2019 Copa Ecuador

2019 Copa Ecuador
Copa de la FEF 2019
Tournament details
Country	Ecuador
Dates	10 November 2018 – 16 November 2019
Teams	48
Final positions
Champions	LDU Quito (1st title)
Runner-up	Delfín
Tournament statistics
Matches played	98
Goals scored	252 (2.57 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Rodrigo Aguirre; Alexis Domínguez; (4 goals each)
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The 2019 Copa Ecuador was the first edition of the Copa Ecuador, Ecuador's domestic football cup. It began with the first round on 10 November 2018 and concluded with its double-legged final on 10 and 16 November 2019. LDU Quito were the winners, beating Delfín on away goals after tying 3–3 on aggregate score. They would have qualified for the 2020 Copa Sudamericana, but since they had already qualified for international competition through their league performance as well as the runners-up and both semifinalists, the berth was reallocated to the ninth-placed team of the league, El Nacional.

Format

The competition involved 48 teams and was divided into seven rounds. The first round was played by 22 teams from the provincial associations (20 provincial champions and 2 invitees) and 2 amateur teams, which were drawn into 12 two-legged ties. The 12 winners qualified for the second round, where they were drawn into six two-legged ties with the winners advancing to the third round.

In the third round, the six winners from the previous round were joined by the 16 Serie A and 10 Serie B teams, who played in 16 two-legged ties with the winners advancing to the round of 16, from where the competition advanced to the quarterfinals, semifinals, and final.^[1]

Prizes

The champions of this edition earned the right to compete in the 2020 Copa Sudamericana, taking the Ecuador 4 berth.^[1] In case the champions were already qualified for the Copa Libertadores or Copa Sudamericana through their league performance, the berth would be transferred to the runners-up, the semifinalists, or the next best team of the league not yet qualified for either competition.

Schedule

Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
First round	30 October 2018	10–14 November 2018	16–21 November 2018
Second round	30 October 2018	23–28 November 2018	1–5 December 2018
Third round	2 April 2019	24 April – 9 May 2019	14 May – 19 June 2019
Round of 16		2–17 July 2019	23 July – 8 August 2019
Quarterfinals		14 August – 8 September 2019	18–25 September 2019
Semifinals		2–23 October 2019	30 October 2019
Finals		10–16 November 2019

Teams

48 clubs took part in this edition of the Copa Ecuador: 16 from the Serie A, 8 from the Serie B, 20 from the Segunda Categoría, 2 amateur teams and Deportivo Quito and Everest, both invited by the Ecuadorian Football Federation based on their historical records.^[2]^[3]

Serie A

Serie B

Segunda Categoría

Águilas
Alianza Cotopaxi^{[note 1]}
Alianza de Guano
América de Ambato
Anaconda
Atlético Portoviejo
Audaz Octobrino
Brasilia
Chicos Malos
Deportivo Morona
Dunamis
Duros del Balón^{[note 1]}
ESPOLI
Imbabura
Insutec
La Gloria
Mineros
San Francisco
Toreros
Valle Catamayo

Amateur teams

San Pedro
Spartak

Invited teams

Notes:

^ ^a ^b Alianza Cotopaxi and Duros del Balón (later renamed as Independiente Juniors and Atlético Porteño, respectively) received byes to the third round following their promotion to Serie B at the end of the 2018 season.

First round

Teams entering this round: 20 teams from Segunda Categoría, 2 amateur teams and 2 invited teams.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
West Zone
Águilas	1–3	Brasilia	0–2	1–1
Duros del Balón	0–2	Toreros	0–1	0–1
San Francisco	4–4 (a)	Audaz Octobrino	4–3	0–1
Valle Catamayo	2–12	La Gloria	1–9	1–3
Everest	2–6	Insutec	0–3	2–3
San Pedro	1–8	Atlético Portoviejo	0–2	1–6
East Zone
Dunamis	4–3	Chicos Malos	3–1	1–2
ESPOLI	2–2 (3–4 p)	Anaconda	2–0	0–2
Alianza Cotopaxi	5–4	Imbabura	3–0	2–4
Alianza de Guano	6–1	Deportivo Morona	2–0	4–1
América de Ambato	2–2 (a)	Deportivo Quito	2–1	0–1
Mineros	4–0	Spartak	2–0	2–0

Source: FEF

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
West Zone
Brasilia	0–1	Toreros	0–0	0–1
Audaz Octobrino	3–3 (6–7 p)	La Gloria	2–1	1–2
Insutec	6–3	Atlético Portoviejo	4–3	2–0
East Zone
Anaconda	5–2	Dunamis	3–1	2–1
Alianza Cotopaxi	1–5	Alianza de Guano	1–3	0–2
Deportivo Quito	3–1	Mineros	2–0	1–1

Source: FEF

Note: Deportivo Quito qualified for the third round, however they were excluded from the competition due to their suspension for failing to pay its creditors. They were replaced by Mineros, as the next best team in the aggregate table of the competition.^[4]

Third round

The third round of the competition was held from 24 April to 19 June 2019, with teams in Serie A and Serie B entering at this stage. The draw for this stage of the competition was held on 2 April 2019.^[5]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
LDU Quito	5–0	La Gloria	5–0	0–0
Mineros	1–3	Barcelona	1–1	0–2
Olmedo	2–3	Alianza de Guano	1–0	1–3
Santa Rita	4–1	Fuerza Amarilla	1–0	3–1
Guayaquil City	7–3	Clan Juvenil	6–1	1–2
Anaconda	1–5	El Nacional	1–1	0–4
Aucas	4–0	Toreros	2–0	2–0
Independiente del Valle	1–1 (a)	Orense	1–1	0–0
Atlético Porteño	2–5	Macará	1–2	1–3
Independiente Juniors	3–1	Universidad Católica	2–0	1–1
Técnico Universitario	5–1	LDU Loja	3–0	2–1
Gualaceo	0–2	Deportivo Cuenca	0–1	0–1
América de Quito	6–2	LDU Portoviejo	4–0	2–2
Manta	0–6	Mushuc Runa	0–2	0–4
Emelec	4–0	Puerto Quito	2–0	2–0
Insutec	1–2	Delfín	1–2	0–0

Bracket

Round of 16				Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Finals

Guayaquil City	0	0	0 (4)

Aucas (p)	0	0	0 (5)
				Aucas	0	0	0 (2)

				LDU Quito (p)	0	0	0 (4)
Alianza de Guano	0	1	1

LDU Quito	0	5	5
								LDU Quito (p)	2	0	2 (5)

								Emelec	0	2	2 (4)
Macará	2	0	2

Técnico Universitario	1	2	3
				Técnico Universitario	1	0	1

				Emelec	0	2	2
América de Quito	0	2	2

Emelec	2	2	4
												LDU Quito (a)	2	1	3

												Delfín	0	3	3
Orense	1	0	1

El Nacional (a)	1	0	1
				El Nacional	1	0	1

				Barcelona (a)	1	0	1
Barcelona (a)	1	1	2

Santa Rita	0	2	2
								Barcelona	4	0	4

								Delfín (a)	1	3	4
Independiente Juniors (p)	1	2	2 (3)

Deportivo Cuenca	1	1	2 (2)
				Independiente Juniors	2	0	2

				Delfín	3	1	4
Delfín	2	0	2

Mushuc Runa	0	1	1

Round of 16

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Alianza de Guano	1–5	LDU Quito	0–0	1–5
Guayaquil City	0–0 (4–5 p)	Aucas	0–0	0–0
Macará	2–3	Técnico Universitario	2–1	0–2
América de Quito	2–4	Emelec	0–2	2–2
Barcelona	2–2 (a)	Santa Rita	1–0	1–2
Orense	1–1 (a)	El Nacional	1–1	0–0
Independiente Juniors	2–2 (3–2 p)	Deportivo Cuenca	1–1	1–1
Delfín	2–1	Mushuc Runa	2–0	0–1

Quarterfinals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Aucas	0–0 (2–4 p)	LDU Quito	0–0	0–0
Técnico Universitario	1–2	Emelec	1–0	0–2
El Nacional	1–1 (a)	Barcelona	1–1	0–0
Independiente Juniors	2–4	Delfín	2–3	0–1

Semifinals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
LDU Quito	2–2 (5–4 p)	Emelec	2–0	0–2
Barcelona	4–4 (a)	Delfín	4–1	0–3

Finals

10 November 2019

16:00

LDU Quito	2–0	Delfín
Aguirre 54' (pen.) Chicaiza 78'

Estadio Rodrigo Paz Delgado, Quito

Referee: Luis Quiroz

16 November 2019

15:00

Delfín	3–1	LDU Quito
López 3' Garcés 74', 90' (pen.)		Aguirre 44'

Estadio Jocay, Manta

Referee: Roddy Zambrano

Tied 3–3 on aggregate, LDU Quito won on away goals.

Champions
LDU Quito 1st title

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Club	Goals
1	Rodrigo Aguirre	LDU Quito	4
1	Alexis Domínguez	Independiente Juniors	4
3	Daniel Angulo	Emelec	3
	Carlos Garcés	Delfín
	José Lugo	Alianza de Guano
	Cristian Martínez Borja	LDU Quito
	Jorge Luis Palacios	Mushuc Runa
	Jacson Pita	Deportivo Cuenca