2001 Copa Mercosur

The Copa Mercosur 2001 was the 4th and final staging of the international club cup.

The competition started on 21 July 2001 and concluded on 24 January 2002 with San Lorenzo beating Flamengo in the final.

Participants

• Boca Juniors
• San Lorenzo
• Independiente
• Vélez Sársfield
• River Plate
• Talleres
• Vasco da Gama
• Flamengo
• Corinthians
• Cruzeiro
• São Paulo
• Palmeiras
• Grêmio
• Universidad Católica
• Colo Colo
• Universidad de Chile
• Cerro Porteño
• Olimpia
• Nacional
• Peñarol

Details

• The 20 teams were divided into 5 groups of 4 teams. Each team plays othe 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

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Cerro Porteño	10	6	3	1	2	8	6	+2
Universidad Católica	9	6	3	0	3	8	9	-1
Vasco da Gama	8	6	2	2	2	11	11	+0
Boca Juniors	6	6	1	3	2	9	10	-1

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Flamengo	15	6	5	0	1	11	6	+5
San Lorenzo	10	6	3	1	2	9	4	+5
Nacional	10	6	3	1	2	8	5	+3
Olimpia	0	6	0	0	6	0	13	-13

NB: Olimpia’s away match against Flamengo was awarded 2-0 to Flamengo due to Olimpia being temporarily suspended due to a legal dispute with the Paraguayan FA.

Group C

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Corinthians	10	6	3	1	2	8	6	+2
Independiente	9	6	3	0	3	8	8	+0
Cruzeiro	8	6	2	2	2	9	8	+1
Colo Colo	6	6	1	3	2	3	6	-3

Group D

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Talleres	10	6	2	4	0	10	5	+5
Vélez Sársfield	8	6	2	2	2	12	11	+1
São Paulo	7	6	1	4	1	7	6	+1
Peñarol	5	6	1	2	3	3	6	-3

Group E

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Grêmio	14	6	4	2	0	11	4	+7
River Plate	8	6	2	2	2	13	10	+3
Palmeiras	6	6	1	3	2	11	10	+1
Universidad de Chile	4	6	1	1	4	3	14	-11

Quarter-finals

First leg

2001-10-25	San Lorenzo	4 – 2	Cerro Porteño
	Romeo  10'  19'  25' Estévez  76'		Aquino  64' Alvarenga

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2001-10-24	Independiente	0 – 0	Flamengo

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2001-10-24	Universidad Católica	2 – 1	Corinthians
	Norambuena  42'  90'		Luizão  53'

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2001-10-25	Grêmio	0 – 0	Talleres

Second leg

2001-11-01	Cerro Porteño	1 – 2	San Lorenzo
	Balbuena  26'		Pusineri  68' Acosta  77'

San Lorenzo won 6–3 on aggregate.

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2001-10-31	Flamengo	4 – 0	Independiente
	Edílson  24'  69' Juan  25'  35'

Flamengo won 4–0 on aggregate.

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2001-10-31	Corinthians	2 – 0	Universidad Católica
	Deivid  59' Kléber  78'

Corinthians won 3–2 on aggregate.

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2001-11-01	Talleres	0 – 2	Grêmio
			Cardoso  38' Emerson[disambiguation needed  90'

Gremio won 2–0 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

First leg

2001-11-21	Corinthians	2 – 1	San Lorenzo
	Scheidt  60' Luizão  78'		Romeo  15'

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2001-11-22	Flamengo	2 – 2	Grêmio
	Juan  4' Beto  19'		Anderson Polga  31' Fábio Baiano  81'

Second leg

2001-11-28	San Lorenzo	4 – 1	Corinthians
	Romeo  36'  90' Pusineri  54' Angelo  60' (og)		Luizão  77'

San Lorenzo won 5–3 on aggregate.

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2001-11-29	Grêmio	0 – 0	Flamengo

2-2 on aggregate, Flamengo won 4-2 on penalties

Final

First leg

2001-12-12	Flamengo	0 – 0	San Lorenzo

Second leg

Originally scheduled for Dec 19 but postponed to January 24, 2002 due to social unrest in Argentina

2002-01-24	San Lorenzo	1 – 1	Flamengo
	Estévez  67'		Leandro Machado  10'

1-1 on aggregate, San Lorenzo won 4-3 on penalties

Copa Mercosur 2001 Winner
San Lorenzo First Title

References

• - Copa Mercosur 2001