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| Country | Uruguay |
| Dates | 10–25 January 2026 |
| Teams | 16 |
The 2026 Copa de la Liga AUF will be the first edition of the Copa de la Liga AUF, a football cup tournament for the 16 clubs participating in the Liga AUF Uruguaya, the top tier of Uruguayan football. Its creation was announced on 24 December 2025, and the tournament is scheduled to be played from 10 to 25 January 2026, prior to the start of the 2026 Liga AUF Uruguaya. [1]
The competition will be played under a single-elimination format, with the 16 participating teams being seeded for the first round according to their placement in the aggregate table of the previous Liga AUF Uruguaya season, and the promoted teams (Albion, Central Español, and Deportivo Maldonado) being the three lowest seeds, ordered according to their placement in the 2025 Segunda División. All rounds of the competition (round of 16, quarter-finals, semi-finals, and final) will be played over a single match on neutral ground, with the winner being decided in a penalty shootout if matches end tied after 90 minutes. [1]
If the teams that qualified for the Supercopa Uruguaya also reach the final of this competition, both the Supercopa and the Copa de la Liga AUF will be awarded in the former competition. [2]
The winners of the competition will be awarded US$100,000, to be exclusively spent on infrastructure projects. [3]
The competition will be held at neutral venues both in Montevideo and in the interior of Uruguay, selected by the Uruguayan Football Association. [4]
| City | Stadium | Capacity |
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| Montevideo | Parque Alfredo Víctor Viera | 11,000 |
| Luis Franzini | 16,000 | |
| Charrúa | 14,000 | |
| Colonia del Sacramento | Juan Gaspar Prandi | 3,000 |
| Durazno | Silvestre Octavio Landoni | 10,500 |
| Maldonado | Domingo Burgueño Miguel | 22,000 |
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| Boston River | |||||||||||||||
| Danubio | |||||||||||||||
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| Albion | |||||||||||||||
| January 2026 | Nacional | v | Deportivo Maldonado | |
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If the Copa de la Liga AUF final is contested by the 2026 Supercopa Uruguaya participants Nacional and Peñarol, the Supercopa will serve as the final for both competitions.
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