Copa América

Copa América (English: America Cup; previously called the South American Championship or South American Championship of Nations) is a football 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] Previously, the winner of the tournament qualified for the now-abolished 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[change | change source]

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)
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)
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)
Colombia	1 (2001*)	1 (1975)	5 (1987, 1993, 1995, 2016, 2021)	2 (1991, 2004)
Bolivia	1 (1963*)	1 (1997*)	—	2 (1927, 1949)
Mexico^	—	2 (1993, 2001)	3 (1997, 1999, 2007)	—
Honduras^	—	—	1 (2001)	—
Ecuador	—	—	—	2 (1959 (Ecuador)*, 1993*)
United States^	—	—	—	2 (1995, 2016)
Venezuela	—	—	—	1 (2011)

*=hosts

^=invitees

Records[change | change source]

As of 4 July 2015

All-time top scorers[change | change source]

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

All-time table[change | change source]

Since the 2016 Copa América Centenario

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	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	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	Colombia	1	20	140	107	39	23	45	124	178	-54	1,31
8	Bolivia	1	25	86	109	20	26	63	102	272	-170	0,78
9	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	Venezuela	0	16	27	58	5	12	41	43	166	-123	0,46
12	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	Aruba	0	1	3	3	3	0	0	0	3	0	3,50

References[change | change source]

1. ↑ "50 Reasons Why World Football Is the Best and Biggest Sport in the World". Bleacher Report. 16 December 2010. Retrieved 29 June 2014.