2024 Copa Libertadores Femenina
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| Host country | Paraguay |
| Dates | 3–19 October 2024 |
| Teams | 16 (from 10 associations) |
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The 2024 Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores Femenina will be the 16th edition of the CONMEBOL Libertadores Femenina (also referred to as the Copa Libertadores Femenina), South America's premier women's club football tournament organized by CONMEBOL. Although the competition was originally scheduled to be held in Uruguay from 3 to 19 October 2024,[1] on 29 August 2024, CONMEBOL announced that the competition would be moved to Paraguay.[2]
Corinthians (Brazil) are the defending champions.
Format
For the group stage, the 16 teams will be drawn into four groups. Teams in each group will play one another in a round-robin basis, with the top two teams of each group advancing to the quarter-finals. Starting from the quarter-finals, the teams will play a single-elimination tournament.
Teams
The 16 teams will be:
- the champions of all ten CONMEBOL associations
- the title holders
- an additional team from the host association
- four additional teams from associations with the best historical performance in the tournament (associations in bold receive two berths according to the points total until the 2023 edition). Until 2022 the historical ranking were[3]
- Brazil: 260 points
- Chile: 148 points
- Colombia: 145 points
- Paraguay: 115 points
- Argentina: 105 points
- Venezuela: 79 points
- Ecuador: 66 points
- Uruguay: 53 points
- Bolivia: 40 points
- Peru: 38 points
- Notes
- ^ a b Corinthians won the 2017 title as a partnership with Audax. They created their own team for the 2018 season.
- ^ a b As the title holders, Corinthians, were also the 2023 Brasileirão Feminino Neonergia champions, runners-up Ferroviária and third place Santos qualified as Brazil 2 and Brazil 3 berths, respectively.
- ^ Libertad finished third in the 2023 Torneo Clausura de Fútbol Femenino as a partnership with Sportivo Limpeño. The partnership ended in 2023.
- ^ The first four participations were in a partnership with Sportivo Limpeño.
Draw
The draw for the tournament will be held on 12 September 2024, 14:00 PYT (UTC−4), at the CONMEBOL Convention Center in Luque, Paraguay.[15] The 16 teams will be drawn into four groups of four.
Two teams were directly assigned to the head of groups A and B.
- To Group A: as 2023 Copa Libertadores Femenina champions, Corinthians (Brazil 1)
- To Group B: the champions of the host association, Olimpia (Paraguay 1)
The remaining teams (excluding the four teams from national associations with an extra berth) were seeded into three pots based on the final placement of their national association's club in the previous edition of the tournament, with the highest two (Brazil 2 and Colombia 1) placed in Pot 1, the next four (Chile 1, Paraguay 2, Argentina and Ecuador) placed in Pot 2 and the lowest four (Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia and Uruguay) in Pot 3. The four additional teams from associations with the best historical performance (Brazil 3, Colombia 2, Chile 2 and Paraguay 3) were seeded into Pot 4. From Pot 1, the first team drawn was placed into group C and the second team drawn placed into group D, both teams assigned to position 1 in their group. From each remaining pot, the first team drawn was placed into Group A, the second team drawn placed into Group B, the third team drawn placed into Group C and the final team drawn placed into Group D, with teams from Pot 2, 3 and 4 assigned to positions 2, 3 and 4 in their group. Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group.
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- 1 The draw will be held before the identities of Ecuador and Venezuela representatives were known.
The draw resulted in the following groups:
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See also
- 2024 CAF Women's Champions League
- 2024 OFC Women's Champions League
- 2023–24 UEFA Women's Champions League
- 2024 Copa Libertadores
References
- ^ "Confirmación de sedes y fechas" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 13 February 2024.
- ^ "Cambio de sede para la CONMEBOL Libertadores Femenina 2024" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 29 August 2024.
- ^ "Reglamento CONMEBOL Libertadores Femenina 2023" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 22 August 2023.
- ^ "Boca se consagró campeón del Torneo YPF" (in Spanish). AFA. 16 June 2023.
- ^ "Copa YPF: Boca derrotó 2-0 a Belgrano y se consagró campeón" (in Spanish). AFA. 13 December 2023.
- ^ "El Timão se consagra en la CONMEBOL Libertadores Femenina 2023" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 23 October 2023.
- ^ "Corinthians é campeão do Brasileirão Feminino Neoenergia com recorde de público" (in Portuguese). CBF. 10 September 2023.
- ^ "Sereias da Vila ganham vaga na Libertadores 2024 após título do Corinthians; Entenda" (in Portuguese). Diário do Peixe. 23 October 2023.
- ^ a b "Colo Colo estira su palmarés obteniendo el Campeonato Femenino SQM" (in Spanish). ANFP – Campeonato Chileno. 28 November 2023.
- ^ a b "Deportivo Cali es el campeón de la Liga Femenina BetPlay DIMAYOR 2024" (in Spanish). DIMAYOR. 17 August 2024.
- ^ a b "Olimpia, campeón del Torneo Clausura" (in Spanish). APF. 26 November 2023.
- ^ "Libertad se quedó con el tercer puesto" (in Spanish). APF. 25 November 2023.
- ^ "Alianza Lima es campeón de la Liga Femenina 2024: blanquiazules derrotaron 3-1 a Universitario" (in Spanish). La República. 31 August 2024.
- ^ "¡Peñarol Campeón Uruguayo!" (in Spanish). Club Atlético Peñarol. 10 December 2023.
- ^ "Sorteo de grupos de la CONMEBOL Libertadores Femenina 2024" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 6 September 2024.