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Paysandú Fútbol Club is a
football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
club from
Paysandú Paysandú () is the capital and most populous city of the Paysandú Department in western Uruguay. Located on the banks of the Uruguay River, it is the country's List of cities in Uruguay, fourth-largest city and a vital cultural and economic hu ...
in
Uruguay Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast, while bordering the Río de la Plata to the south and the A ...
. They were formed in 2003, making them one of the newest professional football clubs in Uruguay. They were formed by the amalgamation of several local clubs. They played in the
Uruguayan Segunda División The Segunda División Profesional is the second division of professional football in Uruguay, established in 1942. The league is sometimes referred to as ''Primera B''. In 1942, the Segunda División was established to replace the amateur Uruguaya ...
between 2003 and 2004, when they were promoted to the
Uruguayan Primera División The Liga Profesional de Primera División (American Spanish , , local: , ''First Division''), named "Torneo Uruguayo Copa Coca-Cola" for sponsorship reasons, is the highest professional Association football, football league in Uruguay organized b ...
after achieving a third place finish; they played in it for two years before being relegated back to the Segunda División. They only played one further season of said league before folding. Afterwards, in 2021 they were recreated as a club and started to play in the Uruguayan Primera División Amateur, which is the third division of the Uruguayan league system, and where they still play as of 2025.


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