The 2022 Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores Femenina was the 14th 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. The tournament was held in Ecuador from 13 to 28 October 2022.[1]Corinthians were the defending champions but they were eliminated in the quarter-finals.
Palmeiras (Brazil) defeated Boca Juniors (Argentina) 4–1 in the final to win their first title.[2]
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.[3]
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 2021 edition).[3]
^ abCorinthians won the 2017 title as a partnership with Audax. They created their own team for the 2018 season.
^ abAs the title holders, Corinthians, were also the 2021 Campeonato Brasileiro Feminino A1 champions, runners-up Palmeiras and third place Ferroviária qualified as Brazil 2 and Brazil 3 berths, respectively.
^ abSportivo Limpeño won the 2016 title. In 2018 they started a partnership with Libertad (3rd participation).
Venues
The matches were played in Quito. Initially two stadiums (Estadio Gonzalo Pozo Ripalda and Estadio Banco Guayaquil) would host the group stage. On 15 October 2022, CONMEBOL announced that the Estádio Banco Guayaquil would no longer host matches, and matches originally to be played there would be moved to Estadio Rodrigo Paz Delgado.[19]
The draw for the tournament was held on 20 September 2022, 12:00 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 B: the champions of the host association, Ñañas (Ecuador 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, excluding the champions, with the highest two (Brazil 2 and Colombia 1) placed in Pot 1, the next four (Uruguay, Peru, Paraguay 1 and Chile 1) placed in Pot 2 and the lowest four (Ecuador 2, Argentina, Venezuela and Bolivia) in Pot 3. The four additional teams from associations with the best historical performance (Brazil 3, Chile 2, Colombia 2 and Paraguay 2) were seeded into Pot 4. From Pot 1, the first team drawn was 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 was 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.
1The draw was held before the identities of Ecuador 1 (Ñañas), Ecuador 2 (Dragonas IDV), Peru (Alianza Lima) and Venezuela (Deportivo Lara) were known.
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).[3]
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.
Source: CONMEBOL Rules for classification: For 5th to 8th place. 1) Points in Quarter-finals; 2) Goal difference in Quarter-finals; 3) Goals scored in Quarter-finals; 4) Fewest red cards received in Quarter-finals; 5) Fewest yellow cards received in Quarter-finals; 6) Fewest red cards received in all matches; 7) Fewest yellow cards received in all matches. For 9th to 16th place. 1) Points in group stage; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored ; 4) Fewest red cards received; 5) Fewest yellow cards received (Regulations Article 24).[3] Notes:
^ abcRed cards in quarter-finals: Corinthians 0, Santiago Morning 1, Ferroviária 1; Yellow cards in all matches: Santiago Morning 9, Ferroviária 10
Palmeiras (1st title)
Boca Juniors
América
Rebeca Fernández (5 goals)
