| Tourney Name: | Copa Sudamericana |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Other Titles: | Copa CONMEBOL Sudamericana 2022 |
| Size: | 275 |
| Num Teams: | 44+12 |
| Associations: | 10 |
| Champion Other: | Independiente del Valle |
| Count: | 2 |
| Second Other: | São Paulo |
| Matches: | 157 |
| Goals: | 392 |
| Top Scorer: |  Bernardo Cuesta (8 goals) |
| Prevseason: | 2021 |
| Nextseason: | 2023 |
The 2022 Copa CONMEBOL Sudamericana was the 21st edition of the CONMEBOL Sudamericana (also referred to as the Copa Sudamericana), South America's secondary club football tournament organized by CONMEBOL.[1]
On 14 May 2020, CONMEBOL announced the candidate venues for the 2021, 2022 and 2023 club competition finals.[2] [3] On 13 May 2021, CONMEBOL's Council decided that the final would be played at the Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha in Brasília, Brazil on 1 October 2022.[4] However, on 23 June 2022 the confederation announced that a change of venue was requested by the Brazilian Football Confederation due to the 2022 Brazilian general election taking place one day after the date of the final, and confirmed Estadio Mario Alberto Kempes in Córdoba, Argentina as the new host for the match.[5]
On 25 November 2021, CONMEBOL announced the abolition of the away goals rule in all of its club competitions including the Copa Sudamericana, which had been used since 2005.[6] Accordingly, if in a two-legged tie two teams score the same number of aggregate goals, the winner of the tie would not be decided by the number of away goals scored by each team but by a penalty shoot-out.
Ecuadorian club Independiente del Valle won their second title in the competition after defeating Brazilian side São Paulo by a 2–0 score in the final.[7] As winners of the 2022 Copa Sudamericana, they earned the right to play against the winners of the 2022 Copa Libertadores in the 2023 Recopa Sudamericana and they also automatically qualified for the 2023 Copa Libertadores group stage. Furthermore, in their condition of Copa Sudamericana champions, Independiente del Valle were later invited to play the 2023 UEFA–CONMEBOL Club Challenge against the 2022–23 UEFA Europa League champions. Athletico Paranaense were the previous champions, but did not defend their title since they qualified for the 2022 Copa Libertadores group stage as Copa Sudamericana champions and later advanced to the knockout stage.
The following 44 teams from the 10 CONMEBOL associations qualified for the tournament:[8]
The entry stage is determined as follows:[9]
| Association | Team | Entry stage | Qualification method |
|---|---|---|---|
| Group stage | 2020 Copa de la Liga Profesional Copa Sudamericana qualifying play-off winners[10] | ||
| 2021 Copa de la Liga Profesional and Primera División aggregate table best team not qualified for 2022 Copa Libertadores | |||
| 2021 Copa de la Liga Profesional and Primera División aggregate table 2nd best team not qualified for 2022 Copa Libertadores | |||
| 2021 Copa de la Liga Profesional and Primera División aggregate table 3rd best team not qualified for 2022 Copa Libertadores | |||
| 2021 Copa de la Liga Profesional and Primera División aggregate table 4th best team not qualified for 2022 Copa Libertadores | |||
| 2021 Copa de la Liga Profesional and Primera División aggregate table 5th best team not qualified for 2022 Copa Libertadores | |||
| First stage | 2021 Primera División 5th place[11] | ||
| 2021 Primera División 6th place | |||
| 2021 Primera División 7th place | |||
| 2021 Primera División 8th place | |||
| Group stage | 2021 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A best team not qualified for 2022 Copa Libertadores[12] | ||
| 2021 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A 2nd best team not qualified for 2022 Copa Libertadores | |||
| 2021 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A 3rd best team not qualified for 2022 Copa Libertadores | |||
| 2021 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A 4th best team not qualified for 2022 Copa Libertadores | |||
| 2021 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A 5th best team not qualified for 2022 Copa Libertadores | |||
| 2021 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A 6th best team not qualified for 2022 Copa Libertadores | |||
| First stage | 2021 Primera División best team not qualified for 2022 Copa Libertadores[13] | ||
| 2021 Primera División 2nd best team not qualified for 2022 Copa Libertadores | |||
| 2021 Primera División 3rd best team not qualified for 2022 Copa Libertadores | |||
| 2021 Primera División 4th best team not qualified for 2022 Copa Libertadores | |||
| First stage | 2021 Primera A aggregate table best team not qualified for 2022 Copa Libertadores[14] | ||
| 2021 Primera A aggregate table 2nd best team not qualified for 2022 Copa Libertadores | |||
| 2021 Primera A aggregate table 3rd best team not qualified for 2022 Copa Libertadores | |||
| 2020 Copa Colombia champions | |||
| First stage | 2021 Serie A aggregate table best team not qualified for 2022 Copa Libertadores | ||
| 2021 Serie A aggregate table 2nd best team not qualified for 2022 Copa Libertadores | |||
| 2021 Serie A aggregate table 3rd best team not qualified for 2022 Copa Libertadores | |||
| 2021 Serie A aggregate table 4th best team not qualified for 2022 Copa Libertadores | |||
| First stage | 2021 Primera División aggregate table best team not qualified for 2022 Copa Libertadores[15] | ||
| 2021 Primera División aggregate table 2nd best team not qualified for 2022 Copa Libertadores | |||
| 2021 Copa Paraguay runners-up | |||
| 2021 División Intermedia champions | |||
| First stage | 2021 Liga 1 aggregate table best team not qualified for 2022 Copa Libertadores | ||
| 2021 Liga 1 aggregate table 2nd best team not qualified for 2022 Copa Libertadores | |||
| 2021 Liga 1 aggregate table 3rd best team not qualified for 2022 Copa Libertadores | |||
| 2021 Liga 1 aggregate table 4th best team not qualified for 2022 Copa Libertadores | |||
| First stage | 2021 Primera División aggregate table best team not qualified for 2022 Copa Libertadores[16] | ||
| 2021 Primera División aggregate table 2nd best team not qualified for 2022 Copa Libertadores | |||
| 2021 Primera División aggregate table 3rd best team not qualified for 2022 Copa Libertadores | |||
| 2021 Primera División aggregate table 4th best team not qualified for 2022 Copa Libertadores | |||
| First stage | 2021 Primera División Fase Final A 5th place[17] | ||
| 2021 Primera División Fase Final A 6th place | |||
| 2021 Primera División Fase Final B winners | |||
| 2021 Primera División Fase Final B runners-up |
A further 12 teams eliminated from the 2022 Copa Libertadores were transferred to the Copa Sudamericana, entering the group stage and the round of 16.
| Teams eliminated in third stage | Entry stage |
|---|---|
| Fluminense | Group stage |
| Everton | |
| Universidad Católica | |
| Barcelona | |
| Third-placed teams in group stage | Entry stage |
| Deportivo Táchira | Round of 16 |
| The Strongest | |
| Nacional | |
| Independiente del Valle | |
| Deportivo Cali | |
| Colo-Colo | |
| Olimpia | |
| Universidad Católica |
The schedule of the competition is as follows:[18] [19]
| Stage | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
|---|---|---|---|
| First stage | 20 December 2021[20] | 8–10 March 2022 | 15–17 March 2022 |
| Group stage | 25 March 2022 | ||
| Round of 16 | 27 May 2022 | 28–30 June 2022 | 5–7 July 2022 |
| Quarter-finals | 2–4 August 2022 | 9–11 August 2022 | |
| Semi-finals | 31 August – 1 September 2022 | 7–8 September 2022 | |
| Final | 1 October 2022 at Estadio Mario Alberto Kempes, Córdoba | ||
See main article: 2022 Copa Sudamericana first stage.
See main article: 2022 Copa Sudamericana group stage.
See main article: 2022 Copa Sudamericana final stages.
See main article: 2022 Copa Sudamericana Final.
| Rank | Player | Team | Total | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bernardo Cuesta | Melgar | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | |||||||||
| 2 |  Stiven Mendoza | Ceará | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 3 | Miguel Borja | Junior | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |||||||||||
| Lautaro Díaz | Independiente del Valle | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||||
 Luciano | São Paulo | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Mario Otazú | Guaireña | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 7 | Lucas Albertengo | Defensa y Justicia | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||||||||||||
 Alexander Alvarado | LDU Quito | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Mauro Méndez | Montevideo Wanderers | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Sebastián Sáez | Unión La Calera | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Cristian Techera | Ayacucho | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |