2000 Copa Merconorte

Copa Merconorte 2000

Tournament details
Dates	4 July – 9 November 2000
Teams	16 (from 7 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Atlético Nacional (2nd title)
Runners-up	Millonarios
Tournament statistics
Matches played	54
Goals scored	148 (2.74 per match)
Top scorer	León Darío Muñoz (6)
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The 2000 Copa Merconorte was the 3rd edition of association football tournament Copa Merconorte held in 2000. Atlético Nacional of Colombia beat another Colombian club, Millonarios, in the final.

Participants

Country	Team
Bolivia (1 berth)	Oriente Petrolero
Colombia (3 berths)	América de Cali
	Atlético Nacional
	Millonarios
Costa Rica (1 berth)	Alajuelense
Ecuador (3 berths)	Barcelona
	El Nacional
	Emelec
Mexico (4 berths)	Guadalajara
	Necaxa
	Pachuca
	Toluca
Peru (3 berths)	Alianza Lima
	Sporting Cristal
	Universitario
Venezuela (1 berth)	Estudiantes de Mérida

Group stage

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

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		GUA	NAC	EST	AME
1	Guadalajara	6	3	2	1	12	7	+5	11	Advance to Semifinals		—	1–0	4–0	1–1
2	El Nacional	6	2	3	1	7	6	+1	9			3–3	—	2–1	1–0
3	Estudiantes de Mérida	6	2	1	3	9	11	−2	7			2–3	1–1	—	3–0
4	América de Cali	6	1	2	3	3	7	−4	5			1–0	0–0	1–2	—

Source:

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ATL	ALA	NEC	ALI
1	Atlético Nacional	6	3	1	2	10	8	+2	10	Advance to Semifinals		—	2–0	0–0	4–1
2	Alajuelense	6	2	3	1	9	7	+2	9			3–0	—	2–2	2–1
3	Necaxa	6	1	4	1	5	5	0	7			2–1	1–1	—	0–0
4	Alianza Lima	6	1	2	3	6	10	−4	5			2–3	1–1	1–0	—

Source:

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MIL	TOL	BAR	UNI
1	Millonarios	6	3	3	0	11	6	+5	12	Advance to Semifinals		—	5–5	1–1	1–0
2	Toluca	6	2	2	2	15	11	+4	8			0–0	—	4–0	4–1
3	Barcelona	6	1	3	2	6	10	−4	6			0–2	2–0	—	1–1
4	Universitario	6	1	2	3	7	12	−5	5			0–2	3–2	2–2	—

Source:

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		EME	PAC	CRI	ORI
1	Emelec	6	3	2	1	6	4	+2	11	Advance to Semifinals		—	1–0	1–0	2–1
2	Pachuca	6	3	0	3	6	7	−1	9			1–0	—	1–0	2–1
3	Sporting Cristal	6	2	2	2	10	7	+3	8			2–2	2–1	—	5–1
4	Oriente Petrolero	6	1	2	3	7	11	−4	5			0–0	3–1	1–1	—

Source:

Semifinals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Guadalajara	4–4 (2–4 p)	Atlético Nacional	1–1	3–3
Emelec	3–5	Millonarios	3–3	0–2

First leg

18 October 2000 (2000-10-18)

Guadalajara	1–1	Atlético Nacional
Ruiz 75'		Aristizábal 73'

Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara

Referee: Ángel Sánchez

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19 October 2000 (2000-10-19)

Emelec	3–3	Millonarios
Kenig 6' (pen.), 52' Juarez 8'		Ramírez 4' Jiménez 20' Suárez 80'

Estadio George Capwell, Guayaquil

Referee: Mario Sánchez Yantén

Second leg

25 October 2000 (2000-10-25)

Atlético Nacional	3–3	Guadalajara
Muñoz 20', 35' Aristizábal 54' (pen.)		Ruiz 24' Morales 43' Nava 90'
Penalties
Rueda Salcedo Muñoz González Aristizábal	4–2	Galindo Ruiz Nápoles Alfaro

Estadio Atanasio Girardot, Medellín

Referee: Antônio Pereira

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26 October 2000 (2000-10-26)

Millonarios	2–0	Emelec
Oscar Millán 12' Pérez 53'

Nemesio Camacho, Bogotá

Referee: Oscar Roberto Godói

Finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Millonarios	1–2	Atlético Nacional	0–0	1–2

First leg

2 November 2000 (2000-11-02)

Millonarios	0–0	Atlético Nacional

Nemesio Camacho, Bogotá

Referee: Jorge Hernán Hoyos

Second leg

9 November 2000 (2000-11-09)

Atlético Nacional	2–1	Millonarios
Moreno 8' Aristizábal 49'		Jiménez 56'

Atanasio Girardot, Medellín

Referee: Henry Cervantes

Statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Team	Total
1	León Darío Muñoz	Atlético Nacional	6
2	Jorge Soto	Sporting Cristal	5
	Alejandro Kenig	Emelec	5
	Víctor Hugo Aristizábal	Atlético Nacional	5
5	Agustín Delgado	Necaxa	4
	Carlos María Morales	Toluca	4

External links

• 2000 Copa Merconorte game summaries
• 2000 Copa Merconorte stats