2021 Copa Libertadores Femenina

2021 Copa Libertadores Femenina
Tournament details
Host country	Paraguay; Uruguay (final match)
Dates	3–21 November 2021
Teams	16 (from 10 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Corinthians (3rd title)
Runners-up	Santa Fe
Third place	Ferroviária
Fourth place	Nacional
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	102 (3.19 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Tatiana Ariza ; Linda Caicedo ; Jheniffer ; Esperanza Pizarro ; Victória ; (4 goals each)
	← 2020 2022 →

Last updated February 16, 2024

The 2021 Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores Femenina was the 13th 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 competition was initially scheduled to be played from 30 September to 16 October 2021 in Chile.^[1] On 29 July 2021, CONMEBOL announced that although the other rounds would be played in Chile, the final match would be played at the Estadio Centenario in Montevideo, Uruguay on 24 November 2021.^[2] Thus, the final was to be played between the 2021 Copa Sudamericana and the men's 2021 Copa Libertadores finals that would also be played in Montevideo. The tournament organizers did not agree with this decision and on 3 August 2021 they communicated to CONMEBOL that Chile would not host the championship.^[3] On 13 August 2021, CONMEBOL confirmed that the competition would be played from 3 to 21 November 2021, with Paraguay hosting the competition up to the third place play-off and the final being played at Estadio Centenario in Montevideo.^[4] Finally, on 10 September 2021, CONMEBOL announced that the final match was moved to the Estadio Gran Parque Central in Montevideo.^[5] Ferroviária were the defending champions, but they were eliminated in the semi-finals.

Corinthians (Brazil) defeated Santa Fe (Colombia) 2–0 to win their third title.^[6] In the Final, VAR was used for the first time in a Copa Libertadores Femenina match.^[7]

Alianza Lima became the first Peruvian team to qualify for the single-elimination stages.^[8] After their elimination in the quarter-finals, Kindermann ended their partnership with Avaí and the team was disbanded in November 2021.^[9] In January 2022 Avaí took control and assured the continuity of the team during 2022.^[10]

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.^[11]

Teams

The competition was contested by 16 teams:

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 2020 edition).^[4]
1. Brazil: 220 points
2. Chile: 136 points
3. Colombia: 120 points
4. Paraguay: 104 points
5. Argentina: 90 points
6. Venezuela: 77 points
7. Ecuador: 60 points
8. Uruguay: 43 points
9. Bolivia: 38 points
10. Peru: 29 points

Association	Team	Qualifying method	Participation	Previous best result
Argentina	San Lorenzo	2021 Torneo Apertura de Fútbol Femenino champions^[12]	2nd	Group stage (2009)
Bolivia	Real Tomayapo	2021 Copa Simón Bolívar Femenina champions^[13]	1st	—
Brazil	Ferroviária (Brazil 1)	2020 Copa Libertadores Femenina champions^[14]	5th	Champions (2015, 2020)
	Corinthians (Brazil 2)	2020 Campeonato Brasileiro Feminino A1 champions^[15]	4th^{[note 1]}	Champions (2017, 2019)^{[note 1]}
	Kindermann/Avaí (Brazil 3)	2020 Campeonato Brasileiro Feminino A1 runners-up^[15]	2nd	Group stage (2020)
Chile	Santiago Morning (Chile 1)	2020 Campeonato Femenino de Transición champions^[16]	3rd	Quarter-finals (2019, 2020)
Chile	Universidad de Chile (Chile 2)	2020 Campeonato Femenino de Transición runners-up^[17]	2nd	Fourth place (2020)
Colombia	Deportivo Cali (Colombia 1)	2021 Liga Femenina BetPlay DIMAYOR champions^[18]	1st	—
Colombia	Santa Fe (Colombia 2)	2021 Liga Femenina BetPlay DIMAYOR runners-up^[18]	3rd	Quarter-finals (2020)
Ecuador	Deportivo Cuenca	2021 SuperLiga Femenina DirecTV champions^[19]	2nd	Quarter-finals (2019)
Paraguay (hosts)	Cerro Porteño (Paraguay 1)	2021 Campeonato Femenino champions^[20]	7th	Third place (2014)
	Sol de América (Paraguay 2)	2021 Campeonato Femenino runners-up^[21]	2nd	Group stage (2020)
	Deportivo Capiatá (Paraguay 3)	2021 Campeonato Femenino third place (Host association additional entry)^[21]	2nd	Group stage (2017)
Peru	Alianza Lima	2021 Liga Femenina FPF champions^[22]	1st	—
Uruguay	Nacional	2020 Primera División "Torneo Rexona de Fútbol Femenino" champions^[23]	5th	Group stage (2011, 2012, 2013, 2016)
Venezuela	Yaracuyanos	2021 Liga FUTVE Fem – Torneo de Adecuación champions^[24]	1st	—

Notes

1 2 Corinthians won the 2017 title as a partnership with Audax. They created their own team for the 2018 season.

Venues

Matches in the competition were played at Estadio Manuel Ferreira and Estadio Arsenio Erico, both in Asunción, Paraguay, except for the final which was played at Estadio Gran Parque Central in Montevideo, Uruguay.^[5]

Match officials

On 21 September 2021, CONMEBOL announced the referees and assistant referees appointed for the tournament.^[25]

Association	Referees	Assistant referees	Support referees
Argentina	Laura Fortunato	Mariana de Almeida Daiana Milone	Salomé di Iorio
Bolivia	Adriana Farfán	Inés Choque Maricela Urapuca
Brazil	Edina Alves Batista	Neuza Back Leila Moreira	Daiane Muniz
Chile	María Belén Carvajal	Loreto Toloza Cindy Nahuelcoy
Colombia	María Victoria Daza	Mary Blanco Nataly Arteaga
Ecuador	Susana Corella	Mónica Amboya Viviana Segura
Paraguay	Zulma Quiñónez	Nancy Fernández Laura Miranda
Peru	Elizabeth Tintaya	Gabriela Moreno Mariana Aquino
Uruguay	Anahí Fernández	Adela Sánchez Daiana Fernández
Venezuela	Emikar Calderas	Migdalia Rodríguez Laura Cárdenas

Draw

The draw for the tournament was held on 24 September 2021, 12:00 PYT (UTC−4), at the CONMEBOL Convention Center in Luque, Paraguay.^[5]^[26] 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 2020 Copa Libertadores Femenina champions, Ferroviária (Brazil 1)
To Group B: as champions of the host association, Cerro Porteño (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, excluding the champions, with the highest two (Colombia 1 and Brazil 2) placed in Pot 1, the next four (Chile 1, Argentina, Paraguay 2 and Peru) placed in Pot 2 and the lowest four (Uruguay, Ecuador, 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 3) 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.^[27]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Deportivo Cali Corinthians	Santiago Morning San Lorenzo Sol de América ^[1] Alianza Lima	Nacional Deportivo Cuenca Yaracuyanos Real Tomayapo ^[1]	Kindermann/Avaí Universidad de Chile Santa Fe Deportivo Capiatá ^[1]

¹ The draw was held before the identities of Paraguay 2 (Sol de América), Paraguay 3 (Deportivo Capiatá), and Bolivia (Real Tomayapo) were known.

The draw resulted in the following groups:

Group A
Pos	Team
A1	Ferroviária
A2	Sol de América
A3	Deportivo Cuenca
A4	Santa Fe

Group B
Pos	Team
B1	Cerro Porteño
B2	Santiago Morning
B3	Yaracuyanos
B4	Kindermann/Avaí

Group C
Pos	Team
C1	Deportivo Cali
C2	Alianza Lima
C3	Real Tomayapo
C4	Universidad de Chile

Group D
Pos	Team
D1	Corinthians
D2	San Lorenzo
D3	Nacional
D4	Deportivo Capiatá

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).^[11]

Goal difference;
Goals scored;
Head-to-head result in games between tied teams;
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, PYST (UTC−3).^[28]

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Ferroviária	3	2	1	0	5	1	+4	7	Quarter-finals
2	Santa Fe	3	2	1	0	3	0	+3	7	Quarter-finals
3	Deportivo Cuenca	3	1	0	2	5	3	+2	3
4	Sol de América	3	0	0	3	0	9	−9	0

Source: CONMEBOL

3 November 2021