Olimpia Asunción
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| Full name | Club Olimpia |
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| Nickname(s) |
El Decano (The Dean) Rey de Copas (The King of Cups) El Expreso Decano (The Express Dean) La "O" (The "O") El TriCampeon de América (The Triple Champion of America) |
| Founded | 25 July 1902 |
| Ground |
Estadio Manuel Ferreira, Asunción |
| Capacity | 22,000 |
| Chairman |
 Marco Trovato |
| Manager |
 Pablo Repetto
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| League | Primera División |
| 2016 Clausura | 2nd |
| Website | Club home page |
Club Olimpia is a Paraguayan sports club based in the city of Asunción. The club promotes the practice of various sports with most importance given to the football and basketball sides, the former being the highest priority and most successful. They were founded on July 25, 1902 by a group of young Paraguayans, and the name stems from the idea of its principal founding member, William Paats, a Dutchman based in Paraguay, who is considered the father of Paraguayan football for having introduced the practice of the sport in the South America country. Internationally, the club is referred to as Olimpia Asunción in order to distinguish itself from Latin American football clubs of the same name.
Olimpia are the most decorated institution in Paraguayan football with 40 domestic titles to date. El Decano or Rey de Copas, as they are popularly known, also holds the record of winning six consecutive Primera division titles, the only Paraguayan club to have achieved a hexacampeonato.
Olimpia hold eight international titles, among which three Copa Libertadores and one Intercontinental Cup. It is the only Paraguayan club to have won official CONMEBOL tournaments, and it is also one of only two clubs in history to have earned an international cup despite not playing in it. In 1990 Olimpia won the Copa Libertadores and the Supercopa Libertadores, meaning they won the Recopa Sudamericana automatically.
In 1979 they achieved the rare feat, so far limited to an exclusive set of clubs, of winning all possible official titles on offer that year. They completed the quadruple by winning the Paraguayan championship, Copa Libertadores, the Copa Interamericana and Intercontinental Cup.
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