2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament
13th edition of the CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament
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The 2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament was the 13th edition of the CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament, the quadrennial, international, age-restricted football tournament organised by the Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol (CONMEBOL) to determine which men's under-23 national teams from the South American region qualify for the Olympic football tournament.
| CONMEBOL Preolímpico Colombia 2020 | |
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| Tournament details | |
| Host country | Colombia |
| Dates | 18 January – 9 February 2020 |
| Teams | 10 (from 1 confederation) |
| Venue | 3 (in 3 host cities) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Argentina (5th title) |
| Runners-up |  Brazil |
| Third place |  Uruguay |
| Fourth place |  Colombia |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 26 |
| Goals scored | 75 (2.88 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Matheus Cunha (5 goals) |
| Best player | Bruno Guimarães |
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In August 2018, CONMEBOL announced the return of the South American Pre-Olympic Tournament in 2020 with Colombia as the host country, after a 16-year absence.[1] The last edition of this competition had been held in Chile in 2004. From 2008 through the 2016 Summer Olympics, the two teams from South America were determined by the South American Youth Football Championship, always held in the previous year. The tournament was held from 18 January through 9 February 2020.[2]
The top two teams qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics men's football tournament in Japan as the CONMEBOL representatives.[3] Argentina successfully defended their title won 16 years ago, and qualified for the Olympics together with runners-up Brazil, the defending Olympic champions.
Teams
All ten CONMEBOL member national teams entered the tournament.
| Team | Appearance | Previous best top-4 performance |
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| Argentina (holders) | 11th | Winners (1960, 1964, 1980, 2004) |
 Bolivia | 8th | Third place (1987) |
| Brazil | 13th | Winners (1968, 1971, 1976, 1984, 1987, 1996, 2000) |
 Chile | 12th | Runners-up (1984, 2000) |
| Colombia (hosts) | 13th | Runners-up (1968, 1971, 1980, 1992) |
 Ecuador | 10th | Fourth place (1984, 1992) |
 Paraguay | 9th | Winners (1992) |
 Peru | 12th | Runners-up (1960) |
| Uruguay | 11th | Runners-up (1976) |
 Venezuela | 10th | Fourth place (1980, 1996) |
Venues
Colombia was announced as host of the tournament at the CONMEBOL Council meeting held on 14 August 2018 in Luque, Paraguay.[1] On 28 August 2019, Pereira, Armenia, and Bucaramanga were announced as the host cities.[4][5]
| Pereira | Armenia | Bucaramanga | Location of the host cities of the 2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament. |
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| Estadio Hernán Ramírez Villegas | Estadio Centenario | Estadio Alfonso López | |
| Capacity: 30,300 | Capacity: 20,716 | Capacity: 25,000 | |
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Squads
Players born on or after 1 January 1997 were eligible to compete in the tournament.
Draw
The draw of the tournament was held on 5 November 2019, 19:00 COT (UTC−5), at the Auditorium of the Colombian Football Federation in Bogotá, Colombia.[6][7] The ten teams were drawn into two groups of five. The hosts Colombia and Brazil as the current Olympic champions and best CONMEBOL team in the FIFA World Rankings as of October 2019 were seeded into Group A and Group B, respectively, and assigned to position 1 in their group, while the remaining eight teams were placed into four "pairing pots" based on their FIFA World Rankings as of October 2019 (shown in brackets).[8] The positions of these eight teams within their groups were also defined by draw.[9]
The draw was led by Hugo Figueredo, CONMEBOL's Director of Competitions, with the collaboration of Daniela Montoya, a member of the Colombia women's national football team, and former Colombian footballer Iván Valenciano.[9]
Match officials
On 4 December 2019, CONMEBOL announced that the CONMEBOL Referee Commission had appointed 12 referees and 20 assistant referees for the tournament.[10][11] Referees Guillermo Guerrero from Ecuador and Alexis Herrera from Venezuela as well as the assistant referee Byron Romero from Ecuador, who were not included in the initial list of officials, were summoned to officiate in the two matches of the final stage's last matchday.[12][13][14]
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First stage
The top two teams of each group advanced to the final stage.
- Tiebreakers
The ranking of teams in the first stage was determined as follows (Regulations Article 8):[15]
- Points obtained in all group matches (three points for a win, one for a draw, none for a defeat);
- Goal difference in all group matches;
- Number of goals scored in all group matches;
- Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
- Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question;
- Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
- Fair play points in all group matches (only one deduction could be applied to a player in a single match):
- Yellow card: −1 points;
- Indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points;
- Direct red card: −4 points;
- Yellow card and direct red card: −5 points;
- Drawing of lots.
All times are local, COT (UTC−5).[16][17]
Group A
| Argentina | 1–0 | Ecuador |
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Group B
| Bolivia | 3–2 | Uruguay |
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Final stage
The ranking of teams in the final stage was determined using the same criteria as the first stage, taking into account only matches in the final stage (Regulations Article 8).
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | Argentina (C) |
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 6 | 2020 Summer Olympics |
| 2 | Brazil |
3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 5 | |
| 3 | Uruguay |
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 4 | |
| 4 | Colombia (H) |
3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 1 |
Goalscorers
There were 75 goals scored in 26 matches, for an average of 2.88 goals per match.
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Julián Álvarez- Nahuel Bustos
- Nicolás Capaldo
- Nazareno Colombo
- Adolfo Gaich
- Agustín Urzi
- Fausto Vera
- Matías Zaracho
Sebastián Reyes
Antony- Guga
- Pedrinho
- Reinier
Ángelo Araos- Iván Morales
- Camilo Moya
Eduard Atuesta- Nicolás Benedetti
- Johan Carbonero
Sergio Díaz- Roberto Fernández
- Saúl Salcedo
Luis Carranza- Sebastián Gonzales
- José Luján
Matías Arezo- Santiago Bueno
- Francisco Ginella
- Diego Rossi
- Juan Manuel Sanabria
- Manuel Ugarte
- Federico Viñas
Jan Carlos Hurtado
1 own goal
Jackson Porozo (against Chile)- Santiago Arzamendia (against Peru)
- Ignacio De Arruabarrena (against Brazil)
Qualified teams for Summer Olympics
The following two teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympic men's football tournament.
- 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.