Uruguay. Second Division. 10 teams in it, one going down relegated and one up promoted. Small and short championship, which was somewhat enlarged by final tournament between the to 3 teams carrying their regular season points. In theory, that tournament was to cap the season and decided the winner, but it was left unfinished due to… irrelevance. All participants were still from Montevideo -and since the III Division was also from Montevideo – Huracan (barrio Paso de la Arena) – the Uruguayan top leagues were and going to be practically Montevideo championships. So this Huracan (not to be confused with Huracan Buceo) was promoted for 1991.
Fenix finished last with 11 points and was relegated to III Division. Rampla Juniors ended 9th with 13 points. Villa Espanola – 8th with 15 points. Deportivo Italiano – 7th with 15 points. Cerrito – 6th with 16 points.
Miramar Misiones – 5th with 18 points. Standing from left: Romero, Néstor Goñez, Santiago Kalemkerián, Darlyn Gayol, Héctor Cedrés, Juan Tejera. Crouching: Oscar Suárez, Pablo Guidi, Fierro, Varela, Etcheverry.
Colon – 4th with 19 points. Second row from left: ?, Aldo Beninca, Ruben Alzueta, Ruben Baeque, Richard Graña, Alvaro Albacete. Front: E. Vega, Hugo R. Guerra, Marcelo Ferreira, Marcelo Morán, Alberto Correa.
Basanez – 3rd with 23 points. A curious record they had: lost only 1 match, tied 11 out of 18 total, won 6.
Sud America – 2nd with 24 points.
El Tanque Sisley – 1st with 26 points.
The top 3 teams went to play in a mini-tournament between themselves for the top position – theoretically, every team had a chance to be champion, but… the final was left uncompleted. El Tanque Sisley won over Sud America 2-1 and then Sud America canceled the hopes of Basanez beating them 4-1. There was no chance for change of positions, since the points from the regular season were carried on and the last match between El Tanque Sisley and Basanez became irrelevant and not played.
El Tanque Sisley was the II Division champion and promoted to First Division. Excellent achievement for a club rarely playing top league football. Top row from left: Jorge Benítez (K), Heber Bentancur (U), Washington Castelnoble, Pablo Alonso, Gerardo Pilas, Ernesto Ledesma (AC), Richard Cardozo, Ruben De León, Abel Tolosa, Freddy Pintos, Ricardo Ortiz (E).
Middle row: Roberto Castro (PF), Daniel García, Juan Sadukián, Leonardo Peralta, Daniel Hernández, Gaspar Velázquez, Alejandro Acevedo.
Front row: Jorge Palermo, Miguel Peirano, Aldo Azzinari, Eduardo Rinaldi, Néstor Fernández, Daniel Fascioli.
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