Copa Simón Bolívar (Venezuela)

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Copa Simón Bolívar
Organising body FVF
Founded1970
Abolished1976; 48 years ago (1976)
RegionVenezuela
Number of teams11
Related competitionsCopa Merconorte
Most successful club(s)
6 teams
(1 title each)

The Copa Simón Bolívar (

Simon Bolivar. It was played six times from its first edition in 1970 to the last in 1976, thus integrating the league champions clubs of Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia. Due to its format, it was a historical precedent of the Copa Merconorte, played between the same Bolivarian countries or the Andean Community
from 1998 until the 2001 edition.

It is an official tournament to be organized by a football federation member of the

Copa Latina, Copa Mitropa, or the Copa de Ferias were played that were not organized by UEFA and were also considered official competitions at the time, although these are endorsed by FIFA.[11]

The titles list is led by six teams belonging to three federations, while the teams of the Colombian federation lead the list by winning federations with three titles, followed by the Peruvian federation with two titles and the Venezuelan federation with a single title.

History

The tournament began in 1970 on the initiative of the

Colombian Football Major Division, the governing body of the Colombian league and which even created previous qualification systems to the tournament [12][13] in the first three editions only included clubs from Colombia and Venezuela, from 1975 representatives of Peru joined, Bolivia and Ecuador; the tournament was discontinued in 1976 for calendar and economic reasons. It is recognized as a predecessor of the Copa Merconorte that was played by these same countries of northern South America
.

The reasons for the disappearance of the event were written by journalist José Visconti, for the newspaper El Nacional:

Es muy difícil que la Copa Simón Bolívar sobreviva. Nadie quiere cargar con los elevados costos que supone. Además, no hay nada que obligue a los equipos participantes a enviar equipos en forma para este certamen y ello incide negativamente en la calidad del evento.

It is very difficult for the Simon Bolivar Cup to survive. Nobody wants to bear the high costs involved. In addition, there is nothing that forces the participating teams to send teams in form for this event and this has a negative impact on the quality of the event.

— José Visconti, for the newspaper El Nacional[14]

List of champions

Ed. Year Champion Runner-up Third Place Fourth Place
1
 1970 Colombia Santa Fe (1) Venezuela Deportivo Galicia Colombia Junior Venezuela Canarias
2
 1971 Venezuela Deportivo Galicia (1) Colombia Atlético Nacional Venezuela Canarias Colombia Deportivo Cali
3
 1972 Colombia Millonarios (1) Venezuela Portugués
–
4
 1974 Peru Defensor Lima (1)
Portuguesa
El Nacional
 Colombia Atlético Nacional
5
 1975 Colombia América de Cali (1) Venezuela Estudiantes de Mérida Bolivia The Strongest Ecuador Liga de Quito
6
 1976
Alianza Lima
(1)
Guabirá
Portuguesa
 Colombia América de Cali

Performances

By club

Team Won Runner-up Years won Years runner-up
Venezuela Deportivo Galicia 1 1 1971 1970
Santa Fe
 1 0 1970
—
Millonarios
 1 0 1972
—
Peru Defensor Lima 1 0 1974
—
Colombia América de Cali 1 0 1975
—
Alianza Lima
 1 0 1976
—
Colombia Atlético Nacional 0 1
—
 1971
Deportivo Portugués
 0 1
—
 1972
Portuguesa
 0 1
—
 1974
Estudiantes de Mérida
 0 1
—
 1975
Guabirá
 0 1
—
 1976

By country

Country Won Runners-Up Winning Clubs Runners-Up
 Colombia 3 1
Santa Fe
(1)		 Atlético Nacional (1)
 Peru 2 0
Alianza Lima (1); Defensor Lima
(1)
—
 Venezuela 1 4 Deportivo Galicia (1)
Portuguesa
(1)
 Bolivia 0 1
—
Guabirá
(1)
 Ecuador 0 0
—
—

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Copa Simón Bolívar Files
  2. ^ a b "Cup for Defensor" (in Spanish). El Tiempo. 1975-01-21.
  3. ^ "The official competitions of CONMEBOL". conmebol.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  4. ^ "Meet Colombian Champions in Tournaments in the Americas" (in Spanish). Gol Caracol. Retrieved 2014-12-01.
  5. ^ "A day like today Alianza Lima won its only international title" (in Spanish). La República. Archived from the original on 2019-08-22. Retrieved 2018-12-08.
  6. ^ "Table of official titles of Colombian teams" (in Spanish). Pulzo. 2019-12-07.
  7. ^ "Millonarios, champion and super champion!" (in Spanish). El Espectador. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
  8. ^ "America de Cali celebrates '84 springs and four winters'" (in Spanish). Win Sports. Archived from the original on 2019-11-07. Retrieved 2015-02-13.
  9. ^ "Millonarios and the Simón Bolívar Cup 1972" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2015-09-26. Retrieved 2015-08-23.
  10. Conmebol
    . Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  11. ^ "The local force of Atletico worries Porto" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2012-01-19. Retrieved 2009-01-13.
  12. ^ Quindio the Greatest Boy
  13. ^ Tolima Boys Tournament Champion
  14. ^ Eliézer Pérez Copa Simón Bolívar 1976 (2/2)
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