2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament

The 2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament was the 13th edition of the CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament, the quadrennial, international, age-restricted football tournament organised by the Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol (CONMEBOL) to determine which men’s under-23 national teams from the South American region qualify for the Olympic football tournament.

In August 2018, CONMEBOL announced the return of the South American Pre-Olympic Tournament in 2020 with Colombia as the host country, after a 16-year absence. The last edition of this competition had been held in Chile in 2004. From the 2008 through the 2016 Summer Olympics, the two teams from South America were determined by the South American Youth Football Championship, always held in the previous year. The tournament was held from 18 January through 9 February 2020.

The top two teams qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics men’s football tournament in Japan as the CONMEBOL representatives. Argentina successfully defended their title won 16 years ago, and qualified for the Olympics together with runners-up Brazil, the defending Olympic champions.

Teams

All ten CONMEBOL member national teams entered the tournament.

Team	Appearance	Previous best top-4 performance
Argentina (holders)	11th	Winners (1960, 1964, 1980, 2004)
Bolivia	8th	Third place (1987)
Brazil	13th	Winners (1968, 1971, 1976, 1984, 1987, 1996, 2000)
Chile	12th	Runners-up (1984, 2000)
Colombia (hosts)	13th	Runners-up (1968, 1971, 1980, 1992)
Ecuador	10th	Fourth place (1984, 1992)
Paraguay	9th	Winners (1992)
Peru	12th	Runners-up (1960)
Uruguay	11th	Runners-up (1976)
Venezuela	10th	Fourth place (1980, 1996)

Venues

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Colombia was announced as host of the tournament at the CONMEBOL Council meeting held on 14 August 2018 in Luque, Paraguay. On 28 August 2019, Pereira, Armenia, and Bucaramanga were announced as the host cities.

Squads

Players born on or after 1 January 1997 were eligible to compete in the tournament.

Draw

The draw of the tournament was held on 5 November 2019, 19:00 COT (UTC−5), at the Auditorium of the Colombian Football Federation in Bogotá, Colombia. The ten teams were drawn into two groups of five. The hosts Colombia and Brazil as the current Olympic champions and best CONMEBOL team in the FIFA World Rankings as of October 2019 were seeded into Group A and Group B, respectively, and assigned to position 1 in their group, while the remaining eight teams were placed into four “pairing pots” based on their FIFA World Rankings as of October 2019 (shown in brackets). The positions of these eight teams within their groups were also defined by draw.

Seeded	Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Colombia (10) (Hosts, assigned to A1)  Brazil (3) (Olympic champions holders, assigned to B1)	Uruguay (5)  Argentina (9)	Chile (17)  Peru (19)	Venezuela (26)  Paraguay (41)	Ecuador (63)  Bolivia (75)

The draw was led by Hugo Figueredo, CONMEBOL’s Director of Competitions, with the collaboration of Daniela Montoya, a member of the Colombia women’s national football team, and former Colombian footballer Iván Valenciano.

Match officials

On 4 December 2019, CONMEBOL announced that the CONMEBOL Referee Commission had appointed 12 referees and 20 assistant referees for the tournament.

First stage

The top two teams of each group advanced to the final stage.

Tiebreakers

The ranking of teams in the first stage was determined as follows (Regulations Article 8):

1. Points obtained in all group matches (three points for a win, one for a draw, none for a defeat);
2. Goal difference in all group matches;
3. Number of goals scored in all group matches;
4. Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
5. Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question;
6. Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
7. Fair play points in all group matches (only one deduction could be applied to a player in a single match):
   • Yellow card: −1 points;
   • Indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points;
   • Direct red card: −4 points;
   • Yellow card and direct red card: −5 points;
8. Drawing of lots.

All times are local, COT (UTC−5).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Argentina	4	4	0	0	9	2	+7	12	Final stage
2	Colombia (H)	4	2	1	1	7	3	+4	7
3	Chile	4	2	1	1	4	2	+2	7
4	Venezuela	4	1	0	3	3	7	−4	3
5	Ecuador	4	0	0	4	0	9	−9	0

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Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brazil	4	4	0	0	11	5	+6	12	Final stage
2	Uruguay	4	2	0	2	5	6	−1	6
3	Bolivia	4	2	0	2	8	10	−2	6
4	Paraguay	4	1	0	3	5	6	−1	3
5	Peru	4	1	0	3	4	6	−2	3

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Final stage

The ranking of teams in the final stage was determined using the same criteria as the first stage, taking into account only matches in the final stage (Regulations Article 8).

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Argentina (C)	3	2	0	1	5	6	−1	6	2020 Summer Olympics
2	Brazil	3	1	2	0	5	2	+3	5
3	Uruguay	3	1	1	1	6	5	+1	4
4	Colombia (H)	3	0	1	2	3	6	−3	1

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Winners

2020 CONMEBOL Men’s Olympic Qualifying Championship
Argentina Fifth title

Goalscorers

There were 75 goals scored in 26 matches, for an average of 2.88 goals per match.

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Qualified teams for Summer Olympics

The following two teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympic men’s football tournament.

Team	Qualified on	Previous appearances in Summer Olympics1
Argentina	6 February 2020	8 (1928, 1960, 1964, 1988, 1996, 2004, 2008, 2016)
Brazil	9 February 2020	13 (1952, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1984, 1988, 1996, 2000, 2008, 2012, 2016)

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.