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2000 Copa Mercosur

Tournament details
Dates	1 August – 20 December 2000
Teams	20 (from 5 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Vasco da Gama (1st title)
Runners-up	Palmeiras
Tournament statistics
Matches played	75
Goals scored	239 (3.19 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Romário (11 goals)
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The 2000 Copa Mercosur was the 3rd season of the Copa Mercosur, CONMEBOL's club tournament for countries in the southern part of the continent.

The competition started on 1 August 2000 and concluded on 20 December 2000 with Vasco da Gama beating Palmeiras in the final for its first title.

Romario was the top scorer with 11 goals.

Participants

Country	Team
Argentina (6 berths)	Boca Juniors
	Independiente
	River Plate
	Rosario Central
	San Lorenzo
	Vélez Sársfield
Brazil (7 berths)	Atlético Mineiro
	Corinthians
	Cruzeiro
	Flamengo
	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		RIV	FLA	VEL	UC
1	River Plate	6	4	2	0	10	5	+5	14	Advance to Quarter-finals		—	0–0	2–1	2–0
2	Flamengo	6	3	2	1	10	3	+7	11			1–2	—	2–0	2–0
3	Vélez Sársfield	6	1	3	2	7	8	−1	6			1–1	1–1	—	3–1
4	Universidad de Chile	6	0	1	5	4	15	−11	1			2–3	0–4	1–1	—

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		CRU	PAL	IND	CAT
1	Cruzeiro	6	4	1	1	12	4	+8	13	Advance to Quarter-finals		—	0–0	3–0	4–0
2	Palmeiras	6	3	2	1	8	5	+3	11			0–2	—	2–0	1–1
3	Independiente	6	2	1	3	9	10	−1	7			2–0	1–2	—	3–0
4	Universidad Católica	6	0	2	4	7	17	−10	2			2–3	1–3	3–3	—

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ROS	SAO	CER	COL
1	Rosario Central	6	4	1	1	9	4	+5	13	Advance to Quarter-finals		—	2–1	2–1	0–0
2	São Paulo	6	2	1	3	13	13	0	7			1–0	—	4–4	4–0
3	Cerro Porteño	6	2	1	3	13	15	−2	7			1–4	4–2	—	2–1
4	Colo Colo	6	2	1	3	6	9	−3	7			0–1	3–1	2–1	—

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BOC	NAC	OLI	COR
1	Boca Juniors	6	3	3	0	15	8	+7	12	Advance to Quarter-finals		—	1–1	5–2	3–0
2	Nacional	6	2	3	1	8	8	0	9			3–3	—	1–0	1–1
3	Olimpia	6	3	0	3	9	10	−1	9			0–1	4–3	—	3–2
4	Corinthians	6	0	2	4	7	13	−6	2			2–2	1–2	1–2	—

Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MIN	VAS	PEÑ	SAN
1	Atlético Mineiro	6	4	1	1	13	10	+3	13	Advance to Quarter-finals		—	2–0	2–1	3–2
2	Vasco da Gama	6	3	1	2	11	7	+4	10			2–0	—	1–1	3–0
3	Peñarol	6	2	2	2	11	11	0	8			2–2	4–3	—	3–2
4	San Lorenzo	6	1	0	5	8	15	−7	3			3–4	0–2	1–0	—

Quarter-finals

First leg

Flamengo	1–2	River Plate
Juan 66'		51' Saviola 81' Ortega

Vasco da Gama	1–0	Rosario Central
Juninho Paulista 19'

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

Atlético Mineiro	2–0	Boca Juniors
Marques 45' Capria 81'

Second leg

River Plate	4–3	Flamengo
Saviola 53' Aimar 83' Cardetti 87' Ortega 90'		46' Edílson 64' Juan 84' Petković

River Plate won 6–4 on aggregate.

Rosario Central	1–0	Vasco da Gama
Díaz 90'

1–1 on aggregate, Vasco da Gama won 5–4 on penalties.

Cruzeiro	1–2	Palmeiras
Sérgio Manoel 90' (pen.)		Galeano 15' Arce 89' (pen.)

Palmeiras won 5–3 on aggregate.

Boca Juniors	2–2	Atlético Mineiro
Barijho 10', 42'		38' Cláudio Caçapa 90' André Neles

Atlético Mineiro won 4–2 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

First leg

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

Palmeiras	4–1	Atlético Mineiro
Tuta 1', 43' Paulo Turra 3' Basílio 78'		64' (pen.) Cláudio Caçapa

Second leg

Atlético Mineiro	0–2	Palmeiras
		46' Tuta 87' Juninho

Palmeiras won 6–1 on aggregate.

Vasco da Gama	1–0	River Plate
Juninho Paulista 46'

Vasco da Gama won 5–1 on aggregate.

Final

First leg

Vasco da Gama	2–0	Palmeiras
Juninho Pernambucano 45' Romário 77'

Second leg

Palmeiras	1–0	Vasco da Gama
Neném 21'

Since Vasco won the first leg and Palmeiras won the second leg, a third leg had to be played.

Final

Palmeiras	3–4	Vasco da Gama
Arce 36' (pen.) Magrão 37' Tuta 45+1'		59' (pen.), 69' (pen.), 93' Romário 86' Juninho Paulista

2000 Copa Mercosur Winner
Vasco da Gama First Title

References

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

External links

• 2000 Copa Mercosur

• Copa Mercosur
• 2000 in South American football
• 2000 in Brazilian football