Tacuary

Tacuary
Full name	Tacuary Football Club
Nickname(s)	Tacua, Pumas
Founded	10 December 1923; 100 years ago
Ground	Estadio Toribio Vargas; Asunción, Paraguay
Capacity	3,000
Chairman	Jorge Amancio Cáceres
Manager	Vinícius Eutrópio
League	Primera División
2023	Primera División, 10th of 12
	Current season

Club Tacuary is a Paraguayan First Division football team, based in the neighborhood of Jara in Asunción. The club was founded in 1923.

Tacuary qualified for the Copa Libertadores tournament twice (in 2005 and 2007) and the Copa Sudamericana three times (in 2007, 2012 and 2023). In 2013 it returned to the Paraguayan Segunda División.

In the 2021 season of Paraguay's División Intermedia, Tacuary finished 3rd and was promoted to the Primera División.

Over the years Tacuary's youth academy has produced players such as Ramón Cardozo, Hernán Pérez, Luis Páez, Ronald Huth and Brian Montenegro, as well as other young players that have been sold to important club in the European and Mexican leagues.

Stadium

The club has traditionally played at the 3,000 capacity Estadio Toribio Vargas which is based in Jara neighbourhood. Between 2002 and 2014 however, the club played at the 7,000 capacity Roberto Bettega in the Zeballos Cué neighbourhood. In 2014 the club sold the stadium to a port company for 10 million dollars, and it was subsequently demolished. The club is now back playing in its traditional home.^{[citation needed]}

Honours

Paraguayan Second Division: 1

2002

Paraguayan Third Division: 4

1953, 1961, 1983, 1999

Performance in CONMEBOL competitions

Copa Libertadores: 2 appearances

2005: Preliminary Round

2007: Preliminary Round

Copa Sudamericana: 3 appearances

2007: First Round

2012: First Round

2023: Group stage

Current squad

As of 24 January, 2024. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	PAR	Héctor Espínola
2	DF	PAR	Alexis Fernández
3	DF	BRA	Victor Ferraz
4	DF	PAR	Edgar Benítez
5	DF	PAR	Marcos Cáceres
6	MF	PAR	Marcelo Paredes
7	FW	PAR	Néstor Camacho
8	MF	PAR	Ronal Domínguez
9	FW	PAR	José Verdún
10	MF	PAR	Derlis Rodríguez
11	MF	PAR	Óscar Ruiz
12	GK	PAR	Aldo Bareiro
14	DF	PAR	Rodney Pedrozo
16	MF	ARG	Nelson Acevedo
17	FW	PAR	Nicolás Morínigo


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
18	DF	PAR	Luis Cabral
19	MF	BRA	Valdeci
20	MF	PAR	Matías Verdún
21	FW	PAR	Osmar Colmán
22	GK	PAR	Diego Huesca
24	FW	PAR	Carlos Giménez
26	MF	PAR	Lucas Romero
27	MF	PAR	Jorge González
29	FW	PAR	Mario Otazú
30	DF	BRA	Helerson
32	MF	PAR	Gustavo Medina
33	FW	PAR	Martín Núñez
37	DF	PAR	Walter Clar
39	FW	COL	Orlando Berrío
—	FW	PAR	Darío Lezcano (on loan from Colo-Colo)

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.

1990s

Ronald Huth (1999–2007, 2009–2011, 2012)

2000s'

Osvaldo Mendoza (2002)^[1]
Brian Montenegro (2004–2011, 2012)
Hernán Pérez (2005–2008)
Ramón Cardozo (2006–2012)
Luis Fernando Páez (–2006, 2009–)
Fabian Caballero (2006, 2012)
José Ariel Núñez (2008–2009)

Non-CONMEBOL players

Enrique Maximiliano Meza (2004–2005)^[2]
Riki Kitawaki (2005–2012)^[3]

Mexican player Enrique Maximiliano Meza joined Tacuary in 2004 and remained until 2005^[4]
Brian Montenegro started his career at the club and went on to feature for West Ham United and Leeds United^[5]
Cristian Riveros was at the club from 2000 to 2005^[6]
Hernan Perez was a member of the Tacuary youth academy before debuting in Primera División^[7]