River Plate is the best team in South America. This was reflected by the club ranking which this Monday announced the Conmebolwhich will be used to make the drums for the draw for the different international cups of the 2025 season. In fact, Boca, which remained in third place, completing the podiumwill be in table 1 next Thursday, when the matches of the Previous Phases of the Copa Libertadores are determined, accessed from the annual table of the Professional League and the title of Vélez. Racing, as champion of the 2024 Copa Sudamericana, took a significant leap and was on the verge of the Top Ten.
The Conmebol ranking has two edges to make the sum of points: on the one hand a historical (which arises from his participation in the Libertadores and Sudamericana) and then his performance in each of those tournaments in recent years. Thus, the ‘Millonario’ was able to overcome Palmeiras, because the Brazilians lost in the round of 16 and the Argentines were in the semis, after being eliminated by Atlético Mineiro.
Those led by Marcelo Gallardo (9106.8 points), who qualified for Libertadores 2025 as third in the annual table of the Professional League, will then be seeded for the group stage draw, which still has no date for completion.
And to Boca (8305,2) How does it affect you? For now, next Thursday it will be in box 1 for the draw for the Preliminary Phase 2 y Due to its ranking, it will define the hypothetical two series to reach the group stage at home in La Bombonera. The other fifteen teams will be: three from Preliminary Phase 1, plus two from Brazil, two from Colombia, two from Chile and one from each of the remaining six member associations.
Next to Xeneize, then, they will be Corinthians (Brazil 7), Cerro Porteño (Paraguay 3), Barcelona (Ecuador 3), Bolívar/The Strongest (Bolivia 3), Independent Santa Fe (Colombia 3), Melgar (Peru 3) and Tolima/Millionaires (Colombia 3).
In pool 2 there will be the remaining five teams that will go from ninth to thirteenth with the best position in the ranking: Bay (Brazil 8), Ñublense y Sports Iquique (Chile 3 and 4), Boston River (Uruguay 3) and Central University (Venezuela 3).
And also the three who arrive from Phase 1, who will also know the crosses on Thursday in the draw: Blooming o San José de Oruro (they still have to define Bolivia 4), The National (Ecuador 4), National (Paraguay 4), Lima Alliance (Peru 4), Defensor Sporting (Uruguay 4) and Monagas (Venezuela 4).
The eight winners of these matches will move on to Phase 3 and the eight losers will be excluded from all international competition.
This stage prior to the group stage will also be round-trip matches, with keys that will be known next Thursday. The good part of Phase 3 is the losers will continue their way to the Copa Sudamericana.
If they arrive from the preliminary phase, Boca will be in pot 4 for the group stage draw and will have much more complicated rivals to start with than when they had to enter as the seed. And he may even be with an Argentine team like Vélez, Estudiantes, Central Córdoba de Santiago del Estero, River, Talleres and Racing, which made a jump in the ranking after its title in the Copa Sudamericana.
The ‘Academy’ was ranked 20th in 2023 and in this Monday’s update It is located in 12th with 4,586, being the third in Argentina in order.
The rest? Independent 22° (3432,3), Students of La Plata 24° (3265,6), Velez 29° (2656,2), Lanus 30° (2632,3), San Lorenzo 32° (2518,9), Defense and Justice 33° (2416,2), Rosario Central 43° (1559,2), Argentinos Juniors 44° (1489,3), Córdoba Workshops 46° (1403,3), Newell’s 56° (1037,2), Columbus of Santa Fe 59° (893,1), Hurricane 70° (603,8), Godoy Cruz 80° (481,8), Sarandí Arsenal 81° (472,8), Atlético Tucumán 83° (462,4), Tigre 94° (387,5), Belgrano de Córdoba 97° (362,1), Santa Fe Union 101° (335,7), Banfield 105° (300,6), Patronage 112° (255,6), La Plata Gymnastics 131° (183,3), Ferro 188° (56), Quilmes 218° (24), Central Córdoba of Santiago del Estero (sin ranking).