The 1923
Primera División was the 23rd season of top-flight
football in Uruguay
Football in Uruguay stands as the most popular sport. The Uruguay national football team has won two FIFA World Cup titles in addition to 15 Copa América titles, making them one of the most successful teams in South America. The national team w ...
. This was organised by official body,
Uruguayan Football Association
The Uruguayan Football Association ( — ) is the governing body of association football, football in Uruguay. It was founded in 1900, as The Uruguayan Association Football League, and affiliated to FIFA in 1923. It is a founding member of CONMEB ...
(AUF), while dissident body,
Uruguayan Football Federation
The Uruguayan Football Federation ( or ) was a federation of association football, football clubs founded in Uruguay in 1923 which existed alongside the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) during the Amateur sports, amateur era of Uruguayan people ...
(FUF), organised
its own championship simultaneously.
Overview
The tournament consisted of a
round-robin. It involved twelve teams, and the champion was
Nacional
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Airlines
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* Transportes Aéreos Nacional, a Brazilian airline defunct in 1961
Bank
* Banco Nacional, a ...
.
This year was the first fractured Uruguayan football championship, due to the schism that triggered the emergence of a parallel
Uruguayan Football Federation
The Uruguayan Football Federation ( or ) was a federation of association football, football clubs founded in Uruguay in 1923 which existed alongside the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) during the Amateur sports, amateur era of Uruguayan people ...
organizing their own championship. However, the league recognized by
FIFA
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and
CONMEBOL
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remained the
Uruguayan Football Association
The Uruguayan Football Association ( — ) is the governing body of association football, football in Uruguay. It was founded in 1900, as The Uruguayan Association Football League, and affiliated to FIFA in 1923. It is a founding member of CONMEB ...
(AUF), which achieved the same for the fourth time to get South American Championship selections with their representative, qualifying for the
Paris Olympic Games the following year.
Disenrollment of AUF clubs
Peñarol
Club Atlético Peñarol (), more commonly referred to as Peñarol, is a Uruguayan professional football club based in Montevideo. The club currently competes in the Uruguayan Primera División, the highest tier in Uruguayan football.
The nam ...
and
Central the previous year, produced the first appearance of clubs
Bella Vista and
Fénix in the first division. In turn,
Montevideo Wanderers
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, Charley and Lito participated in both tournaments with two different teams. Lito were dubbed "round" in the
AUF and Lito "square" in the
FUF, differing by the shield they carried on a Barca shirt. The Wanderers used their official name in the AUF, registering with an alternate team under the name of "Athletic Wanderers" in the FUF.
Teams
League standings
See also
*
1923 Uruguayan Primera División of FUF
The 1923 Primera División championship was the first tournament organized by the Uruguayan Football Federation (FUF), a dissident association founded by clubs Central Español and Peñarol that had recently disaffiliated from the Uruguayan Footbal ...
External links
Uruguay – List of final tables 1900–2000on
RSSSF
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Uruguayan Primera División seasons
Uru
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* Uru language, the extinct language of the Uros, an Amerindian people
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* U ...
1923 in Uruguayan football