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| Full name | Independiente Foot-Ball Club | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nicknames | El Campo Grandense,El Inde | ||
| Founded | September 20, 1925 | ||
| Ground | Estadio Ricardo Gregor | ||
| Capacity | 3,500 | ||
| Chairman | Eriberto Gamarra | ||
| Manager | Pablo Caballero | ||
| League | División Intermedia | ||
| 2025 | División Intermedia, 14th of 16 | ||
 Current season | |||
Independiente Foot-Ball Club also referred to asIndependiente de Campo Grande or simplyIndependiente CG[1] is a Paraguayanfootball club based in the neighbourhood ofSalvador del Mundo, an area previously known as Campo Grande, inAsunción. Founded on September 20, 1925, they play inDivision Intermedia, the second division in theParaguayan football league system. Their home stadium isEstadio Ricardo Gregor.[2]
Founded on September 20, 1925, by young people from the neighborhood of Campo Grande, its first president was Marciano Romero. The name Independiente arose as a way to get away from the influence of the political parties in football, something very common in those years.[3]
After theChaco War and when football tournaments resumed in the capital after the war, the club competed in the Federación Paraguaya de Deportes championships.[4]
In the 40s and 50s, when the promotion and relegation system was re-implemented in the divisions of the currentAsociación Paraguaya de Fútbol (APF) and when theTercera División was created, the club affiliated and has competed since then in the APF competitions.
After relegating to the last division, the club achieved theTercera División title again in 1975, after being promoted and relegated again, it repeated the Third Division title in 1980, thus achieving its third title of the so-calledSegunda de Ascenso.
It remained for several years in theSegunda División then calledPrimera de Ascenso, until 1,997 inches (5,070 cm) which theAPF reorganizes its divisions and creates theDivisión Intermedia as the newSegunda División nd expanding the levels of Paraguayan soccer from 3 to 4 divisions, the club was not one of the clubs selected to be part of theDivisión Intermedia, so in 1997 it competed again in theTercera División then calledPrimera de Ascenso, since theSegunda de Ascenso became theCuarta División.
In 2001 they achieved the title of theTercera División for the fourth time, but it was their first title with the name ofPrimera de Ascenso. Thus they achieved the promotion to theDivisión Intermedia but couldn't maintain the category and in 2002 they descended again.[5]
From the 2003 season they competed in theTercera División, until the 2008 season, when they achieved a runner-up position and the right to a playoff for promotion against the runner-up of theNacional de Interligas. After winning both matches againstDeportivo Capiatá, the club achieved promotion to theDivisión Intermedia once again.[6]
In the 2009 Intermedia season, the club finished sixth in the middle of the table, ensuring its permanence in the division.
In the 2010 season, the club achieved the runner-up position and with it a direct promotion to thePrimera División, for the first time in its history.[7]
The club managed to stay in the top fight division for two seasons. After the 2012 season finished the team had an average of 0,977, the worst in the table, so they were relegated to the División Intermedia again.
The club competed in the Intermedia (Segunda División) in the 2013, 2014 and 2015 seasons with campaigns that kept them away from the relegation places. Finally, in the2016 season, after an excellent campaign with four games to go before the conclusion of the championship, the club achieved promotion to thePrimera División for the second time in its history and for the first time with the title ofDivisión Intermedia.
In December 2016, the club began work on its return to the top flight.[8] In the first dates of the2017 Torneo Apertura the club obtained good results.[9]
In the final stretch of the Primera División, they managed to qualify for the2019 Copa Sudamericana after placing seventh in theaggregate table of the 2018 season, but at the same time they placed second-from-bottom in the relegation table and were relegated toDivisión Intermedia, thus becoming the first Paraguayan second division team to qualify for an international competition.
Since 2019, they are competing in the División Intermedia with average performances.
So far this century, the club has been in 3 of the 4 divisions of thelocal league system:
Juan Cardozo (2011)Lorenzo Melgarejo (2011)Diego Gavilán (2012)
Yohei Iwasaki (2012–2013)[10]Alicio Solalinde (February 29, 2012 – May 31, 2012)
