The 2024 U-20 Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores (Spanish: Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores Sub-20 2024) was the 8th 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. It was held in Uruguay from 2 to 17 March 2024.[1][2]
Boca Juniors were the defending champions.
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.[3]
Players born between 1 January 2004 and 31 December 2008 were eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team could register a maximum of 20 and a minimum of 16 players, including at least 2 goalkeepers (Regulations Articles 47 and 50).[3]
Uruguay was confirmed as host country of the tournament on 20 December 2023.[2] This will be the second time that Uruguay hosts the tournament having previously done so in 2018.[19]
Colonia del Sacramento and Maldonado were selected as host cities and announced after the draw.[20] Estadio Profesor Alberto Suppici in Colonia hosted the matches of groups A and B matches while Estadio Domingo Burgueño in Maldonado hosted the group C and the final stage matches.[21]
The draw for the group stage was held on 13 February 2024, 12:00 PYST (UTC−3), at the CONMEBOL headquarters in Luque, Paraguay.[22] The draw was conducted according to the following guidelines:[22]
The draw resulted in the following groups:[23]
On 21 February 2024, CONMEBOL announced that its Referee Commission had appointed 11 referees and 22 assistant referees for the tournament.[24] For the first time, a UEFA refereeing team will officiate in the U-20 Copa Libertadores as part of the UEFA–CONMEBOL memorandum of understanding signed in February 2020, which included a referee exchange programme.[25] It will be also the first time that women assistant referees will participate in the tournament.[26]
The winners of each group and the best runner-up among all groups advanced to the semi-finals.
In the group stage, teams were ranked according to points earned (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 Articles 20, 21):[3]
All match times were local, UYT (UTC−3), as listed by CONMEBOL.[27][28][29]
The semi-final matchups were:
The semi-final winners and losers played in the final and third place match respectively. If tied after full time, a penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner (Regulations Article 24).[3]
All match times were local, UYT (UTC−3), as listed by CONMEBOL.[30]
There were 67 goals scored in 22 matches, for an average of 3.05 goals per match.
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
1 own goal
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