Uruguayan sport flags

Last modified: 2021-12-24 by rob raeside
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• Uruguayan Olympic and Paralympic flags

Football (Soccer)

• Asociación Uruguaya de Fútbol (Uruguayan Football Association)
  • Table flag
    
• Uruguayan football national team colors

Football (Soccer) Clubs

• Central Español Fútbol Club
• Club Atlético Aguada
• Club Atlético Florida
• Montevideo Wanderers Fútbol Club
• Club Nacional de Football
• Peñarol

Other sporting flags

• Uruguay Athletes' Federation
• Olimpia Club
• Uruguayan road running clubs
• Beach flags

• Uruguayan Yachting Clubs
• Uruguay

Asociación Uruguaya de Fútbol (Uruguayan Football Asociation)

The flag of the Uruguayan Football Association (Asociación Uruguaya de Fútbol AUF.) is clearly inspired by the nine white and blue stripes of the Pabellon Nacional (the Uruguayan National Flag), and by the red diagonal of the Artigas' Flag. The flag has the acronym of the association (A.U.de F.) in white letters, inside the red diagonal.
Francisco Gregoric, 12 June 2004

Reverse
image by Tomislav Šipek, 27 March 2019

The reverse of AUF flag have no letters.
Tomislav Šipek, 27 March 2019

Table flag

image by Tomislav Šipek, 27 March 2019

Based on https://www.teledoce.com/telemundo/deportes/futbol-uruguayo/este-viernes-habra-una-reunion-clave-en-la-auf-para-definir-la-fecha-de-las-elecciones-y-el-comienzo-del-torneo-apertura-2019/, a white flag, celeste blue border, with the logo centered.
Tomislav Šipek, 27 March 2019

Uruguayan football national team colors

«How come then that the Uruguayan football national team wears celeste jerseys?». After some research I found that in 1910, in Buenos Aires, just before a football match between the national teams of both countries [Uruguay and Argentina], it happened that both teams were about to wear white clothing. To avoid confusions, it was agreed that the Uruguayans would wear celeste, while the locals would keep their white shirts. Those were the distinctive colours of our respective national teams. The Uruguayan football teams (national team only), wear the celeste to this day. The Argentineans, instead, later changed their colour to a vertical striped shirt, alternating blue (darker than celeste) [thus inversely of their respective national flags].
Jorge Cajarville, 14 June 2000

The National Football Team of Uruguay is popularly known as "La Celeste" for the color of their jerseys. The team was the Champion of the World Cups of 1930 and 1950.
Francisco Gregoric, 12 June 2004