2022 CONIFA South America Football Cup

2022 CONIFA South America Football Cup

Tournament details
Host country	Chile (location)
Dates	17–19 June 2022
Teams	4
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Maule Sur
Runners-up	Mapuche
Third place	Aymara
Tournament statistics
Matches played	3
Goals scored	6 (2 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Gabriel Loncomilla (2 goals)

The 2022 CONIFA South America Football Cup, also referred to as 2022 CONIFA Copa America, was the first edition of the CONIFA South America Football Cup,[1] an international football tournament for states, minorities, stateless peoples and regions unaffiliated with FIFA with an affiliation to South America, organised by CONIFA. It was hosted by Chile.[2]

Tournament

On 24 January 2022, CONIFA announced that Chile would host the first edition of the CONIFA South America Football Cup.[3]

Venues

The tournament was held in the city of Linares and all games are realized in the Estadio Fiscal de Linares.[4]

Mascot

The tournaments official mascot is Dromig, representing one of the 4 marsupials that live in Chile, its name derives from Dromiciops griloides.[5]

Participants

A total of four teams were scheduled to participate:[4]

Team
Aymara
Mapuche
Maule Sur
São Paulo FAD

On 11 June, a draw was held to define the competition brackets.[6]

Matches

Bracket

The tournament's original formula would be held with semi-finals and final

	Semi-finals				Final
	17 June – Linares
	Mapuche	0
					19 June – Linares
	Maule Sur	1
					Maule Sur
	18 June – Linares
	Aymara
	São Paulo FAD[a]
					Third place
					19 June – Linares
					Mapuche

Semi-finals

17 June 2022

19:00 CLT (UTC−4)

Mapuche	0–1	Maule Sur
		Acuña 79'

Estadio Fiscal de Linares

18 June 2022

15:30 CLT (UTC−4)

Aymara	Cancelled	São Paulo FAD

Estadio Fiscal de Linares

Third-Place play-off

19 June 2022

15:00 CLT (UTC−4)

Mapuche	Cancelled

Estadio Fiscal de Linares

Final

19 June 2022

12:00 CLT (UTC−4)

Maule Sur	Cancelled

Estadio Fiscal de Linares

1. Due to the excess of ice on the roads that connect the south of Chile, São Paulo FAD team was not able to arrive in time for the competition dispute, therefore the dispute form was changed to a triangular one with simple round-robin.

Round-robin

After the non-attendance of São Paulo FAD the tournament was decided in a single round-robin format. The match between Maule Sur and Mapuche, initially valid for one of the semi-finals, started to be considered as the first round of the dispute.[7]

Team	Pts	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Maule Sur	6	2	2	0	0	2	0	+2
Mapuche	3	2	1	0	1	3	2	+1
Aymara	0	2	0	0	2	1	4	-3

17 June 2022

19:00 CLT (UTC−4)

Mapuche	0–1	Maule Sur
		Acuña 79'

Estadio Fiscal de Linares

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18 June 2022

15:00 CLT (UTC−4)

Mapuche	3–1	Aymara
Tramanil Loncomilla		Álvares

Estadio Fiscal de Linares

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19 June 2022

12:00 CLT (UTC−4)

Maule Sur	1–0	Aymara
Arrue 84'

Estadio Fiscal de Linares

Top scorers

2 goals

• Gabriel Loncomilla

1 goal

• Luis Álvares
• Yerson Tramanil
• Erick Acuña
• Cristián Arrue

External links

• ConifaTV - CONIFA Copa America 2022

References

1. "CONIFA organizará su primera Copa América en 2022". mexico.as.com (in Spanish). 26 November 2021.
2. "Copa América da Conifa começa nesta sexta-feira em Linares, no Chile". O Curioso do Futebol (in Portuguese). 13 June 2022.
3. "Featured Events". Conifa (official website). Retrieved 17 June 2022.
4. "Inicia en Chile la primera Copa América de CONIFA". mexico.as.com (in Spanish). 17 June 2022.
5. @FarAwayFootball (May 31, 2022). "Introducing Dromig, The @CONIFAOfficial Copa America Mascot!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
6. @CONIFAOfficial (June 11, 2022). "Watch #CopaAmerica2022 draw ceremony NOW:" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
7. "Maule Sur – Copa America Champions 2022". Conifa (official website). 21 June 2022.