Category: Copa Libertadores
Our South American football team cover the Copa Libertadores from the early rounds to the final each year. Keep up to date with South America's biggest club football competition with WFi, and the WFi podcast, the only English language Copa Libertadores podcast.

Copa Libertadores 2025 Quarter-Finals Preview: The Battle for South America’s Crown Intensifies
By Louis Smith.
We’re now at the stage of the Copa Libertadores where one good victory could spark dreams of a place in the final on November 29th. [...]

Copa Libertadores 2025 Last 16 Preview As South American Clubs Rejoin Road To Lima
By Louis Smith.
After what feels like an age since the group stages wrapped up, the Copa Libertadores returns this week with a set of fascinating l [...]

Copa Libertadores Final: Botafogo Claim South America’s Biggest Prize For First Time With 3-1 Defeat Of Atletico Mineiro
By Louis Smith at Estadio Monumental.
A stadium usually donned in red and white was a sea of black and white as Rio de Janeiro's Botafogo, took o [...]

2024 Copa Libertadores Final Preview: Atletico Mineiro vs Botafogo – An All-Brazilian Affair In Buenos Aires
By Louis Smith in Buenos Aires.
Buenos Aires is busy, boiling and boisterous as it prepares to host Saturday's Copa Libertadores final between Atlé [...]

Copa Libertadores 2024: The Road To Buenos Aires Is Set
By Louis Smith.
The path to the Copa Libertadores Final in Buenos Aires has become clearer following the 2024 Copa Libertadores draw at CONMEBOL HQ [...]

John Kennedy’s Heroics Secure Fluminense’s Copa Libertadores Triumph Over Boca Juniors in Epic Final
By Louis Smith.
A packed Maracanã stadium embraced the 2023 Copa Libertadores final between Argentina's Boca Juniors and Brazil's Fluminense.
Pl [...]

Copa Libertadores Final Preview: Boca Juniors And Fluminense Set To Heat Up Rio In Epic Showdown
By Louis Smith.
After months of compelling action, the 2023 Copa Libertadores boils down to one night in the wonderful Brazilian city of Rio de Ja [...]

Gabigol Strikes Again To Match Zico As Flamengo Lift Third Copa Libertadores
By Louis Smith at the Estadio Monumental, Guayaquil.
The biggest port city in Ecuador, Guayaquil, played host to the biggest match in South America [...]

Fans Of Luiz Felipe Scolari-Led Athletico Paranaense Await First Libertadores Final In 17 Years
By Louis Smith.
Athletico Paranaense have enjoyed incredible success in the past five years, with two Copa Sudamericana triumphs, two Copa do Brasi [...]

Melgar Carrying Peruvian Sides’ Reputations In Continental Football
By Mike Rice.
The Apertura is reaching the final stretch in Peru, and there have been wildly varying results for those sides who were able to compe [...]