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2018 U-20 Copa Libertadores

Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores Sub-20 Uruguay 2018
Tournament details
Host country	Uruguay
City	Montevideo
Dates	10–24 February 2018
Teams	12 (from 10 associations)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Nacional (1st title)
Runners-up	Independiente del Valle
Third place	River Plate
Fourth place	São Paulo
Tournament statistics
Matches played	22
Goals scored	77 (3.5 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Stiven Plaza (7 goals)
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The 2018 U-20 Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores (Spanish: Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores Sub-20 2018) was the 4th edition of the U-20 Copa 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 Uruguay from 10 to 24 February 2018.

Nacional defeated Independiente del Valle in the final to win their first title, while River Plate defeated defending champions São Paulo 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 1998.

Association	Team	Qualifying method	Participation	Previous best result
Argentina	Talleres	2017 Torneo Juvenil de Cuarta División (U-20) champions	1st	—
Bolivia	Quebracho	2017 U-19 Torneo Nacional champions	1st	—
Brazil	São Paulo	2016 U-20 Copa Libertadores champions	2nd	Champions (2016)
	Cruzeiro	2017 U-20 Supercopa de Brasil champions	1st	—
Chile	Colo-Colo	2017 U-19 Copa de Campeones champions	1st	—
Colombia	La Equidad	2017 U-20 Súper Copa Juvenil champions	1st	—
Ecuador	Independiente del Valle	2017 U-18 Serie A champions	4th	Quarterfinals (2011)
Paraguay	Libertad	2017 play-off winners between U-20 Apertura and Clausura champions	3rd	Quarterfinals (2011)
Peru	Sport Huancayo	2017 Torneo de Promoción y Reserva champions	1st	—
Uruguay (hosts)	Nacional	2017 U-19 Campeonato Uruguayo champions	2nd	Quarterfinals (2011)
	River Plate	2017 U-19 Campeonato Uruguayo runners-up	1st	—
Venezuela	Atlético Venezuela	2017 U-20 Serie Oro champions	1st	—

Venues

The tournament was played at the Estadio Centenario in Montevideo.

Draw

The draw was held on 25 January 2018, 16:00 UYT (UTC−3), at the headquarters of the Uruguayan Football Association. The 12 teams were drawn into three groups of four. The defending champions São Paulo were automatically seeded into Pot 1 and allocated to position A1 in the group stage, while the other two teams which also participated in the 2016 U-20 Copa Libertadores, Independiente del Valle and Libertad, were also seeded into Pot 1 and drawn to position B1 or C1 in the group stage. The remaining teams were seeded into Pot 2, and drawn to positions 2, 3 or 4 of groups A, B or C in the group stage. Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group.

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):

1. Goal difference;
2. Goals scored;
3. Head-to-head result in games between tied teams;
4. Penalty shoot-out (between two teams playing against each other in the last match of the group)
5. Drawing of lots.

The winners of each group and the best runner-up among all groups advanced to the semi-finals.

All times local, UYT (UTC−3).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	São Paulo	3	2	1	0	13	2	+11	7	Semi-finals
2	Talleres	3	2	1	0	6	1	+5	7
3	Atlético Venezuela	3	1	0	2	4	10	−6	3
4	Quebracho	3	0	0	3	1	11	−10	0

São Paulo	6–0	Quebracho
Jonas Toró 22', 37' Gabriel Novaes 32', 58' Gabriel Sara 49' Fabinho 80'	Report

Atlético Venezuela	0–3	Talleres
	Report	Nahuel Bustos 7', 48', 59'

São Paulo	6–1	Atlético Venezuela
Helinho 11' Igor Gomes 60' Jonas Toró 68', 83' Rodrigo 85' (pen.) Bruno Dip 88'	Report	Yeangel Montero 64'

Quebracho	0–2	Talleres
	Report	Mauro Valiente 45'+1' Nahuel Bustos 51'

Talleres	1–1	São Paulo
Marcos Arturia 75'	Report	Igor Liziero 61'

Quebracho	1–3	Atlético Venezuela
Mauricio Paz 18'	Report	Robin Ramos 43', 45'+2', 58'

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	River Plate (H)	3	2	1	0	2	0	+2	7	Semi-finals
2	Libertad	3	1	2	0	5	3	+2	5
3	La Equidad	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
4	Cruzeiro	3	0	0	3	2	6	−4	0

Libertad	3–1	Cruzeiro
Jonathan Valiente 45' Álvaro Recalade 66' Jesús Amarilla 84'	Report	Vitinho 41'

River Plate	1–0	La Equidad
Facundo Vigo 78'	Report

Libertad	0–0	River Plate
	Report

Cruzeiro	1–2	La Equidad
Vitinho 4'	Report	Andrés de Armas 35' Juan Marín 56'

La Equidad	2–2	Libertad
Cristian Barrios 47' César Castaño 67' (pen.)	Report	Esteban Maidana 49' Jonathan Valiente 84' (pen.)

Cruzeiro	0–1	River Plate
	Report	Facundo Vigo 11'

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Nacional (H)	3	2	1	0	13	0	+13	7	Semi-finals
2	Independiente del Valle	3	2	1	0	11	1	+10	7
3	Colo-Colo	3	1	0	2	2	10	−8	3
4	Sport Huancayo	3	0	0	3	1	16	−15	0

Independiente del Valle	6–1	Sport Huancayo
Plaza 29', 48', 80', 82' Guerrero 70' Renny Jaramillo 79'	Report	Samuel Perlaza 75' (o.g.)

Colo-Colo	0–5	Nacional
	Report	May 17', 29', 50' Vecino 38' Ocampo 85'

Independiente del Valle	5–0	Colo-Colo
Guerrero 14' Williams Alarcón 34' (o.g.) Plaza 67', 69', 90'+1'	Report

Sport Huancayo	0–8	Nacional
	Report	May 3' Vecino 38', 84' Trasante 42' Trezza 45' Sanabria 66' Sebastián Paz 78' Gabriel Barrios 80'

Nacional	0–0	Independiente del Valle
	Report

Sport Huancayo	0–2	Colo-Colo
	Report	Salas 45', 61'

Ranking of group runners-up

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	C	Independiente del Valle	3	2	1	0	11	1	+10	7	Semi-finals
2	A	Talleres	3	2	1	0	6	1	+5	7
3	B	Libertad	3	1	2	0	5	3	+2	5

Knockout stage

The semi-final matchups were:

• Group A winner vs. Group C winner
• Group B winner vs. Best runner-up

The semi-final winners and losers played in the final and third place match respectively. If tied after full time, extra time was not played, and the penalty shoot-out was used to determine the winner (Regulations Article 22).

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	21 February – Centenario
	São Paulo	0
					24 February – Centenario
	Nacional	3
					Nacional	2
	21 February – Centenario
					Independiente del Valle	1
	River Plate	2
	Independiente del Valle	3
					Third place
					24 February – Centenario
					São Paulo	1 (4)
					River Plate (p)	1 (5)

Semi-finals

São Paulo	0–3	Nacional
	Report	Laborda 31' May 73' Gabriel Barrios 90'+2'

River Plate	2–3	Independiente del Valle
Neris 51' Vigo 53'	Report	Renny Jaramillo 40', 75' Gonzalo Plata 73'

Third place match

São Paulo	1–1	River Plate
Walce Da Silva 90'	Report	Cristian Martín 20'
Penalties
Rodrigo Walce Igor Gomes Oliveira Fabinho	4–5	Aaron Borges Juan Pablo Plada Santiago Pérez Diego Vicente Vigo

Final

Nacional	2–1	Independiente del Valle
Ocampo 44' Johao Chávez 47' (o.g.)	Report	Guerrero 45' (pen.)

Notes

1. ^ The Third place match and Final match were originally scheduled on 24 February 2018, 16:30 and 18:45 local time, but were re-scheduled to 14:15 and 16:30 local time.

References

1. ^ "Reglamento CONMEBOL Libertadores Sub20 2018" (PDF). CONMEBOL.com.
2. "Histórico: Talleres será el primer club del interior del país en jugar la Libertadores Sub 20". Club Talleres. 4 November 2017.
3. "Quebracho jugará la Libertadores Sub-20 en febrero". El País. 14 November 2017.
4. "Cruzeiro bate Atlético nos pênaltis, é campeão da Supercopa Sub-20 e se classifica para a Libertadores da categoria em 2018". Superesportes. 23 November 2017.
5. "Colo Colo venció a Palestino en La Pintana y se consagró como el mejor del año en la categoría Sub 19". ANFP. 15 December 2017.
6. "La Equidad, campeón sub20 y va a la Libertadores Juvenil". ascoop. 11 December 2017.
7. "Dale Campeón!!! Dale Campeón !!!! IDV Sub 18 por 8va. vez consecutiva Campeón Nacional y Clasifica a Copa Libertadores Sub 20". Twitter. 2 December 2017.
8. "Clasificó a la Libertadores Sub 20". ABC. 14 December 2017.
9. "Copa Libertadores Sub 20: Sport Huancayo será el único club peruano". El Bocón. 6 December 2017.
10. ^ "Formativas: Nacional se coronó campeón uruguayo sub-19 por penales ante River Plate". futbol.com.uy. 17 December 2017.
11. "Atlético Venezuela consiguió el bicampeonato de la Serie de Oro Sub 20". balonazos.com. 10 December 2017.
12. "Se sortea la CONMEBOL Libertadores Sub-20 Uruguay 2018". CONMEBOL.com. 24 January 2018.
13. "La CONMEBOL Libertadores Sub-20 tiene los grupos y el calendario definidos". CONMEBOL.com. 25 January 2018.
14. "Libertadores sub-20 Uruguay 2018". AUF. 22 January 2018. Archived from the original on 2018-02-11. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
15. "Programa de partidos" (PDF). CONMEBOL.com.
16. "Comunicado de CONMEBOL sobre cambio de horarios para la jornada final de la Copa Libertadores Sub-20" (in Spanish). Twitter Conmebol Libertadores Sub-20 Uruguay 2018. 21 February 2018.

External links

• CONMEBOL Libertadores Sub 20 Uruguay 2018, CONMEBOL.com

• U-20 Copa Libertadores
• 2018 Copa Libertadores
• 2018 in youth association football
• 2018 in South American football
• 2018 in Uruguayan football
• International club association football competitions hosted by Uruguay
• Youth sport in Uruguay
• February 2018 sports events in South America