Copa Libertadores Femenina

This article describes the Copa Libertadores de América for women. For the men's soccer cup of the same name, see Copa Libertadores .

Copa Libertadores Femenina
Full name	Copa Libertadores de America Femenina
Association	CONMEBOL
founding	July 3, 2009
First edition	2009
hierarchy	I (at the continental level)
Teams	16
Game mode	• Round- robin tournament (3 groups of 4 teams each) • Knockout system (from semi-finals)
Title holder	Corinthians São Paulo (1st title)
Record winner	São José EC (3 wins)
Record scorer	Cristiane (28 goals)
Website	conmebol.com

The President of Chile Sebastián Piñera holds the trophy of the Copa Libertadores de América Femenina when he welcomes the winning team of the 2012 edition with the CSD Colo-Colo.

The Copa Libertadores de América Femenina is a competition for South American women's football club teams . The tournament, which was played for the first time in 2009, is organized by the continental football association CONMEBOL . It is the only international women's soccer cup in South America and only the second continental soccer competition for women worldwide after the UEFA Women's Champions League . The game period is always around ten to 15 days in October or November.

history

The idea for a women's version of the Copa Libertadores came up in March 2009 and was confirmed by the Executive Committee of CONMEBOL on July 3 of the same year. It was decided to host the first edition in Brazil between October 3rd and 18th. Co-organizers were the Federação Paulista de Futebol, the Confederação Brasileira de Futebol as well as with the Santos FC South America's most professional and most developed women's football club at the time - the later title holder.

Since then, the competition, organized solely by CONMEBOL, should actually always take place in the country of the previous year's winner, i.e. continue to be in Brazil until 2012. With the victory of the CSD Colo-Colo in December 2012, Chile was originally intended to host the 2013 tournament, but they actually played again in Brazil. Finally, the 2015 event was announced for the first time. Inspired by participation in the final of the CD Formas Íntimas in 2013 - which is also the only club that has competed in all six previous Copa Libertadores Femenina matches - the Colombian city of Medellín submitted its application in August 2014. Cities in Brazil, Paraguay and Chile also expressed interest. At the end of October 2014, Medellín was awarded the contract by CONMEBOL.

mode

The ten national associations of CONMEBOL have the right to send one representative each to the competition. As a rule, this is the respective champion of the corresponding national league. In addition, the defending champion and another team from the host country will take part. The participants are divided into three groups of four teams each, which then compete against each other in a round- robin tournament. The respective group winners and the best runner-up qualify for the semi-finals. If there is a tie in the group stage, the goal difference is decisive for progress, then the number of goals scored and finally the result of the teams in question in their game against each other. If after that there is still balance, it is up to the organizers to decide how to proceed. If two teams are tied after a meeting on the last day of the group, a penalty shoot-out attached to the game brings the decision.

If two teams from one association advance to the semi-finals, they must play against each other in order to guarantee internationality in the final. In the final round there is no extra time, a draw after 90 minutes is followed immediately by a penalty shoot-out. In the game for third place, the losers of the two semi-finals meet. In contrast to the men's edition , all games in the tournament were played without return games.

Prize and participation fees are not distributed directly to the clubs, but to their associations, which are responsible for distribution. Each member association receives US $ 5,000 from CONMEBOL for team participation; an additional 5,000 will be awarded for fourth place, 10,000 for third, 15,000 for second place, and $ 20,000 for the win.

The tournaments at a glance

year	host	Venues	Attendees	final
				winner	Result	finalist
2009	Brazil	Guarujá , São Paulo , Santos	10	FC Santos	9-0	Universidad Autónoma de Asunción
2010	Brazil	Barueri	10	FC Santos	1-0	CD Everton de Viña del Mar
2011	Brazil	São José dos Campos	12	São José EC	1-0	CSD Colo-Colo
2012	Brazil	Recife , Caruaru , Vitória de Santo Antão	12	CSD Colo-Colo	0: 0 (4: 2 on perk )	Foz Cataratas FC
2013	Brazil	Foz do Iguaçu	12	São José EC	3: 1	CD Formas Íntimas
2014	Brazil	São José dos Campos	12	São José EC	5: 1	Caracas FC
2015	Colombia	Medellín , Girardota , Envigado	12	Ferroviária	3: 1	CSD Colo-Colo
2016	Uruguay	Montevideo , Colonia del Sacramento	12	Sportivo Limpeño	2: 1	Estudiantes de Guárico FC
2017	Paraguay	Asunción , Luque	12	GO Audax	0: 0 (5: 4 on perk)	CSD Colo-Colo
2018	Brazil	Manaus	12	Atlético Huila	1: 1 (5: 3 i.E.)	FC Santos
2019	Ecuador	Quito	16	Corinthians São Paulo	2-0	Ferroviária

statistics

rank	club	title	FT
1	São José EC	3	3
2	FC Santos	2	2
3	CSD Colo-Colo	1	4th
	Ferroviária	1	2
5	Sportivo Limpeño	1	1
	GO Audax	1	1
	Atlético Huila	1	1
	Corinthians São Paulo	1	1
9	Universidad Autónoma de Asunción	/	1
	CD Everton de Viña del Mar	/	1
	Foz Cataratas FC	/	1
	CD Formas Íntimas	/	1
	Caracas FC	/	1
	Estudiantes de Guárico FC	/	1

rank	nation	title	FT
1	Brazil	8th	10
2	Chile	1	5
3	Paraguay	1	2
	Colombia	1	2
5	Venezuela	/	2

Top scorer queens

season	Player	club	Gates
2009	Cristiane	Santos FC	14th
2010	Noelia Cuevas	Universidad Autónoma de Asunción	8th
2011	Ysaura Viso Garrido	Caracas FC	9
2012	Cristiane	São José EC	7th
2013	Maitte Zamorano	Mundo Futuro FC	7th
2014	Andressa Alves	São José EC	6th
	Ysaura Viso Garrido	Caracas FC	6th
	Diana Ospina	CD Formas Íntimas	6th
2015	Catalina Usme	CD Formas Íntimas	8th
2016	Oriana Altuve	Colón FC	4th
	Manuela González	Generaciones Palmiranas	4th
2017	Amanda Brunner	GO Audax	4th
	Oriana Altuve	Independiente Santa Fe	4th
	Catalina Usme	Independiente Santa Fe	4th
	Carolina Birizamberri	River Plate	4th
	Gloria Villamayor	CSD Colo-Colo	4th
	Maitte Zamorano	Deportivo ITA	4th
2018	Brena	FC Santos	4th
2019	Nathane Cadorini	Ferroviária	9
Respective winner of the record-breaking competition

Logo history

As with the male counterpart since 1998 , the name of a commercial sponsor will in a few years also be part of the official tournament name of the Copa Libertadores Femenina. So far this has been the Spanish universal bank Banco Santander . The picture logo, however, has been changed several times.

Logo 2009	Logo 2011	Logo 2012

Web links

• Match Details for the sweeps in 2009, 2010 and 2012 on rsssf.com (Engl.)