2000 Copa Mercosur

2000 Copa Mercosur

Tournament details
Dates	1 August – 20 December 2000
Teams	20 (from 5 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Vasco da Gama (1st title)
Runners-up	Palmeiras
Tournament statistics
Matches played	75
Goals scored	239 (3.19 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Romário (11 goals)
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The 2000 Copa Mercosur was the 3rd season of the Copa Mercosur, CONMEBOL's club tournament for countries in the southern part of the continent.

The competition started on 1 August 2000 and concluded on 20 December 2000 with Vasco da Gama beating Palmeiras in the final for its first title.

Romario was the top scorer with 11 goals.

Participants

Country	Team
Argentina (6 berths)	Boca Juniors
	Independiente
	River Plate
	Rosario Central
	San Lorenzo
	Vélez Sársfield
Brazil (7 berths)	Atlético Mineiro
	Corinthians
	Cruzeiro
	Flamengo
	Palmeiras
	São Paulo
	Vasco da Gama
Chile (3 berths)	Colo-Colo
	Universidad Católica
	Universidad de Chile
Paraguay (2 berths)	Cerro Porteño
	Olimpia
Uruguay (2 berths)	Nacional
	Peñarol

Details

• The 20 teams were divided into 5 groups of 4 teams. Each team plays the other teams in the group twice. The top team from each group qualified for the quarter-finals along with the best 3 runners up.
• From the quarter finals to the final, two legs were played in each round. In the result of a draw, the match was decided by a penalty shoot out.

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		RIV	FLA	VEL	UC
1	River Plate	6	4	2	0	10	5	+5	14	Advance to Quarter-finals		—	0–0	2–1	2–0
2	Flamengo	6	3	2	1	10	3	+7	11			1–2	—	2–0	2–0
3	Vélez Sársfield	6	1	3	2	7	8	−1	6			1–1	1–1	—	3–1
4	Universidad de Chile	6	0	1	5	4	15	−11	1			2–3	0–4	1–1	—

Source:

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		CRU	PAL	IND	CAT
1	Cruzeiro	6	4	1	1	12	4	+8	13	Advance to Quarter-finals		—	0–0	3–0	4–0
2	Palmeiras	6	3	2	1	8	5	+3	11			0–2	—	2–0	1–1
3	Independiente	6	2	1	3	9	10	−1	7			2–0	1–2	—	3–0
4	Universidad Católica	6	0	2	4	7	17	−10	2			2–3	1–3	3–3	—

Source:

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ROS	SAO	CER	COL
1	Rosario Central	6	4	1	1	9	4	+5	13	Advance to Quarter-finals		—	2–1	2–1	0–0
2	São Paulo	6	2	1	3	13	13	0	7			1–0	—	4–4	4–0
3	Cerro Porteño	6	2	1	3	13	15	−2	7			1–4	4–2	—	2–1
4	Colo Colo	6	2	1	3	6	9	−3	7			0–1	3–1	2–1	—

Source:

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BOC	NAC	OLI	COR
1	Boca Juniors	6	3	3	0	15	8	+7	12	Advance to Quarter-finals		—	1–1	5–2	3–0
2	Nacional	6	2	3	1	8	8	0	9			3–3	—	1–0	1–1
3	Olimpia	6	3	0	3	9	10	−1	9			0–1	4–3	—	3–2
4	Corinthians	6	0	2	4	7	13	−6	2			2–2	1–2	1–2	—

Source:

Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MIN	VAS	PEÑ	SAN
1	Atlético Mineiro	6	4	1	1	13	10	+3	13	Advance to Quarter-finals		—	2–0	2–1	3–2
2	Vasco da Gama	6	3	1	2	11	7	+4	10			2–0	—	1–1	3–0
3	Peñarol	6	2	2	2	11	11	0	8			2–2	4–3	—	3–2
4	San Lorenzo	6	1	0	5	8	15	−7	3			3–4	0–2	1–0	—

Source:

Quarter-finals

First leg

31 October 2000

Flamengo	1–2	River Plate
Juan 66'		51' Saviola 81' Ortega

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31 October 2000

Vasco da Gama	1–0	Rosario Central
Juninho Paulista 19'

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1 November 2000

Palmeiras	3–2	Cruzeiro
Juninho 1' Tuta 37' Magrão 67'		72' Giovanni 79' Sorín

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1 November 2000

Atlético Mineiro	2–0	Boca Juniors
Marques 45' Capria 81'

Second leg

8 November 2000

River Plate	4–3	Flamengo
Saviola 53' Aimar 83' Cardetti 87' Ortega 90'		46' Edílson 64' Juan 84' Petković

River Plate won 6–4 on aggregate.

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8 November 2000

Rosario Central	1–0	Vasco da Gama
Díaz 90'

1–1 on aggregate, Vasco da Gama won 5–4 on penalties.

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8 November 2000

Cruzeiro	1–2	Palmeiras
Sérgio Manoel 90' (pen.)		Galeano 15' Arce 89' (pen.)

Palmeiras won 5–3 on aggregate.

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7 November 2000

Boca Juniors	2–2	Atlético Mineiro
Barijho 10', 42'		38' Cláudio Caçapa 90' André Neles

Atlético Mineiro won 4–2 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

First leg

22 November 2000

9:40 PM

River Plate	1–4	Vasco da Gama
Cardetti 71'		22' Romário 32' Júnior Baiano 51'Juninho Paulista 65'Pedrinho

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22 November 2000

10:15 PM

Palmeiras	4–1	Atlético Mineiro
Tuta 1', 43' Paulo Turra 3' Basílio 78'		64' (pen.) Cláudio Caçapa

Second leg

28 November 2000

Atlético Mineiro	0–2	Palmeiras
		46' Tuta 87' Juninho

Palmeiras won 6–1 on aggregate.

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30 November 2000

Vasco da Gama	1–0	River Plate
Juninho Paulista 46'

Vasco da Gama won 5–1 on aggregate.

Final

First leg

6 December 2000

Vasco da Gama	2–0	Palmeiras
Juninho Pernambucano 45' Romário 77'

Estádio São Januário, Rio de Janeiro

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Márcio Rezende de Freitas

Second leg

12 December 2000

Palmeiras	1–0	Vasco da Gama
Neném 21'

Parque Antárctica, São Paulo

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Oscar Roberto Godói

Since Vasco won the first leg and Palmeiras won the second leg, a third leg had to be played.

Final

20 December 2000

9:45 PM

Palmeiras	3–4	Vasco da Gama
Arce 36' (pen.) Magrão 37' Tuta 45+1'		59' (pen.), 69' (pen.), 93' Romário 86' Juninho Paulista

Parque Antárctica, São Paulo

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Márcio Rezende de Freitas

2000 Copa Mercosur Winner
Vasco da Gama First Title

External links

• 2000 Copa Mercosur