Uruguay national football team

Uruguay
Nickname(s)	La Celeste (The Sky Blues)
Association	AUF
Confederation	CONMEBOL (South America)
Head coach	Óscar Tabárez
Captain	Diego Godín
Most caps	Diego Godín (126)
Top scorer	Luis Suárez (55)
FIFA code	URU
First colours	Second colours
FIFA ranking
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Highest	2 (July 2011)
Lowest	55 (December 1998)
First international
	Uruguay 2–3 Argentina ; (Montevideo, Uruguay; 16 May 1901)
Biggest win
	Uruguay 9–0 Bolivia ; (Lima, Peru; 9 November 1927)
Biggest defeat
	Uruguay 0–6 Argentina ; (Montevideo, Uruguay; 20 July 1902)
World Cup
Appearances	13 (first in 1930)
Best result	Champions (1930, 1950)
Copa América
Appearances	45 (first in 1916)
Best result	Champions (1916, 1917, 1920, 1923, 1924, 1926, 1935, 1942, 1956, 1959, 1967, 1983, 1987, 1995, 2011)
Confederations Cup
Appearances	2 (first in 1997)
Best result	Fourth place (1997, 2013)
Medal record
Olympic medal record
Men's football
Olympic games

Uruguay national football team is the national football team of Uruguay. They won the World Cup in 1930 and 1950. Also, they won the Olympics football championship in 1924 and 1928. Recently, Uruguay won the 2011 Copa América, playing against Paraguay in the final.

Player records

As of 2 December 2022, after the match against Ghana^[5]

Players in bold are still active with Uruguay.

Rank	Player	Caps	Goals	Career
1	Diego Godín	161	8	2005–present
2	Luis Suárez	137	68	2007–present
3	Edinson Cavani	136	58	2008–present
4	Fernando Muslera	133	0	2009–present
5	Maxi Pereira	125	3	2005–2018
6	Martín Cáceres	116	4	2007–present
7	Diego Forlán	112	36	2002–2014
8	Cristian Rodríguez	110	11	2003–2018
9	Diego Lugano	95	9	2003–2014
10	Egidio Arévalo	90	0	2006–2017

Rank	Player	Goals	Caps	Ratio	Career
1	Luis Suárez	68	137	0.5	2007–present
2	Edinson Cavani	58	136	0.43	2008–present
3	Diego Forlán	36	112	0.32	2002–2014
4	Héctor Scarone	31	51	0.61	1917–1930
5	Ángel Romano	28	69	0.41	1913–1927
6	Óscar Míguez	27	39	0.69	1950–1958
7	Sebastián Abreu	26	70	0.37	1996–2012
8	Pedro Petrone	24	28	0.86	1923–1930
9	Fernando Morena	22	53	0.42	1971–1983
9	Carlos Aguilera	22	64	0.34	1982–1997

Uruguay before its first official match v Argentina, 20 July 1902
The team that won its second gold medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics
The team that beat Argentina in the final match of the 1930 FIFA World Cup to win Uruguay's first FIFA World Cup
Rodolfo Rodríguez raises the Mundialito trophy won in January 1981
Uruguay v Saudi Arabia match at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia
Uruguay at the 2014 FIFA World Cup, wearing the light blue shirt they have worn since 1910
Uruguay national team fans at 2014 FIFA World Cup
Diego Godín is Uruguay's most capped player with 161 appearances.
Luis Suárez is Uruguay's top scorer with 68 goals.

↑ "Historia del Fútbol Uruguayo" at Deportes en Uruguay
↑ "Historias, curiosidades y estadísticas de la Selección, tras sus "primeros" 900 partidos", El Gráfico, 4 July 2012
↑ Pelayes, Héctor Darío (24 September 2010). "ARGENTINA-URUGUAY Matches 1902–2009". RSSSF. Retrieved 7 November 2010.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 After 1988, the tournament has been restricted to squads with no more than 3 players over the age of 23, and these matches are not regarded as part of the national team's record, nor are caps awarded.
↑ "Uruguay – Record International Players". Archived from the original on 24 February 2012. Retrieved 28 May 2016.

Notes

↑ Although the first match ever recorded by both, Argentina and Uruguay sides, was played on 16 May 1901, this is not considered an official game due to the match not being organized by Uruguay's Football Association but by Albion FC in its home field, "Paso del Molino". The Uruguayan team had nine players from that club and the remainder from Nacional.^[1] Argentina won the match by 3-2.^[2]