The 2016 Recopa Sudamericana () was the 24th edition of the
Recopa Sudamericana
The CONMEBOL Recopa Sudamericana (), also known as Recopa Sudamericana or CONMEBOL Recopa, and simply as Recopa (, ; "Winners' Cup"), is an annual international club Association football, football competition organized by CONMEBOL since 1988. It ...
, the
football
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competition organized by
CONMEBOL
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between the winners of the previous season's two major
South America
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n club tournaments, the
Copa Libertadores
The CONMEBOL Libertadores, also known as Copa Libertadores de América (), is an annual continental club football competition organized by CONMEBOL since 1960. It is the highest level of competition in South American club football. The tournam ...
and the
Copa Sudamericana
The CONMEBOL Sudamericana, also known as Copa Sudamericana (; ), is an annual international club football competition organized by CONMEBOL, the governing body of football in South America, since 2002. It is the second-most prestigious club com ...
.
The competition was contested in two-legged home-and-away format between Argentine team
River Plate, the
2015 Copa Libertadores champion, and Colombian team
Santa Fe, the
2015 Copa Sudamericana
The 2015 Copa Sudamericana () was the 14th edition of the Copa Sudamericana, South America's secondary club football tournament organized by CONMEBOL.
Colombian team Santa Fe qualified to play in the 2016 Copa Libertadores, the 2016 Recopa Sud ...
champion. The first leg was hosted by Santa Fe at
Estadio El Campín in
Bogotá
Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish Imperial period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city, capital and largest city ...
on 18 August 2016, while the second leg was hosted by River Plate at
Estadio Antonio Vespucio Liberti in Buenos Aires on 25 August 2016.
River Plate defeated
Santa Fe 2–1 on aggregate to win their second Recopa Sudamericana title, repeating their triumph in
2015
2015 was designated by the United Nations as:
* International Year of Light
* International Year of Soil __TOC__
Events
January
* January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...
.
Format
The Recopa Sudamericana was played on a home-and-away
two-legged basis, with the Copa Libertadores champion hosting the second leg. If tied on aggregate, the
away goals rule
The away goals rule is a method of tiebreaking in association football and other sports when teams play each other twice, once at each team's home ground. Under the away goals rule, if the total goals scored by each team are equal, the team that ...
would not be used, and 30 minutes of
extra time
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would be played. If still tied after extra time, the
penalty shoot-out
The penalty shootout is a method of determining a winner in sports matches that would have otherwise been drawn or tied. The rules for penalty shootouts vary between sports and even different competitions; however, the usual form is similar to pe ...
would be used to determine the winner.
Teams
Venues
Matches
First leg
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Second leg
References
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2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
2016 in South American football
Club Atlético River Plate matches
Independiente Santa Fe matches
2016 in Argentine football
2016 in Colombian football
2016 Recopa Sudamericana
2016 Recopa Sudamericana
August 2016 sports events in South America