The South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) launches its 2021 season in Asunción this Friday with the draw for the opening phases of the Cups Libertadores without club representatives or leaders of the ten member federations for the coronavirus pandemic.
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Key information
Of the 47 teams that must qualify for the Liberators cup, six will begin Phase 1, from which three will advance to Phase 2 in which sixteen entities will intervene. Phase 1 brings together classified teams from Bolivia (1), Ecuador (1), Paraguay (1), Peru (1), Uruguay (1) and Venezuela (1) in keys determined by lottery.
The three winners of their respective keys will go to Phase 2 as E1, E2 y E3. The teams that will make up each bolillero will be distributed according to their locations in the club classification as of 1 February 2021 and raffle 2 will include teams with a lower position in that ladder and will be local in the first game.
Those with the best positioning will be local in the second leg. The first team that will be drawn in ballroom 2 will make up the E1 key and will be local in the first game.
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The second team, coming from bolillero 1, will be their rival, defining this as a local in the second leg. The same system will be used to establish keys 2 and 3. The winners of these keys will be classified for Phase 2, who will have by name E1, E2 y E3.
Phase 2 will be played by the 3 teams from the previous phase, plus 13 qualified teams from Brazil (2), Colombia (2), Chile (2) and a team from the remaining 7 associations. The 16 teams will play round-trip matches, distributed in 8 keys established by
draw and whose locations have been defined by the aforementioned classification. For the keys, they will be located at the time of the draw of the 16 classified for this Phase (2).
On the one hand, the 8 teams with the best position in the ranking and on the other hand 3 teams from Phase 1, plus the remaining five teams according to the same ranking.
The first team to draw from bolillero 2 will make up key 1 and will be local in the first game. The second of bolillero 1 will be his rival, defining this as a local in the second leg. The winners of these keys will qualify for Phase 3, which will be named C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6, C7 and C8.
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In the event that two teams from the same association are located in different bolilleros, they will not be able to face each other. In the event that the draw so determines, and to avoid that they cross in the same key.
In Phase 3 the 8 qualified clubs will play Phase 3 of the tournament in roundtrip matches in predetermined brackets and the four winners will go to the group phase as G1, G2, G3 and G4. will play at home in the first game, the teams with the lowest position in the ranking.
The 4 teams eliminated from Phase 3 advance to the group stage of the South American Cup 2021.
EFE