Recopa Sudamericana
The Recopa Sudamericana official logo, in use since 2012
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| Founded | 1988 |
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| Region | South America (CONMEBOL) |
| Number of teams | 2 |
| Current champions |  River Plate (2nd title) |
| Most successful club(s) | Boca Juniors (4 titles) |
| Website | Official website |
 2016 Recopa Sudamericana
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The Recopa Santander Sudamericana (Portuguese: Recopa Santander Sul-Americana), known also as the Recopa Sudamericana and simply as the Recopa (Spanish: [reˈkopa], Portuguese: [ʁɛˈkɔpɐ]; "Winner's Cup"), is an annual international club football competition organized by CONMEBOL since 1988. It is a match-up between the champions of the previous year's Copa Libertadores and the Copa Sudamericana, South America's premier club competitions.
The competition has had several different formats over its lifetime. Initially, the champions of the Copa Libertadores and Supercopa Libertadores contested it. In 1998, the Supercopa Libertadores was discontinued and the Recopa went into a hiatus. The competition has been disputed with either a presently-used two-legged series or a single match-up at a neutral venue. Together with the aforementioned tournaments, a club has the chance to win the CONMEBOL Treble all in one year or season. (Brazilian teams, however, play either Libertadores or Sudamericana each year, with an exception only when a Brazilian team wins Sudamericana and qualifies for both competitions in the next year.)
The most recent champion of the competition is Argentine club River Plate, after beating Santa Fe 2–1 on aggregate in the 2016 edition. Argentine club Boca Juniors is the most successful club in the cup history, having won the tournament four times. Brazilian clubs have accumulated the most victories with nine wins while Brazil has the most different winning teams, with seven clubs having won the title. The cup has been won by 16 different clubs and won consecutively by four clubs: Brazil's São Paulo, Ecuador's LDU Quito, Argentina's Boca Juniors and River Plate successfully defended the title in 1994, 2006, 2010 and 2016, respectively.
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