| Club: | River Plate |
| Season: | 2021 |
| Manager: |  Gustavo Díaz (since April) [1] |
| Mgrtitle: | Head coach |
| Chairman: | Willie Tucci |
| Chrtitle: | President |
| Stadium: | Estadio Saroldi |
| League: | Uruguayan Primera División |
| League Result: | 8th |
| League Topscorer: | Matías Arezo (16 goals) |
| Season Topscorer: | Matías Arezo (16 goals) |
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| Prevseason: | 2020 |
| Nextseason: | 2022 |
River Plate took part in Uruguayan Primera División reaching 8th position and qualifying for 2022 Copa Sudamericana.
| Position | Nationality | Name | Age | From | Fee | Transfer Window | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | Free agent | Summer | Tenfield | ||||
| 32 | Free agent | Summer | Tenfield | ||||
| 22 | on loan (from Nacional) | Summer | Tenfield | ||||
| 22 | on loan | Summer | Tenfield | ||||
| 20 | on loan | Summer | Tenfield | ||||
| 36 | Free agent | Summer | Ovacion | ||||
| 23 | Return from loan | Summer | Tenfield | ||||
| 16 | Reserves | - | Summer | Tenfield | |||
| Position | Nationality | Name | Age | To | Fee | Transfer Window | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | Free Agent | Summer | Ovacion | ||||
| 39 | Free Agent | Summer | Tenfield | ||||
| 34 | Free Agent | Summer | El Observador | ||||
| 33 | - | Free Agent | Summer | Tenfield | |||
| 24 | Free Agent | Summer | Tenfield | ||||
| 24 | Free Agent | Summer | Tenfield | ||||
| 30 | Free Agent | Summer | Tenfield | ||||
| 31 | Free Agent | Summer | Ovacion | ||||
| 22 | Free Agent | Summer | Tenfield | ||||
| 35 | Free Agent | Summer | Tenfield | ||||
| 27 | Free Agent | Summer | Tenfield | ||||
| Position | Nationality | Name | Age | From | Fee | Transfer Window | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | Free agent | Winter | Tenfield | ||||
| 29 | Free agent | Winter | Tenfield | ||||
| 26 | Free agent | Winter | Tenfield | ||||
| 22 | Loan | Winter | Tenfield | ||||
| Position | Nationality | Name | Age | To | Fee | Transfer Window | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34 | Free Agent | Winter | Ecuagol | ||||
| 23 | Loan | Winter | Tenfield | ||||
| 24 | End of loan | Winter | Tenfield | ||||
| 21 | End of loan | Winter | Tenfield | ||||
Last updated on Dec 5, 2021
| width=35 | width=35 | width=35 | width=200 | Name | width=80 | Primera División | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FW | 9 | Matías Arezo | 16 | |||||
| 2 | FW | 19 | Thiago Borbas | 7 | |||||
| 3 | MF | 23 | Luciano Boggio | 5 | |||||
| 4 | MF | 11 | Gonzalo Castro | 3 | |||||
| 4 | FW | 30 | Adrián Leites | 3 | |||||
| 5 | MF | 5 | Tiago Galletto | 2 | |||||
| 5 | MF | 17 | Marcos Montiel | 2 | |||||
| 5 | DF | 21 | Facundo Bonifazi | 2 | |||||
| 6 | DF | 4 | Horacio Salaberry | 1 | |||||
| 6 | MF | 7 | Nicolás Rodríguez | 1 | |||||
| 6 | MF | 10 | Facundo Boné | 1 | |||||
| 6 | FW | 15 | Pablo García | 1 | |||||
| 6 | FW | 18 | Mauricio Affonso | 1 | |||||
| Total | 45 | ||||||||
Last updated on Dec 6, 2021
| Name | Primera División | |||||||||||||||||
| Goalkeepers | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GK | Salvador Ichazo | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 12 | GK | Lucas Machado | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 25 | FW | Fabrizio Correa | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Defenders | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | DF | Santiago Brunelli | 4 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 4 | DF | Felipe Carvalho | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 6 | DF | Santiago Pérez | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 21 | DF | Facundo Bonifazi | 10 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 26 | DF | Robert Herrera | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Midfielders | ||||||||||||||||||
| MF | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | MF | Tiago Galletto | 4 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 7 | MF | Nicolás Rodríguez | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 8 | MF | Juan Pablo Plada | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 10 | MF | Facundo Boné | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 14 | MF | Gonzalo Nápoli | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 15 | MF | Pablo García | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 17 | DF | Marcos Montiel | 10 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 20 | MF | Patricio Gregorio | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 24 | MF | Pablo González | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 27 | MF | Juan Ignacio Quintana | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 30 | MF | Adrián Leites | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Forwards | ||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | FW | Matías Arezo | 7 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 11 | MF | Gonzalo Castro | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 18 | FW | Mauricio Affonso | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 19 | FW | Thiago Borbas | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 23 | FW | Luciano Boggio | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 28 | FW | José Neris | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 33 | FW | Joaquín Lavega | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Players transferred out during the season | ||||||||||||||||||
| DF | Horacio Salaberry | 3 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| DF | Guzmán Rodríguez | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| MF | Diego Vicente | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| FW | Nicolás González | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 79 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
See main article: 2021 Uruguayan Primera División season.