Uruguayan Primera División
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top division professional football league in Uruguay
Key facts
- Founded
- 1900 ; 126 years ago ( 1900 )
- Country
- Uruguay
- Confederation
- CONMEBOL
- Relegation to
- Segunda División
- Domestic cup s
- Copa Uruguay , Supercopa Uruguaya , Copa de la Liga AUF
- International cup s
- Copa Libertadores , Copa Sudamericana
- Current champions
- Nacional (50th title) , ( 2025 )
- Most championships
- Peñarol / CURCC (52 titles)
- Top scorer
- Fernando Morena (230)
- Broadcaster s
- DirecTV Sports , Disney+ , Tenfield , Antel TV
- Website
- auf.org.uy
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- national championship
- Country
- Uruguay
- Sport
- association football
- Official website
- www.auf.org.uy/uruguayo-1-division
- Organizer
- Uruguayan Football Association
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- topic's main category
- Category:Uruguayan Primera División
- inception
- 1900-00-00
- event interval
- 1
- season starts
- August
- Commons category
- Uruguayan Primera División
- number of participants
- 16
- social media followers
- 113399
- native label
- Liga Profesional de Primera División
- league level below
- Uruguayan Segunda División
- league system
- Uruguayan football league system
- topic has template
- Template:Uruguayan Primera División
- competition class
- men's association football
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Encyclopedic overview
The Liga AUF Uruguaya, also known as Liga Profesional de Primera División (American Spanish [ˈliɣa pɾofesjoˈnal de pɾiˈmeɾa ðiβiˈsjon], English: First Division Professional League, local: [pɾiˈmeɾa ðiβiˈsjon], First Division), named "Torneo Uruguayo Copa Coca-Cola" for sponsorship reasons, is the highest professional football league in Uruguay organized by the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF).
The first championship was held in 1900, being an amateur competition until 1932 when the league became professional. From 1900 to the 2024 season there have been 121 first division seasons.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Uruguayan Primera División” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.