Nacional won the BetPlay Cup and qualified for Sudamericana 2025

Atlético Nacional held on well to the advantage it achieved in the first leg, becoming champion of the BetPlay Cup against América de Cali and secured its place in CONMEBOL Sudamericana 2025 as ‘Colombia 1’.

Efraín Juárez’s team champion shouted at Pascual Guerrero after drawing 0-0, taking advantage of the 3-1 advantage they had achieved in Medellín during the first leg.

With this BetPlay Cup title, the seventh in its entire historyAtlético Nacional officially secured its place to compete in international tournaments and will compete in the Copa Sudamericana in 2025although this may change later.

Purslane is seventh in the reclassification of Colombian soccer and by points did not qualify for the second-ranked international competition in South America.

Now with the Colombia Cup title, National will be ‘Colombia 1’ waiting for the grand final of the League against Tolima.

Atlético Nacional can still go to CONMEBOL Libertadores 2025

Despite having this place in Sudamericana, Atlético Nacional still has its BetPlay League final against Deportes Tolima pending, a series that It will begin on December 18 and end on the 22.

The only way to access the Libertadores that Nacional has left is to become champion of this second semesterwinning the place of ‘Colombia 2’ and entering the group stage as will happen to Bucaramanga, winner of the first trophy of 2024.

What happens to international quotas if Nacional wins the Colombia Cup and the BetPlay League

If Atlético Nacional defeats Tolima in the BetPlay League a release of quotas would be generated thinking about the South American.

Dimayor It does not clarify in its regulations what would happen in this casealthough it states that in the event of “any event not contemplated, the administration will have the power to assign quotas to international competitions for the year 2025, using the order of the positions in the Reclassification Table.”

This would mean that Nacional would take the ‘Colombia 2’ spot in Libertadores, leave the Sudamericana spot and 4 teams would go to this tournament through reclassification.

At the moment, those who secured their place in the Sudamericana They are Millionaires, Once Caldas and Junior.

If Nacional achieves the double, the team that would benefit would be América de Cali, which marches eighth in reclassification and, for now, he would be out of the Sudamericana.