COPA AMéRICA

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The 'Copa América' (English: "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 international tournament in the world starting in 1916. Usually two or three CONCACAF teams get an invitation to participate at each tournament. Mexico has been a regular since they were invited for the first time in 1993.
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. As CONMEBOL only has the 10 members mentioned above, there is no qualification tournament, nor is there a qualification tournament for the invited teams. They are invited on their own merits, such as by winning matches in World Cup finals or from qualification stages in their confederations.

Contents

History overview

Tournament results

General Stats

Distribution of championships won

Distribution of hosts

See also

References

External links

History 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 ''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.
Since 1993, two teams from other confederations (usually from CONCACAF, as most of its members are geographically and culturally close to CONMEBOL's members) are also invited. So far, the invited teams have been 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 also been invited every time since 1997, but 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
			Winner	Runner-up	3rd Place	4th Place
1916 ''Details'' ('3')	Argentina		''
1917 ''Details''	Uruguay		''
1919 ''Details''	Brazil		''
1920 ''Details''	Chile		''
1921 ''Details''	Argentina		''
1922 ''Details''	Brazil		''
1923 ''Details''	Uruguay		''
1924 ''Details''	Uruguay		''
1925 ''Details'' ('1')	Argentina		''			'n/a'
1926 ''Details''	Chile		''
1927 ''Details''	Peru		''
1929 ''Details''	Argentina		''
1935 ''Details'' ('4')	Peru		''
1937 ''Details''	Argentina		''
1939 ''Details''	Peru		''
1941 ''Details'' ('4')	Chile		''
1942 ''Details''	Uruguay		''
1945 ''Details'' ('4')	Chile		''
1946 ''Details'' ('4')	Argentina		''
1947 ''Details''	Ecuador		''
1949 ''Details''	Brazil		''
1953 ''Details''	Peru		''
1955 ''Details''	Chile		''
1956 ''Details'' ('4')	Uruguay		''
1957 ''Details''	Peru		''
1959 ''Details''	Argentina		''
1959 ''Details'' ('4')	Ecuador		''
1963 ''Details''	Bolivia		''
1967 ''Details''	Uruguay		''

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%; text-align: center;"
|-
!colspan="10"|Copa America
|-
!rowspan="2" width="5%"|Year
!rowspan="2" width="10%"|Host
!width="1%" rowspan="48"|
!colspan="3"|Final
!width="1%" rowspan="48"|
!colspan="3"|Third Place Match
|-
!width="15%"|Winner
!width="10%"|Score
!width="15%"|Runner-up
!width="15%"|3rd Place
!width="10%"|Score
!width="15%"|4th Place
|-style="background: #D0E6FF;"
|1975
''Details''
|No fixed venue
|''
|'0 - 1 / 2 - 0
Play-off 1 - 0'
|
|

|'n'^('2')
|
|-
|1979
''Details''
|No fixed venue
|''
|'3 - 0 / 0 - 1
Play-off 0 - 0'
|
|

|'n/a'^('2')
|
|-style="background: #D0E6FF;"
|1983
''Details''
|No fixed venue
|''
|'2 - 0' / '1 - 1'
|
|

|'n/a'^('2')
|
|-
|1987
''Details''
|Argentina
|''
|'1 - 0'
|
|
|'2 - 1'
|
|-style="background: #D0E6FF;"
|1989
''Details''
|Brazil
|''
|'1 - 0'
|
|
|'0 - 0'
|
|-
|1991
''Details''
|Chile
|''
|'3 - 2'
|
|
|'1 - 1'
|
|-style="background: #D0E6FF;"
|1993
''Details''
|Ecuador
|''
|'2 - 1'
|''
|
|'1 - 0'
|
|-
|1995
''Details''
|Uruguay
|''
|'1 - 1
5-3 pens'
|
|
|'4 - 1'
|''
|-style="background: #D0E6FF;"
|1997
''Details''
|Bolivia
|''
|'3 - 1'
|
|''
|'1 - 0'
|
|-
|1999
''Details''
|Paraguay
|''
|'3 - 0'
|
|''
|'2 - 1'
|
|-style="background: #D0E6FF;"
|2001
''Details''
|Colombia
|''
|'1 - 0'
|''
|''
|'2 - 2
5-4 pens'
|
|-
|2004
''Details''
|Peru
|''
|'2 - 2
4-2 pens'
|
|
|'2 - 1'
|
|-style="background: #D0E6FF;"
|2007
''Details''
|Venezuela
|''
| '3 - 0'
|
|''
|'3 - 1'
|

(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''

General Stats

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|- align=center
!bgcolor=#efefef width=50% colspan=2|Team
!bgcolor=#efefef width=5%|Pts
!bgcolor=#efefef width=5%|P
!bgcolor=#efefef width=5%|W
!bgcolor=#efefef width=5%|D
!bgcolor=#efefef width=5%|L
!bgcolor=#efefef width=5%|F
!bgcolor=#efefef width=5%|A
!bgcolor=#efefef width=5%|Dif
!bgcolor=#efefef width=10%|Rend
|- align=right bgcolor=#F5FAFF
!align=center|1
|align=left|
|'368'||175||112||32||31||431||168||+263||70.1%
|- align=right bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center|2
|align=left|
|'342'||186||104||30||52||386||212||+174||61.3%
|- align=right bgcolor=#F5FAFF
!align=center|3
|align=left|
|'315'||167||95||30||42||387||191||+196||62.9%
|- align=right bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center|4
|align=left|
|'214'||153||61||31||61||242||269||-27||46.6%
|- align=right bgcolor=#F5FAFF
!align=center|5
|align=left|
|'187'||163||53||28||82||248||297||-49||38.2%
|- align=right bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center|6
|align=left|
|'167'||132||41||32||55||193||220||-27||42.2%
|- align=right bgcolor=#F5FAFF
!align=center|7
|align=left|
|'128'||99||36||20||43||121||174||-53||43.1%
|- align=right bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center|8
|align=left|
|'82'||102||19||25||58||97||257||-160||26.8%
|- align=right bgcolor=#F5FAFF
!align=center|9
|align=left|
|'61'||38||17||10||11||55||44||+11||53.5%
|- align=right bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center|10
|align=left|
|'61'||108||14||19||75||113||297||-184||18.8%
|- align=right bgcolor=#F5FAFF
!align=center|11
|align=left|
|'15'||49||2||9||38||34||155||-121||10.2%
|- align=right bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center|12
|align=left|
|'11'||11||3||2||6||12||21||-9||33.3%
|- align=right bgcolor=#F5FAFF
!align=center|13
|align=left|
|'10'||6||3||1||2||7||5||+2||55.6%
|- align=right bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center|14
|align=left|
|'8'||12||2||2||7||11||21||-10||22.2%
|- align=right bgcolor=#F5FAFF
!align=center|15
|align=left|
|'1'||3||0||1||2||3||8||-5||11.1%
|}

Distribution of championships won

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Champions!!Nation!!Year(s)
|-
|align=center| 14 times || ||1916, 1917, 1920, 1923, 1924, 1926, 1935, 1942, 1956, 1959, 1967, 1983, 1987, 1995
|-
|align=center| 14 times || ||1921, 1925, 1927, 1929, 1937, 1941, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1991, 1993
|-
|align=center| 8 times || ||1919, 1922, 1949, 1989, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2007
|-
|align=center| 2 times || ||1953, 1979
|-
|align=center| 2 times || ||1939, 1975
|-
|align=center| 1 time || ||2001
|-
|align=center| 1 time || ||1963
|}

Distribution of hosts

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Hosts!!Nation!!Year(s)
|-
|align=center| 8 times || ||1916, 1921, 1925, 1929, 1937, 1946, 1959, 1987
|-
|align=center| 7 times || || 1917, 1923, 1924, 1942, 1956, 1967, 1995
|-
|align=center| 6 times || ||1920, 1926, 1941, 1945, 1955, 1991
|-
|align=center| 6 times || ||1927, 1935, 1939, 1953, 1957, 2004
|-
|align=center| 4 times || ||1919, 1922, 1949, 1989
|-
|align=center| 3 times || ||1947, 1959, 1993
|-
|align=center| 2 times || ||1963, 1997
|-
|align=center| 1 time || ||2001
|-
|align=center| 1 time || ||1999
|-
|align=center| 1 time || ||2007
|-
|align=center| 3 times ||No Host ||1975, 1979, 1983
|}

See also

★ South American Youth Championship

★ Copa América 2007

References

1. System and fixture for the 2010 Preliminary Competition are approved

External links

★ RSSSF archive - includes extensive match reports.