Recopa Sudamericana

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The CONMEBOL Recopa Sudamericana (Portuguese: CONMEBOL Recopa Sul-Americana), also known as the Recopa Sudamericana or CONMEBOL Recopa, and simply as the Recopa (Spanish: [reˈkopa], Portuguese: [ʁɛˈkɔpɐ]; "Winners' Cup"), is an annual international club football competition organized by CONMEBOL since 1988. It is a match-up between the champions of the previous year's Copa Libertadores and the Copa Sudamericana, South America's premier club competitions.

The competition has had several formats over its lifetime. Initially, the champions of the Copa Libertadores and Supercopa Libertadores contested it. In 1998, the Supercopa Libertadores was discontinued and the Recopa went into a hiatus. The competition has been disputed with either a presently-used two-legged series or a single match-up at a neutral venue. Together with the aforementioned tournaments, a club has the chance to win the CONMEBOL Treble all in one year or season.[1] However, if the Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana are won by the same team, then according to the Copa Libertadores regulations Article 1.7,[2][3] both competitions' runners-up will play one or two matches in order to decide the team which will play in the Recopa.

The most recent champion of the competition is Brazilian club

LDU Quito, Boca Juniors and River Plate successfully defended the title in 1994, 2010, 2006, and 2016
, respectively.

History

Main article:
List of Recopa Sudamericana finals

When the

Olimpia of Paraguay would win the Recopa Sudamericana without the need to dispute a match as the Decano won both the Copa Libertadores and Supercopa Sudamericana. CONMEBOL declared Olimpia the automatic winners of the 1991 competition.[6]

In 1992, and from 1994 to 1997, the competition was played in

golden generation, São Paulo won the 1993 and 1994 finals to become the first team to retain the title. Due to schedule congestion, the 1993 finals were played as part of the Campeonato Brasileiro and it also became the first Recopa to feature two teams from the same nation.[8] In a second, consecutive all-Brazilian final, São Paulo successfully defended the trophy against Botafogo. Since São Paulo won both the Copa Libertadores and Supercopa Sudamericana, CONMEBOL had Copa CONMEBOL winners Botafogo dispute the Recopa Sudamericana only to lose 3–1 to the defending champions.[9]

Argentina managed to emulate their northern neighbors with the

Grêmio after being defeated 4–1.[10] The 1997 edition was won by a Vélez Sársfield team that bowed out from the international limelight with their last title.[11] Having failed to win the trophy in 1992 and 1993, Cruzeiro comfortably won the 1998 edition that was played as part of the Copa Mercosur. This final series was played two years after the participating teams won their corresponding qualifying tournaments.[12]

At the end of the 1998 season, CONMEBOL discontinued the Supercopa Sudamericana. As a result of not having an important, secondary tournament, the Recopa Sudamericana went into a hiatus from 1999 until 2002. However, the introduction of the new Copa Sudamericana revitalized the competition with Olimpia winning the

Cienciano defeated Boca Juniors on penalties to win their second international title.[14]
From 2005 onwards, the Recopa Sudamericana would be played on a home-and-away basis.

In a rematch of the Copa Libertadores final of 2004, Boca Juniors avenged that defeat as they

LDU Quito won their second international title as they thumped Internacional 6–0 on points and 4–0 on goal aggregate to win their first ever title.[16] LDU Quito then successfully defended their title in 2010 against Estudiantes
. They became the third team to successfully defend the title.

Format

Unlike most other competitions around the world, the Recopa Sudamericana do not use

extra time, an additional period of play specified under the rules of a sport to bring a game to a decision and avoid declaring the match a tie or draw, or away goals, a method of breaking ties in football and other sports when teams play each other twice, once at each team's home ground, to decide a tie that was level on aggregate.[17]

From 1988 to 1995, teams would be awarded 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for a loss). From 1995 onwards, the "three points for a win" standard, a system adopted by FIFA in 1995 that places additional value on wins, was adopted in CONMEBOL, with teams now earning 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for a loss.[18] If both teams are level on points after two legs, goal difference would come into play. Penalty kicks was used to determine a winner if the match was tied on goal difference.[17]

Since the competition takes place in the mid-winter, it's disputed between the champions of the previous year's aforementioned competitions. Because of this, some count the year of the championship by the qualification year rather than that of the competition itself. Thus,

RSSSF refers to that championship as Recopa 1988.[19][20]

Trophy

The Recopa Sudamericana trophy

The Recopa Sudamericana trophy is retained by CONMEBOL at all times. A full-size replica trophy is awarded to the winning club. Thirty gold medals are presented to the winning club and thirty silver medals to the runners-up.

The Recopa Sudamericana trophy has not undergone many changes in its history. The trophy consists of a gold-coated body with a pedestal. The body consists of an Adidas Tango ball, a successful family and brand of association footballs. It was first introduced as the Tango Durlast in 1978 for the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina. The ball is hoisted by a golden, cylindrical body with four quadrilateral edges sticking out of the body at 45 degrees from each other. The pedestal is separated into two parts; the top part of the pedestal consists of the CONMEBOL emblem. The bottom part of the pedestal contains a gold badge underneath the CONMEBOL emblem with the phrase, "RECOPA", imprinted into it. To the left and right, badges of previous winners are placed.

A team which wins 3 times in a row, receives an original copy of the trophy and a special mark of recognition.

Match ball

Total 90 Omni CSF, the official match ball manufactured by Nike

The current match

graphic around the ball creates an optimal flicker as the ball rotates for a more powerful visual signal, allowing the player to more easily identify and track the ball.[22]

Sponsorship

Banco Santander
is the primary sponsor of the Recopa Sudamericana

Like the

network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-recorded event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programmings. The sponsorship was only for the 2005 edition of the competition, being known officially as '"Fox Sports Recopa Sudamericana"'. The second primary sponsor was Visa, an American multinational financial services corporation. The deal ran for a period of 3 years which began with the 2006 edition. As the main sponsor of the tournament, the competition carried the name of the corporation. Thus, the competition was known officially as '"Recopa Visa Sudamericana"'.[25]

However, the competition has had many secondary sponsors that invest in the tournament as well. Many of these sponsors are nationally based but have expanded to other nations. Nike supplies the official match ball, as they do for all other CONMEBOL competitions.[22] Individual clubs may wear jerseys with advertising, even if such sponsors conflict with those of the Recopa Sudamericana.[17]

The tournament's current secondary sponsors and brands advertised (in italic) are:

Records and statistics

Telê Santana is one of four managers to win two record Recopa Sudamericana medals, and the first to earn them consecutively.
Leandro Damião, as well as Rodrigo Palacio, is joint record holder of most goals scored in a season with three goals.

Argentines

André
won in 2012 with Santos and 2014 with Atlético Mineiro.

Argentinian Marcelo Gallardo is the only head coach to ever win three Recopa Sudamericana. Brazilians Telê Santana and Levir Culpi, Uruguayan Luis Cubilla, and Argentinian Alfio Basile are the only head coaches to ever win two Recopa Sudamericana. All Recopa Sudamericana winning head coaches were natives of the country they coached to victory except for Cubilla, Mirko Jozić, Jorge Fossati and Edgardo Bauza. Croatian Jozić, who won the 1992 edition with Chile's Colo-Colo, has the distinction and honor of being the only non-South American coach to win the tournament.

Winners

Main article: List of Recopa Sudamericana matches
Performance in the Recopa Sudamericana by club
Club Titles Runners-up Seasons won Seasons runner-up
Argentina Boca Juniors 4 1 1990, 2005, 2006, 2008 2004
Argentina River Plate 3 2 2015, 2016, 2019 1997, 1998
Brazil São Paulo 2 2 1993, 1994 2006, 2013
Internacional
 2 1 2007, 2011 2009
LDU Quito
 2 1 2009, 2010 2024
Paraguay Olimpia 2 0 1991, 2003
—
Grêmio
 2 0 1996, 2018
—
Argentina Independiente 1 3 1995 1996, 2011, 2018
Brazil Cruzeiro 1 2 1998 1992, 1993
Vélez Sarsfield
 1 1 1997 1995
Colombia Atlético Nacional 1 1 2017 1990
Flamengo
 1 1 2020 2023
Palmeiras
 1 1 2022 2021
Independiente del Valle
 1 1 2023 2020
Uruguay Nacional 1 0 1989
—
Chile Colo-Colo 1 0 1992
—
Peru Cienciano 1 0 2004
—
Brazil Santos 1 0 2012
—
Brazil Corinthians 1 0 2013
—
Brazil Atlético Mineiro 1 0 2014
—
Argentina Defensa y Justicia 1 0 2021
—
Brazil Fluminense 1 0 2024
—
Argentina San Lorenzo 0 2
—
 2003, 2015
Brazil Athletico Paranaense 0 2
—
 2019, 2022
Argentina Racing 0 1
—
 1989
Botafogo
 0 1
—
 1994
Colombia Once Caldas 0 1
—
 2005
Pachuca
 0 1
—
 2007
Argentina Arsenal 0 1
—
 2008
Argentina Estudiantes 0 1
—
 2010
Chile Universidad de Chile 0 1
—
 2012
Argentina Lanús 0 1
—
 2014
Colombia Santa Fe 0 1
—
 2016
Chapecoense
 0 1
—
 2017

See also

References

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