Sportivo Limpeño
Full nameClub Sportivo Limpeño
Founded16 July 1914
GroundEstadio Optaciano Gómez Rivas,[1] Limpio
Capacity1,800
ChairmanRamón Gómez Verlangieri
ManagerJuan Benito Gonzalez
LeaguePrimera División B
20182nd in Primera División C (promoted)

Club Sportivo Limpeño is a Paraguayan football club based in Limpio that currently plays in Primera División B.

History

Despite being founded in 1914, Sportivo Limpeño only joined the Paraguayan Football Association in 2013,[2] being formerly affiliated to the UFI. The club had a successful debut, winning the Primera División C.[3] After four seasons, the club was relegated back to Primera C, but achieved promotion by finishing as runners-up and will play again in the Primera B.[4]

Women's team

Sportivo Limpeño has become more known because of its women's team, which participates in the Paraguayan women's championship since 2009. It finished as runners-up in 2014 and won the title in 2015 and 2016. The club also won the Copa Libertadores Femenina in 2016.[5][6]

Since 2018 the club is in cooperation with Libertad and competing as Libertad/Limpeño.[7]

Honours

Men's team

Women's team

References

  1. ↑ "Limpeño inaugura mejoras en su estadio el pxmo. domingo" (in Spanish). TODO ASCENSO. 18 July 2013. Archived from the original on 9 January 2015. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
  2. ↑ "Colón y Limpeño" (in Spanish). ABC Color. 6 March 2013. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  3. ↑ "Limpeño, debutante campeón" (in Spanish). ABC Color. 29 September 2013. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  4. ↑ "Tembetary campeón y Limpeño asciende" (in Spanish). Última Hora. 30 September 2018. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  5. ↑ "Sportivo Limpeño, campeón de la Libertadores" (in Spanish). ABC Color. 21 December 2016. Archived from the original on 28 November 2018. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
  6. ↑ "Sportivo Limpeño hace historia y levanta la Copa Libertadores" (in Spanish). D10. 20 December 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
  7. ↑ "Libertad y Limpeño se unen en pro del fútbol femenino" (in Spanish). HOY. 25 April 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2019.


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