2005 in Paraguayan football

The following article presents a summary of the 2005 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.

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

Relegation / Promotion

 * General Caballero ZC automatically relegated to the second division after finishing last in the aggregate points table.
 * 2 de Mayo and Club Fernando de la Mora 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 2006 Copa Libertadores by winning the Torneo Apertura and Torneo Clausura; and to the 2005 Copa Sudamericana and 2006 Copa Sudamericana by winning the Apertura and Clausura tournaments.

Runners-up playoff game

 * Libertad (runners-up of the Clausura) qualified to the Copa Libertadores 2006 by winning the runners-up playoff game against Guaraní (runners-up of the Apertura) by an aggregate score of 5–3.

Copa Sudamericana 2005 Qualifiers
Semifinals

Final
 * Guaraní qualified to the Copa Sudamericana 2005 by winning the final.

Copa Sudamericana 2006 Qualifiers
Played between the Clausura tournament winner and the second-best finisher in the aggregate point table (Nacional).

Paraguayan teams in international competitions

 * Copa Libertadores 2005:
 * Cerro Porteño: round of 16
 * Club Libertad: group-stage
 * Tacuary: preliminary round
 * Copa Sudamericana 2005:
 * Cerro Porteño: round of 16
 * Club Guaraní: preliminary first round

Paraguay national team
The following table lists all the games played by the Paraguay national football team in official competitions during 2005.