The Paraguayan football derby 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.

Statistics

Head to head

  • Updated as of 18 August 2024
CompetitionMatchesCerro WinsDrawsOlimpia WinsCerro GoalsOlimpia Goals
Paraguayan Primera División324112102110406412
Copa Libertadores34913123944
Qualifiers for International cups520368
Torneo República201112
Supercopa Paraguay100113
Official matches366123116127453469
Friendly matches89312435170174
Total455154140162623643

Records

Other stats from the Paraguayan Derby:

  • Largest wins: in an official match goes to Cerro, in an 8–1 win from 1937. Olimpia's biggest win was registered with amateur players in 1916, with a result of 5–0.
  • Most consecutive wins by Cerro: five consecutive, in 1986 (2–0, 2–1) and 1987 (2–0, 2–1, 1–0).
  • Most consecutive wins by Olimpia: four consecutive in two occasions; in 1925 (3–1, 3–0) and 1926 (4–1, 3–0), and 1980 (2–0) and 1981 (1–0, 1–0, 1–0).
  • Longest unbeaten runs: both teams have a record of 10 games without losing to each other. Cerro was unbeaten for 10 games between July 1992 and July 1995; while Olimpia was unbeaten for 11 games between October 2001 and September 2004 (10, in the regular championship).
  • All-time top scorers: for Olimpia is Mauro Caballero with 10 goals (9 in the Paraguayan League and 1 in Copa Libertadores) and for Cerro is Saturnino Arrua with 11 goals (7 in the Paraguayan League and 4 in the Copa Libertadores).
  • Top Scorers in a single game: Dante Lopez for Olimpia, scoring 4 goals in 2005 and Pedro Osorio for Cerro, scoring 4 goals in 1937.
  • Most goals by a player in a single season: Arístides Del Puerto, Rafael Bobadilla and Mauro Caballero have all scored five goals in a single season (in 1967, 1983, 1998 respectively).

Players to score for both clubs

GoalsNameGoals in CerroYearsGoals in OlimpiaYears
6Miguel Sanabria31989 y 199031991, 1994 y 1995
4Benjamín Laterza119393Entre 1941 y 1949
3Pablo Zeballos2201022011,2015
3Julio Díaz119732Entre 1976 y 1980
3Alfredo Mendoza1198321989 y 1997
2Crispín Maciel1198311984

Last encounters

TournamentHomeScoreAwayVenueDate
2024 Primera División - ClausuraCerro Porteño1–1OlimpiaEstadio General Pablo Rojas18 August 2024
2024 Primera División - AperturaCerro Porteño1–1OlimpiaEstadio General Pablo Rojas12 May 2024
2024 Primera División - AperturaOlimpia1–1Cerro PorteñoEstadio Defensores del Chaco17 February 2024
2023 Primera División - ClausuraOlimpia0–0Cerro PorteñoEstadio Defensores del Chaco29 October 2023
2023 Primera División - ClausuraCerro Porteño1–1OlimpiaEstadio General Pablo Rojas13 August 2023
2023 Primera División - AperturaCerro Porteño2–2OlimpiaEstadio General Pablo Rojas13 May 2023
2023 Primera División - AperturaOlimpia2–2Cerro PorteñoEstadio Defensores del Chaco4 March 2023
2022 Primera División - ClausuraCerro Porteño1–2OlimpiaEstadio General Pablo Rojas16 October 2022
2022 Primera División - ClausuraOlimpia2–0Cerro PorteñoEstadio Defensores del Chaco14 August 2022
2022 Copa LibertadoresCerro Porteño0–1OlimpiaEstadio General Pablo Rojas25 May 2022
2022 Primera División - AperturaOlimpia0–4Cerro PorteñoEstadio Defensores del Chaco22 May 2022
2022 Copa LibertadoresOlimpia0–0Cerro PorteñoEstadio Defensores del Chaco5 April 2022
2022 Primera División - AperturaCerro Porteño0–2OlimpiaEstadio General Pablo Rojas13 March 2022

Head-to-head ranking in Primera División seasons

This table shows the last seasons positions in the aggregate table of that year for both clubs.

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Players who have played for both clubs

List of players who have played for Cerro Porteño and Olimpia

External links