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]
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.[3]
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).[3]
^ abCorinthians won the 2017 title as a partnership with Audax. They created their own team for the 2018 season.
^ abAs 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.
Asunción, Luque and Ypané were selected by CONMEBOL as host cities. The group stage matches will be played at the Estadio Arsenio Erico in Asunción and the CARFEM Stadium at the Centro de Alto Rendimiento de Fútbol Femenino in Ypané, each of which will host two groups. The quarter-finals will be played at the Estadio Arsenio Erico and the CARFEM Stadium, the semi-finals at the CONMEBOL Stadium in Luque and the third-place match and final at the Estadio Defensores del Chaco in Asunción.[18]
The draw for the tournament was held on 12 September 2024, 14:00 PYT (UTC−4), at the CONMEBOL Convention Center in Luque, Paraguay.[20] The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four.
Two teams were directly assigned to the head of groups A and B.
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, Chile 2, Colombia 2 and Paraguay 3) were seeded into Pot 4. From Pot 1, the first team drawn were 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 were 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.
In the group stage, the teams will be ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers will be applied in the following order (Regulations Article 23).[3]
Head-to-head result in games between tied teams;
Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question;
Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
Paraguay
Peru
Uruguay
Venezuela
Group A winners