The 2023 Copa Libertadores was the 64th edition of South America's premier club football competition organized by the Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol (CONMEBOL). The tournament ran from 21 February 2023 to 28 November 2023 and featured 47 teams representing the ten CONMEBOL member associations.
Format
- Qualifying stages: Four preliminary rounds determined the 32 clubs that entered the group stage.
- Group stage: Eight groups of four teams each played a double‑round‑robin (home and away). The top two teams from each group advanced.
- Knock‑out phase: The round of 16, quarter‑finals, and semi‑finals were contested over two legs (home and away).
- Final: A single match at a neutral venue decided the champion. The 2023 final was held at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 27 November 2023.
Participating associations and allocation
- Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Venezuela each entered clubs based on domestic league performance and national cup results, with Brazil and Argentina receiving the most berths.
Tournament outcome
- Champion: Fluminense Football Club (Brazil) – first Copa Libertadores title.
- Runner‑up: Boca Juniors (Argentina).
- Final score: Fluminense 2 – 1 Boca Juniors after extra time. Goals were scored by Germán Cano (31'), Lucas Paquetá (109'), and a penalty by Sebastián Villa for Boca (120 + 1′).
- Matches played: 156.
- Total goals: 408.
Key statistics
- Top scorer: Insufficient Encyclopedic Information – reliable sources have not uniformly reported a single player as the overall top scorer for the competition.
- Best player (award): Insufficient Encyclopedic Information – the official CONMEBOL award for the tournament's outstanding player has not been conclusively documented in publicly available encyclopedic references as of the cutoff date.
Historical significance
Fluminense's victory marked the club's inaugural Copa Libertadores triumph, adding a new champion to the competition's history and ending a 45‑year title drought for Brazilian clubs in the tournament's final (the previous Brazilian champion being São Paulo in 2020). The final was notable for being contested between a Brazilian and an Argentine heavyweight, continuing the long‑standing rivalry between clubs from the two nations in South American football.
