Uruguayan team completes Leicester-style championship win

Plaza Colonia won its first top-flight championship in its 99-year history, after only being affiliated to the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) in 2000.

Published : May 30, 2016 17:09 IST , Montevideo

Plaza Colonia players celebrate winning the title.
Plaza Colonia players celebrate winning the title.
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Plaza Colonia players celebrate winning the title.

Uruguayan side Plaza Colonia completed a Leicester City-like triumph after claiming its first ever top-flight championship on Sunday.

A 2-1 win over second-placed Penarol saw Colonia move five points above the Uruguayan giant with one game left in the season. Miguel Murillo cancelled out Nicolas Milesi's first-minute opener for Colonia, before Alejandro Villoldo sealed the historic win with a 79th-minute penalty.

Colonia was bottom of the Uruguayan second division in October 2014 before an 18-match unbeaten run saw it claim promotion to the top flight. After finishing 13th in the Apertura, Colonia went on to upstage giant Penarol and Nacional on its way to the Clausura championship.

It is Colonia's first top-flight championship in its 99-year history, after only being affiliated to the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) in 2000. It will now face Penarol in the semi-final on June 14, and a win will see it move into the final against the overall table leader to decide who is crowned 2015-16 title winner.

Colonia is based in Colonia del Sacramento, a city in southwestern Uruguay just 50 kilometres across the Rio de la Plata from Buenos Aires. It has a population of just over 25,000.

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