Uruguay. Top league was increasing to 12 teams and that made for complicated championship formula. Three teams were promoted from Third Division. One was relegated – two-season average was used for that. Directly promoted was the champion of Second Division, which was played as simple league championship. But the next two teams in the final table went to promotion/relegation tournament with 2 teams from First Division. Top league itself had two parts: the first was standard league championship, which only determined where teams will play in the second phase: the top 6 teams competed for the title, a mini-championship starting from scratch. The bottom 5 teams played relegation round and the last two to promotion/relegation tournament along with 2nd and 3rd placed in Second division – the top two teams went to First Division, the last two – to Second Division. The scheme eventually was going to make a top league of 12 teams and Second Division of 10 teams the next season. Critical point was that the regular season practically counted for nothing more than qualifying to the the next stage, where everybody srarted with 0 points and at least theoretically the 6th placed in the regular season could be a champion if having only five exceptional games. As ever, all particpants in First, Second, and Third Division represented Montevideo.
Second row from left: Manga, Masnik, Ubiña, Blanco, Ancheta, Montero-Castillo
First row: Cubilla, Esparrago, Maneiro, Artime,y JC Morales
1. Nacional 20 18 1 1 48-12 37
2. Peñarol 20 12 7 1 37-16 31
3. Huracán Buceo 20 6 11 3 14- 9 23
4. Liverpool 20 8 6 6 20-15 22
5. Defensor 20 6 7 7 18-22 19
6. Cerro 20 5 9 6 17-21 19
7. Bella Vista 20 2 12 6 22-29 16
8. Sud América 20 3 8 9 14-26 14
9. Rampla Juniors 20 3 8 9 11-26 14
10. CA River Plate 20 4 5 11 16-24 13
11. Racing 20 2 8 10 21-38 12
Group A - Championship Round:
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1. Nacional 5 3 2 0 12- 6 8
2. Huracán Buceo 5 3 1 1 7- 2 7
3. Peñarol 5 2 3 0 6- 3 7
Standing from left: Francisco Campo, César Quiroga, José Maldonado, Agapito Rivero, Luis Roldán, Juan C. Hurt (argentino).
Crouching: Abayubá Ibáñez, Alberto Ferraz, Ricardo Brandón, Pierino Lattuada, Telmo Blanco.
4. Liverpool 5 1 3 1 6- 8 5
5. Cerro 5 1 0 4 12-16 2
6. Bella Vista 5 0 1 4 7-15 1
50 goals = 3.333 goals/match.
Group B - Relegation Round:
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1. Sud América 4 2 2 0 4- 1 6
2. CA River Plate 4 2 1 1 6- 5 5
3. Racing 4 1 3 0 3- 2 5
4. Defensor 4 1 1 2 2- 2 3
5. Rampla Juniors 4 0 1 3 4- 9 1
Promotion/relegation Round:
Second row: Mario Méndez, Baudilio Jauregui, Walter Gassire, Raul Caresani, Dagoberto Fontes, Liber Arispe.
First row: Jose Urruzmendi, Hector Demarco, Miguel Angel Leiva, Jose Sasia, Wilmer Etchechoury.
1. Defensor 3 2 1 0 8- 1 5
2. Central 3 1 2 0 3- 2 4
3. Progreso 3 1 1 1 3- 4 3
4. Rampla Juniors 3 0 0 3 1- 8 0
Champions: Nacional. Standing from left: Angel Brunell, Manga , Luis Ubiñas , Emilio Alvarez , Atilio Ancheta , Montero-Castillo . Fisrt row: Ignacio Prieto , Ildo Maneiro , Celio Taveira Filho , Luis Artime, Luis Cubilla
To C.Libertadores: Nacional and Peñarol
Promoted: Danubio and Central (from Second Division)
Relegated: Rampla Juniors 
