The Uruguayan Clásico (Spanish: Clásico del fútbol uruguayo) is the most important rivalry in Uruguayan football and one of the best on the American continent.

As of 2018, the two teams have won 96 of the 115 Uruguayan Primera División titles, and many international tournaments, including a combined eight Copa Libertadores.

The first meeting between the two teams was at the turn of the century in 1900, making it one of the oldest football rivalries outside Great Britain.

[3] Founded as the Central Uruguay Railway Cricket Club (CURCC) in 1891, it was originally made up of English immigrants representing the Central Uruguay Railway (Ferrocarril Central del Uruguay), and was based in the Peñarol district in the outskirts of the city.

In basketball, the first Clásico in the LUB era was played in 2021,[4] after Peñarol's disaffiliation in 1987[5] and its promotions, from DTA to El Metro in 2018;[6] and from El Metro to LUB in 2019.