Copa América

File:Logo de la Conmebol Copa América.svg

The Copa America trophy.

Copa América (English: America Cup; previously called the South American Championship or South American Championship of Nations) is a tournament that has the teams from CONMEBOL (South America). It was founded in 1916, and it is the oldest tournament that only has teams from a certain continent.

The Copa America is one of the most watched sporting events in the world.^[1] The winner of the tournament goes to the FIFA Confederations Cup.

The current format has 10 South American teams and two other teams from other FIFA federations in each tournament. The most successful teams have been Uruguay and Argentina, with 15 titles. Argentina won the last tournament.

Results

Team	Winners	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place
Uruguay	15 (1916, 1917 , 1920, 1923 , 1924 , 1926, 1935, 1942 , 1956 , 1959 , 1967 , 1983, 1987, 1995 *, 2011)	6 (1919, 1927, 1939, 1941, 1989, 1999)	9 (1921, 1922, 1929, 1937, 1947, 1953, 1957, 1975, 2004)	5 (1945, 1946, 1955, 2001, 2007)
22x20px Argentina	15 (1921 , 1925 , 1927, 1929 , 1937 , 1941, 1945, 1946 , 1947, 1955, 1957, 1959 , 1991, 1993, 2021)	14 (1916 *, 1917, 1920, 1923, 1924, 1926, 1935, 1942, 1959 (Ecuador), 1967, 2004, 2007, 2015, 2016)	5 (1919, 1956, 1963, 1989, 2019)	2 (1922, 1987 *)
Brazil	9 (1919 , 1922 , 1949 , 1989 , 1997, 1999, 2004, 2007, 2019*)	12 (1921, 1925, 1937, 1945, 1946, 1953, 1957, 1959, 1983, 1991, 1995, 2021*)	7 (1916, 1917, 1920, 1942, 1959 (Ecuador), 1975, 1979)	3 (1923, 1956, 1963)
22x20px Paraguay	2 (1953, 1979)	6 (1922, 1929, 1947, 1949, 1963, 2011)	7 (1923, 1924, 1925, 1939, 1946, 1959 (Argentina), 1983)	7 (1921, 1926, 1937, 1942, 1967, 1989, 2015)
Chile	2 (2015 *, 2016)	4 (1955 *, 1956, 1979, 1987)	5 (1926 , 1941 , 1945 , 1967, 1991 )	11 (1916, 1917, 1919, 1920 *, 1924, 1935, 1939, 1947, 1953, 1999, 2019)
Peru	2 (1939 *, 1975)	1 (2019)	8 (1927 , 1935 , 1949, 1955, 1979, 1983, 2011, 2015)	6 (1929, 1941, 1957 *, 1959 (Argentina), 1997, 2021)
22x20px Colombia	1 (2001 *)	1 (1975)	5 (1987, 1993, 1995, 2016, 2021)	2 (1991, 2004)
File:Flag of Bolivia.svg Bolivia	1 (1963 *)	1 (1997 *)	—	2 (1927, 1949)
Mexico^	—	2 (1993, 2001)	3 (1997, 1999, 2007)	—
Honduras^	—	—	1 (2001)	—
22x20px Ecuador	—	—	—	2 (1959 (Ecuador), 1993 )
United States^	—	—	—	2 (1995, 2016)
File:Flag of Venezuela.svg Venezuela	—	—	—	1 (2011)

*=hosts

^=invitees

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Records

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Norberto Méndez (Argentina).

As of 4 July 2015

All-time top scorers

Rank	Player	Country	Goals
1	Norberto Méndez	22x20px Argentina	17
1	Zizinho	Brazil	17
3	Teodoro Fernández	Peru	15
3	Severino Varela	Uruguay	15
5	Ademir	Brazil	13
	Gabriel Batistuta	22x20px Argentina
	Jair da Rosa Pinto	Brazil
	Jose Manuel Moreno	22x20px Argentina
	Héctor Scarone	Uruguay
10	Roberto Porta	Uruguay	11
10	Ángel Romano	Uruguay	11
12	Víctor Agustín Ugarte	File:Flag of Bolivia.svg Bolivia	13
12	Herminio Masantonio	22x20px Argentina	13

All-time table

Since the 2016 Copa América Centenario

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The 1917 champions.

Team		Winners	Part.	Pts	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA	Dif	Pts/GP
1	Uruguay	15	43	358	197	108	34	55	399	218	+181	1,82
2	22x20px Argentina	14	41	397	188	120	37	31	455	173	+282	2,11
3	Brazil	8	35	332	178	99	35	44	405	200	+205	1,87
4	22x20px Paraguay	2	35	224	165	62	38	65	252	290	-38	1,36
5	Chile	2	38	222	177	64	30	83	281	304	-23	1,25
6	Peru	2	30	189	144	52	33	59	209	230	-21	1,31
7	22x20px Colombia	1	20	140	107	39	23	45	124	178	-54	1,31
8	File:Flag of Bolivia.svg Bolivia	1	25	86	109	20	26	63	102	272	-170	0,78
9	22x20px Ecuador	0	26	65	114	15	20	79	120	307	-187	0,57
10	Mexico	0	9	63	44	17	12	15	60	53	+7	1,43
11	File:Flag of Venezuela.svg Venezuela	0	16	27	58	5	12	41	43	166	-123	0,46
12	22x20px Costa Rica	0	4	14	14	4	2	8	14	25	-11	1,00
13	Honduras	0	1	10	6	3	1	2	7	5	+2	1,66
14	United States	0	3	8	12	2	2	8	11	21	-10	0,66
15	Japan	0	1	4	3	0	1	2	3	8	-5	0,33
16	22x20px Aruba	0	1	3	3	3	0	0	0	3	0	3,50

Copa América Media

Uruguay 1916.jpg

The first edition was held in 1916 and won by Uruguay (pictured)
Brazil-CopaAmerica-1919.jpg

Brazil achieved its first championship in 1919
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Uruguay v Brazil final in 1995
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Aftermath of a match in the 2007 Copa América, held for the first time in Venezuela.
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Map of CONMEBOL members, by their times hosted as of 2021

References

↑ 50 Reasons Why World Football Is the Best and Biggest Sport in the World. Bleacher Report. 16 December 2010. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/544688-50-reasons-why-world-football-is-the-best-and-biggest-sport-in-the-world/page/11. Retrieved 29 June 2014.

[1] 50 Reasons Why World Football Is the Best and Biggest Sport in the World. Bleacher Report. 16 December 2010. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/544688-50-reasons-why-world-football-is-the-best-and-biggest-sport-in-the-world/page/11. Retrieved 29 June 2014.

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