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Liga Deportiva Universitaria (), often referred to as Liga de Quito, LDU, is an Ecuadorian professional football club based in Quito. They play in the
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, the highest level of the Ecuadorian professional football league. They play their home games at the Estadio Rodrigo Paz Delgado, more commonly referred to as ''Casa Blanca''. Rival clubs include Quito-based clubs El Nacional,
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, Aucas and Universidad Católica. Liga Deportiva Universitaria has its roots in the semi-pro sports teams in 1918 competing as "Universitario" at the
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, and was officially founded on January 11, 1930. They began making an impact in the provincial leagues, winning nine Pichincha titles (six in the professional era). Their provincial success continued into the national league, where they have won 11 national title (4th overall) having won their most recent title in
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. They are the most successful Ecuadorian club in international competitions, where they were the first Ecuadorian club to win the Copa Libertadores (2008), the Copa Sudamericana (2009), and the Recopa Sudamericana (2009 and 2010). They are one of only six teams — Boca Juniors, Independiente, River Plate,
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and
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being the other five— to have achieved the CONMEBOL treble, winning all three continental club tournaments. LDU is the only team to win all three mentioned cups one after another between the years 2008 to 2010 causing them to be rated as the best South American team of 2008 and 2009. Liga de Quito was additionally the runner-up at the
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.


History


Creation and early years (1918–1954)

Liga de Quito's roots lie in a semi-pro sports team based out of the
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on October 23, 1918, headed by Dr. César Jácome Moscoso. Under the leadership of Dr. Bolívar León, the club was officially founded on January 11, 1930. In the early days, Liga participated in a variety of disciplines, including football,
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,
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,
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,
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, swimming,
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, and
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. The club's initial budget was about 500 sucres. The first team's players were students from the university, and had to pay for their own uniforms, medicines, and expenses. Dr. León designed the first uniform, placing its crest, a white "U" on an inverted red and blue triangle, on a white shirt, honoring the team's beginnings at the university. Amongst Liga's first players were Carlos Andrade Marín, Oswaldo Mosquera, Alfonso Cevallos, Alfonso Troya and ''"El Mono"'' Icaza. In 1932, Liga won their first football title at an amateur Pichincha tournament; there was no national amateur league at the time. Five teams participated: Liga, Gladiador, Gimnástico, Atlético, and Cleveland. Liga won all their games, and in the final match, played at the Estadio El Ejido, defeated Gladiador by a score of 4–0. Playing for Liga were Jorge Zapater, Eduardo Flores, Alfonso Cevallos, César González, Jorge Vallarino, Jorge Naranjo, Bolívar "Ñato" León, Alejandro Dávalos, Humberto Yáñez, Humberto Freire, and Ernesto García, with Bolívar León as coach. Liga would also win amateur titles in 1952 and 1953, before the league turned professional the following year.


Beginning of professional era (1954–1966)

By 1955, the amateur football association in Pichincha had evolved into the ''Asociación de Fútbol No Amateur de Pichincha'' (''Pichincha Non-Amateur Football Association''), which subsequently organized a professional league for their member clubs from Quito and Ambato. The inaugural ''Campeonato Professional Interandino'' (''Inter-Andean Professional Championship'') was held in 1954. Liga won the league's first title, under the management of Lucho Vásquez. The club finished as the runner-up in 1955 and 1956, before winning again in 1958 under Argentine Roberto Ortega. The club won four titles during the 1960s, in 1960, 1961, 1966, and 1967, and finished as runner-up in 1962, 1963, and 1964. Liga had the most successful run of any professional Interandino-era club, accumulating a total of 6 regional titles. In 1957 and from 1960 onwards, winning the Interandino title qualified a team to participate in a tournament which crowned a national champion of Ecuadorian professional football. Liga first participated in 1960, after winning the Interandino cup that year. The team's three subsequent Interandino victories did not lead to a national title; the club's best performance was a third-place finish in 1964. Foreign players became integral to the squad during the 1960s. International players included
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José Gomes Nogueira in 1960, Chilean Román Soto in 1961, and Paraguayan José María Ocampo in 1966.


National success, relegation, and comeback (1967–1989)

In 1967, all regional tournaments were discontinued in favor of a single national tournament. Liga won its first national championship in 1969, one year after joining the new league, under the leadership of Brazilian José Gomes Nogueira. Liga's ranks at the time included Francisco ''"El Tano"'' Bertocchi, Jorge Tapia, Armando ''"Tito"'' Larrea, Carlos Ríos, Santiago Alé, Enrique Portilla, and Ramiro Tobar. Liga's victory granted the club its first Copa Libertadores participation in 1970, where it reached the second phase of the tournament, with "El Tano"'' Bertocchi tying for the title of top goalscorer of the tournament. Liga's success was short-lived; in 1972, the club finished seventh of the eight teams participating in the Serie A. At the time, only four teams from the province of Pichincha could play in the top flight. As the worst-performing Pichincha team, Liga took part in a playoff match against the best-performing Pichincha team in Serie B, Universidad Católica, for a berth in the next season's Serie A tournament. Liga lost the match, relegating it to Serie B for the 1973 season, at the end of which the club faced a second relegation, down to the ''Segunda Categoria'' of Ecuadorian football. The club was able to gain promotion back to the Serie B in time for the 1974 season. After winning the first stage of the 1974 Serie B, Liga returned to the Serie A after two years in the lower flights. Liga's rise continued as the team won their second national title after defeating El Nacional. The success was followed by another title win in 1975, marking Liga's first back-to-back national championships. Liga's 1975 and 1976 Copa Libertadores participations saw the squad twice reach the semi-finals of the continental tournament. Key to Liga's success were players Polo Carrera, Oscar Zubía, Jorge Tapia, Gustavo Tapia, Walter Maesso, Juan Carlos Gómez, Ramiro Tobar, Juan José Pérez, and Roberto Sussman, along with Colombian coach Leonel Montoya. Liga would round out the decade with a runners-up finish in 1977, allowing for another Copa Libertadores participation in 1978. In contrast to the team's good performances after coming back from relegation, the 1980s were a dismal decade for the club. Liga's best performance during that period was a runners-up finish in 1981, and a subsequent Copa Libertadores participation in 1982. Player Paulo Cesar was the top Serie A goalscorer in 1981.


Rise to powerhouse status (1990–present)

In the two decades since 1990, Liga enjoyed a period of domestic success. They started the 1990s with a national title, edging established powerhouse
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. Before the end of the decade, Liga won two more national titles in
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and
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. The 1998 title was won the year Liga inaugurated their new stadium, ''La Casa Blanca'', and ended with an impressive 7–0 win over Emelec. In 2000, the club experienced a period of crisis. This crisis resulted in a poor performance in the national league and Liga was relegated to the Serie B that season. The club managed to bounce back from relegation and won the Serie B in 2001 to gain promotion back to the Serie A. Two years later in 2003, Liga won their 7th national title. Liga added another three more national titles in 2005 Apertura, 2007, 2010 and the most recent in
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to bring their current count to eleven, placing them fourth all-time domestically.


International success (2008–present)

Prior to 2008, Liga had participated in sixteen international/continental tournaments. Their best success in South American football at the beginning of 2008 was reaching the semi-finals of the 1975 Copa Libertadores, the 1976 Copa Libertadores, and the 2004 Copa Sudamericana. On July 2, 2008, Liga became the first-ever Ecuadorian team to win the Copa Libertadores, after defeating
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in the finals on penalties 3–1, after being level on aggregate 5–5 at the end of extra time. Liga's Libertadores title gave the club an automatic berth into the semi-finals of the
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, becoming the first non-Argentine or Brazilian CONMEBOL squad to participate in the tournament. Liga defeated
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by 2–0 in their semi-final match, advancing to the final against 2007–08 UEFA Champions League winners Manchester United, where Liga lost on December 21 in
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, Japan, by a score of 1–0. In June 2009, Liga, as the 2008 Copa Libertadores champion, participated in the 2009 Recopa Sudamericana against the
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champion
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of
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, Brazil. Liga won the first leg, played at Beira Rio stadium in
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, by a score of 1–0, with a goal from
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. In the second leg, played at ''La Casa Blanca'', Liga won 3–0 with goals from Carlos Espínola, Claudio Bieler, and
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. The 2009 Recopa title was Liga's second international title, as well as being the second international title ever achieved by any Ecuadorian club. Soon after the Recopa victory, Liga earned their third international trophy in their history, the
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. In a rematch of the 2008 Copa Libertadores Final, Liga edged
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5–4 on aggregate over two legs by winning impressively at home 5–1 and losing 3–0 in
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. On their way to the finals, they disposed of important clubs, such as Libertad of
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, Argentine clubs
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and Vélez Sarsfield, and Uruguayan club River Plate. With the Copa Sudamericana title, Liga technically achieved a CONMEBOL treble (Copa Libertadores, Copa Sudamericana, Recopa Sudamericana), but since the three titles were not all achieved in the same calendar year, (they were achieved in 17 months), the club narrowly fell short of a traditional treble; Liga would've achieved the treble if they won the 2008 Copa Sudamericana, and even though their Recopa Sudamericana win was in 2009, the treble would have still counted because those were the three back-to-back CONMEBOL tournaments. Additionally, they qualified to play in the 2010 Recopa Sudamericana against Argentine club Estudiantes de La Plata. They won the first leg 2–1 with both goals coming from Hernán Barcos. The win at home in the first leg was enough to secure the title after both teams drew the second leg 0–0. With this title, Liga became the third team to win back-to-back Recopa Sudamericanas. The victory gave the club the right to play in the
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, which was won by FC Tokyo 4–3 on penalties after a 2–2 draw in August 2010. Liga also reached the
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, which they lost to
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by a global score of 4–0.


Stadium

Liga has used four stadiums for their home stadium. Their first stadium was
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, on the grounds of the Universidad Central del Ecuador. In 1932, Liga moved to Estadio El Ejido, where a number of other teams in Quito used as a home ground. In 1962, Liga moved to
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, along with a number of other teams from the city. They would use that stadium as a home ground until 1996. In 1997, LDU inaugurated their own stadium, Estadio Casa Blanca, in the northern part of the city. It is the largest stadium in Quito in terms of capacity, and the second largest in Ecuador after the
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in
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. The stadium officially opened on March 6, 1997, in a match against Brazilian club
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. Liga won the match 3–1. Since its inauguration, the Casa Blanca has been home to Liga's greatest period of success and is often unbeatable at the stadium. They have had six victory laps (''vueltas olimpicas'') in the stadium since it was inaugurated for five national titles and one international title (two national title and three international titles were sealed elsewhere in the same time period).


Supporters

LDU Quito is one of the most supported clubs in Ecuador. According to a recent study, Liga has the largest
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in Quito.


Rivalries

LDU Quito has formed a number of footballing rivalries throughout its history. Their most intense rival is Barcelona S.C. and the matches between them are known as the "Clásico Nacional". Their longest-standing rivalry is with Aucas, a southern Quito club founded in 1945, making the two clubs the oldest in the city still in existence. Liga-Aucas matches are referred to as '' El Superclásico de Quito'' (''The Quito Super Derby''), and the rivalry traces its history back to the first match on February 1, 1945, which ended in a 1–1 tie. A second match, played on February 18, 1945, ended in a 2–2 draw. At the end of the 90 minutes, the game was 2–1; the timekeeper ended the match, but the referee did not notice, allowing the game to continue into extra time, where Aucas equalized the score.


Rivalry with El Nacional

Due to the little importance that the Superclásico de Quito has at present, this party has started to position itself as the most important of the capital Ecuadorian. Liga de Quito and El Nacional star in the team match Quito with more national titles, 11 for Liga de Quito and 13 for El Nacional. The first match was in
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which ended with an El Nacional 1–0 victory. Both teams played the finals of 1974 and
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by national championship, resulting Liga de Quito champion both times. In the absence of intense rivalry with Aucas, Liga and its fans developed a strong rivalry with
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. The ''Clásico Capitalino'' (''Capital Derby'') was the most important game in Quito and was considered a "must win" game of the season. In 2008 and 2009, the match had national championship implications that exacerbated the rivalry to a greater degree.


Players


Out on loan


Notable players


Top scorers

LDU has had six players become the season top-scorer in the Serie A, five players become the top-scorer in the ''Campeaonato Profesional Interandino'', three players as the top-scorer in the Copa Libertadores, one player become the top-scorer in the Copa Sudamericana, and one player become the top-scorer in the
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. The team's all-time top scorer is Polo Carrera with 92 goals. Serie A * Pio Coutinho (1966, 13 goals) * Francisco Bertocchi (1969, 26 goals) * Paulo César (1981, 25 goals) * Janio Pinto (1988, 18 goals) * Diego Herrera (1993, 21 goals) *
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(2009, 22 goals) * Hernán Barcos (2017, 21 goals) * Cristian Martínez Borja(2020, 24 goals) Interandino * Felipe Andrade (1954, 8 goals) * Armando Larrea (1963, 7 goals) * Epifanio Brizuela (1963, 7 goals) * Nelson Cabezas (1963, 7 goals) * Pio Coutinho (1967, 7 goals) Copa Libertadores * Francisco Bertocchi (1970, 9 goals) *
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(2006, 5 goals) *
Patricio Urrutia Patricio Javier Urrutia Espinoza, nicknamed ''Pato'' (born October 15, 1978, in Ventanas, Los Ríos), is a retired Ecuadorian politician and professional footballer. Club career Early career Urrutia first started playing football for Liga Dep ...
(2006, 5 goals) Copa Sudamericana *
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(2009, 8 goals) Copa CONMEBOL * Carlos Morales (1998, 4 goals)


World Cup players

The following players were chosen to represent their country at the
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while contracted to LDU Quito. *
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(2002) *
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(2002) *
Paúl Ambrosi Vicente Paúl Ambrosi Zambrano, commonly known as Paúl Ambrosi (born October 14, 1980, in Guaranda), is a retired Ecuadorian football player who played as a defender. He has spent the vast majority of his professional career at LDU Quito. He i ...
(2006) *
Agustín Delgado Agustín Javier Delgado Chalá (born 23 December 1974) is an Ecuadorian former professional footballer who played as a forward. Nicknamed ''Tín'', he was the all-time top scorer for the Ecuador national team with 31 goals in 71 games befor ...
(2006) * Giovanny Espinoza (2006) * Édison Méndez (2006) * Cristian Mora (2006) * Néicer Reasco (2006) *
Patricio Urrutia Patricio Javier Urrutia Espinoza, nicknamed ''Pato'' (born October 15, 1978, in Ventanas, Los Ríos), is a retired Ecuadorian politician and professional footballer. Club career Early career Urrutia first started playing football for Liga Dep ...
(2006) *
Enrique Vera Enrique Daniel Vera Torres, nicknamed ''Rambert'' (born 10 March 1979, in Asunción), is a retired Paraguayan football midfielder who last played for América de Quito. Vera has been primarily based since LDU Quito since 2006, winning the 20 ...
(2010) * Alexander Dominguez (2014, 2022)


Managers


Noted managers

The following managers won at least one trophy when in charge of LDU Quito, in addition to the first manager: * Bolívar León (first manager) * César Jácome Moscoso (won the 1932 amateur Pichincha) * Luis Vásquez (won the 1952 & 1953 amateur Pichincha and the 1954 Interandino) * Roberto Eliseo Ortega (won the 1958 Interandino) * José Gomes Nogueira (won the 1960 Interandino and the 1969 Serie A) * Román Soto Vergara (won the 1961 Interandino) * José María Ocampo (won the 1966 & 1967 Interandino) * Leonel Montoya (won promotion in 1973 and won the 1974 and 1975 Serie A) * Polo Carrera (won the 1990 Serie A) * Paulo Massa (won the 1998 Serie A) *
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(won the 1999 Serie A) *
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(won the 2001 Serie B and promotion to the Serie A) * Jorge Fossati (first tenure, won the 2003 Serie A; second tenure, won the 2009 Recopa Sudamericana and
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) *
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(won the 2005 Apertura) * Edgardo Bauza (first tenure, won the 2007 Serie A and
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; second tenure, won the 2010 Recopa Sudamericana and the 2010 Serie A) *
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(won the 2018 Serie A, won the 2018-19 Copa Ecuador and won the
2020 Supercopa Ecuador The 2020 Supercopa Ecuador was the first edition of the Supercopa Ecuador, Ecuador's football super cup. It was held on 1 February 2020 between 2019 Ecuadorian Serie A champions Delfín and 2019 Copa Ecuador champions LDU Quito, being the third ...
) * Gabriel Di Noia (won the 2021 Supercopa Ecuador)


Honours

LDU is one of the most successful clubs in the history of Ecuadorian football, with nine regional titles, eleven national titles, and four international titles. Liga won three amateur titles in the Interandino amateur era, tying them for third overall with Gimnástico. In the Interandino's professional era, Liga won six titles, which makes them the most successful team. Nationally, the club has won 11 national titles, the last one in 2018. Their national title count places them fourth overall behind
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with 15 titles, Emelec with 14 titles and El Nacional 13 titles. Liga is the Ecuadorian club who have won more international titles, with four of them.


Regional

*Campeonato Amateur del Fútbol de Pichincha (3): 1932, 1952, 1953 *Campeonato Professional Interandino (6): 1954, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1966, 1967


National

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(11):
1969 This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 **Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to ...
, 1974,
1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
,
1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of humanity on Earth, astrophysicist ...
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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...
,
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 shoot ...
, 2003, 2005 Apertura, 2007, 2010,
2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the Unit ...
;* Copa Ecuador (1):
2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...
;* Supercopa Ecuador (2):
2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global social and economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, worldwide lockdowns and the largest economic recession since the Great Depression in t ...
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2021 File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October 2021 coup in Sudan; Crowd shortly after t ...


International

* Copa Libertadores (1): 2008 * Copa Sudamericana (1): 2009 ''runners-up'' 2011 * Recopa Sudamericana (2): 2009, 2010 * FIFA Club World Cup: ''runners-up''
2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...
* Suruga Bank Championship: ''runners-up'' 2010


Statistics

''Note: All statistics are current as of the end of their last participation.''


See also

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References


External links

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FIFA profile
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