2000 Copa Mercosur

The Copa Mercosur 2000 was the 3rd staging of the international club cup.

The competition started on 01 August 2000 and concluded on 20 December 2000 with Vasco da Gama beating Palmeiras in the final.

Participants

• Boca Juniors
• San Lorenzo
• Independiente
• Vélez Sársfield
• River Plate
• Rosario Central
• Vasco da Gama
• Flamengo
• Corinthians
• Cruzeiro
• São Paulo
• Palmeiras
• Atlético Mineiro
• 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
River Plate	14	6	4	2	0	10	5	+5
Flamengo	11	6	3	2	1	10	3	+7
Vélez Sársfield	6	6	1	3	2	7	8	-1
Universidad de Chile	1	6	0	1	5	4	15	-11

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Cruzeiro	13	6	4	1	1	12	4	+8
Palmeiras	11	6	3	2	1	8	5	+3
Independiente	7	6	2	1	3	9	10	-1
Universidad Católica	2	6	0	2	4	7	17	-10

Group C

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Rosario Central	13	6	4	1	1	9	4	+5
São Paulo	7	6	2	1	3	13	13	+0
Cerro Porteño	7	6	2	1	3	13	15	-2
Colo Colo	7	6	2	1	3	6	9	-3

Group D

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Boca Juniors	12	6	3	3	0	15	8	+7
Nacional	9	6	2	3	1	8	8	+0
Olimpia	9	6	3	0	3	9	10	-1
Corinthians	2	6	0	2	4	7	13	-6

Group E

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Atlético Mineiro	13	6	4	1	1	13	10	+3
Vasco da Gama	10	6	3	1	2	11	7	+4
Peñarol	8	6	2	2	2	11	11	+0
San Lorenzo	3	6	1	0	5	8	15	-7

Quarter-finals

First leg

2000-10-31	Flamengo	1 – 2	River Plate
	Juan  66'		Saviola  51' Ortega  81'

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2000-11-01	Vasco da Gama	1 – 0	Rosario Central
	Juninho Paulista  19'

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2000-11-01	Palmeiras	3 – 2	Cruzeiro
	Juninho  1' Tuta  37' Magrão  67'		Giovanni  72' Sorín  79'

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2000-11-01	Atlético Mineiro	2 – 0	Boca Juniors
	Marques Capria  81'

Second leg

2000-11-08	River Plate	4 – 3	Flamengo
	Saviola  52' Aimar  83' Cardetti  87' Ortega  90'		Edílson  46' Juan  64' Petković  84'

River Plate won 6–4 on aggregate.

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2000-10-31	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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2000-11-08	Cruzeiro	1 – 2	Palmeiras
	Sergio Manoel  90' (p)		Galeano  15' Arce  89' (p)

Palmeiras won 5–3 on aggregate.

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2000-11-07	Boca Juniors	2 – 2	Atlético Mineiro
	Barijho  10'  42'		Caçapa  38' André Neles[1]  90'

Atlético Mineiro won 4–2 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

First leg

2000-11-22	River Plate	1 – 4	Vasco da Gama
	Cardetti  71'		Romário  22' Júnior Baiano  32' Juninho Paulista  51' Pedrinho  65'

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2000-11-22	Palmeiras	4 – 1	Atlético Mineiro
	Tuta  1'  43' Paulo Turra  3' Basílio  78'		Caçapa  64' (p)

Second leg

2000-11-30	Vasco da Gama	1 – 0	River Plate
	Juninho Paulista  46'

Vasco da Gama won 5–1 on aggregate.

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2000-11-28	Atlético Mineiro	0 – 2	Palmeiras
			Tuta  46' Juninho  87'

Palmeiras won 6-1 on aggregate.

Final

First leg

2000-12-06	Vasco da Gama	2 – 0	Palmeiras	Estádio São Januário, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Rezende
	Juninho Pernambucano  45' Romário  77'

Second leg

2000-12-13	Palmeiras	1 – 0	Vasco da Gama	Parque Antárctica, São Paulo Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Rezende
	Neném  21'

Play Off

2000-12-20	Palmeiras	3 – 4	Vasco da Gama	Parque Antárctica, São Paulo Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Rezende
	Arce  36' (p) Magrão  37' Tuta  46'		Romário  59' (p)  69' (p)  93' Juninho Paulista  86'

Copa Mercosur 2000 Winner
Vasco da Gama First Title

References

1. ^ Note: At that time, he was known simply as André.

External links

• - Copa Mercosur 2000