1988 Copa Libertadores

The 1988 Copa Libertadores de América was the 29th edition of the Copa Libertadores, South America's premier international club football tournament organized by CONMEBOL. This season's defending champion Peñarol of Uruguay were defeated by San Lorenzo of Argentina. In the finals, Nacional defeated Newell's Old Boys.

1988 Copa Libertadores de América

Tournament details
Dates	June 29 – October 26
Teams	21 (from 10 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Nacional (3rd title)
Runners-up	Newell's Old Boys
Tournament statistics
Matches played	83
Goals scored	170 (2.05 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Arnoldo Iguarán (5)
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Draw

The champions and runners-up of each football association were drawn into the same group along with another football association's participating teams. Three clubs from Uruguay competed as Peñarol was champion of the 1987 Copa Libertadores. They entered the tournament in the third stage.

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4	Group 5
Chile   Venezuela	Argentina   Ecuador	Colombia   Uruguay	Bolivia   Paraguay	Brazil   Peru

First stage

Group 1

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		UCA	COL	MAR	TAC
Universidad Católica	6	4	2	0	9	4	+5	10			1–0	2–1	3–1
Colo-Colo	6	4	1	1	7	3	+4	9		2–2		1–0	2–0
Marítimo	6	0	3	3	2	5	−3	3		0–0	0–1		1–1
Unión Atlético Táchira	6	0	2	4	2	8	−6	2		0–1	0–1	0–0

Source:^{[citation needed]}

Group 2

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Newell's Old Boys	6	2	4	0	5	1	+4	8
San Lorenzo	6	3	2	1	6	4	+2	8
Barcelona	6	3	1	2	9	8	+1	7
Filanbanco	6	0	1	5	5	12	−7	1

Source:^{[citation needed]}

Date	Location	Team 1	Score	Team 2
July 6	Rosario	Newell's Old Boys	0:0	San Lorenzo
July 6	Guayaquil	Barcelona	4:2	Filanbanco
July 12	Milagro	Filanbanco	1:1	Newell's Old Boys
July 13	Guayaquil	Barcelona	2:0	San Lorenzo
July 16	Milagro	Filanbanco	1:2	San Lorenzo
July 17	Guayaquil	Barcelona	0:0	Newell's Old Boys
July 20	Milagro	Filanbanco	1:2	Barcelona
July 21	Buenos Aires	San Lorenzo	0:0	Newell's Old Boys
July 27	Buenos Aires	San Lorenzo	2:1	Barcelona
July 29	Rosario	Newell's Old Boys	1:0	Filanbanco
August 1	Rosario	Newell's Old Boys	3:0	Barcelona
August 2	Buenos Aires	San Lorenzo	2:0	Filanbanco

Tie-breaker

Newell's Old Boys and San Lorenzo played an extra match to determine the winner of the group.

August 7, 1988

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Newell's Old Boys	1–0	San Lorenzo
Ramos   ?'

El Coloso del Parque, Rosario

Group 3

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
América de Cali	6	4	1	1	8	6	+2	9
Nacional	6	3	2	1	8	7	+1	8
Millonarios	6	2	0	4	14	12	+2	4
Montevideo Wanderers	6	1	1	4	3	8	−5	3

Source:^{[citation needed]}

Date	Location	Team 1	Score	Team 2
July 29	Montevideo	Montevideo Wanderers	0:0	Nacional
July 30	Bogotá	Millonarios	2:3	América de Cali
July 5	Montevideo	Montevideo Wanderers	1:2	América de Cali
July 8	Montevideo	Nacional	2:0	América de Cali
July 15	Montevideo	Nacional	4:1	Millonarios
July 19	Montevideo	Nacional	1:0	Montevideo Wanderers
July 19	Cali	América de Cali	2:1	Millonarios
July 23	Cali	América de Cali	1:0	Montevideo Wanderers
July 26	Bogotá	Millonarios	3:0	Montevideo Wanderers
July 29	Bogotá	Millonarios	6:1	Nacional
August 3	Cali	América de Cali	0:0	Nacional
August 12	Montevideo	Montevideo Wanderers	2:1	Millonarios

Group 4

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Oriente Petrolero	6	3	1	2	8	8	0	7
Bolívar	6	3	0	3	12	10	+2	6
Cerro Porteño	6	2	2	2	6	7	−1	6
Olimpia	6	2	1	3	6	7	−1	5

Source:^{[citation needed]}

Date	Location	Team 1	Score	Team 2
July 5	La Paz	Bolívar	1:2	Oriente Petrolero
July 6	Asunción	Cerro Porteño	0:0	Olimpia
July 19	Santa Cruz	Oriente Petrolero	1:0	Olimpia
July 22	La Paz	Bolívar	2:0	Olimpia
July 26	Santa Cruz	Oriente Petrolero	2:2	Cerro Porteño
July 29	La Paz	Bolívar	2:0	Cerro Porteño
August 9	Santa Cruz	Oriente Petrolero	1:3	Bolívar
August 10	Asunción	Olimpia	1:0	Cerro Porteño
August 16	Asunción	Cerro Porteño	1:0	Oriente Petrolero
August 19	Asunción	Olimpia	1:2	Oriente Petrolero
August 19	Asunción	Cerro Porteño	3:2	Bolívar
August 26	Asunción	Olimpia	4:2	Bolívar

Group 5

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Guarani	6	3	2	1	9	5	+4	8
Universitario	6	2	4	0	5	2	+3	8
Sport Recife	6	2	1	3	7	6	+1	5
Alianza Lima	6	1	1	4	2	10	−8	3

Source:^{[citation needed]}

Date	Location	Team 1	Score	Team 2
July 1	Lima	Universitario	0:0	Alianza Lima
July 2	Recife	Sport Recife	0:1	Guarani
July 8	Lima	Alianza Lima	2:1	Guarani
July 12	Lima	Universitario	1:1	Guarani
July 18	Lima	Universitario	1:0	Sport Recife
July 22	Lima	Alianza Lima	0:1	Sport Recife
August 3	Lima	Alianza Lima	0:2	Universitario
August 3	Campinas	Guarani	4:1	Sport Recife
August 16	Recife	Sport Recife	5:0	Alianza Lima
August 19	Campinas	Guarani	1:0	Alianza Lima
August 23	Recife	Sport Recife	0:0	Universitario
August 26	Campinas	Guarani	1:1	Universitario

Knockout phase

Bracket

	Second stage					Third stage					Semifinals					Finals
	Universidad Católica	1	0
	Nacional (a)	1	0
						Nacional	1	2
						Newell's Old Boys	1	1
	Bolívar	1	0 (2)
	Newell's Old Boys	0	1 (3)
											Nacional	1	1
											América de Cali	0	1
	América de Cali	1	2
	Universitario	0	2
						América de Cali	1	2
						Oriente Petrolero	1	0
	Oriente Petrolero	2	0
	Colo-Colo	1	0
																Nacional	0	3
																Newell's Old Boys	1	0
	San Lorenzo	1	1
	Guarani	1	0
						San Lorenzo	0	1
						Peñarol	0	0
											San Lorenzo	0	1
											Newell's Old Boys	1	2

Second stage

The group winners and runners-up were drawn in the second stage of the competition. The away goals rule was applied to determine the winner between Nacional and Universidad Católica.

Teams			Scores		Tie-breakers
Team 1	Points	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	GD	AG	Pen.
Nacional	2:2	Universidad Católica	1–1	0–0	0–0	1–0	—
Universitario	1:3	América de Cali	0–1	2–2	—	—	—
Colo-Colo	1:3	Oriente Petrolero	1–2	0–0	—	—	—
Guarani	1:3	San Lorenzo	1–1	0–1	—	—	—
Newell's Old Boys	2:2	Bolívar	0–1	1–0	0–0	0–0	3–2

Third stage

The defending champion Peñarol entered the competition in this round. The three winners and the best-ranked loser advanced to the semifinals.

Teams			Scores		Tie-breakers
Team 1	Points	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	GD	AG	Pen.
San Lorenzo	3:1	Peñarol	0–0	1–0	—	—	—
Nacional	3:1	Newell's Old Boys	1–1	2–1	—	—	—
América de Cali	3:1	Oriente Petrolero	1–1	2–0	—	—	—

Ranking of losing teams

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Newell's Old Boys	2	0	1	1	2	3	−1	1
Peñarol	2	0	1	1	0	1	−1	1
Oriente Petrolero	2	0	1	1	1	3	−2	1

Source:^{[citation needed]}

Semifinals

Teams			Scores		Tie-breakers
Team 1	Points	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	GD	AG	Pen.
San Lorenzo	0:4	Newell's Old Boys	0–1	1–2	—	—	—
América de Cali	1:3	Nacional	0–1	1–1	—	—	—

Finals

Main article: 1988 Copa Libertadores Finals

19 October 1988

Newell's Old Boys	1–0	Nacional
Gabrich   60'	Report

Gigante de Arroyito, Rosario

Attendance: 45,000

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26 October 1988

Nacional	3–0	Newell's Old Boys
Vargas   13' Ostolaza   36' De León   78'	Report

Centenario, Montevideo

Attendance: 75,000

External links

• Sitio oficial de la CONMEBOL
• Libertadores 1988 at RSSSF.com