The 2022 Copa América Femenina was the 9th edition of the main international women's football championship in South America, the Copa América Femenina, for national teams affiliated with CONMEBOL. The competition was held in Colombia from 8 to 30 July 2022.

The tournament acted as South American qualification for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, providing three direct qualifying places and two play-off places for the Women's World Cup, and three more places for the 2023 Pan American Games women's football tournament in Chile (in addition to Chile who qualified automatically as hosts). In addition, the two finalists qualified for the women's football tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics in France. The top four teams also qualified for the 2024 CONCACAF W Gold Cup in the United States. After this edition, the tournament would be held every two years instead of four in odd-number years, no longer a Women's World Cup qualifier anymore, and serve as a path to women's football at the Pan American Games and the Summer Olympics.

Brazil, the three-time defending champions, defeated Colombia 1–0 in the final to win their 8th title. As winners, they competed in the inaugural 2023 Women's Finalissima against England, winners of UEFA Women's Euro 2022.

Teams All ten CONMEBOL women's national teams were eligible to enter.

TeamAppearance Previous best performance FIFA rankingat start of event 8th (2006) 35 8th (1995) 91 (holders) 9th (1991, 1995, 1998, 2003, 2010, 2014, 2018) 9 9th (1991, 2018) 38 (hosts) 7th (2010, 2014) 28 8th (2014) 68 7th (2006) 50 7th (1998) 66 7th (2006) 71 8th (1991) 52

Venues The venues were announced on 16 December 2021. The matches were played at stadiums in three Colombian cities: Cali, Bucaramanga and Armenia.

ArmeniaBucaramangaCali Estadio Centenario Estadio Alfonso LópezEstadio Pascual Guerrero Capacity: 20,716 Capacity: 28,000 Capacity: 35,405

Draw The tournament draw was held on 7 April 2022, 11:00 COT (UTC−5), in Asunción, Paraguay.

SeedsPot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4

Squads

Match officials On 8 June 2022, CONMEBOL announced the list of match officials for the tournament.

Referees

Laura Fortunato Adriana Farfán Edina Alves Batista María Belén Carvajal María Victoria Daza Susana Corella Zulma Quiñónez Elizabeth Tintaya Sandra Braz Anahí Fernández Yercinia Correa

Assistant referees

Mariana de Almeida Daiana Milone Liliana Bejarano Inés Choque Neuza Back Leila Moreira Cindy Nahuelcoy Loreto Toloza Nataly Arteaga Eliana Ortiz Mónica Amboya Viviana Segura Laura Miranda Nadia Weiler Gabriela Moreno Thyty Rodríguez Vera Yupanqui Andreia Sousa Rita Cabañero Mompó Luciana Mascaraña Adela Sánchez Thaity Dugarte

Group stage The top two teams of each group advanced to the semi-finals, while the two third-placed teams advanced to the fifth place match.

All times are local, COT (UTC−5).

Tiebreakers The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, the following criteria would be used to determine the ranking:

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; Goal difference in all group matches; Number of goals scored in all group matches; Fewest red cards; Fewest yellow cards; Drawing of lots.

Group A

Group B

Knockout stage

In the knockout phase, if the fifth-place play-off, semi-finals and third-place play-off were level at the end of 90 minutes of normal playing time, no extra time would be played and the match would be decided by a direct penalty shoot-out. Only if the final was level at the end of the normal playing time, extra time would be played (two periods of 15 minutes each), where each team would be allowed to make an extra substitution. If still tied after extra time, the final would be decided by a penalty shoot-out to determine the champions.

Bracket

Fifth place match The winners of the fifth place match advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs.

Semi-finals The winners of the semi-finals qualified for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup and the football tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Third place match The winners of the third place match qualified for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup. The losers advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs.

Final

Statistics Goalscorers

Awards

AwardWinnerGolden Ball Linda CaicedoTop scorer Yamila Rodríguez (6 goals)Golden Glove LorenaFair Play

+Best XIGoalkeeperDefendersMidfieldersForwards Lorena

Tournament teams ranking This table shows the ranking of teams throughout the tournament.

Qualification for international tournaments

Qualified teams for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup

The following three teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, while two teams advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs.

Team Qualified onPrevious appearances in FIFA Women's World Cup1 2 (2011, 2015) 8 (1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019) 3 (2003, 2007, 2019) 1 Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Qualified teams for the 2024 Summer Olympics The following two teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympic women's football tournament in France.

Team Qualified onPrevious appearances in Summer Olympics2 2 (2012, 2016) 7 (1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) 2 Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Qualified teams for the 2023 Pan American Games The following four teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the 2023 Pan American Games women's football tournament, including Chile which qualified as hosts.

Team Qualified onPrevious appearances in Pan American Games3 1 (2011) 0 (debut) 5 (2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019) 2 (2007, 2019) 0 (debut)

3 Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Symbols

Mascot The tournament's mascot is named Alma, a domestic dog who is "a strong, brave, sociable, fun-loving person with a passion for soccer." Therefore, she was not well received in Colombia, sparking controversy on social media over her description being considered "degrading."

Theme song The official song of the tournament was "Rockstar" by Puerto Rican duo Domino Saints, which was performed during the tournament's opening ceremony in Cali and also at the closing ceremony held in Bucaramanga, respectively.

Match ball Nike provided the official Aerow ball for the tournament and also carried out activities to promote sports and gender equality.

References

External links Technical report