Primera División (Uruguay) 2012/13

Liga Profesional de Primera División 2012/13
master	CA Peñarol
Copa Libertadores - Group Stage	• CA Peñarol • Defensor Sporting
Copa Libertadores - First Round	Club Nacional de Football
Copa Sudamericana	• CA Peñarol • River Plate Montevideo • CCD El Tanque Sisley • Montevideo Wanderers
Relegated	• CA Bella Vista • CA Progreso • Central Español FC
Teams	16
Games	240
Gates	629  (ø 2.62 per game)
Top scorer	Juan Manuel Olivera ( CA Peñarol )
← Primera División 2011/12 Primera División 2013/14 →
Segunda División 2012/13 ↓

The Liga Profesional de Primera División 2012/13 (commercial sponsor name : Torneo Uruguayo Copa Coca-Cola 2012/13 ) was the 109th season (the 81st of the professional era) of the highest Uruguayan division in men's football , the Primera División . It started on August 25, 2012 and ended on June 2, 2013. From December 10, 2012 to February 23, 2013 the season was interrupted by the winter break. In a play-off game, the CA Peñarol secured his 42nd league title two days after the end of the regular season.

As a tribute to the former president of both Montevideo Wanderers and the Asociación Uruguaya de Fútbol , who died in June 2012 , the season was titled " Carlos Maresca ". The two best-placed clubs in the annual ranking qualified directly for the group stage of the Copa Libertadores 2014 , the third-placed for their first round. The teams in fourth, fifth and sixth as well as the leaders in the annual standings qualified for the 2013 Copa Sudamericana .

Season course

Aperture

The Apertura, the first half of the season, was held between August 25 and December 10, 2012 and was titled " Raúl Bentancor ", as a tribute to the former player and Uruguayan national coach who died in May of the same year. He was the maternal grandfather of Alejandro Lembo, who was active as a defender at the Club Nacional de Football .

rank		society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
01.		Peñarol	15th	11	03	01	35:13	+22	36
02.		Defensor Sporting	15th	09	05	01	31:11	+20	32
03.		Nacional	15th	10	02	03	29:14	+15	32
04th		El Tanque Sisley	15th	08th	06th	01	23:17	+ 06	30th
05.		River Plate Montevideo	15th	05	06th	04th	21:17	+ 04	21st
06th		Fénix	15th	06th	03	06th	24:24	± 00	21st
07th		Bella Vista	15th	06th	02	07th	13:17	- 04th	20th
08th.		Juventud (N)	15th	05	04th	06th	13:17	- 04th	19th
09.		Montevideo Wanderers	15th	05	04th	06th	22:24	- 02nd	19th
10.		Cerro	15th	05	03	07th	14:17	- 03	18th
11.		Central Español (N)	15th	04th	04th	07th	11:19	- 08	16
12.		Liverpool	15th	04th	03	08th	21:28	- 07th	15th
13.		Progreso (N)	15th	04th	03	08th	17:28	−11	15th
14th		Racing	15th	03	04th	08th	17:27	−10	13
15th		Cerro Largo	15th	02	06th	07th	14:20	- 06	12
16.		Danubio	15th	01	06th	08th	15:27	−12	09

Legend
	Winner of the Apertura and qualifier for the championship semi-finals
(N)	Promoted team in the 2011/12 second division season

Clausura

The Clausura, the second half of the season, took place between February 23 and June 2, 2013 and had the motto “100 años del club Defensor”, as Defensor Sporting celebrated its anniversary during this time. As the winner, he also qualified for the championship semi-final against the first in the Apertura table.

rank		society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
01.		Defensor Sporting	15th	09	04th	02	19: 09	+10	31
02.		Peñarol	15th	09	03	03	26: 08	+18	30th
03.		River Plate Montevideo	15th	09	03	03	27:14	+13	30th
04th		Nacional	15th	07th	05	03	23:21	+ 02	26th
05.		Danubio	15th	08th	02	05	18:16	+ 02	26th
06th		Racing	15th	06th	06th	03	17:13	+ 04	24
07th		Montevideo Wanderers	15th	06th	03	06th	19:14	+ 05	21st
08th.		Juventud (N)	15th	06th	03	06th	27:32	- 05th	21st
09.		Fénix	15th	05	04th	06th	18:18	± 00	19th
10.		El Tanque Sisley	15th	04th	06th	05	16:17	- 01	18th
11.		Cerro	15th	04th	05	06th	19:24	- 05th	17th
12.		Liverpool	15th	03	07th	05	19:23	- 04th	16
13.		Cerro Largo	15th	04th	03	08th	17:20	- 03	15th
14th		Progreso (N)	15th	04th	01	10	15:28	−13	13
15th		Central Español (N)	15th	03	03	09	13:25	−12	12
16.		Bella Vista	15th	02	04th	09	16:27	−11	10

Legend
	Winner of the Clausura and qualifier for the championship semi-finals
(N)	Promoted team in the 2011/12 second division season

Annual table

rank		society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
01.		Peñarol	30th	20th	06th	04th	61:21	+40	66
02.		Defensor Sporting	30th	18th	09	03	50:20	+30	63
03.		Nacional (M)	30th	17th	07th	06th	52:35	+17	58
04th		River Plate Montevideo	30th	14th	09	07th	48:31	+17	51
05.		El Tanque Sisley	30th	12	12	06th	39:34	+ 05	48
06th		Montevideo Wanderers	30th	11	07th	12	41:38	+ 03	40
07th		Fénix	30th	11	07th	12	42:42	± 00	40
08th.		Juventud (N)	30th	11	07th	12	40:49	- 09	40
09.		Racing	30th	09	10	11	34:40	- 06	37
10.		Cerro	30th	09	08th	13	33:41	- 08	35
11.		Danubio	30th	09	08th	13	33:43	−10	35
12.		Liverpool	30th	07th	10	13	40:51	−11	31
13.		Bella Vista	30th	08th	06th	16	29:44	−15	30th
14th		Central Español (N)	30th	07th	07th	16	24:44	−20	28
15th		Progreso (N)	30th	08th	04th	18th	32:56	−24	28
16.		Cerro Largo	30th	06th	09	15th	31:40	- 09	27

Legend
	Winner of the annual ranking and qualifier for the championship finals, participation in the Copa Sudamericana 2013 and the group stage of the Copa Libertadores 2014
	Participation in the group stage of the 2014 Copa Libertadores
	Participation in the first round of the 2014 Copa Libertadores
	Participation in the Copa Sudamericana 2013
(M)	Uruguayan champions 2011/12
(N)	Promoted team in the 2011/12 second division season

Championship decision

The decision about the championship of the Liga Profesional de Primera División is made in a semi-final game and a final divided into two legs. The respective winners of the Apertura and the Clausura qualify for the semifinals. The winner of this game then meets the best-placed club in the annual table in the final. This is not necessary if a team wins both the first and second half of the season. In this case, she is automatically champion, since otherwise she would have to compete against herself in the semifinals - and as the winner of both series, she is of course also the winner of the annual ranking. In the 2012/13 season the semi-final pairing consisted of the CA Peñarol (winner of the Apertura) and the Defensor Sporting (winner of the Clausura). The CA Peñarol won 3-1 in their home country Estadio Centenario . Since he was also the leader of the annual standings, a final was both impossible and unnecessary and the Aurinegros thus secured their 42nd championship title.

	Semifinals				final
	CA Peñarol (Winner Apertura)	3
	Defensor Sporting (winner Clausura)	1
					CA Peñarol (semi-final winner)	-	-
					CA Peñarol (Winner Annual Table)	-	-

CA Peñarol		Defensor Sporting
	June 4, 2013 in Montevideo , Uruguay ( Estadio Centenario ) Result: 3: 1 (2: 0) Referee: Martín Vázquez ( Uruguay )
	Enrique Bologna - Darío Rodríguez , Alejandro Damián González , Baltasar Silva , Matías Aguirregaray - Antonio Pacheco , Marcel Novick (22nd Sebastián Píriz ), Sebastián Cristóforo , Fabián Estoyanoff (86th Jorge Zambrana ) - Marcelo Zalayeta (79th Juan Manuel Oliver ) Mauro Fernández Coach: Jorge da Silva	Martín Campaña - Ramón Arias , Matias Malvino , Emilio Zeballos , Mario Risso - Aníbal Hernández (57th Felipe Gedoz da Conceição ), Andrés Fleurquín , Juan Amado (67th Damián Luna ), Giorgian de Arrascaeta - Ignacio Risso (57th Sebastián Taborda ) , Maximiliano Callorda Coach: Hebert Silva Cantera
	1-0 Antonio Pacheco (26th) 2-0 Antonio Pacheco (36th, penalty) 3-0 Antonio Pacheco (80th)	3: 1 Damián Luna (90.)
	Marcel Novick (21st), Sebastián Cristóforo (33rd)	Aníbal Hernández (1st), Andrés Fleurquín (70th), Sebastián Taborda (78th)

Relegation table

The relegation regulation from the Liga Profesional de Primera División refers to the annual ranking of the current and the previous season. The points scored are added together and divided by the number of games to an average value per game. Current promoters, for whom only a first division season can be used to determine (indicated here by a dash in the column for the 2011/12 season), the points scored in these 30 games are doubled for reasons of equal opportunities.

rank		society	Item 2011/12	Item 2012/13	Pt.	Sp.	⌀ / col.
01.		Peñarol	62	66	128	30th	2.133
02.		Defensor Sporting	62	63	125	60	2.083
03.		Nacional	67	58	125	60	2.083
04th		River Plate Montevideo	50	51	101	60	1.683
05.		Danubio	52	35	087	60	1,450
06th		Liverpool	53	31	084	60	1,400
07th		Cerro Largo	54	27	081	60	1,350
08th.		Montevideo Wanderers	41	40	081	60	1,350
09.		Juventud	-	40	080	30th	1.333
10.		El Tanque Sisley	31	48	079	60	1.317
11.		Cerro	36	35	071	60	1.183
12.		Racing	34	37	071	60	1.183
13.		Fénix	25th	40	065	60	1.083
13.		Bella Vista	30th	30th	060	60	1,000
15th		Progreso	-	28	056	30th	0.933
14th		Central Español	-	28	056	30th	0.933

Legend
	Relegation to the Segunda División

List of goalscorers

Top scorer of the season: Juan Manuel Olivera

The following table adds up the hits of the goalscorers from Apertura and Clausura to the season value. With the same number of hits, the players are sorted alphabetically by last name. Players in italics were only used during the aperture.

Pl.	player	society	Gates
1	Juan Manuel Olivera	CA Peñarol	18th
2	Liber Quiñones	Racing Club de Montevideo	15th
2	Maximiliano Rodríguez	Montevideo Wanderers	15th
2	Marcelo Zalayeta	CA Peñarol	15th
3	Fabián Estoyanoff	CA Peñarol	12
4th	Matias Alonso	Club Atlético Juventud de Las Piedras	11
4th	Héctor Acuña	CCD El Tanque Sisley	11
4th	Felipe Avenatti	River Plate Montevideo	11
4th	Ignacio Risso	Defensor Sporting	11

Venues

The total capacity of all top division stadiums in the 2012/13 season was 245,800 seats. Compared to the previous season, it decreased by 2,700 places and thus by a little more than one percent, as the capacity of the three relegated places (24,600 places) was compared to a capacity of 21,900 places for the three climbers.

society	Stadion	capacity		society	Stadion	capacity
CA Peñarol	Estadio Centenario	65,235		Montevideo Wanderers	Estadio Alfredo Victor Viera	10,000
Club Nacional de Football	Estadio Gran Parque Central	26,500		Cerro Largo FC	Estadio Arquitecto Antonio Eleuterio Ubilla	9,000
CA Cerro	Estadio Luis Tróccoli	25,000		Racing Club de Montevideo	Estadio Osvaldo Roberto	8,500
Danubio FC	Estadio Jardines del Hipódromo	20,000		CCD El Tanque Sisley	Estadio Campeones Olímpicos	7,000
Defensor Sporting	Estadio Luis Franzini	20,000		Central Español FC	Estadio Parque Palermo	6,500
CA Bella Vista	Estadio José Nasazzi	12,000		CA Fénix	Estadio Parque Capurro	5,500
Club Atlético Juventud de Las Piedras	Estadio Parque Artigas	10,000		CA Progreso	Estadio Parque Abraham Paladino	5,400
Liverpool FC	Estadio Belvedere	10,000		CA River Plate	Estadio Parque Federico Omar Saroldi	5,165

Change of coach

society	Trainer	reason	date	successor	Table position
Before the start of the season
Bella Vista	Diego Alonso	End of contract	06/08/2012	Guillermo Sanguinetti	Summer break
Nacional	Marcelo Gallardo	End of contract	June 18, 2012	Gustavo Díaz
Fénix	Lorenzo Carrabs	End of the interim period	June 21, 2012	Eduardo Favaro
Defensor Sporting	Gustavo Díaz	Change to Nacional	June 23, 2012	Tabaré Silva
Cerro	Gabriel Camacho	End of the interim period	06/07/2012	Ricardo Ortíz
During the season
Danubio	Gabriel Camacho	Discharge	05.09.2012	Juan Ramon Carrasco	15th

Sponsors

society	Outfitter	Main sponsor
CA Bella Vista	MGR Sport	CYMACO
CA Cerro	Fit	Limol
CA Fénix	MGR Sport	Ratisalil
Club Atlético Juventud de Las Piedras	Menpi	Frigorífico Las Piedras / Agua Iara
CA Peñarol	puma	ANTEL
CA Progreso	Matgeor	Bark Dos / La Cabaña
River Plate Montevideo	Mass sports	Macro Mercado
CCD El Tanque Sisley	Matgeor	La Cabaña / Bark Dos / CYMACO
Central Español FC	Matgeor	Bark Dos / Círculo Católico / La Selva
Cerro Largo FC	Mass sports	Núñez Transporte y Turismo / Microsules
Club Nacional de Football	Umbro	ANTEL
Danubio FC	Mass sports	Asociación Española
Defensor Sporting	Mass sports	Médica Uruguaya
Liverpool FC	Joma	Puritas
Montevideo Wanderers	Joma	CYMACO
Racing Club de Montevideo	Mass sports	Punta Ballena

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official announcement of the CA Peñarol championship win on the website of the Asociación Uruguaya de Fútbol , accessed on.org.uy on June 6, 2013