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.
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, and the latter doing so on the following matchday, beating Fernando de la Mora on 29 September. 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.
Format 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.
Teams Team changes 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.
Promoted to 2024 Primera División Relegated from 2023 Primera División Promoted from 2023 Tercera División Relegated to 2024 Tercera DivisiónSol de América2 de MayoGuaireñaResistencia12 de Junio Encarnación Tembetary Atyrá 24 de Setiembre 12 de Octubre
Stadia and locations
Team City Stadium Capacity3 de Febrero Ciudad del Este Antonio Aranda 23,50012 de Junio Villa Hayes Facundo de León 6,000Atlético Colegiales Lambaré Luciano Zacarías 4,500Deportivo Recoleta Asunción CARDIF 1,800Deportivo Santaní San Estanislao Juan José Vázquez 8,000Encarnación Encarnación Villa Alegre 16,000Fernando de la Mora Asunción Emiliano Ghezzi 6,000Guaireña Villarrica Parque del Guairá 11,000Independiente (CG) Asunción Ricardo Gregor 4,000Martín Ledesma Capiatá Enrique Soler 5,000Pastoreo Juan Manuel Frutos Liga Caaguazú de Fútbol 5,000Resistencia Asunción Tomás Beggan Correa 3,500Rubio Ñu Asunción La Arboleda 8,000San Lorenzo San Lorenzo Gunther Vogel 5,000 Sportivo Carapeguá Carapeguá Municipal de Carapeguá 10,000Tembetary Villa Elisa Luis Alfonso Giagni 11,000 Notes
Standings
Results
Top scorers {| class="wikitable" border="1" |- ! Rank ! Player ! Club ! Goals |- | align=center | 1 | Lucas González |Deportivo Recoleta | align=center | 21 |- | rowspan=2 align=center | 2 | César Villagra |Rubio Ñu | rowspan=2 align=center | 12 |- | Richart Ortiz |Encarnación |- | align=center | 4 | Augusto Giménez |Sportivo Carapeguá | align=center | 11 |- | rowspan=2 align=center | 5 | Roland Escobar |Deportivo Santaní | rowspan=2 align=center | 10 |- | Luis Galeano |Fernando de la Mora |- | rowspan=2 align=center | 7 | Fernando Escobar |Resistencia / Encarnación | rowspan=2 align=center | 9 |- | Carlos Duarte |Guaireña |- | align=center | 9 | Juan Roa |Tembetary | align=center | 8 |- | rowspan=2 align=center | 10 | Jesús Cáceres |Guaireña / Sportivo Carapeguá | rowspan=2 align=center | 7 |- | Jesús Amarilla |3 de Febrero
Source: APF
Relegation 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.
Pos Team 2022Pts 2023Pts 2024Pts TotalPts TotalPld 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 Source: APF
See also 2024 Paraguayan Primera División season 2024 Copa Paraguay
References
External links División Intermedia on the APF's website