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Club Atlético Progreso, also known simply as Progreso, is a professional football club based in Montevideo, Uruguay, that will compete in the Uruguayan Primera División again in 2024 after being relegated to the Second Division in 2021

Progreso’s Estadio Abraham Paladino is capable of holding 8,000 spectators.

The club was founded on 30 April 1917.^[1] The club’s first match was played on 26 May 1918, with Progreso beating Club Maroñas 2–0. Progreso won its first title with the Divisional Intermedia (Second Division at that time) in 1938. It went on to win it the next year as well, along with two more championships in 1956 and 1963. The club has three Segunda División championships: in 1945, 1979, and 2005–06. In 1975 and 1978, Progreso won the Tercera División (Segunda División Amateur).

Progreso’s first continental participation was in the 1987 Copa Libertadores, where they finished third in a group consisting of fellow Uruguayan club Nacional, and Peruvian clubs San Agustin and Alianza Lima. They participated again in the 1990 edition, since they had won the league the previous year. In that edition, Progreso won their group, which consisted of Defensor Sporting, Pepeganga Margarita, and Mineros de Guayana. They qualified to the second round, where they were eliminated by Barcelona of Ecuador.

In 1989, Progreso won the Primera División, the only championship in the history of the Uruguayan league to use a single round-robin format (13 games). This format was due to a calendar conflict with national and international cups that year. Progreso’s president at that time was Dr. Tabaré Vázquez, who later became the president of Uruguay.

Progreso’s first team kit in 1917 was white with black stripes. The kit expressed the team’s affinity with the anarchist movement.^[2] The strip was later changed to red and yellow, the colors of Catalonia, which was known for its identification with the Spanish Revolution.^[2]

• Copa Libertadores: 3 appearances

1987: Group stage

1990: Second round

2020: First stage

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Score	Result	Aggregate
1990	Copa Libertadores	Group stage	Defensor Sporting	1–1	0–0	1st
			Mineros	1–1	1–3
			Pepeganga Margarita	2–0	1–0
		Second round	Barcelona	2–2	2–0	2–4
2020	Copa Libertadores	First stage	Barcelona	0–2	1–3	1–5

As of 22 March, 2026

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  ARG Andrés Mehring 2 DF  URU Sebastián Cardozo 4 DF  URU Marcos Paolini 5 MF  URU Agustín Pinheiro 6 DF  URU Federico Andueza (on loan from Atlético Sarmiento) 7 MF  URU Fabricio Fernández 8 MF  URU Adrián Colombino 9 FW  URU Gary Silva 10 MF  URU Ignacio Lemmo 11 FW  URU Nahuel López (on loan from Club Nacional) 13 DF  URU Hernán Carroso 14 DF  URU Facundo Kidd 15 DF  URU Mauro Martín 16 DF  URU Gianfranco Trasante 17 FW  URU Facundo de León

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 MF  ARG Gonzalo Silva 19 FW  URU Joaquín Solleiro 20 FW  ARG José Vanetta (on loan from Unión Santa Fe) 21 FW  URU Juan Rivero 22 MF  ARG Agustin Paz 23 FW  URU Matteo Copelotti 24 MF  URU Santiago Viera 25 FW  URU Jonathan dos Santos 26 DF  URU Deivis Santo 29 FW  URU Nicolás Fernández 30 MF  URU Agustín Codagnone 31 FW  URU Federico Ruiz 33 GK  URU Agustín Requena 40 DF  URU Ayrton Cougo 93 FW  URU Diego Sánchez

This is an incomplete list of Progreso Managers.^[3]

• Jorge González (April 2002–Dec 2002)
• Mario Saralegui (Oct 2007–March 2008)
• Raúl Moeller (Jan 2011–June 2011)
• Leonardo Ramos (August 2011–Dec 2012)
• Carlos Rodao (Jan 2013–April 2013)
• Santiago Paz (May 2013–April 2014)
• Juan Carlos Duarte (April 2014–November 2014)
• Rubén Da Silva (November 2014–July 2015)
• Juan Carlos Duarte (December 2015–June 2016)
• Gabriel Añón (July 2016–October 2016)
• Marcelo Méndez (October 2016–November 2018)
• Leonel Rocco (November 2018–November 2020)

• Official website (in Spanish)
• Los Pocos de Siempre
• Twitter