Paraguayan Primera División
[1] Liga Paraguaya's first game was played in 1906, after the director of the El Diario newspaper, Don Adolfo Riquelme, brought to his office on 18 June 1906, the representatives of the five existing football teams in Paraguay at that time (Olimpia, Guaraní, Libertad, General Díaz, and Nacional) to create the governing body of football in Paraguay: the Liga Paraguaya de Fútbol (known today as Asociación Paraguaya de Fútbol).The representatives were William Paats and Junio Godoy (Olimpia) Ramón Caballero, Manuel Bella and Salvador Melián (Guaraní), Juan Escalada (Libertad), César Urdapilleta (General Díaz), and Vicente Gadea (Nacional).Since then, Libertad has been the most dominant club, while Nacional and Guaraní have also experienced success at the local level.The league is currently contested by 12 teams that play home and away games in a round-robin format.In the Copa Libertadores, the winner of the Apertura and Clausura tournaments qualify automatically.