Date TBA Date TBA | Venue Arena Condá, Chapecó Location South America | |
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Venue Estadio Atanasio Girardot, Medellín | ||
The 2017 Recopa Sudamericana (Portuguese: 2017 Recopa Sul-Americana) will be the 25th edition of the Recopa Sudamericana, the football competition organized by CONMEBOL between the winners of the previous season's two major South American club tournaments, the Copa Libertadores and the Copa Sudamericana.
Contents
The competition will be contested in two-legged home-and-away format between Colombian team Atlético Nacional, the 2016 Copa Libertadores champion, and Brazilian team Chapecoense, the 2016 Copa Sudamericana champion.
Background
The matches will take place during the year after the crash of LaMia Flight 2933, in which 19 Chapecoense players and the club's coach died while travelling to compete in the first leg of the 2016 Copa Sudamericana Final, which was to have taken place at Atlético Nacional's Estadio Atanasio Girardot in Medellín. Following the crash, CONMEBOL awarded the 2016 Copa Sudamericana to Chapecoense, at the request of Atlético Nacional. The tragedy has produced a friendship between the two clubs: on the scheduled night of the original match, Atlético Nacional held a memorial for the victims attended by over 130,000 people including the mayor of Chapecó, an act that Chapecoense fans offered thanks for in their own club's memorial gathering.
Format
The Recopa Sudamericana is played on a home-and-away two-legged basis, with the Copa Libertadores champion hosting the second leg. If tied on aggregate, the away goals rule is not used, and 30 minutes of extra time is played. If still tied after extra time, the penalty shoot-out is used to determine the winner.