2018 Copa América Femenina

Eighth edition of the CONMEBOL Copa América FemeninaTemplate:SHORTDESC:Eighth edition of the CONMEBOL Copa América Femenina

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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 Chile.

The tournament provided two direct qualifying places and a play-off place (against the fourth-placed team from CONCACAF) for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in France, one direct qualifying place and a play-off 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 Peru who qualified automatically as hosts.

Brazil 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 Estadio Diaguita on 8 and 11 April would be moved to La Serena and Coquimbo respectively.

## References

1. ↑ "Paraguay, Chile, Ecuador y Argentina realizarán torneos sudamericanos femeninos". CONMEBOL.com. 25 April 2017.
2. ↑ "Circular #1565 - FIFA women's tournaments 2018-2019" (PDF). FIFA.com. 11 November 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 November 2016.
3. ↑ "OC for FIFA Competitions approves procedures for the Final Draw of the 2018 FIFA World Cup". FIFA.com. 14 September 2017. Archived from the original on 14 September 2017.
4. ↑ "Qualification System manual" (PDF). *www.panamsports.org/*. Pan American Sports Organization. 25 April 2018. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "[Video] ANFP anuncia que Chile albergará la Copa América femenina en 2018". *Tele 13*.
6. ↑ "Brasil alcanza su séptimo título de campeón de Copa América femenina". CONMEBOL.com. 22 April 2018.
7. ↑ "La Copa América Femenina se celebrará del 4 al 22 de abril". CONMEBOL.com. 21 July 2017.
8. ↑ "Women's Ranking – 23 March 2018 (CONMEBOL)". FIFA.com. Archived from the original on 19 October 2018.
9. ↑ "¡En abril, la #CopaAmericaFemenina Chile 2018 se tomará la IV Región! La Serena, Coquimbo y Ovalle son las sedes oficiales del torneo" [On April, the Copa América Femenina Chile 2018 will take over the IV Region! La Serena, Coquimbo and Ovalle will be the official host cities of the tournament]. *@ANFPChile* (in Spanish). Twitter. 25 October 2017. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
10. ↑ "Oficializan la Copa América Femenina - Chile 2018: La Serena, Ovalle y Coquimbo serán las sedes". CONMEBOL.com. 26 October 2017.
11. ↑ "Cambios de sedes en la CONMEBOL Copa América Femenina". CONMEBOL.com. 4 April 2018.

## External links

* Copa América Femenina 2018
* Copa América Femenina Chile 2018, CONMEBOL.com (in Spanish)

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