Uruguay participated uninterruptedly in the World Cup Qualifyings since 1958 and qualified to the final tournament in 1962, 1966, 1970, 1974, 1986, 1990 and 2002
World Cup 1958 (Sweden)
No. Date Venue Local Score Visitor
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1. 16-Jun-57 Bogota Colombia 1-1 Uruguay
[Carlos Arango 15; Javier Ambrois 46]
2. 30-Jun-57 Montevideo Uruguay 1-0 Colombia
[Oscar Míguez 89pen]
3. 14-Jul-57 Asunción Paraguay 5-0 Uruguay
[Florencio Amarilla 5, 48, 57, Angel Jara Saguier 86,
Juan Agüero 90]
4. 28-Jul-57 Montevideo Uruguay 2-0 Paraguay
[Eladio Benítez 8, William Martínez 88]
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Coach: Juan López
World Cup 1962 (Chile)
Uruguay qualified to the World Cup.
No. Date Venue Local Score Visitor
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5. 15-Jul-61 La Paz Bolivia 1-1 Uruguay
[Máximo Alcócer 54; Luis Cubilla 23]
6. 30-Jul-61 Montevideo Uruguay 2-1 Bolivia
[Angel Cabrera 3, Guillermo Escalada 39;
Wilfredo Camacho 65]
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Coach: Enrique Fernández
World Cup 1966 (England)
Uruguay qualified to the World Cup.
No. Date Venue Local Score Visitor
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7. 23-May-65 Montevideo Uruguay 5-0 Venezuela
[Pedro Rocha 18, Héctor Silva 23, 52, 69,
Danilo Meneses 61]
8. 30-May-65 Caracas Venezuela 1-3 Uruguay
[Argenis Tortolero 40; Pedro Rocha 10, 47,
José Urruzmendi 88]
9. 6-Jun-65 Lima Peru 0-1 Uruguay
[José Urruzmendi 77]
10. 13-Jun-65 Montevideo Uruguay 2-1 Peru
[Héctor Silva 20, Pedro Rocha 62; Jesús Peláez 2]
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Coach: Rafael Milans
World Cup 1970 (Mexico)
Uruguay qualified to the World Cup.
No. Date Venue Local Score Visitor
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11. 6-Jul-69 Guayaquil Ecuador 0-2 Uruguay
[Ruben Bareño 31, Oscar Zubía 60]
12. 13-Jul-69 Santiago Chile 0-0 Uruguay
13. 20-Jul-69 Montevideo Uruguay 1-0 Ecuador
[Atilio Ancheta 76]
14. 10-Aug-69 Montevideo Uruguay 2-0 Chile
[Julio César Cortés 44, Pedro Rocha 90]
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Coach: Juan Eduardo Hohberg (Argentinian)
World Cup 1974 (West Germany)
Uruguay qualified to the World Cup.
No. Date Venue Local Score Visitor
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15. 24-Jun-73 Bogota Colombia 0-0 Uruguay
16. 1-Jul-73 Quito Ecuador 1-2 Uruguay
[Ítalo Estupiñán 35; Luis Cubila 41, Fernando Morena 74]
17. 5-Jul-73 Montevideo Uruguay 0-1 Colombia
[Willington Ortiz 71]
18. 8-Jul-73 Montevideo Uruguay 4-0 Ecuador
[Fernando Morena 4, 27, Luis Cubilla 30, Denis Milar 62]
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Coach: Hugo Bagnulo
World Cup 1978 (Argentina)
No. Date Venue Local Score Visitor
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19. 9-Feb-77 Caracas Venezuela 1-1 Uruguay
[Carlos Marín 83; Washington Olivera 5]
20. 27-Feb-77 La Paz Bolivia 1-0 Uruguay
[Porfirio Jiménez 48]
21. 17-Mar-77 Montevideo Uruguay 2-0 Venezuela
[Nitder Pizzani 11, 83]
22. 27-Mar-77 Montevideo Uruguay 2-2 Bolivia
[Darío Pereyra 25, 49; Miguel Aguilar 27, 61]
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Coaches: Juan Eduardo Hohberg (Argentinian) [matches 19 & 20]
Raúl Bentancor [matches 21 & 22]
World Cup 1982 (Spain)
No. Date Venue Local Score Visitor
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23. 9-Aug-81 Montevideo Uruguay 3-2 Colombia
[Ruben Paz 20, Julio César Morales 78pen, 87;
Pedro Sarmiento 51, Hernán Darío Herrera 57]
24. 23-Aug-81 Montevideo Uruguay 1-2 Peru
[Waldemar Victorino 64; Guillermo La Rosa 40,
Julio Uribe 47]
25. 6-Sep-81 Lima Peru 0-0 Uruguay
26. 13-Sep-81 Bogota Colombia 1-1 Uruguay
[Hernán Darío Herrera 13pen; Waldemar Victorino 18]
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Coach: Roque Gastón Máspoli
World Cup 1986 (Mexico)
Uruguay qualified to the World Cup.
No. Date Venue Local Score Visitor
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27. 10-Mar-85 Montevideo Uruguay 2-1 Ecuador
[Carlos Aguilera 34, Venancio Ramos 90;
Hamilton Cuvi 54]
28. 24-Mar-85 Santiago Chile 2-0 Uruguay
[Hugo Rubio 28, Jorge Aravena 54]
29. 31-Mar-85 Quito Ecuador 0-2 Uruguay
[Mario Saralegui 71, Enzo Francéscoli 87]
30. 7-Apr-85 Montevideo Uruguay 2-1 Chile
[José Batista 10, Venancio Ramos 57pen;
Jorge Aravena 28pen]
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Coach: Omar Borrás
World Cup 1990 (Italy)
Uruguay qualified to the World Cup.
No. Date Venue Local Score Visitor
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31. 27-Aug-89 Lima Peru 0-2 Uruguay
[Ruben Sosa 46, Antonio Alzamendi 69]
32. 3-Sep-89 La Paz Bolivia 2-1 Uruguay
[Alfonso Domínguez 38og, Alvaro Peña 47; Ruben Sosa 49]
33. 17-Sep-89 Montevideo Uruguay 2-0 Bolivia
[Ruben Sosa 31, Enzo Francéscoli 38]
34. 24-Sep-89 Montevideo Uruguay 2-0 Peru
[Ruben Sosa 43, 57]
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Coach: Oscar Washington Tabárez
World Cup 1994 (USA)
No. Date Venue Local Score Visitor
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35. 25-Jul-93 San Cristóbal Venezuela 0-1 Uruguay
[José Herrera 59]
36. 1-Aug-93 Montevideo Uruguay 0-0 Ecuador
37. 8-Aug-93 La Paz Bolivia 3-1 Uruguay
[Erwin Sánchez 71, Marco Etcheverry 81, Milton Melgar 86;
Enzo Francéscoli 90]
38. 15-Aug-93 Montevideo Uruguay 1-1 Brazil
[Daniel Fonseca 79; Raí 28]
39. 29-Aug-93 Montevideo Uruguay 4-0 Venezuela
[Fernando Kanapkis 7, 31, Gabriel Cedrés 41,
Ruben Sosa 64]
40. 5-Sep-93 Guayaquil Ecuador 0-1 Uruguay
[Ruben Sosa 9]
41. 12-Sep-93 Montevideo Uruguay 2-1 Bolivia
[Enzo Francéscoli 3pen, Daniel Fonseca 51;
William Ramallo 23]
42. 19-Sep-93 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 2-0 Uruguay
[Romário 72, 82]
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Coaches: Luis Cubilla [matches 35-38]
Ildo Maneiro [matches 39-42]
World Cup 1998 (France)
No. Date Venue Local Score Visitor
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43. 24-Apr-96 Caracas Venezuela 0-2 Uruguay
[Marcelo Otero 54, Gustavo Poyet 71]
44. 2-Jun-96 Montevideo Uruguay 0-2 Paraguay
[Francisco Arce 10, Arístides Rojas 88]
45. 7-Jul-96 Barranquilla Colombia 3-1 Uruguay
[Faustino Asprilla 7, Carlos Valderrama 20,
Anthony De Avila 78; Gabriel Cedrés 57]
46. 8-Oct-96 Montevideo Uruguay 1-0 Bolivia
[Juan Manuel Peña 72og]
47. 12-Nov-96 Santiago Chile 1-0 Uruguay
[Marcelo Salas 60]
48. 15-Dec-96 Montevideo Uruguay 2-0 Peru
[Paolo Montero 2, Pablo Bengoechea 38]
49. 12-Jan-97 Montevideo Uruguay 0-0 Argentina
50. 12-Feb-97 Quito Ecuador 4-0 Uruguay
[Alex Aguinaga 6, Agustín Delgado 68, 76, Cléver Chalá 87]
51. 2-Apr-97 Montevideo Uruguay 3-1 Venezuela
[Gonzalo De los Santos 29, Paolo Montero 46,
Marcelo Otero 59; Rafael Castellín 55]
52. 30-Apr-97 Asunción Paraguay 3-1 Uruguay
[Arístides Rojas 37, José Cardozo 73, Derlis Soto 83pen;
Darío Silva 87]
53. 8-Jun-97 Montevideo Uruguay 1-1 Colombia
[Darío Silva 6; Hamilton Ricard 47]
54. 20-Jul-97 La Paz Bolivia 1-0 Uruguay
[Marco Etcheverry 75]
55. 20-Aug-97 Montevideo Uruguay 1-0 Chile
[Marcelo Otero 20]
56. 10-Sep-97 Lima Peru 2-1 Uruguay
[Roberto Palacios 57, Germán Carty 60; Alvaro Recoba 43]
57. 12-Oct-97 Buenos Aires Argentina 0-0 Uruguay
58. 16-Nov-97 Maldonado Uruguay 5-3 Ecuador
[Marcelo Saralegui 3, 12, Sebastián Abreu 48, 52,
Carlos Aguilera 63; Ariel Graziani 2, 59, 68]
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Coaches: Héctor Núñez [matches 43-47]
Juan Ahuntchaín [matches 48-53]
Roque Gastón Máspoli [matches 54-58]
World Cup 2002 (Japan-South Korea)
Uruguay qualified to the World Cup.
No. Date Venue Local Score Visitor
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59. 29-Mar-00 Montevideo Uruguay 1-0 Bolivia
[Pablo García 26]
60. 26-Apr-00 Asuncion Paraguay 1-0 Uruguay
[Celso Ayala 35]
61. 3-Jun-00 Montevideo Uruguay 2-1 Chile
[Darío Silva 36, Paolo Montero 42; Iván Zamorano 40pen]
62. 28-Jun-00 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 1-1 Uruguay
[Rivaldo 85pen; Darío Silva 6]
63. 18-Jul-00 Montevideo Uruguay 3-1 Venezuela
[Nicolás Olivera 30, 90, Darío Rodríguez 53;
Daniel Noriega 23]
64. 26-Jul-00 Montevideo Uruguay 0-0 Peru
65. 15-Aug-00 Bogota Colombia 1-0 Uruguay
[Jairo Castillo 73]
66. 3-Sep-00 Montevideo Uruguay 4-0 Ecuador
[Federico Magallanes 15, Darío Silva 38,
Nicolás Olivera 51, Gabriel Cedrés 87]
67. 8-Oct-00 Buenos Aires Argentina 2-1 Uruguay
[Marcelo Gallardo 28, Gabriel Batistuta 42;
Federico Magallanes 50]
68. 15-Nov-00 La Paz Bolivia 0-0 Uruguay
69. 28-Mar-00 Montevideo Uruguay 0-1 Paraguay
[Guido Alvarenga 64]
70. 24-Apr-00 Santiago Chile 0-1 Uruguay
[Ítalo Díaz 12og]
71. 1-Jul-01 Montevideo Uruguay 1-0 Brazil
[Federico Magallanes 33pen]
72. 14-Aug-01 Maracaibo Venezuela 2-0 Uruguay
[Ruberth Morán 52, Alexander Rondón 90]
73. 4-Sep-01 Lima Peru 0-2 Uruguay
[Darío Silva 12, Alvaro Recoba 45]
74. 7-Oct-01 Montevideo Uruguay 1-1 Colombia
[Federico Magallanes 35pen; Arnulfo Valentierra 68]
75. 7-Nov-01 Quito Ecuador 1-1 Uruguay
[Iván Kaviedes 72; Nicolás Olivera 44pen]
76. 14-Nov-01 Montevideo Uruguay 1-1 Argentina
[Darío Silva 18; Claudio López 45]
77. 20-Nov-01 Melbourne Australia 1-0 Uruguay
[Kevin Muscat 79pen]
78. 25-Nov-01 Montevideo Uruguay 3-0 Australia
[Darío Silva 12, Richard Morales 70, 90]
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Coaches: Daniel Passarella (Argentinian) [matches 59-68]
Víctor Púa [matches 69-78]
World Cup 2006 (Germany)
No. Date Venue Local Score Visitor
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79. 7-Sep-03 Montevideo Uruguay 5-0 Bolivia
[Diego Forlán 18, Javier Chevantón 40, 62,
Nelson Abeijón 83, Carlos Bueno 88]
80. 10-Sep-03 Asuncion Paraguay 4-1 Uruguay
[José Cardozo 27, 58, 72, Carlos Paredes 54;
Javier Chevantón 23]
81. 15-Nov-03 Montevideo Uruguay 2-1 Chile
[Javier Chevantón 31, Adrián Romero 49;
Rodrigo Meléndez 21]
82. 19-Nov-03 Curitiba Brazil 3-3 Uruguay
[Kaká 20, Ronaldo 29, 87; Diego Forlán 57, 76,
Gilberto Silva 78og]
83. 31-Mar-04 Montevideo Uruguay 0-3 Venezuela
[Gabriel Urdaneta 19, Héctor González 63,
Juan Arango 78]
84. 1-Jun-04 Montevideo Uruguay 1-3 Peru
[Diego Forlán 72; Nolberto Solano 14, Claudio Pizarro 19,
Jefferson Farfán 62]
85. 6-Jun-04 Barranquilla Colombia 5-0 Uruguay
[Víctor Pacheco 18, 32, Tressor Moreno 20,
John Restrepo 81, Sergio Herrera 86]
86. 5-Sep-04 Montevideo Uruguay 1-0 Ecuador
[Carlos Bueno 57]
87. 9-Oct-04 Buenos Aires Argentina 4-2 Uruguay
[Luis González 6, Luciano Figueroa 32, 54,
Javier Zanetti 45; Cristian Rodríguez 63,
Javier Chevantón 86pen]
88. 12-Oct-04 La Paz Bolivia 0-0 Uruguay
89. 17-Nov-04 Montevideo Uruguay 1-0 Paraguay
[Paolo Montero 78]
90. 27-Mar-05 Santiago Chile 1-1 Uruguay
[Milovan Mirosevic 47; Mario Regueiro 4]
91. 30-Mar-05 Montevideo Uruguay 1-1 Brazil
[Diego Forlán 49; Emerson 68]
92. 4-Jun-05 Maracaibo Venezuela 1-1 Uruguay
[Giancarlo Maldonado 73; Diego Forlán 2]
93. 7-Jun-05 Lima Peru 0-0 Uruguay
94. 4-Sep-05 Montevideo Uruguay 3-2 Colombia
[Marcelo Zalayeta 42, 51, 85; Elkin Soto 79,
Juan Pablo Angel 81]
95. 8-Oct-05 Quito Ecuador 0-0 Uruguay
96. 12-Oct-05 Montevideo Uruguay 1-0 Argentina
[Alvaro Recoba 46]
97. 12-Nov-05 Montevideo Uruguay 1-0 Australia
[Darío Rodríguez 36]
98. 16-Nov-05 Sydney Australia 1-0 Uruguay
[Marco Bresciano 34]
Australia won 4-2 on penalties.
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Coaches: Juan Ramón Carrasco [matches 79-83]
Jorge Daniel Fossati [matches 84-98]
World Cup 2010 (South Africa)
No. Date Venue Local Score Visitor
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99. 13-Oct-07 Montevideo Uruguay 5-0 Bolivia
[Luis Suárez 4, Diego Forlán 38, Sebastián Abreu 48,
Vicente Sánchez 67, Carlos Bueno 83]
100. 17-Oct-07 Asuncion Paraguay 1-0 Uruguay
[Nelson Haedo Valdez 15]
101. 18-Nov-07 Montevideo Uruguay 2-2 Chile
[Luis Suárez 42, Sebastián Abreu 81;
Marcelo Salas 59, 69pen]
102. 21-Nov-07 São Paulo Brazil 2-1 Uruguay
[Luís Fabiano 44, 65; Sebastián Abreu 8]
103. 14-Jun-08 Montevideo Uruguay 1-1 Venezuela
[Diego Lugano 12; Ronald Vargas 56]
104. 17-Jun-08 Montevideo Uruguay 6-0 Peru
[Diego Forlán 8, 38pen, 57, Carlos Bueno 61, 69,
Sebastián Abreu 90]
105. 6-Sep-08 Bogotá Colombia 0-1 Uruguay
[Sebastián Eguren 15]
106. 10-Sep-08 Montevideo Uruguay 0-0 Ecuador
107. 11-Oct-08 Buenos Aires Argentina 2-1 Uruguay
[Lionel Messi 6, Sergio Agüero 13; Diego Lugano 40]
108. 14-Oct-08 La Paz Bolivia 2-2 Uruguay
[Marcelo Martins 15, 42; Carlos Bueno 64,
Sebastián Abreu 88]
109. 28-Mar-09 Montevideo Uruguay 2-0 Paraguay
[Diego Forlán 28, Diego Lugano 57]
110. 1-Apr-09 Santiago Chile 0-0 Uruguay
111. 6-Jun-09 Montevideo Uruguay 0-4 Brazil
[Daniel Alves 12, Juan 36, Luís Fabiano 52, Kaká 74pen]
112. 10-Jun-09 Puerto Ordaz Venezuela 2-2 Uruguay
[Giancarlo Maldonado 9, José Manuel Rey 75; Luis Suárez 61,
Diego Forlán 72]
113. 5-Sep-09 Lima Peru - Uruguay
114. 8-Sep-09 Montevideo Uruguay - Colombia
115. 10-Oct-09 Quito Ecuador - Uruguay
116. 13-Oct-09 Montevideo Uruguay - Argentina
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Coach: Oscar Washington Tabárez
Qualifyings in Overview
P W T L GF GA
1958 4 2 1 1 4 6
1962 2 1 1 0 3 2
1966 4 4 0 0 11 2
1970 4 3 1 0 5 0
1974 4 2 1 1 6 2
1978 4 1 2 1 5 4
1982 4 1 2 1 5 5
1986 4 3 0 1 6 4
1990 4 3 0 1 7 2
1994 8 4 2 2 10 7
1998 16 6 3 7 18 21
2002 20 8 6 6 22 14
2006 20 7 7 6 24 29
2010 14 4 6 4 23 16
112 49 32 31 149 114
Coaches in Overview
P W T L GF GA
López 4 2 1 1 4 6
Fernández 2 1 1 0 3 2
Milans 4 4 0 0 11 2
Hohberg 6 3 2 1 6 2
Bagnulo 4 2 1 1 6 2
Bentancor 2 1 1 0 4 2
Máspoli 9 3 3 3 12 11
Borrás 4 3 0 1 6 4
Tabárez 18 7 6 5 31 18
Cubilla 4 1 2 1 3 4
Maneiro 4 3 0 1 7 3
Núñez 5 2 0 3 4 6
Ahuntchaín 6 2 2 2 7 9
Passarella 10 4 3 3 12 7
Púa 10 4 3 3 10 7
Carrasco 5 2 1 2 11 11
Fossati 15 5 6 4 13 18
Opponents in Overview
P W T L GF GA
Argentina 7 1 3 3 6 9
Australia 4 2 0 2 4 2
Bolivia 16 7 5 4 25 14
Brazil 8 1 4 3 8 14
Chile 12 6 4 2 13 9
Colombia 13 4 5 4 13 18
Ecuador 15 10 4 1 25 10
Paraguay 10 3 0 7 7 17
Perú 13 7 3 3 20 8
Venezuela 14 8 4 2 28 13
Total by Venue
P W T L GF GA
Home 56 37 12 7 103 42
Away 56 12 21 23 46 72
Results in Overview
Distribution of Results at Home Distribution of Results Away
Score No. of times Score No. of times
0-0 4 0-0 9
0-1 2 0-1 8
0-2 1 0-2 3
0-3 1 0-4 1
0-4 1 0-5 2
1-0 10 1-0 5
1-1 6 1-1 8
1-2 1 1-2 5
1-3 1 1-3 3
2-0 7 1-4 1
2-1 7 2-0 5
2-2 2 2-1 1
3-0 1 2-2 2
3-1 2 2-4 1
3-2 2 3-1 1
4-0 3 3-3 1
5-0 3
5-3 1
6-0 1
Uruguay's largest victory in World Cup Qualifying matches was 6-0 at home
against Peru on 17th Jun 2008, when Diego Forlán scored a Hat-Trick, a
shared record for an uruguayan player in the qualifiers, a side Héctor Silva,
who also scored three goals against Venezuela at home on 23rd May 1965 (5-0).
Uruguay's largest defeats were 0-5 on 14th July 1957 as visitors against
Paraguay in Asunción (Puerto Sajonia), when for the first time Uruguay had
to play the qualification phase (directly qualified to 1930, 1950 and
1954; withdrew in 1934 and 1938); and by the same score at Colombia on 6th
June 2004.
Players in Qualifyings:
Number of goals:
12 Diego Forlán
8 Darío Silva
7 Ruben Sosa, Sebastián Abreu
6 Carlos Bueno
5 Javier Chevantón, Pedro Rocha
4 Enzo Francéscoli, Federico Magallanes, Héctor Silva, Nicolás Olivera, Paolo Montero
3 Alvaro Recoba, Diego Lugano, Fernando Morena, Gabriel Cedrés, Luis Cubilla,
Marcelo Otero, Marcelo Zalayeta, Luis Suárez
2 Carlos Aguilera, Daniel Fonseca, Darío Pereyra, Darío Rodríguez, Fernando Kanapkis,
José Urruzmendi, Julio César Morales, Marcelo Saralegui, Nittder Pizzani,
Richard Morales, Venancio Ramos, Waldemar Victorino
1 Adrián Romero, Angel Cabrera, Antonio Alzamendi, Atilio Ancheta, Cristian Rodríguez,
Danilo Meneses, Denis Milar, Eladio Benítez, Gonzalo De los Santos,
Guillermo Escalada, Gustavo Poyet, Javier Ambrois, José Batista, José Herrera,
Julio César Cortés, Mario Regueiro, Mario Saralegui, Nelson Abeijón, Omar Míguez,
Oscar Zubía, Pablo Bengoechea, Pablo García, Ruben Bareño, Ruben Paz,
Sebastián Eguren, Vicente Sánchez, Washington Olivera, William Martínez
Juan Manuel Peña (Bolivia), Ítalo Díaz (Chile) and Gilberto Silva (Brazil) scored own goals.
Average of goals against by goalkeeper:
P GA GA/Match
Ladislao Mazurkiewicz 6 1 0,16
Eduardo Pereira 4 2 0,50
Héctor Santos 4 2 0,50
Fabián Carini 29 22 0,76
Sebastián Viera 11 11 1,00
Juan Castillo 6 6 1,00
Luis María Maidana 2 2 1,00
Fernando Alvez 1 1 1,00
Robert Siboldi 18 19 1,05
Rodolfo Sergio Rodríguez 12 13 1,08
Walter Taibo 6 7 1,16
Carlos Nicola 2 3 1,50
Claudio Arbiza 3 5 1,66
Gustavo Munúa 8 20 2,50
112 114 1,02
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