2006 Copa Libertadores

2006 Copa Libertadores

2006 Copa Toyota Libertadores de América 2006 Copa Toyota Libertadores da América
Tournament details
Dates	January 24 - August 16
Teams	38 (from 11 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Internacional (1st title)
Runners-up	São Paulo
Tournament statistics
Matches played	138
Goals scored	386 (2.8 per match)
Top scorer(s)	14 players (5 goals each)
Best player	Fernandão

The 2006 Copa Toyota Libertadores was the 47th edition of the Latin American Copa Libertadores football club tournament. 38 teams from 11 football associations have taken part, starting with the first qualifying round played on 24 January 2006. Internacional, from Porto Alegre, Brazil, won this edition.

Qualified Teams

Group Stage
Newell's Old Boys	Estudiantes	São Paulo	Corinthians
Vélez Sársfield	Rosario Central	Paulista	Internacional
Bolívar	Unión Española	Deportivo Cali	LDU Quito
The Strongest	Universidad Católica	Atlético Nacional	El Nacional
Cerro Porteño	Cienciano	Nacional	Maracaibo
Libertad	Sporting Cristal	Rocha	Caracas
UNAM	UANL
First stage
River Plate	Goias	Palmeiras	Oriente Petrolero
Colo-Colo	Santa Fe	Cuenca	Nacional
Universitario	Defensor Sporting	Deportivo Táchira	Guadalajara

First stage

Main article: 2006 Copa Libertadores First Stage

Teams in the Team #1 column played at home in the first leg.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nacional	2-2 (a)	Universitario	2-2	0-0
Defensor Sporting	2-2 (a)	Santa Fe	2-2	0-0
River Plate	8-0	Oriente Petrolero	6-0	2-0
Colo-Colo	4-8	Guadalajara	1-3	3-5
Palmeiras	6-2	Deportivo Táchira	2-0	4-2
Deportivo Cuenca	1-4	Goias	1-1	0-3

Group stage

6 winners from the qualifying round and the 26 pre-qualified clubs are drawn into 8 groups of 4 teams each. The top 2 teams in each group will advance to the Libertadores Cup play-offs.

Tiebreakers, if necessary, are applied in the following order:

1. Cumulative goal difference.
2. Total goals scored.
3. Away goals scored.
4. Sorting

Group 1

Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD São Paulo 12 6 4 0 2 12 6 6 Guadalajara 12 6 3 3 0 6 3 3 Caracas 5 6 1 2 3 7 7 0 Cienciano 4 6 1 1 4 3 12 -9

CAR CIE GDL SÃO Caracas 4–0 0–0 1–2 Cienciano 2–1 0–1 0–2 Guadalajara 1–1 0–0 2–1 São Paulo 2–0 4–1 1–2

Group 2

Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD Santa Fe 10 6 3 1 2 9 7 2 Estudiantes 10 6 3 1 2 10 10 0 Sporting Cristal 7 6 2 1 3 11 12 -1 Bolivar 7 6 2 1 3 7 8 -1

BOL SPC ELP ISF Bolívar 1–2 1–0 1–0 Sporting Cristal 2–1 2–2 1–2 Estudiantes 2–1 4–3 1–0 Santa Fe 2–2 2–1 3–1

Group 3

Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD Goiás 11 6 3 2 1 7 1 6 Newell's Old Boys 8 6 2 2 2 7 7 0 Unión Española 8 6 2 2 2 3 5 -2 The Strongest 6 6 2 0 4 4 8 -4

GOI NOB UE STR Goiás 3–0 0–0 2–0 Newell's Old Boys 0–0 2–0 2–0 Unión Española 0–2 1–1 1–0 The Strongest 1–0 3–2 0–1

Group 4

Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD Corinthians 13 6 4 1 1 10 6 4 UANL 10 6 3 1 2 12 10 2 Universidad Católica 10 6 3 1 2 12 11 1 Deportivo Cali 1 6 0 1 5 9 16 -7

COR UANL UC CALI Corinthians 1–0 2–2 3–0 UANL 2–0 1–0 5–4 U. Católica 2–3 3–2 2–1 Deportivo Cali 0–1 2–2 2–3

Group 5

Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD Vélez Sársfield 16 6 5 1 0 18 6 12 LDU Quito 10 6 3 1 2 16 9 7 Rocha 5 6 1 2 3 4 16 -12 Universitario 2 6 0 2 4 5 12 -7

VEL LDU ROC UNI Vélez Sársfield 2–2 3–0 4–3 LDU 1–3 5–0 4–0 Rocha F.C. 0–5 3–2 0–0 Universitario 0–1 1–2 1–1

Group 6

Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD Internacional 14 6 4 2 0 13 4 9 Nacional 9 6 2 3 1 6 6 0 Maracaibo 8 6 2 2 2 7 8 -1 UNAM 1 6 0 1 5 4 12 -8

INT NAC MBO UNAM Internacional 3–0 4–0 3–2 Nacional 0–0 0–0 2–0 Maracaibo 1–1 2–3 3–0 UNAM 1–2 1–1 0–1

Group 7

Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD Atlético Nacional 10 6 3 1 2 13 9 4 Palmeiras 9 6 2 3 1 9 8 1 Cerro Porteño 8 6 2 2 2 9 12 -3 Rosario Central 5 6 1 2 3 6 8 -2

AN PAL CER CEN Atlético Nacional 1–2 2–2 1–0 Palmeiras 3–2 2–3 0–0 Cerro Porteño 1–5 0–0 1–3 Rosario Central 1–2 2–2 0–2

Group 8

Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD Libertad 11 6 3 2 1 8 3 5 River Plate 9 6 3 0 3 10 10 0 El Nacional 6 6 1 3 2 8 10 -2 Paulista 6 6 1 3 2 4 7 -3

LIB RIV ELN PAU Libertad 2–0 4–1 1–0 River Plate 1–0 4–3 4–1 El Nacional 1–1 2–0 1–1 Paulista 0–0 2–1 0–0

Knockout Stages

Main article: 2006 Copa Libertadores knockout stages

The teams were seeded 1 to 8 (first placed teams of each group) and 9 to 16 (second placed teams of each group) and the ties were 1 vs 16, 2 vs 15, etc.

Qualified Teams

Teams qualified as first place

Teams qualified as second place

Seed	Team	Pld	Points	GD
1	Vélez Sársfield	6	16	+12
2	Internacional	6	14	+9
3	Corinthians	6	13	+4
4	São Paulo	6	12	+6
5	Goiás	6	11	+6
6	Libertad	6	11	+5
7	Atlético Nacional	6	10	+4
8	Santa Fe	6	10	+2
9	Guadalajara	6	12	+3
10	LDU Quito	6	10	+7
11	UANL	6	10	+2
12	Estudiantes	6	10	0
13	Palmeiras	6	9	+1
14	River Plate	6	9	+0
15	Nacional	6	9	+0
16	Newell's Old Boys	6	8	+0

Bracket

	Round of 16							Quarterfinals							Semifinals							Final
	2	Internacional	2	0	2
	15	Nacional	1	0	1
								2	Internacional	1	2	3
								10	LDU Quito	2	0	2
	7	Atlético Nacional	0	0	0
	10	LDU Quito	4	1	5
															2	Internacional	0	2	2
														6	Libertad	0	0	0
	6	Libertad	0	0	0 (5)
	11	UANL	0	0	0 (3)
								6	Libertad	2	3	5
								14	River Plate	2	1	3
	3	Corinthians	2	1	3
	14	River Plate	3	3	6
																						2	Internacional	2	2	4
																						4	São Paulo	1	2	3
	4	São Paulo	1	2	3
	13	Palmeiras	1	1	2
								4	São Paulo	0	1	1 (4)
								12	Estudiantes	1	0	1 (3)
	5	Goiás	0	3	3
	12	Estudiantes (a)	2	1	3
															4	São Paulo	1	3	4
														9	Guadalajara	0	0	0
	1	Vélez Sársfield	4	2	6
	16	Newell's Old Boys	2	2	4
								1	Vélez Sársfield	0	1	1
								9	Guadalajara	0	2	2
	8	Santa Fe	0	3	3
	9	Guadalajara	3	1	4

Round of 16

Teams				Scores		Tie-breakers
1st leg home team	Points		2nd leg home team	1st leg	2nd leg	GF	AG	Pen.
Newell's Old Boys	1	4	Vélez Sársfield	2–4	2–2	—	—	—
Nacional	1	4	Internacional	1–2	0–0	—	—	—
River Plate	6	0	Corinthians	3–2	3–1	—	—	—
Palmeiras	1	4	São Paulo	1–1	1–2	—	—	—
Estudiantes	3	3	Goiás	2–0	1–3	3–3	1–0	—
UANL	2	2	Libertad	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	3–5
LDU Quito	6	0	Atlético Nacional	4–0	1–0	—	—	—
Guadalajara	3	3	Santa Fe	3–0	1–3	4–3	—	—

Quarter-finals

Teams				Scores		Tie-breakers
1st leg home team	Points		2nd leg home team	1st leg	2nd leg	GF	AG	Pen.
Guadalajara	4	1	Vélez Sársfield	0–0	2–1	—	—	—
LDU Quito	3	3	Internacional	2–1	0–2	2–3	—	—
Estudiantes	3	3	São Paulo	1–0	0–1	1–1	0–0	3–4
River Plate	1	4	Libertad	2–2	1–3	—	—	—

Semi-finals

Teams				Scores		Tie-breakers
1st leg home team	Points		2nd leg home team	1st leg	2nd leg	GF	AG	Pen.
Libertad	1	4	Internacional	0–0	0–2	—	—	—
Guadalajara	0	6	São Paulo	0–1	0–3	—	—	—

Finals

Main article: 2006 Copa Libertadores Finals

Teams				Scores		Tie-breakers
1st leg home team	Points		2nd leg home team	1st leg	2nd leg	GF	AG	Pen.
São Paulo	1	4	Internacional	1–2	2–2	—	—	—

Copa Libertadores de América 2006 Champion
Internacional First Title

Top goalscorers

Player	Team	Goals
Aloísio	São Paulo	5
Félix Borja	El Nacional	5
José Luis Calderón	Estudiantes	5
Agustín Delgado	LDU Quito	5
Sebastián Ereros	Vélez Sársfield	5
Ernesto Farías	River Plate	5
Fernandão	Internacional	5
Marcinho	Palmeiras	5
Daniel Montenegro	River Plate	5
Nilmar	Corinthians	5
Mariano Pavone	Estudiantes	5
Jorge Quinteros	Universidad Católica	5
Patricio Urrutia	LDU Quito	5
Washington	Palmeiras	5

See also

• 2006 FIFA Club World Cup
• 2007 Recopa Sudamericana

External links

• Copa Libertadores 2006
• Conmebol - Official Site of the CONMEBOL, which organizes the Copa Libertadores. (English) (Spanish)