The Panamerican Championship was an international

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tournament held by the Panamerican Football Confederation every four years with three editions held from 1952 through 1960.Panamerican Championship
by Macario Reyes on the RSSSF The competition was similar to 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 ...

but included nations from the

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(NAFC) and the

Confederación Centroamericana y del Caribe de Fútbol The Confederación Centroamericana y del Caribe de Fútbol ( en, Football Confederation of Central America and the Caribbean), also known by its initialism CCCF, was the governing body of association football in Central America and the Caribbean f ...

(CCCF) (which merged to form

CONCACAF The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football,, ; french: Confédération de football d'Amérique du Nord, d'Amérique centrale et des Caraïbes, . Dutch uses the English name. abbreviated as CONCACAF ( ; typese ...

in 1961).

History

The Panamerican Football Confederation () was founded in 1946 to unify the three existing confederations,

CONMEBOL 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, Suri ...

, NAFC, and CCCF. The Panamerican Championship was organized by the new body,''Memoria y Balance AFA 1946'', p. 29
on AFA website''Triunfos y Tristezas del equipo Tricolor: Historia de la Selección Mexicana de Fútbol''- México: EDAMEX. pp. 26-36 - ISBN 968-409-832-4 as an attempt to create an Americas-wide championship since the Americas' premier tournament,

, was restricted to South American teams. Nevertheless, starting in

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, teams from CONCACAF (mostly

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on Infobae, 19 Feb 2019Concacaf declinó invitación a Copa América
ESPN, 4 May 2018 In addition, between 1996 and 2005, teams from CONMEBOL took part in the

CONCACAF Gold Cup The CONCACAF Gold Cup ( es, Copa de Oro de la CONCACAF, french: Coupe D'or CONCACAF) is the main association football competition of the men's national football teams governed by CONCACAF, determining the continental champion of North Ameri ...

in order to help the competition establish itself, with

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and

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participating three times each.

Results

Performance by nation

All-time top scorers

References

{{CONCACAF competitions Sports competitions in the Americas Defunct international association football competitions in South America Defunct international association football competitions in North America International association football competitions in Central America Recurring sporting events established in 1952 Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1960 1952 establishments in North America 1960 disestablishments in North America 1952 establishments in South America 1960 disestablishments in South America

History

Results

Performance by nation

All-time top scorers

See also

References