1965 Copa Libertadores Finals

1965 Copa de Campeones Finals

Event	1965 Copa de Campeones de América
Independiente Peñarol 6 4
A playoff match was played in Estadio Nacional in Santiago de Chile, being won by Independiente by 4–1
First Leg
Independiente Peñarol 1 0
Date	April 9, 1965
Venue	Independiente, Avellaneda
Referee	Arturo Yamasaki (Peru)
Attendance	45,000
Second Leg
Peñarol Independiente 3 1
Date	April 12, 1965
Venue	Estadio Centenario, Montevideo
Referee	Arturo Yamasaki (Peru)
Attendance	45,000

The 1965 Copa Libertadores Finals was a football series between Argentine team Independiente and Uruguayan team Peñarol on April 6 and 12 of that same year. It was the sixth final of South America's most prestigious football competition, the Copa Libertadores.

After both teams won one match each, a playoff was played on April 15, being won by Independiente by 4–1 at Estadio Nacional in Santiago de Chile. Therefore the Diablos Rojos won their 2nd Copa Libertadores title.^[1]

Qualified teams

Team	Previous finals appearances (bold indicates winners)
Independiente	1964
Peñarol	1960, 1961, 1962

Venues

Estadio de Independiente, Estadio Centenario and Estadio Nacional, venues

Match details

First leg

April 9, 1965

Independiente	1–0	Peñarol
Bernao  83'

Independiente, Buenos Aires

Attendance: 45,000

Referee: Yamasaki (Peru)

Independiente

Peñarol

GK Miguel Santoro Rubén Navarro Raúl Decaria Roberto Ferreiro David Acevedo Juan C. Guzmán Rául Bernao Osvaldo Mura Luis Suárez Roque Avallay Raúl Savoy Substitutes: MF Vicente de la Mata, Jr. Manager: Manuel Giúdice

GK Ladislao Mazurkiewicz Carlos Pérez Luis Varela Pablo Forlán Néstor Gonçalves Omar Caetano Ernesto Ledesma Pedro Rocha Héctor Silva José Sasía Juan Joya Manager: Roque Máspoli

Second leg

April 12, 1965

Peñarol	3–1	Independiente
Gonçalves  14' Reznik  43' Rocha  46'		De la Mata, Jr.  88'

Centenario, Montevideo

Attendance: 45,000

Referee: Yamasaki (Peru)

Peñarol

Independiente

GK Ladislao Mazurkiewicz Carlos Pérez Luis Varela Pablo Forlán Néstor Gonçalves Omar Caetano Ernesto Ledesma Pedro Rocha Héctor Silva José Sasía Juan Joya Substitutes: Miguel Reznik Manager: Roque Máspoli

GK Miguel Santoro Rubén Navarro José Paflik Roberto Ferreiro David Acevedo Juan C. Guzmán Rául Bernao Osvaldo Mura Luis Suárez Roque Avallay Raúl Savoy Substitutes: Vicente de la Mata, Jr. Manager: Manuel Giúdice

Playoff

April 15, 1965

Independiente	4–1	Peñarol
Pérez (o.g.)  10' Bernao  27' Avallay  33' Mura  82'		Joya  44'

Estadio Nacional, Santiago de Chile

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Yamasaki (Peru)

Independiente

Peñarol

GK Miguel Santoro Rubén Navarro Raúl Decaria Roberto Ferreiro David Acevedo Juan C. Guzmán Rául Bernao Osvaldo Mura De la Mata, Jr. Roque Avallay Raúl Savoy Substitutes: Miguel A. Mori Manager: Manuel Giúdice

GK Ladislao Mazurkiewicz Carlos Pérez Luis Varela Pablo Forlán Néstor Gonçalves Omar Caetano Ernesto Ledesma Pedro Rocha Miguel Reznik Héctor Silva Juan Joya Substitutes: José Sasía Manager: Roque Máspoli

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