Copa Libertadores 1972

The 1972 Copa Libertadores was the 13th edition of the most important South American football competition for club teams. 21 teams took part. The national champions of the CONMEBOL countries and the second took part, or the winner and finalist of the cup competition in Bolivia, as no national championship has yet been held there. Uruguay only sent one participant as Nacional Montevideo had won the tournament the year before and was automatically qualified. The tournament began on January 30th and ended on May 24th 1972 with the final second leg. The Argentine representative CA Independiente defeated Universitario de Deportes in the finals and won this competition for the third time.

1st group stage

Group 1

	club	Games	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1.	CA Independiente	6th	4th	2	0	13: 05	10
2.	Rosario Central	6th	3	2	1	08: 05	08th
3.	Independiente Santa Fe	6th	1	2	3	04: 09	04th
4th	Atlético Nacional	6th	0	2	4th	03: 09	02

			First leg	Return leg
Rosario Central	-	CA Independiente	2: 2	0: 2
Independiente Santa Fe	-	Atlético Nacional	1: 1	1-0
Independiente Santa Fe	-	Rosario Central	0-0	0: 2
Atlético Nacional	-	CA Independiente	1: 1	0: 2
Independiente Santa Fe	-	CA Independiente	2: 4	0: 2
Atlético Nacional	-	Rosario Central	0: 1	1: 3

Group 2

	club	Games	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1.	Barcelona Sporting Club	6th	3	3	0	08: 03	9
2.	America de Quito	6th	3	1	2	09: 07	7th
3.	Oriente Petrolero	6th	2	2	2	10: 07	6th
4th	Chaco Petrolero	6th	1	0	5	03:13	2

			First leg	Return leg
Barcelona Sporting Club	-	America de Quito	2: 1	0-0
Oriente Petrolero	-	Chaco Petrolero	5-0	0: 1
Chaco Petrolero	-	Barcelona Sporting Club	1: 2	0: 3
Oriente Petrolero	-	America de Quito	4: 2	0: 3
Oriente Petrolero	-	Barcelona Sporting Club	0-0	1: 1
Chaco Petrolero	-	America de Quito	1: 2	0: 1

Group 3

	club	Games	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1.	Sao Paulo FC	6th	3	2	1	12: 06	8th
2.	Club Olimpia	6th	2	2	2	07: 08	6th
3.	Club Cerro Porteño	6th	2	2	2	07:11	6th
4th	Atlético Mineiro	6th	0	4th	2	05: 06	4th

			First leg	Return leg
Atlético Mineiro	-	Sao Paulo FC	2: 2	0-0
Club Olimpia	-	Club Cerro Porteño	1: 1	3: 1
Sao Paulo FC	-	Club Olimpia	3: 1	1-0
Atlético Mineiro	-	Club Cerro Porteño	1: 1	0: 1
Sao Paulo FC	-	Club Cerro Porteño	4-0	2: 3
Atlético Mineiro	-	Club Olimpia	0-0	*2: 2 *

* As Atlético Mineiro used ineligible players, the points went to Club Olimpia

Group 4

	club	Games	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1.	Universitario de Deportes	6th	3	2	1	09: 06	8th
2.	CF Universidad de Chile	6th	3	0	3	12:12	6th
3.	Alianza Lima	6th	2	2	2	10:10	6th
4th	Unión San Felipe	6th	1	2	3	05: 08	4th

			First leg	Return leg
Universitario de Deportes	-	Alianza Lima	2: 1	2: 2
Unión San Felipe	-	CF Universidad de Chile	3: 2	1: 2
CF Universidad de Chile	-	Alianza Lima	2: 3	4: 3
Unión San Felipe	-	Alianza Lima	0-0	0: 1
CF Universidad de Chile	-	Universitario de Deportes	1-0	1: 2
Unión San Felipe	-	Universitario de Deportes	0-0	1: 3

Group 5

	club	Games	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1.	Club Atlético Peñarol	4th	4th	0	0	12: 03	8th
2.	Deportivo Italia	4th	1	1	2	04: 07	3
3.	Carabobo FC	4th	0	1	3	03: 09	1

			First leg	Return leg
Carabobo FC	-	Deportivo Italia	1: 1	0: 2
Deportivo Italia	-	Club Atlético Peñarol	0: 1	1: 5
Carabobo FC	-	Club Atlético Peñarol	1: 2	1: 4

2nd group stage

Group 1

	club	Games	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1.	Universitario de Deportes	4th	1	2	1	9: 7	4th
2.	Nacional Montevideo	4th	1	2	1	7: 7	4th
3.	Club Atlético Peñarol	4th	1	2	1	5: 7	4th

			First leg	Return leg
Universitario de Deportes	-	Club Atlético Peñarol	2: 3	1: 1
Universitario de Deportes	-	Nacional Montevideo	3-0	3: 3
Nacional Montevideo	-	Club Atlético Peñarol	1: 1	3-0

Group 2

	club	Games	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1.	CA Independiente	4th	2	1	1	4: 2	5
2.	Sao Paulo FC	4th	1	2	1	2: 3	4th
3.	Barcelona Sporting Club	4th	0	3	1	2: 3	3

			First leg	Return leg
Barcelona Sporting Club	-	CA Independiente	1: 1	0: 1
Barcelona Sporting Club	-	Sao Paulo FC	0-0	1: 1
Sao Paulo FC	-	CA Independiente	1-0	0: 2

final

First leg

Universitario de Deportes		CA Independiente
	May 17, 1972 in Lima ( Estadio Nacional ) Result : 0-0 Spectators: 50,000 Referee: Armando Marques ( Brazil )
	Humberto Horacio Ballesteros - Eleazar Soria , Fernando Cuéllar , Héctor Chumpitaz , César Luna , Rubén Techera , Carlos Carbonell ( Ángel Uribe ), Hernán Castañeda , Oswaldo Ramírez , Percy Rojas , Héctor Bailetti Trainer: Roberto Scarone	Miguel Santoro - Eduardo Commisso , Francisco Sá , Luis Garisto , Ricardo Pavoni , José Pastoriza , Miguel Ángel Raimondo , Alejandro Semenewicz , Agustín Balbuena , Dante Mírcoli , Hugo Saggioratto ( Carlos Alberto Bulla ) Trainer: Pedro Dellacha

Return leg

CA Independiente		Universitario de Deportes
	May 25, 1972 in Avellaneda ( La Doble Visera ) Result: 2: 1 (1: 0) Spectators: 55,000 Referee: Favilli Neto ( Brazil )
	Miguel Santoro - Eduardo Commisso , Francisco Sá , Luis Garisto , Ricardo Pavoni , José Pastoriza , Miguel Ángel Raimondo , Alejandro Semenewicz , Agustín Balbuena , Eduardo Maglioni , Hugo Saggioratto ( Dante Mírcoli ) Trainer: Pedro Dellacha	Humberto Horacio Ballesteros - Eleazar Soria , Fernando Cuéllar , Héctor Chumpitaz , César Luna , Rubén Techera ( Fernando Alva ), Luis Cruzado , Hernán Castañeda , Juan José Muñante , Percy Rojas , Oswaldo Ramírez ( Héctor Bailetti ) Trainer: Roberto Scarone
	1-0 Eduardo Maglioni (6th) 2-0 Eduardo Maglioni (61st)	2: 1 Percy Rojas (79th)

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