CONMEBOL
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It was founded July 9, 1916, thanks to Uruguayan Héctor Rivadavia Gómez who materialized his project of uniting football around the continent. Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Chile were the founder nations, during the course of a successful South American football tournament that was taking place in Buenos Aires as part of the commemorations of Argentina's independence centenary [link] (later on, this tournament was retrospectively acknowledged as the first Copa América). Paraguay (1921), Peru (1925), Bolivia (1926), Ecuador (1927), Colombia (1936) and Venezuela (1952) also became members of the South American confederation. Nowadays CONMEBOL is part of FIFA and is in charge of all professional football activities in the aforementioned countries. The permanent headquarters are located in Luque, Paraguay (near Asunción); and the actual president (until 2006) of the Executive Committee is Dr. Nicolás Leoz.
Even though they are located in South America, Guyana, Suriname and the French département d'outre-mer of French Guiana are not members of CONMEBOL - their national associations are members of CONCACAF.
Among the tournaments conducted by CONMEBOL are the Copa Libertadores de América (analogous to the UEFA Champions League) and the Copa Sudamericana (analogous to the UEFA Cup), both for club teams, and Copa América for men's national teams.
Member Countries
- - national team - first division - association (created in 1893, co-founded CONMEBOL in 1916)
- - national team - first division - association (created in 1925, joined CONMEBOL in 1926)
- - national team - first division - association (created in 1914, co-founded CONMEBOL in 1916)
- - national team - [[Liga Chilena de Fútbol: Primera División|first division]] - association (created in 1895, co-founded CONMEBOL in 1916)
- - national team - first division - association (created in 1924, joined CONMEBOL in 1936)
- - national team - first division - association (created in 1925, joined CONMEBOL in 1927)
- - national team - [[Liga Paraguaya: Primera División|first division]] - association (created in 1906, joined CONMEBOL in 1921)
- - national team - first division - association (created in 1922, joined CONMEBOL in 1925)
- - national team - first division - association (created in 1899, co-founded CONMEBOL in 1916)
- - national team - first division - association (created in 1926, joined CONMEBOL in 1952)
Tournament organized by CONMEBOL
- Copa América [since 1916] (National teams)
- Copa Libertadores de América [since 1960]
- Copa Sudamericana [since 2002]
- Recopa Sudamericana [since 1989]
- Copa Mercosur [1998~2001] (defunct)
- Copa Merconorte [1998~2001] (defunct)
- Copa CONMEBOL [1992~1999] (defunct)
- Supercopa Sudamericana [1988~1997] (defunct)
- South American Youth Championship [since 1954] (National teams of young men)
- Sudamericano Femenino (Women's national teams tournament)
CONMEBOL World Cup Qualifiers
This is the list of the teams that participated of each World Cup. For further information on the qualification process and withdrawals, see the (Q) corresponding links (the first world cup of 1930 didn't have any qualification process). Names marked in bold represent occasions when a CONMEBOL member won the tournament.
- 1930(-) - Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay
- 1934(Q) - Argentina, Brazil
- 1938(Q) - Brazil
- 1950(Q) - Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay
- 1954(Q) - Brazil, Uruguay
- 1958(Q) - Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay
- 1962(Q) - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Uruguay
- 1966(Q) - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay
- 1970(Q) - Brazil, Peru, Uruguay
- 1974(Q) - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay
- 1978(Q) - Argentina, Brazil, Peru
- 1982(Q) - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru
- 1986(Q) - Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay
- 1990(Q) - Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay
- 1994(Q) - Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia
- 1998(Q) - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay
- 2002(Q) - Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay
- 2006(Q) - Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay
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Brazil
CONMEBOL Presidents
- Héctor Rivadavia Gómez (Uruguay) 1916-1936
- Luis O. Salesi (Argentina) 1936-1939
- Luis A. Valenzuela (Chile) 1939-1955
- Carlos Dittborn Pinto (Chile) 1955-1957
- José Ramos de Freitas (Brasil) 1957-1959
- Fermín Sorhueta (Uruguay) 1959-1961
- Raúl H. Colombo (Argentina) 1961-1966
- Teófilo Salinas Fuller (Perú) 1966-1986
- Nicolás Leoz (Paraguay) 1986 to date (As of April 2006)
External link
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|- style="text-align:center; font-size:90%;" | FIFA | World Cup | Confederations Cup | World Rankings | Player of the Year | Teams
|- style="text-align:left; font-size:90%;" |
- Asia: AFC – Asian Cup
- Africa: CAF – African Cup of Nations
- North America: CONCACAF – Gold Cup
- South America: CONMEBOL – Copa América
- Oceania: OFC – Nations Cup
- Europe: UEFA – European Championship
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|- style="text-align:center;" | Argentina | Bolivia | Brazil | Chile | Colombia | Ecuador | Paraguay | Peru | Uruguay | Venezuela
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|- style="text-align:center;" | Argentina | Bolivia | Brazil | Chile | Colombia | Ecuador | Paraguay | Peru | Uruguay | Venezuela
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|- style="text-align:center; font-size:90%;" | FIFA | Club World Cup | Intercontinental Cup (defunct) | CWC/IC statistics | Player of the Year | Teams
|- style="text-align:left; font-size:90%;" |
- Asia: AFC – Champions League
- Africa: CAF – Champions League
- North America: CONCACAF – Champions' Cup
- South America: CONMEBOL – Copa Libertadores
- Oceania: OFC – Club Championship – Champions League
- Europe: UEFA – Champions League
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