The

Copa América The Copa América ( en, America Cup) or CONMEBOL Copa América, known until 1975 as the South American Football Championship (''Campeonato Sudamericano de Fútbol'' in Spanish and ''Campeonato Sul-Americano de Futebol'' in Portuguese), is the t ...

is an international association football competition established in 1916. It is contested by the men's national teams of the members of the

Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol The South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL, , or CSF; es, Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol; pt, Confederação Sul-Americana de Futebol) is the continental governing body of football in South America (apart from Guyana, Surina ...

(CONMEBOL), the sport's continental governing body. The most recent Copa América, was hosted by Brazil in 2021. Argentina became champions, having beaten Brazil 1–0 in the final, and Colombia took third place after beating Peru 3–2. The Copa América final matches are the last of the competition, and the results determine which country's team is declared South American champions. If after 90 minutes of regular play the score is a draw, a penalty shootout takes place. The winning penalty shoot-out team are then declared champions. Every edition from 1916 to 1967 involved a final round-robin group. Nevertheless, when the two best placed teams finished equaled on points, a final match had to be held to define a winner. Those circumstantial finals were played in the

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1937 Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into Fe ...

1949 Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022. * January 2 – Luis ...

, and

1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...

editions. In

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the competition format switched to a

knockout stage A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final matc ...

with a final held every edition. Ever since the competition was rebranded to its present state, the tournament has been decided by a one-off match on every occasion except

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and

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, when the winner was decided by a final group contested by four teams. With 15 titles, Argentina and Uruguay are the most successful Copa América teams. Brazil has nine. The other former champions are Paraguay, Peru and Chile, with two titles each, and

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, and

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

, who have each won one.Más lejos de Brasil: cómo quedó Argentina en el ranking histórico de la Copa América
on TN, 10 Jul 2021

Finals

Results by nation

* Indicates host country

References

External links

The Copa América Archive
by Martín Tabeira on the RSSSF {{Copa América Finals Copa America