A South American Championship is a top level international sports competition between

South American South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the southe ...

athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional

sports clubs A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports. Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...

List of Championships

ATP Buenos Aires The ATP Buenos Aires ( es, Abierto de Buenos Aires, ) originally known as the Argentina International Championships and established in 1927 is an annual tennis event for male tennis players held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The tournament is an A ...

, a tennis competition *

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 ...

, a football competition formerly known as ''South American Championship'' *

FIBA South America Championship for Women South American Basketball Championship for Women was first played in 1946. Female teams from South America take part in this tournament, which often has been played biannually. Summaries Performances by nation See also * South American Basket ...

Men's South American Hockey Championship The Men's South American Hockey Championship is together with the field hockey event at the South American Games the official competition for senior men's national field hockey teams of South America. The tournament is held every four years and ev ...

* Snipe South American Championship, a

sailing Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the ''water'' (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ''ice'' (iceboat) or on ''land'' (land yacht) over a chosen cour ...

competition. * Soling South American Championship * South American Badminton Championships *

South American Basketball Championship The South American Basketball Championship, or FIBA South American Championship, is the main FIBA tournament for men's national teams from South America's region of FIBA Americas. The tournament was first played in 1930. The tournament often has ...

South American Championships in Athletics The South American Championships in Athletics is a biennial athletics event organized by CONSUDATLE. The first edition in 1919 was competed between only two countries (Chile and Uruguay), but it has since expanded and has generally been held every t ...

* South American Chess Championship *

South American Cricket Championship The South American Cricket Championship (Spanish: ''Campeonato Sudamericano de Críquet''; Portuguese: ''Campeonato Sul-Americano de Críquete'') is an international limited-overs cricket tournament featuring national teams from South America and ...

South American Gymnastics Championships The South American Gymnastics Confederation (CONSUGI) organizes South American Gymnastics Championships in different disciplines of gymnastics: men's and women's artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, trampoline and tumbling, as well as aerobi ...

* South American Men's Club Volleyball Championship *

South American Men's Volleyball Championship The Men's South American Volleyball Championship is the official competition for senior men's national volleyball teams of South America, organized by the Confederación Sudamericana de Voleibol (Confederación Sudamericana de Voleibol, CSV). The ...

South American Rugby Championship The South American Rugby Championship refers to the continental rugby union championships for South America, organized by Sudamérica Rugby. The current name of the championships is ''South American Six Nations'', implemented in 2018. Throughout hi ...

South American Swimming Championships The South American Swimming Championships are a biennial aquatics championships (held in even years) for countries from CONSANAT (the South American Swimming Confederation). These championships include competition in Swimming, Diving, Synchronized ...

South American Women's Football Championship South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþa ...

South American Women's Volleyball Championship The Women's South American Volleyball Championship is the official competition for senior women's national volleyball teams of South America, organized by the Confederación Sudamericana de Voleibol ( CSV). The initial gap between championships wa ...

South American Youth Championship The South American Youth Football Championship, also known as U-20 South American Championship and es, Torneo Juventudes de América, "Campeonato Sudamericano Sub 20" or pt, Juventude da América (English: "America's Youth") is a South American ...

* Women's South American Hockey Championship

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{{South American Championships Sport in South America