The CONMEBOL Recopa Sudamericana (), also known as Recopa Sudamericana or CONMEBOL Recopa, and simply as Recopa (, ; "Winners' Cup"), is an annual international club
football
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competition organized by
CONMEBOL
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since 1988. It is a match-up between the champions of the previous year's
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 ...
,
South America
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's premier club competitions.
The competition has had several formats over its lifetime. Initially, the champions of the Copa Libertadores and
Supercopa Libertadores
The Supercopa Libertadores (English: ''Libertadores Supercup''), also known as the Supercopa Sudamericana, Supercopa Libertadores João Havelange, Supercopa João Havelange or simply Supercopa, was a football club competition contested annually b ...
contested it. In 1998, the Supercopa Libertadores was discontinued and the ''Recopa'' went into a hiatus. The competition has been played with either the presently-used
two-legged series or a single match-up at a neutral venue. Together with the aforementioned tournaments, a club has the chance to win the ''CONMEBOL Treble'' all in one year or season. However, if the Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana are won by the same team, then according to the Copa Libertadores regulations Article 1.7,
both competitions' runners-up will play one or two matches in order to decide the team which will play in the Recopa.
The most recent champion of the competition is Argentine club
Racing
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, having beaten Brazilian club
Botafogo
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in the
2025 edition. Argentine club
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 ...
is the most successful club in the cup history, having won the tournament four times. Brazilian clubs have accumulated the most victories with thirteen wins while Brazil has the most different winning teams, with ten clubs having won the title. The cup has been won by 23 clubs and won consecutively by four clubs:
São Paulo
São Paulo (; ; Portuguese for 'Paul the Apostle, Saint Paul') is the capital of the São Paulo (state), state of São Paulo, as well as the List of cities in Brazil by population, most populous city in Brazil, the List of largest cities in the ...
,
LDU Quito,
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 ...
and
River Plate successfully defended the title in
1994
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In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...
,
2010
The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...
,
2006
2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification.
Events
January
* January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute.
* January 12 – A stampede during t ...
, and
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 ...
, respectively.
History
When the
Supercopa Sudamericana was created in 1988, a new continental
Super Cup
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competition in South America became viable. CONMEBOL named the new competition ''Recopa Sudamericana'' after the defunct
Recopa Sudamericana de Clubes played in 1970 and 1971. The Recopa Sudamericana, disputed between the winners of South America's two premier club competitions, is not related chronologically to the Recopa Sudamericana, created in 1968 which was contested between former South American winners of the
Intercontinental Cup, Recopa Sudamericana de Clubes, disputed among Cup winners of South America. The first edition was played in
1989
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and pitted Uruguayan club
Nacional and Argentinian side
Racing
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. Played on two legs, Nacional managed to win the trophy after winning 4–1 on points. Due to schedule dilemmas and political issues, the
1990 edition was played in
Miami
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between
Atlético Nacional
Atlético Nacional S. A., best known as Atlético Nacional, is a Colombian professional football club based in Medellín. The club is one of only three clubs to have played in every first division tournament in the country's history, the other ...
and
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 ...
with the latter winning 0–1.
Olimpia of Paraguay would win the Recopa Sudamericana without the need to dispute a match as the ''Decano'' won both the Copa Libertadores and Supercopa Sudamericana. CONMEBOL declared Olimpia the automatic winners of the
1991
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competition.
In 1992, and from 1994 to 1997, the competition was played in
Japan
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.
Colo-Colo
Colo-Colo (), officially Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo, is a Chilean professional football club based in Macul, Santiago. Founded in 1925 by David Arellano, it competes in the Chilean Primera División, from which the club has never been ...
of Chile defeated
Cruzeiro 5–4 on
penalties after a 0–0 tie in the
1992 final. Staying true to the winning ways of the ''Paulista's''
golden generation
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,
São Paulo
São Paulo (; ; Portuguese for 'Paul the Apostle, Saint Paul') is the capital of the São Paulo (state), state of São Paulo, as well as the List of cities in Brazil by population, most populous city in Brazil, the List of largest cities in the ...
won the 1993 and 1994 finals to become the first team to retain the title. Due to schedule congestion, the
1993 finals were played as part of the
Campeonato Brasileiro and it also became the first ''Recopa'' to feature two teams from the same nation. In a
second, consecutive all-Brazilian final, São Paulo successfully defended the trophy against
Botafogo
Botafogo (local/standard alternative Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: ) is a beachfront neighborhood (''bairro'') in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is a mostly upper middle class and small commerce community, and is located between the hills of M ...
. Since São Paulo won both the Copa Libertadores and Supercopa Sudamericana, CONMEBOL had
Copa CONMEBOL
The Copa CONMEBOL () was an annual football cup competition organized by CONMEBOL between 1992 and 1999 for South American football clubs. During its time of existence, it was a very prestigious South American club football contest, similar to the ...
winners Botafogo dispute the Recopa Sudamericana only to lose 3–1 to the defending champions.
Argentina managed to emulate their northern neighbors with the
1995 edition being an all-Argentinian affair.
Independiente, led by
Jorge Burruchaga, managed to consecrate themselves winners after defeating
Carlos Bianchi's legendary
Vélez Sársfield 1–0 in
Tokyo
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. Independiente participated in a
second, consecutive final only to lose the title to
Grêmio after being defeated 4–1.
The 1997 edition was won by a Vélez Sársfield team that bowed out from the international limelight with their last title. Having failed to win the trophy in 1992 and 1993,
Cruzeiro comfortably won the
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...
edition that was played as part of the Copa Mercosur. This final series was played two years after the participating teams won their corresponding qualifying tournaments.
At the end of the 1998 season, CONMEBOL discontinued the Supercopa Sudamericana. As a result of not having an important, secondary tournament, the Recopa Sudamericana went into a hiatus from 1999 until 2002. However, the introduction of the new Copa Sudamericana revitalized the competition with Olimpia winning the
2003
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In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War.
Demographic ...
final in
Los Angeles
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. Played on a neutral venue for the
second year
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in a row,
Cienciano
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defeated Boca Juniors on penalties to win their second international title. From 2005 onwards, the Recopa Sudamericana would be played on a home-and-away basis.
In a rematch of the Copa Libertadores final of 2004, Boca Juniors avenged that defeat as they
beat Once Caldas
Once Caldas S.A., simply known as Once Caldas, is a professional Colombian Association football, football team based in Manizales, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. The club plays its home games at Estadio Palogrande.
The club wa ...
4–3 on aggregate.
A year later, Boca Juniors faced São Paulo, both two-time winners of the competition, in order to determine who would become the first . The ''Xeneizes'' won 4–1 on points and successfully defended the title, becoming the first side since
Telê Santana's São Paulo to win consecutive ''Recopas''.
Internacional became the
first Brazilian side to lift the trophy in nine years. The
2008 competition saw Boca Juniors win their fourth title to become joint leaders for most international titles won by a club in a last hurrah on the international scene.
LDU Quito won their second international title as they thumped Internacional 6–0 on points and 4–0 on goal aggregate to win their first ever
title
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. LDU Quito then successfully defended their title in
2010
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against
Estudiantes. They became the third team to successfully defend the title.
Format
Unlike most other competitions around the world, the Recopa Sudamericana do not use
extra time
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, an additional period of play specified under the rules of a sport to bring a game to a decision and avoid declaring the match a tie or draw, or
away goals
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 ...
, a method of
breaking ties in football and other sports when teams play each other twice, once at each team's home ground, to decide a tie that was level on aggregate.
From 1988 to 1995, teams would be awarded 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for a loss). From 1995 onwards, the "
three points for a win
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" standard, a system adopted by FIFA in 1995 that places additional value on wins, was adopted in CONMEBOL, with teams now earning 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for a loss.
If both teams are level on points after two legs, goal difference would come into play.
Penalty kick
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s was used to determine a winner if the match was tied on goal difference.
Since the competition takes place in the mid-winter, it is disputed between the champions of the previous year's aforementioned competitions. Because of this, some count the year of the championship by the qualification year rather than that of the competition itself. Thus,
CONMEBOL
CONMEBOL ( ) or CSF (; ; ), is the continental governing body of football in South America and it is one of FIFA's six continental confederations. The oldest continental confederation in the world, its headquarters are located in Luque, Parag ...
states that
Nacional from
Uruguay
Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast, while bordering the Río de la Plata to the south and the A ...
won the first Recopa of 1989, whereas the
RSSSF
The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (''RSSSF'') is an international organisation dedicated to collecting statistics about association football. The foundation aims to build an exhaustive archive of football-related information from around ...
refers to that championship as Recopa 1988.
Trophy
The Recopa Sudamericana trophy is retained by CONMEBOL at all times. A full-size replica trophy is awarded to the winning club. Thirty gold medals are presented to the winning club and thirty silver medals to the runners-up.
The Recopa Sudamericana trophy has not undergone many changes in its history. The trophy consists of a gold-coated body with a pedestal. The body consists of an
Adidas Tango ball, a successful family and brand of association footballs. It was first introduced as the ''Tango Durlast'' in 1978 for the
1978 FIFA World Cup
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in
Argentina
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. The ball is hoisted by a golden, cylindrical body with four quadrilateral edges sticking out of the body at 45 degrees from each other. The pedestal is separated into two parts; the top part of the pedestal consists of the CONMEBOL emblem. The bottom part of the pedestal contains a gold badge underneath the CONMEBOL emblem with the phrase, "RECOPA", imprinted into it. To the left and right, badges of previous winners are placed.
A team which wins 3 times in a row, receives an original copy of the trophy and a special mark of recognition.
Match ball
The current match
ball
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for the Recopa Sudamericana, manufactured by
Nike, is named the ''Total 90 Omni CSF''.
It is one of the many balls produced by the
American sports equipment maker for CONMEBOL, replacing the ''Mercurial Veloci Hi-Vis'' in 2009. The ball, approved by FIFA and weighing approximately 422
g, has a spherical shape that allows the ball to fly faster, farther, and more accurately.
According to Nike, the ball's
geometric
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precision distributes pressure evenly across panels and around the ball. The compressed
polyethylene
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layer stores energy from impact and releases it at launch, and the 6-wing carbon-latex air chamber improves acceleration.
Another feature of the ball is its rubber layer; it was designed to allow a better response while retaining the impact
energy
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and releases it in the coup.
Its support material of cross-linked
nitrogen
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-expanded
foam
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improves its retention and durability of its shape.
Polyester
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support fabric enhances structure and stability. The
asymmetrical
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high-
contrast graphic
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around the ball creates an optimal flicker as the ball rotates for a more powerful visual signal, allowing the player to more easily identify and track the ball.
Sponsorship

Like the
FIFA World Cup
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, the Recopa Sudamericana is sponsored by a group of multinational corporations. Unlike the premier football tournament forementioned, the competition uses a single, main sponsor; it is currently primarily sponsored by
Banco Santander
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, one of the largest banks in the world. The deal running for a period of three years began with the 2012 edition.
As the main sponsor of the tournament, the competition will carry the name of the bank. Thus, the competition is known officially as the '"Copa Santander Libertadores'". The first primary sponsor of the competition was
Fox Sports Latinoamérica, a Latin American
cable television
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network
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...
focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-recorded event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programmings. The sponsorship was only for the 2005 edition of the competition, being known officially as '"Fox Sports Recopa Sudamericana"'. The second primary sponsor was
Visa, an American
multinational financial services
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corporation. The deal ran for a period of 3 years which began with the 2006 edition. As the main sponsor of the tournament, the competition carried the name of the corporation. Thus, the competition was known officially as '"Recopa Visa Sudamericana"'.
However, the competition has had many secondary sponsors that invest in the tournament as well. Many of these sponsors are nationally based but have expanded to other nations.
Nike supplies the official match ball, as they do for all other CONMEBOL competitions.
Individual clubs may wear jerseys with advertising, even if such sponsors conflict with those of the Recopa Sudamericana.
The tournament's current secondary sponsors and brands advertised (in ''italic'') are:
*
Fox Sports
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Fox Sports Latinoamérica''
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Fox Sports Brasil''
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Fox Deportes
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''
* Diario Crónica
* Sí
* Guerrero
* La Nueva Seguros
*
Bein TV
*
DirecTV
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*
Easy
* Polacrin
* Rapipago
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Reebok
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*
Coca-Cola
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*
Budweiser
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* Tarjeta Naranja
Records and statistics
Argentines
Leonardo Ponzio
Leonardo Daniel Ponzio (born 29 January 1982) is an Argentinian former footballer who played mainly as a defensive midfielder.
After starting out at Newell's Old Boys in 2000, he went on to spend his professional career with Zaragoza and River ...
,
Sebastián Battaglia,
Neri Cardozo,
Rodrigo Palacio, and
Jesús Dátolo, Uruguayan
Camilo Mayada
Camilo Sebastián Mayada Mesa (born 8 January 1991) is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a full-back and midfielder for Peñarol.
Club career
A youth academy graduate of Danubio, Mayada made his professional debut on 4 October ...
and Paraguayan
Claudio Morel Rodríguez are the only players to have won three Recopa Sudamericana winners' medals. The overall top goalscorer in Recopa Sudamericana history is Rodrigo Palacio, scorer of five goals.
Leandro Damião is second with 3 goals. Rodrigo Palacio and Leandro Damião hold the record for the most goals scored in a single Recopa Sudamericana. Each of their three goals was scored in the 2006 and 2010 finals, respectively. Claudio Morel Rodríguez is the player with most appearances in the competition, 5 editions (winning three finals), all of them in Boca Juniors with the exception of 2003 (played for
San Lorenzo). Paraguayan
Julio César Cáceres, Argentine
Jesús Dátolo and Brazilian
André are the only players that won the Recopa Sudamericana with two teams. Cáceres won in 2003 with Olimpia and 2008 with Boca Juniors, Dátolo won in 2006 and 2008 with Boca and in 2014 with
Atlético Mineiro
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*Athletico SC (Lebanon), a Lebanese football academy
*Athletic Bilbao, or Atletico Bilbao, Basque students athletic club (also forming Athletic Cl ...
, and
André won in 2012 with Santos and 2014 with Atlético Mineiro.
Argentinian
Marcelo Gallardo is the only head coach to ever win three Recopa Sudamericana. Brazilians
Telê Santana and
Levir Culpi
Levir Culpi (born 28 February 1953) is a Brazilian professional football coach and former player who played as a centre-back.
Playing career
Known as Levir during his playing days, he was born in Curitiba, Paraná, and started his career with ...
, Uruguayan
Luis Cubilla
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, and Argentinian
Alfio Basile are the only head coaches to ever win two Recopa Sudamericana. All Recopa Sudamericana winning head coaches were natives of the country they coached to victory except for Cubilla,
Mirko Jozić,
Jorge Fossati and
Edgardo Bauza. Croatian Jozić, who won the
1992 edition with Chile's
Colo-Colo
Colo-Colo (), officially Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo, is a Chilean professional football club based in Macul, Santiago. Founded in 1925 by David Arellano, it competes in the Chilean Primera División, from which the club has never been ...
, has the distinction and honor of being the only non-South American coach to win the tournament.
Performance by club
See also
*
List of Recopa Sudamericana winning managers
*
Super cup
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