2023 Uruguayan Primera División Season

The 2023 Liga Profesional de Primera División season, also known as the Campeonato Uruguayo de Primera División 2023, was the 120th season of the Uruguayan Primera División, Uruguay's top-flight football league, and the 93rd in which it is professional. The season, which was named "100 años del Club Atlético Cerro", began on 4 February and ended on 16 December 2023.

Liverpool won their first league title at the end of the season, defeating Peñarol in the finals by a 3–0 aggregate score. Nacional were the defending champions.

Format

On 19 October 2022, the Primera División clubs voted to keep the format used in the previous season for 2023, with single round-robin Apertura and Clausura tournaments, a Torneo Intermedio played between these tournaments with the 16 teams divided into two groups of eight, and a three-team championship playoff between the winners of the Apertura and Clausura tournaments and the best team in the season's aggregate table, which gets a bye to the finals. The League Council of the Uruguayan Football Association presented a proposal to switch the order of the Apertura and Intermedio tournaments, so that the Intermedio (rebranded as ''Torneo Inicial'' in the proposal) would be played at the beginning of the season followed by the Apertura tournament during the winter months. However, the clubs did not accept the proposal and the season will be played in a similar way to the previous ones.

Teams

16 teams competed in the season: the top thirteen teams in the relegation table of the 2022 season as well as three promoted teams from the Segunda División. The three lowest placed teams in the relegation table of the 2022 season, Albion, Rentistas, and Cerrito were relegated to the Segunda División for the 2023 season. They were replaced by the Segunda División champions Racing, runners-up La Luz, and the winners of the promotion play-offs Cerro.

Racing and Cerro returned to the top flight after three and two seasons, respectively, whilst La Luz played in the Primera División for the first time ever. On the other hand, Albion were relegated after one season, Cerrito were relegated after two seasons, and Rentistas returned to the second tier after three years.

Stadiums and locations

Personnel and kits

Managerial changes

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Torneo Apertura

The Torneo Apertura, named "Julio César Morales", was the first tournament of the 2023 season. It began on 4 February 2023 and ended on 15 May 2023.

Standings

Results

Torneo Intermedio

The Torneo Intermedio, named "Omar Borrás", was the second tournament of the 2023 season, played between the Apertura and Clausura tournaments. It consists of two groups whose composition depends on the final standings of the Torneo Apertura: teams in odd-numbered positions play in Serie A, and teams in even-numbered positions play in Serie B. It started on 2 June and ended on 30 July, and the winners were granted a berth into the 2024 Copa Sudamericana and the 2024 Supercopa Uruguaya.

Serie A

Serie B

Torneo Intermedio Final

Torneo Clausura

The Torneo Clausura, named "Señor José Emilio Fernández", was the third and last tournament of the 2023 season. It began on 18 August and ended on 8 December 2023.

Standings

Results

Aggregate table

Championship playoff

Semi-final

Finals

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''Liverpool won 3–0 on aggregate.''

Top scorers

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Relegation

Relegation is determined at the end of the season by computing an average of the number of points earned per game over the two most recent seasons: 2022 and 2023. The three teams with the lowest average at the end of the season were relegated to the Segunda División for the following season.

Season awards

On 1 February 2024 the AUF announced the winners of the season awards, who were chosen by its Technical Staff based on voting by managers and captains of the 16 Primera División teams as well as a group of local sports journalists. 36 players were nominated for the Public's Player and Team of the Season awards according to their ratings and evaluations by the Technical Staff throughout the season.

See also

* 2023 Uruguayan Segunda División season
* 2023 Copa Uruguay

References

External links

Asociación Uruguaya de Fútbol - Campeonato Uruguayo

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