| Competition: | División Intermedia |
| Season: | 2024 |
| Dates: | 5 April – 14 October 2024 |
| Winners: | Deportivo Recoleta (2nd title) |
| Promoted: | Deportivo Recoleta Tembetary |
| Relegated: | Martín Ledesma 3 de Febrero Atlético Colegiales |
| League Topscorer: | Lucas González (21 goals) |
| Matches: | 240 |
| Total Goals: | 567 |
| Biggest Home Win: | (15 April) |
| Biggest Away Win: | Martín Ledesma 0–4 Tembetary (26 May) Resistencia 0–4 12 de Junio (20 July) |
| Highest Scoring: | Martín Ledesma 4–4 Rubio Ñu (21 June) |
| Prevseason: | 2023 |
| Nextseason: | 2025 |
The 2024 División Intermedia season, named "Homenaje a Daniel Giménez, Félix Quiñonez e Isidoro Benítez", was the 106th season of the second-tier league of Paraguayan football and the 27th under the División Intermedia name. The season began on 5 April and ended on 14 October 2024, and the fixtures for the season were drawn on 28 November 2023.[1] [2]
Deportivo Recoleta and Tembetary earned promotion to the Paraguayan Primera División at the end of the season, with the former clinching a top two finish with three matchdays to go by defeating Pastoreo on 22 September,[3] and the latter doing so on the following matchday, beating Fernando de la Mora on 29 September.[4] Deportivo Recoleta ended up winning their second División Intermedia title after a 1–1 with Fernando de la Mora and a 3–1 loss for Tembetary against Sportivo Carapeguá on the final matchday of the season.[5]
16 teams took part in the competition, which was played under a double round-robin system with teams playing each other twice, once at home and once away for a total of 30 matches. The top two teams at the end of the season were promoted to the Paraguayan Primera División for the 2025 season, while the bottom three teams in the relegation table at the end of the season were relegated: teams located within 50 kilometres of Asunción were relegated to Primera División B, while teams from outside Greater Asunción and the Central Department were relegated to Primera División B Nacional.
16 teams competed in the season: 11 teams from the previous División Intermedia season plus the two teams relegated from Primera División in its 2023 season (Guaireña and Resistencia), the 2023 Primera División B champions Tembetary, the 2023 Primera División B Nacional champions 12 de Junio, and the 2022–23 Campeonato Nacional de Interligas champions Encarnación.[6]
| Team | City | Stadium | Capacity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23,500 | ||||
| 6,000 | ||||
| 4,500 | ||||
| CARDIF[7] | 1,800 | |||
| 8,000 | ||||
| 16,000 | ||||
| 6,000 | ||||
| 11,000 | ||||
| 4,000 | ||||
| 5,000 | ||||
| Liga Caaguazú de Fútbol[8] | 5,000 | |||
| 3,500 | ||||
| 8,000 | ||||
| 5,000 | ||||
| 10,000 | ||||
| 11,000 |
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=center | 1 | Lucas González | Deportivo Recoleta | align=center | 21 | |
| 2 | César Villagra | Rubio Ñu | 12 | |||
| Richart Ortiz | Encarnación | |||||
| align=center | 4 | Augusto Giménez | Sportivo Carapeguá | align=center | 11 | |
| 5 | Roland Escobar | Deportivo Santaní | 10 | |||
| Luis Galeano | Fernando de la Mora | |||||
| 7 | Fernando Escobar | Resistencia / Encarnación | 9 | |||
| Carlos Duarte | Guaireña | |||||
| align=center | 9 | Juan Roa | Tembetary | align=center | 8 | |
| 10 | Jesús Cáceres | Guaireña / Sportivo Carapeguá | 7 | |||
| Jesús Amarilla | 3 de Febrero | - | 12 | Daniel Fernández | 12 de Junio | 6 |
| Tomás Rojas | 12 de Junio | |||||
| Jorge Daniel Nuñez | Tembetary | |||||
| 15 | Santiago Salcedo | 12 de Junio | 5 | |||
| Wilfrido Báez | Deportivo Recoleta | |||||
| William Santander | Encarnación | |||||
| Iván Salcedo | Sportivo Carapeguá | |||||
| Willian Candia | Tembetary --> |
Source: APF
Relegation was determined at the end of the season by computing an average of the total of points earned per game over the past three seasons. The three teams with the lowest average were relegated to Primera División B or Primera División B Nacional for the following season, depending on their geographical location.
| width=28 | Pos ! | width=185 | Team ! | width=50 | 2022 Pts ! | width=50 | 2023 Pts ! | width=50 | 2024 Pts ! | width=50 | Total Pts ! | width=50 | Total Pld ! | width=50 | Avg ! | Relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tembetary | — | — | 62 | 62 | 30 | ||||||||||
| 2 | Deportivo Recoleta | — | 51 | 65 | 116 | 60 | ||||||||||
| 3 | Sportivo Carapeguá | — | 43 | 58 | 101 | 60 | ||||||||||
| 4 | San Lorenzo | 54 | 42 | 46 | 142 | 90 | ||||||||||
| 5 | Resistencia | — | — | 45 | 45 | 30 | ||||||||||
| 6 | Independiente (CG) | 41 | 51 | 41 | 133 | 90 | ||||||||||
| 7 | Encarnación | — | — | 44 | 44 | 30 | ||||||||||
| 8 | 48 | 48 | 35 | 131 | 90 | |||||||||||
| 9 | Rubio Ñu | 44 | 44 | 42 | 130 | 90 | ||||||||||
| 10 | Deportivo Santaní | 33 | 44 | 42 | 119 | 90 | ||||||||||
| 11 | Pastoreo | 53 | 43 | 23 | 119 | 90 | ||||||||||
| 12 | Guaireña | — | — | 38 | 38 | 30 | ||||||||||
| 13 | 12 de Junio | — | — | 38 | 38 | 30 | ||||||||||
| 14 | Martín Ledesma (R) | 45 | 31 | 36 | 112 | 90 | Relegation to Primera B Metropolitana | |||||||||
| 15 | 3 de Febrero (R) | 35 | 39 | 29 | 103 | 90 | Relegation to Primera B Nacional | |||||||||
| 16 | Atlético Colegiales (R) | 36 | 32 | 10 | 78 | 90 | Relegation to Primera B Metropolitana |