| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 14 January – 6 February 1959 |
| Teams | 6 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Flamengo (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  Peñarol |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 15 |
| Goals scored | 54 (3.6 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Henrique (4 goals) D. Ruiz (4 goals) Luis Cubilla (4 goals) |
The Torneo Hexagonal de Lima, also called Gran Serie Suramericana Inter Clubes by two 2019 sources, was an exhibition football competition hosted in Lima, Peru in 1959. All matches were played at the Estadio Nacional in Lima. Flamengo were the champions.
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Though two 2019 sources referred to it as "Gran Serie Suramericana Inter Clubes", heretofore no original 1959 mass media source has ever been found referring to the competition as "gran serie sudamericana" or any similar term. [1] [2] [3] Furthermore, among the six renowned participating clubs, only one club was the reigning champions of its respective home league, therefore the competition did not have the format of a "champions cup/league", the format used for cups crowning continental champions, and Jornal dos Sports , then the most relevant sport newspaper of Rio de Janeiro, hometown of winners Flamengo, referred in 1959 to the competition only as an international friendly tournament, without referring to it as "Gran Serie Sudamericana" or any similar term. [4] The same two 2019 sources affirm that the competition was an inspiration for the Copa Libertadores, which is proved incorrect by the fact that the creation of the latter was announced at a UEFA meeting on October 8th 1958, as published by Brazilian and Spanish newspapers the following day, [5] [6] [7] thus before the 1959 Lima tournament.
