Copa América

Copa América

Founded	1916
Region	South America (CONMEBOL)
Number of teams	12
Current champions	Brazil (8th title)
Most successful team	Argentina Uruguay (14 titles)

The Copa América (Spanish and Portuguese for "America Cup") is the main football competition of the men's national football teams governed by CONMEBOL, the South American football confederation. It is the oldest surviving international tournament in the world starting in 1916. The participating nations are Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. Two invited teams from other confederations complete the twelve team tournament: Mexico has been a regular since they were invited for the first time in 1993. There is no qualification stage: all ten CONMEBOL teams compete by right, and others by invitation. The highest finishing member of CONMEBOL has the right to participate in the next edition of the FIFA Confederations Cup, but is not obliged to do so.[1]

1 Historical overview
2 Tournament results
3 Distribution of championships won
4 Tournament appearances
5 General Stats
6 Distribution of hosts
7 Topscorers
8 Overall top scorers
9 See also
10 References
11 External links

Historical overview

The Copa América is the oldest surviving international football competition in the world. It was held for the first time between July 2 and July 17, 1916 and won by Uruguay, as part of the commemorations of Argentina's independence centenary. CONMEBOL was founded during this event, on July 9 (Argentina's independence day). It was normally held every two years (though the intervals sometimes changed) until 2007, when CONMEBOL decided that the tournament would henceforth be held every four years, although provision was made for extraordinary stagings of the tournament if the ten national football federations wish it.^[1]

The tournament was previously known as sup Campeonato Sudamericano de Selecciones (South American Championship of National Teams). South American Championship of Nations was the official English language name. The current name has been used since 1975. Between 1975 and 1983 it had no host nation, and was held in a home and away fashion. In 1984, CONMEBOL adopted the policy of rotating the right to host the Copa América amongst the ten member confederations. The first rotation has now been completed following the Copa América 2007 which took place in Venezuela. A second rotation has been agreed to begin in 2011, with host countries rotating in alphabetical order, starting with Argentina.^[2]

Since 1993, two teams from other confederations, usually from CONCACAF whose members are geographically and culturally close, are also invited. Nations receiving invitations are Costa Rica (1997, 2001, 2004), Honduras (2001), Japan (1999), Mexico (1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2007), and the United States (1993, 1995, 2007). The United States has been invited every time since 1997 but frequently turned down the invitation due to scheduling conflicts with Major League Soccer. However, on October 30, 2006, the US Soccer Federation accepted the invitation for participation in the 2007 tournament, ending a 12 year absence. At Copa América 2001, Canada was an invitee, but on July 6, 2001 withdrew because of security concerns.

Tournament results

South American Championship
Year	Host	Final Group Rank
Year	Host	Winner	Runner-up	3rd Place	4th Place
1916 Details ⁽³⁾	Argentina	Uruguay	Argentina	Brazil	Chile
1917 Details	Uruguay	Uruguay	Argentina	Brazil	Chile
1919 Details	Brazil	Brazil	Uruguay	Argentina	Chile
1920 Details	Chile	Uruguay	Argentina	Brazil	Chile
1921 Details	Argentina	Argentina	Brazil	Uruguay	Paraguay
1922 Details	Brazil	Brazil	Paraguay	Uruguay	Argentina
1923 Details	Uruguay	Uruguay	Argentina	Paraguay	Brazil
1924 Details	Uruguay	Uruguay	Argentina	Paraguay	Chile
1925 Details ⁽¹⁾	Argentina	Argentina	Brazil	Paraguay	n/a
1926 Details	Chile	Uruguay	Argentina	Chile	Paraguay
1927 Details	Peru	Argentina	Uruguay	Peru	Bolivia
1929 Details	Argentina	Argentina	Paraguay	Uruguay	Peru
1935 Details ⁽⁴⁾	Peru	Uruguay	Argentina	Peru	Chile
1937 Details	Argentina	Argentina	Brazil	Uruguay	Paraguay
1939 Details	Peru	Peru	Uruguay	Paraguay	Chile
1941 Details ⁽⁴⁾	Chile	Argentina	Uruguay	Chile	Peru
1942 Details	Uruguay	Uruguay	Argentina	Brazil	Paraguay
1945 Details ⁽⁴⁾	Chile	Argentina	Brazil	Chile	Uruguay
1946 Details ⁽⁴⁾	Argentina	Argentina	Brazil	Paraguay	Uruguay
1947 Details	Ecuador	Argentina	Paraguay	Uruguay	Chile
1949 Details	Brazil	Brazil	Paraguay	Peru	Bolivia
1953 Details	Peru	Paraguay	Brazil	Uruguay	Chile
1955 Details	Chile	Argentina	Chile	Peru	Uruguay
1956 Details ⁽⁴⁾	Uruguay	Uruguay	Chile	Argentina	Brazil
1957 Details	Peru	Argentina	Brazil	Uruguay	Peru
1959 Details	Argentina	Argentina	Brazil	Paraguay	Peru
1959 Details ⁽⁴⁾	Ecuador	Uruguay	Argentina	Brazil	Ecuador
1963 Details	Bolivia	Bolivia	Paraguay	Argentina	Brazil
1967 Details	Uruguay	Uruguay	Argentina	Chile	Paraguay

Copa América
Year	Host	Final			Third Place Match
Year	Host	Winner	Score	Runner-up	3rd Place	Score	4th Place
1975 Details	No fixed venue	Peru	0 - 1 / 2 - 0 Play-off 1 - 0	Colombia	Brazil Uruguay	n\a⁽²⁾
1979 Details	No fixed venue	Paraguay	3 - 0 / 0 - 1 Play-off 0 - 0	Chile	Brazil Peru	n/a⁽²⁾
1983 Details	No fixed venue	Uruguay	2 - 0 / 1 - 1	Brazil	Paraguay Peru	n/a⁽²⁾
1987 Details	Argentina	Uruguay	1 - 0	Chile	Colombia	2 - 1	Argentina
1989 Details	Brazil	Brazil	1 - 0	Uruguay	Argentina	0 - 0	Paraguay
1991 Details	Chile	Argentina	3 - 2	Brazil	Chile	1 - 1	Colombia
1993 Details	Ecuador	Argentina	2 - 1	Mexico	Colombia	1 - 0	Ecuador
1995 Details	Uruguay	Uruguay	1 - 1 5-3 pens	Brazil	Colombia	4 - 1	United States
1997 Details	Bolivia	Brazil	3 - 1	Bolivia	Mexico	1 - 0	Peru
1999 Details	Paraguay	Brazil	3 - 0	Uruguay	Mexico	2 - 1	Chile
2001 Details	Colombia	Colombia	1 - 0	Mexico	Honduras	2 - 2 5-4 pens	Uruguay
2004 Details	Peru	Brazil	2 - 2 4-2 pens	Argentina	Uruguay	2 - 1	Colombia
2007 Details	Venezuela	Brazil	3 - 0	Argentina	Mexico	3 - 1	Uruguay
2011 Details	Argentina

(invited teams in italics)

¹ Only three teams entered the tournament.

² No third place match was played; third place was shared.

³ There was no trophy being competed for in the 1916 tournament. It was competed for the first time in the 1917 tournament.

⁴ The tournament was an extra edition, with no trophy handed to the winners, but considered official by CONMEBOL.

Key:
- pens - after penalty shootout

Distribution of championships won

Colored map of CONMEBOL countries with respect to number of championships in Copa América

Champions	Nation	Year(s)
14 times	Uruguay	1916, 1917, 1920, 1923, 1924, 1926, 1935, 1942, 1956, 1959, 1967, 1983, 1987, 1995
14 times	Argentina	1921, 1925, 1927, 1929, 1937, 1941, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1991, 1993
8 times	Brazil	1919, 1922, 1949, 1989, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2007
2 times	Paraguay	1953, 1979
2 times	Peru	1939, 1975
1 time	Colombia	2001
1 time	Bolivia	1963

Tournament appearances

Appearances	Nation
40	Uruguay
38	Argentina
35	Chile
33	Paraguay
32	Brazil
28	Peru
24	Ecuador
23	Bolivia
18	Colombia
14	Venezuela
7	Mexico
3	Costa Rica United States
1	Honduras Japan

General Stats

Team		Pts	P	W	D	L	F	A	Dif	Rend
1	Argentina	368	175	112	32	31	431	168	+263	70.1%
2	Uruguay	342	186	104	30	52	386	212	+174	61.3%
3	Brazil	315	167	95	30	42	387	191	+196	62.9%
4	Paraguay	214	153	61	31	61	242	269	-27	46.6%
5	Chile	187	163	53	28	82	248	297	-49	38.2%
6	Peru	167	132	41	32	55	193	220	-27	42.2%
7	Colombia	128	99	36	20	43	121	174	-53	43.1%
8	Bolivia	82	102	19	25	58	97	257	-160	26.8%
9	Mexico	61	38	17	10	11	55	44	+11	53.5%
10	Ecuador	61	108	14	19	75	113	297	-184	18.8%
11	Venezuela	15	49	2	9	38	34	155	-121	10.2%
12	Costa Rica	11	11	3	2	6	12	21	-9	33.3%
13	Honduras	10	6	3	1	2	7	5	+2	55.6%
14	United States	8	12	2	2	7	11	21	-10	22.2%
15	Japan	1	3	0	1	2	3	8	-5	11.1%

Distribution of hosts

Hosts	Nation	Year(s)
9 times	Argentina	1916, 1921, 1925, 1929, 1937, 1946, 1959, 1987, 2011
7 times	Uruguay	1917, 1923, 1924, 1942, 1956, 1967, 1995
6 times	Chile	1920, 1926, 1941, 1945, 1955, 1991
6 times	Peru	1927, 1935, 1939, 1953, 1957, 2004
4 times	Brazil	1919, 1922, 1949, 1989
3 times	Ecuador	1947, 1959, 1993
2 times	Bolivia	1963, 1997
1 time	Colombia	2001
1 time	Paraguay	1999
1 time	Venezuela	2007
3 times	No Host	1975, 1979, 1983

Topscorers

1916 : Isabelino Gradín ( Uruguay) : 3 goals
1917 : Ángel Romano ( Uruguay) : 4 goals
1919 : Neco ( Brazil), Arthur Friedenreich ( Brazil) : 4 goals
1920 : Angel Romano ( Uruguay), José Pérez ( Uruguay) : 3 goals
1921 : Julio Libonatti ( Argentina) : 3 goals
1922 : Julio Francia ( Argentina) : 4 goals
1923 : Pedro Petrone ( Uruguay), Valdino Aguirre ( Argentina) : 3 goals
1924 : Pedro Petrone ( Uruguay) : 4 goals
1925 : Manuel Seoane ( Argentina) : 6 goals
1926 : David Arellano ( Chile) : 7 goals
1927 : Roberto Figueroa ( Uruguay) : 4 goals
1929 : Aurelio González ( Paraguay) : 5 goals
1935 : Herminio Masantonio ( Argentina) : 4 goals
1937 : Raúl Toro ( Chile) : 7 goals
1939 : Teodoro Fernández ( Peru) : 7 goals
1941 : Juan Marvezzi ( Argentina) : 5 goals
1942 : Herminio Masantonio ( Argentina), José Manuel Moreno ( Argentina) : 7 goals
1945 : Norberto Méndez ( Argentina), Heleno de Freitas ( Brazil) : 6 goals
1946 : José María Medina ( Uruguay) : 7 goals
1947 : Nicolás Falero ( Uruguay) : 8 goals
1949 : Jair Rosa Pinto ( Brazil) : 9 goals
1953 : Francisco Molina ( Chile) : 7 goals
1955 : Rodolfo Micheli ( Argentina) : 8 goals
1956 : Enrique Hormazábal ( Chile) : 4 goals
1957 : Humberto Maschio ( Argentina), Javier Ambrois ( Uruguay) : 9 goals
1959 : Pelé ( Brazil) : 8 goals
1963 : Carlos Alberto Raffo ( Ecuador) : 6 goals
1967 : Luis Artime ( Argentina) : 5 goals
1975 : Leopoldo Luque ( Argentina), Ernesto Díaz ( Colombia) : 4 goals
1979 : Jorge Peredo ( Chile), Eugenio Morel ( Paraguay) : 4 goals
1983 : Carlos Aguilera ( Uruguay), Jorge Burruchaga ( Argentina), Roberto Dinamite ( Brazil) : 3 goals
1987 : Arnoldo Iguarán ( Colombia) : 4 goals
1989 : Bebeto ( Brazil) : 6 goals
1991 : Gabriel Batistuta ( Argentina) : 6 goals
1993 : José Luis Dolguetta ( Venezuela) : 4 goals
1995 : Gabriel Batistuta ( Argentina), Luis García Postigo ( Mexico) : 4 goals
1997 : Luis Hernández ( Mexico) : 6 goals
1999 : Ronaldo,Rivaldo ( Brazil) : 5 goals
2001 : Víctor Aristizábal ( Colombia) : 6 goals
2004 : Adriano ( Brazil) : 7 goals
2007 : Robinho ( Brazil) : 6 goals

Overall top scorers

17 Goals

Norberto Méndez
Zizinho

15 Goals

Severino Varela
Teodoro Fernández

13 Goals

Gabriel Batistuta
Ademir
Jair da Rosa Pinto
Héctor Scarone
Jose Manuel Moreno

12 Goals

Angel Romano

11 Goals

Herminio Masantonio
Victor Ugarte

10 Goals

Ronaldo
Oscar Gómez
Héctor Castro
Didi
Enrique Hormazábal
Arnoldo Iguarán
Ángel Labruna

References

External links

RSSSF archive - includes extensive match reports.
Football in South America - where best to watch football games.

International football

FIFA · World Cup · Confederations Cup · U-20 World Cup · U-17 World Cup
Olympics · Asian Games · All-Africa Games · Pan American Games · Island Games · Minor Tournaments
World Rankings · Player of the Year · Teams · Competitions · Organizations · Codes

	Asia	AFC - Asian Cup
	Africa	CAF - Africa Cup of Nations
	North America	CONCACAF - Gold Cup
	South America	CONMEBOL - Copa América
	Oceania	OFC - Nations Cup
	Europe	UEFA - European Championship
	Non-FIFA	NF-Board - Viva World Cup

Copa América

Copa América

Contents

Historical overview

Tournament results

Distribution of championships won

Tournament appearances

General Stats

Distribution of hosts

Topscorers

Overall top scorers

See also

References

External links