Copa Simón Bolívar
Season2008
ChampionsNacional Potosi (1st Title)
PromotedNacional Potosi
Primero de Mayo (Relegation/promotion playoff)
Matches played40
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The tournament started in 1960, initially only champions from La Paz, Cochabamba, Oruro and Santa Cruz participated, in later years teams from other associations started joining the cup, and the tournament eventually also had runner-up's participating.

Until 1976, due to the lack of a nationwide league, the cup determined the national champion and representative teams for the Copa Libertadores. With the creation of the Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano, the Bolivian FA stopped organizing the tournament.

Finally in 1989 the tournament was resurrected, with the same format of having both champions and runner-up from each association, but this time each regional league was the 2nd tier on the football pyramid so the champion was supposed to be awarded a place in the professional league. Previously the last placed team in the 1st division was replaced by the regional champion of its department. However that practice was kept until 1993 when finally the champion was awarded a spot in the top league.

The competition format changes frequently, in 2008, the team were divided into 3 groups of 6 teams each, to save costs, geographically close teams were teamed up and played on a home-away round-robin basis, with group 1 consisting of teams from La Paz, Oruro and Cochabamba; group 2 with teams from Potosí, Chuquisaca and Tarija, and group 3 with teams from Santa Cruz, Beni and Pando. The top 2 placed teams advanced to the next round, now playing play-offs on home-away basis, the 3 winners and the best loser advanced to the semifinals and then the final.


First phase

Group A

Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
Fancesa 2110632513+10
Club Independiente Petrolero 17105231811+17
Deportivo Crystal 13103341312+1
Fraternida Tigres 9102351415-1
Universitario 510127917-8
31 de Octubre 5101271122-11

Group B

Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
Club Atlético Ciclón 2210622255+15
Club Destroyers 18105332210+12
Enrique Happ 1310315880
Club San Lorenzo 1110326712-4
Oruro Royal 810227815-7
Universitario de Potosi 510138516-11

Group C

Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
Nacional Potosi 24106131810+8
Primero de Mayo 2010532139+4
Universidad de Pando 161044298+1
Real Charcas 1510353711-4
Universidad De Beni 1010233513-8
Vaca Diez 810153715-8

Quarter finals

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Club Independiente Petrolero 25 Club Atlético Ciclón 11 14
Fancesa 02 Nacional Potosi 01 01
Club Destroyers 65 Club Primero De Mayo 32 33

Semi-final

In this round Club Primero De Mayo qualified as the best loser

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Club Atlético Ciclón 01 Primero De Mayo 01 00
Club Destroyers 12 Nacional Potosi 10 02

1st Leg

Club Atlético Ciclón0 1Primero De Mayo
Luis Parada 40'
Attendance: 14,000

Club Destroyers1 0Nacional Potosi
Edu Monteiro 12'


2nd Leg

Primero De Mayo0 0Club Atlético Ciclón
Attendance: 19,000

Final

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Nacional Potosi 32 Primero De Mayo 21 11
Nacional Potosi2 1Primero De Mayo
Ronald Gutiérrez 13'
Nicolás Canalis 45'
Julio Cesar 56'
Primero De Mayo1 1Nacional Potosi
John Carlos 67' Hernán Coimbra 23'
Attendance: 20,000


Copa Simon Bolivar
2008 Bolivian Football Regional Leagues
Nacional Potosi
1st Title
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