Sportivo Luqueño

The Club Sportivo Luqueño is a Paraguayan football club from the city of Luque. The approximately 220,000 inhabitants, is located in the outskirts of the capital, Asunción, and is also the seat of the South African Football Association Conmebol is. The club colors are blue and yellow.

1921 closed the three clubs Atlético Marte, the Vencedor and General Aquino, founded in 1907, along to the Club Sportivo Luqueño.

Atlético Marte and Vencedor Been 1911 founding members of the League Centenario, an alternative league until 1917, held in Paraguay. Marte but joined soon after the League Paraguaya de Fútbol, the predecessor of today's state association Asociación Paraguaya de Fútbol, and was there second division champions in 1915, but gave up the rise to continuous possession of the trophy, the Copa Intendency Municipal to come. This was achieved by the renewed profit, this time even undefeated, the second division championship the following year. Until the descent as Table 1919 Marte then played three years in the first division. In the last season, the club conceded among others, a 12:16 defeat at the club River Plate.

Vencedor probably played all the seasons of 1916, (not to be confused with the modern National Football Association of Paraguay ) as Asociación Paraguaya de Fútbol operating under the name League Centenario and took 1917, after its dissolution, at the División Transitoria part, the two first access to the league Paraguaya de Fútbol received. After the first season in the second division Vencedor took part in an uprising against the last game of the first League Club Sol de América, which they lost but before the start of the season in 1919 with 2:5.

Sportivo Luqueño was 1924 champion of the second division, the División Intermedia and rose to the Primera División, the highest league in Paraguay. Presumably rose Sportivo 1931 or 1932 from the Primera División and therefore counted after the Chaco War in 1935 not one of the founding members of the professional league but only joined in the following year to do so. 1951 and 1953 Sportivo won the championship.

The best-known players of the club is born in Luque goalkeeper José Luis Chilavert, who played from 1980 to 1982 in youth and then to 1984 in the first team Sportivo.

Sportivo Luqueño plays its home matches at the 25,000 spectators comprehensive Estadio Feliciano Cáceres. The stadium, which is named after a former president of Sportivo, was built with a view to taking place in Paraguay Copa America 1999 on the basis of an existing stadium. It was one of five stages, which were used in this tournament.

Achievements

• Football Championship of Paraguay: 1951, 1953

Known player

• Juan Bautista Villalba (1941-1947)
• Aurelio González
• José Luis Chilavert (1980-1983)
• Romerito (1977-1980)