2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)

The **2018 CONMEBOL FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)** tournament was held from 8 October 2015 to 10 October 2017 and was used to determine which South American teams will qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Ten teams participated in the tournament. Edinson Cavani (Uruguay) was the top scorer with 10 goals.

### Table

Peru moved on to the inter-confederation play-offs, which is a tournament between 4th and 5th placed teams from other international world cup qualification tournaments.

|width=30 abbr="Position"|Pos|width=210|Team|width=30 abbr="Played"|Pld|width=30 abbr="Won"|W|width=30 abbr="Drawn"|D|width=30 abbr="Lost"|L|width=30 abbr="Goals for"|GF|width=30 abbr="Goals against"|GA|width=30 abbr="Goal difference"|GD|width=30 abbr="Points"|Pts|width=260 abbr="Points"|Moves on to|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align=left||18|12|5|1|41|11|+30|**41**|align=center rowspan=4|Qualification to 2018 FIFA World Cup||||||||||
|2|align=left||18|9|4|5|32|20|+12|**31**||||||||||||
|3|align=left||18|7|7|4|19|16|+3|**28**||||||||||||
|4|align=left||18|7|6|5|21|19|+2|**27**||||||||||||
|5|align=left||18|7|5|6|27|26|+1|**26**|align=center|Inter-confederation play-offs||||||||||
|6|align=left||18|8|2|8|26|27|–1|**26**|align=center rowspan=5|||||||||||
|7|align=left||18|7|3|8|19|25|–6|**24**||||||||||||
|8|align=left||18|6|2|10|26|29|–3|**20**||||||||||||
|9|align=left||18|4|2|12|16|38|–22|**14**||||||||||||
|10|align=left||18|2|6|10|19|35|–16|**12**||||||||||||

### Matches

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|8 October 2015|||||
|****|**0–2**|****|||
|****|**2–0**|****|||
|****|**0–1**|****|||
|****|**2–0**|****|||
|****|**0–2**|****|||
|13 October 2015|||||
|****|**2–0**|****|||
|****|**3–0**|****|||
|****|**0–0**|****|||
|****|**3–1**|****|||
|****|**3–4**|****|||
|12 November 2015|||||
|****|**4–2**|****|||
|****|**2–1**|****|||
|****|**1–1**|****|||
|****|**1–1**|****|||
|****|**1–0**|****|||
|17 November 2015|||||
|****|**0–1**|****|||
|****|**1–3**|****|||
|****|**2–1**|****|||
|****|**3–0**|****|||
|****|**3–0**|****|||
|24 March 2016|||||
|****|**2–3**|****|||
|****|**2–2**|****|||
|****|**1–2**|****|||
|****|**2–2**|****|||
|****|**2–2**|****|||
|29 March 2016|||||
|****|**3–1**|****|||
|****|**1–0**|****|||
|****|**1–4**|****|||
|****|**2–0**|****|||
|****|**2–2**|****|||
|1 September 2016|||||
|****|**0–3**|****|||
|****|**2–0**|****|||
|****|**0–3**|****|||
|****|**1–0**|****|||
|****|**2–1**|****|||
|6 September 2016|||||
|****|**4–0**|****|||
|****|**3–0**|****|||
|****|**2–2**|****|||
|****|**2–1**|****|||
|****|**2–1**|****|||
|6 October 2016|||||
|****|**3–0**|****|||
|****|**3–0**|****|||
|****|**0–1**|****|||
|****|**5–0**|****|||
|****|**2–2**|****|||
|11 October 2016|||||
|****|**2–2**|****|||
|****|**2–2**|****|||
|****|**0–1**|****|||
|****|**2–1**|****|||
|****|**0–2**|****|||
|10 November 2016|||||
|****|**0–0**|****|||
|****|**2–1**|****|||
|****|**1–4**|****|||
|****|**3–0**|****|||
|****|**5–0**|****|||
|15 November 2016|||||
|****|**1–0**|****|||
|****|**3–0**|****|||
|****|**3–0**|****|||
|****|**3–1**|****|||
|****|**0–2**|****|||
|23 March 2017|||||
|****|**1–0**|****|||
|****|**2–1**|****|||
|****|**1–4**|****|||
|****|**1–0**|****|||
|****|**2–2**|****|||
|28 March 2017|||||
|****|**2–0**|****|||
|****|**0–2**|****|||
|****|**3–1**|****|||
|****|**3–0**|****|||
|****|**2–1**|****|||
|31 August 2017|||||
|****|**0–0**|****|||
|****|**0–3**|****|||
|****|**0–0**|****|||
|****|**2–0**|****|||
|****|**2–1**|****|||
|5 September 2017|||||
|****|**1–0**|****|||
|****|**1–1**|****|||
|****|**1–2**|****|||
|****|**1–1**|****|||
|****|**1–2**|****|||
|5 October 2017|||||
|****|**0–0**|****|||
|****|**0–0**|****|||
|****|**0–0**|****|||
|****|**2–1**|****|||
|****|**1–2**|****|||
|13 October 2017|||||
|****|**3–0**|****|||
|****|**1–3**|****|||
|****|**0–1**|****|||
|****|**1–1**|****|||
|****|**4–2**|****|||

## Goalscorers

- 10 goals

- Edinson Cavani

- 7 goals

- Lionel Messi
- Alexis Sánchez
- Felipe Caicedo

- 6 goals

- Gabriel Jesus
- Neymar
- Paulinho
- Arturo Vidal
- James Rodríguez

- 5 goals

- Eduardo Vargas
- Enner Valencia
- Edison Flores
- Paolo Guerrero
- Josef Martínez
- Luis Suárez

- 4 goals

- Juan Carlos Arce
- Philippe Coutinho
- Willian
- Darío Lezcano
- Christian Cueva
- Rómulo Otero

- 3 goals

- Pablo Escobar
- Renato Augusto
- Carlos Bacca
- Edwin Cardona
- Jefferson Farfán
- Martín Cáceres
- Diego Godín

- 2 goals

- Ángel Di María
- Gabriel Mercado
- Lucas Pratto
- Marcelo Martins Moreno
- Rodrigo Ramallo
- Douglas Costa
- Filipe Luís
- Ricardo Oliveira
- Esteban Paredes
- Mauricio Pinilla
- Radamel Falcao
- Miller Bolaños
- Romario Ibarra
- Fidel Martínez
- Derlis González
- Cristian Rodríguez
- Diego Rolán
- Mikel Villanueva

- 1 goal

- Lucas Biglia
- Ramiro Funes Mori
- Gonzalo Higuaín
- Ezequiel Lavezzi
- Nicolás Otamendi
- Gilbert Álvarez
- Rudy Cardozo
- Alejandro Chumacero
- Yasmani Duk
- Ronald Raldes
- Dani Alves
- Lucas Lima
- Marcelo
- Miranda
- Roberto Firmino
- Felipe Gutiérrez
- Abel Aguilar
- Juan Cuadrado
- Teófilo Gutiérrez
- Yerry Mina
- Sebastián Pérez
- Macnelly Torres
- Gabriel Achilier
- Michael Arroyo
- Frickson Erazo
- Ángel Mena
- Arturo Mina
- Jefferson Montero
- Cristian Ramírez
- Antonio Valencia
- Júnior Alonso
- Lucas Barrios
- Édgar Benítez
- Víctor Cáceres
- Óscar Cardozo
- Paulo da Silva
- Richard Ortiz
- Cristian Riveros
- Ángel Romero
- Óscar Romero
- Antonio Sanabria
- Bruno Valdez
- André Carrillo
- Paolo Hurtado
- Christian Ramos
- Raúl Ruidíaz
- Renato Tapia
- Sebastián Coates
- Abel Hernández
- Nicolás Lodeiro
- Álvaro Pereira
- Carlos Sánchez
- Federico Valverde
- Richard Blanco
- Yangel Herrera
- Juanpi
- Jacobo Kouffati
- Jhon Murillo
- Mario Rondón
- Salomón Rondón
- Christian Santos

- 1 own goal

- Marquinhos ()
- Arturo Vidal ()
- David Ospina ()
- Walter Ayoví ()
- Édgar Benítez ()
- Gustavo Gómez ()
- Rolf Feltscher ()
- Diego Godín ()
- Gastón Silva ()

## Other websites

- Qualifiers – South America , FIFA.com
- FIFA World Cup Russia 2018, CONMEBOL.com