The 2018 CONMEBOL Recopa was the 26th edition of the
CONMEBOL Recopa
The CONMEBOL Recopa Sudamericana ( pt, CONMEBOL Recopa Sul-Americana), known also as the Recopa Sudamericana or CONMEBOL Recopa, and simply as the Recopa (, ; "Winners' Cup"), is an annual international club football competition organized by ...
(also referred to as the ''Recopa Sudamericana'', or pt, Recopa Sul-Americana), the
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
competition organized by
CONMEBOL
The South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL, , or CSF; es, Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol; pt, Confederação Sul-Americana de Futebol) is the continental governing body of football in South America (apart from Guyana, Suri ...
between the winners of the previous season's two major
South America
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n club tournaments, the
Copa Libertadores
The CONMEBOL Libertadores, also known as the Copa Libertadores de América ( pt, Copa Libertadores da América), is an annual international club football competition organized by CONMEBOL since 1960. It is the highest level of competition in S ...
and the
Copa Sudamericana
The CONMEBOL Sudamericana, named as ''Copa Sudamericana'' (; pt, Copa Sul-Americana ), is an annual international club football competition organized by CONMEBOL since 2002. It is the second-most prestigious club competition in South American ...
.
The competition was contested in two-legged home-and-away format between
Brazilian team
Grêmio, the
2017 Copa Libertadores
The 2017 Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores (officially the Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores Bridgestone 2017 for sponsorship reasons) was the 58th edition of the CONMEBOL Libertadores (also referred to as the ''Copa Libertadores''), South America's premier cl ...
champions, and
Argentinian
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team
Independiente, the
2017 Copa Sudamericana
The 2017 Copa CONMEBOL Sudamericana was the 16th edition of the CONMEBOL Sudamericana (also referred to as the ''Copa Sudamericana'', or pt, Copa Sul-Americana), South America's secondary club football tournament organized by CONMEBOL.
Argent ...
champions. The first leg was hosted by Independiente at
in
Avellaneda
Avellaneda (, ) is a port city in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the seat of the Avellaneda Partido, whose population was 342,677 as per the . Avellaneda is located within the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area, and is connected ...
on 14 February 2018, while the second leg was hosted by Grêmio at
Arena do Grêmio in
Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre (, , Brazilian ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Its population of 1,488,252 inhabitants (2020) makes it the List of largest cities in Brazil, twelfth most populous city in the country ...
on 21 February 2018.
Tied 1–1 on aggregate, Grêmio won 5–4 on penalties to win their second Recopa Sudamericana title.
Format
The Recopa Sudamericana was played on a home-and-away
two-legged
In sports (particularly association football), a two-legged tie is a contest between two teams which comprises two matches or "legs", with each team as the home team in one leg. The winning team is usually determined by aggregate score, the sum o ...
basis, with the Copa Libertadores champions hosting the second leg. If tied on aggregate, the
away goals rule
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would not be used, and 30 minutes of
extra time
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would be played. If still tied after extra time, the
penalty shoot-out
The penalty shootout is a method of determining a winner in sports matches that would have otherwise been drawn or tied. The rules for penalty shootouts vary between sports and even different competitions; however, the usual form is similar to pen ...
would be used to determine the winner. If extra time was played, a fourth substitution would be allowed.
Teams
Venues
Matches
First leg
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Second leg
See also
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2017 Copa Libertadores Finals
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2017 Copa Sudamericana Finals
The 2017 Copa Sudamericana Finals were the two-legged final that decides the winner of the 2017 Copa Sudamericana, the 16th edition of the Copa Sudamericana, South America's secondary international club football tournament organized by CONMEBOL. ...
References
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2018
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2018 in South American football
Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense matches
Club Atlético Independiente matches
2017–18 in Argentine football
2018 in Brazilian football
Football in Avellaneda
February 2018 sports events in South America
International club association football competitions hosted by Argentina
International club association football competitions hosted by Brazil
Association football penalty shoot-outs