The 2020 U-20 Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores () 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.

AssociationTeamQualifying methodParticipationPrevious best resultRiver Plate2018–19 play-off winners between Cuarta División (U-20) Apertura and Clausura champions3rd Champions (2012)Jorge Wilstermann2019 U-19 Torneo Nacional champions2nd Group stage (2011)Flamengo2019 U-20 Supercopa de Brasil champions2nd Quarterfinals (2011)Colo-Colo2019 U-19 Copa de Campeones champions2nd Group stage (2018)Millonarios2019 U-20 Súper Copa Juvenil champions2nd Group stage (2011)Independiente del Valle2019 U-18 Serie A champions5th Runners-up (2018) (hosts)Libertad2019 U-19 Apertura champions4th Quarterfinals (2011)Cerro Porteño2019 U-19 Clausura champions3rd Quarterfinals (2012)Sporting Cristal2019 Torneo de Promoción y Reserva champions2nd Group stage (2012)Nacional2018 U-20 Copa Libertadores champions3rd Champions (2018)Danubio2019 U-19 Campeonato Uruguayo champions1st —Academia Puerto Cabello2019 U-19 Serie Élite champions1st —

Venues The tournament was played at two venues in two cities, both in the Metropolitan Area of Asunción: 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. The draw was conducted according to Regulations Article 16 as follows: 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.

Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4 Notes

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

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): 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).

Group A

Group B

Group C

Ranking of group runners-up

Knockout stage The semi-final matchups were: Group A winners vs. Group C winners Group B winners vs. Best runners-up The semi-final winners and losers played in the final and third place match respectively. If tied after full-time, extra time would not be played, and a penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner (Regulations Article 22).

Bracket

Semi-finals

Third place match

Final

References

External links CONMEBOL Libertadores Sub 20 Paraguay 2020, CONMEBOL.com