2006 Copa Libertadores

2006 Copa Libertadores
2006 Copa Toyota Libertadores de América; 2006 Copa Toyota Libertadores da América
Tournament details
Dates	January 24 - August 16
Teams	38 (from 11 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Internacional (1st title)
Runners-up	São Paulo
Tournament statistics
Matches played	138
Goals scored	386 (2.8 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Fourteen players; (5 goals each)
Best player(s)	Fernandão
	← 2005 2007 →

The 2006 Copa Toyota Libertadores was the 47th edition of the Copa Libertadores, CONMEBOL's annual football club tournament.

38 teams from 11 football associations took part, starting with the first qualifying round played on 24 January 2006.

Internacional won this edition for their first title, beating São Paulo 4–3 on aggregate.

Qualified Teams[edit]

Group Stage
Newell's Old Boys	Estudiantes	São Paulo	Corinthians
Vélez Sársfield	Rosario Central	Paulista	Internacional
Bolívar	Unión Española	Deportivo Cali	LDU Quito
The Strongest	Universidad Católica	Atlético Nacional	El Nacional
Cerro Porteño	Cienciano	Nacional	Unión Atlético Maracaibo
Libertad	Sporting Cristal	Rocha	Caracas
UNAM	UANL
First stage
River Plate	Goias	Palmeiras	Oriente Petrolero
Colo-Colo	Santa Fe	Cuenca	Nacional
Universitario	Defensor Sporting	Deportivo Táchira	Guadalajara

First stage[edit]

Teams in the Team #1 column played at home in the first leg.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nacional	2-2 (a)	Universitario	2-2	0-0
Defensor Sporting	2-2 (a)	Santa Fe	2-2	0-0
River Plate	8-0	Oriente Petrolero	6-0	2-0
Colo-Colo	4-8	Guadalajara	1-3	3-5
Palmeiras	6-2	Deportivo Táchira	2-0	4-2
Deportivo Cuenca	1-4	Goias	1-1	0-3

Matches[edit]

First leg[edit]

2006-01-24

Nacional	2 – 2	Universitario
Centurion 62' (og) Moisela 66' (og)	Report	Moisela 64' Sangoy 90'

Estadio Monumental, Asunción

Referee: Sergio Pezzotta (Argentina)

2006-01-27

Defensor Sporting	2 – 2	Santa Fe
Olivera 86' Ithurralde 90'	Report	Olveira 35' Preciado 81'

Estadio Luis Franzini, Montevideo

Referee: Heber Lopes (Brazil)

2006-01-26

River Plate	6 – 0	Oriente Petrolero
Santana 20' Montenegro 37' Gallardo 39' (p) 57' (p) Farías 43' San Martín 46'	Report

River Plate Stadium, Buenos Aires

Referee: Rubén Selman (Chile)

2006-01-24

Colo-Colo	1 – 3	Guadalajara
Fernández 49'	Report	Bravo 35' 52' Morales 46' (p)

Estadio Monumental David Arellano, Santiago

Referee: Roberto Silvera (Uruguay)

2006-01-25

Palmeiras	2 – 0	Deportivo Táchira
Marcinho 19' Gamarra 49'	Report

Estádio Palestra Itália, São Paulo

Referee: Ricardo Grance (Paraguay)

2006-01-26

Deportivo Cuenca	1 – 1	Goiás
Matamoros 57'	(Report)	Rogério Corrêa 14'

Estadio Alejandro Serrano Aguilar, Cuenca

Referee: Victor Hugo Rivera (Peru)

Second leg[edit]

2006-01-31

Universitario	0 – 0	Nacional
	Report

Estadio Monumental "U", Lima

Referee: Carlos Lopez (Colombia)

2006-02-02

Santa Fe	0 – 0	Defensor Sporting
	Report

Estadio El Campín, Bogotá

Referee: Mauricio Reinoso (Ecuador)

2006-02-02

Oriente Petrolero	0 – 2	River Plate
	Report	Toja 15' Vaca 23' (og)

Estadio Tahuichi Aguilera, Santa Cruz

Referee: Salvio Fagundes (Brazil)

2006-01-31

Guadalajara	5 – 3	Colo-Colo
Medina 24' 78' Santana 34' Rodríguez 36' Bautista 81'	Report	Suazo 39' 67' 76'

Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara

Referee: Gustavo Brand (Venezuela)

2006-02-01

Deportivo Táchira	2 – 4	Palmeiras
García 69' González 73'	Report	Washington 13' 45' Edmundo 60' Marcinho 73'

Estadio Polideportivo de Pueblo Nuevo, San Cristóbal

Referee: Óscar Ruiz (Colombia)

2006-02-01

Goiás	3 - 0	Deportivo Cuenca
Jadílson 29' Romerito 75' 81' (p)	Report

Estádio da Serrinha, Goiânia

Referee: Martín Vázquez (Uruguay)

Group stage[edit]

6 winners from the qualifying round and the 26 pre-qualified clubs are drawn into 8 groups of 4 teams each. The top 2 teams in each group will advance to the Libertadores Cup play-offs.

Tiebreakers, if necessary, are applied in the following order:

Cumulative goal difference.
Total goals scored.
Away goals scored.
Sorting

Group 1[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	SÃO	GDL	CAR	CIE
1	São Paulo	6	4	0	2	12	6	+6	12		1–2	2–0	4–1
2	Guadalajara	6	3	3	0	6	3	+3	12	2–1		1–1	0–0
3	Caracas	6	1	2	3	7	7	0	5	1–2	0–0		4–0
4	Cienciano	6	1	1	4	3	12	−9	4	0–2	0–1	2–1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 2[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	ISF	ELP	SPC	BOL
1	Santa Fe	6	3	1	2	9	7	+2	10		3–1	2–1	2–2
2	Estudiantes	6	3	1	2	10	10	0	10	1–0		4–3	2–1
3	Sporting Cristal	6	2	1	3	11	12	−1	7	1–2	2–2		2–1
4	Bolivar	6	2	1	3	7	8	−1	7	1–0	1–0	1–2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 3[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	GOI	NOB	UE	STR
1	Goiás	6	3	2	1	7	1	+6	11		3–0	0–0	2–0
2	Newell's Old Boys	6	2	2	2	7	7	0	8	0–0		2–0	2–0
3	Unión Española	6	2	2	2	3	5	−2	8	0–2	1–1		1–0
4	The Strongest	6	2	0	4	4	8	−4	6	1–0	3–2	0–1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 4[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	COR	UANL	UC	CALI
1	Corinthians	6	4	1	1	10	6	+4	13		1–0	2–2	3–0
2	UANL	6	3	1	2	12	10	+2	10	2–0		1–0	5–4
3	Universidad Católica	6	3	1	2	12	11	+1	10	2–3	3–2		2–1
4	Deportivo Cali	6	0	1	5	9	16	−7	1	0–1	2–2	2–3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 5[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	VEL	LDU	ROC	UNI
1	Vélez Sársfield	6	5	1	0	18	6	+12	16		2–2	3–0	4–3
2	LDU Quito	6	3	1	2	16	9	+7	10	1–3		5–0	4–0
3	Rocha	6	1	2	3	4	16	−12	5	0–5	3–2		0–0
4	Universitario	6	0	2	4	5	12	−7	2	0–1	1–2	1–1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 6[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	INT	NAC	MBO	UNAM
1	Internacional	6	4	2	0	13	4	+9	14		3–0	4–0	3–2
2	Nacional	6	2	3	1	6	6	0	9	0–0		0–0	2–0
3	Unión Atlético Maracaibo	6	2	2	2	7	8	−1	8	1–1	2–3		3–0
4	UNAM	6	0	1	5	4	12	−8	1	1–2	1–1	0–1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 7[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	AN	PAL	CER	CEN
1	Atlético Nacional	6	3	1	2	13	9	+4	10		1–2	2–2	1–0
2	Palmeiras	6	2	3	1	9	8	+1	9	3–2		2–3	0–0
3	Cerro Porteño	6	2	2	2	9	12	−3	8	1–5	0–0		1–3
4	Rosario Central	6	1	2	3	6	8	−2	5	1–2	2–2	0–2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 8[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	LIB	RIV	ELN	PAU
1	Libertad	6	3	2	1	8	3	+5	11		2–0	4–1	1–0
2	River Plate	6	3	0	3	10	10	0	9	1–0		4–3	4–1
3	El Nacional	6	1	3	2	8	10	−2	6	1–1	2–0		1–1
4	Paulista	6	1	3	2	4	7	−3	6	0–0	2–1	0–0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Knockout stages[edit]

The teams were seeded 1 to 8 (first placed teams of each group) and 9 to 16 (second placed teams of each group) and the ties were 1 vs 16, 2 vs 15, etc.

Qualified teams[edit]

Seed	Team	Pld	Pts	GD	Qualification
1	Vélez Sársfield	6	16	+12	Qualified as first place
2	Internacional	6	14	+9
3	Corinthians	6	13	+4
4	São Paulo	6	12	+6
5	Goiás	6	11	+6
6	Libertad	6	11	+5
7	Atlético Nacional	6	10	+4
8	Santa Fe	6	10	+2
9	Guadalajara	6	12	+3	Qualified as second place
10	LDU Quito	6	10	+7
11	UANL	6	10	+2
12	Estudiantes	6	10	0
13	Palmeiras	6	9	+1
14	River Plate	6	9	+0
15	Nacional	6	9	+0
16	Newell's Old Boys	6	8	+0

Bracket[edit]

Round of 16					Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Final

2	Internacional	2	0	2

15	Nacional	1	0	1
					2	Internacional	1	2	3

					10	LDU Quito	2	0	2
7	Atlético Nacional	0	0	0

10	LDU Quito	4	1	5
										2	Internacional	0	2	2

										6	Libertad	0	0	0
6	Libertad	0	0	0 (5)

11	UANL	0	0	0 (3)
					6	Libertad	2	3	5

					14	River Plate	2	1	3
3	Corinthians	2	1	3

14	River Plate	3	3	6
															2	Internacional	2	2	4

															4	São Paulo	1	2	3
4	São Paulo	1	2	3

13	Palmeiras	1	1	2
					4	São Paulo	0	1	1 (4)

					12	Estudiantes	1	0	1 (3)
5	Goiás	0	3	3

12	Estudiantes (a)	2	1	3
										4	São Paulo	1	3	4

										9	Guadalajara	0	0	0
1	Vélez Sársfield	4	2	6

16	Newell's Old Boys	2	2	4
					1	Vélez Sársfield	0	1	1

					9	Guadalajara	0	2	2
8	Santa Fe	0	3	3

9	Guadalajara	3	1	4

Round of 16[edit]

Teams				Scores		Tie-breakers
1st leg home team	Points		2nd leg home team	1st leg	2nd leg	GF	AG	Pen.
Newell's Old Boys	1	4	Vélez Sársfield	2–4	2–2	—	—	—
Nacional	1	4	Internacional	1–2	0–0	—	—	—
River Plate	6	0	Corinthians	3–2	3–1	—	—	—
Palmeiras	1	4	São Paulo	1–1	1–2	—	—	—
Estudiantes	3	3	Goiás	2–0	1–3	3–3	1–0	—
UANL	2	2	Libertad	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	3–5
LDU Quito	6	0	Atlético Nacional	4–0	1–0	—	—	—
Guadalajara	3	3	Santa Fe	3–0	1–3	4–3	—	—

Quarter-finals[edit]

Teams				Scores		Tie-breakers
1st leg home team	Points		2nd leg home team	1st leg	2nd leg	GF	AG	Pen.
Guadalajara	2	1	Vélez Sársfield	0–0	2–1	—	—	—
LDU Quito	3	3	Internacional	2–1	0–2	2–3	—	—
Estudiantes	3	3	São Paulo	1–0	0–1	1–1	0–0	3–4
River Plate	1	4	Libertad	2–2	1–3	—	—	—

Semi-finals[edit]

Teams				Scores		Tie-breakers
1st leg home team	Points		2nd leg home team	1st leg	2nd leg	GF	AG	Pen.
Libertad	1	4	Internacional	0–0	0–2	—	—	—
Guadalajara	0	6	São Paulo	0–1	0–3	—	—	—

Finals[edit]

Teams				Scores		Tie-breakers
1st leg home team	Points		2nd leg home team	1st leg	2nd leg	GF	AG	Pen.
São Paulo	1	4	Internacional	1–2	2–2	—	—	—

Copa Libertadores de América 2006 champion
Internacional First title

Top goalscorers[edit]

Player	Team	Goals
Aloísio	São Paulo	5
Félix Borja	El Nacional	5
José Luis Calderón	Estudiantes	5
Agustín Delgado	LDU Quito	5
Sebastián Ereros	Vélez Sársfield	5
Ernesto Farías	River Plate	5
Fernandão	Internacional	5
Marcinho	Palmeiras	5
Daniel Montenegro	River Plate	5
Nilmar	Corinthians	5
Mariano Pavone	Estudiantes	5
Jorge Quinteros	Universidad Católica	5
Patricio Urrutia	LDU Quito	5
Washington	Palmeiras	5

References[edit]

^ "Conoce a los jugadores más valiosos de la Libertadores". 10 October 2012. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2015.

External links[edit]

Copa Libertadores 2006
Conmebol Archived 2009-09-06 at the Wayback Machine - Official Site of the CONMEBOL, which organizes the Copa Libertadores. (in English and Spanish)

[1] "Conoce a los jugadores más valiosos de la Libertadores". 10 October 2012. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2015.

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Qualified Teams[edit]

First stage[edit]

Matches[edit]

First leg[edit]

Second leg[edit]

Group stage[edit]

Group 1[edit]

Group 2[edit]

Group 3[edit]

Group 4[edit]

Group 5[edit]

Group 6[edit]

Group 7[edit]

Group 8[edit]

Knockout stages[edit]

Qualified teams[edit]

Bracket[edit]

Round of 16[edit]

Quarter-finals[edit]

Semi-finals[edit]

Finals[edit]

Top goalscorers[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]