Copa Campeones de America 1960

The Copa Campeones de América 1960 was the 1st edition of the most important South American football competition for club teams. 7 teams took part, including 6 national champions from the previous year and the winner of the cup competition from Brazil, the Taça Brasil , as no national championship has yet been held there. Ecuador , Peru and Venezuela did not have a representative at the start. The tournament began on April 19 and ended on June 19, 1960 with the final second leg. The Uruguayan champions CA Peñarol won the final against Club Olimpia from Paraguay.

history

The Copa Libertadores was the second attempt after the Campeonato Sudamericano de Campeones in 1948 in Santiago de Chile in South America to establish a competition for national champions in football. The introduction of the Copa Libertadores was also inspired by the European Champions Cup, which had been played since the 1955/56 season. The competition was made even more attractive by the possibility that the strongest club teams from Europe and South America each year met in the so-called World Cup , which was also held for the first time in 1960, in order to determine the supposedly best club team in the world.

1 round

BYE: Club Olimpia 

	total		First leg	Return leg
Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro	5: 3	EC Bahia	3-0	2: 3
Peñarol Montevideo	8: 2	Club Jorge Wilstermann	7: 1	1: 1
CF Universidad de Chile	0: 7	Los Millonarios CD	0: 6	0: 1

Semifinals

	total		First leg	Return leg
Peñarol Montevideo	1: 1	Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro	1: 1	0-0
Los Millonarios CD	1: 5	Club Olimpia	0-0	1: 5

Playoff

	Result
Peñarol Montevideo	2: 1	Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro

final

First leg

Peñarol Montevideo		Club Olimpia
	June 12, 1960 in Montevideo , Uruguay ( Estadio Centenario ) Result: 1: 0 (0: 0) Spectators: 44,690 Referee: Carlos Robles ( Chile )
	Luis Maidana - William Martínez (?. Francisco Majewski ), Salvador , Santiago Pino , Néstor Gonçalves - Wálter Aguerre , Luis Cubilla - Carlos Abel Linazza , Alberto Spencer , Júpiter Crescio , Carlos Borges Trainer: Roberto Scarone	Herminio Arias - Edelmiro Arévalo , Juan Vicente Lezcano , Mariano Osorio , Claudio Lezcano - Pascual Rojas , Vicente Rodríguez - Hipólito Recalde , Luis Doldán , Pedro Antonio Cabral , Teovaldo Melgarejo Trainer: Aurelio González
	1-0 Alberto Spencer (79.)
		Expulsion: Juan Vicente Lezcano

Return leg

Club Olimpia		Peñarol Montevideo
	June 19, 1960 in Asunción , Paraguay ( Estadio de Puerto Sajonia ) Result: 1: 1 (1: 0) Spectators: 35,000 Referee: José Luis Praddaude ( Argentina )
	Herminio Arias - Edelmiro Arévalo , J. Peralta , Pascual Rojas , Claudio Lezcano - Eligio Echagüe , Vicente Rodríguez - Hipólito Recalde , Luis Doldán , Pedro Antonio Cabral , Teovaldo Melgarejo Trainer: Aurelio González	Luis Maidana - William Martínez , Salvador , Santiago Pino , Néstor Gonçalves - Wálter Aguerre , Luis Cubilla - Carlos Abel Linazza , Alberto Spencer (?. Juan Hohberg ), José Mario Griecco , Carlos Borges Trainer: Roberto Scarone
	1-0 Hipólito Recalde (28th)	1: 1 Luis Cubilla (83.)

Web links

• Competition 1960 on rsssf.com (English)
• Finale 1960 at Ficha do Jogo (port.) ( Memento from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive )