2009 Copa Libertadores First Stage

Main article: 2009 Copa Libertadores

The First Stage of the 2009 Copa Santander Libertadores ran from January 27 to February 5.

Format

Twelve teams qualified into this rounds and each will play a two-legged tie, one at home and one away. The winner of each tie will advance to the Second Stage. The teams will earn 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 for a loss. The team with the most points advances. The following criteria will be used for breaking ties on points:

1. Goal difference
2. Goals scored
3. Away goals

Results

Team #1 played the first leg at home.

Teams			Scores		Tie-breakers
Team #1	Points	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg	GD	AG	Pen.
Peñarol	1:4	Independiente Medellín	0–4	0–0	—	—	—
Estudiantes	3:3	Sporting Cristal	1–2	1–0	0:0	1:0	—
Nacional	4:1	El Nacional	5–0	3–3	—	—	—
Deportivo Cuenca	3:3	Deportivo Anzoátegui	0–2	3–0	+1:−1	—	—
Real Potosí	0:6	Palmeiras	1–5	0–2	—	—	—
Pachuca	3:3	Universidad de Chile	0–1	2–1	0:0	0:1	—

Matches

First leg

January 27, 2009

17:00 UTC−05:00

El Nacional	0–5	Nacional
	Report	Román 51' Núñez 56', 85' Cáceres 70' Melgarejo 87'

Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito

Attendance: 6,757

Referee: José Buitrago (Colombia)

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January 28, 2009

19:00 UTC−04:00

Universidad de Chile	1–0	Pachuca
Díaz 4'	Report

Estadio Santa Laura, Santiago

Referee: Heber Lopes (Brazil)

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January 28, 2009

21:30 UTC−05:00

Independiente Medellín	4–0	Peñarol
Martínez 15', 18', 46' Corredor 34'	Report

Estadio Atanasio Girardot, Medellín

Attendance: 15,750

Referee: Víctor Hugo Rivera (Peru)

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January 29, 2009

20:30 UTC−03:00

Palmeiras	5–1	Real Potosí
Keirrison 3', 20' (pen.) Diego Souza 39' Cleiton Xavier 58' Edmílson 90+1'	Report	Rodríguez 22'

Palestra Itália (Parque Antártica), São Paulo

Attendance: 23,694

Referee: Roberto Silvera (Uruguay)

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January 29, 2009

15:00 UTC−05:00

Sporting Cristal	2–1	Estudiantes
Palacios 42' Hurtado 55'	Report	Pérez 29'

Estadio San Martín de Porres, Lima

Attendance: 16,302

Referee: Carlos Chandía (Chile)

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January 29, 2009

21:30 UTC−04:30

Deportivo Anzoátegui	2–0	Deportivo Cuenca
Espíndola 11' González 51'	Report

Estadio José Antonio Anzoátegui, Puerto La Cruz

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Víctor Hugo Carrillo (Peru)

Second leg

February 3, 2009

21:15 UTC−03:00

Peñarol	0–0	Independiente Medellín
	Report

Estadio Centenario, Montevideo

Attendance: 19,590

Referee: Carlos Torres (Paraguay)

Independiente Medellín advances on points 4–1.

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February 3, 2009

20:45 UTC−05:00

Deportivo Cuenca	3–0	Deportivo Anzoátegui
Teixeira 27', 68' Villalba 74'	Report

Estadio Alejandro Serrano Aguilar, Cuenca

Attendance: 7,275

Referee: Óscar Maldonado (Bolivia)

Deportivo Cuenca advances on goal difference.

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February 4, 2009

20:30 UTC−03:00

Estudiantes	1–0	Sporting Cristal
Lentini 76'	Report

Estadio Ciudad de La Plata, La Plata

Attendance: 20,426

Referee: Leonardo Gaciba (Brazil)

Estudiantes advances on away goals.

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February 4, 2009

21:00 UTC−03:00

Real Potosí	0–2	Palmeiras
	Report	Cleiton Xavier 29' Keirrison 74'

Estadio Victor Agustín Ugarte, Potosí

Attendance: 3,055

Referee: Carlos Galeano (Paraguay)

Palmeiras advances on points 6–0.

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February 4, 2009

21:15 UTC−06:00

Pachuca	2–1	Universidad de Chile
Rodríguez 24' (pen.) Álvarez 86'	Report	Estrada 58'

Estadio Hidalgo, Pachuca

Attendance: 13,140

Referee: Alfredo Intriago (Ecuador)

Universidad de Chile advances on away goals.

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February 5, 2009

20:15 UTC−04:00

Nacional	3–3	El Nacional
Núñez 9', 14' Melgarejo 28'	Report	Pita 32' Ladines 35' Zura 43'

General Pablo Rojas, Asunción

Attendance: 2,801

Referee: Sergio Pezzotta (Argentina)

Nacional advances on points 4–1.

External links

• CONMEBOL's official website (in Spanish)