Copa Merconorte

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Copa Merconorte
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Organizer(s)CONMEBOL
Founded1998
Abolished2001; 25 years ago (2001)
RegionSouth America
North America
Teams16
Related competitionsCopa Mercosur
Most championshipsTemplate:Flagicon Atl. Nacional
(2 titles)

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The Copa Merconorte (Script error: No such module "IPA".) was an international football competition organized by CONMEBOL from 1998 to 2001 by clubs from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela and starting in 2000 clubs from the CONCACAF confederation were invited including Costa Rica, Mexico, and the United States. The competition ran alongside the Copa Mercosur, which was based on the actual Mercosur economic bloc of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, but Copa Mercosur also included clubs from Chile.[1]

Teams did not directly qualify for this competition. Instead, the aim was to generate profits through the television contracts by inviting the most marketable clubs from each country.[2] Therefore, participation was based on invitation of individual clubs.

All four editions were won by Colombian clubs. Atlético Nacional won it on two occasions (1998 and 2000). All the finalists in the first three editions were Colombian. In the fourth edition, Emelec became the first and only non-Colombian club to reach the finals of the Copa Merconorte.[1]

Both the Copa Merconorte and the Copa Mercosur were discontinued after the 2001 edition. A football competition to be called the Copa Pan-Americana would have replaced these two competitions for the 2002 season featuring clubs from both CONMEBOL and CONCACAF. That competition was first postponed, with plans to be played in 2003, then eventually cancelled. The Copa Pan-Americana would ultimately not come to fruition and that left the Copa Sudamericana as the successor of the Copa Merconorte and the Copa Mercosur.[3] Instead, a CONMEBOL competition called the Copa Sudamericana was created and had its first edition in 2002, and that competition is still played to this day.

Format

Qualification

Teams did not directly qualify for this competition through their national leagues. Participation was based solely on invitation.[1][2]

Tournament

The 1998 and 1999 editions were played with twelve teams of the five corresponding CONMEBOL nations. The twelve teams were divided into three groups and each team meets the others in its group home and away in a round-robin format. The group winners and the best runner-up advanced to a semifinal stage. The semifinals were played over two legs and the winners advanced to the finals which were also played over two legs. In 1999, the Bolivian teams played a qualifying playoff before the first phase of Copa Merconorte.

The 2000 and 2001 editions were expanded to sixteen teams and divided into four groups. With the expansion of another group, only the group winners advanced to the semifinals.

Distribution

The invitations and distribution of berths over the four seasons were as follows.

Association 1998 1999 2000 2001
Template:Flagicon Bolivia
Template:Flagicon Colombia
Template:Flagicon Ecuador
Template:Flagicon Peru
Template:Flagicon Venezuela
Template:Flagicon Costa Rica
  • No invitations
  • No invitations
  • No invitations
Template:Flagicon Mexico
  • No invitations
  • No invitations
Template:Flagicon United States
  • No invitations
  • No invitations
  • No invitations

Records and statistics

List of finals

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Ed. Year Winners 1st.
leg 		2nd.
leg 		Page Template:Tooltip/styles.css has no content.Template:Encodefirst Runners-up Venue
(1st leg) 		City
(1st leg) 		Venue
(2nd leg) 		City
(2nd leg)
1
 1998 Template:Flagicon Atlético Nacional 3–1 1–0
–
 Template:Flagicon Deportivo Cali Atanasio Girardot Medellín Pascual Guerrero Cali
2
 1999 Template:Flagicon América de Cali 1–2 1–0
5–3 Template:Pso
Template:Flagicon Santa Fe Pascual Guerrero Cali Nemesio Camacho Bogotá
3
 2000 Template:Flagicon Atlético Nacional 0–0 2–1
–
 Template:Flagicon Millonarios Nemesio Camacho Bogotá Atanasio Girardot Medellín
4
 2001 Template:Flagicon Millonarios 1–1 1–1
3–1 Template:Pso
Template:Flagicon Emelec Nemesio Camacho Bogotá George Capwell Guayaquil

Performances by club

Club Titles Runners-up Seasons won Seasons runner-up
Template:Flagicon Atlético Nacional 2 0 1998, 2000
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Template:Flagicon Millonarios 1 1 2001 2000
Template:Flagicon América de Cali 1 0 1999
—
Template:Flagicon Deportivo Cali 0 1
—
 1998
Template:Flagicon Emelec 0 1
—
 2001
Template:Flagicon Santa Fe 0 1
—
 1999

Performances by nation

Nation Winner Runner-up Total
Colombia 4 3 7
Ecuador 0 1 1

Participants (1998–2001)

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Berths per season (1998–2001)

See also

References

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  1. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Stokkermans, Karel. "Copa Merconorte". The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  2. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Stokkermans, Karel. "South America – "Other Copas"". The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 7 August 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Gonzalez, Miguel. "Copa Pan-Americana 2003". The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 20 June 2013.

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