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2025 Copa Libertadores
The 2025 Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores will be the 66th edition of the CONMEBOL Libertadores (also referred to as the Copa Libertadores), South America's premier club football tournament organized by CONMEBOL. The competition will begin on 5 February and is scheduled to end on 29 November 2025.[1] The winners of the 2025 Copa Libertadores will earn the right to play against the winners of the 2025 Copa Sudamericana in the 2026 Recopa Sudamericana. They will also automatically qualify for the 2025 FIFA Intercontinental Cup, the 2029 FIFA Club World Cup and the 2026 Copa Libertadores group stage. Botafogo will be the defending champions. TeamsThe following 47 teams from the 10 CONMEBOL member associations will qualify for the tournament:
The entry stage is determined as follows:
ScheduleThe schedule of the competition will be as follows:[12]
Draws  Buenos Aires La Paz Rio de Janeiro São Paulo Santiago Quito Asunción Lima Montevideo  Quito teams  El Nacional Indep. del Valle LDU QuitoLima teams Alianza Lima Sporting Cristal UniversitarioLa Paz teams Bolívar The StrongestSantiago teams Colo-Colo Universidad de ChileAsunción teams Cerro Porteño Libertad Nacional OlimpiaMontevideo teams Boston River Defensor Sporting Nacional PeñarolGran Buenos Aires teams Boca Juniors Racing River Plate Vélez SarsfieldLocation of teams of the 2025 Copa Libertadores. Red: Group stage; White: Play-off rounds;  Blue: Entry stage TBD.The draw for the qualifying stages was held on 19 December 2024, 12:00 PYT (UTC−3), at the CONMEBOL Convention Centre in Luque, Paraguay.[14] Teams were seeded by their CONMEBOL Clubs ranking as of 16 December 2024 (shown in parentheses),[15] taking into account the following three factors:[16]
For the first stage, the six teams were drawn into three ties (E1–E3), with the teams from Pot 1 hosting the second leg.[13]
For the second stage, the 16 teams were drawn into eight ties (C1–C8), with the teams from Pot 1 hosting the second leg. Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same tie, excluding the three winners of the first stage, which were seeded in Pot 2 and whose identity was not known at the time of the draw, and could be drawn into the same tie with another team from the same association.[13]
For the third stage, the eight winners of the second stage were allocated without any draw into the following four ties (G1–G4), with the team in each tie with the higher CONMEBOL ranking hosting the second leg.[13]
Qualifying stagesIn the qualifying stages, each tie is played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If tied on aggregate, extra time will not be played, and a penalty shoot-out will be used to determine the winner (Regulations Article 2.4.3).[17] The qualifying stages are structured as follows:
First stage
Second stage
Third stage
Group stageThe following 32 teams will be involved in the group stage (CONMEBOL Clubs ranking as of 16 December 2024 shown in parentheses):[15]
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