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1991 Copa Libertadores Finals
Event1991 Copa Libertadores
First leg
Date29 May 1991
VenueEstadio Defensores del Chaco, Asunción
RefereeErnesto Filippi
Attendance51.000
Second leg
Date5 June 1991
VenueEstadio Monumental David Arellano, Santiago
RefereeJosé Roberto Wright
Attendance66.517
1990
1992

The 1991 Copa Libertadores Final was a two-legged football match-up to determine the 1991 Copa Libertadores champion. It was contested between Olimpia of Paraguay and Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo of Chile.

Colo-Colo won 3–0 on aggregate score and became the first Chilean football team to win an official international competition. These finals were the last ones not to show either an Argentine nor a Brazilian team competed up to the 2016 edition.

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Club Olimpia

Club Olimpia

Club Olimpia is a Paraguayan professional sports club based in the city of Asunción. The club promotes the practice of various sports with most importance given to the football, rugby and basketball sides, the former being the highest priority and most successful. They were founded on July 25, 1902 by a group of young Paraguayans, and the name stems from the idea of its principal founding member, William Paats, a Dutchman based in Paraguay, who is considered the father of Paraguayan football for having introduced the practice of the sport in the South American country. Internationally, the club is referred to as Olimpia Asunción in order to distinguish itself from Latin American football clubs of the same name.

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Chile

Chile

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Qualified teams

Team Previous finals app.
Paraguay Olimpia 1960, 1979, 1989, 1990
Chile Colo-Colo 1973

Bold indicates winning years

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Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. It has a population of 7 million, nearly 3 million of whom live in the capital and largest city of Asunción, and its surrounding metro. Although one of only two landlocked countries in South America, Paraguay has ports on the Paraguay and Paraná rivers that give exit to the Atlantic Ocean, through the Paraná-Paraguay Waterway.

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Chile

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Colo-Colo

Colo-Colo

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Venues

Estadio Defensores del Chaco (left) and Estadio Monumental, venues for the series
Estadio Defensores del Chaco (left) and Estadio Monumental, venues for the series
Estadio Defensores del Chaco (left) and Estadio Monumental, venues for the series

Match details

First leg

First leg
Olimpia Paraguay0–0Chile Colo-Colo
Olimpia
Colo-Colo

Second leg

Second leg
Colo-Colo Chile3–0Paraguay Olimpia
Pérez 12'
Pérez 17'
Herrera 85'
Attendance: 66,517
Referee: Jose Wright (Brazil)
Colo-Colo
Olimpia

Assistant referees:
Brazil Wilson dos Santos
Brazil José Da Costa
Fourth official:
Chile Iván Guerrero

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1991 Copa Libertadores

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The 1991 Copa Libertadores was won by Colo-Colo of Chile after defeating Olimpia of Paraguay with a 3–0 aggregate score in the finals. The championship would mark a first for a Chilean club team in an international tournament. Twenty-one clubs from all South American countries within Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol (CONMEBOL) participated.

Club Olimpia

Club Olimpia

Club Olimpia is a Paraguayan professional sports club based in the city of Asunción. The club promotes the practice of various sports with most importance given to the football, rugby and basketball sides, the former being the highest priority and most successful. They were founded on July 25, 1902 by a group of young Paraguayans, and the name stems from the idea of its principal founding member, William Paats, a Dutchman based in Paraguay, who is considered the father of Paraguayan football for having introduced the practice of the sport in the South American country. Internationally, the club is referred to as Olimpia Asunción in order to distinguish itself from Latin American football clubs of the same name.

Paraguay

Paraguay

Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. It has a population of 7 million, nearly 3 million of whom live in the capital and largest city of Asunción, and its surrounding metro. Although one of only two landlocked countries in South America, Paraguay has ports on the Paraguay and Paraná rivers that give exit to the Atlantic Ocean, through the Paraná-Paraguay Waterway.

Chile

Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country located in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. With an area of 756,096 square kilometers (291,930 sq mi) and a population of 17.5 million as of 2017, Chile shares borders with Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. The country also controls several Pacific islands, including Juan Fernández, Isla Salas y Gómez, Desventuradas, and Easter Island, and claims about 1,250,000 square kilometers (480,000 sq mi) of Antarctica as the Chilean Antarctic Territory. The capital and largest city of Chile is Santiago, and the national language is Spanish.

Colo-Colo

Colo-Colo

Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo is a Chilean professional football club based in Macul, Santiago. Founded in 1925 by David Arellano they play in the Chilean Primera División, from which they have never been relegated. The team has played its home games at Estadio Monumental David Arellano since 1989. Colo-Colo is regarded as the most successful club of Chilean football.

Estadio Defensores del Chaco

Estadio Defensores del Chaco

Estadio Defensores del Chaco is a multi-purpose stadium in Asunción, Paraguay. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium once had a 50,000+ capacity, however over the years the stadium has undergone remodeling, dropping the capacity to 42,354. It underwent renovations during 1939, 1996 and 2007. The stadium was again renovated in 2015. It has more than 100 years as a stadium. It is one of the places with most history in Paraguayan football. In 1960, the stadium was the venue of the first final of the Copa Libertadores. The stadium receives visits from the public from Monday to Friday from 8:30 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 16:00 with free access.

Asunción

Asunción

Asunción is the capital and the largest city of Paraguay.

Ernesto Filippi

Ernesto Filippi

Ernesto Filippi Cavani is a former Uruguayan football referee. He is known for supervising one match during the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the United States.

Jorge Battaglia

Jorge Battaglia

Jorge Antonio Battaglia Méndez is a Paraguayan former football goalkeeper. He played his club football for Sol de América, Olimpia Asunción, Club Bolívar and Estudiantes de La Plata.

Remigio Fernández

Remigio Fernández

Remigio Fernández is a Paraguayan football manager and former Paraguayan footballer who played in clubs of Paraguay and Chile.

César Castro (footballer, born 1966)

César Castro (footballer, born 1966)

César Augusto Castro Paiva is an association football coach and former central defender. Castro played for most his career for Olimpia Asunción where he won several national and international championships such as the Copa Libertadores and Supercopa Sudamericana.

Silvio Suárez

Silvio Suárez

Silvio Suárez is a former football defender from Paraguay. His most common position in defense was left-back.

Source: "1991 Copa Libertadores Finals", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2022, November 6th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Copa_Libertadores_Finals.

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