2001 Copa Merconorte

The Copa Merconorte 2001 was the fourth and final edition of association football tournament Copa Merconorte held in 2001. Millonarios of Colombia defeated Emelec of Ecuador in the final.^[1] It was the first edition to include teams invited from the United States, the Kansas City Wizards and NY/NJ MetroStars. Several fixtures for the MetroStars were cancelled following the September 11 attacks.^[2]

Copa Merconorte 2001

Tournament details
Dates	31 July – 20 December 2001
Teams	16 (from 7 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Millonarios (1st title)
Runners-up	Emelec
Tournament statistics
Matches played	50
Goals scored	146 (2.92 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Otilino Tenorio (7)
← 2000

Participants

Country	Team
Bolivia (1 berth)	Blooming
Colombia (3 berths)	América de Cali
	Atlético Nacional
	Millonarios
Ecuador (3 berths)	Aucas
	Barcelona
	Emelec
Mexico (3 berths)	Guadalajara
	Necaxa
	Santos Laguna
Peru (3 berths)	Alianza Lima
	Sporting Cristal
	Universitario
United States (2 berth)	Kansas City Wizards
	MetroStars
Venezuela (1 berth)	Deportivo Italchacao

Group stage

Each team played the other teams in the group twice during the group stage. The first place team advanced to the second round.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		NEC	ADC	ALI	SDA
1	Necaxa	6	5	0	1	12	5	+7	15	Advance to Semifinals		—	1–0	2–1	1–3
2	América de Cali	6	3	1	2	7	7	0	10			1–3	—	1–1	2–1
3	Alianza Lima	6	1	2	3	8	10	−2	5			0–3	1–2	—	4–1
4	Aucas	6	1	1	4	6	11	−5	4			0–2	0–1	1–1	—

Source: RSSSF.com

Aucas	0–2	Necaxa
	Report	Moreno 64' (pen.) Pérez 89'

July 31

Estadio La Caldera del Sur, Quito, Ecuador

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América de Cali	1–1	Alianza Lima
Mafla 27'	Report	Quinteros 13'

August 1

Estadio Pascual Guerrero, Cali, Colombia

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Alianza Lima	4–1	Aucas
Bazalar 21' Gallardo 40', 88' Grotto 83'	Report	de Jesús 18'

August 22

Estadio Alejandro Villanueva, Lima, Peru

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Necaxa	1–0	América de Cali
Delgado 38' (pen.)	Report

August 28

Estadio Azteca, Mexico City, Mexico

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Aucas	0–1	América de Cali
	Report	Virviescas 90'

September 12

Estadio La Caldera del Sur, Quito, Ecuador

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Necaxa	2–1	Alianza Lima
Zague 8' Pérez 16'	Report	Hernández 90'

September 19

Estadio Azteca, Mexico City, Mexico

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Necaxa	1–3	Aucas
Pérez 86'	Report	Zanatta 13', 14' Duarte 32'

September 25

Estadio Azteca, Mexico City, Mexico

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Alianza Lima	1–2	América de Cali
Eduardo Esidio 30'	report	Mafla 57' Garcia 64'

September 26

Estadio Alejandro Villanueva
Lima, Peru

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Alianza Lima	0–3	Necaxa
	report	Moreno 40', 55', 66'

October 9

Estadio Alejandro Villanueva
Lima, Peru

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América de Cali	1–3	Necaxa
Mauricio Romero 89'	report	Luís Roberto Alves 4', 63' Martínez Diego Alfonso 65'

October 16

Estadio Pascual Guerrero
Cali, Colombia

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Aucas	1–1	Alianza Lima
Raúl Duarte 13'	report	Roberto Farfán 30'

October 24

Estadio La Caldera del Sur
Quito, Ecuador

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América de Cali	2–1	Aucas
Oscar Eduardo Villarreal 30' Kilian Edwin Virviescas 45'	report	Raúl Duarte 58'

November 1

Estadio Pascual Guerrero
Cali, Colombia

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MIL	ITA	MET	GUA
1	Millonarios	6	4	0	2	10	7	+3	12	Advance to Semifinals		—	5–0	2–1	2–0
2	Deportivo Italchacao	6	4	0	2	9	8	+1	12			3–0	—	2–1	2–0
3	MetroStars	6	3	0	3	8	5	+3	9			0–1	2–0	—	2–0
4	Guadalajara	6	1	0	5	3	10	−7	3			3–0	0–2	0–2	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

MetroStars	2–0	Deportivo Italchacao
Adolfo Valencia 23' Mike Petke 47'	report

August 9

Giants Stadium
East Rutherford, United States

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Guadalajara	3–0	Millonarios
Marco Antonio Ruiz 44' Juan Antonio Torres 60' Carlos Hermosillo 87'	report

August 8

Estadio Jalisco
Guadalajara, Mexico

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Millonarios	5–0	Deportivo Italchacao
Wilson Cano 41' (pen), 64', 73' Alexander Orrego 49' Marcio Rodríguez 91'	report

August 23

Estadio El Campín
Bogotá, Colombia

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Millonarios	2–1	MetroStars
Wilson Cano 1', 31'	report	Adolfo Valencia 69'

August 29

Estadio El Campín
Bogotá, Colombia

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Deportivo Italchacao	2–0	Guadalajara
Leopoldo Jiménez 47' Rafael Castellín '84.	report

September 11

Estadio Olímpico Univ. Central de Venezuela
Caracas, Venezuela

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MetroStars	forfeit	Guadalajara
3 Pts.

October 17

Giants Stadium
East Rutherford, United States

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Deportivo Italchacao	3–0	Millonarios
Félix Hernánex 3' Fernando Martínez 65', 89'	report

October 18

Estadio Olímpico Univ. Central de Venezuela
Caracas, Venezuela

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Deportivo Italchacao	2–1	MetroStars
Daniel Diez 62', 88'	report	Carlos García 58' (OG)

October 24

Estadio Olímpico Univ. Central de Venezuela
Caracas, Venezuela

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MetroStars	0–1	Millonarios
	report	Johan Viáfara 92'+

October 31

Giants Stadium
East Rutherford, United States

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Guadalajara	forfeit	Deportivo Italchacao
		3 Pts.

October 31

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Millonarios	forfeit	Guadalajara
3 Pts.

November 7

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Guadalajara	forfeit	MetroStars
		3 Pts.

November 21

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SAN	CRI	KAN	BAR
1	Santos Laguna	6	5	0	1	15	6	+9	15	Advance to Semifinals		—	3–0	4–2	3–1
2	Sporting Cristal	6	3	2	1	10	10	0	11			2–1	—	2–1	2–2
3	Kansas City Wizards	6	1	1	4	8	12	−4	4			0–1	1–2	—	1–1
4	Barcelona	6	0	3	3	9	14	−5	3			1–3	2–2	2–3	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Kansas City Wizards	1–2	Sporting Cristal
Onandi Lowe 7'	report	Erick Torres 31' Gastón Córdoba 79'

August 1

Arrowhead Stadium
Kansas City, United States

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Santos Laguna	4–2	Kansas City Wizards
Héctor Altamirano 28' (pen) Robson Luiz 36' Eduardo Lillingston 83' (pen) Carlos Augusto Gomes de Oliveira 84'	report	Matt McKeon 53' Roy Lassiter 88'

August 8

Estadio Corona
Torreón, Mexico

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Santos Laguna	3–1	Barcelona
Jared Borgetti 20', 59' Luis Ramón Romero 49'	report	Nicolás Asencio 56'

August 14

Estadio Corona
Torreón, Mexico

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Barcelona	2–2	Sporting Cristal
Máximo Tenorio 3' Moreno Carlos Alfaro 56'	report	Jean Ferrari 24' Jorge Soto 76'

August 21

Estadio Monumental Isidro Romero
Guayaquil, Ecuador

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Barcelona	2–3	Kansas City Wizards
Carlos Alfaro Moreno 13' Fricson George 76'	report	Roy Lassiter 31' Chris Brown 46', 50'

August 29

Estadio Monumental Isidro Romero
Guayaquil, Ecuador

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Sporting Cristal	2–1	Kansas City Wizards
Luis Bonnet 23', 25'	report	Onandi Lowe 40'

September 12

Estadio San Martín
Lima, Peru

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Santos Laguna	3–0	Sporting Cristal
Carlos Augusto Gomes de Oliveira 17' Rodrigo Ruiz 72' Eduardo Lillingston 78'	report

September 20

Estadio Corona
Torreón, Mexico

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Barcelona	1–3	Santos Laguna
Carlos Alfaro Moreno 10'	report	Jared Borgetti 62', 64' Eduardo Lillingston 89'

October 10

Estadio Monumental Isidro Romero
Guayaquil, Ecuador

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Kansas City Wizards	1–1	Barcelona
Roy Lassiter 32'	report	Clóvis Bento da Cruz 41'

October 17

Arrowhead Stadium
Kansas City, United States

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Sporting Cristal	2–1	Santos Laguna
Piero Alva 38', 59'	report	Johan Rodríguez 21'

October 23

Estadio San Martín
Lima, Peru

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Kansas City Wizards	0–1	Santos Laguna
	report	Eduardo Lillingston 12'

November 21

Arrowhead Stadium
Kansas City, United States

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Sporting Cristal	2–2	Barcelona
Gastón Córdoba 83' Diego Martínez 92'+	report	Clóvis Bento da Cruz 44' Carlos Alfaro Moreno 86'

November 22

Estadio San Martín
Lima, Peru

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		EME	ATL	UNI	BLO
1	Emelec	6	3	3	0	8	1	+7	12	Advance to Semifinals		—	3–0	1–0	4–1
2	Atlético Nacional	6	3	1	2	7	5	+2	10			0–0	—	3–0	1–0
3	Universitario	6	3	1	2	7	7	0	10			0–0	2–1	—	2–0
4	Blooming	6	0	1	5	3	12	−9	1			0–0	0–2	2–3	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Atlético Nacional	3–0	Universitario
Juan David Restrepo 18' Oscar Restrepo 78' Néstor Fabián Salazar 85'	report

August 9

Medellín, Colombia

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Blooming	2–3	Universitario
Walter Otta 33', 71'	report	Martín Vilallonga 44', 47' Paolo Maldonado 57'

August 22

Santa Cruz, Bolivia

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Blooming	0–2	Atlético Nacional
	report	Gustavo Díaz 19' Jorge Humberto Agudelo 45'

August 30

Santa Cruz, Bolivia

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Universitario	0–0	Emelec
	report

September 13

Estadio Monumental
Lima, Peru

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Atlético Nacional	0–0	Emelec
	report

September 18

Medellín, Colombia

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Universitario	2–0	Bloomin
Sergio Ibarra 22' Martín Vilallonga 68'	report

September 19

Estadio Monumental
Lima, Peru

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Emelec	1–0	Universitario
Walter Ayoví 3'	report

September 26

Guayaquil, Ecuador

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Universitario	2–1	Atlético Nacional
Luis Cordero 74' Sergio Ibarra 90'	report	Diego Toro 55'

October 10

Estadio Monumental
Lima, Peru

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Blooming	0–0	Emelec
	report

October 10

Santa Cruz, Bolivia

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Atlético Nacional	1–0	Blooming
José María Ocampo 48'	report

October 25

Medellín, Colombia

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Emelec	4–1	Blooming
Cristian Adrián Gómez 2' Luis Hebertson Moreira 13' Juan Ignacio Triviño 20' Rafael Manosalvas 50'	report	Diego Cabrera 15'

October 28

Guayaquil, Ecuador

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Emelec	3–0	Atlético Nacional
Otilino George Tenorio 29', 51' Carlos Ramón Hidalgo 78'	report

November 20

Guayaquil, Ecuador

Semifinals

The semifinals consisted of two games between the Necaxa (winner of Group A) and Millonarios (winner of Group B), and two games between the Santos Laguna (winner of Group C) and Emelec (winner of Group D). Both series were decided in penalty kicks because the net of both games was a draw.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Necaxa	5–5 (1–3 p)	Millonarios	3–2	2–3
Santos Laguna	5–5 (2–4 p)	Emelec	4–1	1–4

Necaxa	3–2	Millonarios
Moreno 9' Martínez 85' Alves 89'		Gutiérrez 25', 29'

November 20, 2001 (2001-11-20)

Estadio Municipal, Aguascalientes, Mexico

Referee: Rogger Zambrano (Ecuador)

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Millonarios	3–2	Necaxa
Orrego 38' Rivera 64' Jaramillo 85'		López 21' Moreno 28'
Penalties
Rivera Castro Moreno Gutiérrez	3–1	González Pérez Núñez Galván

November 27, 2001 (2001-11-27)

Estadio El Campín, Bogotá, Colombia

Referee: Luis Solorzano (Venezuela)

5–5 on aggregate, Millonarios won 3–1 on penalties

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Santos Laguna	4–1	Emelec
Robson Luiz 14', 33' Lillingston 25' Gómes 58'		Tenorio 75'

November 29, 2001 (2001-11-29)

Estadio Corona, Torreón, Mexico

Referee: José Arana (Peru)

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Emelec	4–1	Santos Laguna
Tenorio 5', 13' Hidalgo 24' Moreira 44'		Gómes 71'
Penalties
Hidalgo Porozo Tenorio Ayoví	4–2	Altamirano Gómes Robson Luiz Romero

December 6, 2001 (2001-12-06)

Estadio George Capwell, Guayaquil, Ecuador

Referee: Guido Aros (Chile)

5–5 on aggregate, Emelec won 4–2 on penalties

Finals

After tying both matches, Millonarios defeated Emelec in penalty kicks.

Millonarios	1–1	Emelec
Carlos Castro 76'	report	Otilino Tenorio 75'

December 13, 2001

20:10 (UTC-5)

Estadio Nemesio Camacho, Bogotá

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Emelec	1–1	Millonarios
Otilino Tenorio 50'	(pen 1–3) report	Luis Eduardo Zapata 19'

December 20, 2001

19:10 (UTC-5)

Estadio George Capwell, Guayaquil

Champion

Copa Merconorte 2001 Winners
Millonarios First Title