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Luis Suárez 143 caps · 69 goals · AFC Ajax, Liverpool · European Golden Shoe 2014In the final minute of extra time in Johannesburg on 2 July 2010 he stopped Adiyiah's header on his own goal line with both hands, walked off with a red card, and was gone when Gyan's penalty hit the crossbar. He won the 2011 Copa América, the 2015 Champions League with Barcelona, five Spanish titles including Atlético's in 2021, the Eredivisie with Ajax, two European Golden Shoes, and stands as Uruguay's record scorer on 69 goals.
ST2010–21
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Enzo Francescoli 73 caps · 17 goals · Club Atlético River Plate, Racing Club de FranceZinedine Zidane watched him at Marseille from 1989, named his first son Enzo, and years later told Francescoli's own son that he had learned his skills from the Uruguayan. El Príncipe won three Copa América titles in 1983, 1987 and 1995, the 1996 Copa Libertadores with River Plate, five Argentine championships, the French title with Marseille in 1990, and was South American Footballer of the Year in 1984 and 1995.
CM1983–96
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Héctor Scarone 52 caps · 31 goals · Club Nacional de Football, FC BarcelonaTito Borjas shouted "Tuya, Héctor" in the Olympic final replay in Amsterdam on 13 June 1928, and the pass became the goal that beat Argentina 2-1 for gold. El Mago took Olympic gold in 1924 and 1928, the 1930 World Cup at home, four South American Championships in 1917, 1923, 1924 and 1926, eight Uruguayan league titles with Nacional, and left 31 goals in 51 internationals.
SS1917–30
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José Leandro Andrade 34 caps · C.A. Bella Vista, Club Nacional de FootballParis gave him his name in 1924, when he became the first black footballer to appear in the Olympic tournament and left the city calling him la Maravilla Negra. He won gold at those Games and again in Amsterdam in 1928, the 1930 World Cup with a place in the tournament's all-star team, three South American Championships in 1923, 1924 and 1926, and four Uruguayan league titles with Nacional.
RB1923–30
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José Nasazzi 41 caps · C.A. Bella Vista, Club Nacional de FootballWhen Uruguay beat Argentina 4-2 in Montevideo on 30 July 1930, he was the man handed the Jules Rimet trophy, the first captain in history to hold it. El Gran Mariscal captained the sides that took Olympic gold in 1924 and 1928 and that 1930 World Cup, won four South American Championships in 1923, 1924, 1926 and 1935, and was voted the best player of the 1930 tournament.
RB1923–35
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José Santamaría 20 caps · Club Nacional de Football, Real Madrid Club de FútbolMadrid's press called him El Muro, and he earned it across 337 matches for the club, having already done the rare thing of playing a World Cup for Uruguay in 1954 and another for Spain in 1962. He won four European Cups with Real Madrid in 1958, 1959, 1960 and 1966, six Spanish league titles, the 1960 Intercontinental Cup and a Copa del Generalísimo.
CB1954–66
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Obdulio Varela 45 caps · Montevideo Wanderers Fútbol Club, Club Atlético PeñarolAfter Friaça put Brazil ahead at the Maracanã on 16 July 1950, Varela tucked the ball under his arm and walked to referee George Reader to argue an offside he later admitted never existed, buying the minutes it took the stadium to fall silent. Uruguay won that final 2-1, and El Negro Jefe had already been named best player of the 1942 South American Championship, adding six Uruguayan titles with Peñarol.
CB1942–50
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Diego Forlán 112 caps · 36 goals · Club Atlético Independiente, Villarreal CF · European Golden Shoe 2005On 2 July 2010 in Johannesburg, with Uruguay a goal down to Ghana in the quarter-final, Forlán bent a free kick over the wall and into the corner, and Uruguay went through on penalties. He took the Golden Ball as the tournament's best player with five goals, won the Copa América a year later, and had already scored both goals in Atlético Madrid's 2010 Europa League final win over Fulham, adding European Golden Shoes in 2005 and 2009.
SS2005–10
90
Diego Godín 161 caps · C.A. Cerro, Villarreal CFA goal down at Camp Nou on the final day of the 2013/14 season, Godín rose to a corner in the 49th minute and headed the equaliser that gave Atlético Madrid their first league title in 18 years. His trophy list opens with Uruguay's 2011 Copa América, then La Liga in 2014, the Europa League in 2012 and 2018, two UEFA Super Cups, the 2013 Copa del Rey and two Champions League finals reached with Atlético.
CB2011–18
90
Edinson Cavani 136 caps · 58 goals · Palermo, SSC NapoliBoth Uruguay goals against Portugal on 30 June 2018 were his, a far-post header from Suárez's cross and a one-touch curler on the break, and he left the pitch injured with his arm around Cristiano Ronaldo's shoulder. The 2011 Copa América is his senior international title, joined by six Ligue 1 championships, the 2012 Coppa Italia, the 2013 Serie A scoring crown, PSG's all-time scoring record of 200 goals, and 58 Uruguay goals, second only to Suárez.
ST2011–18
90
Federico Valverde 73 caps · 9 goals · Real Madrid Castilla, Deportivo de A CoruñaUruguayans call him El Pajarito, the little bird, and in March 2026 he put three past Manchester City at the Bernabéu, finishing with a flicked volley that was voted the Champions League goal of the season. Two European Cups sit on his shelf, from 2022 and 2024, alongside three La Liga titles, three Club World Cups and a Copa del Rey.
CM2016–26
90
Pedro Petrone 28 caps · 24 goals · Club Nacional de Football, ACF FiorentinaUruguay's 7-0 opening rout of Yugoslavia in Paris in 1924 was the day Europe met Artillero, a nineteen-year-old centre forward who scored in it and finished the tournament as its leading marksman. He won the 1930 World Cup, Olympic gold in 1924 and 1928, South American Championships in 1923 and 1924 with the top scorer's award both times, and later took the Serie A scoring crown with Fiorentina in 1931/32.
ST1923–1935
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Alcides Ghiggia 12 caps · 4 goals · Club Atlético Peñarol, AS RomaEleven minutes from the end on 16 July 1950 he cut in off the right and drove low past Moacir Barbosa at the near post, and the 173,850 inside the Maracanã went silent. Uruguay took that World Cup in Brazil's own stadium, and he added two Uruguayan titles at Peñarol, the 1961 Fairs Cup with Roma, Serie A with Milan in 1962 and five caps for Italy.
LM1950–62
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Ángel Romano 69 caps · 28 goals · Club Nacional de Football, Central Uruguay Railway Cricket ClubIn 1913 he crossed the Río de la Plata to Boca Juniors, the first big international transfer South American football had seen, then returned to Nacional and stayed until 1930, finishing with 164 goals in 388 games. Uruguay's shirt brought him Olympic gold in Paris in 1924, where he scored three times, and six South American Championship titles between 1916 and 1926, a record no one has equalled, across 70 caps and sixteen years.
LM1911–1930
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Héctor Castro 25 caps · 18 goals · Club Nacional de Football, Estudiantes de La PlataThe forearm he lost to an electric saw at thirteen gave him the name Montevideo used ever after, El Manco, and he struck Uruguay's fourth in the 89th minute of the first World Cup final on 30 July 1930. That finish sealed the 1930 World Cup, and he added Olympic gold from Amsterdam in 1928 plus South American Championships in 1926 and 1935, having already scored Uruguay's first ever World Cup goal against Peru.
ST1923–1936
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Ladislao Mazurkiewicz 36 caps · Racing Club de Montevideo, Clube Atlético MineiroIn the Guadalajara semi-final of June 1970 Pelé sold him the dummy every highlight reel still shows, ran around him and shot wide, and Mazurkiewicz enjoyed reminding people afterwards that the ball never went in. The press of that tournament voted him its best goalkeeper anyway and put him in the All-Star Team; he had already won the 1967 Copa América and the 1966 Copa Libertadores and Intercontinental Cup with Peñarol.
GK1966–70
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Óscar Míguez 39 caps · 27 goals · Sud América, Club Atlético PeñarolAgainst Sweden in the 1950 final pool, Uruguay were behind until Míguez scored twice in the last fifteen minutes to turn it into a 3-2 win, one of five goals he took from four games at that tournament. Uruguay's 1950 title was his, along with the 1956 South American Championship and its best-player award; he remains their leading World Cup scorer on eight goals, with 218 in 295 games for Peñarol and six league titles.
ST1950–56
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Fernando Morena 53 caps · 22 goals · Club Atlético River Plate, Club Atlético PeñarolSeven goals in one afternoon against Huracán Buceo in July 1978 gave him a Uruguayan record, and he closed that season on 36 league goals. He remains the Primera División's all-time leading scorer with 230 goals in 244 games, won the 1982 Copa Libertadores and Intercontinental Cup with Peñarol plus six Uruguayan titles, took seven league scoring crowns, and was in the Uruguay side that won the 1983 Copa América.
ST1978–83
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Lorenzo Fernández 31 caps · Club Atlético Capurro, River Plate Football ClubMoved forward from centre-half to stand in for Pedro Cea against Peru on 11 November 1929, the Galician-born Fernández scored three in a 4-1 win, then went back to holding the middle of the field. He won the 1930 World Cup, one of the outstanding men in the final at the Centenario, along with Olympic gold in 1928, the 1926 and 1935 Copa América, and four Uruguayan titles at Peñarol.
CDM1926–35
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Luis Cubilla 38 caps · 11 goals · Club Atlético Peñarol, Club Atlético River PlateUruguay led the 1970 semi-final for twenty-five minutes because Cubilla scored past Brazil in Guadalajara on 17 June, and only Clodoaldo's goal just before the interval pulled the eventual champions level. He won three Copa Libertadores, two with Peñarol in 1960 and 1961 and a third with Nacional in 1971, added the 1971 Intercontinental Cup, took four league titles at each club, and played at the World Cups of 1962, 1970 and 1974.
CM1960–74
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Pedro Rocha 52 caps · 17 goals · Club Atlético Peñarol, São PauloAt the Bernabéu on 26 October 1966 he opened the scoring from the penalty spot as Peñarol beat Real Madrid 2-0 to complete a 4-0 aggregate in the Intercontinental Cup. Rocha won two Intercontinental Cups and three Copa Libertadores with Peñarol, eight Uruguayan titles, the 1967 Copa América as its best player, the 1977 Brazilian championship with São Paulo, and played four consecutive World Cups, a Uruguayan first.
CAM1966–77
Roque Máspoli 38 caps · Club Nacional de Football, C.A. Bella VistaOn 16 July 1950 he stood in front of nearly 200,000 people at the Maracanã, conceded once, and watched Uruguay come back to beat Brazil 2-1 and carry the World Cup out of Rio. The medal came with 40 caps and six Uruguayan league championships at Peñarol between 1944 and 1954, and he returned to the same club as coach to win the 1966 Copa Libertadores and beat Real Madrid 4-0 on aggregate for the Intercontinental Cup.
GK1944–66
Fernando Muslera 137 caps · Montevideo Wanderers Fútbol Club, SS LazioTwo saves in the Soccer City shootout on 2 July 2010, from John Mensah and Dominic Adiyiah, sent Uruguay to their first World Cup semi-final in forty years. A year later he kept a clean sheet as Uruguay beat Paraguay 3-0 for a record 15th Copa América, and at Galatasaray he won eight Süper Lig titles and passed Bülent Korkmaz's club record for league appearances.
GK2010s
Ildo Maneiro 33 caps · 3 goals · Club Nacional de Football, Olympique LyonnaisManeiro scored Uruguay's first goal of the 1970 World Cup against Israel in Puebla on 2 June, in a campaign that ended with fourth place in Mexico. With Nacional he won the 1971 Copa Libertadores and Intercontinental Cup, five Uruguayan titles between 1966 and 1972, added two more at Peñarol after a spell at Lyon, and won 33 caps across the 1970 and 1974 World Cups.
LM1966–74
Martín Cáceres 116 caps · Recreativo de Huelva, ACF FiorentinaArgentina were at home in Santa Fe on 16 July 2011 when Cáceres walked up for Uruguay's fifth penalty of the shootout and buried it, ending the hosts' tournament at 5-4 and sending Uruguay towards the trophy. That Copa América is his, along with six Serie A titles at Juventus, the 2009 treble at Barcelona, and a semi-final run with Uruguay at the 2010 World Cup.
LB2009–11
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