2022 Paraguayan División Intermedia
The 2022 División Intermedia season, named ""Homenaje al Doctor Luis Lezcano Pastore y al Escribano Julio César Ortiz Duarte"", is the 104th season of the second-tier league of Paraguayan football and 25th under the Paraguayan División Intermedia name. The season began on 1 April and is scheduled to end on 10 October 2022. The fixtures for the season were announced on 15 December 2021. Format. 16 teams take part in the competition, which is played under a double round-robin system with teams playing each other twice, once at home and once away for a  total of 30 matches. The top two teams at the end of the season will be promoted to the Paraguayan Primera División for the 2023 season, while the bottom three teams in the relegation table at the end of the season will be relegated: teams located within 50 kilometres of Asunción will be relegated to Primera División B, while teams from outside Greater Asunción and the Central Department will be relegated to Primera División B Nacional. Teams. 16 teams compete in the season: 11 teams from the previous División Intermedia season plus the two teams relegated from Primera División in  its 2021 season (River Plate and Sportivo Luqueño), the top two teams from the 2021 Primera División B (Atlético Colegiales and Martín Ledesma) and the 2019–20 Campeonato Nacional de Interligas champions Pastoreo. Relegation. Relegation is determined at the end of the season by computing an average of the number of points earned per game over the past three seasons. The three teams with the lowest average will be relegated to the Primera División B or Primera División B Nacional for the following season, depending on their geographical location.