| CONMEBOL Preolímpico Colombia 2020 | |
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| Tournament details | |
| Host country | Colombia |
| Dates | 18 January – 9 February 2020 |
| Teams | 10 (from 1 confederation) |
| Venue(s) | 3 (in 3 host cities) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Argentina (5th title) |
| Runners-up |  Brazil |
| Third place |  Uruguay |
| Fourth place |  Colombia |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 26 |
| Goals scored | 75 (2.88 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Matheus Cunha (5 goals) |
| Best player(s) | Bruno Guimarães |
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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.[1] The last edition of this competition had been held in Chile in 2004. From 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.[2]
The top two teams qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics men's football tournament in Japan as the CONMEBOL representatives.[3] Argentina successfully defended their title won 16 years ago, and qualified for the Olympics together with runners-up Brazil, the defending Olympic champions.
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) |
Colombia was announced as host of the tournament at the CONMEBOL Council meeting held on 14 August 2018 in Luque, Paraguay.[1] On 28 August 2019, Pereira, Armenia, and Bucaramanga were announced as the host cities.[4][5]
| Pereira | Armenia | Bucaramanga | Location of the host cities of the 2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament. |
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| Estadio Hernán Ramírez Villegas | Estadio Centenario | Estadio Alfonso López | |
| Capacity: 30,300 | Capacity: 20,716 | Capacity: 25,000 | |
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Players born on or after 1 January 1997 were eligible to compete in the tournament.
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.[6][7] 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).[8] The positions of these eight teams within their groups were also defined by draw.[9]
| Seeded | Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
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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.[9]
On 4 December 2019, CONMEBOL announced that the CONMEBOL Referee Commission had appointed 12 referees and 20 assistant referees for the tournament.[10][11] Referees Guillermo Guerrero from Ecuador and Alexis Herrera from Venezuela as well as the assistant referee Byron Romero from Ecuador, who were not included in the initial list of officials, were summoned to officiate in the two matches of the final stage's last matchday.[12][13][14]
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The top two teams of each group advanced to the final stage.
The ranking of teams in the first stage was determined as follows (Regulations Article 8):[15]
All times are local, COT (UTC−5).[16][17]
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | Argentina
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4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | +7 | 12 | Final stage |
| 2 | Colombia (H)
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4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 7 | |
| 3 | Chile
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4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 7 | |
| 4 | Venezuela
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4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 3 | |
| 5 | Ecuador
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4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 9 | −9 | 0 |
| Argentina | 1–0 | Ecuador |
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| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | Brazil
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4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 5 | +6 | 12 | Final stage |
| 2 | Uruguay
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4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 6 | |
| 3 | Bolivia
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4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 10 | −2 | 6 | |
| 4 | Paraguay
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4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 3 | |
| 5 | Peru
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4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 3 |
| Bolivia | 3–2 | Uruguay |
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| Brazil | 2–1 | Paraguay |
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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 |
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| 1 | Argentina (C)
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 6 | 2020 Summer Olympics |
| 2 | Brazil
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 5 | |
| 3 | Uruguay
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3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 4 | |
| 4 | Colombia (H)
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 1 |
| Argentina | 3–2 | Uruguay |
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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
Julián Álvarez Nahuel Bustos Nicolás Capaldo Nazareno Colombo Adolfo Gaich Agustín Urzi Fausto Vera Matías Zaracho Sebastián Reyes Antony Guga Pedrinho Reinier Ángelo Araos Iván Morales Camilo Moya Eduard Atuesta Nicolás Benedetti Johan Carbonero Sergio Díaz Roberto Fernández Saúl Salcedo Luis Carranza Sebastián Gonzales José Luján Matías Arezo Santiago Bueno Francisco Ginella Diego Rossi Juan Manuel Sanabria Manuel Ugarte Federico Viñas Jan Carlos Hurtado1 own goal
Jackson Porozo (against Chile) Santiago Arzamendia (against Peru) Ignacio De Arruabarrena (against Brazil)The following two teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympic men's football tournament.
| Team | Qualified on | Previous appearances in Summer Olympics1 |
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| Argentina |
6 February 2020[18] | 8 (1928, 1960, 1964, 1988, 1996, 2004, 2008, 2016) |
| Brazil |
9 February 2020[19] | 13 (1952, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1984, 1988, 1996, 2000, 2008, 2012, 2016) |
