2001 Copa dos Campeões

2001 Copa dos Campeões
Country	Brazil
Teams	14
Champions	Flamengo
Runners-up	São Paulo
Matches played	20
Goals scored	61 (3.05 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Luís Fabiano
	← 2002 →

The 2001 Copa dos Campeões was the second staging of the Brazilian football competition Copa dos Campeões. The competition began on June 26, 2001 and ended on July 11, 2001 with the final, held at the Almeidão in João Pessoa, in which Flamengo lifted the trophy for the first time in their history with an aggregate 7–6 victory over São Paulo. Palmeiras were the defending champions, but they did not qualify for this edition.

Qualifying Stage[]

The qualifying stage was played by Goiás, Sport, and São Raimundo. The three teams played each other once and the best two qualified for the final stage of the competition.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Sport	0–0	São Raimundo
Goiás	3–3	Sport
São Raimundo	2–1	Goiás

São Raimundo and Sport qualified for the First Stage of the Copa dos Campeões 2001.

First stage[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Cruzeiro	6–1	São Raimundo	1–0	5–1
São Paulo	9–2	Sport	4–2	5–0
Flamengo	6–2	Bahia	4–2	2–0
Corinthias	0–3	Coritiba	0–1	0–2

First leg[]

23 June 2001	Cruzeiro	1–0	São Raimundo	João Pessoa
18:30 EST	Ricardinho 78'			Stadium: Almeidão Attendance: 23,268 Referee:

23 June 2001	São Paulo	4–2	Sport	Alagoas
18:30 EST				Stadium: Estádio Rei Pelé

23 June 2001	Flamengo	4–2	Bahia	João Pessoa
16:00 EST	Reinaldo 7', 57' Edilson 28' (pen.) 17'		Marcos Vinicius 22', 68' Carlinhos 90+3'	Stadium: Almeidão Attendance: 38,268

27 October 2010	Corinthias	0–1	Coritiba	Alagoas
20:00 CEST				Stadium: Estádio Rei Pelé

Second leg[]

27 June 2001	Cruzeiro	5–1 (6–1 agg.)	São Raimundo	Alagoas
20:00 CET	Marcelo Ramos 5' (38) Ricardinho 9' Sorín 12' Oséas 67'		Sidnei 28'	Stadium: Estádio Rei Pelé Attendance: 20,461 Referee: Paulo César de Oliveira

27 June 2001	Sport	0–5 (2–9 agg.)	São Paulo	João Pessoa
19:15				Stadium: Almeidão

27 June 2001	Bahia	0–2 (2–6 agg.)	Flamengo	Alagoas
21:45			Reinaldo 38', 44'	Stadium: Estádio Rei Pelé

27 June 2001	Coritiba	2–0 (3–0 agg.)	Corinthias	João Pessoa
21:45				Stadium: Almeidão

Semi-finals[]

The first leg matches were played on 30 June while the second legs were played on 4 July 2001.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Flamengo	3–0	Cruzeiro	0–0	3–0
Coritiba	1–6	São Paulo	0–2	1–4

First leg[]

30 June 2001	Flamengo	0–0	Cruzeiro	Alagoas
16:00				Stadium: Estádio Rei Pelé Attendance: 17,271

30 June 2001	Coritiba	0–2	São Paulo	João Pessoa, Paraiba
16:00			Rogério Ceni 72'	Stadium: Almeidão

Second leg[]

4 July 2001	Cruzeiro	0–3 (0–3 agg.)	Flamengo	João Pessoa
21:45			Petkovic 44' Edílson 65' Beto 89'	Stadium: Almeidão Attendance: 31,723

4 July 2001	São Paulo	4–1 (6–1 agg.)	Coritiba	Alagoas
21:45				Stadium: Estádio Rei Pelé

Final[]

First leg[]

7 July 2001

16:00

São Paulo FC	3–5	Flamengo
Luís Fabiano 16', 71' Rogério Pinheiro 59'		Edílson 14', 57' Reinaldo 25' Beto 36' Rogério Pinheiro 79' (o.g)

Almeidão, João Pessoa

Attendance: 17,271

Second leg[]

11 July 2001

21:45

Flamengo	2–3	São Paulo FC
Juan 47' Petković 58'		Kaká 39' França 65' (pen.), 88'

Estádio Rei Pelé, Alagoas

Attendance: 31,723

Referee: Márcio Rezende de Freitas

Flamengo

São Paulo



GK	1	Julio Cesar
RB	2	Alessandro
CB	3	Juan
CB	4	Carlos Gamarra
LB	6	Cássio
DM	5	Leandro Ávila	a'
DM	9
AM	7	Beto (c)
AM	10	Dejan Petković
FW	8	Reinaldo	b'
FW	11	Edílson
Substitutes:
DM	15		a'
MF	16		b'
Manager:
Mário Zagallo



GK	1	Rogério Ceni (c)
RB	2	Belletti
CB	3	Rogério Pinheiro
CB	4	Jean
LB	6	Gustavo Nery
DM	5	Alexandre
DM	10	Douglas
MF	7	Fábio Simplício
AM	8	Kaká
FW	11	Luis Fabiano	58'
FW	9	França
Substitutes:
AM	16	Júlio Baptista
Manager:
Nelsinho Baptista

Copa dos Campeões 2001 Winners
Flamengo 1st Title

References[]

http://www.flamengo.com.br/flapedia/Flamengo_2x3_S%C3%A3o_Paulo_-_Final_da_Copa_dos_Campe%C3%B5es_de_2001

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