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| most successful club = | website = }} The Copa Libertadores de América ((ポルトガル語:Copa Libertadores da América)) is an annual international club football competition organized by CONMEBOL since 1960. It is one of the most prestigious tournaments in the world and the most prestigious club competition in Latin American football. The tournament is named in honor of the ''Libertadores'' (Spanish and Portuguese for ''liberators''), the main leaders of the South American wars of independence,〔 so a literal translation of its name into English would be "''Liberators of America Cup''". It is currently sponsored by Bridgestone and is thus officially known as the Copa Bridgestone Libertadores. The competition has had several different formats over its lifetime. Initially, only the champions of the South American leagues participated. In 1966, the runners-up of the South American leagues began to join. In 1998, Mexican teams were invited to compete, and have contested regularly since 2000, when the tournament was expanded from 20 to 32 teams. Today at least three clubs per country compete in the tournament, while Argentina and Brazil each have five clubs participating. Traditionally, a group stage has always been used but the number of teams per group has varied several times.〔〔 In the present format, the tournament consists of six stages, with the first stage taking place in early February. The six surviving teams from the first stage join 26 teams in the second stage, in which there are eight groups consisting of four teams each. The eight group winners and eight runners-up enter the final four stages, better known as the knockout stages, which ends with the finals anywhere between June and August. The winner of the Copa Libertadores becomes eligible to play in the FIFA Club World Cup and the Recopa Sudamericana.〔 Independiente of Argentina are the most successful club in the cup's history, having won the tournament 7 times. Argentine clubs have accumulated the most victories with 23 wins, while Brazil has the largest number of different winning teams, with a total of 10 clubs having won the title. The cup has been won by 24 different clubs, 12 of which have won the title more than once, and won consecutively by six clubs, most recently by Boca Juniors in 2001.〔 The current reigning champions are Argentine side River Plate, who won their third title after beating Tigres UANL of Mexico. == History == (詳細はCopa Río de La Plata between the champions of Argentina and Uruguay kindled the idea of a continental competition in the 1930s.〔 In 1948, the South American Championship of Champions (), the most direct precursor to the Copa Libertadores, was played and organized by Chilean club Colo-Colo after years of planning and organization.〔 Held in Santiago, it brought together the champions of each nation's top national leagues.〔 The tournament was won by Vasco da Gama of Brazil.〔〔La Nación; Historia del Fútbol Chileno, 1985〕 However, it was not until 1958 that the basis and format of the competition was created, thanks to the efforts of Peñarol's board leaders. On March 5, 1959, at the 24th South American Congress held in Buenos Aires, the competition was approved by the International Affairs Committee. In 1966, it was named in honor of the heroes of South American liberation, such as José Gervasio Artigas, Bernardo O'Higgins, José de San Martín, Pedro I, and Simón Bolívar, among others. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Copa Libertadores」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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