The tournament will be held between February 5 and 20 in Ecuador, a country that has the largest number of representative clubs.
On the day in which keys to the Copa Libertadores and Sudamericana were raffled, the highest Conmebol club tournaments, the entity also reported the formation of groups of the Libertadores sub-20, which by 2022 will have three Ecuadorian representatives.
The contest It will be played in Ecuador between February 5 and 20, with Independent of the Valley, winner of the 2020 edition, League of Quito as national champion and Pray as the third best placed in the local tournament. Second was the blue-black box.
Striped and albos were seeded. Independent in group A, It is also made up of Caracas (Venezuela), Sporting Cristal (Peru) and Blooming (Bolivia).
The group B has a League, Porto Alegre International (Brazil), Peñarol (Uruguay) and Millonarios (Colombia).
For its part, Orense is in group C with Newell’s Old Boys (Argentina), Guaraní (Paraguay) and Universidad de Concepción (Chile).
This will be the sixth edition of the tournament, which had a gap in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Independiente is the club that has been present in all editions, in addition to the 2020 title, when he beat River Plate of Argentina, adds a runner-up in 2018, after losing the final to Nacional from Uruguay.
Of phase of groups classify the winners and the second best placed of the three groups, those who will dispute the two keys of semifinals, whose winners will contest the final of the tournament. (D)
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