1986 Copa Libertadores

The 1986 Copa Libertadores was the 27th edition of the Copa Libertadores, CONMEBOL's annual international club tournament. River Plate won the competition for their first ever title, after winning the first leg 2–1 and the second leg 1–0.

1986 Copa Libertadores de América

Tournament details
Dates	March 12 – October 29
Teams	19 (from 9 associations)
Final positions
Champions	River Plate (1st title)
Runners-up	América de Cali
Tournament statistics
Matches played	65
Goals scored	170 (2.62 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Juan Carlos de Lima (9 goals)

The representatives of Venezuela, Estudiantes de Mérida and Unión Atlético Táchira, did not participate upon the Venezuelan Football Federation's suspension by FIFA.

Qualified teams

Country	Team	Qualification method
CONMEBOL (1 berth)	Argentinos Juniors	1985 Copa Libertadores champion
Argentina (2 berths)	River Plate	1985–86 Primera División champion
	Boca Juniors	1985–86 Liguilla Pre-Libertadores winner
Bolivia (2 berths)	Bolívar	1985 Primera División champion
	Jorge Wilstermann	1985 Primera División runner-up
Brazil (2 berths)	Coritiba	1985 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A champion
	Bangu	1985 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A runner-up
Chile (2 berths)	Cobresal	1985 Pre-Copa Libertadores play-off winner
	Universidad Católica	1985 Liguilla Pre-Copa Libertadores winner
Colombia (2 berths)	América de Cali	1985 Campeonato Profesional champion
	Deportivo Cali	1985 Campeonato Profesional runner-up
Ecuador (2 berths)	Barcelona	1985 Campeonato Ecuatoriano champion
	Deportivo Quito	1985 Campeonato Ecuatoriano runner-up
Paraguay (2 berths)	Olimpia	1985 Primera División champion
	Nacional	1985 Primera División runner-up
Peru (2 berths)	Universitario	1985 Primera División champion
	UTC	1985 Primera División runner-up
Uruguay (2 berths)	Peñarol	1985 Liguilla Pre-Libertadores winner
	Montevideo Wanderers	1985 Liguilla Pre-Libertadores runner-up

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 Argentina competed as Argentinos Juniors was champion of the 1985 Copa Libertadores. They entered the tournament in the Semifinals.

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

Group stage

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		RIV	WAN	BOC	PEÑ
1	River Plate	6	5	1	0	13	4	+9	11	Semifinals		—	4–2	1–0	3–1
2	Montevideo Wanderers	6	3	0	3	10	10	0	6			0–2	—	2–0	3–1
3	Boca Juniors	6	2	2	2	7	8	−1	6			1–1	3–2	—	1–1
4	Peñarol	6	0	1	5	4	12	−8	1			0–2	0–1	1–2	—

Source:

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BOL	WIL	UNI	UTC
1	Bolívar	6	4	1	1	12	7	+5	9	Semifinals		—	2–0	4–0	2–1
2	Jorge Wilstermann	6	3	0	3	11	8	+3	6			1–2	—	4–0	2–0
3	Universitario	6	3	0	3	9	11	−2	6			3–0	1–2	—	2–0
4	UTC	6	1	1	4	7	13	−6	3			2–2	3–2	1–3	—

Source:

Group 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAR	COR	QUI	BAN
1	Barcelona	6	2	4	0	7	5	+2	8	Semifinals		—	1–1	3–3	1–0
2	Coritiba	6	2	3	1	8	5	+3	7			0–0	—	3–1	2–0
3	Deportivo Quito	6	2	3	1	12	11	+1	7			0–0	2–1	—	3–1
4	Bangu	6	0	2	4	6	12	−6	2			1–2	1–1	3–3	—

Source:

Group 4

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		AME	CAL	COB	CAT
1	América de Cali	6	3	3	0	8	4	+4	9	Semifinals		—	0–0	0–0	2–1
2	Deportivo Cali	6	2	3	1	8	5	+3	7			0–1	—	1–1	3–1
3	Cobresal	6	1	5	0	5	4	+1	7			2–2	1–1	—	1–1
4	Universidad Católica	6	0	1	5	5	13	−8	1			1–3	1–3	0–1	—

Source:

Group 5

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		OLI	NAC
1	Olimpia	2	2	0	0	5	2	+3	4	Semifinals		—	3–1
2	Nacional	2	0	0	2	2	5	−3	0			1–2	—

Source:

• The representatives of Venezuela, Estudiantes de Mérida and Unión Atlético Táchira, did not participate upon the Venezuelan Football Federation's suspension by FIFA.

Semifinals

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		RIV	ARG	BAR
1	River Plate	4	2	1	1	7	3	+4	5	Finals		—	0–2	4–1
2	Argentinos Juniors	4	2	1	1	3	1	+2	5			0–0	—	1–0
3	Barcelona	4	1	0	3	2	8	−6	2			0–3	1–0	—

Source:

Tiebreaker

• River Plate qualify due to better goal difference in group.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
River Plate	0–0	Argentinos Juniors

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		AME	OLI	BOL
1	América de Cali	4	2	1	1	4	4	0	5	Finals		—	1–0	2–1
2	Olimpia	4	1	2	1	5	4	+1	4			1–1	—	3–1
3	Bolívar	4	1	1	2	5	6	−1	3			2–0	1–1	—

Source:

Finals

Main article: 1986 Copa Libertadores Finals

1st leg

1986-10-22

América de Cali	1 – 2	River Plate
Cabañas 46'		Funes 22' Alonso 25'

Cali, Estadio Pascual Guerrero

2nd leg

1986-10-29

River Plate	1 – 0	América de Cali
Funes 69'

Buenos Aires, Estadio Monumental

River Plate won 3–1 on aggregate.

Copa Libertadores 1986 Winner
River Plate First Title

External links

• Sitio oficial de la CONMEBOL
• Libertadores 1986 at RSSSF.com
• River in Copa Libertadores 1986