The 2015 Copa América de Futsal was the 11th edition of the Copa América de Futsal, the international

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championship under

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rules organised by

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for the men's national teams of South America. The tournament was held in

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between 23–30 August 2015.

Teams

A total of nine

member national teams participated in the tournament.

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did not participate due to financial problems.

Venues

All matches were played in one venue: Complejo Deportivo La California in

Referees

The official referees for the tournament were announced on 10 August 2015. * Darío Santamarina * Leonardo Lorenzo * Henry Gutiérrez * Gean Telles * Cristian Espíndola * Hugo Camargo * Gury García * Jaime Játiva * José Hernández * Elvis Peña * Jorge Galeano * Mario Espichan * César Málaga * Daniel Rodríguez * Federico Cardozo * Félix Rumbos

Group stage

The nine teams were drawn into one group of five teams and one group of four teams. The hosts Ecuador were placed in Group A, plus each group contained one team from each of the four "pairing pots": Argentina–Brazil, Colombia–Paraguay, Peru–Uruguay, Chile–Venezuela. The top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals, while the teams in third and fourth advance to the fifth place and seventh place play-offs respectively. The teams are ranked according to

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(3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order: #

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in all games; #Goals scored in all games; #Head-to-head result in games between tied teams (two teams only); #Drawing of lots. All times are local, ECT ( UTC−5).

Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

In the knockout stage,

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and

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are used to decide the winner if necessary.

Bracket

Seventh place play-off

Fifth place play-off

Semi-finals

Third place play-off

Final

Final ranking

Per statistical convention in futsal, matches decided in

are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by

are counted as draws.

Goalscorers

;10 goals * Juan Salas ;5 goals * Alamiro Vaporaki ;4 goals * Santiago Basile * Matías Kruger ;3 goals * Lucas Bolo * Dieguinho *

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* Angellot Caro * René Villalba * Nicolás Zaffe ;2 goals * Gonzalo Abdala * Gadeia *

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* Pito * Simi * Carlos Arriola * Juan Antonio Carrasco * Milenko Pávez * Luis Alcívar * Jimmy Espinales * Richard Rejala * Martín Herrera * Renzo Ramírez * Xavier Tavera * Santiago Blankleider * Rosward Manzanares * Carlos Polo ;1 goal * Lucho González * Damián Stazzone *

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* Ciço * Thiaguinho *

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* Bernardo Araya * Frank Carrasco * Nilson Concha * Diego Fuentes * Yerko García * Christopher Reyes * Luis Barreneche * Yulián Díaz * Andrés Camilo Reyes * Johan Vivares * Darío Meza * Fabio Alcaraz * Emanuel Ayala * Gabriel Giménez * Francisco Martínez * Hugo Martínez * Magno Pereira *

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* Vladimir Falla * Jorge Yuptun * Nicolás Ordaqui * Alexis Otero * Ignacio Salgues * José Falcón * Wilfredo Figueroa * Johan Quinteros * Kevin Rengifo * Edgar Rodríguez * Paolo Sánchez

References

External links

Copa América Futsal
CONMEBOL.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Copa America Futsal 2015

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