Taça do Atlântico ( en, Atlantic Cup, es, Copa del Atlántico) was a national football team's competition held between 1956 and 1976 on an irregular basis, contested by the national football teams from

South America 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 ...

. Teams participating were

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

Paraguay Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to th ...

and

Uruguay Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...

national sides. Paraguay did not play in the first edition of the competition. There were 3 championships and the

won them all. In 1956, a club competition was played in parallel to the main competition, but the final between

Boca Juniors Club Atlético Boca Juniors () is an Argentine sports club headquartered in La Boca, a neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. The club is mostly known for its professional football team which, since its promotion in 1913, has always played in the A ...

and

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was never played.

1956 Taça do Atlântico

1960 Taça do Atlântico

1976 Taça do Atlântico

Note: * Matches between Argentina and Paraguay also counted for the 1976 Copa Félix Bogado * Matches between Argentina and Brazil also counted for the 1976

Roca Cup The Roca Cup ( es, Copa Roca) was a football competition contested between Argentina and Brazil national teams from 1914 to 1976 on irregular basis. The Copa Roca was the first trophy, official or unofficial, ever won by a Brazilian national team ...

* First match between Argentina and Uruguay also counted for the 1976

Copa Lipton The Copa Lipton or Copa de Caridad Lipton was a football friendly competition contested between Argentina and Uruguay national teams. The competition was held 29 times between 1905 and 1992. History The trophy was donated by the Scottish tea ...

* Second match between Argentina and Uruguay also counted for the 1976

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* Matches between Brazil and Uruguay also counted for the 1976 Copa Río Branco * Matches between Brazil and Paraguay also counted for the 1976

Taça Oswaldo Cruz The Taça Oswaldo Cruz (English: ''Oswaldo Cruz Cup''), was a football tournament played between the national teams of Brazil and Paraguay, and contested from 1950 to 1976, albeit irregularly.hat-trick A hat-trick or hat trick is the achievement of a generally positive feat three times in a match, or another achievement based on the number three. Origin The term first appeared in 1858 in cricket, to describe H. H. Stephenson taking three wic ...

s have been scored in over 20 matches of the 3 editions of the tournament. The first hat-trick was scored by

José Sanfilippo José Francisco "El Nene" Sanfilippo (born 4 May 1935) is a former Argentine footballer who played as a striker. Club career Sanfilippo was born in Buenos Aires. During his club career he played for San Lorenzo, Boca Juniors and Banfield in ...

, during a Clásico del Río de la Plata against

on 17 August 1960; and the last was by

Héctor Scotta Héctor Horacio Leonel Scotta Guigo (born 27 September 1950) is a retired Argentine football striker. He was born in the city of San Justo in the Santa Fe Province of Argentina. Scotta is most famous for his feat of scoring 60 goals in 1975. ...

, who netted a hat-trick for Argentina, but this time against

in a 3-2 win on 25 February 1976.Copa del Atlántico - Match details
by José Luis Pierrend

References

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