Universal FC
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| Full name | Universal Football Club | ||
| place | Montevideo , Uruguay | ||
| Founded | unknown | ||
| Dissolved | unknown | ||
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The Universal Football Club , or Universal for short , was a football club from Montevideo in Uruguay .
history
In 1907 the club played in the Segunda División. That year, on December 8, 1907, there was an international encounter with the Argentinian club Boca Juniors , which Universal won 2-1 in Buenos Aires . The president of the Uruguayan association was Julio A. Bosio. The following year both clubs met in Montevideo. There, however, Universal lost 1: 2. In 1911, the club's team rose to the highest Uruguayan league, the Primera División . In the year of the first participation in the local game operation, they occupied seventh place in the table. In 1915, 1917 and 1918, the season was completed in third place. The best placement in the club's history was achieved in 1919 when they finished second behind champions Nacional Montevideo , two points behind. At the South American Championship in 1920 , the club provided Manuel Beloutas and Juan José Villar, two players from the Uruguayan national soccer team , which won the title at this tournament. The club itself won the Copa de Honor that year . In the subsequent Copa de Honor Cousenier, however, they were defeated in the game for this trophy, which was not played until September 20, 1923, with 0-2 through goals from Dante Santiago Pertini and Domingo Alberto Tarasconi to the Boca Juniors. After being able to finish third for the fourth time in 1921, the following years were far less successful. During the split in the organizational structure in Uruguayan football, when some teams played a parallel championship from 1922 under the umbrella of the newly founded Federación Uruguaya de Football (FUF), the club remained in the championship round of the Primera División organized by the Asociación Uruguaya de Fútbol (AUF) and ranked sixth and eleventh there in 1923 and 1924, respectively. After the reunification of the leagues, Universal was in the top division for two years. The tenth place in the table in 1926 was followed by relegation in 1927 as 20th and thus bottom of the table. This ended the successful period in the club's history.
successes
- Copa de Honor: 1920
- Uruguayan runner-up: 1919
Individual evidence
- ^ Nosotros Boca, p.88 by Juan Antonio Farenga Jr., accessed December 26, 2013
- ↑ Banfield Campeón Copa de Honor 1920: el camino hacia la final (Spanish) at www.codigobanfield.com.ar, accessed on December 26, 2013
- ↑ Uruguay - List of Final Tables 1900-2000 , accessed December 26, 2013