2025–26 CONMEBOL Liga de Naciones Femenina

2025–26 CONMEBOL Liga de Naciones Femenina
Tournament details
Dates24 October 2025 – 9 June 2026
Teams9 (from 1 confederation)

The 2025–26 CONMEBOL Liga de Naciones Femenina will be the inaugural edition of the CONMEBOL Liga de Naciones Femenina, an international women's football competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the member associations of CONMEBOL. It will be held from 24 October 2025 to 9 June 2026.

The tournament will serve as the CONMEBOL qualifiers to the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup in Brazil. The top two teams will qualify for the Women's World Cup and will join Brazil, which qualified automatically as host. The next two best-placed teams will advance to the inter-confederation play-offs.[1][2]

Background

On 12 December 2024, following a CONMEBOL Council meeting, it was announced the creation of the South American Women's qualifiers for the FIFA Women's World Cup starting with the 2027 edition in Brazil.[3][4] This new tournament would be CONMEBOL's new qualification pathway for FIFA's top women's national team tournament, replacing the Copa América Femenina, which from its first edition in 1991 (then called the South American Women's Football Championship) until the 2022 edition had been the competition that determined CONMEBOL's representatives to the FIFA Women's World Cup.[5][6]

The tournament was officially launched on 19 July 2025 and it was formally named the CONMEBOL Liga de Naciones Femenina, confirming the start date for after the 2025 Copa América Femenina.[7]

Format

The competition format consists of a single round-robin tournament in which the 9 teams play each other once, with each team playing 4 home and 4 away matches for a total of 8 matches per team in 9 matchdays. Considering that Brazil will not participate as they are automatically qualified for the 2027 Women's World Cup as host, there will be one team left out in each matchday.[1][8]

The fixtures was determined by a draw held on 31 July 2025, 14:00 PYT (UTC−3). The 9 teams were placed into pot 1 and in pot 2 were the positions 1–9. Each team was drawn to one of the nine positions (E1–E9), thus defining the order of the matches in the predetermined schedule.[9]

Entrants

9 national teams from CONMEBOL will enter qualification.

Draw
position 		Team FIFA
Rankings[a]
E1  Paraguay 45
E2  Peru 77
E3  Bolivia 105
E4  Colombia 18
E5  Chile 39
E6  Venezuela 48
E7  Argentina 32
E8  Ecuador 67
E9  Uruguay 63
  1. ^ As of the draw[10]

Schedule

The predetermined schedule was completed once the draw was made. The qualifying matches will be held on dates that fall within the FIFA International Match Calendar with at least 3 days of rest between matches.[9]

There will be a total of nine matchdays, four of them to be played in 2025 and five in 2026.

Matchday Date Matches
Matchday 1 24 October 2025 E4 v E2, E3 v E8, E6 v E5, E7 v E1. Team resting: E9
Matchday 2 28 October 2025 E1 v E6, E5 v E3, E9 v E7, E8 v E4. Team resting: E2
Matchday 3 28 November 2025 E2 v E5, E1 v E9, E3 v E4, E8 v E6. Team resting: E7
Matchday 4 2 December 2025 E6 v E2, E7 v E3, E5 v E1, E9 v E8. Team resting: E4
Matchday 5 10 April 2026 E2 v E9, E1 v E8, E4 v E6, E5 v E7. Team resting: E3
Matchday 6 14 April 2026 E2 v E1, E3 v E9, E6 v E7, E4 v E5. Team resting: E8
Matchday 7 18 April 2026 E6 v E3, E7 v E4, E9 v E5, E8 v E2. Team resting: E1
Matchday 8 5 June 2026 E3 v E1, E7 v E2, E4 v E9, E5 v E8. Team resting: E6
Matchday 9 9 June 2026 E2 v E3, E1 v E4, E9 v E6, E8 v E7. Team resting: E5

Standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification Paraguay Peru Bolivia Colombia Chile Venezuela Argentina Ecuador Uruguay
1  Paraguay 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup — — — 9 Jun — 28 Oct — 10 Apr 28 Nov
2  Peru 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 Apr — 9 Jun — 28 Nov — — — 10 Apr
3  Bolivia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Inter-confederation play-offs 5 Jun — — 28 Nov — — — 24 Oct 14 Apr
4  Colombia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 24 Oct — — 14 Apr 10 Apr — — 5 Jun
5  Chile 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 Dec — 28 Oct — — — 10 Apr 5 Jun —
6  Venezuela 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 2 Dec 18 Apr — 24 Oct — 14 Apr — —
7  Argentina 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 24 Oct 5 Jun 2 Dec 18 Apr — — — — —
8  Ecuador 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 18 Apr — 28 Oct — 28 Nov 9 Jun — —
9  Uruguay 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — — — — 18 Apr 9 Jun 28 Oct 2 Dec —
First match(es) will be played: 24 October 2025. Source:

Matches

Matchday 1

Colombia Match 1 Peru
Bolivia Match 2 Ecuador
Venezuela Match 3 Chile
Argentina Match 4 Paraguay

Matchday 2

Paraguay Match 5 Venezuela
Chile Match 6 Bolivia
Uruguay Match 7 Argentina
Ecuador Match 8 Colombia

Matchday 3

Peru Match 9 Chile
Paraguay Match 10 Uruguay
Bolivia Match 11 Colombia
Ecuador Match 12 Venezuela

Matchday 4

Venezuela Match 13 Peru
Argentina Match 14 Bolivia
Chile Match 15 Paraguay
Uruguay Match 16 Ecuador

Matchday 5

Peru Match 17 Uruguay
Paraguay Match 18 Ecuador
Colombia Match 19 Venezuela
Chile Match 20 Argentina

Matchday 6

Peru Match 21 Paraguay
Bolivia Match 22 Uruguay
Venezuela Match 23 Argentina
Colombia Match 24 Chile

Matchday 7

Venezuela Match 25 Bolivia
Argentina Match 26 Colombia
Uruguay Match 27 Chile
Ecuador Match 28 Peru

Matchday 8

Bolivia Match 29 Paraguay
Argentina Match 30 Peru
Colombia Match 31 Uruguay
Chile Match 32 Ecuador

Matchday 9

Peru Match 33 Bolivia
Paraguay Match 34 Colombia
Uruguay Match 35 Venezuela
Ecuador Match 36 Argentina

References

  1. ^ a b "MANUAL DE SELECCIONES CONMEBOL Liga de Naciones Femenina 2025-26" (PDF) (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 13 July 2025.
  2. ^ "FIFA Women's World Cup Brazil 2027 dates confirmed". inside.fifa.com. FIFA. 10 December 2024.
  3. ^ "Clasificatorias Sudamericanas para la Copa Mundial Femenina 2027" [South American Qualifiers for the Women's World Cup 2027] (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 12 December 2024.
  4. ^ "Conmebol anunció la creación de un nuevo formato de clasificación para el Mundial Femenino de Brasil 2027" [Conmebol announced the creation of a new qualification format for the Women's World Cup Brazil 2027] (in Spanish). Doble Amarilla. 12 December 2024.
  5. ^ "Copa América Femenina 2025: Key information, top contenders and how to watch". www.nytimes.com. The Athletic. 11 July 2025.
  6. ^ "History of the Copa América Femenina" (PDF). CONMEBOL. 8 July 2022.
  7. ^ "CONMEBOL lanza la Liga de Naciones Femenina: torneo clasificatorio a la Copa Mundial Femenina de la FIFA 2027" [CONMEBOL launches the Liga de Naciones Femenina: qualifying tournament for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2027] (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 18 July 2025.
  8. ^ "Conmebol adds Women's World Cup 2027 qualifying tournament to calendar". Inside World Football. 13 December 2024. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
  9. ^ a b "Sorteo de la CONMEBOL Liga de Naciones Femenina 2025-26" [Draw for the 2025-26 CONMEBOL Liga de Naciones Femenina] (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 18 July 2025.
  10. ^ "FIFA/Coca-Cola Women's World Ranking". FIFA. 12 June 2025. Retrieved 27 July 2025.
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