2001 Copa Mercosur

2001 Copa Mercosur

Tournament details
Dates	21 July 2001 – 24 January 2002
Teams	20 (from 5 associations)
Final positions
Champions	San Lorenzo (1st title)
Runners-up	Flamengo
Tournament statistics
Matches played	73
Goals scored	197 (2.7 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Bernardo Romeo (10 goals)
← 2000

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.^[1]

Participants

Country	Team
Argentina (6 berths)	Boca Juniors
	Independiente
	River Plate
	San Lorenzo
	Talleres
	Vélez Sársfield
Brazil (7 berths)	Corinthians
	Cruzeiro
	Flamengo
	Grêmio
	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		CER	UCA	VAS	BOC
1	Cerro Porteño	6	3	1	2	8	6	+2	10	Advance to Quarter-finals		—	2–0	2–1	2–1
2	Universidad Católica	6	3	0	3	8	9	−1	9			1–0	—	2–1	2–1
3	Vasco da Gama	6	2	2	2	11	11	0	8			3–2	2–1	—	2–2
4	Boca Juniors	6	1	3	2	9	10	−1	6			0–0	3–2	2–2	—

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Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		FLA	SLA	NAC	OLI
1	Flamengo	6	5	0	1	11	6	+5	15	Advance to Quarter-finals		—	2–1	2–0	2–0[a]
2	San Lorenzo	6	3	1	2	9	4	+5	10			1–2	—	2–0	3–0
3	Nacional	6	3	1	2	8	5	+3	10			4–1	0–0	—	2–0
4	Olimpia	6	0	0	6	0	13	−13	0			0–2	0–2	0–2	—

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Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		COR	IND	CRU	COL
1	Corinthians	6	3	1	2	8	6	+2	10	Advance to Quarter-finals		—	2–1	2–4	0–0
2	Independiente	6	3	0	3	8	8	0	9			1–0	—	2–0	2–0
3	Cruzeiro	6	2	2	2	9	8	+1	8			0–2	4–1	—	1–1
4	Colo Colo	6	1	3	2	3	6	−3	6			0–2	2–1	0–0	—

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Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		TAL	VEL	SPA	PEÑ
1	Talleres	6	2	4	0	10	5	+5	10	Advance to Quarterfinals		—	2–2	0–0	1–1
2	Vélez Sársfield	6	2	2	2	12	11	+1	8			1–4	—	4–2	3–0
3	São Paulo	6	1	4	1	7	6	+1	7			0–0	1–1	—	3–0
4	Peñarol	6	1	2	3	5	12	−7	5			1–3	2–1	1–1	—

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Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		GRE	RIV	PAL	UNI
1	Grêmio	6	4	2	0	11	4	+7	14	Advance to Quarterfinals		—	1–0	3–1	2–0
2	River Plate	6	2	2	2	13	10	+3	8			2–4	—	3–3	3–0
3	Palmeiras	6	1	3	2	11	10	+1	6			0–0	2–2	—	4–0
4	Universidad de Chile	6	1	1	4	3	14	−11	4			1–1	0–3	2–1	—

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Ranking of second place teams

The three best second-place teams from the five groups advanced to the quarterfinals along with the five group winners.

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	B	San Lorenzo	6	3	1	2	9	4	+5	10	Advance to Quarterfinals
2	C	Independiente	6	3	0	3	8	8	0	9
3	A	Universidad Católica	6	3	0	3	8	9	−1	9
4	E	River Plate	6	2	2	2	13	10	+3	8
5	D	Vélez Sársfield	6	2	2	2	12	11	+1	8

Bracket

	Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Flamengo	0	4	4
	Independiente	0	0	0
							Flamengo (p)	2	0	2 (4)
							Grêmio	2	0	2 (2)
	Grêmio	0	2	2
	Talleres	0	0	0
													Flamengo	0	1	1 (3)
													San Lorenzo (p)	0	1	1 (4)
	Corinthians	1	2	3
	Universidad Católica	2	0	2
							Corinthians	2	1	3
							San Lorenzo	1	4	5
	San Lorenzo	4	2	6
	Cerro Porteño	2	1	3

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Independiente	0–4	Flamengo	0–0	0–4
Universidad Católica	2–3	Corinthians	2–1	0–2
San Lorenzo	6–3	Cerro Porteño	4–2	2–1
Grêmio	2–0	Talleres	0–0	2–0

First leg

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Second leg

Flamengo won 4–0 on aggregate.

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Corinthians won 3–2 on aggregate.

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San Lorenzo won 6–3 on aggregate.

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Gremio won 2–0 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Corinthians	3–5	San Lorenzo	2–1	1–4
Flamengo	2–2 (4–2 p)	Grêmio	2–2	0–0

First leg

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Second leg

San Lorenzo won 5–3 on aggregate.

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

Final

First leg

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Second leg

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

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

Copa Mercosur 2001 Winner
San Lorenzo First title

References