CONMEBOL

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Confederação Sul-Americana de Futebol Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol South American Football Confederation

Formation	9 July 1916
Type	Sports organization
Headquarters	Luque, Paraguay
Membership	10 member associations
Secretary General	Eduardo de Luca
President	Nicolás Leoz
Website	http://www.conmebol.com/

CONMEBOL or CSF (Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol, South American Football Confederation) is the governing body of football in most of South America. It was founded by Uruguayan Héctor Rivadavia Gómez. Conmebol teams have won nine of the eighteen FIFA World Cup tournaments, while only having hosted the tournament four times.

Conmenbol is also the only confederation in FIFA to have won the World Cup outside its own continent and on every single continent that the tournament has been hosted, whereas Europe has never been able to win the tournament outside of the European continent.

Two of the top five teams in the FIFA World Rankings are Conmebol members (Brazil and Argentina). Conmebol is also the only confederation in the world to have three teams that have won the FIFA World Cup at least two times each (Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay).

Conmebol has produced more world club champions than Europe, and has also won the first three out of four editions of the official FIFA World Club Championship.

Even though they are located in South America, Guyana, Suriname and the French département d'outre-mer of French Guiana are not members of Conmebol - for historical, cultural and mainly sporting reasons their national associations are members of CONCACAF.

Among the tournaments conducted by Conmebol are the Copa Libertadores de América (analogous to the UEFA Champions League) and the Copa Sudamericana (analogous to the UEFA Cup), both for club teams, and Copa América for men's national teams.

1 Member countries
2 Tournaments organized by Conmebol
- 2.1 Between nations
3 World Cup qualifiers
- 3.1 Performance at World Cup finals
- 3.2 Totals (current members)
4 Conmebol presidents
5 External links

[edit] Member countries

Argentina - national team - first division - association (created in 1893, co-founded Conmebol in 1916)
Bolivia - national team - first division - association (created in 1925, joined Conmebol in 1926)
Brazil - national team - first division - association (created in 1914, co-founded Conmebol in 1916)
Chile - national team - first division - association (created in 1895, co-founded Conmebol in 1916)
Colombia - national team - first division - association (created in 1924, joined Conmebol in 1936)
Ecuador - national team - first division - association (created in 1925, joined Conmebol in 1927)
Paraguay - national team - first division - association (created in 1906, joined Conmebol in 1921)
Peru - national team - first division - association (created in 1922, joined Conmebol in 1925)
Uruguay - national team - first division - association (created in 1899, co-founded Conmebol in 1916)
Venezuela - national team - first division - association (created in 1926, joined Conmebol in 1952)

[edit] Tournaments organized by Conmebol

[edit] Between nations

Copa América [since 1916]
Sudamericano Femenino [women's championship, since 1991]
Copa América de Futsal
South American Under 20 Football Championship
South American Under 17 Football Championship
South American Under 20 Women's Championship
South American Under 17 Women's Championship
South American Under 20 Futsal Championship
South American Women's Futsal Championship
CONMEBOL Men Pre-Olympic Tournament [defunct]

[edit] World Cup qualifiers

Although Conmebol countries represent only a small fraction of the world, their teams have won half of the World Cup tournaments. Historically they have always held the lead, with Europe having to play catchup just to take it to the current nine World Cup wins a piece. Experts have pointed out that Conmebol teams have won nine World Cups while only having hosted the tournament four times, whereas Europe has hosted it ten times. Conmebol teams have also won the World Cup on all the four continents that it has been hosted in (North America, South America, Europe, and Asia), whereas Europe has never been able to win a World Cup outside of European soil.

[edit] Performance at World Cup finals

This is the list of the teams that participated of each World Cup. For further information on the qualification process and withdrawals, see the (Q) corresponding links (the first World Cup of 1930 didn't have any qualification process).

Marked in bold are host countries

Year	Q	Winner	Runner-up	Third place	Fourth place	Other
1930	—	Uruguay	Argentina			Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru
1934	Q					Argentina, Brazil
1938	Q			Brazil
1950	Q	Uruguay	Brazil			Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay
1954	Q				Uruguay	Brazil
1958	Q	Brazil				Argentina, Paraguay
1962	Q	Brazil		Chile		Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay
1966	Q					Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay
1970	Q	Brazil			Uruguay	Peru
1974	Q				Brazil	Argentina, Chile, Uruguay
1978	Q	Argentina		Brazil		Peru
1982	Q					Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru
1986	Q	Argentina				Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay
1990	Q		Argentina			Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay
1994	Q	Brazil				Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia
1998	Q		Brazil			Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay
2002	Q	Brazil				Argentina, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay
2006	Q					Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay
2010	Q

[edit] Totals (current members)

18	Brazil (5 wins, 2 runners-up, 2 third places, 1 fourth place)
14	Argentina (2 wins, 2 runners-up)
10	Uruguay (2 wins, 2 fourth places)
7	Chile (1 third place) Paraguay
4	Colombia Peru
3	Bolivia
2	Ecuador
0	Venezuela