Copa America

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Poster

Established
1916 (109 years old)

First Recorded Event
2004-07-25

Current Season
2024

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Soccer

Location
Worldwide

Gender
Male

TV Rights
US - Fox Sports [2021-2026]
US (Español) - Univision [2021]

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Results
15 Jul	Argentina	1 - 0	Colombia
14 Jul	Canada	2 - 2	Uruguay
11 Jul	Uruguay	0 - 1	Colombia
10 Jul	Argentina	2 - 0	Canada
07 Jul	Uruguay	0 - 0	Brazil
06 Jul	Venezuela	1 - 1	Canada
06 Jul	Colombia	5 - 0	Panama
05 Jul	Argentina	1 - 1	Ecuador
03 Jul	Brazil	1 - 1	Colombia
03 Jul	Costa Rica	2 - 1	Paraguay

Description

Copa América (America Cup), known until 1975 as the South American Football Championship (Campeonato Sudamericano de Fútbol in Spanish and Campeonato Sul-americano de Futebol (Portugal) ou Copa Sul-Americana de Futebol (Brazil) in Portuguese), is a men's international football tournament contested between national teams from CONMEBOL. It is the oldest international continental football competition. The competition determines the continental champion of South America. Since the 1990s, teams from North America and Asia have also been invited to participate.

Since 1993, the tournament has generally featured 12 teams – all 10 CONMEBOL teams and two additional teams from other confederations. Mexico has participated in every tournament since 1993, with one additional team drawn from CONCACAF, except for 1999, when AFC team Japan filled out the 12-team roster. The 2016 version of the event, Copa América Centenario, featured sixteen teams, with six teams from CONCACAF in addition to the 10 from CONMEBOL. Mexico's two runner-up finishes are the highest for a non-CONMEBOL side.

Eight of the ten CONMEBOL national teams have won the tournament at least once in its 45 stagings since the event's inauguration in 1916, with only Ecuador and Venezuela yet to win. Uruguay has the most championships in the tournament's history, with 15 cups, while the current champion, Chile, has two cups. Argentina, which hosted the inaugural edition in 1916, has hosted the tournament the most times (nine). The United States is the only non-CONMEBOL country to host, having hosted the event in 2016. On three occasions (in 1975, 1979, and 1983), the tournament was held in multiple South American countries.

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.

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