarte to retake the helm of the club.
Their
first season in the Primera División was successful, as the club managed to avoid relegation and at the same time made it to the play-offs of the Torneo Clausura, ending in sixth place of the aggregate table and qualifying for the
2021 Copa Sudamericana
The 2021 Copa CONMEBOL Sudamericana was the 20th edition of the CONMEBOL Sudamericana (also referred to as the ''Copa Sudamericana'', or ), South America's secondary club football tournament organized by CONMEBOL.
Starting from this season, team ...
, where they were knocked out by
River Plate in the first stage.
Stadium
Guaireña play their home games at the
Parque del Guairá stadium, which has a capacity of 12,000 spectators.
Titles and International Appearances
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División Intermedia: 1
:: 2019
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Copa Sudamericana
The CONMEBOL Sudamericana, also known as Copa Sudamericana (; ), is an annual international club football competition organized by CONMEBOL, the governing body of football in South America, since 2002. It is the second-most prestigious club com ...
: 2 appearances
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2021
Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...
: First stage
::
2022
The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...
: Group stage
References
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Football clubs in Paraguay
Association football clubs established in 2016
Guaireña F.C.