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1997 Supercopa Libertadores
1997 Supercopa Libertadores; 1997 Supercopa Sudamericana João Havelange
Tournament details
Dates	15 June – 17 December
Teams	17 (from 6 confederations)
Final positions
Champions	River Plate (1st title)
Runners-up	São Paulo
Tournament statistics
Matches played	60
Goals scored	187 (3.12 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Ivo Basay; (8 goals)
	← 1996

The 1997 Supercopa Libertadores was the tenth and final season of the Supercopa Libertadores, a club football tournament for past Copa Libertadores winners.

Vasco da Gama were admitted to the tournament for the first time in recognition of winning the South American Championship of Champions in 1948. Argentinos Juniors did not take part. River Plate won the competition for the first time, defeating São Paulo 2–1 on aggregate in the final.

For its final season, the format of the first round was changed from a two-legged knockout round to four groups of four teams playing each other twice. As 17 teams were scheduled to take part, a preliminary round was played to eliminate one team.

As through the successive editions of this cup were added new champions from the Copa Libertadores, in 1997 the Conmebol decided that the last teams of each group would descend to reduce the number of teams to disputed it. That year descended Velez Sarsfield, Racing Club and Boca Juniors (all teams from Argentina) and Gremio (Brazil).

Teams

Association	Team (Berth)	Entry stage	Qualification method
Argentina 6 berths^{[Note ARG]}	Independiente (Argentina 1)	Group stage	1964, 1965, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1984 Copa Libertadores champions
	Estudiantes (Argentina 2)		1968, 1969, 1970 Copa Libertadores champions
	River Plate (Argentina 3)		1986, 1996 Copa Libertadores champions
	Boca Juniors (Argentina 4)		1977, 1978 Copa Libertadores champions
	Vélez Sarsfield (Argentina 5)		1994 Copa Libertadores champions
	Racing (Argentina 6)		1967 Copa Libertadores champions
Brazil 6 berths	Grêmio (Brazil 1)	Group stage	1983, 1995 Copa Libertadores champions
	São Paulo (Brazil 2)		1992, 1993 Copa Libertadores champions
	Santos (Brazil 3)		1962, 1963 Copa Libertadores champions
	Flamengo (Brazil 4)		1981 Copa Libertadores champions
	Cruzeiro (Brazil 5)		1976 Copa Libertadores champions
	Vasco da Gama (Brazil 6)	Preliminary round	1948 Campeonato de Campeones Sudamericano champions
Chile 1 berth	Colo-Colo (Chile 1)	Group stage	1991 Copa Libertadores champions
Colombia 1 berth	Atlético Nacional (Colombia 1)	Group stage	1989 Copa Libertadores champions
Paraguay 1 berth	Olimpia (Paraguay 1)	Group stage	1979, 1990 Copa Libertadores champions
Uruguay 2 berths	Peñarol (Uruguay 1)	Preliminary round	1960, 1961, 1966, 1982, 1987 Copa Libertadores champions
Uruguay 2 berths	Nacional (Uruguay 2)	Preliminary round	1971, 1980, 1988 Copa Libertadores champions

;Notes

Argentina (ARG):
- Argentinos Juniors (1985 Copa Libertadores champions) was not qualified due to be on Primera B Nacional a season before.

Preliminary round

The matches were played from 15 June to 13 July.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Vasco da Gama	4	2	1	1	5	4	+1	7	First round
2	Peñarol	4	1	2	1	6	7	−1	5	First round
3	Nacional	4	1	1	2	5	5	0	4

Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Home \ Away	NAC	PEN	VAS
Nacional		1–2	2–0
Peñarol	2–2		1–1
Vasco da Gama	1–0	3–1

Source: RSSSF
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Group stage

The matches were played from 26 August to 30 October.

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Colo-Colo	6	3	2	1	12	9	+3	11	Semifinals
2	Cruzeiro	6	3	0	3	9	10	−1	9
3	Independiente	6	2	2	2	9	9	0	8
4	Boca Juniors	6	1	2	3	7	9	−2	5

Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Home \ Away	BOC	COL	CRU	IND
Boca Juniors		2–2	1–0	1–1
Colo-Colo	2–1		4–2	2–0
Cruzeiro	2–1	2–0		2–1
Independiente	2–1	2–2	3–1

Source: RSSSF
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	São Paulo	6	3	2	1	15	8	+7	11	Semifinals
2	Flamengo	6	3	1	2	10	7	+3	10
3	Olimpia	6	1	3	2	6	9	−3	6
4	Vélez Sarsfield	6	1	2	3	6	13	−7	5

Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Home \ Away	FLA	OLI	SAO	VEL
Flamengo		3–3	3–2	0–1
Olimpia	0–1		0–0	1–0
São Paulo	1–0	4–1		5–1
Vélez Sarsfield	0–3	1–1	3–3

Source: RSSSF
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Group 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	River Plate	6	5	0	1	17	9	+8	15	Semifinals
2	Vasco da Gama	6	3	1	2	9	12	−3	10
3	Santos	6	2	1	3	11	12	−1	7
4	Racing	6	0	2	4	11	15	−4	2

Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Home \ Away	RAC	RIV	SAN	VAS
Racing		2–3	2–2	2–3
River Plate	3–2		3–2	5–1
Santos	3–2	2–1		1–2
Vasco da Gama	1–1	0–2	2–1

Source: RSSSF
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Group 4

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Atlético Nacional	6	3	1	2	9	7	+2	10	Semifinals
2	Peñarol	6	2	2	2	10	10	0	8
3	Estudiantes	6	2	2	2	8	8	0	8
4	Grêmio	6	1	3	2	9	11	−2	6

Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Home \ Away	ANA	EST	GRE	PEN
Atlético Nacional		2–0	3–1	1–0
Estudiantes	1–0		0–0	3–1
Grêmio	2–2	3–2		1–1
Peñarol	3–1	2–2	3–2

Source: RSSSF
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Knockout phase

In the knockout phase, the four group winners played a single-elimination tournament. Each tie was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis.

Bracket

Semifinals					Finals

1	River Plate	2	1	3

4	Atlético Nacional	0	2	2
					São Paulo	0	1	1

					River Plate	0	2	2
3	São Paulo	3	1	4

2	Colo-Colo	1	0	1

Semifinals

The matches were played on 5 November, 6 November, 26 November and 27 November.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
São Paulo	4–1	Colo-Colo	3–1	1–0
River Plate	3–2	Atlético Nacional	2–0	1–2

Finals

The matches were played on 5 November, 6 November, 26 November and 27 November.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
São Paulo	1–2	River Plate	0–0	1–2

4 December 1997

21:45 UTC−3

São Paulo	0–0	River Plate

Estádio Cícero Pompeu de Toledo (Morumbi), São Paulo

Attendance: 47,549

Referee: Mario Sánchez Yantén (Chile)

17 December 1997

21:45 UTC−3

River Plate	2–1	São Paulo
Salas 46' 58'		53' Dodô

Estadio Antonio Vespucio Liberti (El Monumental), Buenos Aires

Attendance: 81,521

Referee: Ubaldo Aquino (Paraguay)

River Plate won 2–1 on aggregate.

1997 Supercopa Sudamericana winners
River Plate First title

Top goalscorers

Pos	Name	Club	Goals
1	Ivo Basay	Colo-Colo	8
2	Marcelo Salas	River Plate	7
3	Dodô	São Paulo	5
4	Martín Fúriga	Estudiantes	4
	Marcelo Ramos	Cruzeiro
	Sávio	Flamengo
	Martín Vilallonga	Racing