2020 U-20 Copa Libertadores

2020 U-20 Copa Libertadores
Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores Sub-20; Paraguay 2020
Tournament details
Host country	Paraguay
Dates	15 February – 1 March 2020
Teams	12 (from 10 associations)
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Independiente del Valle (1st title)
Runners-up	River Plate
Third place	Flamengo
Fourth place	Libertad
Tournament statistics
Matches played	22
Goals scored	81 (3.68 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Derlis Aquino; (6 goals)

The 2020 U-20 Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores (Spanish: Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores Sub-20 2020) was the 5th 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. The tournament was held in Paraguay from 15 February to 1 March 2020. 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.[1]

Association	Team	Qualifying method	Participation	Previous best result
Argentina	River Plate	2018–19 play-off winners between Cuarta División (U-20) Apertura and Clausura champions[2]	3rd	Champions (2012)
Bolivia	Jorge Wilstermann	2019 U-19 Torneo Nacional champions[3]	2nd	Group stage (2011)
Brazil	Flamengo	2019 U-20 Supercopa de Brasil champions[4]	2nd	Quarterfinals (2011)
Chile	Colo-Colo	2019 U-19 Copa de Campeones champions[5]	2nd	Group stage (2018)
Colombia	Millonarios	2019 U-20 Súper Copa Juvenil champions[6]	2nd	Group stage (2011)
Ecuador	Independiente del Valle	2019 U-18 Serie A champions[7]	5th	Runners-up (2018)
Paraguay (hosts)	Libertad	2019 U-19 Apertura champions[8]	4th	Quarterfinals (2011)
Paraguay (hosts)	Cerro Porteño	2019 U-19 Clausura champions[9]	3rd	Quarterfinals (2012)
Peru	Sporting Cristal	2019 Torneo de Promoción y Reserva champions[10]	2nd	Group stage (2012)
Uruguay	Nacional	2018 U-20 Copa Libertadores champions	3rd	Champions (2018)
Uruguay	Danubio	2019 U-19 Campeonato Uruguayo champions[11]	1st	—
Venezuela	Academia Puerto Cabello	2019 U-19 Serie Élite champions[12]	1st	—

Venues

The tournament was played at two venues in two cities, both in the Metropolitan Area of Asunción:[13]

Estadio Arsenio Erico, Asunción (home stadium of Club Nacional)
Estadio General Adrián Jara, Luque (home stadium of General Díaz)

Draw

The draw was held on 28 January 2020, 12:00 PYST (UTC−3), at the headquarters of the Paraguayan Football Association.[14][15] The draw was conducted according to Regulations Article 16 as follows:[1]

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 (Ecuador and Uruguay), were also seeded into Pot 1 and drawn to position B1 or C1 in the group stage.
The teams from the next three associations (Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay) were seeded into Pot 2 and drawn to position A2, B2 or C2 in the group stage.
The teams from the next three associations (Colombia, Venezuela and Chile) were seeded into Pot 3 and drawn to position A3, B3 or C3 in the group stage.
The teams from the last two associations (Bolivia and Peru) and the additional team from the host association (Paraguay) 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.[14]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Nacional (Position A1) Independiente del Valle Danubio	Flamengo River Plate Libertad	Millonarios Academia Puerto Cabello Colo-Colo^[CHI]	Jorge Wilstermann Sporting Cristal Cerro Porteño

Notes

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^CHI The identity of the team from Chile was not known at the time of the draw.

Match officials

On 30 January 2020, CONMEBOL announced that the CONMEBOL Referee Commission had appointed 10 referees and 20 assistant referees for the tournament.[16]

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 (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 Article 20):[1]

Goal difference;
Goals scored;
Head-to-head result in games between tied teams;
Red cards;
Yellow cards;
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 (UTC−3).[17]

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Flamengo	3	2	1	8	3	+5	6	Semi-finals
2	Academia Puerto Cabello	3	2	1	7	6	+1	6
3	Nacional	3	1	2	5	6	−1	3
4	Sporting Cristal	3	1	2	6	11	−5	3

Source: CONMEBOL

15 February 2020