2009 Copa Libertadores First Stage

Main article: 2009 Copa Libertadores

The First Stage of the 2009 Copa Santander Libertadores ran from January 27 to February 5.

Format

Twelve teams qualified into this rounds and each will play a two-legged tie, one at home and one away. The winner of each tie will advance to the Second Stage. The teams will earn 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 for a loss. The team with the most points advances. The following criteria will be used for breaking ties on points:

1. Goal difference
2. Goals scored
3. Away goals

Results

Team #1 played the first leg at home.

Teams			Scores		Tie-breakers
Team #1	Points	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg	GD	AG	Pen.
Peñarol	1:4	Independiente Medellín	0–4	0–0	—	—	—
Estudiantes	3:3	Sporting Cristal	1–2	1–0	0:0	1:0	—
Nacional	4:1	El Nacional	5–0	3–3	—	—	—
Deportivo Cuenca	3:3	Deportivo Anzoátegui	0–2	3–0	+1:−1	—	—
Real Potosí	0:6	Palmeiras	1–5	0–2	—	—	—
Pachuca	3:3	Universidad de Chile	0–1	2–1	0:0	0:1	—

Matches

First leg

January 27, 2009 17:00 UTC−05:00	El Nacional	0–5	Nacional	Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito Attendance: 6,757 Referee: José Buitrago (Colombia)
		Report	Román  51' Núñez  56', 85' Cáceres  70' Melgarejo  87'

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January 28, 2009 19:00 UTC−04:00	Universidad de Chile	1–0	Pachuca	Estadio Santa Laura, Santiago Referee: Heber Lopes (Brazil)
	Díaz  4'	Report

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January 28, 2009 21:30 UTC−05:00	Independiente Medellín	4–0	Peñarol	Estadio Atanasio Girardot, Medellín Attendance: 15,750 Referee: Víctor Hugo Rivera (Peru)
	Martínez  15', 18', 46' Corredor  34'	Report

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January 29, 2009 20:30 UTC−03:00	Palmeiras	5–1	Real Potosí	Palestra Itália (Parque Antártica), São Paulo Attendance: 23,694 Referee: Roberto Silvera (Uruguay)
	Keirrison  3', 20' (pen.) Diego Souza  39' Cleiton Xavier  58' Edmílson  90+1'	Report	Rodríguez  22'

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January 29, 2009 15:00 UTC−05:00	Sporting Cristal	2–1	Estudiantes	Estadio San Martín de Porres, Lima Attendance: 16,302 Referee: Carlos Chandía (Chile)
	Palacios  42' Hurtado  55'	Report	Pérez  29'

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January 29, 2009 21:30 UTC−04:30	Deportivo Anzoátegui	2–0	Deportivo Cuenca	Estadio José Antonio Anzoátegui, Puerto La Cruz Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Víctor Hugo Carrillo (Peru)
	Espíndola  11' González  51'	Report

Second Leg

February 3, 2009 21:15 UTC−03:00	Peñarol	0–0	Independiente Medellín	Estadio Centenario, Montevideo Attendance: 19,590 Referee: Carlos Torres (Paraguay)
		Report

Independiente Medellín advances on points 4–1.

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February 3, 2009 20:45 UTC−05:00	Deportivo Cuenca	3–0	Deportivo Anzoátegui	Estadio Alejandro Serrano Aguilar, Cuenca Attendance: 7,275 Referee: Óscar Maldonado (Bolivia)
	Teixeira  27', 68' Villalba  74'	Report

Deportivo Cuenca advances on goal difference.

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February 4, 2009 20:30 UTC−03:00	Estudiantes	1–0	Sporting Cristal	Estadio Ciudad de La Plata, La Plata Attendance: 20,426 Referee: Leonardo Gaciba (Brazil)
	Lentini  76'	Report

Estudiantes advances on away goals.

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February 4, 2009 21:00 UTC−03:00	Real Potosí	0–2	Palmeiras	Estadio Victor Agustín Ugarte, Potosí Attendance: 3,055 Referee: Carlos Galeano (Paraguay)
		Report	Cleiton Xavier  29' Keirrison  74'

Palmeiras advances on points 6–0.

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February 4, 2009 21:15 UTC−06:00	Pachuca	2–1	Universidad de Chile	Estadio Hidalgo, Pachuca Attendance: 13,140 Referee: Alfredo Intriago (Ecuador)
	Rodríguez  24' (pen.) Álvarez  86'	Report	Estrada  58'

Universidad de Chile advances on away goals.

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February 5, 2009 20:15 UTC−04:00	Nacional	3–3	El Nacional	General Pablo Rojas, Asunción Attendance: 2,801 Referee: Sergio Pezzotta (Argentina)
	Núñez  9', 14' Melgarejo  28'	Report	Pita  32' Ladines  35' Zura  43'

Nacional advances on points 4–1.

External links

• CONMEBOL's official website (Spanish)