The Paraguayan football derby, also named as the Superclásico (Super derby); is a football (soccer) fixture played between Cerro Porteño and Club Olimpia, the two most successful and popular teams from Paraguay.
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Head to head
Other stats
Other stats from the Paraguayan Derby:
Vital clashes from recent years
In 1999, Olimpia, winners of that year's Torneo Apertura (Opening Championship) were going for their third consecutive Absoluto (Overall) title. The opponents that day were Torneo Clausura (Closing Championship) winners Cerro Porteño. The first leg went to El Decano 1-0, with everything to play for ahead of the return, billed as "The last derby of the Millennium".
Cerro flew out of the blocks to take a 2-0 lead, courtesy of goals from Osvaldo Peralta and Juan Manuel Sara. Not to be denied, Carlos Humberto Paredes, Virginio Cáceres and Walter Avalos all scored for Olimpia to turn the game on its head and win the coveted triple crown.
However, the Cerro Porteño would have their revenge six years later, in a thrilling finale to the 2005 Clausura. The penultimate match of the campaign saw second-placed Cerro host leaders Olimpia, El Rey de Copas holding a precious one-point lead over their near neighbours. It was the visitors who struck first through Carlos Galvan with a half court strike, before El Ciclón fought back to record a crucial win with goals from Walter Fretes, Julio dos Santos and Erwin Avalos.
On the final matchday, with their fate now in their own hands, 2005 Apertura winners Cerro Porteño held firm to defeat General Caballero, a victory that clinched both the Clausura and the overall 2005 championship.
In 2010 up until the derby Cerro was undefeated. In the first derby of the year Cerro was winning 2-1 but ended up losing 3-2.
In 2012 Olimpia was the Apertura leader with a six-point advantage over Cerro Porteño but ended up losing the title to Cerro after losing too much ground in the last 2 matches and Cerro winning both of them, Santiago Salcedo broke the deadlock after scoring from a Penalty shot and later Jonathan Fabbro scored a spectacular Free Kick while Olimpia tried but failed to tie after Arnaldo Castorino´s goal.
Three years later in 2015 Olimpia would have their revenge after both teams ending the season with the same amount of points a playoff match decided the title, Olimpia dominated the match but the pitch was in bad conditions plus a controversial hand ball by Fidencio Oviedo was not called by the referee. In the second half of the Match Olimpia first scored through Freddy Bareiro who caught a rebound from goalkeeper and later Uruguayan Internacional Diego Lugano scored an own goal for Olimpia after trying to clear off a dangerous free kick from Claudio Vargas, Cerro tried to come back to the game after Guillermo Beltran scored but it was not enough, Olimpia won its 40 local title.
Players who have played for both clubs
List of players who have played for Cerro Porteño and Olimpia Asunción