Club Sportivo Limpeño

Paraguayan football club

Football club

Sportivo Limpeño

Full name

Founded

16 July 1914

Ground

Estadio Optaciano Gómez Rivas,^[1] Limpio

Capacity

1,800

Chairman

Ramón Gómez Verlangieri

Manager

Juan Benito Gonzalez

League

Primera B Metropolitana

2023

10th

Home colours

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

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

Primera División C
- 2013

Women's team

Copa Libertadores Femenina
- 2016
Campeonato Paraguayo
- 2015, 2016

References

^ "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.
^ "Colón y Limpeño" (in Spanish). ABC Color. 6 March 2013. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
^ "Limpeño, debutante campeón" (in Spanish). ABC Color. 29 September 2013. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
^ "Tembetary campeón y Limpeño asciende" (in Spanish). Última Hora. 30 September 2018. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
^ "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.
^ "Sportivo Limpeño hace historia y levanta la Copa Libertadores" (in Spanish). D10. 20 December 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
^ "Libertad y Limpeño se unen en pro del fútbol femenino" (in Spanish). HOY. 25 April 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2019.