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The Copa Merconorte 2001 was an
association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
tournament in 2001 and the last
Copa Merconorte The Copa Merconorte () was an international football competition organized by CONMEBOL from 1998 to 2001 by clubs from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela and starting in 2000 clubs from the CONCACAF confederation were invited in ...
to be held.
Millonarios Millonarios Fútbol Club is a professional Colombian football team based in Bogotá, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. They play their home games at the El Campín stadium. Millonarios was initially created in 1937 by students f ...
of Colombia defeated Emelec of
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in the final.


Group stage

Each team played the other teams in the group twice during the group stage. The first place team advanced to the second round.


Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Semifinals

The semifinals consisted of two games between the Necaxa (winner of Group A) and Millonarios (winner of Group B), and two games between the Santos Laguna (winner of Group C) and Emelec (winner of Group D). Both series were decided in penalty kicks because the net of both games was a draw. ---- ''5-5 on aggregate, Millonarios won 3-1 on penalties'' ---- ---- ''5-5 on aggregate, Emelec won 4-2 on penalties''


Finals

After tying both matches, Millonarios defeated Emelec in penalty kicks. ----


Champion


External links

* * {{CONMEBOL tertiary tournaments Copa Merconorte 3 Merco Mer