Club Olimpia is a Paraguayan professional football club based in the city of Asunción. It promotes the practice of various sports, with most importance given to the football, rugby and basketball sides, football being the most successful. The club was founded on July 25, 1902, by a group of young Paraguayans, and the name stems from the idea of its principal founding member, William Paats, a Dutchman based in Paraguay, who is considered the father of Paraguayan football for having introduced the practice of the sport in the South American country. Internationally, the club is referred to as Olimpia Asunción in order to distinguish it from other Latin American football clubs of the same name.
Club Libertad is a Paraguayan professional football club based in Asunción that currently plays in the Paraguayan Primera División. The club plays its home games at Estadio Tigo La Huerta; which holds 10,100 people.
Nelson Rafael Cuevas Amarilla is a Paraguayan former footballer and current singer.
Carlos Bonet Cáceres is a Paraguayan football manager and former player who played as a right back. He is the current sporting director of Nacional Asunción.
Aldo Antonio Bobadilla Ávalos is a Paraguayan football manager and former player who played as a goalkeeper. He is the current manager of Sportivo Ameliano.
Pedro Alcides Sarabia Achucarro is a Paraguayan football manager and former player who played as a defender.
Football is by far the most popular sport in Paraguay. Paraguay's national team has played at eight FIFA World Cup competitions and has won two Copa América tournaments. Olimpia Asunción is the country's most successful club in domestic and international competitions. Paraguay's football leagues are divided into four divisions. In 2020, Paraguay's top-tier was ranked 8th in the world by the IFFHS.
Gustavo Eliseo Morínigo Vázquez is a Paraguayan football manager and former player who played as a midfielder.
Sergio Apraham Markarián Abrahamián is a Uruguayan-Argentine former football coach of Armenian descent. In 2015, he was the head coach of the Greece national team.
Jorge Amado Nunes Infrán is a Paraguayan football manager and former player. He played as a midfielder and has been a member of the Paraguay national team.
Hernán Rodrigo López Mora, also known as Rodrigo López, is an Uruguayan football manager and former player who played as a forward.
Pablo Horacio Guiñazú is an Argentine football manager and former player.
The Paraguayan football derby, also called the Superclásico ; is the football rivalry between Club Cerro Porteño and Club Olimpia, the two most successful and popular clubs in the country, both from Asunción, Paraguay.
In April 2021, FourFourTwo ranked the Cerro Porteño–Olimpia rivalry as the world's 36th biggest derby.
Daniel Oscar Garnero is an Argentine football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He was recently the manager of Libertad.
Osvaldo Aquino is a former football midfielder/winger and coach.
Juan Eduardo "El Magico" Samudio Serna is a former Paraguayan footballer.
Rodolfo Vicente Gamarra Varela is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a winger for Rubio Ñu.
Víctor Genes was a Paraguayan football player and manager. An attacking midfielder, he played professional football in Paraguay for Cerro Porteño. He was the football manager of Paraguay from 2013 to 2014.
Héctor Daniel "Tito" Villalba is a professional footballer who plays as a winger for Primera División team Club Libertad. Born in Argentina, he represents Paraguay internationally.
Julio César Enciso Espínola is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion and the Paraguay national team.
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