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{| class="infobox football" style="width: 16em; text-align: center;"|-! style="font-size: 16px;" | Copa Libertadores|-| style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;" | |-| style="font-size: 12px; background: #BFD7FF;" | Founded|-| style="font-size: 12px;" | 1960 ([CONMEBOL)])|-| style="font-size: 12px;" | Club Atletico Boca Juniors|-| style="font-size: 12px; background: #BFD7FF;" | Most successful club|-| style="font-size: 12px;" | Club Atlético Independiente(7 time champions)|-| style="font-size: 12px; background: #BFD7FF;" | Website|-| style="font-size: 12px;" | Copa Toyota Libertadores at CONMEBOL.com|-|}

The Copa Toyota Libertadores (also known as Copa Libertadores de América) (Portuguese language: Copa Libertadores da América or Taça Libertadores da América, English language: Liberators Cup) is a football (soccer) cup competition played annually by the top clubs of South America. In recent years, top clubs from Mexico have also competed. The tournament is organized by the CONMEBOL (CONMEBOL). The current champion is the Argentina club Club Atletico Boca Juniors.

The name of the tournament is an homage to the Libertadores (Portuguese and Spanish words for Liberators), the main leaders of the independence wars of Latin America: Simón Bolívar, Dom Pedro I (of Brazil), José de San Martín, Antonio José de Sucre, Bernardo O'Higgins, José Miguel Carrera and José Gervasio Artigas. Teams in contention for the title are referred to having the Sueño Libertador, in Hispanic America, or Projeto Tóquio, in Brazil.

The tournament is, at present, sponsored by the motor manufacturing company Toyota, hence the inclusion of the name in the competition's current official title. Spain's Banco Santander has just announced (27 Sept. 2007) that it has signed an agreement with the Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol to become the new top sponsors of the competition.

Qualifying In the beginning, only the national champions of the major South American federations (namely Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay) would play in the Libertadores Cup, but in the 1970s a second team from each country was allowed entry and also teams from Venezuela. The number of participants was later increased to 24, 28, 32 and now 38.

Teams are qualified for the Libertadores Cup by winning a national championship or by finishing among the first few teams in the championship. Brazil, Uruguay and Mexico are the only countries participating which employ a second tournament that qualifies for the Libertadores (in Brazil, Copa do Brasil, since 1989; in Uruguay the "liguilla pre-libertadores" since 1974, in Mexico, the InterLiga since 2004).

The Cup has a preliminary round in which a number of clubs, currently 12, are paired in a series of two-legged knockout ties. The six survivors join the remaining clubs in the first round, in which they are divided into groups of four. The first-round groups play in a league system, with each team playing home and away against each other team. The top two teams from each group are then drawn in the second round, which consists of a two-legged knockout tie. From that point, the competition proceeds with two-legged knockout ties to quarterfinals, semifinals, and the final. Between 1960 and 1987 the previous winners did not enter the competition until the semi-final stage (which was 2 group stage of 3 teams each one), making it much easier to retain the cup.

The 2007 edition will have the competitors distributed this way:

The previous year's champion
5 from Argentina and Brazil, respectively
3 from Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela each

The lowest-ranked team from each country, plus the second lowest-ranked team from the nation of the previous year's champion, will enter the preliminary round, with the winners joining the other 26 teams in the main draw.

Rules Note that unlike European club competitions, the Copa Libertadores historically did not use extra time or away goals rule to decide a tie that was level on aggregate. From 1960 to 1987, two-legged ties were decided on points (teams would be awarded 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for a loss), without taking goal difference into consideration. If both teams were level on points after two legs, a third match would be played at a neutral site. Goal difference would only come into play if the third match was drawn. If the third match did not produce an immediate winner a penalty shootout (football) was used to determine a winner.

From 1988 through 2004, ties were decided on aggregate goals, with an immediate penalty shootout if the tie was level on aggregate after full time of the second leg. Several times, the event would have had a different champion if it followed European rules. For example, if the away goals rule had been used the 2004 champions Colombian club Once Caldas, provided the same results would have taken place under these different circumstances, would have exited the competition in the second round, and would also have lost the final on away goals, making Boca Juniors the Champion of that trophy. Regardless, Once Caldas is officially recognized as the Libertadores champion in 2004 after defeating Boca Juniors in the final game.

Starting with the 2005 event, CONMEBOL finally began to use the away goals rule, with the extra time used only in the final matches.

History Twelve years before the first official Copa Libertadores, an international club competition was set up containing representatives (often the league champion) from seven different South American countries. This was the South American Club Championship 1948, played in a league in Santiago, Chile, Chile, and was won by Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama. It has been recognised as a precursor to the Copa Libertadores by the South American Federation, but is not counted as being as significant as the first official competition in 1960, created as a rival to the European Cup which had been competed for since 1955.

The first cup was won by C.A. Peñarol of Uruguay. As of 2005, 20 different teams have won the cup. The most successful club has been the Argentina side Club Atlético Independiente, winners seven times including four in a row from 1972 to 1975.

Estudiantes de La Plata, of Argentina, became the first club to win the Cup for three consecutive years, in 1968, 1969 and 1970. With this remarkable achievement, Estudiantes became the first club to preserve the Cup for ever. Since then, only Independiente has preserved the Cup.Estudiantes and Independiente are also the teams that played more consecutive finals, four.

The competition all-time goalscorer is still striker Alberto Spencer of Ecuador. He played as a striker for Peñarol during their golden age in the 60's, scoring 48 goals in 70 games, and for Barcelona Sporting Club of Guayaquil, scoring 6 goals in 7 games. In total, he scored 54 goals in the Copa Libertadores. Despite this, he remains a relatively unknown figure outside of South America, thus providing an excellent contrast to George Best, who despite his abilities was relatively little-known outside of the United Kingdom, with his 2005 death arguably giving him more worldwide publicity than he enjoyed in life. A common cause can be found in both cases: Neither played in a World Cup.

In the Cup, Brazilians complain that especially in the early years the referees were often biased against the Brazilian teams, and that other teams abuse of violence. Argentines typically answer this by remarking that the Brazilian teams were often uninterested in playing abroad.

Over the years the competition has kept alive a healthy sport rivalry between the competing countries, especially between Brazil and Argentina, Argentina and Uruguay, Uruguay and Brazil, Colombia and Argentina, Peru and Chile. Unfortunately episodes of violence are not rare and the pressure for players on the field is tremendous.

Since 1998, the Copa Libertadores has been sponsored by the Toyota Motor Corporation, which is why the name Copa Toyota Libertadores is also used.

Tournament results {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"|-!width=5%|Season!width=20%|Winner!width=15%|Score!width=20%|Runner-up|-|2008
Copa Libertadores 2008| colspan=3 align=center | To be played.|-|2007
Copa Libertadores 2007| Boca Juniors]
Copa Libertadores 2006| |2 - 1 / 2 - 2
Aggregate 4 - 3| |-|2005
Copa Libertadores 2005| |1 - 1 / 4 - 0
Aggregate 5 - 1| |-|2004
Copa Libertadores 2004| Once Caldas]| Boca Juniors
[Copa Libertadores 2003| Boca Juniors]
Copa Libertadores 2002| Olimpia Asunción|0 - 1 / 2 - 1
Aggregate 2 - 2
4-2 Penalty shootout| |-|2001
Copa Libertadores 2001| Boca Juniors]| Club Deportivo Cruz Azul|-|2000
Copa Libertadores 2000| Boca Juniors]| |-|1999
Copa Libertadores 1999| |0 - 1 / 2 - 1
Aggregate 2 - 2
4-3 Penalty shootout| Deportivo Cali
[Copa Libertadores 1998| |2 - 0 / 2 - 1
Aggregate 4 - 1| Barcelona Sporting Club|-|1997
Copa Libertadores 1997| |0 - 0 / 1 - 0
Aggregate 1 - 0| Sporting Cristal
[Copa Libertadores 1996| Club Atlético River Plate|0 - 1 / 2 - 0
Aggregate 2 - 1| America de Cali
[Copa Libertadores 1995| |3 - 1 / 1 - 1
Aggregate 4 - 2| Atlético Nacional
[Copa Libertadores 1994| Club Atlético Vélez Sársfield|0 - 1 / 1 - 0
Aggregate 1 - 1
5-3 Penalty shootout| |-|1993
Copa Libertadores 1993| |5 - 1 / 0 - 2
Aggregate 5 - 3| Club Deportivo Universidad Católica|-|1992
Copa Libertadores 1992| |1 - 0 / 0 - 1
Aggregate 1 - 1
3-2 Penalty shootout| Newell's Old Boys
[Copa Libertadores 1991| Colo-Colo]|-|1990
Copa Libertadores 1990| Olimpia Asunción|2 - 0 / 1 - 1
Aggregate 3 - 1| Barcelona Sporting Club|-|1989
Copa Libertadores 1989| Atlético Nacional]| Olimpia Asunción|-|1988
Copa Libertadores 1988| Club Nacional de Football|0 - 1 / 3 - 0
Aggregate 3-1| Newell's Old Boys
[Copa Libertadores 1987| C.A. Peñarol|0 - 2 / 2 - 1
Play-off 2 - 0 Extra Time| America de Cali
[Copa Libertadores 1986| Club Atlético River Plate|2 - 1 / 1 - 0
Aggregate 3 - 1| America de Cali
[Copa Libertadores 1985| Argentinos Juniors]| America de Cali
[Copa Libertadores 1984| Club Atlético Independiente|0 - 0 / 1 - 0
Aggregate 1 - 0| |-|1983
Copa Libertadores 1983| |1 - 1 / 2 - 1
Aggregate 3 - 2| C.A. Peñarol|-|1982
Copa Libertadores 1982| C.A. Peñarol|0 - 0 / 1 - 0
Aggregate 1 - 0| Cobreloa
[Copa Libertadores 1981| |2 - 1 / 0 - 1
Play-off 2 - 0| Cobreloa
[Copa Libertadores 1980| Club Nacional de Football|0 - 0 / 1 - 0
Aggregate 1 - 0| |-|1979
Copa Libertadores 1979| Olimpia Asunción|2 - 0 / 0 - 0
Aggregate 2 - 0| Boca Juniors
[Copa Libertadores 1978| Boca Juniors]|-|1977
Copa Libertadores 1977| Boca Juniors]| |-|1976
Copa Libertadores 1976| |4 - 1 / 1 - 2
Play-off 3 - 2| Club Atlético River Plate|-|1975
Copa Libertadores 1975| Club Atlético Independiente|0 - 1 / 3 - 1
Play-off 2 - 0| Unión Española
[Copa Libertadores 1973| Club Atlético Independiente|1 - 2 / 2 - 0
Play-off 1 - 0| |-|1973
Copa Libertadores 1973| Club Atlético Independiente|1 - 1 / 0 - 0
Play-off 2 - 1 Extra Time| Colo-Colo
[Copa Libertadores 1972| Club Atlético Independiente|0 - 0 / 2 - 1
Aggregate 2 - 1| Universitario (Lima)|-|1971
Copa Libertadores 1971| Club Nacional de Football|1 - 0 / 0 - 1
Play-off 2 - 0| Estudiantes La Plata|-|1970
Copa Libertadores 1970| Estudiantes de La Plata|1 - 0 / 0 - 0
Aggregate 1 - 0| C.A. Peñarol|-|1969
Copa Libertadores 1969| Estudiantes de La Plata|1 - 0 / 2 - 0
Aggregate 3 - 0| Club Nacional de Football|-|1968
Copa Libertadores 1968| Estudiantes de La Plata|2 - 1 / 1 - 3
Play-off 2 - 0| |-|1967
Copa Libertadores 1967| Racing Club de Avellaneda|0 - 0 / 0 - 0
Play-off 2 - 1| Club Nacional de Football|-|1966
Copa Libertadores 1966| C.A. Peñarol|2 - 0 / 2 - 3
Play-off 4 - 2 Extra Time| Club Atlético River Plate|-|1965
Copa Libertadores 1965| Club Atlético Independiente|1 - 0 / 1 - 3
Play-off 4 - 1| C.A. Peñarol|-|1964
Copa Libertadores 1964| Club Atlético Independiente|0 - 0 / 1 - 0
Aggregate 1 - 0| Club Nacional de Football|-|1963
Copa Libertadores 1963| |3 - 2 / 2 - 1
Aggregate 5 - 3| Boca Juniors
[Copa Libertadores 1962| |1 - 2 / 3 - 2
Play-off 3 - 0| C.A. Peñarol|-|1961
Copa Libertadores 1961| C.A. Peñarol|1 - 0 / 1 - 1
Aggregate 2 - 1| |-|1960
Copa Libertadores 1960| C.A. Peñarol|1 - 0 / 1 - 1
Aggregate 2 - 1| Olimpia Asunción|}

Results By Club {| class="wikitable sortable"|-!Team!Winners!Runners-Up!Years Won!Years Runner-Up|-| Club Atlético Independiente||align=center|7||align=center|0||(Copa Libertadores 1964, Copa Libertadores 1965, Copa Libertadores 1972, Copa Libertadores 1973, Copa Libertadores 1974, Copa Libertadores 1975, Copa Libertadores 1984)||-|-| Boca Juniors, [Copa Libertadores 1978, Copa Libertadores 2000, Copa Libertadores 2001, Copa Libertadores 2003, Copa Libertadores 2007)||(Copa Libertadores 1963, Copa Libertadores 1979, Copa Libertadores 2004)|-| C.A. Peñarol||align=center|5||align=center|4||(Copa Libertadores 1960, Copa Libertadores 1961, Copa Libertadores 1966, Copa Libertadores 1982, Copa Libertadores 1987)||(Copa Libertadores 1962,Copa Libertadores 1965,Copa Libertadores 1970, Copa Libertadores 1983)|-| Club Nacional de Football||align=center|3||align=center|3||(Copa Libertadores 1971, Copa Libertadores 1980, Copa Libertadores 1988)||(Copa Libertadores 1964,Copa Libertadores 1967,Copa Libertadores 1969)|-| São Paulo Futebol Clube||align=center|3||align=center|3||(Copa Libertadores 1992, Copa Libertadores 1993, Copa Libertadores 2005)||(Copa Libertadores 1974,Copa Libertadores 1994,Copa Libertadores 2006)|-| Olimpia Asunción||align=center|3||align=center|3||(Copa Libertadores 1979, Copa Libertadores 1990, Copa Libertadores 2002)||(Copa Libertadores 1960,Copa Libertadores 1989,Copa Libertadores 1991)|-| Estudiantes de La Plata||align=center|3||align=center|1||(Copa Libertadores 1968, Copa Libertadores 1969, Copa Libertadores 1970)||(Copa Libertadores 1971)|-| Club Atlético River Plate||align=center|2||align=center|2||(Copa Libertadores 1986, Copa Libertadores 1996)||(Copa Libertadores 1966, Copa Libertadores 1976)|-| Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense||align=center|2||align=center|2||(Copa Libertadores 1983, Copa Libertadores 1995)||(Copa Libertadores 1984, Copa Libertadores 2007)|-| Cruzeiro Esporte Clube||align=center|2||align=center|1||(Copa Libertadores 1976, Copa Libertadores 1997)||(Copa Libertadores 1977)|-| Santos Futebol Clube||align=center|2||align=center|1||(Copa Libertadores 1962, Copa Libertadores 1963)||(Copa Libertadores 2003)|-| Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras||align=center|1||align=center|3||(Copa Libertadores 1999)||(Copa Libertadores 1961,Copa Libertadores 1968,Copa Libertadores 2000)|-| Sport Club Internacional||align=center|1||align=center|1||(Copa Libertadores 2006)||(Copa Libertadores 1980)|-| Colo-Colo)||([Copa Libertadores 1973)|-| Atlético Nacional)||([Copa Libertadores 1995)|-| Once Caldas)||-|-| [Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama||align=center|1||align=center|0||(Copa Libertadores 1998)||-|-| Club Atlético Vélez Sársfield||align=center|1||align=center|0||(Copa Libertadores 1994)||-|-| Argentinos Juniors)||-|-| [Clube de Regatas do Flamengo||align=center|1||align=center|0||(Copa Libertadores 1981)||-|-| Racing Club de Avellaneda||align=center|1||align=center|0||(Copa Libertadores 1967)||-|-|}(When sorted by years won or lost, the table is sorted by the date of each teams first win)

By Country

Argentina 21 times

Brazil 13 times

Uruguay 8 times

Paraguay 3 times

Colombia 2 times

Chile 1 time

Topscorers See Copa Libertadores de América Topscorers

External links

Copa Toyota Libertadores at CONMEBOL.com Official Website.

Copa Libertadores at ESPNdeportes

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Copa Libertadores de America 2006 - news, schedule of games, pictures, videos, forums, and more (in Spanish)

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