Fixtures

DateRHjemme vs Borte-
04/23 22:00 3 Caracas vs Rosario Central View
04/23 22:00 3 Estudiantes LP vs Gremio View
04/24 00:00 3 Liverpool Montevideo vs San Lorenzo View
04/24 00:00 3 Atletico Mineiro vs Penarol View
04/24 00:30 3 Colo Colo vs Alianza Lima View
04/24 02:00 3 Junior vs LDU Quito View
04/24 22:00 3 Botafogo vs Universitario de Deportes View
04/24 22:00 3 Nacional De Football vs Deportivo Tachira View
04/24 22:00 3 Huachipato vs The Strongest View
04/25 00:00 3 Libertad Asuncion vs River Plate View
04/25 00:30 3 Bolivar vs Flamengo View
04/25 00:30 3 Independiente del Valle vs Palmeiras View

Results

Date R Hjemme vs Borte -
04/12 00:00 2 [2] Palmeiras vs Liverpool Montevideo [3] 3-1
04/12 00:00 2 [1] River Plate vs Nacional De Football [2] 2-0
04/11 22:00 2 [3] LDU Quito vs Botafogo [4] 1-0
04/11 22:00 2 [2] Bolivar vs Millonarios [3] 3-2
04/11 02:00 2 [2] Barcelona Guayaquil vs CA Talleres de Córdoba [1] 2-2
04/11 00:30 2 [4] Sao Paulo vs Cobresal [3] 2-0
04/11 00:30 2 [2] Flamengo vs Palestino [4] 2-0
04/11 00:00 2 [3] Penarol vs Caracas [4] 5-0
04/10 22:00 2 [4] Cerro Porteno vs Alianza Lima [3] 1-0
04/10 22:00 2 [1] Independiente del Valle vs San Lorenzo [3] 2-0
04/10 22:00 2 [1] Atletico Mineiro vs Rosario Central [2] 2-1
04/10 02:00 2 [1] Junior vs Universitario de Deportes [2] 1-1

Wikipedia - Copa Libertadores

The CONMEBOL Libertadores, also known as the Copa Libertadores de América (Portuguese: Copa/Taça Libertadores da América), is an annual continental club football competition organized by CONMEBOL since 1960. It is the highest level of competition in South American club football. The tournament is named after the Libertadores (Spanish and Portuguese for liberators), the leaders of the Latin American wars of independence, so a literal translation of its former name into English is "Americas' Liberators Cup".

The competition has had several formats over its lifetime. Initially, only the champions of the South American leagues participated. In 1966, the runners-up of the South American leagues began to join. In 1998, Mexican teams were invited to compete and contested regularly from 2000 until 2016. In 2000 the tournament was expanded from 20 to 32 teams. Today at least four clubs per country compete in the tournament, with Argentina and Brazil having the most representatives (six and seven clubs, respectively). A group stage has always been used but the number of teams per group has varied.

In the present format, the tournament consists of eight stages, with the first stage taking place in late January. The four surviving teams from the first three stages join 28 teams in the group stage, which consists of eight groups of four teams each. The eight group winners and eight runners-up enter the knockout stages, which end with the final in November. The winner of the Copa Libertadores becomes eligible to play in the FIFA Club World Cup and the Recopa Sudamericana.

Independiente of Argentina is the most successful club in the cup's history, having won the tournament seven times. Argentine clubs have accumulated the most victories with 25 wins, while Brazil has the largest number of winning teams, with 11 clubs having won the title. The cup has been won by 26 clubs, 15 of them more than once, and seven clubs have won two years in a row.

History

The clashes for the Copa Aldao between the champions of Argentina and Uruguay kindled the idea of continental competition in the 1930s. In 1948, the South American Championship of Champions (Spanish: Campeonato Sudamericano de Campeones), the most direct precursor to the Copa Libertadores, was played and organized by the Chilean club Colo-Colo after years of planning and organization. Held in Santiago, it brought together the champions of each nation's top national leagues. The tournament was won by Vasco da Gama of Brazil. The 1948 South American tournament began, in continent-wide reach, the "champions cup" model, resulting in the creation of the European Cup in 1955, as confirmed by Jacques Ferran (one of the "founding fathers" of the European Cup), in a 2015 interview with a Brazilian TV sports programme.

In 1958, the basis and format of the competition were created by Peñarol's board leaders. On October 8, 1958, João Havelange announced, at a UEFA meeting he attended as an invitee, the creation of Copa de Campeones de America (American Champions Cup, renamed in 1965 as Copa Libertadores), as a South American equivalent of the European Cup, so that the champion clubs of both continental confederations could decide "the best club team of the world" in the Intercontinental Cup. On March 5, 1959, at the 24th South American Congress held in Buenos Aires, the competition was ratified by the International Affairs Committee. In 1965, it was named in honor of the heroes of South American liberation, such as Simón Bolívar, José de San Martín, Pedro I, Bernardo O'Higgins, and José Gervasio Artigas, among others.

**Copa Libertadores: Sør-Amerikas største fotballturnering**

Copa Libertadores er den mest prestisjefylte fotballturneringen for klubber i Sør-Amerika. Den ble etablert i 1960 av det søramerikanske fotballforbundet (CONMEBOL) og har vært avholdt hvert år siden.

Turneringen er åpen for mestere og vinnere av nasjonale cupturneringer i CONMEBOLs 10 medlemsland: Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay og Venezuela.

Formatet for Copa Libertadores har endret seg opp gjennom årene, men det nåværende formatet består av en gruppespillfase etterfulgt av en sluttspillfase. I gruppespillfasen er lagene delt inn i åtte grupper med fire lag i hver. De to beste lagene i hver gruppe går videre til sluttspillet, som spilles i et utslagsformat.

Finalen i Copa Libertadores er en av de mest sette sportsbegivenhetene i verden. Vinneren av turneringen kvalifiserer seg til FIFA Klubb-VM og Recopa Sudamericana, som spilles mellom vinnerne av Copa Libertadores og Copa Sudamericana.

Copa Libertadores har blitt vunnet av noen av de største klubbene i Sør-Amerika, inkludert Boca Juniors, Independiente, Peñarol, River Plate og Santos. Boca Juniors er den mest suksessrike klubben i turneringens historie med seks titler.

Copa Libertadores er et symbol på lidenskapen og begeistringen for fotball i Sør-Amerika. Det er en turnering som bringer sammen de beste lagene og spillerne på kontinentet og gir fansen en sjanse til å oppleve fotball på sitt beste.