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's premier club

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tournament organized by

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. On 14 May 2020, CONMEBOL announced the candidate venues for the 2021, 2022 and 2023 club competition finals. On 13 May 2021, CONMEBOL's Council decided that the

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would be played at the Estadio Monumental Isidro Romero Carbo in

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, Ecuador on 29 October 2022. On 25 November 2021, CONMEBOL announced the abolition of the

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in all of its club competitions including the Copa Libertadores, which had been used since 2005. Accordingly, if in a

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two teams scored the same number of aggregate goals, the winner of the tie would not be decided by the number of away goals scored by each team but by a

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. Brazilian club

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were the champions, winning their third Copa Libertadores title after beating fellow Brazilian side Athletico Paranaense in the final by a 1–0 score. As winners of the 2022 Copa Libertadores, Flamengo earned the right to play against the winners of the

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in the 2023 Recopa Sudamericana and also automatically qualified for both the 2022 FIFA Club World Cup and the

2023 Copa Libertadores The 2023 Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores was the 64th edition of the CONMEBOL Libertadores (also referred to as the ''Copa Libertadores''), South America's premier club football tournament organized by CONMEBOL. The final was played at the Estádio ...

group stage. Palmeiras were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Athletico Paranaense in the semi-finals.

Teams

The following 47 teams from the 10 CONMEBOL member associations qualified for the tournament: *Copa Libertadores champions *Copa Sudamericana champions *Brazil: 7 berths *Argentina: 6 berths *All other associations: 4 berths each The entry stage is determined as follows: *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

Schedule

The schedule of the competition was as follows:

Draws

Qualifying stages

First stage

Second stage

Third stage

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Final stages

Qualified teams

The winners and runners-up of each of the eight groups in the

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advanced to the round of 16.

Seeding

Bracket

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Statistics

Top scorers

Team of the tournament

The CONMEBOL technical study group selected the following 11 players as the team of the tournament.

References

External links

CONMEBOL Libertadores 2022
CONMEBOL.com
CONMEBOL Libertadores
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