1998 in Paraguayan football

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The Apertura tournament was played in a single all-play-all system. At the end, the top eight teams qualified to a playoff stage to determine the Apertura champion.

Position	Team	Played	Wins	Draws	Losses	Scored	Conceded	Points
1	Cerro Porteño	11	8	1	2	24	10	25
2	Sportivo Luqueño	11	6	3	2	17	16	21
3	Olimpia	11	6	2	3	15	7	20
4	Presidente Hayes	11	4	4	3	11	10	16
5	Guaraní	11	4	3	4	11	13	15
6	12 de Octubre	11	4	2	5	14	15	14
7	Sol de América	11	3	4	4	12	15	13
8	Cerro Corá	11	3	3	5	15	18	12
9	Atl. Colegiales	11	3	3	5	10	14	12
10	San Lorenzo	11	3	3	5	12	17	12
11	Nacional	11	2	4	5	18	20	10
12	Libertad	11	2	4	5	8	12	10

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	Losses	Scored	Conceded	Bonus Points	Points
1	Olimpia	3	2	0	1	7	2	[2]	8
2	Sol de América	3	2	0	1	6	5	[0]	6
3	Guaraní	3	1	1	1	5	6	[1]	5
4	Sportivo Luqueño	3	0	1	2	3	8	[2.5]	3.5

Group B

Position	Team	Played	Wins	Draws	Losses	Scored	Conceded	Bonus Points	Points
1	Cerro Porteño	3	3	0	0	10	2	[3]	12
2	12 de Octubre	3	1	1	1	4	6	[0.5]	4.5
3	Cerro Corá	3	1	1	1	3	4	[0]	4
4	Presidente Hayes	3	0	0	3	2	7	[1.5]	1.5

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Olimpia	4 - 2	12 de Octubre	3-1	1-1
Sol de América	1 - 1 (7 - 6 P.K.)	Cerro Porteño	1-0	0-1

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Olimpia	3 - 1	Sol de América	2-0	1-1

Olimpia wins the Apertura tournament final by aggregate score of 3-1.

The Clausura tournament was played in a single all-play-all system. At the end, the top eight teams qualified to a playoff stage to determine the Clausura champion.

Position	Team	Played	Wins	Draws	Losses	Scored	Conceded	Points
1	Cerro Porteño	11	8	2	1	28	9	26
2	Guaraní	11	6	3	2	20	15	21
3	Cerro Corá	11	5	3	3	18	16	18
4	Atl. Colegiales	11	5	1	5	14	15	16
5	12 de Octubre	11	4	3	4	18	20	15
6	Sol de América	11	2	7	2	12	10	13
7	* Nacional	11	2	7	2	17	23	13
8	Olimpia	11	3	3	5	13	12	12
9	San Lorenzo	11	2	5	4	13	16	11
10	Sportivo Luqueño	11	2	5	4	8	13	11
11	Libertad	11	1	6	4	12	18	9
12	Presidente Hayes	11	1	5	5	12	18	8

* Nacional finished in the top eight but their average points over three years forced the team to be relegated so they did not take part of the playoff stage. San Lorenzo took their place instead.

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. San Lorenzo replaced Nacional in the playoff stage due to Nacional being relegated to the second division.

Group A

Position	Team	Played	Wins	Draws	Losses	Scored	Conceded	Bonus Points	Points
1	Cerro Porteño	3	3	0	0	7	3	[3]	12
2	Atlético Colegiales	3	1	1	1	4	3	[1.5]	5.5
3	San Lorenzo	3	1	0	2	6	7	[0]	3
4	Sol de América	3	0	1	2	3	7	[1.5]	0.5

Group B

Position	Team	Played	Wins	Draws	Losses	Scored	Conceded	Bonus Points	Points
1	Olimpia	3	2	1	0	7	4	[0]	7
2	Cerro Corá	3	1	2	0	6	5	[2]	7
3	Guaraní	3	1	1	1	4	4	[2.5]	6.5
4	12 de Octubre	3	0	0	3	2	6	[1]	1

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Cerro Corá	1 - 3	Cerro Porteño	1-0	0-3
Olimpia	6 - 1	Atlético Colegiales	5-0	1-1

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Cerro Porteño	4 - 4 (4 - 3 P.K.)	Olimpia	1-4	3-0

Cerro P. wins the Clausura tournament final on penalty shootout 4-3.

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	3 - 5	Olimpia	2-2	1-3

Olimpia declared as national champions by aggregate score of 5-3.

• Nacional and Libertad automatically relegated to the second division after finishing last and second-to-last in the average points table based over a three-year period.
• Resistencia promoted to the first division by winning the second division tournament.

• Olimpia qualified to the 1999 Copa Libertadores by winning the Torneo Apertura.
• Cerro Porteño qualified to the 1999 Copa Libertadores by winning the Torneo Clausura.

Level	Tournament	Champion
2nd	Intermedia	Resistencia
3rd (G.A. teams)	Primera de Ascenso	Oriental
3rd (interior teams)	UFI Champions Cup	Sportivo Obrero (San Juan Misiones)
4th (G.A. teams)	Segunda de Ascenso	Sport Colonial