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The Uruguayan Primera Division, known as the Uruguayan Championship and called the Uruguayan Championship Coca-Cola Cup for sponsorship reasons, is the highest category of the Uruguayan soccer league system and is organized by the Uruguayan Football Association. It began to be disputed in the year 1900 and it has 113 editions. It is one of the oldest football leagues in the world.The Uruguayan league is considered the 23rd of the world in the XXI century according to the official ranking of the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) .3 It is one of the few leagues in South America that almost did not undergo changes or interruptions along its history. The most significant was the passage of a format of all against all on two wheels, to adivision of the season in two short tournaments (Torneo Apertura and Torneo Clausura), which, together with the accumulated table (Annual Table), give the Access to the Uruguayan Championship definition since the 1994 season. It was founded on March 30, 1900, and from the 1932 season professionalism was installed.Throughout its history almost sixty clubs have participated in the league, being the National Football Club, the equipment with more presences with 112. A total of nine clubs have been champions, and the majority of the seasons have been monopolized by the Two greats of Uruguayan football: Nacional, who won 46 titles, and Peñarol, who scored 48National is the current champion, after obtaining the 2016 edition.
Dispute SystemThe championship is disputed annually, as it has been throughout most of its history. Exceptionally, it was changed to the European calendar format from the 2005-06 and 2015-16 championships. The Uruguayan league came to be disputed between 20 clubs, but at the present time 16 are those who participate of the First Division.Only a team of competitors will win the title of Uruguayan Champion. The maintenance of a single champion per season is a tradition that has been achieved since the first tournament in 1900. However, the division of the championship in the Apertura and Clausura tournaments arose from 1994. It is through obtaining the Tournament Opening, Closing Tournament or Annual Table, that a team gets access to the definition of the title.Since the 2017 edition, the dispute of an Intermediate Tournament has been incorporated in the middle of the season, between the Apertura Tournament and the Clausura Tournament. The champion of the tournament will play, together with the Uruguayan Champion, a final for the Supercopa Uruguaya. In case a club wins both competitions, its rival will be the finalist of Intermediate. It will be a unique game that will be played one week before the next season begins.4Defining the Uruguayan ChampionTo define the champion of the season, after the tournaments are played, the finals are held for the Uruguayan Championship, in which the champions of the Apertura and Torneo Clausura participate, in a semifinal character, and the winner of this match defines the Final against the winner of the Annual Table (sum of points in both tournaments). If the same team wins the Apertura and Closing, and therefore the Annual Table, automatically becomes Uruguayan Champion.The semifinal consists of a single match, with extra time and penalties in case of a tie, while the finals are in two games, defined by points, by difference of goals or by penalties.Since the 2009-10 season, the number of matches in the finals has been reduced (previously 6 matches could be played between the same finalists, adding semi-finals and finals).
Classification of international cupsWhoever is Uruguayan champion will get the direct classification to the second phase (of groups) of the Copa Libertadores the following year as Uruguay 1. In addition, he also qualifies the next South American Cup in the same condition.From the 2009-10 season, the dispute of the Pre-Libertadores Liguilla (tournament that was disputed at the end of the season), by problem of calendar was suppressed.The champion was the only team entitled to participate in the two international tournaments; The other qualifiers could only participate in one of them, and they would be classified according to their final position in the Uruguayan championship; For this, his position in the Annual Table was taken into account - except for the case of a team that would have been a finalist, who would be considered Uruguayan runner-up beyond his position in the Annual Table. Priority was given to the Copa Libertadores: in this way, the runner-up classified group zone as Uruguay 2, while the third one acceded to the first phase like Uruguay 3. To Copa Sudamericana classified the fourth position of the Uruguayan like Uruguay 2, and The fifth as Uruguay 3. This classification system remained intact since the elimination of the Liguilla until the Uruguayan Special Championship 2016. In this tournament only quotas were granted for the South American Cup because it is a special tournament.In the following seasons, starting with the 2017 edition, the quotas will be defined as: The Uruguayan champion will qualify the Libertadores as Uruguay 1, the Uruguayan vice-champion (be it the loser in the Uruguayan finals or the second best placed in the Annual Table) To the Libertadores like Uruguay 2, the equipment that follows him in score in the Annual Table will classify to the Liberators like Uruguay 3 and in case Mexico declines to continue participating in the Glass Liberators, the fourth best equipment of the Annual Table would classify like Uruguay 4, in case Mexico continues to participate, would classify the South American as Uruguay 1.From the 2017 edition of the Copa Libertadores following the change produced by Conmebol, no team can qualify for both competitions.
Down to Second Division
The descent to Second Division is defined by the Descent Table, which is the sum of the score obtained during two seasons (the season in dispute and the previous one), descending the last three of the same. The newly promoted teams will double the score obtained in the season for that table.
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