Montevideo City Torque

Starting from the 2008–09, Torque entered the Uruguayan football league system in the third (and lowest) tier, the Segunda División Amateur. Their first season was very positive, going unbeaten for the 11 games of the Clausura tournament before losing the play-off for the overall league title against Oriental.[2] Oriental opted to turn down their promotion to the Segunda División, prompting Torque to submit an application to take it up in their place, but their application was rejected.

In the following seasons the club continued to place highly, never finishing lower than fifth in either the Apertura or Clausura tournaments. In May 2011 Torque merged with Huracán of the Segunda División to form a new club called Huracán Torque, but by August of the same year the merger was dissolved with the new side having played no games. Torque resumed its place in the Segunda División Amateur and at the fourth time of asking finally finished top of the overall table, winning promotion to the Segunda División for the 2012–13 season.[3]

Torque's first season in professional football again finished positively with a fifth-place finish, including denying high-flyers Tacuarembó automatic promotion to the Uruguayan top tier and potentially even the league title itself with a 4–0 victory in the final game of the season. Torque themselves qualified for the promotion play-offs, where they again defeated Tacuarembó, but they ultimately lost the play-off final on penalties.[4]

The following season was the club's first season of underachievement with Torque finishing in last place and eight points adrift of their nearest competitor.[5] They were, however, spared the ignominy of relegation as the division expanded to 15 clubs, causing the league's organisers to opt against relegating any clubs. The following seasons offered little improvement, with the club finishing some distance from the promotion places each time.

On 20 March 2017, Uruguayan online sports news site Ovacion reported that the City Football Group, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi United Group that also owns teams such as Manchester City and New York City FC, were close to completing negotiations for the purchase of Torque with the aim of using the club to assist in the signing of South American players.[6] Also reported was that CFG had been working with the club for some time in anticipation of the purchase to build it a new sports complex as well as to refurbish the Estadio Juan Antonio Lavalleja in Minas with a view to relocating the side to the city in order to help establish an identity for the club as well as to give it a larger potential fanbase.[6]

Following a series of further rumours of the imminence of the deal, it was publicly announced on 5 April 2017 that the takeover had been completed and ratified by the Uruguayan Football Association.[7]

In 2017, led by Paulo Pezzolano, Torque formed a very strong team for the category and achieved the title with ease. Football players of the stature of Diego Martiñones, Ernesto Goñi, Hernán Figueredo, Martín Bonjour, Jonathan Cubero, Julián Lalinde and Leonardo Pais, among others; added to quality foreign reinforcements such as the Venezuelan Nahuel Ferraresi, the Colombian Javier Calle and the Argentine Valentín Castellanos. As soon as the promotion was confirmed, Pezzolano announced that he would not continue in the next season. Pablo Marini, another Argentine, was brought in to replace him.

In the debut in the Primera División, the team will be directed by the Argentine Pablo Marini.[8]

Qualification for the play-off of the Torneo Intermedio, which Torque lost 3–2 to Nacional, was tempered by a poor run of results in both the Torneo Apertura and the Torneo Clausura, and Torque were relegated in 14th place based on average points per game at the end of the 2018 season. The 2019 season saw Torque take the Segunda División title for a second time as they beat Maldonado by three points to win the title on the final day of the season.[9]

On 22 January 2020 it was announced that Club Atletico Torque had changed their club name to Montevideo City Torque, with an accompanying change in team badge.[10] The name and badge were chosen to be reflective of their links to Manchester City and the other clubs of the City Football Group.[10] At the same time it was announced that the club would begin work on the construction of a new academy and administrative complex, intended to be one of the most advanced academy centres in South America.[11]

As of 12 January 2023

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  URU Francisco Tinaglini 3 DF  URU Joaquín Pereyra (on loan from Boston River) 4 MF  URU Octavio Perdomo 5 MF  URU Franco Pizzichillo 6 MF  URU Santiago Cartagena (on loan from Nacional) 7 FW  ARG Natanael Guzmán 8 MF  URU Diego Arismendi (vice-captain) 9 FW  URU Sebastián Guerrero 10 MF  URU Darío Pereira 11 MF  URU Ignacio Neira 13 FW  URU Joaquín Zeballos 14 FW  URU Nicolás Siri 15 FW  URU Axel Pérez (on loan from Nacional) 16 MF  URU José Álvarez

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 MF  URU Álvaro Brun (captain) 19 DF  URU Agustín Peña 21 FW  URU Lucas Rodríguez 22 MF  CHI Marcelo Allende 23 DF  URU Franco Maya 24 GK  URU Francisco Coirolo 25 FW  ARG Bautista Cejas 27 DF  URU Andrew Teuten 28 MF  URU Franco Catarozzi 30 MF  URU Nicolás Milesi 37 FW  COL Luis Caicedo 40 MF  URU Matías Cabrera 55 GK  URU Gastón Guruceaga — FW  ARG Darío Sarmiento (on loan from Manchester City)

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  URU Cristopher Fiermarin (to Lommel until 30 June 2022) — DF  ARG Gabriel Chocobar (to Liverpool Montevideo until 31 December 2021) — DF  ARG Nicolás Digiano (to Villa Española until 31 December 2021) — DF  URU Renzo Orihuela (to Palermo until 30 June 2023)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  ARG Tiago Palacios (to Platense until 31 December 2021) — MF  URU Santiago Rodríguez (to New York City until 31 December 2022) — MF  URU Matías Santos (to Universidad de Concepción until 31 December 2021) — FW  URU Matías Cóccaro (to Huracán until 30 June 2022)