2005 Copa Libertadores

The 2005 Copa Libertadores was the 46th edition of the Copa Libertadores. The champion also qualified for the 2005 FIFA Club World Championship.

2005 Copa Libertadores

2005 Copa Toyota Libertadores de América 2005 Copa Toyota Libertadores da América
Tournament details
Dates	February 1 - July 14
Teams	38 (from 11 associations)
Final positions
Champions	São Paulo (3rd title)
Runners-up	Atlético Paranaense
Tournament statistics
Matches played	138
Goals scored	412 (2.99 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Santiago Salcedo (9)
Best player(s)	Rogério Ceni[1]
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It was the first time ever that two teams from the same country reached the final. This year's tournament was also the first Copa Libertadores to employ the away goals rule in knockout ties. São Paulo won the tournament, becoming the first Brazilian team to win the cup on three occasions.

Preliminary round

12 teams from 11 football associations dispute 6 places in the Group Stage.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Mineros de Guayana	1–5	América de Cali	0–2	1–3
Guadalajara	8–2	Cienciano	3–1	5–1
Quilmes	2–2 (a)	Colo-Colo	0–0	2–2
Tacuary	2–4	Palmeiras	2–2	0–2
Junior	5–2	Oriente Petrolero	2–1	3–1
LDU Quito	4–4 (a)	Peñarol	3–0	1–4

Team #1 was home in the first leg.

Group stage

The six winners from the preliminary round join the other twenty-six teams in the group stage. The top 2 teams in each group advanced to the knockout stage.

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

1. Cumulative goal difference.
2. Total goals scored.
3. Away goals scored.
4. Sorting

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		DIM	CAP	AMC	LIB
1	Independiente Medellín	6	3	1	2	14	8	+6	10			2–2	2–0	4–2
2	Atlético Paranaense	6	3	1	2	8	11	−3	10		0–4		2–1	1–0
3	América de Cali	6	3	0	3	7	7	0	9		1–0	3–1		0–1
4	Libertad	6	2	0	4	8	11	−3	6		3–2	1–2	1–2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		SAN	LDU	DAN	BOL
1	Santos	6	4	0	2	18	10	+8	12			3–1	3–2	6–0
2	LDU Quito	6	2	2	2	7	10	−3	8		2–1		1–1	1–0
3	Danubio	6	2	1	3	9	8	+1	7		1–2	3–0		2–0
4	Bolívar	6	2	1	3	8	14	−6	7		4–3	2–2	2–0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		SAO	CHI	QUI	STR
1	São Paulo	6	3	3	0	16	9	+7	12			4–2	3–1	3–0
2	Universidad de Chile	6	2	3	1	9	9	0	9		1–1		3–2	2–1
3	Quilmes	6	1	2	3	8	11	−3	5		2–2	1–1		1–0
4	The Strongest	6	1	2	3	6	10	−4	5		3–3	0–0	2–1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 4

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		CER	PAL	SAN	TAC
1	Cerro Porteño	6	3	3	0	10	4	+6	12			1–1	1–0	3–1
2	Palmeiras	6	2	3	1	8	5	+3	9		0–0		1–1	3–0
3	Santo André	6	2	2	2	11	6	+5	8		2–2	2–1		6–0
4	Deportivo Táchira	6	1	0	5	3	17	−14	3		0–3	1–2	1–0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 5

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		RIV	JUN	OLM	NAC
1	River Plate	6	5	1	0	12	5	+7	16			2–1	1–1	1–0
2	Junior	6	3	0	3	8	9	−1	9		0–2		2–0	3–2
3	Olmedo	6	2	1	3	10	11	−1	7		2–3	3–1		2–3
4	Nacional	6	1	0	5	7	12	−5	3		1–3	0–1	1–2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 6

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		UANL	BAN	ALI	CAR
1	UANL	6	3	3	0	13	5	+8	12			2–2	0–0	3–1
2	Banfield	6	3	2	1	10	9	+1	11		0–3		3–2	3–1
3	Alianza Lima	6	1	2	3	4	7	−3	5		0–0	0–1		2–1
4	Caracas	6	1	1	4	8	14	−6	4		2–5	1–1	2–0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 7

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		GUA	ONC	COB	SLA
1	Guadalajara	6	3	2	1	10	7	+3	11			0–0	3–1	2–1
2	Once Caldas	6	2	3	1	6	4	+2	9		4–2		0–0	0–0
3	Cobreloa	6	2	2	2	6	7	−1	8		1–3	2–1		2–0
4	San Lorenzo	6	0	3	3	1	5	−4	3		0–0	0–1	0–0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 8

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		BOC	PAC	CRI	CUE
1	Boca Juniors	6	4	1	1	14	3	+11	13			4–0	3–0	3–0
2	Pachuca	6	3	1	2	8	9	−1	10		3–1		2–0	2–1
3	Sporting Cristal	6	2	1	3	5	10	−5	7		0–3	2–0		1–0
4	Deportivo Cuenca	6	0	3	3	4	9	−5	3		0–0	1–1	2–2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Knockout round

Qualified teams

The teams 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.

Seed	Team	Pld	Pts	GD	Qualification
1	River Plate	6	16	+7	Qualified as first place
2	Boca Juniors	6	13	+11
3	Santos	6	12	+8
4	UANL	6	12	+8
5	São Paulo	6	12	+7
6	Cerro Porteño	6	12	+6
7	Guadalajara	6	11	+3
8	Independiente Medellín	6	10	+6
9	Banfield	6	11	+1	Qualified as second place
10	Pachuca	6	10	-1
11	Atlético Paranaense	6	10	-3
12	Palmeiras	6	9	+3
13	Once Caldas	6	9	+2
14	Universidad de Chile	6	9	0
15	Junior	6	9	-1
16	LDU Quito	6	8	-3

Bracket

	First round							Quarter-finals							Semi-finals							Finals
	1	River Plate	1	4	5
	16	LDU Quito	2	2	4
								1	River Plate	1	3	4
								9	Banfield	1	2	3
	8	I. Medellín	0	0	0
	9	Banfield	3	2	5
															1	River Plate	0	2	2
															5	São Paulo	2	3	5
	5	São Paulo	1	2	3
	12	Palmeiras	0	0	0
								5	São Paulo	4	1	5
								4	UANL	0	2	2
	4	UANL	1	2	3
	13	Once Caldas	1	1	2
																						5	São Paulo	1	4	5
																						11	A. Paranaense	1	0	1
	6	Cerro Porteño	1	2	3
	11	A. Paranaense	2	1	3
								11	A. Paranaense	3	2	5
								3	Santos	2	0	2
	3	Santos	1	3	4
	14	U. de Chile	2	0	2
															11	A. Paranaense	3	2	5
															7	Guadalajara	0	2	2
	7	Guadalajara	1	3	4
	10	Pachuca	1	1	2
								7	Guadalajara	4	0	4
								2	Boca Juniors	0	0	0
	2	Boca Juniors	3	4	7
	15	Junior	3	0	3

Round of 16

First leg matches were played between May 17, 2005, and May 19, 2005. Second leg matches were played between May 24, 2005, and May 26, 2005.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
LDU Quito	4-5	River Plate	2-1	2-4
Junior	3-7	Boca Juniors	3-3	0-4
Universidad de Chile	2-4	Santos	2-1	0-3
Once Caldas	2-3	UANL	1-1	1-2
Palmeiras	0-3	São Paulo	0-1	0-2
Atlético Paranaense	3-3 (5-4 pen)	Cerro Porteño	2-1	1-2
Pachuca	2-4	Guadalajara	1-1	1-3
Banfield	5-0	Independiente Medellín	3-0	2-0

Quarterfinals

First leg matches were played on June 1, 2005, and June 2, 2005. Second leg matches were played between June 14, 2005, and June 16, 2005.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Banfield	3-4	River Plate	1-1	2-3
Guadalajara	4-0	Boca Juniors	4-0	0-0
Atlético Paranaense	5-2	Santos	3-2	2-0
São Paulo	5-2	UANL	4-0	1-2

Semifinals

First leg matches were played on June 22, 2005, and June 23, 2005. Second leg matches were played on June 29, 2005, and June 30,2024

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
São Paulo	5–2	River Plate	2–0	3–2
Atlético Paranaense	5–2	Guadalajara	3–0	2–2

Finals

Main article: 2005 Copa Libertadores Finals

First leg match was played on July 6, 2005. Second leg match was played on July 14, 2005.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Atlético Paranaense	1–5	São Paulo	1–1	0–4

Copa Libertadores de América 2005 champion
São Paulo Third title

Top goalscorers

9 goals

• Santiago Salcedo

6 goals

• Robinho
• Ricardinho
• Lima
• Omar Bravo
• Martín Palermo
• Daniel Bilos
• Martín Arzuaga
• Ernesto Farías

5 goals

• Rogério Ceni
• Luizão
• Deivid
• Rodrigão
• Francisco Palencia
• Andrés Guglielminpietro