Copa América records and statistics

This is a list of records of the Copa América.

Overall team records[]

As of 2021 Copa América

In this ranking 3 points are awarded for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws. Teams are ranked by total points, then by goal difference, then by goals scored.^[1]

Rank	Team	Part.	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Argentina	43	202	128	41	33	474	182	+292	425
2	Uruguay	45	206	114	36	56	410	222	+188	374
3	Brazil	37	191	108	38	45	430	204	+226	362
4	Paraguay	38	177	64	43	70	264	303	−39	235
5	Chile	40	188	67	33	88	291	321	−30	234
6	Peru	33	161	58	39	64	231	255	−24	213
7	Colombia	23	124	47	28	49	142	191	−49	169
8	Bolivia	28	119	20	26	73	108	298	−190	86
9	Ecuador	29	126	16	26	84	134	327	−193	74
10	Mexico	10	48	19	13	16	66	62	+4	70
11	Venezuela	19	70	8	17	45	52	180	−128	41
12	Costa Rica	5	17	5	3	9	17	31	−14	18
13	United States	4	18	5	2	11	18	29	−11	17
14	Honduras	1	6	3	1	2	7	5	+2	10
15	Panama	1	3	1	0	2	4	10	−6	3
16	Japan	2	6	0	3	3	6	15	−9	3
17	Qatar	1	3	0	1	2	2	5	−3	1
18	Jamaica	2	6	0	0	6	0	9	−9	0
19	Haiti	1	3	0	0	3	1	12	−11	0

Medal table[]

No third place match was played in 1975, 1979 and 1983.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Argentina	15	14	5	34
2	Uruguay	15	6	9	30
3	Brazil	9	12	7	28
4	Paraguay	2	6	7	15
5	Chile	2	4	5	11
6	Peru	2	1	8	11
7	Colombia	1	1	5	7
8	Bolivia	1	1	0	2
9	Mexico	0	2	3	5
10	Honduras	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 nations)		47	47	50	144

General statistics by tournament[]

Year	Hosts	Champions	Winning coach	Golden Boot (goals)	Best player[2]
1916	Argentina	Uruguay	Alfredo Foglino	Isabelino Gradín (3)	Isabelino Gradín
1917	Uruguay	Uruguay		Ángel Romano (4)	Héctor Scarone
1919	Brazil	Brazil	Haroldo Domingues	Arthur Friedenreich (4) Neco (4)	Arthur Friedenreich
1920	Chile	Uruguay	Ernesto Fígoli	José Pérez (3) Ángel Romano (3)	José Piendibene
1921	Argentina	Argentina	Pedro Calomino	Julio Libonatti (3)	Américo Tesoriere
1922	Brazil	Brazil	Laís	Julio Francia (4)	Agostinho Fortes Filho
1923	Uruguay	Uruguay		Vicente Aguirre (3) Pedro Petrone (3)	José Nasazzi
1924	Uruguay	Uruguay		Pedro Petrone (4)	Pedro Petrone
1925	Argentina	Argentina	Américo Tesoriere	Manuel Seoane (6)	Manuel Seoane
1926	Chile	Uruguay	Ernesto Fígoli	David Arellano (7)	José Leandro Andrade
1927	Peru	Argentina		Alfredo Carricaberry (3) Segundo Luna (3) Roberto Figueroa (3) Pedro Petrone (3) Héctor Scarone (3)	Manuel Seoane
1929	Argentina	Argentina		Aurelio González (5)	Manuel Ferreira
1935	Peru	Uruguay		Herminio Masantonio (4)	José Nasazzi
1937	Argentina	Argentina	Manuel Seoane	Raúl Toro Julio (7)	Vicente de la Mata
1939	Peru	Peru	Jack Greenwell	Teodoro Fernández (7)	Teodoro Fernández
1941	Chile	Argentina	Guillermo Stábile	Juan Marvezzi (5)	Sergio Livingstone
1942	Uruguay	Uruguay	Pedro Cea	Herminio Masantonio (7) José Manuel Moreno (7)	Obdulio Varela
1945	Chile	Argentina	Guillermo Stábile	Norberto Méndez (6) Heleno de Freitas (6)	Domingos da Guia
1946	Argentina	Argentina	Guillermo Stábile	José María Medina (7)	Adolfo Pedernera
1947	Ecuador	Argentina	Guillermo Stábile	Nicolás Falero (8)	José Manuel Moreno
1949	Brazil	Brazil	Flávio Costa	Jair (9)	Ademir
1953	Peru	Paraguay	Manuel Fleitas Solich	Francisco Molina (7)	Heriberto Herrera
1955	Chile	Argentina	Guillermo Stábile	Rodolfo Micheli (8)	Enrique Hormazábal
1956	Uruguay	Uruguay	Hugo Bagnulo	Enrique Hormazábal (4)	Óscar Míguez
1957	Peru	Argentina	Guillermo Stábile	Humberto Maschio (9) Javier Ambrois (9)	Omar Sívori
1959	Argentina	Argentina	Victorio Spinetto	Pelé (8)	Pelé
1959	Ecuador	Uruguay	Juan Carlos Corazzo	José Sanfilippo (6)	Alcides Silveira
1963	Bolivia	Bolivia	Danilo Alvim	Carlos Alberto Raffo (6)	Ramiro Blacut
1967	Uruguay	Uruguay	Juan Carlos Corazzo	Luis Artime (5)	Pedro Rocha
1975	Various	Peru	Marcos Calderón	Leopoldo Luque (4) Ernesto Díaz (4)	Teófilo Cubillas
1979	Various	Paraguay		Jorge Peredo (4) Eugenio Morel (4)	Carlos Caszely
1983	Various	Uruguay	Omar Borrás	Jorge Burruchaga (3) Roberto Dinamite (3) Carlos Aguilera (3)	Enzo Francescoli
1987	Argentina	Uruguay	Roberto Fleitas	Arnoldo Iguarán (4)	Carlos Valderrama
1989	Brazil	Brazil	Sebastião Lazaroni	Bebeto (6)	Rubén Sosa
1991	Chile	Argentina	Alfio Basile	Gabriel Batistuta (6)	Leonardo Rodríguez
1993	Ecuador	Argentina	Alfio Basile	José Luis Dolgetta (4)	Sergio Goycochea
1995	Uruguay	Uruguay	Héctor Núñez	Gabriel Batistuta (4) Luis García (4)	Enzo Francescoli
1997	Bolivia	Brazil	Mário Zagallo	Luis Hernández (6)	Ronaldo
1999	Paraguay	Brazil	Vanderlei Luxemburgo	Rivaldo (5) Ronaldo (5)	Rivaldo
2001	Colombia	Colombia	Francisco Maturana	Víctor Aristizábal (6)	Amado Guevara
2004	Peru	Brazil	Carlos Alberto Parreira	Adriano (7)	Adriano
2007	Venezuela	Brazil	Dunga	Robinho (6)	Robinho
2011	Argentina	Uruguay	Óscar Tabárez	Paolo Guerrero (5)	Luis Suárez
2015	Chile	Chile	Jorge Sampaoli	Eduardo Vargas (4) Paolo Guerrero (4)	Lionel Messi
2016	United States	Chile	Juan Antonio Pizzi	Eduardo Vargas (6)	Alexis Sánchez
2019	Brazil	Brazil	Tite	Everton (3) Paolo Guerrero (3)	Dani Alves
2021	Brazil	Argentina	Lionel Scaloni	Lionel Messi (4) Luis Díaz (4)	Lionel Messi

Note: Carlos Valderrama (1987) was the first player to officially win the best player of the tournament award.

Coaches with most games[]

Rank	Coach	Nationality	Team(s) managed	Games	Tournaments	Notes
1	Guillermo Stábile			44	1941, 1942, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1955, 1957	Champion in 1941, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1955 and 1957.
2	Luis Tirado			35	1946, 1947, 1949, 1953, 1955, 1956	Runner-up in 1955 and 1956.
3	Manuel Fleitas Solich			33	1942, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1953	Champion in 1953.
	Óscar Tabárez				1989, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2021	Champion in 2011.
5	Francisco Maturana			27	1987, 1989, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2001	Champion in 2001.
6	Hernán Darío Gómez			26	1995, 1997, 2001, 2004, 2011, 2016, 2019
7	Alfio Basile			19	1991, 1993, 2007	Champion in 1991 and 1993.
	Flávio Costa				1945, 1946, 1949	Champion in 1949.
	Ricardo Gareca				2015, 2016, 2019, 2021	Runner-up in 2019.
10	Carlos Alberto Parreira			17	1983, 1993, 2004	Champion in 2004.

Teams[]

Overall[]

• Most Copa América appearances: 45,  Uruguay

For a detailed list, see Copa América participations

• Most championships: 15,  Argentina,  Uruguay
• Most appearances in a Copa América final: 29,  Argentina
• Most appearances in Copa América semi-finals: 36,  Argentina

For a detailed list of top four appearances, see Copa América results

• Most matches played: 206,  Uruguay
• Fewest matches played: 3,  Haiti,  Panama,  Qatar
• Most wins: 124,  Argentina
• Most losses: 87,  Chile
• Most draws: 41,  Paraguay
• Most goals scored: 465,  Argentina
• Most goals conceded: 323,  Ecuador
• Fewest goals scored: 0,  Jamaica
• Fewest goals conceded: 5,  Honduras,  Qatar
• Highest average of goals scored per match: 2.35,  Argentina
• Lowest average of goals conceded per match: 0.83,  Honduras

In one tournament[]

• Most wins: 7,  Brazil (1949)
• Most goals scored: 46,  Brazil (1949)
• Fewest goals conceded: 0,  Colombia (2001)
• Most goals conceded: 34
• Most minutes without conceding a goal: 1,009

Streaks[]

• Most consecutive championships: 3,  Argentina 1945, 1946, 1947
• Most consecutive final matches: 7,  Argentina 1923–1937
• Most consecutive runners-up:
  • 2,  Argentina (4 times)
  • 2,  Brazil (2 times)
  • 2,  Uruguay
  • 2,  Chile

Individual[]

Argentine midfielder Norberto Méndez is the joint all-time top scorer in the history of Copa América with a 17-goal tally.

Brazilian legend Zizinho is the joint all-time top scorer in Copa América history with 17 goals in total.

Lionel Messi is the Copa America's all-time top assists provider (17), the all-time top appearances maker (34) and the all-time record winner for man of the match awards (14). He is also only one of four players to have won the best player award 2 times in Copa America history.

Most goals scored, overall finals

Rank	Player[3][4]	Country	Goals
1	Norberto Méndez	Argentina	17
	Zizinho	Brazil
3	Lolo Fernández	Peru	15
	Severino Varela	Uruguay
5	Paolo Guerrero	Peru	14
	Eduardo Vargas	Chile
7	Ademir	Brazil	13
	Gabriel Batistuta	Argentina
	Jair	Brazil
	Lionel Messi	Argentina
	José Manuel Moreno	Argentina
	Héctor Scarone	Uruguay
13	Roberto Porta	Uruguay	12
	Ángel Romano	Uruguay
15	Herminio Masantonio	Argentina	11
	Didi	Brazil
17	Javier Ambrois	Uruguay	10
	Héctor Castro	Uruguay
	Enrique Hormazábal	Chile
	Arnoldo Iguarán	Colombia
	Ángel Labruna	Argentina
	Ronaldo	Brazil
	Óscar Gómez Sánchez	Peru
	Pedro Petrone	Uruguay

Matches played[]

Rank	Player	Country	Matches	Tournaments
1	Sergio Livingstone	Chile	34	1941, 1942, 1945, 1947, 1949, 1953
	Lionel Messi	Argentina		2007, 2011, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2021
3	Zizinho	Brazil	33	1942, 1945, 1946, 1949, 1953, 1957
4	Víctor Ugarte	Bolivia	30	1947, 1949, 1953, 1959 (ARG)
5	Máximo Mosquera	Peru	28	1947, 1955, 1956, 1957
6	Leonel Álvarez	Colombia	27	1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995
	Carlos Valderrama	Colombia		1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995
	Gary Medel	Chile		2011, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2021
9	Javier Mascherano	Argentina	26	2004, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2016
10	Félix Castillo	Peru	25	1947, 1949, 1955, 1956
	Claudio Taffarel	Brazil		1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997
	Álex Aguinaga	Ecuador		1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2004
	Claudio Bravo	Chile		2004, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2016, 2021
	Paolo Guerrero	Peru		2007, 2011, 2015, 2016, 2019

Titles by player[]

Players with the most Copa América titles

Titles	Player	Country	Years won	Other appearances
				As player	As manager
6	Ángel Romano	Uruguay	1916, 1917, 1920, 1923, 1924, 1926[5]	1919, 1921, 1922
4	Pascual Somma	Uruguay	1916, 1917, 1920, 1923	1919, 1921, 1922
4	Alfredo Zibechi	Uruguay	1916, 1917, 1920, 1924	1919, 1921, 1922
4	Hector Scarone	Uruguay	1917, 1923, 1924, 1926[5]	1919, 1927,[6] 1929[7]
4	José Nasazzi	Uruguay	1923, 1924, 1926,[5] 1935[8]	1929[7]
3	Alfredo Foglino	Uruguay	1916, 1917, 1920	1919, 1921
3	José Pérez	Uruguay	1916, 1917, 1920	1919
3	José Piendibene	Uruguay	1916, 1917, 1920	1921
3	Antonio Urdinarán	Uruguay	1916, 1917, 1920	1922
3	José Vanzzino	Uruguay	1916, 1917, 1926[5]	1919, 1922, 1927[6]
3	Andrade	Uruguay	1923, 1924, 1926[5]	1927,[6] 1929[7]
3	Alfredo Ghierra	Uruguay	1923, 1924, 1926[5]
3	Andrés Mazali	Uruguay	1923, 1924, 1926[5]	1927,[6] 1929[7]
3	Santos Urdinarán	Uruguay	1923, 1924, 1926[5]
3	Manuel Seoane	Argentina	1925, 1927,[6] 1929[7]	1924, 1935[8]	1937[9]
3	Vicente de la Mata	Argentina	1937,[9] 1945, 1946
3	José Salomón	Argentina	1941, 1945, 1946	1942
3	Mario Boyé	Argentina	1945, 1946, 1947
3	Félix Loustau	Argentina	1945, 1946, 1947
3	Norberto Méndez	Argentina	1945, 1946, 1947
3	Natalio Pescia	Argentina	1945, 1946, 1947
3	René Pontoni	Argentina	1945, 1946, 1947
3	Enzo Francéscoli	Uruguay	1983, 1987, 1995	1989, 1993

Individual Records

• Most goals scored in a single tournament: 9 – Jair (1949), Humberto Maschio (1957) and Javier Ambrois (1957)
• Most goals scored in a single match by a player: 5 – Héctor Scarone (1926), Juan Marvezzi (1941), José Manuel Moreno (1942) and Evaristo (1957)
• Fastest goal scored: after 68 seconds – Kily González v. Uruguay (1999)
• Fastest hat-trick: after 10 minutes – José Manuel Moreno (1942)
• Fastest hat-trick completed as a substitute: after 19 minutes – Lionel Messi (2016)
• Most overall matches played: 34 – Sergio Livingstone (1941–1949), Lionel Messi (2007–2021)^[10]
• Most overall free kicks scored: 4 – Lionel Messi (2016 and 2021)^[11]
• Most overall assists provided: 17 – Lionel Messi (2007–2021)^[12]
• Most assists provided in a single tournament: 5 – Lionel Messi (2021)^[12][13]
• Most tournaments with at least one assist: 6 – Lionel Messi (2007–2021)
• Most consecutive tournaments with at least one assist: 6 – Lionel Messi (2007–2021)
• Most overall man of the match awards won: 14 – Lionel Messi (2007–2021)^[11]
• Most man of the match awards won in a single tournament: 4 – Lionel Messi (2015 and 2021)^[11]
• Only player to score 10+ goals and assist 10+ goals: Lionel Messi (2007-2021)
• Only player to be the top goalscorer, top assist provider and best player in a single tournament and also win it: Lionel Messi (2021)^[14]

List of penalty shoot-outs[]

• Most shoot-outs won: 5 –  Brazil (1995, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2019)
• Most shoot-outs lost: 6
  •  Uruguay (1993, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2019, 2021)
• Most shoot-outs played: 10
  •  Uruguay (1993, 1995, 1999, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2011, 2019, 2021)

Penalty shoot-out statistics by team

Team	Played	Won	Lost	Winning %	Years won	Years lost
Brazil	9	5	4	56%	1995, 2004 (2), 2007, 2019	1993, 1995, 2011, 2015
Uruguay	10	4	6	40%	1995, 1999 (2), 2011	1993, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2019, 2021
Argentina	9	4	5	44%	1993 (2), 2015, 2021	1995, 2004, 2011, 2015, 2016
Colombia	8	4	4	50%	1993, 1995, 2016, 2021	1993, 2015, 2019, 2021
Paraguay	7	3	4	43%	2011 (2), 2015	1995, 1999, 2019, 2021
Chile	4	3	1	75%	2015, 2016, 2019	1999
Mexico	3	2	1	67%	1997, 1999	1995
Peru	4	2	2	50%	2019, 2021	1999, 2016
Honduras	1	1	0	100%	2001	–
United States	1	1	0	100%	1995	–
Ecuador	1	0	1	0%	–	1997
Venezuela	1	0	1	0%	–	2011

Championship year in bold

By chronological order[]

No.	Winners	Final score	Runners up	Pen. Score	Pen. Taken	Missed penalties	Type of miss	Final penalty[15]	Edition	Round	Date
1	Colombia	1–1	Uruguay	5–3	5–4	Moas	Post	Valencia	1993, Ecuador	Quarter-finals	26 June 1993
2	Argentina	1–1	Brazil	6–5	6–6	Boiadeiro	Saved	Borelli			27 June 1993
3	Argentina	0–0	Colombia	6–5	6–6	Aristizábal	Saved	Borelli		Semi-finals	1 July 1993
4	Colombia	1–1	Paraguay	5–4	5–5	Gamarra	Saved	Gamarra GK Higuita	1995, Uruguay	Quarter-finals	16 July 1995
5	United States	0–0	Mexico	4–1	4–3	Hermosillo Coyote	Saved Saved	Klopas			17 July 1995
6	Brazil	2–2	Argentina	4–2	5–4	André Cruz Simeone Fabbri	Saved Saved Saved	Edmundo			17 July 1995
7	Uruguay	1–1	Brazil	5–3	5–4	Túlio	Saved	S. Martínez		Final	23 July 1995
8	Mexico	1–1	Ecuador	4–3	6–6	Capurro De la Cruz Blanco Villa Rosero	Saved Saved Saved Wide Saved	J. Sánchez	1997, Bolivia	Quarter-finals	22 June 1997
9	Mexico	3–3	Peru	4–2	4–4	José Soto Reynoso	Over Wide	Reynoso	1999, Paraguay	Quarter-finals	10 July 1999
10	Uruguay	1–1	Paraguay	5–3	5–4	Benítez	Saved/Post	Magallanes			10 July 1999
11	Uruguay	1–1	Chile	5–3	5–4	Aros	Saved	Magallanes		Semi-finals	13 July 1999
12	Honduras	2–2	Uruguay	5–4	5–5	Gutiérrez	Saved	Izaguirre	2001, Colombia	Third-place match	28 July 2001
13	Brazil	1–1	Uruguay	5–3	5–4	V. Sánchez	Saved	Alex	2004, Peru	Semifinals	21 July 2004
14	Brazil	2–2	Argentina	4–2	4–4	D'Alessandro Heinze	Saved Over	Juan		Final	25 July 2004
15	Brazil	2–2	Uruguay	5–4	7–7	Forlán Afonso Fernando García Lugano	Saved Post Post Post Saved	Lugano GK Doni	2007, Venezuela	Semifinals	10 July 2007
16	Uruguay	1–1	Argentina	5–4	5–5	Tevez	Saved	Cáceres	2011, Argentina	Quarter-finals	16 July 2011
17	Paraguay	0–0	Brazil	2–0	3–4	Elano Barreto Thiago Silva André Santos Fred	Over Wide Saved Over Wide	Fred			17 July 2011
18	Paraguay	0–0	Venezuela	5–3	5–4	Lucena	Saved	Verón		Semi-finals	20 July 2011
19	Argentina	0–0	Colombia	5–4	7–7	Muriel Biglia Zúñiga Rojo Murillo	Over Wide Saved Bar Over	Tevez	2015, Chile	Quarter-finals	26 June 2015
20	Paraguay	1–1	Brazil	4–3	5–5	E. Ribeiro Douglas Costa Santa Cruz	Wide Over Over	González			27 June 2015
21	Chile	0–0	Argentina	4–1	4–3	Higuaín Banega	Over Saved	A. Sánchez		Final	4 July 2015
22	Colombia	0–0	Peru	4–2	4–4	Trauco Cueva	Saved Over	Cueva	2016, United States	Quarter-finals	17 June 2016
23	Chile	0–0	Argentina	4–2	5–4	Vidal Messi Biglia	Saved Over Saved	Silva		Final	26 June 2016
24	Brazil	0–0	Paraguay	4–3	5–5	Gómez Firmino González	Saved Wide Wide	Gabriel Jesus	2019, Brazil	Quarter-finals	27 June 2019
25	Chile	0–0	Colombia	5–4	5–5	Tesillo	Wide	A. Sánchez			28 June 2019
26	Peru	0–0	Uruguay	5–4	5–5	Suárez	Saved	Flores			29 June 2019
27	Peru	3–3	Paraguay	4–3	6–6	D. Martínez Ormeño Samudio Cueva Espínola	Over Saved Over Saved Saved	Trauco	2021, Brazil	Quarter-finals	2 July 2021
28	Colombia	0–0	Uruguay	4–2	4–4	Giménez Viña	Saved Saved	Viña GK Ospina			3 July 2021
29	Argentina	1–1	Colombia	3–2	4–5	D. Sánchez De Paul Mina Cardona	Saved Over Saved Saved	Cardona GK E. Martínez		Semi-finals	6 July 2021

References and footnotes[]