Defensor Sporting

Defensor Sporting Club, commonly known as Defensor Sporting, is a multi-sport club from the city of Montevideo. It is the product of the merger on 15 March 1989 of Club Atlético Defensor (football and basketball, founded on 15 March 1913) and Sporting Club Uruguay (basketball and athletics, founded on 14 September 1910).

The club has influence in Punta Carretas (the original neighborhood of the Defensor club) and mainly in the Parque Rodó neighborhood (where Defensor relocated and built its stadium, and where Sporting originated). The club's main headquarters is located at 21 de septiembre 2362 (the former headquarters of the Sporting club), a few blocks from the stadium, while the Jaime Zudañez 2537 headquarters (the former headquarters of the Defensor club) is still preserved and used for minor activities.

The club currently competes in the Primera División of the Campeonato Uruguayo de fútbol and, in basketball, in the Liga Uruguaya de Básquetbol. As a result of the merger, it is credited with the achievements of both Defensor and Sporting in both disciplines, and is considered their continuation in the respective branches.

In football, it plays its home matches at the Estadio Luis Franzini. Defensor Sporting has won the Campeonato Uruguayo four times, in 1976, 1987, 1991 and 2007-08. With 26 official titles, it is the third most successful club in the country, surpassed only by the so-called "big clubs of Uruguayan football", Nacional and Peñarol. It was the first club other than Nacional and Peñarol to win a Campeonato Uruguayo during the professional era (from 1932 onward), achieving this in 1976. The club reached the quarterfinals of the Copa Libertadores in 2007 and 2009, and the semifinals in 2014.

In basketball, Defensor Sporting is the oldest club (the "dean") of Uruguayan basketball.