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2001 Copa Libertadores
The 2001 Copa Libertadores de América was the 42nd edition of CONMEBOL's premier club football tournament. The winners were Boca Juniors, beating Mexican club Cruz Azul in the finals on penalties and lifting its fourth Copa Libertadores trophy. First round The first round of the Copa Libertadores drew 32 teams into eight groups of four; two of these teams came from a preliminary round involving two Mexican clubs and two Venezuelan clubs. In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away. Teams receive 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and no points for a loss. If two or more teams are equal on points, the following criteria will be applied to determine the ranking: #superior goal difference; #higher number of goals scored; #higher number of away goals scored; #draw. The top two in each group advanced to the second round. Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5 Group 6 Group 7 Group 8 Knockout phase In the knockout phase, teams played against each ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boca Juniors
Club Atlético Boca Juniors () is an Argentine professional sports club based in La Boca, a neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. The club is best known for its men's professional Association football, football team which, since its promotion in 1913 Club Atlético Boca Juniors season, 1913, List of unrelegated association football clubs, has always played in the Argentine Primera División. The team has won 74 official titles, the most by any Argentine club. National titles won by Boca Juniors include 35 Argentine Primera División, Primera División championships,Campeones de la Primera División on AFA website and 17 List of Argentine football national cups, domestic cups. Boca Juniors also owns an honorary title awarded by the Argentine Football Association for their successful 1925 Boca Junior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deportes Concepción (Chile)
Deportes Concepción is a Chilean football club based in the city of Concepción, Biobio Region. , they play at the second tier of the Chilean League system, the Primera B de Chile. The club was founded in 1966, by the organizations of several amateur clubs such as Galvarino, Liverpool, Juvenil Unido, Santa Fe and Club Lord Cochrane. The club is one of the most popular in the VIII region of Chile. Their main rivals are Fernández Vial, with whom they play the "clásico penquista" and Huachipato. The club played their home games at Estadio Ester Roa in Concepción, Chile, which seats 30,448 people. History The team joined the second level of the Chilean professional league in 1966 and won the tournament a year later, gaining promotion to the Primera División de Chile. In 1991, the team joined in representing Chile in the Copa Libertadores, they passed through the 1st round phase but lost in the round of sixteen against América de Cali. In 1993, the club was relegat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deportivo Táchira
''Deportivo'' (Spanish, 'sporting') may refer to: * Deportivo de La Coruña, commonly known as simply Deportivo, a Spanish football club * Déportivo, a French rock band * Deportivo (Mexicable) Mexicable is an aerial lift line in Ecatepec de Morelos and Tlalnepantla de Baz, in Greater Mexico City, and one station in Mexico City proper. It was created by the Government of the State of Mexico. The first part of this project was inaugur ..., an aerial lift station in Ecatepec, Mexico * Deportivo station, in San Juan agglomeration, Puerto Rico See also * {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
América De Cali
América de Cali S. A., best known as América de Cali or América, is a Colombian professional football club based in Cali. It competes in the Categoría Primera A, the top-flight league of Colombian football. The team plays its home games at the Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero, one of the most important stadiums in the country. The club is one of the oldest in Colombia; its foundation dates from 1927 and has its origins in the América Football Club, which was founded in 1918. It is also one of the most successful Colombian clubs, both nationally and internationally, being considered one of the strongest and most consistent clubs in the country. América has won 15 league titles and a second division tournament title, in addition to reaching the final of four Copa Libertadores (including three in a row from 1985 to 1987). Although it has never won the Copa Libertadores, it has won two international tournaments, the Copa Simón Bolívar (Venezuela), Copa Simón Bolívar in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Club De Regatas Vasco Da Gama
Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama (; English: Vasco da Gama Club of Rowing), commonly referred to as Vasco da Gama or simply Vasco, is a sports club based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Although originally a rowing club and then a multi-sport club, Vasco is mostly known for its men's Association football, football team, which currently competes in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, the top tier of the Brazilian football league system, and in the Campeonato Carioca, the Rio de Janeiro (state), state of Rio de Janeiro's premier State football leagues in Brazil, state league.Unzelte, Celso – O Livro de Ouro do Futebol; page 689 (Editora Ediouro, 2002) – Named after Vasco da Gama 400 years after his Portuguese discovery of the sea route to India, European–Asian sea route in 1498, the club was founded in 1898 as a rowing club by Brazilian workers, Portuguese Brazilians and newly arrived Portuguese Brazilians#Portuguese immigration to Brazil, Portuguese immigrants. Vasco created its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Strongest
Club The Strongest is a Bolivian professional football club based in La Paz, that currently plays in the Bolivian Primera División. Founded in 1908, their team colours are yellow and black. Although they have a home ground, Estadio Rafael Mendoza, (capacity: 15,000), they play most of their games at the Estadio Hernando Siles, Bolivia's national ground (capacity: 42,000). The club is the oldest active football club in Bolivia and the only team to have played continuously in the country's top division for longer than a century. The club was well represented in the Bolivian squad at the 1994 FIFA World Cup, the last such tournament in which the national team participated, by Marcelo Torrico, Gustavo Quinteros, Óscar Sánchez and José Melgar. History Early years The Strongest was founded on 8 April 1908 by a group of 12 students and were originally known as "The Strong Football Club", before later becoming "The Strongest Football Club", or ''El Club Mas Fuerte'' in Span ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Club Guaraní
Club Guaraní is a Paraguayan professional football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ... club, based in the neighbourhood of Pinozá (Asunción), Pinozá in outer Asunción. Founded in 1903, it is one of the oldest and one of the most successful in the country, with eleven Paraguayan Primera División, Primera División titles, and has List of unrelegated association football clubs, never been relegated to a lower division. History Club Guaraní is the second oldest Paraguayan football club. It was founded on 12 October 1903 under the name of "Football Club Guaraní" and its first president was Juan Patri. The name of the club derives from the Guarani people, Guaraní people, a big part of Paraguayan culture and history. The colours of the club, black and yellow, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Club Deportivo El Nacional
Club Deportivo El Nacional (until 2018 ''Club Especializado de Alto Rendimiento El Nacional'') is an Ecuadorian sports club based in Quito, known best for their professional football team. The team currently plays in the Serie A, the first-tier football league in the country after gaining promotion in 2022. El Nacional has thirteen national championships (one less than Emelec and three less than Barcelona). The club has participated in more Copa Libertadores than any other club in Ecuador with 22 appearances. Their best performance in the continental tournament was as a semi-finalist in 1985. El Nacional was founded on 1 June 1964, and was administered by the Ecuadorian Military since the foundation until 2013, when the club celebrated its first democratic elections. The club has maintained a tradition of only playing Ecuadorian footballers, which has given them the nickname of ''Puros Criollos'' ("Pure Natives"). Rival clubs included crosstown clubs LDU Quito, Deportivo Qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Club Atlético River Plate
Club Atlético River Plate is an Argentine professional sports club based in the Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Belgrano neighborhood of Buenos Aires. Founded in 1901, the club is named after the English name for the city's estuary, Río de la Plata. River's home stadium, Estadio Monumental (Buenos Aires), Monumental, is the largest in South America. River had the highest average home attendance of any association football club in the world in 2023 with 84,567. With more than 350,000 members at the end of 2023, River is one of the List of sports clubs by membership, largest sports clubs by membership. River Plate is also considered one of the ''Big Five (Argentine football), Big Five'' of Football in Argentina, Argentine football, along with Club Atlético Independiente, Independiente, San Lorenzo de Almagro, San Lorenzo, Boca Juniors, and Racing Club de Avellaneda, Racing Club. Although a Multi-sports club, multi-sport club, River Plate is best known for its professional association f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sporting Cristal
Club Sporting Cristal S.A., shortened to Sporting Cristal, is a Peruvian sports club located in the city of Lima, best known for its association football, soccer team. It was founded on 13 December 1955 in the Rímac District, Rímac district by engineer Richard Bentín Mujica and his wife Esther Grande de Bentín, stockholders of the Peruvian brewery Backus and Johnston. The club and the brewery have been closely linked since its inception, and it is for this reason that it is popularly known as ''los Cerveceros'' ("the brewers"). The team has played in the Peruvian Primera División since 1956 Peruvian Primera División, 1956, where it obtained the title that year. Due to this achievement, Cristal is often referred to as "El club que nació campeón". Since their first participation, they have won the league title 19 times and are one of the few teams in Peru to have never been relegated from the top division. Sporting Cristal is also the first Peruvian team to have been crowned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olimpia Asunción
Club Olimpia is a Paraguayan professional sports club based in the city of Asunción. It promotes the practice of various sports, with most importance given to the football, rugby and basketball sides, football being the most successful. Founded in 1902, the club's name stems from the idea of its principal founding member, William Paats, a Dutchman based in Paraguay, who is considered the father of Paraguayan football.Internationally, the club is referred to as Olimpia Asunción in order to distinguish it from other Latin American football clubs of the same name. Olimpia has won a record 47 Primera División titles to date, including a unique record run of winning the league six consecutive times. The only Paraguayan club to win a CONMEBOL title, Olimpia has won three Copa Libertadores — and has been runner-up four times — as well as two Recopa Sudamericanas, one Intercontinental Cup, one Copa Interamericana, and one Supercopa Sudamericana, a competition it won autom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Club Sport Emelec
Club Sport Emelec is an Ecuadorian sports club based in Guayaquil that is best known for their professional association football, football team. The football team plays in the Ecuadorian Serie A, the highest level of professional football in the country. Emelec has won fourteen Ecuadorian Serie A, Serie A titles and one of the division B, holding the record of doing so in all decades in which the Serie A has been played. They also have won seven regional titles (record in their region), a record-tying 5 of them in the professional era. Emelec was founded on 28 April 1929 by George Capwell, the American head of the Electric Company of Ecuador (), from which the club is named after. The name of their Estadio George Capwell, home stadium pays homage to the club's founder. The club's most intense rivalry is with crosstown-team Barcelona Sporting Club, Barcelona. Matches between the clubs are known as ''Clásico del Astillero, El Clásico del Astillero''. History The club was foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
