page_title: Clube Atlético Mineiro in international club football
section_title: Sudamericana years (2000–2011)
hierarchical_section_title: Clube Atlético Mineiro in international club football / History / Sudamericana years (2000–2011)
caption_attribution_description: English: Football match between Palmeiras and Atlético Mineiro at the Pacaembu, for the 2010 Copa Sudamericana.Português: Partida de futebol entre Palmeiras e Atlético Mineiro no Estádio do Pacaembu, pela Copa Sul-Americana de 2010.
context_page_description: The involvement of Clube Atlético Mineiro in international club football began in 1972, the year of its first appearance in an official competition at that level. Since then, the Brazilian club, based in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, has participated in 23 continental and one intercontinental tournament. Atlético Mineiro has won four official titles at the international level: the Copa Libertadores in 2013; the inaugural edition of the Copa CONMEBOL in 1992, and again in 1997; and the Recopa Sudamericana in 2014. In addition, the club finished as runner-up of the Copa CONMEBOL in 1995, the Copa de Oro in 1993, and the Copa Master de CONMEBOL in 1996.
  Prior to the existence of official continental football in South America, Atlético Mineiro had played against foreign clubs since 1929, and toured Europe in 1950. As Brazilian champion in 1971, the club qualified for the 1972 Copa Libertadores, its first continental tournament. Atlético Mineiro then debuted in the inaugural editions of the Copa CONMEBOL, in 1992, of the Copa de Oro, in 1993, and of the Copa Master de CONMEBOL, in 1996.
context_section_description: Atlético did not take part in any continental competitions in 1999, but as Série A runner-up in that year the club qualified for the 2000 Copa Libertadores and the 2000 Copa Mercosur. The latter was a new continental competition introduced in 1998, which eventually replaced both the Copa CONMEBOL and the Supercopa Libertadores for clubs in Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay. In its return to the Copa Libertadores after nineteen years, Atlético was drawn in Group 8, with Bolivian Club Bolívar, Uruguayan side Bella Vista, and Chile's Cobreloa. Atlético's form in the group stage was erratic, but enough to ensure qualification for the next stage in second place. The team won its three home matches, which included a joint-record 6–0 victory against Cobreloa, and lost the three away ones, also with a joint-record, a 4–0 defeat against Bolívar. In the round of 16, the team faced Brazilian side Atlético Paranaense, which it eliminated by a score of 5–3 in a penalty shootout, after winning 1–0 at home and losing 2–1 away. The team's opponent in the quarter-finals was Corinthians, winner of the previous year's Série A finals over Atlético. After drawing 1–1 at the Mineirão, Atlético was defeated 2–1 in São Paulo and eliminated.
  In the Copa Mercosur, Atlético was drawn into Group E, with fellow Brazilian club Vasco da Gama, Uruguay's Peñarol and San Lorenzo from Argentina. The team qualified for the quarter-finals as first in the group, winning four games, drawing one with Peñarol, and losing only one to eventual champions Vasco. In the quarter-finals, Atlético eliminated Boca Juniors, winning 2–0 at the Mineirão, and drawing 2–2 at La Bombonera. The opposition in the semi-finals was Palmeiras, winner of the 1999 Copa Libertadores and runner-up of the 1999 Mercosur. Atlético lost both legs, by 4–1 in São Paulo and 2–0 at home, and was eliminated.
  Atlético Mineiro did not qualify for any continental competitions in 2001 or 2002, a season in which Brazil did not have representatives in the first edition of Copa Sudamericana, the new cup which replaced Copa Mercosur and Copa Merconorte. The club qualified for the 2003 Copa Sudamericana, taking part in a single round-robin preliminary group stage for Brazilian clubs, with Fluminense and Corinthians. Atlético defeated the latter 2–0 in São Paulo, but lost to the former 2–0 at home, and did not qualify for the second preliminary stage. The club became a regular participant in the Copa Sudamericana in the 2000s, but failed to advance from the Brazilian preliminary round in most tournaments. In 2004, Atlético fell to Goiás with a 4–2 away loss and a 1–1 home draw. Going through a bad period in its history, which included relegation in 2005, the club was absent from continental football for three years between 2005 and 2007.
  Following its return to the Série A in 2007, the team finished eighth in the league and earned a spot in the following year's Copa Sudamericana, but was eliminated in the first stage, after losing 8–3 on aggregate against Botafogo. In the 2009 edition, Atlético again fell to Goiás in the first stage, this time on penalties. After finishing in seventh place in the 2009 Série A, Atlético qualified for the 2010 Copa Sudamericana, and advanced from the second preliminary stage by eliminating Grêmio Prudente after drawing 0–0 and winning 1–0. Atlético then faced Colombian side Santa Fe in the round of 16, winning the first leg by 2–0 and losing the second 1–0 to advance. Palmeiras was the opponent in the quarter-finals, and Atlético was eliminated with a 1–1 draw at home and a 2–0 defeat at São Paulo. The club also took part in the 2011 Copa Sudamericana, again falling to Botafogo in the preliminary stage with two losses.
caption: Match between Palmeiras and Atlético Mineiro at the Pacaembu, in the 2010 Copa Sudamericana.
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