1997 in Paraguayan football

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The Apertura tournament was played in a single all-play-all system. After every draw during this stage the game went on to a penalty kick shootout, awarding two points to the winner of the shootout and one point to the losing team. At the end, the top eight teams qualified to a playoff stage to determine the Apertura champion.

Position	Team	Played	Wins	Draws P.K. Wins / P.K. Losses	Losses	Scored	Conceded	Points
1	Olimpia	12	7	4/0	1	22	7	29
2	Cerro Porteño	12	7	1/0	4	23	15	23
3	Sol de América	12	6	0/2	4	11	8	20
4	Libertad	12	5	0/5	2	17	13	20
5	San Lorenzo	12	5	1/2	4	15	17	19
6	Guaraní	12	5	1/2	4	18	15	19
7	Presidente Hayes	12	4	3/0	5	13	17	18
8	Sportivo Luqueño	12	5	0/1	6	15	22	16
9	Nacional	12	3	2/3	4	16	21	16
10	Sport Colombia	12	2	3/3	4	17	15	15
11	Tembetary	12	4	1/1	6	14	16	15
12	Atl. Colegiales	12	3	2/0	7	9	15	13
13	Cerro Corá	12	2	2/1	7	15	24	11

• Note: an extra match had to be played between Sportivo Luqueño and Nacional to decide the 8th spot for the playoff stage since both teams finished with the same number of points. The extra match was won by Sportivo Luqueño 2-0. Also, draws were done to determine the 3rd and 5th place and they were won by Sol de America and San Lorenzo respectively.

The top eight teams qualified to this stage and were given bonus points based on their final standing in the table. Two groups of four teams were made, with the top two of each group advancing to a playoff stage.

Group A

Position	Team	Played	Wins	Draws P.K. Wins / P.K. Losses	Losses	Scored	Conceded	Bonus Points	Points
1	Olimpia	3	2	0/0	1	5	2	[3]	9
2	Sportivo Luqueño	3	2	0/0	1	7	5	[0]	6
3	Libertad	3	1	0/0	2	5	9	[1.5]	4.5
4	Guaraní	3	1	0/0	2	2	3	[0.5]	3.5

Group B

Position	Team	Played	Wins	Draws P.K. Wins / P.K. Losses	Losses	Scored	Conceded	Bonus Points	Points
1	Cerro Porteño	3	2	1/0	0	7	4	[2.5]	10.5
2	Sol de América	3	1	1/0	1	4	4	[2]	7
3	San Lorenzo	3	1	0/1	1	4	4	[1]	5
4	Presidente Hayes	3	0	0/1	2	1	4	[0]	1

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Olimpia	0 - 1	Sol de América
Cerro Porteño	1 - 0	Sportivo Luqueño

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Cerro Porteño	1 - 1 (4 - 3 pen)	Sol de América

Cerro P. wins the Apertura tournament.

The Clausura tournament was played in a single all-play-all system. After every draw during this stage the game went on to a penalty kick shootout, awarding two points to the winner of the shootout and one point to the losing team. At the end, the top eight teams qualified to a playoff stage to determine the Clausura champion.

Position	Team	Played	Wins	Draws P.K. Wins / P.K. Losses	Losses	Scored	Conceded	Points
1	Cerro Corá	12	8	1/2	1	22	11	28
2	Guaraní	12	6	1/4	1	22	16	24
3	San Lorenzo	12	5	2/1	4	13	10	20
4	Sportivo Luqueño	12	4	3/2	3	18	16	20
5	Olimpia	12	4	4/0	4	18	16	20
6	Atl. Colegiales	12	4	3/2	3	18	18	20
7	Cerro Porteño	12	4	1/4	3	15	13	18
8	Nacional	12	4	1/2	5	14	23	16
9	Tembetary	12	4	1/2	5	31	27	16
10	Sport Colombia	12	3	1/3	5	20	19	14
11	Presidente Hayes	12	3	2/1	6	13	18	14
12	Sol de América	12	3	1/1	7	11	15	12
13	Libertad	12	2	3/0	7	8	21	12

The top eight teams qualified to this stage and were given bonus points based on their final standing in the table. Two groups of four teams were made, with the top two of each group advancing to a playoff stage.

Group A

Position	Team	Played	Wins	Draws P.K. Wins / P.K. Losses	Losses	Scored	Conceded	Bonus Points	Points
1	Sportivo Luqueño	3	3	0/0	0	9	3	[1.5]	10.5
2	Guaraní	3	1	1/0	1	5	6	[2.5]	7.5
3	Nacional	3	1	0/1	1	7	7	[0]	4
4	Cerro Porteño	3	0	0/0	3	6	11	[0]	0

Group B

Position	Team	Played	Wins	Draws P.K. Wins / P.K. Losses	Losses	Scored	Conceded	Bonus Points	Points
1	Olimpia	3	2	0/1	0	6	2	[1]	8
2	Cerro Corá	3	1	1/0	1	4	3	[3]	8
3	San Lorenzo	3	1	0/1	1	2	4	[2]	6
4	Atl. Colegiales	3	0	1/0	2	1	4	[0.5]	2.5

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Olimpia	4 - 2	Guaraní
Cerro Corá	2 - 2 (6 - 5 pen)	Sportivo Luqueño

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Olimpia	3 - 0	Cerro Corá

Olimpia wins the Clausura tournament.

The national championship game was played between the Apertura and Clausura tournaments winners.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Cerro Porteño	1 - 2	Olimpia	0-1	1-1

Olimpia declared as national champions by aggregate score of 2-1.

• Tembetary and Sport Colombia automatically relegated to the second division after finishing last and second-to-last in the accumulated table Apertura/Clausura (Opening/Closing).
• 12 de Octubre promoted to the first division by winning the second division tournament.

• Cerro Porteño qualified to the 1998 Copa Libertadores by winning the Torneo Apertura.
• Olimpia qualified to the 1998 Copa Libertadores by winning the Torneo Clausura.

Level	Tournament	Champion
2nd	Intermedia	12 de Octubre
3rd	Primera de Ascenso	12 de Octubre (Santo Domingo)
4th	Segunda de Ascenso	Atlántida