Sportivo Luqueño

Club Sportivo Luqueño is a Paraguayan football club, based in the city of Luque on the outskirts of the capital Asunción. It currently plays in the Paraguayan Primera División, the country's top tier of football, where it has won thrice, in 1951, 1953 and 2007-A.

Sportivo Luqueño

Full name	Club Sportivo Luqueño
Nickname(s)	Auriazul (Blue-Yellow) Azul y Oro El Chanchón (The Pig) Kure Luque (Luque Pig)
Founded	May 1, 1921; 104 years ago (1921-05-01)
Ground	Estadio Feliciano Cáceres Luque, Paraguay
Capacity	26,974
Chairman	Daniel Rodríguez
Manager	Gustavo Morínigo
League	Primera División
2024	Primera División, 6th of 12
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

History

The club was founded in 1921 when three teams from the city of Luque (Marte Atlético, General Aquino and Vencedor) decided to merge and form one single club: Sportivo Luqueño. Only three years after its foundation, the team was already playing in the first division and fighting for the title. So far, Sportivo Luqueño has won three first division titles in the Paraguayan league, in 1951, 1953 and 2007.

For the 1999 Copa América, hosted by Paraguay, the club built a brand new stadium which seats 25,000, making it the third largest in Paraguay (after the Defensores del Chaco in Asunción and the Estadio Antonio Oddone Sarubbi in Ciudad del Este).

The fans of the club are very passionate and that can be seen when visiting the city of Luque, where basically everything is decorated by the club's colors (blue and yellow).^{[citation needed]}

Club anthem

The official anthem of Club Sportivo Luqueño was created in the first decades of the club, where in a group of fanatical musicians and artists Luqueños, decided to make a club on the eve of the club's anniversary. On that occasion several music dedicated to the institution were revealed, in which I highlight the song presented by Luqueño Musician Juan Bautista Almirón. Thus causing the euphoria of all those present, who accompanied with palms and choirs.

Uniform and sponsors

From the beginning the design was always vertical blue and yellow stripes, and sometimes used the shirt or shirt as an alternative half blue and the other yellow in the 50s. But the club's traditional design was always used, and It was constituted by blue and yellow vertical stripes, which with time would be the representative colors, which identifies the city of Luque.

On the chest a shield with the initial C.S.L. and three golden stars included in the late 90s, represent the three clubs that merged for the creation of the club "Marte Atlético", "El Vencedor" and "Gral. Aquino", with blue shorts and blue or yellow socks .

Nickname

The team is identified with the nickname of "Kuré Luque", because the city of Luque is famous for pigs (Kuré, which in the Guaraní means pig), and even the club owns a pig as a team mascot in the facilities. "KURÉ LUQUE" (Chancho Luqueño) due to an old anecdotic fact: the pigs were transported to Asunción in certain train carriages, which in football days were also used by fans and Sportivo Luqueño players. For this reason the fans of the opposite team said "There come the Kure Luque"

Honours

National

• Primera División
  • Winners (2): 1951, 1953

• Plaqueta Millington Drake
  • Winners (1): 1953

• División Intermedia
  • Winners (4): 1924, 1956, 1964, 1968

Performance in CONMEBOL competitions

• Copa Libertadores: 3 appearances

First Round (3): 1976, 1984, 2008

• Copa CONMEBOL: 2 appearances

Best: Quarter-Finals (1) in 1993

First Round (1) in 1997

• Copa Sudamericana (4): 2015, 2016 and 2017 2018

Best: Semifinals: 2015

Current squad

As of 13 August 2025.^[1][2] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  PAR Francisco Mongelos 3 DF  PAR Angel Brizuela 4 DF  PAR Mathías Suárez 5 DF  PAR Alexis Villalba 7 FW  PAR Kevin Pereira 8 MF  PAR Walter Rodríguez 9 FW  PAR Federico Santander 10 FW  PAR Sergio Díaz 11 FW  PAR Walter González 12 GK  PAR Alfredo Aguilar 13 MF  URU Hugo Dorrego 14 MF  PAR Fernando Benitez 15 MF  PAR Sebastián Maldonado 16 MF  PAR Ángel Benítez 17 FW  PAR Brahian Ayala

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 MF  PAR Sebastián Quintana (on loan from Olimpia) 19 FW  PAR Marcelo Pérez 20 DF  ARG Rubén Darío Ríos 22 MF  PAR Santiago Ocampos 23 DF  PAR Alberto Espínola 24 FW  PAR Aldo Parra 25 FW  PAR Jonathan Ramos 26 DF  ARG Lucas Monzón (on loan from Alvarado) 27 MF  PAR Julio Báez 29 FW  PAR Rodrigo Cáceres 30 DF  PAR Thiago Cáceres 33 DF  PAR Rodrigo Alborno 35 GK  PAR Hugo Gaona 37 MF  ARG Lautaro Comas 40 GK  PAR Angel Espinola

Notable players

To appear in this section a player must have either:

• Played at least 125 games for the club.
• Set a club record or won an individual award while at the club.
• Been part of a national team at any time.
• Played in the first division of any other football association (outside of Paraguay).
• Played in a continental and/or intercontinental competition.

1920s Aurelio González (1920s) 1940s Juan Bautista Villalba (1941–1947) Dionisio Arce (1948–1949) 1950s José Parodi (1950–1955, 1957–1958) José Aveiro (1958) 1960s Modesto Sandoval (1960–1964) 1970s Juan Bautista Torales (1976–1981, 1993–1995) Julio César Romero (Romerito) (1977–1979, 1990–1991, 1993–1994, 1996) Raúl Vicente Amarilla (1978–1979) 1980s José Luis Chilavert (1982–1984) 1990s Francisco Ferreira (1991–93, 2001, 2002) Aristides Masi (1997, 1998–1999, 2001, 2002, 2005) Aldo Adorno (1998–2000) 2000s Luis Núñez (2000–2006, 2007–2008, 2010) Vidal Sanabria (2000) Albeiro Usuriaga (2002) Derlis Gómez (2002, 2004–2006) Miguel Ángel Cuéllar (2004–2005) Richart Báez (2005) Daniel Sanabria (2005) Alcidio Fleitas (2005) Ricardo Tavarelli (2005) Julio César Yegros (2005) Miguel Ángel Benítez (2006) Juan Fernández Di Alessio (2007) Juan Cardozo (2007) 2010s Carlos Humberto Paredes (2010) Javier Cohene (2010) Juan Pablo Raponi (2011) Nelson Cuevas (2012) Francisco Aldo Barreto Miranda (2014) 2020s Isidro Pitta (2020) Non-CONMEBOL players Bertrand Tchami (1998–1999)[3][4] Nobuhiro Takeda (2000) Seidou Aboubacar (2003)[5] Guy Stéphane Essame (2004–2005) Tobie Mimboe (2004) Celestine Romed Ngah Kebe (2007–2008) Nouga Georges (2009–2010) Kenneth Nkweta Nju Hideaki Ozawa (2010) Sho Shimoji (2011) Yuki Tamura (2011) Bryan Lopez (2007–2013)[6] John Alston Bodden (2014)[7] Brad Norman (2020)[8] Takayuki Morimoto (2021)

Managers

• Feliciano Caceres 1921
• Vessillo Bartoli (1950–1953)
• Aurelio Gonzalez (1967-1969)
• Carlos Arce (1975–1977)(1982)
• Silvio Parodi ( 1983)
• Raul Vicente Amarilla (1996)
• Julio Carlos Gómez
• Ever Hugo Almeida (2006)
• Carlos Kiese (2007)
• Miguel Ángel Zahzú (2007–2009)
• Carlos Jara Saguier (Sept 28, 2010 – Dec 11, 2010)
• Guillermo Sanguinetti (Dec 9, 2010 – Feb 22, 2011)
• Rolando Chilavert (July 1, 2011 – Oct 17, 2011)
• Daniel Lanata (Dec 2011)
• Carlos Kiese (April 11, 2012 – July 3, 2012)
• Pablo Caballero (July 9, 2012 – March 4, 2013)
• José Cardozo (March 4, 2013 – May 8, 2013)
• Alicio Solalinde (April 30, 2013 – March 8, 2014)
• Eduardo Rivera (March 9, 2014– )
• Javier Sanguinetti (July, 2017– 2018)
• Pedro Sarabia (Oct,2018)
• Celso Ayala (2019–2020)
• Luis Fernando Escobar (2020–2021)
• Badayco Maciel (2021)
• Miguel Ángel Zahzú (2021–2022)