2020 U-20 Copa Libertadores


The 2020 U-20 Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores was the 5th edition of the U-20 CONMEBOL Libertadores, South America's premier under-20 club football tournament organized by CONMEBOL. The tournament was held in Paraguay from 15 February to 1 March 2020. [Club Club Nacional de Football|Nacional de Football|Nacional] were the defending champions, but failed to advance out of the group stage.
Independiente del Valle defeated River Plate in the final to claim their first title, while Flamengo beat Libertad to finish third.

Teams

The competition was contested by 12 teams: the title holders, the youth champions from each of the ten CONMEBOL member associations, and one additional team from the host association.
Players must be born on or after 1 January 2000.
AssociationTeamQualifying methodParticipationPrevious best result
River Plate2018–19 play-off winners between Cuarta División Apertura and Clausura champions3rdChampions
Jorge Wilstermann2019 U-19 Torneo Nacional champions2ndGroup stage
Flamengo2019 U-20 Supercopa de Brasil champions2ndQuarterfinals
Colo-Colo2019 U-19 Copa de Campeones champions2ndGroup stage
Millonarios2019 U-20 Súper Copa Juvenil champions2ndGroup stage
Independiente del Valle2019 U-18 Serie A champions5thRunners-up
Libertad2019 U-19 Apertura champions4thQuarterfinals
Cerro Porteño2019 U-19 Clausura champions3rdQuarterfinals
Sporting Cristal2019 Torneo de Promoción y Reserva champions2ndGroup stage
Nacional2018 U-20 Copa Libertadores champions3rdChampions
Danubio2019 U-19 Campeonato Uruguayo champions1st—
Academia Puerto Cabello2019 U-19 Serie Élite champions1st—

Venues

The tournament was played at two venues in two cities, both in the Metropolitan Area of Asunción:

Draw

The draw was held on 28 January 2020, 12:00 PYST, at the headquarters of the Paraguayan Football Association. The draw was conducted according to Regulations Article 16 as follows:
  • The 12 teams were seeded into four pots of three teams, based on the final placement of their national association's club in the previous edition of the tournament, and drawn into three groups of four.
  • The defending champions Nacional were automatically seeded into Pot 1 and allocated to position A1 in the group stage, while the teams from the next two best associations, were also seeded into Pot 1 and drawn to position B1 or C1 in the group stage.
  • The teams from the next three associations were seeded into Pot 2 and drawn to position A2, B2 or C2 in the group stage.
  • The teams from the next three associations were seeded into Pot 3 and drawn to position A3, B3 or C3 in the group stage.
  • The teams from the last two associations and the additional team from the host association were seeded into Pot 4 and drawn to position A4, B4 or C4 in the group stage.
  • Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group.
Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4

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Match officials

On 30 January 2020, CONMEBOL announced that the CONMEBOL Referee Commission had appointed 10 referees and 20 assistant referees for the tournament.
  • Andrés Merlos
  • *Assistants: Lucas Germanotta and Facundo Rodríguez
  • Jordy Alemán
  • *Assistants: Roger Orellana and Carlos Tapia
  • Rafael Traci
  • *Assistants: Bruno Boschilia and Rafael da Silva Alves
  • Felipe González
  • *Assistants: Raúl Orellana and José Retamal
  • Bismarks Santiago and Carlos Betancur
  • *Assistants: Wilmar Navarro and Jhon Gallego
  • Roberto Sánchez
  • *Assistants: Juan Aguiar and Andrés Tola
  • Derlis López
  • *Assistants: Roberto Cañete and José Cuevas
  • Miguel Santiváñez
  • *Assistants: Víctor Ráez and Stephen Atoche
  • Christian Ferreyra
  • *Assistants: Agustín Berisso and Santiago Fernández
  • Orlando Bracamonte
  • *Assistants: Alberto Ponte and Franchezcoly Chacón

Group stage

In the group stage, the teams were ranked according to points. If tied on points, tiebreakers were applied in the following order :
  1. Goal difference;
  2. Goals scored;
  3. Head-to-head result in games between tied teams;
  4. Red cards;
  5. Yellow cards;
  6. Drawing of lots.
The winners of each group and the best runner-up among all groups advanced to the semi-finals.
All times local, PYST.

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Knockout stage

The semi-final matchups were:
  • Group A winners vs. Group C winners
  • Group B winners vs. Best runners-up
The semi-final winners and losers played in the final and third place match respectively. If tied after full-time, extra time would not be played, and a penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner.

Semi-finals

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