The Copa Merconorte (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkopa meɾkoˈnoɾte]) was an international football competition organized by CONMEBOL from 1998 to 2001 by clubs from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela and starting in 2000 clubs from the CONCACAF confederation were invited including Costa Rica, Mexico, and the United States.

The competition ran alongside the Copa Mercosur—based on the actual Mercosur economic pact between Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.

Instead, the aim was to generate profits through the television contracts by inviting the most marketable clubs from each country.

In the fourth edition, Emelec became the first and only non-Colombian club to reach the finals of the Copa Merconorte.

In 1999, the Bolivian teams played a qualifying playoff before the first phase of Copa Merconorte.