2025 U-20 Copa Libertadores

2025 U-20 Copa Libertadores

Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores Sub-20 Paraguay 2025
Tournament details
Host country	Paraguay
Dates	1–16 March 2025
Teams	12 (from 10 associations)
Final positions
Champions
Runners-up
Third place
Fourth place
Tournament statistics
Top scorer(s)
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The 2025 U-20 Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores (Spanish : Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores Sub-20 2025) will be the 9th edition of the U-20 CONMEBOL Libertadores (also referred to as the U-20 Copa Libertadores), South America's premier under-20 club football tournament organized by CONMEBOL. It will be held in Paraguay from 1 to 16 March 2025. ^[1]

Flamengo are the defending champions.

Teams

The competition will be 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. ^[2]

Association	Team	Qualifying method	App	Previous best result
Argentina	Belgrano	2024 Cuarta División (U-20) champions [3] [4]	1st	—
Bolivia	Blooming	2024 U-19 Liga Nacional champions [5]	3rd	Group stage (2012, 2022)
Brazil	Flamengo (holders)	2024 U-20 Copa Libertadores champions	4th	Champions (2024)
	Palmeiras	2024 Campeonato Brasileiro Sub-20 champions [6] [7]	2nd	Group stage (2023)
Chile	O'Higgins	2024 Supercopa Proyección winners [Note CHI] [8] [9]	2nd	Group stage (2023)
Colombia	Fortaleza	2024 Supercopa Juvenil champions [10] [11]	1st	—
Ecuador	Independiente del Valle	2024 Campeonato Nacional de Categorías Formativas U-19 champions [12] [ better source needed ] [13]	8th	Champions (2020)
Paraguay (hosts)	Cerro Porteño (Paraguay 1)	2024 Torneo Anual Juvenil champions [14] [15]	5th	Third place (2023)
	Olimpia (Paraguay 2)	2024 Torneo Anual Juvenil runners-up [14] [15]	2nd	Group stage (2024)
Peru	Universitario	2024 Torneo de Promoción y Reserva champions [16] [17]	3rd	Champions (2011)
Uruguay	Danubio	2024 Campeonato Uruguayo Juvenil Divisional A U-19 champions [18]	2nd	Group stage (2020)
Venezuela	Metropolitanos	2024 U-21 Liga FUTVE Junior champions [19]	1st	—

1. Chile (CHI): Chile's berth was decided in a play-off match between O'Higgins, the 2024 Campeonato Nacional Proyección Apertura champions, ^[20] and Colo-Colo, the 2024 Campeonato Nacional Proyección Clausura champions. ^[21]

Squads

Main article: 2025 U-20 Copa Libertadores squads

Each team could register a maximum of 20 and a minimum of 16 players, including at least 2 goalkeepers. Players born between 1 January 2005 and 31 December 2009 (ages 16 to 20) were eligible to compete in the tournament (Regulations Articles 48 and 51). ^[2]

Draw

The draw for the group stage was held on 4 February 2025, 12:00 PYT (UTC−3), at the CONMEBOL headquarters in Luque, Paraguay. ^[22] The draw was conducted according to the following guidelines: ^{[22] [23]}

• The defending champions Flamengo were automatically assigned to Group A, position A1.
• The remaining 11 teams were seeded into four pots; one of two teams and three of three teams, based on the final placement of their national association's club in the previous edition of the tournament, in order to be drawn into three groups of four.
• Teams from the two best associations (Brazil and Argentina) were seeded into Pot 1 and drawn to the first position of groups B or C. The first team drawn was placed into Group B and the second team drawn placed into Group C.
• Teams from the next three associations (Ecuador, Venezuela and Chile) were seeded into Pot 2 and drawn to the second position of groups A, B or C.
• Teams from the next three associations (Paraguay 1, Uruguay and Colombia) were seeded into Pot 3 and drawn to the third position of groups A, B or C.
• Teams from the last two associations (Peru and Bolivia) and the additional team from the host association (Paraguay 2) were seeded into Pot 4 and drawn to the fourth position of groups A, B or C.
• From pots 2, 3 and 4, the first team drawn was placed into Group A, the second team drawn placed into Group B and the final team drawn placed into Group C. Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Palmeiras Belgrano	Independiente del Valle Metropolitanos O'Higgins	Cerro Porteño Danubio Fortaleza	Universitario Blooming Olimpia

The draw resulted in the following groups: ^[24]

Group A Pos Team A1 Flamengo A2 O'Higgins A3 Danubio A4 Olimpia

Group B Pos Team B1 Belgrano B2 Metropolitanos B3 Fortaleza B4 Universitario

Group C Pos Team C1 Palmeiras C2 Independiente del Valle C3 Cerro Porteño C4 Blooming

Group stage

The winners of each group and the best runner-up among all groups advanced to the semi-finals.

Tiebreakers

In the group stage, teams were ranked according to points earned (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers were applied in the following order (Regulations Articles 20, 21): ^[2]

1. Head-to-head result in games between tied teams;
   • Head-to-head points in the matches played among the tied teams;
   • Head-to-head goal difference in the matches played among the tied teams;
   • Head-to-head goals scored in the matches played among the tied teams;
2. Goal difference;
3. Goals scored;
4. Fewest number of red cards received;
5. Fewest number of yellow cards received;
6. Drawing of lots.

All match times are local, PYT (UTC−3), as listed by CONMEBOL.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Flamengo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Semi-finals
2	O'Higgins	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Possible Semi-finals
3	Danubio	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Olimpia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 1 March 2025. Source: CONMEBOL

1 March 2025 (2025-03-01)

Flamengo	Match 1	Olimpia

1 March 2025 (2025-03-01)

O'Higgins	Match 2	Danubio

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4 March 2025 (2025-03-04)

Danubio	Match 7	Flamengo

4 March 2025 (2025-03-04)

O'Higgins	Match 8	Olimpia

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7 March 2025 (2025-03-07)

Flamengo	Match 13	O'Higgins

7 March 2025 (2025-03-07)

Olimpia	Match 14	Danubio

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Belgrano	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Semi-finals
2	Metropolitanos	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Possible Semi-finals
3	Fortaleza	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Universitario	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 2 March 2025. Source: CONMEBOL

2 March 2025 (2025-03-02)

Belgrano	Match 3	Universitario

2 March 2025 (2025-03-02)

Metropolitanos	Match 4	Fortaleza

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5 March 2025 (2025-03-05)

Fortaleza	Match 9	Belgrano

5 March 2025 (2025-03-05)

Metropolitanos	Match 10	Universitario

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8 March 2025 (2025-03-08)

Belgrano	Match 15	Metropolitanos

8 March 2025 (2025-03-08)

Universitario	Match 16	Fortaleza

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Palmeiras	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Semi-finals
2	Independiente del Valle	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Possible Semi-finals
3	Cerro Porteño	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Blooming	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 3 March 2025. Source: CONMEBOL

3 March 2025 (2025-03-03)

Palmeiras	Match 5	Blooming

3 March 2025 (2025-03-03)

Independiente del Valle	Match 6	Cerro Porteño

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6 March 2025 (2025-03-06)

Cerro Porteño	Match 11	Palmeiras

6 March 2025 (2025-03-06)

Independiente del Valle	Match 12	Blooming

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9 March 2025 (2025-03-09)

Palmeiras	Match 17	Independiente del Valle

9 March 2025 (2025-03-09)

Blooming	Match 18	Cerro Porteño

Ranking of group runners-up

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	A	Group A runners-up	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Semi-finals
2	B	Group B runners-up	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	C	Group C runners-up	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 1 March 2025. Source: CONMEBOL
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Fewest red cards; 5) Fewest yellow cards; 6) Drawing of lots (Regulations Article 22). ^[2]

Final stage

The final stage will be played on a single-elimination basis and consists of the semi-finals, third place match and the final. If a match was tied at the end of regular playing time, the winner would be decided directly by a penalty shoot-out (no extra time will be played) (Regulations Article 24). The semi-final matchups will be: ^[2]

• Semi-final 1 (SF1): Group A winner vs. Best runner-up
• Semi-final 2 (SF2): Group B winner vs. Group C winner

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	13 March
	Group A winners
					16 March
	Best group runners-up
					Winners Match 19
	13 March
					Winners Match 20
	Group B winners
	Group C winners
					Third place
					16 March
					Losers Match 19
					Losers Match 20

Semi-finals

13 March 2025 (2025-03-13)

Group A winners	Match 19	Best group runners-up

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13 March 2025 (2025-03-13)

Group B winners	Match 20	Group C winners

Third place match

16 March 2025 (2025-03-16)

Losers Match 19	Match 21	Losers Match 20

Final

16 March 2025 (2025-03-16)

Winners Match 19	Match 22	Winners Match 20

References

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19. "Liga FUTVE Junior tiene sus campeones del 2024" [Liga FUTVE Junior has its champions of 2024] (in Spanish). Venezuelan Football Federation. 9 December 2024.
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External links

• CONMEBOL Libertadores U-20, CONMEBOL.com