Primera División Profesional
Torneo Uruguay Especial
NB: intermediate season as Uruguay will change to 'European' season
for 2005/06. Winners qualify for Copa Libertadores 2006.
Final Table:
1.C Nacional dF 17 12 5 0 39-16 41 Championship Playoff
2.Defensor Sporting Club 17 12 5 0 33-13 41 Championship Playoff
3.CA Peñarol 17 10 5 2 28-19 35
4.Danubio FC 17 8 4 5 23-16 28
5.Rocha FC (Rocha) 17 6 7 4 27-21 25
6.Liverpool FC 17 7 4 6 26-25 25
7.CA Rentistas 17 6 6 5 30-25 24
8.Miramar Misiones FC 17 7 2 8 33-29 23
9.Montevideo Wanderers FC 17 6 5 6 30-33 23
10.CA River Plate 17 6 4 7 34-32 22
11.CS Cerrito 17 5 6 6 21-19 21
12.Tacuarembó FC (Tacuarembó) 17 5 6 6 17-18 21
13.CA Fénix 17 5 4 8 19-26 19
14.Paysandú FC (Paysandú) 17 3 5 9 23-34 14
15.Rampla Juniors FC 17 3 5 9 19-31 14
16.CA Plaza (Colonia) 17 3 5 9 8-27 14
17.CA Cerro 17 3 4 10 20-30 13
18.CD Colonia (Juan Lacaze, CO) 17 3 4 10 15-31 13
NB: all teams from Montevideo unless indicated otherwise;
no promotion or relegation
Round 1
[Mar 5]
Peñarol 2-2 Tacuarembó
[Martín García 38, Marcelo Tejera 78; Celestino Tejera 47, Franco Sosa 50]
Paysandú 3-3 Rocha
[Christian Callejas 3pen, 13, Christian Castellanos 8; Luis Magureguy 2pen,
Pedro Cardozo 7, 77]
Cerrito 2-2 Cerro
[Fernando Cardozo 28, Alberto Acosta 43; Fernando Cañarte 42,
Andoni Damián Álvarez 77pen]
[Mar 6]
Nacional 3-1 Rampla Juniors
[Alexander Medina 3, Gabriel Álvez 11, Martín Ligüera 91pen;
Gerardo Morales 45]
Rentistas 1-2 Danubio
[Zinho 76; Pablo Mello 62, Walter Gargano 75]
Liverpool 3-0 Plaza
[Matías González 18pen, 61pen, Luis Aguiar 54]
Defensor 4-2 River Plate
[Ignacio Ithurralde 32, Maximiliano Pereira 40, 55, Hugo Costela 75;
Richard Porta 56, Osvaldo Canobbio 68]
Dep. Colonia 2-0 Wanderers
[Freddy Freire 26, Richard Güelmo 86]
Fénix 2-0 Miramar Misiones
[Federico Aguilera 78, Vágner Conceiçao 83]
Round 2
[Mar 12]
Liverpool 1-2 Rocha
[Leonardo Medina 5; Pedro Cardozo 23, Leonardo Maldonado 63]
Danubio 0-1 Tacuarembó
[Celestino Tejera 66]
Dep. Colonia 0-3 Peñarol
[Pablo Russo 5, Martín García 40, Gonzalo Pizzichillo 74]
[Mar 13]
Nacional 2-0 River Plate
[Sebastián Rodrigo Vázquez 80, Gonzalo Castro 94]
Cerro 1-2 Wanderers
[Fernando Cañarte 39; Sergio Blanco 44, Carlos Kiesse 82]
Cerrito 2-1 Paysandú
[Álvaro Pintos 68, Mario Amorín 92; Christian Castellanos 77]
Defensor 3-1 Rampla Juniors
[Álvaro Navarro 45, Diego De Souza 60, Maximiliano Pereira 75;
José Irigoyen 25]
Plaza 0-0 Fénix
Rentistas 2-2 Miramar Misiones
[Agustín Lucas 28og, Paulo Pezzolano 88; Leonardo Zaroza 15,
Marcio Galli 76]
Round 3
[Mar 19]
Plaza 1-4 Nacional
[Adrián Malvárez 81; Sebastián Abreu 34pen, Gabriel Álvez 67,
Martín Ligüera 79, Alexander Medina 84]
Rocha 1-1 Rentistas
[Pedro Cardozo 65; Zinho 7]
Wanderers 2-0 Tacuarembó
[Sebastián Eguren 4, Sergio Blanco 60]
[Mar 20]
Liverpool 1-0 Rampla Juniors
[Ángel Gutiérrez 84]
River Plate 2-1 Cerrito
[Osvaldo Canobbio 12, 16pen; Álvaro Pintos 47]
Cerro 2-3 Fénix
[Andoni Damián Álvarez 60 pen, Audu Mohamed 80; Williams Ferreira 34,
Vágner Conceiçao 50, Marcelo Broli 53]
Danubio 5-2 Miramar Misiones
[Juan Manuel Salgueiro 19, Pablo Lima 27, Bruno Silva 47,
Ignacio Risso 77, 90; Darwin Quintana 37, Adrián Speranza 66]
Peñarol 1-1 Defensor
[Gonzalo Pizzichillo 87; Álvaro Navarro 40]
Dep. Colonia 1-1 Paysandú
[Oscar Dastés 71; Ramiro Bruschi 49]
Round 4
[Apr 2]
Tacuarembó 2-1 Plaza
[Juan Péndola 62, Hénderson Machado 64; Adrián Malvárez 40]
Cerrito 2-0 Fénix
[Leonardo Sum 71, Alberto Acosta 74pen]
Peñarol 2-2 Rentistas
[Jean-Jacques Pierre 5, Pablo Russo 92; Elías (Zinho) Ferreira 73,
Paulo Pezzolano 81pen]
[Apr 3]
Danubio 1-1 Nacional
[Ignacio Risso 91; Rodrigo Sebastián Vázquez 69]
Wanderers 2-4 Liverpool
[Jorge Martínez 5, Sergio Blanco 10pen; Gonzalo Romero 3,
Matías González 39pen, 74, Luis Aguiar 90]
River Plate 0-1 Rocha
[Pedro Cardozo 90]
Rampla Juniors 2-1 Cerro
[Carlos Aguiar 16, Rodrigo Bengua 46+; Bruno Piano 28]
Defensor 2-0 Dep. Colonia
[Sebastián Taborda 30, 34pen]
Miramar Misiones 4-1 Paysandú
[Pablo Granoche 4pen, 17, 50, Marcio Galli 59;
Christian Callejas 87pen]
Round 5
[Apr 9]
Rocha 0-1 Peñarol
[Gonzalo Pizzichillo 89]
Fénix 2-0 Danubio
[Vágner Conceiçao 6, Enrique Colzada 79]
Plaza 0-0 Cerrito
[Apr 10]
Rentistas 1-5 Nacional
[Mauricio Ibarra 14; Ignacio Pallas 38, 58, Martín Ligüera 44pen, 82,
Alexander Medina 92pen]
Dep. Colonia 1-2 Liverpool
[Oscar Dastés 92; Walter Kúder 33, Ángel Gutiérrez 61]
Miramar Misiones 1-2 River Plate
[Pablo Granoche 87; Richard Porta 67, Osvaldo Canobbio 82]
Defensor 2-2 Wanderers
[Sebastián Taborda 16, Maximiliano Pereira 70; Sebastián Eguren 21,
Serafín García 59]
Paysandú 2-2 Cerro
[Christian Castellano 1, 12; Sebastián Martínez 21, Diego Godín 45]
Rampla Juniors 1-2 Tacuarembó
[Gerardo Morales 56; Hénderson Machado 55, Guillermo Almada 57]
Round 6
[Apr 16]
Danubio 1-1 Liverpool
[Junior Aliberti 45; Leonardo Medina 26]
Plaza 0-3 River Plate
[Leandro Ezquerra 61, Adrián Sarkisián 77, Richard Porta 89]
Paysandú 1-2 Peñarol
[Christian Castellano 38pen; Martín García 45pen, Sebastián Maz 50]
[Apr 17]
Nacional 3-2 Dep. Colonia
[Martín Ligüera 13, 64, Sebastián Abreu 92; Oscar Dastés 9,
Peter Vera 79]
Rocha 1-1 Fénix
[Luis Magureguy 70pen; Vágner Conceiçao 45]
Wanderers 3-1 Rampla Juniors
[Sergio Blanco 10, 87, Claudio Dadomo 11; Carlos Aguiar 88]
Cerro 0-3 Miramar Misiones
[Carlos De Castro 18, Pablo Granoche 78, Adrián Speranza 90]
Defensor 1-0 Tacuarembó
[Álvaro Navarro 71]
Rentistas 2-0 Cerrito
[Elías "Zinho" Ferreira 20, 24]
Round 7
[Apr 23]
Paysandú 1-3 Liverpool
{Christian Callejas 40pen; Leonardo Medina 12, 45, 70]
Defensor 2-2 Cerro
[Sebastián Taborda 32, Hugo Costela 73; Fernando Alves 65,
Rodrigo Moreira 69]
Rampla Juniors 2-2 Peñarol
[Gerardo Morales 41, Marcelo Pérez 48; Gabriel Cedrés 68, 88]
[Apr 24]
Tacuarembó 0-1 Nacional
[Sebastián Rodrigo Vázquez 16]
Rentistas 3-3 River Plate
[Nicolás Di Santo 21, Paulo Pezzolano 29, Roberto Bobadilla 42;
Richard Porta 34pen, Darío Flores 45+2, Flavio Córdoba 75]
Miramar Misiones 1-2 Rocha
[Álvaro Pereyra 37; José Pedro Cardozo 70, Ruben Rodríguez Pedraja 72]
Fénix 4-4 Wanderers
[Marcelo Segales 10, Líber Vespa 30og, Waldemar Maldonado 40,
Álvaro Meneses 64; Claudio Dadomo 17, Jorge Martínez 22,
Sergio Blanco 45, 73pen]
Plaza 0-2 Danubio
[Bruno Silva 38, Juan Manuel Ortiz 87]
Cerrito 0-1 Dep. Colonia
[Rodolfo Azambuja 88]
Round 8
[Apr 29]
Defensor 1-1 Nacional
[Hugo Costela 47; Alexander Medina 78]
[Apr 30]
Fénix 2-0 Liverpool
[Fabián Estoyanoff 44, Enrique Colzada 86]
Dep. Colonia 1-1 River Plate
[Martín Rodríguez 85og; Osvaldo Canobbio 83]
Rocha 1-0 Rampla Juniors
[Luis Jesús Toscanini 25]
Rentistas 5-1 Wanderers
[Elías Ferreira (Zinho) 51 pen, 75, Antonio Esmerode 70,
Paulo Pezzolano 72, 90; Sergio Blanco 20]
Danubio 2-0 Cerro
[Bruno Piano 16, Pablo Lima 50]
Tacuarembó 1-2 Miramar Misiones
[Celestino Tejera 7; Darwin Quintana 26, Marcos Ramos 73]
Cerrito 3-0 Peñarol
[Alberto Ortega 42, Álvaro Pintos 61, Alberto Acosta 72pen]
Plaza 0-0 Paysandú
Round 9
[May 11]
Wanderers 1-2 Nacional
[Serafín García 53; Sebastián Abreu 73, Walter Fabián Coelho 89]
Cerro 0-1 Liverpool
[Carlos Macchi 75]
Rocha 0-0 Tacuarembó
Cerrito 4-2 Rampla Juniors
[Alberto Ortega 27, Alberto Acosta 58, Mario Amorín 75, 87;
Pedro Chiffone 6, Carlos Aguiar 65pen]
Peñarol 1-0 Plaza
[Pablo Gaglianone 55]
Rentistas 0-0 Defensor
Fénix 1-2 Paysandú
[Gary Castillo 83; Ramiro Bruschi 25, 82]
Dep. Colonia 1-2 Miramar Misiones
[Jorge Delgado 3; Marcos Ramos 5, Adrián Speranza 33]
[May 18]
River Plate 0-2 Danubio
[Ignacio Risso 89, Jorge Artigas 91pen]
Round 10
[May 14]
Nacional 1-0 Paysandú
[Gonzalo Castro 44]
Rocha 2-3 Defensor
[José Pedro Cardozo 83, 87; Hugo Costela 18, William Martínez 65,
Sebastián Taborda 91]
Miramar Misiones 3-1 Rampla Juniors
[Pablo Granoche 17, 29, 83; Carlos Aguiar 10pen]
[May 15]
Liverpool 1-3 Peñarol
[Luis Aguiar 77; Gabriel Cedrés 6, Martín García 21, Pablo Russo 55]
River Plate 5-1 Fénix
[Osvaldo Canobbio 23, 52pen, Adrián Sarkissián 29, Richard Porta 49;
Nicolás Vigneri 90]
Wanderers 2-1 Cerrito
[Ignacio Schneider 30, Pablo Rodríguez 52; Alberto Acosta 91pen]
Cerro 2-0 Plaza
[Rodrigo Moreira 12pen, Martín Rodríguez 42]
Danubio 2-0 Dep. Colonia
[Ignacio Risso 46, Pablo Lima 49pen]
Rentistas 1-1 Tacuarembó
[Valentín Villazán 89; Sergio Silvera 90]
Round 11
[May 21]
Nacional 1-0 Cerro
[Alexander Medina 25]
Liverpool 2-0 Rentistas
[Marcelo Silvera 38, Gonzalo Romero 56]
Tacuarembó 0-1 Fénix
[ Marcelo Broli 70]
[May 22]
River Plate 0-1 Peñarol
[Gabriel Cedrés 40]
Rocha 2-1 Cerrito
[Luis Maguregui 6pen, Héber Caro 85; Martín Colombo 64]
Miramar Misiones 1-2 Wanderers
[Pablo Granoche 44pen; Diego Chaves 78, Ignacio Schneider 92]
Danubio 0-2 Defensor
[ Álvaro González 52, Sebastián Taborda 65]
Rampla Juniors 1-0 Paysandú
[Marcelo Pérez 79]
Plaza 2-0 Dep. Colonia
[Nicolás Martiarena 20, Luis Ignacio Medina 96]
Round 12
[May 24]
Nacional 1-1 Liverpool
[Sebastián Abreu 26; Leonardo Medina 67]
[May 25]
River Plate 3-1 Cerro
[Darío Flores 16, Richard Porta 42, Matías Alonso 55;
Pablo Pallante 75]
Wanderers 2-2 Rocha
[Sergio Blanco 78 pen, Juan Álvez 90; Diego Sosa 43,
Martín González 70]
Peñarol 2-1 Danubio
[Marcos Marcelo Tejera 83, 84; Jorge Anchén 8]
Tacuarembó 1-1 Cerrito
[Celestino Tejera 28pen; Alberto Ortega 86]
Rampla Juniors 0-0 Fénix
Miramar Misiones 1-2 Plaza
[Carlos De Castro 55; Luis Ignacio Medina 19,
Abdul Njankuo (Mustafá) 49]
Defensor 4-1 Paysandú
[Álvaro Navarro 37, 49, Hugo Costela 60, William Martínez 68pen;
Ramiro Bruschi 32]
Rentistas 4-0 Dep. Colonia
[Roberto Bobadilla 26, Pablo Silva 49, Nicolás Di Santo 78,
Robert López 90]
Round 13
[May 28]
Danubio 1-0 Rocha
[Ignacio Risso 17]
Paysandú 2-2 Wanderers
[Gustavo Tejería 50, 54; Sergio Blanco 77pen, Diego Chaves 92]
[May 29]
Liverpool 0-1 Cerrito
[Gerardo Acosta 91]
Tacuarembó 3-1 River Plate
[Guillermo Almada 46+, Sergio Bicca 59, Sergio Silvera 70;
Osvaldo Canobbio 30]
Rampla Juniors 1-4 Rentistas
[Gerardo Morales 67; Mauricio Ibarra 32,
Elías Ferreira [Zinho] 36, 55, 66]
Plaza 0-3 Defensor
[Nelson Semperena 5, Hugo Costela 14, Sebastián Taborda 85pen]
[Jun 1]
Cerro 4-2 Dep. Colonia
[Pablo Pallante 16pen, 76, Martín Rodríguez 29, Rino Lucas 90pen;
Luiggi Rodríguez 18pen, Freddy Freire 59]
Fénix 0-1 Peñarol
[Gabriel Cedrés 24]
[Jun 15]
Miramar Misiones 1-3 Nacional
[Pablo Granoche 80pen; Martín Ligüera 27, Gonzalo Castro 69, 71]
Round 14
[Jun 11]
River Plate 4-2 Wanderers
[Walter López 29, Richard Porta 33, Leandro Ezquerra 51, Diego Varela 84;
Sergio Blanco 59, 89pen]
Dep. Colonia 1-3 Rampla Juniors
[Luigi Rodríguez 79pen; Camilo Fraga 24, Carlos Aguiar 39pen,
Gonzalo Fontana 65]
Plaza 1-0 Rentistas
[Sebastián Castiglioni 59]
Fénix 0-1 Defensor
[Miguel Amado 66]
[Jun 12]
Peñarol 2-2 Nacional
[Gabriel Cedrés 25, Marcos Marcelo Tejera 81; Sebastián Abreu 66, 69]
Liverpool 1-5 Miramar Misiones
[Luis Aguiar 58pen; Pablo Granoche 10, 20pen, 34pen, 63,
Sebastián Fernández 90]
Rocha 1-1 Cerro
[Luis Magureguy 43; Diego Sosa 3og]
Cerrito 0-0 Danubio
Paysandú 0-1 Tacuarembó
[Guillermo Almada 87]
Round 15
[Jun 18]
River Plate 2-2 Rampla Juniors
[Adrián Sarkissián 16, Darío Flores 78; Rodrigo Bengua 4, 59]
Dep. Colonia 1-1 Rocha
[Luiggi Rodríguez 40; Luis Magureguy 28pen]
Cerro 0-2 Peñarol
[Nicolás Rotundo 21, Ronald Ramírez 69]
[Jun 19]
Nacional 2-2 Cerrito
[Oscar Javier Morales 39, Gabriel Álvez 55; Mario Amorín 4, 64]
Tacuarembó 2-2 Liverpool
[Oscar Ledesma 28, Celestino Tejera 41; Luis Aguiar 63,
Carlos Macchi 81]
Wanderers 0-0 Plaza
Paysandú 1-3 Danubio
[Paolo Patritti 55; Ignacio Risso 35, 64, Juan Manuel Ortiz 92]
Miramar Misiones 1-2 Defensor
[Danilo Pereira 53; Diego De Souza 46, Sebastián Taborda 73]
Fénix 1-2 Rentistas
[Fabián Estoyanoff 6; Elías [Zinho] Ferreira 36pen, 66]
Round 16
[Jun 25]
Peñarol 2-1 Wanderers
[Martín García 47, Adrián Apellaniz 57; Sebastián Eguren 42]
Tacuarembó 0-0 Dep. Colonia
Miramar Misiones 1-1 Cerrito
[Pablo Granoche 6; Leonardo Sum 40]
[Jun 26]
Nacional 4-0 Fénix
[Sebastián Rodrigo Vázquez 25, Eduardo Jaume 37, Martín Ligüera 51pen, 60]
Defensor 1-0 Liverpool
[Sebastián Taborda 38]
River Plate 3-4 Paysandú
[Osvaldo Canobbio 16pen, Julio Gutiérrez 59, Walter López 73;
Ramiro Bruschi 2, Joaquín Burutarán 5, Christian Callejas 63pen,
Gustavo Tejería 74]
Rocha 6-1 Plaza
[Luis Magureguy 12, Diego Bonilla 15, Heber Caro 44, Martín González 55,
Leonardo Maldonado 70, Martín Larrosa 78; Osvaldo Carro 75pen]
Cerro 0-1 Rentistas
[Elías Ferreira [Zinho] 61]
Rampla Juniors 1-1 Danubio
[Gastón De los Santos 66; Luciano Barbosa [Cafú] 90]
Round 17
[Jul 2]
Peñarol awd Miramar Misiones [awarded 1-3; abandoned at 1-1
[Fabián Césaro 60; Pablo Granoche 37] in 75' due to crowd trouble]
Wanderers 2-0 Danubio
[Pablo Rodríguez 13, Ignacio Schneider 85]
Paysandú 3-1 Rentistas
[Christian Callejas 38, Ramiro Bruschi 52, Gustavo Tejería 82;
Elías [Zinho] Ferreira 43]
[Jul 3]
Nacional 3-2 Rocha
[Martín Ligüera 13, Alexander Medina 68, Sebastián Abreu 97pen;
Heber Caro 56, Sergio Ciz 80]
Cerrito 0-1 Defensor
[Hugo Costela 65]
Liverpool 3-3 River Plate
[Leonardo Medina 47, Luis Aguiar 49, Matías González 62pen;
Osvaldo Canobbio 27, 84, Richard Porta 53]
Cerro 2-1 Tacuarembó
[Rino Lucas 10pen, 38; Sergio Silvera 55]
Rampla Juniors 0-0 Plaza
Fénix 1-2 Dep. Colonia
[Enrique Colzada 27; Leonardo Rojas 39, Oscar Dastés 68]
Final Table:
1.C Nacional dF 17 12 5 0 39-16 41 Championship Playoff
2.Defensor Sporting Club 17 12 5 0 33-13 41 Championship Playoff
3.CA Peñarol 17 10 5 2 28-19 35
4.Danubio FC 17 8 4 5 23-16 28
5.Rocha FC (Rocha) 17 6 7 4 27-21 25
6.Liverpool FC 17 7 4 6 26-25 25
7.CA Rentistas 17 6 6 5 30-25 24
8.Miramar Misiones FC 17 7 2 8 33-29 23
9.Montevideo Wanderers FC 17 6 5 6 30-33 23
10.CA River Plate 17 6 4 7 34-32 22
11.CS Cerrito 17 5 6 6 21-19 21
12.Tacuarembó FC (Tacuarembó) 17 5 6 6 17-18 21
13.CA Fénix 17 5 4 8 19-26 19
14.Paysandú FC (Paysandú) 17 3 5 9 23-34 14
15.Rampla Juniors FC 17 3 5 9 19-31 14
16.CA Plaza (Colonia) 17 3 5 9 8-27 14
17.CA Cerro 17 3 4 10 20-30 13
18.CD Colonia (Juan Lacaze, CO) 17 3 4 10 15-31 13
NB: all teams from Montevideo unless indicated otherwise;
no promotion or relegation
Championship Playoff
First Leg [Jul 10, Estadio Centenario]
Defensor n/p Nacional
Second Leg [Jul 12, Estadio Centenario]
Nacional n/p Defensor
NB: on Jul 5, Defensor Sporting announced not to show for the matches
in protest against the circumstances of Nacional's last round win
(by a contested penalty in the 7th minute of injury time); upon
this, the executive of the first professional division awarded
the title to Nacional on Jul 6.
Topscorers:
Granoche, Pablo Miramar Misiones 16
Zinho [Elías Ferreira] Rentistas 14
Blanco, Sergio Wanderers 12
Canobbio, Osvaldo River Plate 11
Ligüera, Martín Nacional 10
Taborda, Sebastián Defensor 9
Cardozo, José Pedro Rocha FC 8
Porta, Richard River Plate 8
Risso, Ignacio Danubio 8
Abreu, Sebastián Nacional 7
Costela, Hugo Defensor 7
Medina, Leonardo Liverpool 7
NB: the 2005/06 season starts August 20 and is divided into
Apertura, Clausura, and play-offs;
at the end of the Apertura, the 3 worst teams of the Torneo
Uruguay Especial and the Apertura are relegated while 2 teams
from the 2nd level are promoted;
at the end of the Clausura (start Feb 2006, played with
17 clubs), the 2 worst teams over 2005/06 (average points)
are relegated while 1 club is promoted from 2nd level;
the winners of Apertura and Clausura play a 'semifinal'
over 2 or 3 matches; the winners of that match play the
best team in the aggregate table for the 2005/06 championship;
finally, the 'Copa Artigas 2006' will be played between the
top-6 teams in the aggregate table of Apertura and Clausura
as a single round robin to determine the remaining places in
the Copa Libertadores 2007 and Copa Sudamericana 2006;
in 2006/07 there will be 16 clubs in the top level.
list of 2nd division champions
list of 3rd division champions
list of ofi (interior) champions
overview of regional championships
Prepared and maintained by Francisco Fernández for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
Author: Francisco Fernández
(ffernandez@espectador.com.uy)
Last updated: 15 Aug 2006
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