The 1999 season is the 77th season of competitive football in Ecuador.

National leagues

Serie A The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Coppa ...

*Champion: LDU Quito (6th title) *International cup qualifiers: **

2000 Copa Libertadores The 2000 edition of the Copa Libertadores was the 41st in the tournament's history. It was held between February 15 and June 21. Thirty-two teams participated in this event. First round *Teams in green qualified to the next round Group 1 Grou ...

: LDU Quito, El Nacional, Emelec *Relegated: Delfín,

Deportivo Cuenca Club Deportivo Cuenca is an Ecuadorian football club based in Cuenca. They currently play in the Serie A, the top-flight football league in the country, and is one of two clubs from Cuenca to have played in the top-flight (the other being LDU ...

Audaz Octubrino Club Deportivo Audaz Octubrino is a professional football club from Machala, Ecuador that currently plays in the Segunda Categoría, the third tier of Football in Ecuador. Its stadium is called " 9 de Mayo" and has a capacity of about 10,000 pe ...

Serie B The Serie B (), currently named Serie Balkrishna Industries, BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It has been operating for over ninety years since the 1929–30 ...

*Winner: Técnico Universitario (3rd title) *Promoted: Técnico Universitario *Relegated: Deportivo Quinindé

Segunda

*Winner: Deportivo Saquisilí *Promoted: Deportivo Saquisilí

Clubs in international competitions

National teams

Senior team

The Ecuador national team played in seventeen matches in 1999: three

Copa América The Copa América ( en, America Cup) or CONMEBOL Copa América, known until 1975 as the South American Football Championship (''Campeonato Sudamericano de Fútbol'' in Spanish and ''Campeonato Sul-Americano de Futebol'' in Portuguese), is the t ...

matches and 14 friendlies.

Copa América The Copa América ( en, America Cup) or CONMEBOL Copa América, known until 1975 as the South American Football Championship (''Campeonato Sudamericano de Fútbol'' in Spanish and ''Campeonato Sul-Americano de Futebol'' in Portuguese), is the t ...

Ecuador was drawn into Group C with Argentina, Colombia, and Uruguay. They lost all their matches and were eliminated in the group stage. ---- ----

Friendlies

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= Canada Cup

= Ecuador was invited to play in the Canada Cup, a friendly competition amongst national sides held in

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. Ecuador won the competition for the senior side's first international trophy. ---- ----

Notes

:1.Not a full

FIFA FIFA (; stands for ''Fédération Internationale de Football Association'' ( French), meaning International Association Football Federation ) is the international governing body of association football, beach football and futsal. It was found ...

international match because Denmark fielded a team with only players from its own league. :2.Guatemala fielded its U-23 team. It is still considered as a full

international match. :3.Canada fielded its U-23 team. It is still considered as a full

international match.

External links

National leagues details on RSSSF
{{Seasons in Ecuadorian football

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...