Paraguayan Footballer of the Year The Paraguayan Footballer of the Year is an award given to the best
Paraguayan professional
football player every year. The award began officially in 1997 and it is presented by Paraguayan newspaper
ABC Color.
Primera División Paraguaya Topscorers The following list only comprises the professional era and is missing data from 1906 to 1934 (amateur era). A Top 10 table follows.
Players who have played for both clubs in the Superclásico Players who have played for Cerro Porteño and Olimpia Asunción. An Incomplete List follows. •
Carlos Bonet •
Carlos Gamarra •
Casiano Delvalle •
Diego Barreto •
Fabian Caballero •
Fredy Bareiro •
Gabriel Gonzalez •
Ivan Torres •
Nelson Cuevas •
Pablo Zeballos •
Willian Candia Foreigner football players CONMEBOL foreign football players For
CONMEBOL or
South American foreign football players in Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay are the countries that have contributed most players to Paraguayan football. Argentine football players, such as
Roberto Acuña and
Ricardo Ismael Rojas, played in for several years in Paraguay's leagues and even naturalized themselves to play for the national team. Argentine
Héctor Núñez, Uruguayan
Hernan Rodrigo Lopez and Brazilian
Gauchinho are the only non-Paraguayan football players to be leading goalscorers of the Primera División Paraguaya in a single season, including the Apertura and Clausura. Héctor Núñez is the only foreign player to win the goalscoring title back-to-back (1994–1995), playing for Cerro Porteño. A Top 10 table follows.
Non-CONMEBOL foreign football players Most non-CONMEBOL or non-South American foreign football players in Paraguay's football leagues have come from
African (
CAF) countries, especially Cameroon, and from
Asian (
AFC) countries, especially Japan. Amongst the non-CONMEBOL foreign football players in Paraguay, the most iconic signing in Paraguayan football and the highest paid player in the country's history was the
Togolese
Emmanuel Adebayor, when he joined Olimpia Asunción in 2020. Between 2008 and 2011, 30 under-15 footballers from
Indonesia, including
Zikri Akbar and
Rahmanuddin played at diverse clubs in
Paraguay's Football League. In 2016,
Trinidad and Tobago women's national team players
Kennya Cordner and
Kimika Forbes became the first CONCACAF players in to win a trophy in the CONMEBOL, being crowned champions of the
Copa Libertadores Femenina with Paraguayan club
Sportivo Limpeño. A Top 10 table follows.
Youngest debutants A Top 5 list follows of the youngest players to debut in Paraguayan football.
Youngest goal scorers An incomplete list follows of the youngest goal scoring players in Paraguayan football.
Highest goal scorers An incomplete list follows of the highest goal scoring players in Paraguayan football.
Highest paid players An incomplete list follows of the highest paid players in Paraguayan football.
Togolese
Emmanuel Adebayor became the highest paid player in the history of Paraguayan football when he joined
Olimpia Asunción in 2020.
Highest transfer Since 1999,
Roque Santa Cruz held the highest transfer fee from
Olimpia Asunción to
Bayern Munich for USD
$6, 900, 000.00 before
Juan Escobar was sold from
Cerro Porteño to
Mexican team
Cruz Azul for USD
$7, 000, 000.00 in 2019. In January 2022, Julio Enciso was sold to
FA Premier League team Brighton & Hove Albion from Libertad for US$9, 500, 000.00, a new record of highest transfer in Paraguayan football. ==Clubs==