The 2023 Copa Libertadores group stage was played from 4 April to 29 June 2023.
A total of 32 teams competed in the group stage to decide the 16 places in the
final stages
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of the
2023 Copa Libertadores
The 2023 Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores will be 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 winners of the 2023 Copa Lib ...
.
Draw
The draw for the group stage was held on 27 March 2023, 20:00
PYT (
UTC−4), at the CONMEBOL Convention Centre in
Luque,
Paraguay.
Teams were seeded by their ''CONMEBOL Clubs ranking'' as of 9 December 2022 (shown in parentheses),
For the group stage, the 32 teams were drawn into eight groups (Groups A–H) of four containing a team from each of the four pots. The defending champions
Flamengo
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were directly assigned as the top seed of Group A (position A1). The remaining teams were distributed into four pots according to their CONMEBOL Clubs ranking. Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group, excluding the four winners of the third stage, which were allocated to Pot 4 and could be drawn into the same group with another team from the same association.
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The following were the four winners of the
third stage
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of
qualifying
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which joined the 28 direct entrants in the group stage.
Format
In the group stage, each group was played on a home-and-away
round-robin basis. The teams were ranked according to the following criteria: 1.
Points
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(3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss); 2.
Goal difference
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; 3. Goals scored; 4. Away goals scored; 5. CONMEBOL ranking (Regulations Article 2.4.2).
The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the
round of 16 of the
final stages
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. The third-placed teams of each group entered the
knockout round play-offs
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of the
2023 Copa Sudamericana
The 2023 Copa CONMEBOL Sudamericana will be the 22nd edition of the CONMEBOL Sudamericana (also referred to as the ''Copa Sudamericana''), South America's secondary club football tournament organized by CONMEBOL.
The winners of the 2023 Copa Suda ...
.
Schedule
The schedule of each matchday was as follows (Regulations Article 2.2.2).
Groups
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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Group E
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Group F
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Group G
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Group H
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Notes
References
External links
CONMEBOL LibertadoresCONMEBOL.com
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