The final of the 2024 Copa Libertadores will be in Buenos Aires – 2024-02-17 19:21:50

This Tuesday, February 13, the Argentine Football Association (AFA) confirmed through its social networks that Buenos Aires will be the city that will host the final of the Conmebol Libertadores Cup, a situation that will occur for the first time in the country’s history. South American since it is played in a single match format.

The information was released after the end of the meeting of the Conmebol Board of Directors, where the stadium that will host this meeting was also defined, however, until now it has not been specified why. It is up to the mother entity of South American football to inform it.

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The 5 finals that were played in a single match with a stadium chosen before the start of the season, just like the UEFA Champions League, were:

• 2019: Lima (Perú).
• 2020: RÃo de Janeiro (Brazil).
• 2021: Montevideo (Uruguay).
• 2022: Guayaquil (Ecuador).
• 2023: RÃo de Janeiro (Brazil).

Possible stadium

The final will be played next Saturday, November 30, and has four stadiums as candidates: El Monumental of River Plate, La Bombonera of Boca Juniors, Libertadores of America – Ricardo Enrique Bochini of Independiente de Avellaneda, El Cilindro of Racing Club from Avellaneda and the José Amalfitani from Vélez Sarsfield.

However, the strong candidate to win the award is River Plate’s Most Monumental, information that will be confirmed in the next few hours. Among the reasons, it stands out that in addition to having applied for the second time, thanks to the improvements that were made, said stadium became the one with the largest capacity in Latin America, for 84,567 spectators, surpassing legendary venues such as the Maracanã. from Brazil and El Azteca from Mexico.

It should be noted that Conmebol confirmed last week that the draw for the 2024 edition of the Copa Libertadores will be on March 18 in the city of Luque, Paraguay, where all groups and rivals will also be defined.