The 2018 Copa América Femenina was the eighth edition of the CONMEBOL Copa América Femenina (also referred to as the ''Copa América Femenina''), the quadrennial international football competition for women's national teams in South America affiliated with CONMEBOL. The tournament was played between 4 and 22 April 2018 in

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. The tournament provided two direct qualifying places and a

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place (against the fourth-placed team from

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) for the

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in France, one direct qualifying place and a

place (against the second-placed team from CAF) for the 2020 Summer Olympic women's football tournament in Japan, and three (teams finishing third to fifth) for the 2019 Pan American Games women's football tournament in Lima, besides

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who qualified automatically as hosts.

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defended successfully their title winning all their matches. It was their seventh Copa América Femenina title.

Host selection

Chile were named hosts in April 2017. Dates were announced on 21 July 2017.

Teams

All ten CONMEBOL member national teams entered the tournament.

Venues

On 25 October 2017, the ANFP announced that 3 cities would host the tournament, all of them within the Coquimbo Region. On 28 March 2018, CONMEBOL announced that the city of Ovalle would no longer host matches, and matches originally to be played at

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on 8 and 11 April would be moved to La Serena and

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respectively.

Draw

The draw of the tournament was held on 1 March 2018, 13:00 CLST ( UTC−3), at the ANFP Auditorium in

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, Chile. The ten teams were drawn into two groups of five teams. The hosts Chile and the defending champions Brazil were seeded into Groups A and B respectively, while the remaining teams were placed into four "pairing pots" according to their results in the

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Squads

Each team could register a maximum of 22 players (three of whom must be goalkeepers).

Match officials

A total of 12 referees and 20 assistant referees were selected for the tournament.

First stage

In the first stage, the teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers would be applied in the following order (Regulations Article 18.1): # Goal difference; #Goals scored; #Head-to-head result in games between tied teams; #Drawing of lots. The top two teams of each group advanced to the final stage. All times are local, CLST ( UTC−3).

Group A

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Group B

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Ranking of group third place

The overall fifth-placed team in the first stage qualified for the 2019 Pan American Games.

Final stage

In the final stage, the teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers would be applied in the following order, taking into account only matches in the final stage (Regulations Article 18.2): # Goal difference; #Goals scored; #Head-to-head result in games between tied teams; #Fair play points (first yellow card: minus 1 point; second yellow card / red card: minus 3 points; direct red card: minus 4 points; yellow card and direct red card: minus 5 points); #Drawing of lots. ---- ----

Goalscorers

Awards

*Top goalscorer:

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(9 goals) *Fair play award:

Qualification for international tournaments

Qualified teams for FIFA Women's World Cup

The following three teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the

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qualified by winning the

against the 2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship fourth-placed team,

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. :

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

Qualified teams for Summer Olympics

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

qualified after they won the

against the

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second-placed team,

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. :

² Bold indicates champions for that year. ''Italic'' indicates hosts for that year.

Qualified teams for Pan American Games

The following four teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the 2019 Pan American Games women's football tournament, including Peru which qualified as hosts. :

³ Bold indicates champions for that year. ''Italic'' indicates hosts for that year.

References

External links

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Copa América Femenina Chile 2018
CONMEBOL.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Copa America Femenina 2018

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