The 2025 Copa Uruguay (officially known as Copa AUF Uruguay 2025), was the fourth edition of the Copa Uruguay, the country's national football cup tournament. The tournament was played from 5 August to 29 October 2025 with 32 teams participating.[1]
Peñarol won their first Copa Uruguay title in this edition, after defeating Plaza Colonia 2–0 in the final.[2] For the first time since its inception, the competition was to grant an international berth to its winner, which would qualify for the 2026 Copa Libertadores.[3] However, since the eventual champions Peñarol had already qualified for the competition on league performance, the berth was instead awarded to the best team of the 2025 Primera División aggregate table that had not yet qualified.
Defensor Sporting were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Peñarol in the semi-finals.
Format
The competition retained the format used in its previous edition, with 32 teams participating: 10 teams from the Uruguayan Primera División, 6 from Segunda División, 4 from Primera División Amateur, 2 from Divisional D and 10 clubs from the Copa Nacional de Clubes organized by the Organización del Fútbol del Interior (OFI). The 32 clubs will play a straight knockout competition, with the amateur clubs from the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) and OFI being drawn against the 16 AUF professional clubs in the 16 ties for the first round, with the matches in this round to be hosted by the amateur teams. Ties in the subsequent rounds of the competition (round of 16, quarter-finals, semi-finals, and final) were also played over a single leg, with the semi-finals and the final played on neutral ground.[4]
The winners of the competition were set to qualify for the 2026 Copa Libertadores under the Uruguay 4 berth, granting them access to the first stage of the continental competition, provided that they played in Primera División in 2026.[3] If the champions were either ineligible to qualify or had already qualified for a higher berth, the Copa Uruguay berth would be transferred to the Primera División's aggregate table.
Schedule
The schedule of the competition was as follows:[1][5]
32 clubs took part in this season's Copa Uruguay competition: 10 from Primera División, 6 from Segunda División, and 4 from Primera División Amateur, which were the top clubs in their respective leagues based on their performance at halfway point, considering the aggregate table of each division. In the case of the Divisional D, the two participating clubs were the top clubs that failed to promote in the previous season, given that the 2025 edition of the fourth tier tournament had not started at the moment the Primera División's Torneo Intermedio ended, whilst for the Copa Nacional de Clubes organized by the Organización del Fútbol del Interior (OFI), the eight clubs that qualified for the quarter-finals of 2025 Divisional A tournament as well as two play-off winners were the ones that qualified.[7]
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