🤯 Brazilian football set to match Argentina’s Libertadores title tally

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·31 October 2025

🤯 Brazilian football set to match Argentina’s Libertadores title tally

The historic qualification of Palmeiras for the 2025 Libertadores final against Flamengo has already guaranteed Brazilian football its 25th trophy in the tournament's history.

This EQUALS the number of titles won by Argentine football.

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An achievement that is even more impressive when considering the advantage the hermanos had until the early 1990s.

Only Santos (1962 and 1963), Cruzeiro (1976), Flamengo (1981), and Grêmio (1983) had trophies.

Brazil wasn’t even the second biggest winner.

Libertadores titles by country up to 1991:

🇦🇷 - 15

🇺🇾 - 8

🇧🇷 - 5

🇵🇾 - 2

🇨🇴 - 1

🇨🇱 - 1

The back-to-back championships won by São Paulo under Telê Santana (1992 and 1993) were a kind of "watershed moment".

Since 1992, Brazilian football has only missed seven of the 34 finals—including the current one. The years in question? 1996, 2001, 2004, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2018.

Brazil lined up four first-time champions between 2010 and 2013, including the maiden titles of Corinthians and Atlético Mineiro.

The recent dominance began with Grêmio’s third title in 2017.

Argentine football only won the following year, when River and Boca played the final after eliminating Grêmio and Palmeiras, respectively.

Brazil secured more first-time trophies, those of Fluminense and Botafogo, and a total of six all-Brazilian finals.

Turning the Libertadores into a "Copa do Brasil with matches in other countries."

Libertadores titles by country since 1992:

🇧🇷 - 20*

🇦🇷 - 10

🇵🇾 - 1

🇪🇨 - 1

🇨🇴 - 2

🇺🇾 - 0