2024 Copa Libertadores Femenina


The 2024 Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores Femenina was the 16th edition of the CONMEBOL 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, on 29 August 2024, CONMEBOL announced that the competition would be moved to Paraguay.
The defending champions Corinthians defeated Santa Fe 2–0 in the final to win their fifth title.

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.

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.
  • #Brazil: 280 points
  • #Chile: 156 points
  • #Colombia: 155 points
  • #Paraguay: 120 points
  • #Argentina: 108 points
  • #Venezuela: 80 points
  • #Ecuador: 68 points
  • #Uruguay: 54 points
  • #Bolivia: 41 points
  • #Peru: 39 points
AssociationTeamQualifying methodParticipationPrevious best result
Boca Juniors2023 Torneo YPF and Copa YPF champions9thRunners-up
Always Ready2024 [Bolivian women's association football|football championship|Liga Femenina de Fútbol Boliviano] champions3rdGroup stage
Corinthians 2023 Copa Libertadores Femenina champions7thChampions
Ferroviária 2023 Brasileirão Feminino Neonergia runners-up7thChampions
Santos 2023 Brasileirão Feminino Neonergia third place5thChampions
Colo-Colo 2023 Campeonato Femenino SQM champions11thChampions
Santiago Morning 2023 Campeonato Femenino SQM runners-up5thQuarter-finals
2024 Liga Femenina BetPlay DIMAYOR champions3rdFourth place
Santa Fe 2024 Liga Femenina BetPlay DIMAYOR runners-up5thRunners-up
Dragonas IDV2024 Superliga Femenina Ecuabet champions2ndGroup stage
Olimpia 2023 Torneo Clausura de Fútbol Femenino champions3rdQuarter-finals
Guaraní 2023 Torneo Clausura de Fútbol Femenino runners-up1st—
Libertad 2023 Torneo Clausura de Fútbol Femenino third place5thGroup stage
Alianza Lima2024 Liga Femenina Apuesta Total champions3rdQuarter-finals
Peñarol2023 Torneo Rexona de Fútbol Femenino champions4thGroup stage
ADIFFEM2024 Liga FUTVE Femenina champions1st—

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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.
AsunciónAsunción
Estadio Arsenio Erico
Capacity: 7,500Capacity: 42,354
YpanéLuque
CARFEM StadiumCONMEBOL Stadium
Capacity: 5,000Capacity: 4,000

Match officials

On 18 September 2024, CONMEBOL announced the referees and assistant referees appointed for the tournament.
AssociationRefereesAssistant referees
Roberta EcheverríaGisela Trucco
Carla López
Adriana Farfán
Alejandra Quisbert		Elizabeth Blanco
María Cabezas
Charly Wendy Straub DerettiAnne Kesy Gomes de Sá
Brígida Cirilo Ferreira
Dione RissiosMarcia Castillo
Yomara Salazar
Jenny AriasMayra Sánchez
Jenny Torres
Marcelly ZambranoViviana Segura
Stefanía Paguay
Marianela Ramírez
Zulma QuiñónezLaura Miranda
Nadia Weiler
Elizabeth TintayaMariana Aquino
Diana Ruiz
Nadia FuquesAdela Sánchez
Sofía Sarzay
Stefani EscobarElibith Higuera
Thaity Dugarte
Francis García

Draw

The draw for the tournament was held on 12 September 2024, 14:00 PYT, at the CONMEBOL Convention Center in Luque, Paraguay. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four.
Two teams were directly assigned to the head of groups A and B.
The remaining teams 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 placed in Pot 1, the next four placed in Pot 2 and the lowest four in Pot 3. The four additional teams from associations with the best historical performance 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 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4

The draw resulted in the following groups:

Group stage

In the group stage, the teams were ranked according to points. If tied on points, tiebreakers would be applied in the following order.
  1. Head-to-head result in games between tied teams;
  2. #Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
  3. #Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question;
  4. #Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
  5. Goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Goals scored in all group matches;
  7. Number of red cards;
  8. Number of yellow cards;
  9. Drawing of lots.
The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the quarter-finals.
All times are local, PYT before 6 October 2024 and PYST after 6 October 2024.

Group A

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Group B


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Group C

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Group D

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Final stages

Starting from the quarter-finals, the teams played a single-elimination tournament. If tied after full time, extra time would not be played, and the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winners.

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Final

Wendy Bonilla received a straight red card in the quarter-final and was ruled out of the semi-final and final.

Statistics

Final ranking

As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time were counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-out were counted as draws.