Uruguay national football team

**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

, after the match against Bolivia
- _Players in **bold** are still active with Uruguay._

### Most appearances

|width=30px|Rank|style="width:150px;"|Player|width=50px|Caps|width=50px|Goals|style="width:100px;"|Career|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Diego Godín|**161**|8|2005–2022||||||
|2|**Luis Suárez**|**138**|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||||||

### Top goalscorers

|width=30px|Rank|style="width:150px;"|Player|width=50px|Goals|width=50px|Caps|width=50px|Ratio|style="width:100px;"|Career|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|**Luis Suárez** <small>(list)</small>|**68**|138||2007–present|||||||
|2|**Edinson Cavani**|**58**|136||2008–present|||||||
|3|Diego Forlán|**36**|112|||||||||
|4|Héctor Scarone|**31**|51||1917–1930|||||||
|5|Ángel Romano|**28**|69||1913–1927|||||||
|6|Óscar Míguez|**27**|39||1950–1958|||||||
|7|Sebastián Abreu|**26**|70||1996–2012|||||||
|8|Pedro Petrone|**24**|28||1923–1930|||||||
|rowspan=2|9|Fernando Morena|**22**|53||1971–1983||||||
|Carlos Aguilera|**22**|64||1982–1997||||||||

## Related pages

- National teams world champions (football)

## References

**Notes**

## Other websites

- Official website
- FIFA profile

## Infobox (national football team)

- **name**: Uruguay
- **nickname**: _La Celeste_ (The Sky Blues)
- **association**: Uruguayan Football Association, AUF
- **confederation**: CONMEBOL (South America)
- **coach**: Marcelo Bielsa
- **captain**: Federico Valverde
- **most caps**: Diego Godín (126)
- **top scorer**: Luis Suárez (55)
- **fifa trigramme**: URU
- **fifa rank**: 11 -- (21 December 2023)
- **fifa max**: 2
- **fifa max date**: July 2011
- **fifa min**: 55
- **fifa min date**: December 1998
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- **first game**: 2–3
(Montevideo, Uruguay; 16 May 1901)
- **largest win**: 9–0
(Lima, Peru; 9 November 1927)
- **largest loss**: 0–6
(Montevideo, Uruguay; 20 July 1902)
- **world cup apps**: 13
- **world cup first**: 1930
- **world cup best**: Champions (1930 FIFA World Cup, 1930, 1950 FIFA World Cup, 1950)
- **regional name**: Copa América
- **regional cup apps**: 45
- **regional cup first**: South American Championship 1916, 1916
- **regional cup best**: Champions (South American Championship 1916, 1916, South American Championship 1917, 1917, South American Championship 1920, 1920, South American Championship 1923, 1923, South American Championship 1924, 1924, South American Championship 1926, 1926, South American Championship 1935, 1935, South American Championship 1942, 1942, South American Championship 1956, 1956, South American Championship 1959 (Ecuador), 1959, South American Championship 1967, 1967, Copa América 1983, 1983, Copa América 1987, 1987, Copa América 1995, 1995, 2011 Copa América, 2011)
- **confederations cup apps**: 2
- **confederations cup first**: 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup, 1997
- **confederations cup best**: Fourth place (1997 FIFA Confederations Cup, 1997, 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, 2013)
- **website**: [http://www.auf.org.uy/Portal/SELECTIONS_MENS/1/ auf.com.uy]