2015–16 Uruguayan Primera División season

Liga Profesional de Primera División

Season	2015–16
Champions	Peñarol
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The 2015–16 Liga Profesional de Primera División season, also known as the 2015–16 Copa Uruguaya or the 2015–16 Campeonato Uruguayo, is the 112th season of Uruguay's top-flight football league, and the 85th in which it is professional. Nacional is the defending champion.

Teams

Montevideo

Juventud

Sud América

Plaza Colonia

El Tanque Sisley

Locations of the 2015–16 season teams outside Montevideo.

Cerro

Danubio

Defensor Sporting

Fénix

Wanderers

Nacional

Peñarol

Racing

River Plate

Liverpool

Locations of the 2015−16 Primera División teams within Montevideo.

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity
Cerro	Montevideo	Luis Tróccoli	24,000
Danubio	Montevideo	Jardines Del Hipódromo	14,401
Defensor Sporting	Montevideo	Luis Franzini	18,000
El Tanque Sisley	Florida	Campeones Olímpicos	7,000
Fénix	Montevideo	Parque Capurro	5,500
Juventud	Las Piedras	Parque Artigas	5,500
Liverpool	Montevideo	Belvedere	10,000
Montevideo Wanderers	Montevideo	Parque Alfredo Víctor Viera	7,420
Nacional	Montevideo	Gran Parque Central	23,500
Peñarol	Montevideo	Campeón del Siglo	40,000
Plaza Colonia	Colonia	Suppici	12,000
Racing	Montevideo	Osvaldo Roberto	4,500
Rentistas	Montevideo	Complejo Rentistas	10,600
River Plate	Montevideo	Parque Federico Omar Saroldi	5,624
Sud América	San José	Casto Martínez Laguarda	6,000
Villa Teresa	Montevideo	José Nasazzi	5,000

Torneo Apertura

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Peñarol	15	9	4	2	28	17	+11	31	Championship Playoffs
2	Nacional	15	9	3	3	32	21	+11	30
3	Cerro	15	9	1	5	25	19	+6	28
4	Montevideo Wanderers	15	6	6	3	22	16	+6	24
5	River Plate	15	7	2	6	31	25	+6	23
6	Fénix	15	6	5	4	17	12	+5	23
7	Danubio	15	6	4	5	21	13	+8	22
8	Defensor Sporting	15	6	3	6	25	25	0	21
9	El Tanque Sisley	15	5	4	6	17	17	0	19
10	Rentistas	15	5	3	7	18	19	−1	18
11	Sud América	15	4	6	5	17	22	−5	18
12	Liverpool	15	5	3	7	15	24	−9	18
13	Plaza Colonia	15	3	8	4	15	16	−1	17
14	Racing	15	4	5	6	21	26	−5	17
15	Juventud	15	4	3	8	14	25	−11	15
16	Villa Teresa	15	1	2	12	9	30	−21	5

Torneo Clausura

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Plaza Colonia	15	9	5	1	20	9	+11	32	Championship Playoffs
2	Peñarol	15	8	3	4	25	18	+7	27
3	Sud América	15	7	4	4	17	16	+1	25
4	Montevideo Wanderers	15	7	3	5	31	21	+10	24
5	Nacional	15	7	3	5	21	17	+4	24
6	Cerro	15	7	3	5	17	15	+2	24
7	Fénix	15	6	5	4	18	13	+5	23
8	Liverpool	15	7	1	7	16	18	−2	22
9	Rentistas	15	6	3	6	18	17	+1	21
10	Defensor Sporting	15	6	3	6	23	29	−6	21
11	Villa Teresa	15	5	4	6	15	19	−4	19
12	Juventud	15	4	6	5	19	19	0	18
13	River Plate	15	5	3	7	15	16	−1	18
14	Racing	15	3	5	7	19	24	−5	14
15	Danubio	15	3	4	8	18	25	−7	13
16	El Tanque Sisley	15	2	1	12	14	30	−16	7

Aggregate table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Peñarol	30	17	7	6	53	35	+18	58	2017 Copa Libertadores Second Stage and 2016 Copa Sudamericana First Stage
2	Nacional	30	16	6	8	53	38	+15	54	2017 Copa Libertadores Second Stage
3	Cerro	30	16	4	10	42	34	+8	51	2017 Copa Libertadores First Stage
4	Plaza Colonia	30	12	13	5	35	25	+10	49	2016 Copa Sudamericana First Stage
5	Montevideo Wanderers	30	13	9	8	53	37	+16	48
6	Fénix	30	12	10	8	35	25	+10	46
7	Sud América	30	11	10	9	34	38	−4	43
8	Defensor Sporting	30	12	6	12	48	54	−6	42
9	River Plate	30	12	5	13	46	41	+5	41
10	Liverpool	30	12	4	14	31	42	−11	40
11	Rentistas	30	11	6	13	36	36	0	39
12	Danubio	30	9	8	13	39	38	+1	35
13	Juventud	30	8	9	13	33	44	−11	33
14	Racing	30	7	10	13	40	50	−10	31
15	El Tanque Sisley	30	7	5	18	31	47	−16	26
16	Villa Teresa	30	6	6	18	24	49	−25	24

Relegation

Pos	Team	2014–15 Pts	2015-16 Pts	Total Pts	Total Pld	Relegation
1	Nacional	63	54	117	60
2	Peñarol	56	58	114	60
3	Plaza Colonia	-	49	98	30
4	River Plate	54	41	95	60
5	Defensor Sporting	48	42	90	60
6	Cerro	34	51	85	60
7	Sud América	42	43	85	60
8	Danubio	49	35	84	60
9	Fénix	37	46	83	60
10	Montevideo Wanderers	34	48	82	60
11	Liverpool	-	40	80	30
12	Juventud	45	33	78	60
13	Racing	45	31	76	60
14	Rentistas	34	39	73	60	Relegation to Segunda División
15	El Tanque Sisley	39	26	65	60
16	Villa Teresa	-	24	48	30

Semifinal playoff

Peñarol v Plaza Colonia

June 12, 2016 16:00 (UTC-3)

Peñarol	3–1 (a.e.t.)	Plaza Colonia
D. Rossi  79' M. Olivera  109' M. Affonso  112'		A. Furia  69'

Estadio Centenario, Montevideo, Uruguay

Peñarol

Plaza Colonia

PEÑAROL: GK 1 Gastón Guruceaga RB 13 Matías Aguirregaray  119' CB 23 Carlos Valdez  28' CB 2 Guillermo Rodríguez  54' LB 15 Maximiliano Olivera  62' CM 5 Marcel Novick  83' CM 25 Nahitan Nández  30'  73' RM 16 Federico Valverde LM 10 Diego Forlán FW 29 Miguel Murillo FW 9 Diego Ifrán  62' Substitutes: GK 12 Damián Frascarelli DF 3 Fabrizio Buschiazzo MF 14 Luis Aguiar MF 20 Nicolás Albarracín MF 28 Tomás Costa  83' FW 27 Diego Rossi  62' FW 26 Mauricio Affonso  73' Manager: Jorge da Silva

PLAZA COLONIA: GK 1 Kevin Dawson RB 13 Santiago de Ávila CB 2 Germán Ferreira  46', 106' CB 3 Carlos Rodríguez Rodríguez LB 14 Alejandro Villoldo  116' RM 10 Nicolás Milesi  7' CM 7 Alejandro Furia CM 5 Matías Caseras LM 15 Facundo Waller  68' FW 11 Nicolás Dibble Aristimuño  62'  105' FW 38 Germán Rivero  98' Substitutes: GK ' Nicolás Guirin DF 16 Nicolás Rodríguez DF 17 Alejandro Rodríguez Morales MF 18 Mariano Bogliacino  68' MF 20 Ezequias Redín FW 9 Sergio Leal  98' FW 27 Federico Puppo  105' Manager: Eduardo Espinel

Primera División 2015–16 Champion
Peñarol 43th title

References

External links

• Asociación Uruguaya de Fútbol - Campeonato Uruguayo (Spanish)
  • Tournament regulations (Spanish)