2020 FIFA Futsal World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)
The 2020 South American Futsal World Cup qualifiers was a men's futsal tournament that was used as the South American qualifying tournament to determine the four CONMEBOL teams in the 2021 FIFA Futsal World Cup in Lithuania. The tournament was held in Carlos Barbosa, Brazil between 1–9 February 2020.
Brazil were the defending champions.
Champions Argentina, runners-up Brazil, third-placed Paraguay and fourth-placed Venezuela qualified for the 2021 FIFA Futsal World Cup as the CONMEBOL representatives.
Teams
All ten CONMEBOL member national teams entered the tournament.Team | Previous best top-4 performance |
Note: Statistics start from 2012 when a separate qualifying tournament was held. Prior to 2012, the Copa América de Futsal was used as the CONMEBOL qualifying tournament for the FIFA Futsal World Cup.
Venues
The matches were played at the Centro de Eventos Sérgio Luiz Guerra in Carlos Barbosa.Draw
The draw of the tournament was held on 15 January 2020, 12:30 PYST, at the CONMEBOL headquarters at Luque, Paraguay. The hosts and holders, Brazil, and the previous tournament's runners-up, Argentina, were seeded in Groups A and B respectively, while the other eight teams were divided into four pots based on their results in the 2016 qualifiers, and were drawn to the remaining group positions.Seeded | Pot [|1] | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
Squads
Group stage
The top two teams of each group advance to the knockout stage and qualify for the 2021 FIFA Futsal World Cup.;Tiebreakers
The ranking of teams in the first stage is determined as follows :
- Points obtained in all group matches ;
- Goal difference in all group matches;
- Number of goals scored in all group matches;
- Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
- Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question;
- Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
- Fair play points in all group matches :
- Drawing of lots.
Group A
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Group B
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Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out would be used to decide the winner if necessary.Bracket
Semi-finals
----Ninth place play-off
Seventh place play-off
Fifth place play-off
Third place play-off
Final
Final ranking
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Qualified teams for FIFA Futsal World Cup
The following four teams from CONMEBOL qualify for the 2021 FIFA Futsal World Cup.Team | Qualified on | Previous appearances in FIFA Futsal World Cup1 |
5 2 2020 | 8 | |
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6 |