Institución Atlética Sud América, usually known as Sud América or just IASA, is a

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club from

Montevideo Montevideo (, ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2023 census, the city proper has a population of 1,302,954 (about 37.2% of the country's total population) in an area of . M ...

. They currently play in the Uruguayan Segunda Division.

History

Sud América was formed from the team formerly known as the "Montevideo Helios". Sud América has won the Uruguayan 2nd Division on 7 occasions, this is a national record they share with Fénix. It was a hard-to-beat team back in the days and it was very economically stable. After the relegation to 2nd Division in 1996, Sud América competed consecutively without success for 16 seasons, becoming the most popular team of the division. In the 2013 season (17th consecutive season in second) the club achieved the promotion to the Elite Division complying with its objectives wanting to return to it as a celebration of its centenary. Sud América usually play their home games at Estadio Carlos Angel Fossa which is located in

and has a capacity of 6,000 spectators.

Kit evolution

Performance in CONMEBOL competitions

Copa CONMEBOL The Copa CONMEBOL () was an annual football cup competition organized by CONMEBOL between 1992 and 1999 for South American football clubs. During its time of existence, it was a very prestigious South American club football contest, similar to the ...

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1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

: Second Round ;1995 Copa CONMEBOL ''Sud América eliminated via penalties (4–3) due to draw on points 3–3.''

Current squad

Managers

Julio César Ribas Julio César Ribas Vlacovich (born 8 January 1957) is a Uruguayan association football manager and former footballer. He is the current manager of River Plate Montevideo. Career as manager Ribas was appointed the manager of Primera Division U ...

(Jan 1, 1994 – Dec 31, 1995) * Julio Acuña (Jan 1, 2003 – July 1, 2003) * Luis López (2004) * Tabaré Silva (Aug 1, 2009 – May 21, 2010) * Alejandro Apud (Aug 1, 2011 – June 30, 2014) *

Jorge Vivaldo Jorge Antonio Vivaldo (born 18 February 1967 in Luján) is an Argentine football manager and former player who played as a goalkeeper. Vivaldo is nicknamed ''El Flaco''. Career Vivaldo played for several Argentine teams in his career such as A ...

(July 15, 2014 – Oct 5, 2015) *

Julio Comesaña Julio Avelino Comesaña López (born 10 March 1948) is a former Uruguayan naturalized Colombian professional football manager and former football player. Playing career Club Comesaña played for 7 clubs during his career as a footballer: Ra ...

(2015 – 2016) * Maxi Viera (Oct 8, 2020 – Feb 10, 2021) *

Claudio Biaggio Claudio Darío Biaggio (born 2 July 1967) is an Argentine football manager and former player who played as a striker. During his professional career he played for important clubs in Argentina ( Belgrano, San Lorenzo de Almagro and Colón de Sa ...

(Mar 6, 2021 – Oct 4, 2021) * Luis López (Oct 5, 2021 – )

Titles

Segunda División The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Segunda División, commonly known as Segunda División or La Liga 2, and officially known as LaLiga HyperMotion for sponsorship reasons, is the men's second professional association football division of the Spa ...

: 7 ::1951, 1954, 1957, 1963, 1975, 1994,

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

* Divisional Intermedia: 1 ::1926

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sud America Football clubs in Uruguay Association football clubs established in 1914 1914 establishments in Uruguay