American football team

Defensor Sporting

Club · Uruguay · Primera División - Apertura

«La Viola»

269 Matches

106 wins

79 draws

84 losses

330–278 Goals

+52 Difference

1.2 Scored per game

Form D D L D D W

What the club has produced since is better known abroad than the trophies. Diego Pérez, Maxi Pereira and Martín Cáceres all came through the youth ranks and all three were in the Uruguay squad that reached the semi-finals in South Africa in 2010.

The colour came first and by accident. When the club registered in 1913 the shirts were black with light blue and green stripes, but violet was the only shade the league had not already assigned, so violet it became — and La Viola has been the name ever since.

Home is the Estadio Luis Franzini in Parque Rodó, opened on 31 December 1963 and owned outright by the club, which is not the norm in Montevideo. It holds 18,000. The fixture that fills it is the one against Danubio .

In 2014 the club reached the semi-finals of the Copa Libertadores before losing to Nacional of Paraguay.

The starting point was a strike. Glassworks employees in Punta Carretas formed a team on 15 March 1913 and called it Defensores de la Huelga — the defenders of the strike. The name was shortened later; the merger with an athletics club founded in 1910 came in 1989, on the same March date.

Latest results

All matches

16 Sep	Copa Uruguay	Plaza Colonia H
13 Sep	Primera División - Apertura	Deportivo Maldonado H	1:0	W
9 Sep	Copa Uruguay	Cerro Largo A	1:1	D
6 Sep	Primera División - Apertura	Central Espanol A	1:1	D
29 Aug	Primera División - Apertura	Atletico Torque H	1:3	L
25 Aug	Copa Uruguay	Rentistas Montevideo H	0:0	D

Standing

Primera División - Apertura

Group stage · Primera: Apertura

#	Team	M	W	D	L	Goals	Pts
6	Atletico Torque	15	6	5	4	22:16	23
7	Club Nacional	15	7	1	7	26:21	22
8	Defensor Sporting	15	5	6	4	13:11	21
9	Liverpool Montevideo	15	5	5	5	20:18	20
10	Wanderers	15	6	2	7	16:21	20

Full table

Team statistics

matches counted: 269

269 Matches

106 wins

79 draws

84 losses

330–278 Goals

+52 Difference

1.2 Scored per game

Season results matches counted: 269

106 79 84

wins draws losses

Scored and conceded last matches

scored — above the line conceded — below the line

Metric	Total	Home	Away
Matches	269	139	130
Scored	330	187	143
Conceded	278	150	128
Scored per game	1.2	1.3	1.1
Conceded per game	1.0	1.1	1.0
Difference	+52	+37	+15

Key players

by appearances over the last year

L. Agazzi Defender 19 Matches

Nicolás Andrés Wunsch Tomás Midfielder 19 Matches

Brian Guillermo Montenegro Benítez Forward 18 Matches

Lucas Machado Goalkeeper 18 Matches

Axel Frugone Defender 18 Matches

Kevin Dawson Goalkeeper 16 Matches

Germán Ramón Barrios Núñez Midfielder 16 Matches

Alan Torterolo Midfielder 16 Matches

Squad of Defensor Sporting

by appearances over the last year

Number	Player	Position	Age	Matches
11	L. Agazzi	Defender	21	19
8	Nicolás Andrés Wunsch Tomás	Midfielder	23	19
26	Brian Guillermo Montenegro Benítez	Forward	33	18
1	Lucas Machado	Goalkeeper	28	18
15	Axel Frugone	Defender	21	18
12	Kevin Dawson	Goalkeeper	34	16
5	Germán Ramón Barrios Núñez	Midfielder	22	16
22	Alan Torterolo	Midfielder	18	16
99	Lautaro Navarro	Forward	18	16
3	Guillermo Gabriel de los Santos Viana	Defender	35	15
24	Lucas Paul de los Santos Ruiz Díaz	Midfielder	25	15
20	Mateo Caballero	Defender	19	15
4	Heanfranco Rodriguez	Defender		14
30	E. Cuellar	Midfielder		13
77	Facundo Castro	Midfielder	31	13
27	Juan Manuel Jorge	Midfielder	22	13
6	M. Amaro	Midfielder		13
9	Alexander Nicolás Machado Aycaguer	Midfielder		12
7	Brian Lozano	Midfielder		11
14	Francisco Sorondo	Defender		9
97	Juan Pablo Goicoechea	Forward		8
17	Diego Valentín Rodríguez Alonso	Defender		8
25	Diego Abella	Defender	19	7
33	Santino Bruski Dias	Forward		7
10	Xavier Biscayzacu	Midfielder		6
29	Tomás Agustín Pozzo	Midfielder	25	5
55	Martín Ernesto Rabuñal Rey	Midfielder	32	5
2	Edgar Elizalde	Defender	26	5
7	N. Medina	Midfielder		5
2	Daniel Martinez	Defender		5
9	José Pablo Neris Figueredo	Forward	26	4
16	Alex Perdomo	Forward	24	4
23	Bruno Simone	Goalkeeper		3
18	Emiliano Alonso	Forward		2
21	N. Scotti	Forward		2
12	Fabian Cristaldo	Goalkeeper		1
61	Marco Saravia	Defender		1