For example the most successful clubs and most powerful in South American history are Peñarol, Boca Jrs, Nacional, Independiente, River Plate, São Paulo, Gremio, Flamengo, Palmeiras and Santos. What other do you think are great or never heard of this top 10 from the Americans clubs?
Peñarol and Nacional from Uruguay and Boca Juniors from Argentina and Sao Paulo are the only ones from South America who has 3 World Cups of clubs. So to me they are the best ones.
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According to Conmebol, FIFA and IFFHS, Peñarol from the 60’s was the best team in the history of South America, they won everything they can win, even defeated Real Madrid 0-4 and Eusebios Benfica 5-1 to become world champions.
I think, there are only a couple of South American clubs known world wide these days:
Boca and River because of their rivalry.
Santos because of Pele and Neymar (lots of other well known players but those two for me in particular).
You meant “known by you”. If these are the only ones you know, than that just means you are in a buble and do not know that much about football🤷🏽♂️
Boca River, Santos, Flamengo. doubting about Peñarol and Palmeiras high up there. Second tier, all of the other ones already mentioned.
No one cares about the club World Cup except for South Americans
They don’t care until they lose it
cerro porteño is the only club to never lose a libertadores final so that tells you what you need to know 😉
independiente play and won all 7 finals.
🇦🇷 - Boca Juniors, River Plate, Independiente, Estudiantes de la Plata, Vélez Sarsfield, Racing & San Lorenzo.
🇺🇾 - Nacional & Peñarol
🇧🇷 - Flamengo, São Paulo, Santos, Gremio, Cruzeiro, Vasco da Gama, Botafogo, Palmeiras, Fluminense, Corinthians, Internacional & Atletico Mineiro
🇨🇴 - Atletico Nacional, Millonarios & America de Cali
🇨🇱 - Colo Colo
🇵🇾 - Olimpia & Cerró Porteño
🇵🇪 - Universitario & Allianza Lima
🇪🇨 - Independiente Del Valle
🇦🇷 Boca Juniors (22) 🇦🇷 Independiente (20) & 🇺🇾Nacional (19) are the three most successful clubs in South America based off international trophies.
Nacional have 9 international trophies, not 19. This is approved by FIFA
Counting total international trophies makes no sense, not all tournaments are the same. Like Nacional has 19 total but only 3 Libertadores. 3 Intercontinental cups as well for what you could count as top level trophies.
10 are one off-matches from short-lived competitions. Using just number of Libertadores won would likely be better.
Deportivo Pereira
I’d say Boca, River and Santos are probably the best known. Flamengo, Fluminense, Gremio, Palmeiras and São Paulo are probably the best known Brazilian teams. I doubt many people from outside of SA know anybody else apart from some of the other Brazilian or Argentine teams, unless they have an interest in SA football.
Giants is a strong word. There’s a few that are well known but not many would be able to tell you anything about them outside of the country they’re in.
Flamengo and Fluminense
Giants (in no particular order): Nacional, Peñarol, Boca, River, Sao Paulo, Palmeiras, Flamengo. Big clubs: Independiente, Olimpia, Gremio, Inter, Corinthians, Cruzeiro, Santos, Colo Colo, Atlético Nacional, Liga de Quito. Big clubs (but 3rd tier): Racing, Estudiantes, San Lorenzo, Velez Sarsfield, Vasco da Gama, Fluminense, Cerro Porteño, Barcelona, América de Cali. Probably miss some clubs, so feel free to disagree with me.
Alianza Lima 😂
As an african who never even watched a SA clubs match I know Boca , River Plate, Santos, Flamingo, Fluminese
Flamingo
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See, that’s how little I know about them and only after your comment I went and searched for the right spelling.
The Strongest. 🤣
Using this as a shout of for South American football. It is very fun to watch!!