The Copa Merconorte 2001 was the fourth and final edition of
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...
tournament
Copa Merconorte held in 2001.
Millonarios of
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ...
defeated
Emelec of
Ecuador
Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain ...
in the final. It was the first edition to include teams invited from the United States, the
Kansas City Wizards
Sporting Kansas City is an American professional soccer club based in the Kansas City metropolitan area. The club competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Western Conference. The administrative offices are located in downtown K ...
and
NY/NJ MetroStars. Several fixtures for the MetroStars were cancelled following the
September 11 attacks
The September 11 attacks, also known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. Nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners, crashing the first two into ...
.
Participants
Group stage
Each team played the other teams in the group twice during the group stage. The first place team advanced to the second round.
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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Semifinals
The semifinals consisted of two games between the Necaxa (winner of Group A) and Millonarios (winner of Group B), and two games between the Santos Laguna (winner of Group C) and Emelec (winner of Group D). Both series were decided in penalty kicks because the net of both games was a draw.
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''5–5 on aggregate, Millonarios won 3–1 on penalties''
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''5–5 on aggregate, Emelec won 4–2 on penalties''
Finals
After tying both matches, Millonarios defeated Emelec in penalty kicks.
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Champion
References
External links
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