2019 Copa Libertadores de Beach Soccer

2019 Copa Libertadores de Beach Soccer
Tournament details
Host country	Paraguay
City	Luque
Dates	14 – 21 September
Teams	12 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Vasco da Gama (3rd title)
Runners-up	Cerro Porteño
Third place	Acassuso
Fourth place	Fundación Monagas
Tournament statistics
Matches played	31
Goals scored	262 (8.45 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Sergio Díaz (San Bernardino; 17 goals)[1]

The 2019 CONMEBOL Libertadores de Beach Soccer was the fourth edition of the Copa Libertadores de Beach Soccer (known natively in Spanish as the Copa Libertadores de Futbol Playa), an annual continental beach soccer club tournament contested primarily between the champions of the domestic leagues of South American nations who are members of CONMEBOL.

The tournament took place in Luque, Paraguay, between 14 and 21 September 2019,[2] and was organised by CONMEBOL in cooperation with the host association, the Paraguayan Football Association (APF).[3] It was originally scheduled to take place from 13–20 October 2019 but a change of dates was announced on 13 June.[4]

Brazilians Vitória were the defending champions but were eliminated at the group stage, ultimately finishing 10th. The title was won by fellow Brazilian club Vasco da Gama, who claimed their third title at the fourth attempt.[5]

Format

As per Regulations Article 15, the competition format consists of two phases: the Preliminary phase (Group phase) and the Final phase.[3]

Group phase: The 12 teams are drawn into three groups of four teams; in each group all teams compete in a round robin format. The group winners, runners-up and two best third placed teams advance to the quarter-finals of the final stage.
Final phase: The Final phase consists of three knockout rounds (the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final) and consolations rounds (the nations knocked out of title winning contention play in a series of classification matches to decide fifth through twelfth place). All matches in the final stage are played in a knockout format.

Teams

Twelve teams qualified to take part; each of the domestic league champions (or champions of specific Copa Libertadores qualification tournaments) from the ten South American nations which are members of CONMEBOL, plus an additional club from the host country and the defending champions.[3]

Association	Representatives	Qualification method
Argentina	Acassuso	2019 Liga Nacional de Fútbol Playa champions.[6]
Bolivia	Hamacas	2019 Torneo Nacional de Fútbol Playa champions.[7]
Brazil^[†]	Vitória (Brazil 1)	2018 Copa Libertadores de Beach Soccer champions.
Brazil^[†]	Vasco da Gama (Brazil 2)	2019 Campeonato Brasileiro de Beach Soccer champions.[8]
Chile	CODE Iquique
Colombia	Guaviare	2019 Pre-Libertadores de Fútbol Playa champions.[9]
Ecuador	Fluminense Blasa	2019 Liga Nacional de Fútbol Playa Torneo Apertura champions.[10]
Paraguay^[‡]	San Bernardino (Paraguay 1)	2019 Superlga de Fútbol Playa champions.[11]
Paraguay^[‡]	Cerro Porteño (Paraguay 2)	2019 Copa Paraguay de Fútbol Playa champions.[12]
Peru	Academia Tito Drago	2019 Liga de Fútbol Playa Primera División champions.[13]
Uruguay	Racing Club	2019 Liga Uruguaya de Fútbol Playa Pre-Libertadores champions.[14]
Venezuela	Fundación Monagas	2019 Liga Nacional de Fútbol Playa champions.[15]

Notes

^† As the national association defending champions, Brazil entered two teams. Vitória qualify as reigning champions and Vasco da Gama qualify as the Brazilian league champions.
^‡ As the host country, Paraguay received an extra berth and entered two teams. San Bernardino qualify as the Paraguayan Superliga champions and Cerro Porteño qualify as the Copa Paraguay champions.[16]

Venue

Luque

Location of Luque in Paraguay

One venue was used in the city of Luque, Gran Asunción.

All matches took place at the Estadio de Fútbol de Playa, newly built to primarily host the 2019 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup,[17] located on the grounds of the Paraguayan Olympic Committee with a capacity of 3,150.[18]

Squads

Each team had to submit a squad of 12 players, including a minimum of two goalkeepers (Regulations Article 31).[3]

Draw

The draw to split the twelve teams into three groups of four took place on 20 August 2019 at 12:00 PYT (UTC–3) in Luque, Paraguay at the headquarters of the Paraguayan Football Association.[19] The draw was conducted based on Regulations Article 16 as follows:[3][20]

Initially, three teams were seeded and assigned to the head of the groups (Vitória automatically to Group A, the others via a draw from pot 1):

To Group A: as 2018 Copa Libertadores champions, Vitória
To Group B: as the club of the runner-up national association of the 2018 Copa Libertadores, Vasco da Gama
To Group C: as champions of the host association, San Bernardino

The remaining nine teams were split into three pots of three based on the final placement of their national association's club in the previous edition of the championship, with the highest three (Argentina, Uruguay and Bolivia) placed in Pot 2, the next three (Colombia, Peru and Chile) placed in Pot 3 and the lowest two (Venezuela and Ecuador) in pot 4, alongside the additional Paraguayan club. From each pot, the first team drawn was placed into Group A, the second team drawn placed into Group B and the final team drawn placed into Group C. Clubs from the same association could not be drawn into the same group.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
San Bernardino Vasco da Gama	Acassuso Racing Club Hamacas	Guaviare Academia Tito Drago CODE Iquique	Fundación Monagas Fluminense Blasa Cerro Porteño

The draw resulted in the following groups:[19]

Group A
Pos	Team
A1	Vitória
A2	Acassuso
A3	Guaviare
A4	Fundación Monagas

Group B
Pos	Team
B1	Vasco da Gama
B2	Racing Club
B3	Academia Tito Drago
B4	Cerro Porteño

Group C
Pos	Team
C1	San Bernardino
C2	Hamacas
C3	CODE Iquique
C4	Fluminense Blasa

Group stage

Each team earns three points for a win in regulation time, two points for a win in extra time, one point for a win in a penalty shoot-out, and no points for a defeat. The top two teams of each group, plus the two best ranked third-placed teams, advance to the quarter-finals.[3]

Tie-breakers

If two or more teams are equal on points, their rankings are determined as follows (Regulations Article 21):[3]

Goal difference in the matches played between the teams concerned;
Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams concerned;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Number of goals scored in all group matches;
Drawing of lots by CONMEBOL.

All times are local, PYT (UTC–3).[21]

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	WP	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Fundación Monagas	3	2	1	0	13	11	+2	7	Knockout stage
2	Acassuso	3	2	0	1	13	9	+4	6
3	Guaviare	3	1	0	2	13	16	−3	3
4	Vitória	3	0	0	3	10	13	−3	0	9th–12th place play-offs

Source: CONMEBOL
Rules for classification: Tie-breakers

14 September 2019	Vitória	2–3	Acassuso
13:00	Savio André	Report	Rutterschmidt Sosa Benaducci	Referee: Gustavo Domínguez (Paraguay)

14 September 2019	Guaviare	4–5	Fundación Monagas
14:30	Perea Córdoba Ortega Bonilla	Report	Bacelar Prado García Narea	Referee: Alex Valdiviezo (Peru)

15 September 2019	Acassuso	3–3 (a.e.t.) (3–4 p)	Fundación Monagas
13:00	Medero	Report	Prado Noriega	Referee: José Cortez (Ecuador)
	Penalties
	Medero Benaducci Ponzetti Sirico		Bacelar Narea Ramos Prado

15 September 2019	Vitória	4–5	Guaviare
14:30	Batista Rezende Moura	Report	Hernández Ortega Perea	Referee: Christian Altez (Uruguay)

16 September 2019	Acassuso	7–4	Guaviare
13:00	Medero Benaducci Sirico	Report	Perea Parra Bonilla	Referee: Gustavo Domínguez (Paraguay)

16 September 2019	Fundación Monagas	5–4	Vitória
14:30	Narea R. Ramos R. García E. Ramos	Report	Savio Batista	Referee: César Cabrera (Paraguay)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Vasco da Gama	3	3	0	22	9	+13	9	Knockout stage
2	Cerro Porteño	3	2	1	23	9	+14	6	Knockout stage
3	Academia Tito Drago	3	1	2	7	20	−13	3	9th–12th place play-offs
4	Racing Club	3	0	3	7	21	−14	0	9th–12th place play-offs

Source: CONMEBOL
Rules for classification: Tie-breakers

14 September 2019	Vasco da Gama	9–3	Racing Club
16:00	De Farias Da Silva Souza Soares Farias Franklin	Report	Pazos Capurro Miranda	Referee: Jesús Reyes (Venezuela)

14 September 2019	Academia Tito Drago	1–11	Cerro Porteño
17:30	Vidal	Report	Carballo J. Rolón Y. Rolón C. Benítez P. Benítez Barreto	Referee: José Cortez (Ecuador)

15 September 2019	Vasco da Gama	6–2	Academia Tito Drago
16:00	Souza De Farias Da Silva Franklin Soares	Report	Alcantara C.Gómez	Referee: Jaimito Suarez ( Bolivia)

15 September 2019	Racing Club	1–8	Cerro Porteño
17:30	Capurro	Report	C. Carballo J. Rolón G. Benítez Ovelar Barreto Y. Rolón J. Rodríguez	Referee: Darío Colombani (Argentina)

16 September 2019	Cerro Porteño	4–7	Vasco da Gama
16:00	E. Barreto C. Benítez J. Rodríguez	Report	Soares Souza Franklin Da Silva	Referee: Christian Altez (Ecuador)

16 September 2019	Racing Club	3–4	Academia Tito Drago
17:30	Quinta Capurro	Report	C. Gómez Vidal Ibáñez	Referee: Ivo De Moraes (Brazil)

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	W+	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	CODE Iquique	3	2	1	0	13	8	+5	8	Knockout stage
2	San Bernardino	3	2	0	1	16	7	+9	6
3	Hamacas	3	1	0	2	6	7	−1	3
4	Fluminense Blasa	3	0	0	3	6	19	−13	0	9th–12th place play-offs

Source: CONMEBOL
Rules for classification: Tie-breakers

14 September 2019	San Bernardino	2–0	Hamacas
19:00	S. Díaz	Report		Referee: Ivo De Moraes (Brazil)

14 September 2019	CODE Iquique	4–3	Fluminense Blasa
20:30	S. Vega	Report	Moncada Pinto	Referee: José Romo (Argentina)

15 September 2019	San Bernardino	4–5 (a.e.t.)	CODE Iquique
19:00	S. Díaz Medina	Report	S. Vega Oyarzun Bolivar Papic	Referee: Alex Valdiviezo (Peru)

15 September 2019	Hamacas	5–1	Fluminense Blasa
20:30	Barrios Portales Zambrano Chávez	Report	Santana	Referee: Ramón Blanco (Peru)

16 September 2019	Fluminense Blasa	2–10	San Bernardino
19:00	Vera Fajardo	Report	Fretes Medina S. Díaz Agüero R. Carballo	Referee: Renato De Carlos (Brazil)

16 September 2019	Hamacas	1–4	CODE Iquique
20:30	Sotelo	Report	Abarca Papic Peso	Referee: Aecio Fernández (Uruguay)

Ranking of third-placed teams

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	C	Hamacas	3	1	2	6	7	−1	3	Knockout stage
2	A	Guaviare	3	1	2	13	16	−3	3	Knockout stage
3	B	Academia Tito Drago	3	1	2	7	20	−13	3

Source: CONMEBOL

As per Regulations Article 17, it was decided the third place teams would take the following berths in the quarter-final draw:[3]

1st Group A vs 2nd best third place team
1st Group B vs Best third place team
1st Group C vs 2nd Group A
2nd Group B vs 2nd Group C

9th–12th place play-offs

The worst third placed team plays the best fourth placed team for 9th place; the second best fourth placed team plays the worst fourth placed team for 11th place.[3]

	11th place match

	19 September

	Fluminense Blasa	2

	Racing Club (a.e.t.)	3

	9th place match

	19 September

	Academia Tito Drago	w/o

	Vitória

11th place match

19 September 2019

16:00

Fluminense Blasa	2–3 (a.e.t.)	Racing Club
N. Naranjo A. Fajardo	Report	Capurro Cordero

Referee: Juan Gutiérrez (Bolivia)

9th place match

19 September 2019

17:30

Academia Tito Drago	2–0 w/o[lower-alpha 1]	Vitória
	Report

Referee: Jaimito Suarez (Bolivia)

Knockout stage

5th place match

5th–8th place semi-finals

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Fundación Monagas (p)

2 (3)

Guaviare

2 (2)

Guaviare

5

18 September

Fundación Monagas

1

San Bernardino

4

Cerro Porteño

3

19 September

Cerro Porteño

8

20 September

San Bernardino

4

Guaviare

5

18 September

Cerro Porteño

5

CODE Iquique

3

Vasco da Gama

7

20 September

Vasco da Gama

7

21 September

Hamacas

3

Hamacas

3

18 September

Vasco da Gama (p)

2 (2)

7th place match

CODE Iquique

8

Acassuso

2 (0)

3rd place match

San Bernardino

5

19 September

CODE Iquique

4

20 September

Fundación Monagas

6

Hamacas

7

Acassuso

5

Acassuso

7

20 September

18 September

21 September

Quarter-finals

18 September 2019