The final is once again an all-Brazilian affair.
The Palmeiras players celebrate reaching the final
The final is once again an all-Brazilian affair.
South America’s football champion will come from Brazil for the seventh consecutive time. On November 29, in Lima, Peru’s capital, CR Flamengo from Rio de Janeiro and SE Palmeiras from Sao Paulo, the two financially strongest clubs on the continent, will face each other in the Copa Libertadores final. The equivalent of the Champions League is now, for the fifth time in the last six years and the seventh time overall, an all-Brazilian affair.
Palmeiras, which during this period won its second and third Libertadores titles, secured its seventh final appearance on Thursday by overturning a 0-3 deficit from the previous week against LDU Quito, played at 2850 meters altitude in Ecuador’s capital, with a 4-0 (2:0) victory at home. Flamengo, victorious on the continent in 1981 under its club idol Zico and more recently in 2019 and 2022, had already eliminated Argentina’s last representative Racing Club on Wednesday after a 1-0 first-leg win with a goalless draw in Avellaneda.