Copa Sudamericana champions

One of the more recently established tournaments in Latin America, organized by CONMEBOL member associations and with the best teams in each league, starting to be played in 2002 and having big games that will last for many years.

The Copa Sudamericana 2002 (officially named, for reasons of patronage, Copa Nissan Sudamericana) had the first champion to the club San Lorenzo de Almagro (Argentina), who had qualified after winning the Copa Mercosur 2001, the predecessor of this event, at the Athletic Nacional Medellin (Colombia) won the first leg 4-3 and earning a draw in making local zero.

In the 2003 edition was the champion Cienciano (Peru), who scored one of the most important feats in the history of Peruvian football to achieve impressive win at River Plate (Argentina) by 1 to 0

Who won the Copa Sudamericana 2004 was the Club Atletico Boca Juniors , who beat Bolivar (Bolivia) for 1 to 0 in the first leg and 2 to 0 in the back, repeating it the following year, beating Pumas UNAM (Mexico) from the penalties, where they wore the goalkeeper Roberto Abbondanzieri (who would be summoned later to the Argentina National Team)

South American Cup 2006 was won by Pachuca (Mexico) who defeated Colo-Colo (Chile) by 2 to 1 (tie 1 to 1 on the first leg), crowned the first champions of CONCACAF in a tournament organized by CONMEBOL, as a curiosity, as teams of this confederation are invited to participate.

In 2007 he was champion Arsenal de Sarandi (Argentina) who won aguerridamente against America (Mexico) having lost the first leg for 2 to 3, and take the title at 83 minutes of play and leaving a minimal advantage for 2 agonizing to 1, and being champions for the disputed rule that goal counts double check.

In 2008, the finalists were the Inter de Porto Alegre (Brazil) against Estudiantes de La Plata (Argentina) with a Gaucho team's victory in the first leg by 1 to 0 and a tie for 1 goal (in time become supplement) which earned the Brazilian set to lift the Cup

The previous year's champion was the Liga de Quito (Ecuador) Brazilian Fluminense who beat 5 to 1 in the first leg, losing by 3 to 0 in the second leg, which did not reach even to go the extension.

Who will win this year? will be discussed in the following days ...