CONMEBOL Releases Full Schedule

Amidst the excitement of its ongoing continental finals, South America's confederation CONMEBOL released the match dates and fixture list for their entire 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying cycle. This will be the fourth straight qualifying cycle that will use the exact same fixture list, though all matches involving Brasil will now be off days for the opponent typically slotted to face Brasil as Brasil have already qualified as the host nation and will take no part in qualifying.

Each team plays every other team once at home and once on the road. The result is that each of the nine teams participating will play sixteen matches each during the eighteen CONMEBOL matchdays. The first matchday is in October 2011, and the eighteenth is in October 2013. The only team that will not play on the final matchday is Venezuela, who have historically been slotted to play Brasil in rounds nine and eighteen. The dates for the matches are approximations, and the date for any match may shift forward or backward by one day as the fixture approaches.

The top four finishers in the qualifying table go directly to the 2014 FIFA World Cup finals in Brasil. The fifth-place finisher advances to a playoff with the playoff team from one of the following three confederations: OFC, CONCACAF, AFC. The intercontinental matchup will be determined during the preliminary draw on July 30 in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

7 October 2011

Bolivia at Uruguay

Paraguay at Peru

Chile at Argentina

Venezuela at Ecuador

11 October 2011

Argentina at Venezuela

Uruguay at Paraguay

Peru at Chile

Colombia at Bolivia

11 November 2011

Bolivia at Argentina

Ecuador at Paraguay

Venezuela at Colombia

Chile at Uruguay

15 November 2011

Argentina at Colombia

Bolivia at Venezuela

Paraguay at Chile

Peru at Ecuador

2 June 2012

Ecuador at Argentina

Chile at Bolivia

Colombia at Peru

Venezuela at Uruguay

9 June 2012

Paraguay at Bolivia

Chile at Venezuela

Peru at Uruguay

Colombia at Ecuador

7 September 2012

Uruguay at Colombia

Bolivia at Ecuador

Paraguay at Argentina

Venezuela at Peru

11 September 2012

Argentina at Peru

Ecuador at Uruguay

Colombia at Chile

Venezuela at Paraguay

12 October 2012

Uruguay at Argentina

Paraguay at Colombia

Chile at Ecuador

Peru at Bolivia

16 October 2012

Uruguay at Bolivia

Peru at Paraguay

Argentina at Chile

Ecuador at Venezuela

22 March 2013

Venezuela at Argentina

Paraguay at Uruguay

Chile at Peru

Bolivia at Colombia

26 March 2013

Argentina at Bolivia

Paraguay at Ecuador

Uruguay at Chile

Colombia at Venezuela

7 June 2013

Colombia at Argentina

Venezuela at Bolivia

Chile at Paraguay

Ecuador at Peru

11 June 2013

Argentina at Ecuador

Bolivia at Chile

Peru at Colombia

Uruguay at Venezuela

8 September 2013

Bolivia at Paraguay

Venezuela at Chile

Uruguay at Peru

Ecuador at Colombia

10 September 2013

Colombia at Uruguay

Ecuador at Bolivia

Argentina at Paraguay

Peru at Venezuela

11 October 2013

Peru at Argentina

Uruguay at Ecuador

Chile at Colombia

Paraguay at Venezuela

15 October 2013

Argentina at Uruguay

Colombia at Paraguay

Ecuador at Chile

Bolivia at Peru