2020 Copa Libertadores

The following 47 teams from the 10 CONMEBOL member associations qualified for the tournament:^[10]

• Copa Libertadores champions
• Copa Sudamericana champions
• Brazil: 7 berths
• Argentina: 6 berths
• All other associations: 4 berths each

The entry stage was determined as follows:^[10]

• Group stage: 28 teams
  • Copa Libertadores champions
  • Copa Sudamericana champions
  • Teams which qualified for berths 1–5 from Argentina and Brazil
  • Teams which qualified for berths 1–2 from all other associations
• Second stage: 13 teams
  • Teams which qualified for berths 6–7 from Brazil
  • Team which qualified for berth 6 from Argentina
  • Teams which qualified for berths 3–4 from Chile and Colombia
  • Teams which qualified for berth 3 from all other associations
• First stage: 6 teams
  • Teams which qualified for berth 4 from Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela

Association	Team (Berth)	Entry stage	Qualification method
Argentina (6 berths)	Racing (Argentina 1)	Group stage	2018–19 Superliga Argentina champions[11]
	Defensa y Justicia (Argentina 2)		2018–19 Superliga Argentina runners-up[11]
	River Plate (Argentina 3)		2018–19 Copa Argentina champions[11]
	Tigre (Argentina 4)		2019 Copa de la Superliga champions[11]
	Boca Juniors (Argentina 5)		2018–19 Superliga Argentina 3rd place[11]
	Atlético Tucumán (Argentina 6)	Second stage	2018–19 Superliga Argentina 5th place[11]
Bolivia (4 berths)	Bolívar (Bolivia 1)	Group stage	2019 Apertura champions[12]
	Jorge Wilstermann (Bolivia 2)		2019 Clausura champions[12]
	The Strongest (Bolivia 3)	Second stage	2019 Primera División aggregate table best team not yet qualified[12]
	San José (Bolivia 4)	First stage	2019 Primera División aggregate table 2nd best team not yet qualified[12]
Brazil (7 + 1 berths)	Flamengo (Brazil 1, Title holders)	Group stage	2019 Copa Libertadores and 2019 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A champions[13]
	Athletico Paranaense (Brazil 2)		2019 Copa do Brasil champions[13]
	Santos (Brazil 3)		2019 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A runners-up[13]
	Palmeiras (Brazil 4)		2019 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A 3rd place[13]
	Grêmio (Brazil 5)		2019 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A 4th place[13]
	São Paulo (Brazil 6)		2019 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A 6th place[13]
	Internacional (Brazil 7)	Second stage	2019 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A 7th place[13]
	Corinthians (Brazil 8)		2019 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A 8th place[13]
Chile (4 berths)	Universidad Católica (Chile 1)	Group stage	2019 Primera División champions[14]
	Colo-Colo (Chile 2)		2019 Primera División runners-up[14]
	Palestino (Chile 3)	Second stage	2019 Primera División 3rd place[14]
	Universidad de Chile (Chile 4)		2019 Copa Chile runners-up[14]
Colombia (4 berths)	Junior (Colombia 1)	Group stage	2019 Apertura champions[15]
	América de Cali (Colombia 2)		2019 Finalización champions[15]
	Deportes Tolima (Colombia 3)	Second stage	2019 Primera A aggregate table best team not yet qualified[15]
	Independiente Medellín (Colombia 4)		2019 Copa Colombia champions[15]
Ecuador (4 + 1 berths)	Independiente del Valle (Ecuador 1, Copa Sudamericana)	Group stage	2019 Copa Sudamericana champions
	Delfín (Ecuador 2)		2019 Serie A champions[16]
	LDU Quito (Ecuador 3)		2019 Serie A runners-up[16]
	Macará (Ecuador 4)	Second stage	2019 Serie A classification table best team not yet qualified[16]
	Barcelona (Ecuador 5)	First stage	2019 Serie A classification table 2nd best team not yet qualified[16]
Paraguay (4 berths)	Olimpia (Paraguay 1)	Group stage	2019 Apertura and 2019 Clausura champions
	Libertad (Paraguay 2)		2019 Primera División aggregate table best team not yet qualified
	Cerro Porteño (Paraguay 3)	Second stage	2019 Primera División aggregate table 2nd best team not yet qualified
	Guaraní (Paraguay 4)	First stage	2019 Primera División aggregate table 3rd best team not yet qualified
Peru (4 berths)	Binacional (Peru 1)	Group stage	2019 Liga 1 champions[17]
	Alianza Lima (Peru 2)		2019 Liga 1 runners-up[17]
	Sporting Cristal (Peru 3)	Second stage	2019 Liga 1 3rd place[17]
	Universitario (Peru 4)	First stage	2019 Liga 1 aggregate table best team not yet qualified[17]
Uruguay (4 berths)	Nacional (Uruguay 1)	Group stage	2019 Primera División champions[18]
	Peñarol (Uruguay 2)		2019 Primera División runners-up[18]
	Cerro Largo (Uruguay 3)	Second stage	2019 Primera División aggregate table best team not yet qualified[18]
	Progreso (Uruguay 4)	First stage	2019 Primera División aggregate table 2nd best team not yet qualified[18]
Venezuela (4 berths)	Caracas (Venezuela 1)	Group stage	2019 Primera División champions[19]
	Estudiantes de Mérida (Venezuela 2)		2019 Primera División runners-up[19]
	Deportivo Táchira (Venezuela 3)	Second stage	2019 Primera División aggregate table best team not yet qualified[19]
	Carabobo (Venezuela 4)	First stage	2019 Primera División aggregate table 2nd best team not yet qualified[19]

The schedule of the competition was as follows.^[20][21]

On 12 March 2020, CONMEBOL announced that the tournament would be temporarily suspended after matchday 2 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with matches on matchday 3, originally scheduled for 17–19 March 2020, postponed to a later date yet to be confirmed.^[22] On 18 March 2020, CONMEBOL announced that the tournament would be suspended until 5 May 2020.^[23] On 17 April 2020, CONMEBOL announced that the tournament would be suspended indefinitely, and no date had been set for its resumption.^[24] On 10 July 2020, CONMEBOL announced the new schedule for the remainder of the competition.^[8][25]

In the qualifying stages, each tie was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If tied on aggregate, the away goals rule was used. If still tied, extra time was not played, and a penalty shoot-out was used to determine the winner (Regulations Article 2.4.3).^[1] The qualifying stages were structured as follows:

• First stage (6 teams): The three winners of the first stage advanced to the second stage to join the 13 teams which were given byes to the second stage.
• Second stage (16 teams): The eight winners of the second stage advanced to the third stage.
• Third stage (8 teams): The four winners of the third stage advanced to the group stage to join the 28 direct entrants. The two best teams eliminated in the third stage entered the Copa Sudamericana second stage.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
San José	0–5	Guaraní	0–1	0–4
Carabobo	1–2	Universitario	1–1	0–1
Progreso	1–5	Barcelona	0–2	1–3

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Universitario	1–2	Cerro Porteño	1–1	0–1
Cerro Largo	2–6	Palestino	1–1	1–5
Independiente Medellín	4–2	Deportivo Táchira	4–0	0–2
Macará	0–2	Deportes Tolima	0–1	0–1
Universidad de Chile	0–2	Internacional	0–0	0–2
The Strongest	2–2 (5–6 p)	Atlético Tucumán	2–0	0–2
Guaraní	2–2 (a)	Corinthians	1–0	1–2
Barcelona	5–2	Sporting Cristal	4–0	1–2

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Barcelona	5–0	Cerro Porteño	1–0	4–0
Palestino	1–3	Guaraní	0–1	1–2
Independiente Medellín	1–1 (4–2 p)	Atlético Tucumán	1–0	0–1
Deportes Tolima	0–1	Internacional	0–0	0–1

The two best teams eliminated in the third stage entered the Copa Sudamericana second stage. Only matches in the third stage were considered for the ranking of teams.

Pos	Third stage losers v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Atlético Tucumán	2	1	0	1	1	1	0	3	Copa Sudamericana
2	Deportes Tolima	2	0	1	1	0	1	−1	1
3	Palestino	2	0	0	2	1	3	−2	0
4	Cerro Porteño	2	0	0	2	0	5	−5	0

In the group stage, each group was played on a home-and-away round-robin basis. The teams were ranked according to the following criteria: 1. Points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss); 2. Goal difference; 3. Goals scored; 4. Away goals scored; 5. CONMEBOL ranking (Regulations Article 2.4.2).^[1]

The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the round of 16 of the final stages. The third-placed teams of each group entered the Copa Sudamericana second stage.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		FLA	IDV	JUN	BSC
1	Flamengo	6	5	0	1	14	8	+6	15	Round of 16		—	4–0	3–1	3–0
2	Independiente del Valle	6	4	0	2	14	8	+6	12			5–0	—	3–0	2–0
3	Junior	6	2	0	4	8	12	−4	6	Copa Sudamericana		1–2	4–1	—	0–2
4	Barcelona	6	1	0	5	4	12	−8	3			1–2	0–3	1–2	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PAL	GUA	BOL	TIG
1	Palmeiras	6	5	1	0	17	2	+15	16	Round of 16		—	3–1	5–0	5–0
2	Guaraní	6	4	1	1	13	7	+6	13			0–0	—	2–0	4–1
3	Bolívar	6	1	1	4	6	13	−7	4	Copa Sudamericana		1–2	2–3	—	2–0
4	Tigre	6	0	1	5	3	17	−14	1			0–2	1–3	1–1	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		WIL	CAP	PEÑ	CCL
1	Jorge Wilstermann	6	3	1	2	8	5	+3	10	Round of 16		—	2–3	3–1	2–0
2	Athletico Paranaense	6	3	1	2	8	6	+2	10			0–0	—	1–0	2–0
3	Peñarol	6	3	0	3	9	8	+1	9	Copa Sudamericana		1–0	3–2	—	3–0
4	Colo-Colo	6	2	0	4	3	9	−6	6			0–1	1–0	2–1	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		RIV	LDQ	SPA	BIN
1	River Plate	6	4	1	1	21	6	+15	13	Round of 16		—	3–0	2–1	8–0
2	LDU Quito	6	4	0	2	12	8	+4	12			3–0	—	4–2	4–0
3	São Paulo	6	2	1	3	14	11	+3	7	Copa Sudamericana		2–2	3–0	—	5–1
4	Binacional	6	1	0	5	3	25	−22	3			0–6	0–1	2–1	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		GRE	INT	UCA	AME
1	Grêmio	6	3	2	1	6	3	+3	11	Round of 16		—	0–0	2–0	1–1
2	Internacional	6	2	2	2	8	6	+2	8			0–1	—	3–0	4–3
3	Universidad Católica	6	2	1	3	5	8	−3	7	Copa Sudamericana		2–0	2–1	—	1–2
4	América de Cali	6	1	3	2	6	8	−2	6			0–2	0–0	1–1	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		NAC	RAC	ESM	ALI
1	Nacional	6	5	0	1	9	3	+6	15	Round of 16		—	1–2	1–0	2–0
2	Racing	6	5	0	1	9	4	+5	15			0–1	—	2–1	1–0
3	Estudiantes de Mérida	6	1	1	4	8	12	−4	4	Copa Sudamericana		1–3	1–2	—	3–2
4	Alianza Lima	6	0	1	5	4	11	−7	1			0–1	0–2	2–2	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SAN	DEL	DYJ	OLI
1	Santos	6	5	1	0	10	5	+5	16	Round of 16		—	1–0	2–1	0–0
2	Delfín	6	2	1	3	6	7	−1	7			1–2	—	3–0	1–1
3	Defensa y Justicia	6	2	0	4	8	10	−2	6	Copa Sudamericana		1–2	3–0	—	2–1
4	Olimpia	6	1	2	3	6	8	−2	5			2–3	0–1	2–1	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BOC	LIB	CAR	DIM
1	Boca Juniors	6	4	2	0	10	1	+9	14	Round of 16		—	0–0	3–0	3–0
2	Libertad	6	2	1	3	8	11	−3	7			0–2	—	3–2	2–4
3	Caracas	6	2	1	3	8	12	−4	7	Copa Sudamericana		1–1	2–1	—	0–2
4	Independiente Medellín	6	2	0	4	9	11	−2	6			0–1	1–2	2–3	—

Starting from the round of 16, the teams played a single-elimination tournament with the following rules:^[1]

• In the round of 16, quarter-finals and semi-finals, each tie was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis, with the higher-seeded team hosting the second leg (Regulations Article 2.2.3.2). If tied on aggregate, the away goals rule was used. If still tied, extra time was not played, and a penalty shoot-out was used to determine the winners (Regulations Article 2.4.3).
• The final was played as a single match at a venue pre-selected by the CONMEBOL, with the higher-seeded team designated as the "home" team for administrative purposes (Regulations Article 2.2.3.5). If tied after regulation, 30 minutes of extra time would be played. If still tied after extra time, a penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winners (Regulations Article 2.4.4).

The winners and runners-up of each of the eight groups in the group stage advanced to the round of 16.

Group	Winners	Runners-up
A	Flamengo	Independiente del Valle
B	Palmeiras	Guaraní
C	Jorge Wilstermann	Athletico Paranaense
D	River Plate	LDU Quito
E	Grêmio	Internacional
F	Nacional	Racing
G	Santos	Delfín
H	Boca Juniors	Libertad

Starting from the round of 16, the teams were seeded according to their results in the group stage, with the group winners (Pot 1) seeded 1–8, and the group runners-up (Pot 2) seeded 9–16.^[34]

Seed	Grp	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Round of 16 draw
1	B	Palmeiras	6	5	1	0	17	2	+15	16	Pot 1
2	G	Santos	6	5	1	0	10	5	+5	16
3	A	Flamengo	6	5	0	1	14	8	+6	15
4	F	Nacional	6	5	0	1	9	3	+6	15
5	H	Boca Juniors	6	4	2	0	10	1	+9	14
6	D	River Plate	6	4	1	1	21	6	+15	13
7	E	Grêmio	6	3	2	1	6	3	+3	11
8	C	Jorge Wilstermann	6	3	1	2	8	5	+3	10
9	F	Racing	6	5	0	1	9	4	+5	15	Pot 2
10	B	Guaraní	6	4	1	1	13	7	+6	13
11	A	Independiente del Valle	6	4	0	2	14	8	+6	12
12	D	LDU Quito	6	4	0	2	12	8	+4	12
13	C	Athletico Paranaense	6	3	1	2	8	6	+2	10
14	E	Internacional	6	2	2	2	8	6	+2	8
15	G	Delfín	6	2	1	3	6	7	−1	7
16	H	Libertad	6	2	1	3	8	11	−3	7

The bracket was decided based on the round of 16 draw, which was held on 23 October 2020.

	Round of 16							Quarter-finals							Semi-finals							Final
	13	Athletico Paranaense	1	0	1
	6	River Plate	1	1	2
								6	River Plate	2	6	8
								4	Nacional	0	2	2
	11	Independiente del Valle	0	0	0 (2)
	4	Nacional (p)	0	0	0 (4)
															6	River Plate	0	2	2
															1	Palmeiras	3	0	3
	16	Libertad	3	2	5
	8	Jorge Wilstermann	1	0	1
								16	Libertad	1	0	1
								1	Palmeiras	1	3	4
	15	Delfín	1	0	1
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	1	Palmeiras	3	5	8
																						1	Palmeiras	1
																						2	Santos	0
	9	Racing (p)	1	1	2 (5)
	3	Flamengo	1	1	2 (3)
								9	Racing	1	0	1
								5	Boca Juniors	0	2	2
	14	Internacional	0	1	1 (4)
	5	Boca Juniors (p)	1	0	1 (5)
															5	Boca Juniors	0	0	0
															2	Santos	0	3	3
	10	Guaraní	0	0	0
	7	Grêmio	2	2	4
								7	Grêmio	1	1	2
								2	Santos	1	4	5
	12	LDU Quito	1	1	2
	2	Santos (a)	2	0	2

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Guaraní	0–4	Grêmio	0–2	0–2
Independiente del Valle	0–0 (2–4 p)	Nacional	0–0	0–0
Delfín	1–8	Palmeiras	1–3	0–5
Internacional	1–1 (4–5 p)	Boca Juniors	0–1	1–0
Racing	2–2 (5–3 p)	Flamengo	1–1	1–1
Libertad	5–1	Jorge Wilstermann	3–1	2–0
Athletico Paranaense	1–2	River Plate	1–1	0–1
LDU Quito	2–2 (a)	Santos	1–2	1–0

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Grêmio	2–5	Santos	1–1	1–4
River Plate	8–2	Nacional	2–0	6–2
Libertad	1–4	Palmeiras	1–1	0–3
Racing	1–2	Boca Juniors	1–0	0–2

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Boca Juniors	0–3	Santos	0–0	0–3
River Plate	2–3	Palmeiras	0–3	2–0

30 January 2021 (2021-01-30)

17:00 UTC−3

Palmeiras	1–0	Santos
Breno Lopes 90+9'	Report

Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Patricio Loustau (Argentina)

Rank	Player	Team	1Q1	1Q2	2Q1	2Q2	3Q1	3Q2	GS1	GS2	GS3	GS4	GS5	GS6	⅛F1	⅛F2	QF1	QF2	SF1	SF2	F	Total
1	Fidel Martínez	Barcelona	1	1	2	1	1	2														8
2	Rafael Santos Borré	River Plate								1	1			1				3		1		7
3	Eduardo Salvio	Boca Juniors								2	2	1						1				6
4	Luiz Adriano	Palmeiras							1	3									1			5
	Julián Álvarez	River Plate									1	1	2	1
	Kaio Jorge	Santos							1				1				1	2
	Rony	Palmeiras											1	1	1			1	1
8	Óscar Cardozo	Libertad							1						1	2						4
	Bruno Henrique	Flamengo								1			2	1
	Marinho	Santos										1	1		1			1
	Javier Reina	Independiente Medellín			2						1			1
	José Rivas	Estudiantes de Mérida							1		1		2
	Gabriel Torres	Independiente del Valle							1		1	1		1
	Willian	Palmeiras							1		1		1	1		1
	Fernando Zampedri	Universidad Católica									1	1		2

Source: CONMEBOL.com

The CONMEBOL technical study group; conformed by Nery Pumpido, Gerardo Pelusso, Diego Gavilán, Faryd Mondragón, Francisco Maturana, Dorival Júnior, Daniel Bañales and César Sampaio, selected the following 11 players as the team of the tournament.^[35] All players belong to one of the 4 semi-finalist teams.

Position	Player	Team
Goalkeeper	Weverton	Palmeiras
Defenders	Gonzalo Montiel	River Plate
	Lucas Veríssimo	Santos
	Gustavo Gómez	Palmeiras
	Matías Viña	Palmeiras
Midfielders	Gabriel Menino	Palmeiras
	Enzo Pérez	River Plate
	Yeferson Soteldo	Santos
Forwards	Marinho	Santos
	Rafael Santos Borré	River Plate
	Carlos Tévez	Boca Juniors