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2024 Copa Libertadores Femenina
Tournament details
Host country	Paraguay
City	Asunción, Luque and Ypané
Dates	3–19 October 2024
Teams	16 (from 10 associations)
Venue(s)	4 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Corinthians (5th title)
Runners-up	Santa Fe
Third place	Boca Juniors
Fourth place	Dragonas IDV
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	88 (2.75 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Gabi Zanotti (5 goals)
Best player(s)	Gabi Zanotti
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The 2024 Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores Femenina was 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]

The defending champions Corinthians defeated Santa Fe (Colombia) 2–0 in the final to win their fifth title.^[3]

Format

For the group stage, the 16 teams were drawn into four groups. Teams in each group played 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 played a single-elimination tournament.^[4]

Teams

The 16 teams were:

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).^[4]
1. Brazil: 280 points
2. Chile: 156 points
3. Colombia: 155 points
4. Paraguay: 120 points
5. Argentina: 108 points
6. Venezuela: 80 points
7. Ecuador: 68 points
8. Uruguay: 54 points
9. Bolivia: 41 points
10. Peru: 39 points

Association	Team	Qualifying method	Participation	Previous best result
Argentina	Boca Juniors	2023 Torneo YPF and Copa YPF champions^[5]^[6]	9th	Runners-up (2022)
Bolivia	Always Ready	2024 Liga Femenina de Fútbol Boliviano champions^[7]	3rd	Group stage (2022, 2023)
Brazil	Corinthians (Brazil 1)	2023 Copa Libertadores Femenina champions^[8]	7th^{[note 1]}	Champions (2017, 2019, 2021, 2023)^{[note 1]}
	Ferroviária (Brazil 2)	2023 Brasileirão Feminino Neonergia runners-up^[9]^{[note 2]}	7th	Champions (2015, 2020)
	Santos (Brazil 3)	2023 Brasileirão Feminino Neonergia third place^[10]^{[note 2]}	5th	Champions (2009, 2010)
Chile	Colo-Colo (Chile 1)	2023 Campeonato Femenino SQM champions^[11]	11th	Champions (2012)
Chile	Santiago Morning (Chile 2)	2023 Campeonato Femenino SQM runners-up^[11]	5th	Quarter-finals (2019, 2020, 2022)
Colombia	Deportivo Cali (Colombia 1)	2024 Liga Femenina BetPlay DIMAYOR champions^[12]	3rd	Fourth place (2022)
Colombia	Santa Fe (Colombia 2)	2024 Liga Femenina BetPlay DIMAYOR runners-up^[12]	5th	Runners-up (2021)
Ecuador	Dragonas IDV	2024 Superliga Femenina Ecuabet champions^[13]	2nd	Group stage (2022)
Paraguay (hosts)	Olimpia (Paraguay 1)	2023 Torneo Clausura de Fútbol Femenino champions^[14]	3rd	Quarter-finals (2023)
	Guaraní (Paraguay 2)	2023 Torneo Clausura de Fútbol Femenino runners-up^[14]	1st	—
	Libertad (Paraguay 3)	2023 Torneo Clausura de Fútbol Femenino third place^[15]^{[note 3]}	5th^{[note 4]}	Group stage (2019, 2020, 2022, 2023)
Peru	Alianza Lima	2024 Liga Femenina Apuesta Total champions^[16]	3rd	Quarter-finals (2021)
Uruguay	Peñarol	2023 Torneo Rexona de Fútbol Femenino champions^[17]	4th	Group stage (2018, 2019, 2020)
Venezuela	ADIFFEM	2024 Liga FUTVE Femenina champions^[18]	1st	—

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.

Venues

Asunción, Luque and Ypané were selected by CONMEBOL as host cities. The group stage matches were 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 hosted two groups. The quarter-finals will be played at the Estadio Arsenio Erico and the CARFEM Stadium, the semi-finals and the third-place match at the CONMEBOL Stadium in Luque and the final at the Estadio Defensores del Chaco in Asunción.^[19]

Asunción	Asunción Luque Ypané	Asunción
Estadio Arsenio Erico		Estadio Defensores del Chaco
Capacity: 7,500		Capacity: 42,354

Ypané		Luque
CARFEM Stadium		CONMEBOL Stadium
Capacity: 5,000		Capacity: 4,000

Match officials

On 18 September 2024, CONMEBOL announced the referees and assistant referees appointed for the tournament.^[20]

Association	Referees	Assistant referees
Argentina	Roberta Echeverría	Gisela Trucco Carla López
Bolivia	Adriana Farfán Alejandra Quisbert	Elizabeth Blanco María Cabezas
Brazil	Charly Wendy Straub Deretti	Anne Kesy Gomes de Sá Brígida Cirilo Ferreira
Chile	Dione Rissios	Marcia Castillo Yomara Salazar
Colombia	Jenny Arias	Mayra Sánchez Jenny Torres
Ecuador	Marcelly Zambrano	Viviana Segura Stefanía Paguay Marianela Ramírez
Paraguay	Zulma Quiñónez	Laura Miranda Nadia Weiler
Peru	Elizabeth Tintaya	Mariana Aquino Diana Ruiz
Uruguay	Nadia Fuques	Adela Sánchez Sofía Sarzay
Venezuela	Stefani Escobar	Elibith Higuera Thaity Dugarte Francis García

Draw

The draw for the tournament was held on 12 September 2024, 14:00 PYT (UTC−4), at the CONMEBOL Convention Center in Luque, Paraguay.^[21] 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 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, 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.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Ferroviária Deportivo Cali	Colo-Colo Guaraní Boca Juniors Dragonas IDV^[1]	Alianza Lima ADIFFEM^[1] Always Ready Peñarol	Santos Santa Fe Santiago Morning Libertad

¹ The draw was held before the identities of Ecuador (Dragonas IDV) and Venezuela (ADIFFEM) representatives were known.

The draw resulted in the following groups:

Group A
Pos	Team
A1	Corinthians
A2	Boca Juniors
A3	ADIFFEM
A4	Libertad

Group B
Pos	Team
B1	Olimpia
B2	Colo-Colo
B3	Always Ready
B4	Santos

Group C
Pos	Team
C1	Ferroviária
C2	Dragonas IDV
C3	Peñarol
C4	Santa Fe

Group D
Pos	Team
D1	Deportivo Cali
D2	Guaraní
D3	Alianza Lima
D4	Santiago Morning

Group stage

In the group stage, the teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers would be applied in the following order (Regulations Article 23).^[4]

Head-to-head result in games between tied teams;
1. Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
2. Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question;
3. Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches;
Number of red cards;
Number of yellow cards;
Drawing of lots.

The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the quarter-finals.

All times are local, PYT (UTC−4) before 6 October 2024 and PYST (UTC−3) after 6 October 2024.^[22]

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Corinthians	3	2	1	0	11	1	+10	7	Quarter-finals
2	Boca Juniors	3	2	1	0	4	1	+3	7	Quarter-finals
3	Libertad	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	3
4	ADIFFEM	3	0	0	3	1	12	−11	0

Source: CONMEBOL

3 October 2024