Volleyball team

Danubio

Club · Uruguay · Primera División - Apertura

«La Franja»

255 Matches

84 wins

85 draws

86 losses

260–257 Goals

+3 Difference

1.0 Scored per game

Form D D W L L L

The 1988 championship was Danubio's first, and it arrived paired with the Torneo Competencia that same year. Three more league titles followed — 2004, when the club beat Nacional in the final, then 2006/07, then 2013/14. Diego Perrone's goal had already settled the 2004 final. Between those championships came a string of shorter titles: three Aperturas, three Clausuras, a Clasificatorio, a Copa de Honor Celeste Olímpica.

It started as Tigre, a team of schoolboys from the Escuela República Nicaragua in Curva de Maroñas, and only became Danubio after a fundraising lottery in 1933, taking its name from a founder's mother, a Bulgarian who suggested the river Danube. The diagonal stripe that gave the club its nickname, La Franja, was fixed a decade later, in 1942. Founded on 1 March 1932, the club won the second division unbeaten in its first campaign there, in 1944, and reached the top flight in 1947.

Danubio has built its reputation as much on what it produces as on what it wins. Its academy has sent out Edinson Cavani, who broke in at 15, Álvaro Recoba, who debuted at 16 before moving on to become an Inter Milan legend, and Rubén Sosa, on the books at 15 and a World Cup winner with Uruguay in 1986. Diego Forlán passed through the youth ranks in the early 1990s.

Matches against Defensor Sporting, the Clásico de los Medianos, are a significant fixture. The club plays at Jardines del Hipódromo, and after dropping to the second division in 2020 for the first time in 51 years, it returned at the first attempt in 2021, finishing as runner-up.

Latest results

All matches

5 Sep	Primera División - Apertura	Peñarol Montevideo H	0:4	L
2 Sep	Copa Uruguay	Atletico Torque A	0:2	L
29 Aug	Primera División - Apertura	Progreso A	0:1	L
26 Aug	Copa Uruguay	Atenas H	3:2	W
23 Aug	Primera División - Apertura	Racing Club de Montevideo H	0:0	D
14 Aug	Primera División - Apertura	Boston River A	0:0	D

Standing

Primera División - Apertura

Group stage · Primera: Apertura

#	Team	M	W	D	L	Goals	Pts
9	Liverpool Montevideo	15	5	5	5	20:18	20
10	Wanderers	15	6	2	7	16:21	20
11	Danubio	15	4	6	5	17:21	18
12	Cerro Largo	15	5	2	8	16:19	17
13	Boston River	15	5	2	8	14:20	17

Full table

Team statistics

matches counted: 255

255 Matches

84 wins

85 draws

86 losses

260–257 Goals

+3 Difference

1.0 Scored per game

Season results matches counted: 255

84 85 86

wins draws losses

Scored and conceded last matches

scored — above the line conceded — below the line

Metric	Total	Home	Away
Matches	255	125	130
Scored	260	127	133
Conceded	257	107	150
Scored per game	1.0	1.0	1.0
Conceded per game	1.0	0.9	1.2
Difference	+3	+20	−17

Key players

by appearances over the last year

Mauro Daniel Goicoechea Furia Goalkeeper 16 Matches

Mateo Peralta Midfielder 16 Matches

Kevin Martinez Goalkeeper 14 Matches

Maicol Sebastián Ferreira Soppi Forward 14 Matches

Sebastián Javier Rodríguez Iriarte Midfielder 14 Matches

Iván Javier Rossi Midfielder 14 Matches

Emiliano Velázquez Defender 14 Matches

Enzo Cabrera Forward 14 Matches

Squad of Danubio

by appearances over the last year

Number	Player	Position	Age	Matches
1	Mauro Daniel Goicoechea Furia	Goalkeeper	38	16
10	Mateo Peralta	Midfielder	20	16
32	Kevin Martinez	Goalkeeper	20	14
20	Maicol Sebastián Ferreira Soppi	Forward	28	14
8	Sebastián Javier Rodríguez Iriarte	Midfielder	34	14
16	Iván Javier Rossi	Midfielder	32	14
2	Emiliano Velázquez	Defender	32	14
7	Enzo Cabrera	Forward	22	14
31	Tomás Bernardo Cavanagh	Defender		13
6	Leandro Sosa	Defender	35	13
28	Luis Femia	Midfielder	24	13
18	F. Ballatti	Defender		13
18	Camilo Sebastián Mayada Mesa	Midfielder	35	13
21	N. Azevedo	Forward		13
30	Sebastián Fernández	Forward	41	12
17	Alexander Velazquez	Midfielder	19	12
3	Joaquín Alejandro Pereyra Cantero	Defender		12
5	Juan Andrés Millán Santarcieri	Midfielder		11
4	Mateo Rinaldi	Defender	26	11
22	Axel Montanya	Midfielder		10
29	Martín Ezequiel Jourdan Félix	Defender	24	8
27	Ivo Alexis Costantino	Forward		6
15	Emiliano Figueroa	Midfielder	19	5
11	John Kleber	Forward	26	3
19	Mauro Alejandro Brasil Alcaire	Defender	27	3
38	Joaquín Gabriel Trasante Hernández	Midfielder	27	3
26	Diego Piris	Forward		2
25	Felipe Cabrera	Defender		1
9	Hugo Silveira	Forward	33	1
77	Bautista Euclides Tomatis	Forward	22	1
90	B. Azambuja	Forward		1
14	Bautista Pereira	Defender		1
33	D. Garcia			1