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2004 in Paraguayan football

overview of association football-related events in Paraguay during the season of 2004

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ16838792 ↗
Source-derived summary

The following article presents a summary of the 2004 football (soccer) season in Paraguay.

First division results

The first division tournament was divided in two sections: the Apertura and the Clausura and had 10 teams participating in a two round all-play-all system. The team with the most points at the end of the two rounds was crowned as the champion.

Torneo Apertura

Torneo Clausura

Championship game playoff

Since Cerro Porteño won both the Apertura and Clausura tournaments they were declared as the national champions and there was no playoff game as a result.

Relegation / Promotion

Sport Colombia and Sol de América automatically relegated to the second division after finishing last and second-to-last in the average points table over a three-year period.

3 de Febrero and General Caballero ZC promoted to the first division by finishing first and second respectively in the second division tournament.

Qualification to international competitions

Cerro Porteño qualified to the 2005 Copa Libertadores by winning the Torneo Apertura and Torneo Clausura; and to the 2004 Copa Sudamericana by winning the 2004 Copa Sudamericana Qualifier.

Libertad qualified to the 2005 Copa Libertadores by finishing second in the aggregate points table, and to the 2004 Copa Sudamericana by finishing in second place in the Torneo Apertura.

Tacuary qualified to the 2005 Copa Libertadores as the second-best finisher in the aggregate points table.

Lower divisions results

Paraguayan teams in international competitions

Copa Libertadores 2004:

Olimpia: group-stage

Libertad: group-stage

Club Guaraní: group-stage

Copa Sudamericana 2004:

Cerro Porteño: quarter-finals

Libertad: preliminary first round

Paraguay national team

The following table lists all the games played by the Paraguay national football team in official competitions during 2004.

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“2004 in Paraguayan football” enters the record as overview of association football-related events in Paraguay during the season of 2004. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Paraguayan, football and overview can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16838792. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “2004 in Paraguayan football” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.