The 2025 Copa América Femenina was the 10th edition of the main international women's football championship in South America, the Copa América Femenina, for national teams affiliated with CONMEBOL. The competition was held in Ecuador from 11 July to 2 August 2025. The tournament was originally scheduled to begin on 12 July 2025, but CONMEBOL announced on 3 July 2025 that the first match would be played on 11 July 2025.
In the final, Brazil defeated Colombia in a penalty shoot-out after a 4âÂÂ4 draw in extra time to win their fifth consecutive and a record-extending ninth overall title.
Unlike all previous editions, the tournament did not act as South American qualification for the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup with a separate qualifying tournament called the Women's Nations League being organised instead. However, it did provide two slots (and later on, an intercontinental play-off spot) for the 2028 Summer Olympics women's football tournament. In addition to Peru (who qualified automatically as hosts) it also provided three more places for the 2027 Pan American Games tournament.
All ten CONMEBOL women's national teams participated.
The venues were announced on 5 May 2025. The matches were played in three stadiums in a city in Ecuador: Quito.
For commercial reasons, Estadio Banco Guayaquil changed its name during the tournament.
The tournament draw was held on 19 December 2024, 13:30 local time (), in Asunción, Paraguay.
On 14 June 2025, CONMEBOL announced the list of match officials for the tournament.
The top two teams of each group advanced to the semi-finals, while the two third-placed teams advanced to the fifth place match.
All times are local, ECT ().
In the first stage, the teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:
In the knockout phase, if the fifth-place play-off, semi-finals and third-place play-off were level at the end of 90 minutes of normal playing time, no extra time would be played and the match would be decided by a direct penalty shoot-out. If the final was level at the end of the normal playing time, extra time would be played (two periods of 15 minutes each), where each team would be allowed to make an extra substitution. If still tied after extra time, the final would be decided by a penalty shoot-out to determine the champions.
The winners of the fifth place match qualified for the 2027 Pan American Games.
The winners of the semi-finals qualified for the football tournament at the 2028 Summer Olympics. The losers qualified for the 2027 Pan American Games women's football tournament.
The winner eventually advanced to the AFCâÂÂCONMEBOL play-off match for the football tournament at the 2028 Summer Olympics.
<small>This table shows the ranking of teams throughout the tournament.</small>
Two teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the 2028 Summer Olympic women's football tournament in the United States. Eventually, Argentina may also qualify if they win the AFCâÂÂCONMEBOL play-off match.
The remaining three teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the 2027 Pan American Games women's football tournament, together with Peru which qualified as hosts.
The Uruguayan women's national team refused to train for one week prior to the start of the final tournament in protest of alleged inadequate preparations by the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) for the competition. Among the demands made by the players union, the Mutual Uruguaya De Futbolistas Profesionales (MUFP), were the full use of the national team training centreâÂÂthe Complejo Celeste in Barros Blancos, improved training conditions and equipment, and an increase in per diem wages. The MUFP announced the resolution of the dispute on the evening of Tuesday, 8 July, three days before Uruguay's opening match against Ecuador on Friday, 11 July. To the International Federation of Professional Footballers (FIFPRO), MUFP General Secretary Mitchell Duarte said about the agreement:
Chilean defenders Yanara Aedo and Fernanda Pinilla criticized CONMEBOL's decision not to utilize VAR technology throughout the group stage of the tournament, with Aedo saying:
Following Brazil, hosts of the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup, and Bolivia's group stage match at Estadio Gonzalo Pozo Ripalda, multiple Brazilian squad members, including veteran star Marta, and manager Arthur Elias publicly condemned CONMEBOL's decision to prohibit warm-ups on the match pitch. Starting striker Kerolin took to social media to voice her frustrations; she said, in reference to the concurrent UEFA Women's Euro 2025:
Midfielder Ary Borges directly challenged the president of CONMEBOL, Alejandro DomÃÂnguez, on the teams' warm-up conditions and other equity concernsâÂÂincluding the selection of tournament venue and the choice by CONMEBOL not to utilize VAR in the tournament's group stage; after the Bolivia match, she told commentator and former Brazilian international, Francielle Alberto:
She added to Brazilian news outlet, Globo Esporte:
CONMEBOL later reversed the decision, saying in a statement to Reuters: