2012–13 Uruguayan Primera División season

The 2012–13 Liga Profesional de Primera División season, also known as the 2012–13 Copa Uruguaya or the 2012–13 Campeonato Uruguayo, was the 109th season of Uruguay's top-flight football league, and the 82nd in which it was professional. Nacional was the defending champion.

Liga Profesional de Primera División

Season	2012–13
Champions	Peñarol
Relegated	Bella Vista Progreso Central Español
2014 Copa Libertadores	Peñarol Defensor Sporting Nacional
2013 Copa Sudamericana	Peñarol River Plate El Tanque Sisley Montevideo Wanderers
Matches played	240
Goals scored	629 (2.62 per match)
Top goalscorer	Juan Manuel Olivera (18 goals)
Biggest home win	Nacional 2–0 Cerro Largo (September 9, 2012) Defensor Sporting 2–0 Liverpool (September 15, 2012) Cerro 2–0 Juventud
Biggest away win	Montevideo Wanderers 0–4 Defensor Sporting (September 1, 2012)
Highest scoring	Fénix 4–3 Peñarol (August 26, 2012)
Longest winning run	2 games: Defensor Sporting Fénix Nacional Progreso
Longest unbeaten run	3 games: Defensor Sporting El Tanque Sisley Liverpool Nacional Progreso
Longest winless run	3 games: Central Español Cerro Largo Danubio Racing
Longest losing run	3 games: Central Español
← 2011–12 2013–14 →

Teams

Sixteen teams will compete in the Primera División this season. Thirteen teams remained from the 2011–12 season. Rentistas, Rampla Juniors, and Cerrito were relegated after accumulating the fewest points in the relegation table. They were replaced by Central Español, Juventud, and Progreso, the 2011–12 Segunda División winner, runner-up, and playoff winner, respectively. All of the new teams are making repeat appearances.

Montevideo

Juventud

Cerro Largo

Locations of the 2012–13 season teams outside Montevideo.

Bella Vista

Cerro

Danubio

Central Español

Progreso

Defensor Sporting

El Tanque Sisley

Fénix

Liverpool

Wanderers

Nacional

Peñarol

Racing

River Plate

Locations of the 2012−13 Primera División teams within Montevideo.

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity
Bella Vista	Montevideo	José Nasazzi	15,000
Central Español	Montevideo	Parque Palermo	6,500
Cerro	Montevideo	Luis Tróccoli	24,000
Cerro Largo	Melo	Arquitecto Antonio Eleuterio Ubilla	9,000
Danubio	Montevideo	Jardines Del Hipódromo	14,401
Defensor Sporting	Montevideo	Luis Franzini	9,357
El Tanque Sisley	Montevideo	Dr. Victor Della Valle	4,500
Fénix	Montevideo	Parque Capurro	5,500
Juventud	Las Piedras	Parque Artigas	12,000
Liverpool	Montevideo	Belvedere	8,384
Montevideo Wanderers	Montevideo	Parque Alfredo Víctor Viera	7,420
Nacional	Montevideo	Gran Parque Central	23,500
Peñarol	Montevideo	-	-
Progreso	Montevideo	Parque Abraham Paladino	5,400
Racing	Montevideo	Osvaldo Roberto	8,500
River Plate	Montevideo	Parque Federico Omar Saroldi	5,624

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Pre-season changes
Bella Vista	Diego Alonso	End of Contract	June 8, 2012[1]	Guillermo Sanguinetti	June 16, 2012[2]	N/A
Nacional	Marcelo Gallardo	End of contract	June 18, 2012[3]	Gustavo Díaz	June 28, 2012[4]	N/A
Fénix	Lorenzo Carrabs (interim)	Sacked	June 21, 2012[5]	Eduardo Favaro	July 9, 2012[6]	N/A
Defensor Sporting	Gustavo Díaz	Signed by Nacional	June 23, 2012[7]	Tabaré Silva	June 27, 2012[8]	N/A
Cerro	Gabriel Camacho (interim)	Sacked	July 6, 2012[9]	Ricardo Ortíz	July 6, 2012[9]	N/A
Season changes
Danubio	Daniel Sánchez	Sacked	September 5, 2012[10]	Juan Ramón Carrasco	September 17, 2012[11]	15th

Torneo Apertura

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Peñarol	15	11	3	1	35	13	+22	36	Championship Playoffs
2	Defensor Sporting	15	9	5	1	31	11	+20	32
3	Nacional	15	10	2	3	29	14	+15	32
4	El Tanque Sisley	15	8	6	1	23	17	+6	30
5	River Plate	15	5	6	4	21	17	+4	21
6	Fénix	15	6	3	6	24	24	0	21
7	Bella Vista	15	6	2	7	13	17	−4	20
8	Montevideo Wanderers	15	5	4	6	22	24	−2	19
9	Juventud	15	5	4	6	13	17	−4	19
10	Cerro	15	5	3	7	14	17	−3	18
11	Central Español	15	4	4	7	11	19	−8	16
12	Liverpool	15	4	3	8	21	28	−7	15
13	Progreso	15	4	3	8	17	28	−11	15
14	Racing	15	3	4	8	17	27	−10	13
15	Cerro Largo	15	2	6	7	14	20	−6	12
16	Danubio	15	1	6	8	15	27	−12	9

Source:

Results

Home \ Away	BVI	CES	CRR	CRL	DAN	DFS	ETS	FNX	JUV	LIV	WAN	NAC	PEÑ	PRO	RAC	RIV
Bella Vista		0–1	1–0	0–1	2–1			0–0				1–2	0–2	3–1
Central Español					1–0	1–1	1–2			0–2		0–2			1–1	2–5
Cerro	2–0	0–2		2–2				1–2	2–0		0–0	1–0		0–2
Cerro Largo		0–0			1–1	0–1	1–1	2–0			2–3		2–4	1–1		2–2
Danubio			1–1				1–2	2–1		2–2	2–4		0–0	1–4		0–2
Defensor Sporting	4–0		2–0	1–0	3–1				1–1	2–0		2–2			1–0
El Tanque Sisley	1–1		2–1			1–1				2–2		3–2		2–2		1–0
Fénix		1–2			1–1	1–3	0–2		1–1		4–1		4–3			2–2
Juventud	2–0	1–0		1–0	0–0		0–2			2–1			1–5		0–1
Liverpool	0–2		1–0	1–0				2–3			2–3			3–1	4–4
Montevideo Wanderers	0–1	0–0				0–4	1–1		3–3				1–2		3–0	1–3
Nacional				2–0	2–1			2–1	3–1	3–1	1–0			6–1		0–2
Peñarol		3–0	2–1			2–1	4–0		2–0	2–0		0–0				1–1
Progreso		1–0				1–4		2–0	0–1		1–0		1–3		1–2
Racing	0–1		1–2	1–0	2–2		0–1	1–2		0–0		0–2	2–5
River Plate	0–2	5–0	0–1			1–1			1–0	2–0				0–0	2–2

Updated to match(es) played on September 16, 2012.. Source: [12]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Nationality	Club	Goals
1	Leonardo Carboni	Argentine	Danubio	3
	Mauro Guevgeozian	Uruguayan	Fénix	3
	Juan Manuel Olivera	Uruguayan	Peñarol	3
	Maxi Rodríguez	Uruguayan	Montevideo Wanderers	3
5	Gonzalo Bueno	Uruguayan	Nacional	2
	Fabián Cannobio	Uruguayan	Progreso	2
	Anibal Hernández	Uruguayan	Defensor Sporting	2
	Adrián Luna	Uruguayan	Nacional	2
	Alejandro Mello	Uruguayan	El Tanque Sisley	2
	Hernán Novick	Uruguayan	Fénix	2
	Federico Puppo	Uruguayan	Defensor Sporting	2
	Liber Quiñones	Uruguayan	Racing	2
	Jorge Zambrana	Uruguayan	Peñarol	2

Updated as of games played on September 9, 2012.
Source:[12]

Torneo Clausura

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Defensor Sporting	15	9	4	2	19	9	+10	31	Championship Playoffs
2	Peñarol	15	9	3	3	26	8	+18	30
3	River Plate	15	9	3	3	27	14	+13	30
4	Nacional	15	7	5	3	23	21	+2	26
5	Danubio	15	8	2	5	18	16	+2	26
6	Racing	15	6	6	3	17	13	+4	24
7	Montevideo Wanderers	15	6	3	6	19	14	+5	21
8	Juventud	15	6	3	6	27	32	−5	21
9	Fénix	15	5	4	6	18	18	0	19
10	El Tanque Sisley	15	4	6	5	16	17	−1	18
11	Cerro	15	4	5	6	19	24	−5	17
12	Liverpool	15	3	7	5	19	23	−4	16
13	Cerro Largo	15	4	3	8	17	20	−3	15
14	Progreso	15	4	1	10	15	28	−13	13
15	Central Español	15	3	3	9	13	25	−12	12
16	Bella Vista	15	2	4	9	16	27	−11	10

Source:

Results

Home \ Away	BVI	CES	CRR	CRL	DAN	DFS	ETS	FNX	JUV	LIV	WAN	NAC	PEÑ	PRO	RAC	RIV
Bella Vista						0–0	0–1		5–2	3–3	0–2	3–4			0–1	0–1
Central Español	1–1		0–2	0–0				2–3	1–2		0–1		1–3	1–0
Cerro					3–1	1–1	2–2			1–0			1–1		1–1	1–2
Cerro Largo	3–0		3–1						2–3	1–1		1–1			3–1
Danubio	4–1	0–2		1–0		0–2			2–1			0–1			3–2
Defensor Sporting		2–1					3–0	2–0			1–0		1–0	0–1		2–2
El Tanque Sisley		3–1		1–0	0–1			2–0	4–4		0–0		0–1		0–0
Fénix	1–0		3–0	3–1	1–1					1–1		2–2			0–1
Juventud			4–1			0–1		1–0			1–1	2–0		4–2		0–4
Liverpool		1–1			0–1	4–2	1–1		2–2			0–2	0–4			4–2
Montevideo Wanderers			1–2	2–1	1–2			2–1		2–0		1–2		4–0		0–1
Nacional		2–1	2–2			0–1	1–1						0–3		1–1
Peñarol	2–0			2–0	0–1			1–1			0–0			1–0	1–2
Progreso	2–2		2–1	1–2	1–0		2–1	1–2		0–2		2–3				1–3
Racing		0–1				0–0			2–0	0–0	3–2			2–0		1–1
River Plate		5–0		2–0	1–1		1–0	1–0				1–2	0–2

Updated to match(es) played on 2012. Source: [13]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Aggregate table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Peñarol	30	20	6	4	61	21	+40	66	2014 Copa Libertadores Second Stage and 2013 Copa Sudamericana First Stage[lower-alpha 1]
2	Defensor Sporting	30	18	9	3	50	20	+30	63	2014 Copa Libertadores Second Stage
3	Nacional	30	17	7	6	52	35	+17	58	2014 Copa Libertadores First Stage
4	River Plate	30	14	9	7	48	31	+17	51	2013 Copa Sudamericana First Stage
5	El Tanque Sisley	30	12	12	6	39	34	+5	48
6	Montevideo Wanderers	30	11	7	12	41	38	+3	40
7	Fénix	30	11	7	12	42	42	0	40
8	Juventud	30	11	7	12	40	49	−9	40
9	Racing	30	9	10	11	34	40	−6	37
10	Cerro	30	9	8	13	33	41	−8	35
11	Danubio	30	9	8	13	33	43	−10	35
12	Liverpool	30	7	10	13	40	51	−11	31
13	Bella Vista	30	8	6	16	29	44	−15	30
14	Central Español	30	7	7	16	24	44	−20	28
15	Progreso	30	8	4	18	32	56	−24	28
16	Cerro Largo	30	6	9	15	31	40	−9	27

Source:
Notes:

1. Peñarol qualified for the 2014 Copa Libertadores and 2013 Copa Sudamericana as the league champion.

Relegation

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
1	Peñarol	58	37	11	10	123	50	+73	122
2	Defensor Sporting	58	36	13	9	102	46	+56	121
3	Nacional	58	35	14	9	115	63	+52	119
4	River Plate	58	26	17	15	92	71	+21	95
5	Montevideo Wanderers	58	24	11	23	89	86	+3	83
6	Liverpool	58	24	11	23	88	86	+2	83
7	Danubio	58	21	18	19	68	68	0	83[lower-alpha 1]
8	Cerro Largo	58	22	15	21	77	72	+5	81
9	Juventud	28	11	6	11	35	40	−5	78[lower-alpha 2]
10	El Tanque Sisley	58	21	14	23	64	78	−14	77
11	Cerro	58	19	13	26	67	76	−9	70
12	Racing	58	17	17	24	73	93	−20	67[lower-alpha 1]
13	Fénix	58	17	15	26	74	86	−12	66
14	Progreso	28	8	4	16	30	51	−21	56[lower-alpha 2]	Relegation to the 2013–14 Segunda División
15	Bella Vista (R)	58	16	8	34	56	89	−33	56
16	Central Español	28	7	6	15	23	38	−15	54[lower-alpha 2]

Source:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(R) Relegated.
Notes:

1. Danubio won the points of the match against Racing because Racing fielded an ineligible player (Marcelo Sosa).
2. Having only played one season in the Primera División, Central Español's, Juventud's, and Progreso's points are doubled for the relegation table.

Championship playoff

Peñarol and Defensor Sporting qualified to the championship playoffs as the Apertura and Clausura winners, respectively. Additionally, Peñarol re-qualified as the team with the most points in the season aggregate table. Given this situation, an initial playoff was held between the two teams. Peñarol would become the season champion with a win; Defensor Sporting needed to win the playoff to force a two-legged final.

June 4, 2013

21:00

Defensor Sporting	1–3	Peñarol
Luna  90'	Report	Pacheco  26', 36', 80'

Estadio Centenario, Montevideo

Attendance: 58,000

Referee: Martín Vázquez

Primera División 2012–13 Champion
Peñarol 42nd title

References

1. "Un buen Tornado" (in Spanish). Quenonino. June 6, 2012. Retrieved June 30, 2012.
2. "El Topo, nuevo DT de Bella Vista" (in Spanish). El Día. June 16, 2012. Retrieved June 30, 2012.
3. "El "Muñeco" no hizo reir" (in Spanish). Ovación. June 19, 2011. Retrieved June 30, 2012.
4. "Presentaron al "Chavo" en Nacional" (in Spanish). Tenfield. June 28, 2012. Retrieved June 30, 2012.
5. "¿Vuelve JR?" (in Spanish). Urugol. June 21, 2012. Archived from the original on February 5, 2013. Retrieved June 30, 2012.
6. "Fénix: Eduardo Favaro asume el lunes" (in Spanish). Tenfield. July 6, 2012. Retrieved July 6, 2012.
7. "Nacional se aseguró a Gustavo Díaz" (in Spanish). Tenfield. June 23, 2012. Retrieved June 30, 2012.
8. "Tabaré Silva es el nuevo técnico de Defensor" (in Spanish). El Observador. June 27, 2012. Archived from the original on June 29, 2012. Retrieved June 27, 2012.
9. "Cerro: Pallante, Pintos y Pellejero vuelven al Tróccoli" (in Spanish). Tenfield. July 6, 2012. Retrieved July 6, 2012.
10. "Danubio: Daniel Sánchez fue cesado" (in Spanish). Tenfield. September 5, 2012. Archived from the original on September 6, 2012. Retrieved September 5, 2012.
11. "Ya quedó arreglado" (in Spanish). Ovación. September 13, 2012. Retrieved September 13, 2012.
12. "Soccerway".
13. "Soccerway".

External links

• Asociación Uruguaya de Fútbol (in Spanish)
  • Tournament regulations (in Spanish)