Paraguayan football derby

Superclásico del fútbol paraguayo
Cerro Porteño
Olimpia
Other namesClásico del fútbol paraguayo
LocationAsunción, Paraguay
First meeting21 September 1913
Primera División
Cerro Porteño 2–2 Olimpia
Latest meeting18 August 2024
Primera División de Paraguay
Cerro Porteño 1-1 Olimpia
Statistics
Most player appearancesEver Almeida (57)
Top scorerSaturnino Arrúa (11)
All-time seriesOlimpia: 127
Cerro Porteño: 123
Drawn: 116
Largest victory27 February 1916
Friendly
Olimpia 10–1 Cerro Porteño

The Paraguayan football derby, also called the Superclásico (Super 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.[1]

Statistics

Head to head

  • Updated as of August 18, 2024
Competition Matches Cerro Wins Draws Olimpia Wins Cerro Goals Olimpia Goals
Paraguayan Primera División 324 112 102 110 406 412
Copa Libertadores 34 9 13 12 39 44
Qualifiers for International cups 5 2 0 3 6 8
Torneo República 2 0 1 1 1 2
Supercopa Paraguay 1 0 0 1 1 3
Official matches 366 123 116 127 453 469
Friendly matches 89 31 24 35 170 174
Total 455 154 140 162 623 643

Records

Other stats from the Paraguayan Derby:[2][3]

  • Largest wins: in an official match goes to Cerro, in an 8–1 win from 1937. Olimpia's biggest win was registered in a non official match with amateur players in 1916, with a result of 10–1.
  • 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

Goals Name Goals in Cerro Years Goals in Olimpia Years
6 Miguel Sanabria 3 1989 y 1990 3 1991, 1994 y 1995
4 Benjamín Laterza 1 1939 3 Entre 1941 y 1949
3 Pablo Zeballos 2 2010 2 2011,2015
3 Julio Díaz 1 1973 2 Entre 1976 y 1980
3 Alfredo Mendoza 1 1983 2 1989 y 1997
2 Crispín Maciel 1 1983 1 1984


Last encounters

Tournament Home Score Away Venue Date
2024 Primera División - Clausura Cerro Porteño 1–1 Olimpia Estadio General Pablo Rojas August 18, 2024
2024 Primera División - Apertura Cerro Porteño 1–1 Olimpia Estadio General Pablo Rojas May 12, 2024
2024 Primera División - Apertura Olimpia 1–1 Cerro Porteño Estadio Defensores del Chaco February 17, 2024
2023 Primera División - Clausura Olimpia 0–0 Cerro Porteño Estadio Defensores del Chaco October 29, 2023
2023 Primera División - Clausura Cerro Porteño 1–1 Olimpia Estadio General Pablo Rojas August 13, 2023
2023 Primera División - Apertura Cerro Porteño 2–2 Olimpia Estadio General Pablo Rojas May 13, 2023
2023 Primera División - Apertura Olimpia 2–2 Cerro Porteño Estadio Defensores del Chaco March 4, 2023
2022 Primera División - Clausura Cerro Porteño 1–2 Olimpia Estadio General Pablo Rojas October 16, 2022
2022 Primera División - Clausura Olimpia 2–0 Cerro Porteño Estadio Defensores del Chaco August 14, 2022
2022 Copa Libertadores Cerro Porteño 0–1 Olimpia Estadio General Pablo Rojas May 25, 2022
2022 Primera División - Apertura Olimpia 0–4 Cerro Porteño Estadio Defensores del Chaco May 22, 2022
2022 Copa Libertadores Olimpia 0–0 Cerro Porteño Estadio Defensores del Chaco April 5, 2022
2022 Primera División - Apertura Cerro Porteño 0–2 Olimpia Estadio General Pablo Rojas March 13, 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.

P. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
2 2 2 2 2 2 2
3 3 3 3 3 3
4 4 4
5 5 5 5
6 6
7 7
8
9
10
11
12

Players who have played for both clubs

List of players who have played for Cerro Porteño and Olimpia

References

  1. ^ December 2020, Greg Lea 12. "Ranked! The 50 biggest derbies in world football". fourfourtwo.com. Retrieved 2021-04-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ El Clásico, palabra santa
  3. ^ Goles en el tradicional duelo
  4. ^ "Carlos Bonet (Player)".
  5. ^ "Carlos Gamarra (Player)".
  6. ^ "Casiano Delvalle (Player)".
  7. ^ "Diego Barreto (Player)".
  8. ^ "Fabián Caballero :: Néstor Fabián Caballero ::".
  9. ^ "Fredy Bareiro (Player)".
  10. ^ "Gabriel González (Player)".
  11. ^ "Iván Torres :: Iván Arturo Torres Riveros :: Olimpia".
  12. ^ "Nelson Cuevas (Player)".
  13. ^ "Pablo Zeballos (Player)".
  14. ^ "Rodrigo Rojas :: Juan Rodrigo Rojas Ovelar :: Sol de América".
  15. ^ "Sergio Aquino :: Sergio Daniel Aquino ::".
  16. ^ "Los 11 que cruzaron a la vereda rival". 27 February 2015.
  17. ^ "Willian Candia :: Willian Benito Candia Garay :: River Plate".