1969 Copa Libertadores

The 1969 Copa Libertadores de América was the 10th edition of the Copa Libertadores, a football competition contested between the top clubs of the CONMEBOL federation. Estudiantes de la Plata won the competition defeating Nacional 4–0 on points over two-legs. The CBD declared that no Brazilian club would play in the 1969 Copa Libertadores de América, since Brazil disagreed on the format of the tournament, whose dates would conflict with the preparation of the national team for the 1970 World Cup Qualifying matches.^[1]

1969 Copa Libertadores de América

Tournament details
Dates	January 31 - May 22
Teams	17 (from 9 confederations)
Final positions
Champions	Estudiantes (LP) (2nd title)
Runners-up	Nacional
Tournament statistics
Matches played	74
Goals scored	211 (2.85 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Alberto Ferrero (8 goals)
← 1968 1970 →

Qualified teams

Country	Team	Qualification method
CONMEBOL 1 berth	Estudiantes (LP)	1968 Copa Libertadores de América winners
Argentina 2 berths	None
	None
Bolivia 2 berths	Bolívar	1968 Primera División champion
	Litoral	1968 Primera División runner-up
Brazil 2 berths	None
	None
Chile 2 berths	Santiago Wanderers	1968 Primera División champion
	Universidad Católica	1968 Primera División runner-up
Colombia 2 berths	Unión Magdalena	1968 Campeonato Profesional champion
	Deportivo Cali	1968 Campeonato Profesional runner-up
Ecuador 2 berths	Deportivo Quito	1968 Campeonato Ecuatoriano Serie A champion
	Barcelona	1968 Campeonato Ecuatoriano Serie A runner-up
Paraguay 2 berths	Olimpia	1968 Primera División champion
	Cerro Porteño	1968 Primera División runner-up
Peru 2 berths	Sporting Cristal	1968 Torneo Descentralizado champion
	Juan Aurich	1968 Torneo Descentralizado runner-up
Uruguay 2 berths	Peñarol	1968 Primera División champion
	Nacional	1968 Primera División runner-up
Venezuela 2 berths	Unión Deportiva Canarias	1968 Primera División champion
	Deportivo Italia	1968 Primera División runner-up

Draw

The champions and runners-up of each football association were drawn into the same group along with another football association's participating teams. One club from Argentina competed as Estudiantes (LP) was champion of the 1968 Copa Libertadores. They entered the tournament in the Semifinals.

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4
Colombia Venezuela	Chile Peru	Bolivia Paraguay	Ecuador Uruguay

Group stage

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		CAL	ITA	MAG	CAN
1	Deportivo Cali	6	3	2	1	12	6	+6	8	Qualified to the Second round			3–0	3–1	2–0
2	Deportivo Italia	6	3	1	2	7	8	−1	7			2–1		2–0	2–0
3	Unión Magdalena	6	2	1	3	7	8	−1	5			2–2	3–0		1–0
4	Unión Deportiva Canarias	6	1	2	3	3	7	−4	4			1–1	1–1	1–0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		WAN	CRI	CAT	JA
1	Santiago Wanderers	6	3	0	3	13	10	+3	6			2–0	2–3	4–1
2	Sporting Cristal	6	2	2	2	11	11	0	6		2–1		2–0	3–3
3	Universidad Católica	6	3	0	3	12	13	−1	6		1–3	3–2		1–2
4	Juan Aurich	6	2	2	2	13	15	−2	6		3–1	2–2	2–4

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Tiebreakers

• Note: After 6 matches, there was a quadruple tie. So, there were two extra rounds as tiebreaker.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		CAT	WAN	CRI	JA
1	Universidad Católica	2	2	0	0	6	2	+4	4	Qualified to the Second round					4–1
2	Santiago Wanderers	2	1	1	0	2	1	+1	3					1–1
3	Sporting Cristal	2	0	1	1	2	3	−1	1			1–2
4	Juan Aurich	2	0	0	2	1	5	−4	0				0–1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		CER	OLI	BOL	LIT
1	Cerro Porteño	6	4	1	1	15	5	+10	9	Qualified to the Second round			4–1	1–1	6–0
2	Olimpia	6	3	1	2	12	7	+5	7			1–2		4–0	2–0
3	Bolívar	6	2	3	1	6	8	−2	7			2–1	1–1		1–0
4	Litoral	6	0	1	5	1	14	−13	1			0–1	0–3	1–1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Tiebreaker

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Olimpia	2–1	Bolívar

Group 4

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PEÑ	NAC	QUI	BAR
1	Peñarol	6	3	3	0	16	8	+8	9	Qualified to the Second round			1–1	5–2	5–2
2	Nacional	6	2	4	0	10	4	+6	8			2–2		4–0	2–0
3	Deportivo Quito	6	1	3	2	4	10	−6	5			1–1	0–0		1–0
4	Barcelona	6	0	2	4	3	11	−8	2			0–2	1–1	0–0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Second round

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		CAT	CER	ITA
1	Universidad Católica	4	2	1	1	7	3	+4	5	Qualified to the Semi-finals			1–0	4–0
2	Cerro Porteño	4	1	2	1	1	1	0	4			0–0		1–0
3	Deportivo Italia	4	1	1	2	3	7	−4	3			3–2	0–0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		NAC	CAL	WAN
1	Nacional	4	3	1	0	10	2	+8	7	Qualified to the Semi-finals			2–0	2–0
2	Deportivo Cali	4	1	1	2	9	11	−2	3			1–5		5–1
3	Santiago Wanderers	4	0	2	2	5	11	−6	2			1–1	3–3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PEÑ	OLI
1	Peñarol	2	1	1	0	2	1	+1	3	Qualified to the Semi-finals			1–1
2	Olimpia	2	0	1	1	1	2	−1	1			0–1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Universidad Católica	2–6	Estudiantes (LP)	1–3	1–3
Nacional	2–1	Peñarol	2–0	0–1

Tiebreaker

• Nacional qualify due to better goal difference in the three matches.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Nacional	0–0	Peñarol

Finals

Main article: 1969 Copa Libertadores Finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nacional	0–3	Estudiantes (LP)	0–1	0–2

Champion

Copa Libertadores de América 1969 Champion
Estudiantes (LP) Second Title