Primera División (Uruguay) 1973
Primera División 1973 | |
master | Club Atlético Peñarol |
Relegated | Central Español |
Teams | 12 |
Games | 132 |
Gates | 282 (ø 2.14 per game) |
Top scorer | Fernando Morena ( Club Atlético Peñarol ) |
← Primera División (Uruguay) 1972 | |
The 1973 Primera División season was the 70th season (42nd of the professional era) of Uruguay's highest division in men's football , the Primera División .
The Primera División consisted in the championship season of 1973 from twelve clubs, whose teams met twice in a total of 132 championship games played from the beginning of September to mid-December of the year. There were 282 goals. Club Atlético Peñarol won the championship as first in the table ahead of Nacional Montevideo and Danubio FC as second and third in the season's final table . Central Español had to relegate to the Segunda División . Peñarol and Nacional qualified for the 1974 Copa Libertadores .
The top scorer was Fernando Morena from champion Peñarol with 23 goals , who scored almost two-thirds of his club's goals this season.
Annual table
rank | society | Sp. | S. | U | N | Gates | Pt. |
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1. | Club Atlético Peñarol | 22nd | 14th | 7th | 1 | 38:16 | 35 |
2. | Nacional Montevideo (M) | 22nd | 9 | 11 | 2 | 29:19 | 29 |
3. | Danubio FC | 22nd | 10 | 8th | 4th | 26:15 | 28 |
4th | Club Atlético Defensor | 22nd | 10 | 5 | 7th | 33:28 | 25th |
5. | Club Atlético Rentistas | 22nd | 7th | 10 | 5 | 21:18 | 24 |
6th | Liverpool FC | 22nd | 8th | 7th | 7th | 28:21 | 23 |
7th | Club Atlético Cerro | 22nd | 8th | 7th | 7th | 24:24 | 23 |
8th. | Montevideo Wanderers (N) | 22nd | 4th | 13 | 5 | 16:15 | 21st |
9. | River Plate | 22nd | 5 | 11 | 6th | 17:20 | 21st |
10. | Huracan Buceo | 22nd | 3 | 10 | 9 | 22:29 | 16 |
11. | Central Español | 22nd | 6th | 2 | 14th | 18:38 | 14th |
12. | Bella Vista | 22nd | 1 | 3 | 18th | 10:39 | 5 |
(M) | Champion of the previous season |
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(N) | Promoted from the Segunda División |
Individual evidence
- ^ Marcos Silvera Antúnez : Club Atlético Peñarol - 120, Ediciones El Galeón, Montevideo 2011, p. 137 - ISBN 978-9974-553-79-8
- ^ Uruguay - List of Final Tables 1900-2000 on rsssf.com, accessed October 26, 2016
- ↑ Uruguay - League Top Scorers on rsssf.com, accessed October 26, 2016