2017 Copa Libertadores Femenina

The 2017 Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores Femenina was the ninth edition of the CONMEBOL Libertadores Femenina (also referred to as the Copa Libertadores Femenina), South America's premier women's club football tournament organized by CONMEBOL. The tournament was hosted in Paraguay from 7 to 21 October 2017.^[1][2]

2017 Copa Libertadores Femenina

Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores Femenina Paraguay 2017
Tournament details
Host country	Paraguay
Dates	7–21 October 2017
Teams	12 (from 10 associations)
Venue(s)	4 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Corinthians/Audax (1st title)
Runners-up	Colo-Colo
Third place	River Plate
Fourth place	Cerro Porteño
Tournament statistics
Matches played	22
Goals scored	80 (3.64 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Oriana Altuve Amanda Brunner Carolina Birizamberri Catalina Usme Gloria Villamayor Maitté Zamorano (4 goals each)
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Sportivo Limpeño, the defending champions, were eliminated in the group stage.^[3]

Teams

The competition was contested by 12 teams: the champions of all ten CONMEBOL associations were given one entry, additionally the title holders re-enter and the host association qualifies one more team. The qualifying competitions of each association usually end late in the year (September to December).

Association	Team	Qualifying method	Participation	Previous best result
Argentina	River Plate	2016–17 Campeonato Argentino champions[4]	1st	—
Bolivia	Deportivo ITA	2017 Campeonato Boliviano champions[5]	1st	—
Brazil	Corinthians/Audax	2016 Copa do Brasil de Futebol Feminino champions[6][7]	1st	—
Chile	Colo-Colo	2016 Apertura and Clausura champions play-off winners[8]	7th	Champions (2012)
Colombia	Santa Fe	2017 Liga Femenina Profesional champions[9]	1st	—
Ecuador	Unión Española	2016–17 Campeonato Ecuatoriano champions[10]	2nd	Group stage (2016)
Paraguay (hosts)	Sportivo Limpeño	Title holders, also 2016 Campeonato Paraguayo champions[11][12]	2nd	Champions (2016)
	Cerro Porteño	2016 Campeonato Paraguayo runners-up[13]	4th	Third place (2014)
	Deportivo Capiatá	2017 Cuadrangular Pre-Libertadores winners[14][15]	1st	—
Peru	Universitario	2016 Campeonato Nacional champions[16]	3rd	Group stage (2015, 2016)
Uruguay	Colón	2016 Copa de Oro winners[17]	4th	Fourth place (2016)
Venezuela	Estudiantes de Guárico	2016 Clausura and 2017 Apertura champions play-off winners[18][19]	4th	Runners-up (2016)

Each team submitted a squad of at most 20 players.^[20]

Venues

Matches were played in Gran Asunción. The stadiums were:^[21]

• Estadio Arsenio Erico, Asunción (capacity: 7,000)
• Estadio La Arboleda, Asunción (capacity: 7,500)
• Estadio General Adrián Jara, Luque (capacity: 3,500)
• Estadio Luis Alfonso Giagni, Villa Elisa (capacity: 5,000)

Venues of matches originally scheduled for 8, 10 and 18 October were changed.^[22][23]

Draw

The draw was held on 18 September 2017, 12:00 PYT (UTC−4), at the headquarters of the Paraguayan Football Association.^[24][25][26] The 12 teams were drawn into three groups of four. The three host teams were seeded into Pot 1, while the remaining teams were seeded based on the results of their association in the 2016 Copa Libertadores Femenina.^[27]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Sportivo Limpeño Cerro Porteño Deportivo Capiatá	Estudiantes de Guárico Corinthians/Audax Colón	Colo-Colo Santa Fe River Plate	Bolivia 1[note 1] Unión Española Universitario

Notes

1. The draw was held before the identity of the team from Bolivia (Deportivo ITA) was known.

Group stage

The group winners and top runners-up advanced to the semi-finals.

On 9 October 2017, none of the scheduled Group C matches were played as players from several teams showed symptoms for food poisoning.^[28] CONMEBOL later announced the competition would be paused for three full days, to be resumed on 12 October 2017 with a modified schedule with four matches played on that day.^[29] The group stage was also extended from 15 to 17 October, while the semi-finals were rescheduled from 18 to 19 October.^[30] The Group B match between Colón and Universitario were further postponed from 13 to 15 October because some players had not yet recovered from food poisoning.^[31]

All times are local, PYST (UTC−3).^[32]

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	River Plate	3	2	1	0	4	2	+2	7	Semi-finals
2	Unión Española	3	1	2	0	5	3	+2	5
3	Estudiantes de Guárico	3	1	1	1	3	2	+1	4
4	Deportivo Capiatá (H)	3	0	0	3	2	7	−5	0

Source: CONMEBOL
(H) Hosts

7 October 2017 (2017-10-07)

18:00

River Plate	1–1	Unión Española
Romero 39'	Report	Vásquez 46'

Estadio Arsenio Erico, Asunción

Referee: Olga Miranda (Paraguay)

7 October 2017 (2017-10-07)

20:30

Deportivo Capiatá	0–2	Estudiantes de Guárico
	Report	Cabeza 52' Villamizar 71'

Estadio Arsenio Erico, Asunción

Referee: María Carvajal (Chile)

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12 October 2017 (2017-10-12)

08:15

Estudiantes de Guárico	1–1	Unión Española
Basanta 17'	Report	Lattanzio 67'

Estadio Luis Alfonso Giagni, Villa Elisa

Referee: Silvia Ríos (Uruguay)

12 October 2017 (2017-10-12)

10:30

Deportivo Capiatá	1–2	River Plate
Genes 3'	Report	Birizamberri 22', 57'

Estadio Luis Alfonso Giagni, Villa Elisa

Referee: Elizabeth Tintaya (Peru)

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15 October 2017 (2017-10-15)

18:00

Estudiantes de Guárico	0–1	River Plate
	Report	Pereyra 86'

Estadio General Adrián Jara, Luque

Referee: Edina Alves Batista (Brazil)

15 October 2017 (2017-10-15)

20:15

Unión Española	3–1	Deportivo Capiatá
Riera 51', 56', 71'	Report	Pri Back 68' (pen.)

Estadio General Adrián Jara, Luque

Referee: Yeimy Martínez (Colombia)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Colo-Colo	3	2	1	0	12	5	+7	7	Semi-finals
2	Cerro Porteño (H)	3	2	1	0	7	3	+4	7
3	Universitario	3	1	0	2	2	8	−6	3
4	Colón	3	0	0	3	3	8	−5	0

Source: CONMEBOL
(H) Hosts

8 October 2017 (2017-10-08)

18:00

Colo-Colo	5–1	Universitario
Leyton 5' Muñoz 41' Quezada 60' Araya 75' Villamayor 84'	Report	Núñez 31'

Estadio Luis Alfonso Giagni, Villa Elisa

Referee: Yeimy Martínez (Colombia)

8 October 2017 (2017-10-08)

20:15

Cerro Porteño	2–1	Colón
Fleitas 56' (pen.) Peralta 80'	Report	Berni 88'

Estadio Luis Alfonso Giagni, Villa Elisa

Referee: Edina Alves Batista (Brazil)

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13 October 2017 (2017-10-13)

20:15

Cerro Porteño	2–2	Colo-Colo
Fleitas 13' Peralta 41'	Report	Leyton 54' Araya 78'

Estadio General Adrián Jara, Luque

Referee: Laura Fortunato (Argentina)

15 October 2017 (2017-10-15)

09:00

Colón	0–1	Universitario
	Report	Núñez 89'

Estadio Arsenio Erico, Asunción

Referee: Sirley Cornejo (Bolivia)

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16 October 2017 (2017-10-16)

20:15

Colón	2–5	Colo-Colo
Berni 58' Abraham 90+2'	Report	Villamayor 27' (pen.), 75', 89' Muñoz 28' Sáez 81'

Estadio Arsenio Erico, Asunción

Referee: Susana Corella (Ecuador)

17 October 2017 (2017-10-17)

10:30

Universitario	0–3	Cerro Porteño
	Report	M. Mendoza 20' Peralta 51' Fernández 80'

Estadio Arsenio Erico, Asunción

Referee: Eryelitz Escalona (Venezuela)

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Corinthians/Audax	3	3	0	0	10	2	+8	9	Semi-finals
2	Santa Fe	3	1	1	1	12	6	+6	4
3	Sportivo Limpeño (H)	3	1	1	1	8	5	+3	4
4	Deportivo ITA	3	0	0	3	4	21	−17	0

Source: CONMEBOL
(H) Hosts

12 October 2017 (2017-10-12)

18:00

Santa Fe	9–2	Deportivo ITA
Usme 1', 16', 58', 75' Altuve 23', 29' L. Santos 69' Pineda 89' Herrera 90+2'	Report	Zamorano 9', 39'

Estadio La Arboleda, Asunción

Referee: Eryelitz Escalona (Venezuela)

12 October 2017 (2017-10-12)

20:15

Sportivo Limpeño	0–2	Corinthians/Audax
	Report	Mimi 25' Monique Peçanha 48'

Estadio La Arboleda, Asunción

Referee: Susana Corella (Ecuador)

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14 October 2017 (2017-10-14)

18:00

Corinthians/Audax	6–1	Deportivo ITA
Rosana 1' Amanda Brunner 8', 43' Raquel 29', 62' Byanca Brasil 53'	Report	Zamorano 41'

Estadio La Arboleda, Asunción

Referee: Zulma Quiñónez (Paraguay)

14 October 2017 (2017-10-14)

20:15

Sportivo Limpeño	2–2	Santa Fe
Cordner 34', 42'	Report	L. Santos 28' Altuve 50'

Estadio La Arboleda, Asunción

Referee: María Carvajal (Chile)

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17 October 2017 (2017-10-17)

18:00

Corinthians/Audax	2–1	Santa Fe
Grazi 46', 48'	Report	Altuve 57' (pen.)

Estadio La Arboleda, Asunción

Referee: Sirley Cornejo (Bolivia)

17 October 2017 (2017-10-17)

20:15

Deportivo ITA	1–6	Sportivo Limpeño
Zamorano 71'	Report	Peña 38' Sandoval 55' Garay López 66' B. Benítez 79' Larrea 85', 89'

Estadio La Arboleda, Asunción

Referee: Elizabeth Tintaya (Peru)

Ranking of group runners-up

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	B	Cerro Porteño (H)	3	2	1	0	7	3	+4	7	Semi-finals
2	A	Unión Española	3	1	2	0	5	3	+2	5
3	C	Santa Fe	3	1	1	1	12	6	+6	4

Source: CONMEBOL
(H) Hosts

Knockout stage

The semi-final matchups were:

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

The semi-final winners and losers played in the final and third place match respectively.

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	19 October - Luis Alfonso Giagni
	River Plate	0
					21 October - Arsenio Erico
	Colo-Colo	2
					Colo-Colo	0 (4)
	19 October - Luis Alfonso Giagni
					Corinthians/Audax (p)	0 (5)
	Corinthians/Audax	3
	Cerro Porteño	0
					Third place
					21 October - Arsenio Erico
					River Plate	2
					Cerro Porteño	1

Semi-finals

19 October 2017 (2017-10-19)

18:00

River Plate	0–2	Colo-Colo
	Report	Huenteo 48' Leyton 89'

Estadio Luis Alfonso Giagni, Villa Elisa

Referee: Sirley Cornejo (Bolivia)

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19 October 2017 (2017-10-19)

20:15

Corinthians/Audax	3–0	Cerro Porteño
Amanda Brunner 45', 89' Byanca Brasil 60'	Report

Estadio Luis Alfonso Giagni, Villa Elisa

Referee: Susana Corella (Ecuador)

Third place match

21 October 2017 (2017-10-21)

18:00

River Plate	2–1	Cerro Porteño
Birizamberri 34', 90+2'	Report	Fernández 46'

Estadio Arsenio Erico, Asunción

Referee: Silvia Ríos (Uruguay)

Final

21 October 2017 (2017-10-21)

20:15

Colo-Colo	0–0	Corinthians/Audax
	Report
Penalties
Villamayor Araya Quezada C. Soto Guerrero Sáez R. Soto	4–5	Cacau Daiane Kerolin Pardal Byanca Brasil Yasmim Ana Vitória

Estadio Arsenio Erico, Asunción

Referee: Eryelitz Escalona (Venezuela)

Colo-Colo

Corinthians/Audax

GK 12 Carolina Armijo DF 2 Rocío Soto DF 18 Camila Sáez DF 3 Carla Guerrero DF 17 Geraldine Leyton MF 14 Ana Gutiérrez  73' MF 6 Claudia Soto (c) MF 8 Karen Araya FW 10 Gloria Villamayor FW 19 Yessenia Huenteo FW 7 Bárbara Muñoz Substitutes: GK 1 Romina Parraguirre DF 15 Catalina Alarcón DF 16 Fernanda Hidalgo MF 4 Anabel Guzmán MF 5 Yastin Jiménez FW 9 Nathalie Quezada  73' FW 11 Jeannette Aguirre FW 13 Fernanda Contreras FW 20 Yanara Lepín Manager: Carlos Véliz

GK 12 Lelê DF 19 Paulinha DF 3 Pardal DF 4 Mimi DF 6 Yasmim MF 5 Monique Peçanha  85'  90+2' MF 17 Patrícia Llanos  74' MF 20 Daiane MF 18 Kerolin FW 7 Grazi (c)  83' FW 11 Raquel  84' Substitutes: GK 1 Tainá DF 2 Leidi DF 15 Agustina Barroso DF 16 Antônia MF 8 Ana Vitória  74' MF 10 Rosana MF 14 Amanda Brunner FW 9 Byanca Brasil  90+2' FW 13 Cacau  83' Manager: Arthur Elias

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Oriana Altuve	Santa Fe	4
	Amanda Brunner	Corinthians/Audax
	Carolina Birizamberri	River Plate
	Catalina Usme	Santa Fe
	Gloria Villamayor	Colo-Colo
	Maitté Zamorano	Deportivo ITA
7	Geraldine Leyton	Colo-Colo	3
	Amada Peralta	Cerro Porteño
	Madelin Riera	Unión Española
10	Karen Araya	Colo-Colo	2
	Catherin Berni	Colón
	Byanca Brasil	Corinthians/Audax
	Kennya Cordner	Sportivo Limpeño
	Rebeca Fernández	Cerro Porteño
	Ana Fleitas	Cerro Porteño
	Grazi	Corinthians/Audax
	Liza Larrea	Sportivo Limpeño
	Bárbara Muñoz	Colo-Colo
	Pierina Núñez	Universitario
	Raquel	Corinthians/Audax
	Leicy Santos	Santa Fe

Source:CONMEBOL^[33]