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2009 Copa Libertadores de América
2009 Copa Santander Libertadores de América
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Tournament details
Dates	January 27 - July 15
Teams	38 (from 11 confederations)
Final positions
Champions	Estudiantes (4th title)
Runner-up	Cruzeiro
Tournament statistics
Matches played	134
Goals scored	323 (2.41 per match)
Attendance	2,416,216 (18,031 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Mauro Boselli (8 goals)
Best player	Juan Sebastián Verón
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The 2009 Copa Libertadores de América (officially the 2009 Copa Santander Libertadores de América for sponsorship reasons) was the 50th edition of the Copa Libertadores, CONMEBOL's premier annual international club tournament.

The tournament was won by Argentine club Estudiantes de La Plata, who achieved their fourth Copa Libertadores title and first in 39 years. Since the inception of the preliminary round in 2004, they are the first club to start in that round and win the Copa Libertadores. Estudiantes earned a berth in the 2009 FIFA Club World Cup and 2010 Recopa Sudamericana.

[edit] Qualified teams

Country	Team	Qualify method
Argentina 5 berths	Lanús	2007 Apertura champion
	River Plate	2008 Clausura champion
	Boca Juniors	2008 Apertura champion
	San Lorenzo	Best average of the 2007 Apertura, 2008 Clausura, & 2008 Apertura
	Estudiantes	2nd best average of the 2007 Apertura, 2008 Clausura, & 2008 Apertura
Bolivia 3 berths	Universitario de Sucre	2008 Apertura champion
	Aurora	2008 Clausura champion
	Real Potosí	2008 play-off champion
Brazil 5 berths	São Paulo	2008 Série A champion
	Grêmio	2008 Série A runner-up
	Cruzeiro	2008 Série A 3rd place
	Sport Recife	2008 Copa do Brasil champion
	Palmeiras	2008 Série A 4th place
Chile 3 berths	Everton	2008 Apertura champion
	Colo-Colo	2008 Clausura champion
	Universidad de Chile	1st place in 2008 Clausura general table
Colombia 3 berths	Boyacá Chicó	2008 Copa Mustang I champion
	América de Cali	2008 Copa Mustang II champion
	Independiente Medellín	2008 Copa Mustang best-placed non-champion
Ecuador 3 + 1 berths	LDU Quito	2008 Copa Libertadores champion
	Deportivo Quito	2008 Serie A champion
	Deportivo Cuenca	2008 Serie A 3rd place
	El Nacional	2008 Serie A 4th place
Paraguay 3 berths	Libertad	2008 Apertura & 2008 Clausura champion
	Guaraní	2008 Primera División best-placed non-champion
	Nacional	2008 Primera División 2nd best-placed non-champion
Peru 3 berths	Universitario	2008 Apertura champion
	Universidad San Martín	2008 Clausura champion
	Sporting Cristal	2008 Descentralizado best-placed non-champion
Uruguay 3 berths	Defensor Sporting	2007-08 Primera División champion
	Nacional	2008 Liguilla Pre-Libertadores champion
	Peñarol	2008 Liguilla Pre-Libertadores 3rd place
Venezuela 3 berths	Deportivo Táchira	2007-08 Primera División champion
	Caracas	2007-08 Primera División runner-up
	Deportivo Anzoátegui	2007-08 Primera División best-placed non-finalist
Mexico 3 invitees (CONCACAF)	San Luis	1st place in 2008 Apertura general table
	Guadalajara	2009 InterLiga champion
	Pachuca	2009 InterLiga runner-up

[edit] Teams' starting round

Second Stage
Lanús	River Plate	Boca Juniors	San Lorenzo
São Paulo	Grêmio	Cruzeiro	Sport Recife
Universitario	Aurora	Everton	Colo-Colo
Boyacá Chicó	América de Cali	LDU Quito	Deportivo Quito
Universitario	Universidad San Martín	Libertad	Guaraní
Defensor Sporting	Nacional	Deportivo Táchira	Caracas
San Luis	Guadalajara
First Stage
Estudiantes	Palmeiras	Real Potosí	Universidad de Chile
Independiente Medellín	Deportivo Cuenca	El Nacional	Sporting Cristal
Nacional	Peñarol	Deportivo Anzoátegui	Pachuca

[edit] Round and draw dates

The calendar shows the dates of the rounds and draw.

Event	Date
The draw took place	November 25, 2008
First Stage	January 27 & February 4, 2009
Second Stage	February 11, 18, & 25; March 4, 11, 18, & 25; April 8, 15, 22, & 29
Round of 16	May 6 & 13
Quarterfinals	May 20 & 27
Semifinals	June 17 & 24
Finals	July 1 & 8

[edit] Tie-breaking criteria

Teams at every stage of the tournament will be awarded points depending on the result of a game: 3 for a win, 1 for a draw, 0 for a loss. The following criteria will be used for breaking ties on points:

Goal difference
Goals scored
Away goals
Draw

For the First Stage, Round of 16, Quarterfinals, and Semifinals, the fourth criteria is replaced by a penalty shoot-out if necessary. The Finals have their own set of criteria; see the finals section for more details.

[edit] First stage

Main article: 2009 Copa Libertadores First Stage

In the First Stage, twelve teams played a two-legged tie (one game at home and one game away) against another opponent. The winner of each tie advanced to the Second Stage. Team #1 played the first leg at home.

Team #1	Points	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Independiente Medellín	4–1	Peñarol	4–0	0–0
Sporting Cristal	3–3 (a)	Estudiantes	2–1	0–1
El Nacional	1–4	Nacional	0–5	3–3
Deportivo Anzoátegui	3–3 (2–3 gd)	Deportivo Cuenca	2–0	0–3
Palmeiras	6–0	Real Potosí	5–1	2–0
Universidad de Chile	(a) 3–3	Pachuca	1–0	1–2

[edit] Second stage

Main article: 2009 Copa Libertadores Second Stage

A total of 26 teams qualified directly to this phase and were joined by six teams from the First Stage, bringing the total to 32 teams. The top two teams from each group advanced to the Round of 16.

[edit] Group 1

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Sport Recife	6	4	1	1	10	7	+3	13
Palmeiras	6	3	1	2	9	7	+2	10
Colo-Colo	6	2	1	3	9	7	+2	7
LDU Quito	6	1	1	4	6	13	−7	4

	COL	LDU	PAL	SPO
Colo-Colo	–	3–0	0–1	1–2
LDU Quito	1–1	–	3–2	2–3
Palmeiras	1–3	2–0	–	1–1
Sport Recife	2–1	2–0	0–2	–

[edit] Group 2

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Boca Juniors	6	5	0	1	11	3	+8	15
Deportivo Cuenca	6	3	1	2	9	4	+5	10
Deportivo Táchira	6	3	0	3	6	9	−3	9
Guaraní	6	0	1	5	5	15	−10	1

	BOC	CUE	TÁC	GUA
Boca Juniors	–	1–0	3–0	3–1
Deportivo Cuenca	1–0	–	3–1	4–0
Deportivo Táchira	0–1	1–0	–	2–1
Guaraní	1–3	1–1	1–2	–

[edit] Group 3

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Nacional	6	4	2	0	12	3	+9	14
Universidad San Martín	6	2	2	2	7	9	−2	8
River Plate	6	2	1	3	7	9	−2	7
Nacional	6	1	1	4	7	12	−5	4

	NA(P)	NA(U)	RIV	USM
Nacional (PAR)	–	0–3	4–2	1–1
Nacional (URU)	3–1	–	3–0	2–1
River Plate	1–0	0–0	–	3–0
U. San Martín	2–1	1–1	2–1	–

[edit] Group 4

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
São Paulo	6	4	1	1	10	6	+4	13
Defensor Sporting	6	2	2	2	5	5	0	8
Independiente Medellín	6	1	4	1	6	6	0	7
América de Cali	6	0	3	3	3	7	−4	3

	AMÉ	DEF	DIM	SPO
América de Cali	–	0–0	1–1	1–3
Defensor Sporting	1–0	–	4–3	0–1
Ind. Medellín	0–0	0–0	–	2–1
São Paulo	2–1	2–1	1–1	–

[edit] Group 5

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Cruzeiro	6	4	1	1	9	5	+4	13
Estudiantes	6	3	1	2	9	4	+5	10
Deportivo Quito	6	2	2	2	6	9	−3	8
Universitario de Sucre	6	0	2	4	2	8	−6	2

	CRU	QUI	EST	UNI
Cruzeiro	–	2–0	3–0	2–0
Deportivo Quito	1–1	–	1–0	3–1
Estudiantes	4–0	4–0	–	1–0
Universitario	0–1	1–1	0–0	–

[edit] Group 6

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Caracas	6	3	1	2	7	4	+3	10
Guadalajara	6	2	3	1	9	6	+3	9
Everton	6	2	2	2	7	10	−3	8
Lanús	6	0	4	2	5	8	−3	4

	CAR	EVE	GUA	LAN
Caracas	–	1–0	2–0	3–1
Everton	1–0	–	1–1	1–1
Guadalajara	1–0	6–2	–	0–0
Lanús	1–1	1–2	1–1	–

[edit] Group 7

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Grêmio	6	5	1	0	11	1	+10	16
Universidad de Chile	6	3	1	2	8	6	+2	10
Boyacá Chicó	6	3	0	3	8	8	0	9
Aurora	6	0	0	6	3	15	−12	0

	AUR	BOY	GRÊ	UCH
Aurora	–	0–3	1–2	1–2
Boyacá Chicó	2–1	–	0–1	3–0
Grêmio	2–0	3–0	–	0–0
U. de Chile	3–0	3–0	0–2	–

[edit] Group 8

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Libertad	6	4	0	2	7	5	+2	12
San Luis	6	2	2	2	7	7	0	8
Universitario	6	2	2	2	6	7	−1	8
San Lorenzo	6	2	0	4	6	7	−1	6

	LIB	SLO	SLU	UNI
Libertad	–	2–0	0–2	2–1
San Lorenzo	0–1	–	4–1	2–0
San Luis	0–1	2–0	–	2–2
Universitario	2–1	1–0	0–0	–

[edit] Knockout stages

Main article: 2009 Copa Libertadores knockout stages

The last four stages of the tournament (round of 16, quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals) form a single-elimination tournament, commonly known as a knockout stage. Sixteen teams advanced into the first of these stages: the round of 16.

[edit] Seeding

The 16 qualified teams were seeded according to their results in the Second Stage. The top teams from each group were seeded 1-8, with the team with the most points as seed 1 and the team with the least as seed 8. The second-best teams from each group were seeded 9-16, with the team with the most points as seed 9 and the team with the least as seed 16.

Seed	Team	Pts	GD	GF	AG
1	Grêmio	16	+10	11	5
2	Boca Juniors	15	+8	11	4
3	Nacional	14	+9	12	4
4	São Paulo	13	+4	10	5
5	Cruzeiro	13	+4	9	2
6	Sport Recife	13	+3	10	6
7	Libertad	12	+2	7	3
8	Caracas	10	+3	7	1
9	Deportivo Cuenca	10	+5	9	1
10	Estudiantes	10	+5	9	0
11	Palmeiras	10	+2	9	5
12	Universidad de Chile	10	+2	8	2
13	Guadalajara	9	+3	9	2
14	San Luis	8	0	7	0
15	Defensor Sporting	8	0	5	1
16	Universidad San Martín	8	−2	7	2

	Teams qualified as a group winner
	Teams qualified as a group runner-up

Tie-breaking rules (based on Second Stage games): 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored; 4th away-goals.

[edit] Bracket

Round of 16					Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Finals

1	Grêmio	3	2	5
16	U. San Martín	1	0	1
					1	Grêmio (a)	1	0	1

					8	Caracas	1	0	1
8	Caracas	1	4	5

9	Cuenca	2	0	2
										1	Grêmio	1	2	3

										5	Cruzeiro	3	2	5
5	Cruzeiro	2	1	3

12	U. de Chile	1	0	1
					5	Cruzeiro	2	2	4

					4	São Paulo	1	0	1
4	São Paulo	-	-	w/o

13	Guadalajara	-	-	-
															5	Cruzeiro	0	1	1

															10	Estudiantes	0	2	2
2	Boca Juniors	2	0	2

15	Defensor S.	2	1	3
					15	Defensor S.	0	0	0

					10	Estudiantes	1	1	2
7	Libertad	0	0	0

10	Estudiantes	3	0	3
										10	Estudiantes	1	2	3

										3	Nacional	0	1	1
3	Nacional	-	-	w/o

14	San Luis	-	-	-
					3	Nacional (a)	1	0	1

					11	Palmeiras	1	0	1
6	Sport Recife	0	1	1 (1)

11	Palmeiras (p)	1	0	1 (3)

[edit] Round of 16

The first match of the Round of 16 began on May 5th, with the last match played on May 21st. Team #1 were the higher seeded teams and they played the second leg match at home.

Team #1	Points	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Grêmio	6–0	Universidad San Martín	3–1	2–0
Boca Juniors	1–4	Defensor Sporting	2–2	0–1
Nacional	(w/o)¹	San Luis	–	–
São Paulo	(w/o)¹	Guadalajara	–	–
Cruzeiro	6–0	Universidad de Chile	2–1	1–0
Sport Recife	3–3 (1–3 p)	Palmeiras	0–1	1–0
Libertad	1–4	Estudiantes	0–3	0–0
Caracas	3–3 (5–2 gd)	Deportivo Cuenca	1–2	4–0

Note 1: Guadalajara and San Luis withdrew from the tournament following concerns raised by both Nacional and São Paulo over the H1N1 flu outbreak in Mexico; no agreement was reached on alternative venues for the first-leg matches, both scheduled to be played in Mexico.

[edit] Quarterfinals

Team #1, as the higher seed, played the second leg at home.

Team #1	Points	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Grêmio	(a) 2–2	Caracas	1–1	0–0
Estudiantes	6–0	Defensor Sporting	1−0	1–0
Nacional	(a) 2–2	Palmeiras	1–1	0–0
São Paulo	0–6	Cruzeiro	1–2	0–2

[edit] Semifinals

Team #1, as the higher seeded team, played the second leg at home.

Team #1	Points	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Grêmio	1–4	Cruzeiro	1–3	2–2
Nacional	0–6	Estudiantes	0–1	1–2

[edit] Finals

Main article: 2009 Copa Libertadores Finals

The Finals were played on July 8th and 15th. Team #1, as the higher seeded team, played the second leg at home.

Team #1	Points	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Cruzeiro	1–4	Estudiantes	0–0	1–2

Copa Santander Libertadores de América 2009 Champion
Estudiantes Fourth Title

[edit] Top goalscorers

Pos	Player	Team	Goals
1	Mauro Boselli	Estudiantes	8
2	Jorge Núñez	Nacional	7
2	Rodrigo Teixeira	Deportivo Cuenca	7
4	Keirrison	Palmeiras	6
4	Souza	Grêmio	6
6	Borges	São Paulo	5
	Darío Figueroa	Caracas	5
	Rodrigo Palacio	Boca Juniors	5
	Martín Palermo	Boca Juniors	5
	Wellington Paulista	Cruzeiro	5

[edit] References

[edit] External links

CONMEBOL's official website
Rules of the tournament (Spanish)

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