2019 Copa América

2019 Copa América

Copa América Brasil 2019
Tournament details
Host country	Brazil
Dates	14 June – 7 July
Teams	12 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)	6 (in 5 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Brazil (9th title)
Runner-up	Peru
Third place	Argentina
Fourth place	Chile
Tournament statistics
Matches played	26
Goals scored	60 (2.31 per match)
Attendance	867,245 (33,356 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Everton Paolo Guerrero (3 goals each)
Best player	Dani Alves
Best goalkeeper	Alisson
Fair play award	Brazil
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The 2019 Copa América was the 46th edition of the Copa América, the international men's association football championship organized by South America's football ruling body CONMEBOL. It was held in Brazil and took place between 14 June and 7 July 2019 at 6 venues across the country.

Heading into the tournament, Chile were the two-time defending champions, having won the 2015 and 2016 editions of the tournament, but were eliminated by Peru in the semi-finals leading to the third place match against Argentina, which they also lost.

Host nation Brazil won their ninth title by defeating Peru 3–1 in the final. Argentina took third place by beating Chile 2–1 in the third-place match.

Host country

Originally, the 2019 Copa América was to be hosted by Chile, while Brazil was due to host the 2015 Copa América, due to CONMEBOL's rotation policy of tournaments being held in alphabetical order. However, due to the organization of the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics in that country, Brazil decided against also hosting the 2015 Copa América. Brazil and Chile's Football Federations discussed the idea of swapping around the order of being hosts of the 2015 and 2019 championships. This agreement was approved by CONMEBOL in 2012.

Teams

Apart from all ten CONMEBOL national teams which are eligible to enter. CONMEBOL initially planned to hold a 16-team tournament by inviting six teams from outside CONMEBOL. On 16 March 2018, CONMEBOL announced three teams from CONCACAF and three teams from Asian Football Confederation (AFC) would be invited to participate in the 2019 Copa América. On 12 April 2018, it was announced that Qatar, the host of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, accepted the invite to participate in the tournament. On 4 May 2018, CONMEBOL announced that the tournament would instead be played with 12 teams, the same number as previous editions since 1993 (apart from the Copa América Centenario held in 2016), with the two guest teams being Qatar and Japan from the AFC.

Qatar will be making their debut appearance in the Copa América becoming the first Arab nation to play in the tournament, while Japan will be making their second appearance, their first since 1999. This will also be the first Copa América to not feature any team from CONCACAF; in particular, Mexico, which have competed in all ten editions since 1993 as an invited team, will not participate in this tournament.

• Argentina
• Bolivia
• Brazil (hosts)
• Chile (title holders)
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Japan (invited team)
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Qatar (invited team)
• Uruguay
• Venezuela

Venues

On 14 June 2018, CBF Vice President Fernando Sarney announced that five cities will host the tournament: Salvador, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Belo Horizonte and Porto Alegre. The list of stadia was decided on 17 September 2018. The opening match will be held at the Estádio do Morumbi in São Paulo, the semi-finals will be held at the Arena do Grêmio in Porto Alegre and Estádio Mineirão in Belo Horizonte, and the final will be held at the Estádio do Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro. On 23 November 2018, CONMEBOL announced that the second São Paulo venue would be changed from the Allianz Parque to Arena Corinthians.

Rio de Janeiro	São Paulo
Estádio do Maracanã	Estádio do Morumbi	Arena Corinthians
Capacity: 74,738	Capacity: 67,428	Capacity: 49,205
Belo Horizonte	Porto Alegre	Salvador
Estádio Mineirão	Arena do Grêmio	Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova
Capacity: 58,170	Capacity: 55,662	Capacity: 51,900

Draw

The draw of the tournament took place on 24 January 2019, 20:30 BRST (UTC−2), at the Cidade das Artes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The CONMEBOL meeting on 23 November 2018 decided that the FIFA rankings would be used as basis for the seeding for this edition and future editions. The rankings on December 2018 was used for current edition's draw.

The 12 teams were drawn into three groups of four, by selecting one team from each of the 4 ranked pots. Pot 1 contained the hosts Brazil (who were automatically assigned to position A1) and the best two teams, pot 2 contained the next best three teams, and so on for pots 3 and 4. The teams from Pot 1 would be assigned to position 1 in their group, while the teams from Pots 2, 3 and 4 would be drawn to one of the positions 2, 3 or 4 in their group. The two guest teams, Japan and Qatar, which were seeded in different pots, could not be drawn in the same group.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Brazil (3) (hosts) Uruguay (7) Argentina (11)	Colombia (12) Chile (13) Peru (20)	Venezuela (31) Paraguay (32) Japan (50)	Ecuador (57) Bolivia (59) Qatar (93)

Squads

Main article: 2019 Copa América squads

Group stage

The match schedule was announced on 18 December 2018. The winners and runners-up of each group and the two best third-placed teams among all groups advanced to the quarter-finals.

All times are local, BRT (UTC−3).

Group A

Main article: 2019 Copa América Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
Brazil	3	2	1	0	8	0	+8	7	Advance to knockout phase
Venezuela	3	1	2	0	3	1	+2	5
Peru	3	1	1	1	3	6	−3	4
Bolivia	3	0	0	3	2	9	−7	0

14 June 2019 (2019-06-14) 21:30	Brazil	3–0	Bolivia	Estádio do Morumbi, São Paulo Attendance: 47,260 Referee: Néstor Pitana (Argentina)
	Coutinho  50' (pen.), 53' Everton  85'	Report

15 June 2019 (2019-06-15) 16:00	Venezuela	0–0	Peru	Arena do Grêmio, Porto Alegre Attendance: 13,370 Referee: Wilmar Roldán (Colombia)
		Report

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18 June 2019 (2019-06-18) 18:30	Bolivia	1–3	Peru	Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 26,346 Referee: Roddy Zambrano (Ecuador)
	Martins  28' (pen.)	Report	Guerrero  45' Farfán  55' Flores  90+6'

18 June 2019 (2019-06-18) 21:30	Brazil	0–0	Venezuela	Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova, Salvador Attendance: 42,587 Referee: Julio Bascuñán (Chile)
		Report

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22 June 2019 (2019-06-22) 16:00	Peru	0–5	Brazil	Arena Corinthians, São Paulo Attendance: 42,317 Referee: Fernando Rapallini (Argentina)
		Report	Casemiro  11' Firmino  18' Everton  31' Dani Alves  53' Willian  90'

22 June 2019 (2019-06-22) 16:00	Bolivia	1–3	Venezuela	Estádio Mineirão, Belo Horizonte Attendance: 8,091 Referee: Esteban Ostojich (Uruguay)
	Justiniano  82'	Report	Machís  1', 54' Martínez  86'

Group B

Main article: 2019 Copa América Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
Colombia	3	3	0	0	4	0	+4	9	Advance to knockout phase
Argentina	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
Paraguay	3	0	2	1	3	4	−1	2
Qatar	3	0	1	2	2	5	−3	1

15 June 2019 (2019-06-15) 19:00	Argentina	0–2	Colombia	Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova, Salvador Referee: Roberto Tobar (Chile)
		Report	Martínez  71' D. Zapata  86'

16 June 2019 (2019-06-16) 16:00	Paraguay	2–2	Qatar	Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 19,196 Referee: Diego Haro (Peru)
	Cardozo  4' (pen.) González  56'	Report	Ali  68' R. Rojas  77' (o.g.)

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19 June 2019 (2019-06-19) 18:30	Colombia	1–0	Qatar	Estádio do Morumbi, São Paulo Attendance: 22,079 Referee: Alexis Herrera (Venezuela)
	D. Zapata  86'	Report

19 June 2019 (2019-06-19) 21:30	Argentina	1–1	Paraguay	Estádio Mineirão, Belo Horizonte Attendance: 35,265 Referee: Wilton Sampaio (Brazil)
	Messi  57' (pen.)	Report	Sánchez  37'

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23 June 2019 (2019-06-23) 16:00	Qatar	0–2	Argentina	Arena do Grêmio, Porto Alegre Attendance: 41,390 Referee: Julio Bascuñán (Chile)
		Report	Martínez  4' Agüero  82'

23 June 2019 (2019-06-23) 16:00	Colombia	1–0	Paraguay	Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova, Salvador Attendance: 13,903 Referee: Víctor Carrillo (Peru)
	Cuéllar  31'	Report

Group C

Main article: 2019 Copa América Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
Uruguay	3	2	1	0	7	2	+5	7	Advance to knockout phase
Chile	3	2	0	1	6	2	+4	6
Japan	3	0	2	1	3	7	−4	2
Ecuador	3	0	1	2	2	7	−5	1

16 June 2019 (2019-06-16) 19:00	Uruguay	4–0	Ecuador	Estádio Mineirão, Belo Horizonte Attendance: 13,611 Referee: Anderson Daronco (Brazil)
	Lodeiro  6' Cavani  33' Suárez  44' Mina  78' (o.g.)	Report

17 June 2019 (2019-06-17) 20:00	Japan	0–4	Chile	Estádio do Morumbi, São Paulo Attendance: 23,253 Referee: Mario Díaz de Vivar (Paraguay)
		Report	Pulgar  41' Vargas  54', 83' Sánchez  82'

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20 June 2019 (2019-06-20) 20:00	Uruguay	2–2	Japan	Arena do Grêmio, Porto Alegre Referee: Andrés Rojas (Colombia)
	Suárez  32' (pen.) Giménez  66'	Report	Miyoshi  25', 59'

21 June 2019 (2019-06-21) 20:00	Ecuador	1–2	Chile	Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova, Salvador Referee: Patricio Loustau (Argentina)
	E. Valencia  26' (pen.)	Report	Fuenzalida  8' Sánchez  51'

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24 June 2019 (2019-06-24) 20:00	Chile	0–1	Uruguay	Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 57,442 Referee: Raphael Claus (Brazil)
		Report	Cavani  82'

24 June 2019 (2019-06-24) 20:00	Ecuador	1–1	Japan	Estádio Mineirão, Belo Horizonte Attendance: 7,623 Referee: Jesús Valenzuela (Venezuela)
	Mena  35'	Report	Nakajima  15'

Ranking of third-placed teams

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
Peru	3	1	1	1	3	6	−3	4	Advance to Knockout stage
Paraguay	3	0	2	1	3	4	−1	2
Japan	3	0	2	1	3	7	−4	2

Knockout stage

Main article: 2019 Copa América knockout stage

Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	27 June – Porto Alegre
	Brazil (p)	0 (4)
					2 July – Belo Horizonte
	Paraguay	0 (3)
					Brazil	2
	28 June – Rio de Janeiro
					Argentina	0
	Venezuela	0
									7 July – Rio de Janeiro
	Argentina	2
									Brazil	3
	28 June – São Paulo (Corinthians)
									Peru	1
	Colombia	0 (4)
					3 July – Porto Alegre
	Chile (p)	0 (5)
					Chile	0			Third place
	29 June – Salvador
					Peru	3
	Uruguay	0 (4)							Argentina	2
	Peru (p)	0 (5)							Chile	1
									6 July – São Paulo (Corinthians)

Quarter-finals

27 June 2019 (2019-06-27) 21:30	Brazil	0–0	Paraguay	Arena do Grêmio, Porto Alegre Attendance: 44,902 Referee: Roberto Tobar (Chile)
		Report
		Penalties
	Willian Marquinhos Coutinho Firmino Gabriel Jesus	4–3	Gómez Almirón Valdez R. Rojas González

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28 June 2019 (2019-06-28) 16:00	Venezuela	0–2	Argentina	Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 50,094 Referee: Wilmar Roldán (Colombia)
		Report	Martínez  10' Lo Celso  74'

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28 June 2019 (2019-06-28) 20:00	Colombia	0–0	Chile	Arena Corinthians, São Paulo Attendance: 44,062 Referee: Néstor Pitana (Argentina)
		Report
		Penalties
	Rodríguez Cardona Cuadrado Mina Tesillo	4–5	Vidal Vargas Pulgar Aránguiz Sánchez

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29 June 2019 (2019-06-29) 16:00	Uruguay	0–0	Peru	Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova, Salvador Attendance: 21,180 Referee: Wilton Sampaio (Brazil)
		Report
		Penalties
	Suárez Cavani Stuani Bentancur Torreira	4–5	Guerrero Ruidíaz Yotún Advíncula Flores

Semi-finals

2 July 2019 (2019-07-02) 21:30	Brazil	2–0	Argentina	Estádio Mineirão, Belo Horizonte Attendance: 55,947 Referee: Roddy Zambrano (Ecuador)
	Gabriel Jesus  19' Firmino  71'	Report

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3 July 2019 (2019-07-03) 21:30	Chile	0–3	Peru	Arena do Grêmio, Porto Alegre Attendance: 33,058 Referee: Wilmar Roldán (Colombia)
		Report	Flores  21' Yotún  38' Guerrero  90+1'

Third place play-off

6 July 2019 (2019-07-06) 16:00	Argentina	2–1	Chile	Arena Corinthians, São Paulo Attendance: 44,269 Referee: Mario Díaz de Vivar (Paraguay)
	Agüero  12' Dybala  22'	Report	Vidal  59' (pen.)

Final

Main article: 2019 Copa América Final

7 July 2019 (2019-07-07) 17:00	Brazil	3–1	Peru	Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 69,968 Referee: Roberto Tobar (Chile)
	Everton  15' Gabriel Jesus  45+3' Richarlison  90' (pen.)	Report	Guerrero  44' (pen.)

Statistics

Goalscorers

There have been 48 goals scored in 22 matches, for an average of 2.18 goals per match. Players highlighted in bold are still active in the competition.

3 goals

• Everton
• Paolo Guerrero

2 goals

• Sergio Agüero
• Lautaro Martínez
• Gabriel Jesus
• Philippe Coutinho
• Roberto Firmino
• Alexis Sánchez
• Eduardo Vargas
• Duván Zapata
• Koji Miyoshi
• Edison Flores
• Edinson Cavani
• Luis Suárez
• Darwin Machís

1 goal

• Paulo Dybala
• Giovani Lo Celso
• Lionel Messi
• Leonel Justiniano
• Marcelo Martins
• Casemiro
• Dani Alves
• Richarlison
• Willian
• José Pedro Fuenzalida
• Erick Pulgar
• Arturo Vidal
• Gustavo Cuéllar
• Roger Martínez
• Ángel Mena
• Enner Valencia
• Shoya Nakajima
• Óscar Cardozo
• Derlis González
• Richard Sánchez
• Jefferson Farfán
• Yoshimar Yotún
• Almoez Ali
• José Giménez
• Nicolás Lodeiro
• Josef Martínez

1 own goal

• Arturo Mina (against Uruguay)
• Rodrigo Rojas (against Qatar)

Awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.

• Golden Ball Award: Dani Alves
• Golden Boot Award: Everton (3 goals)
• Golden Glove Award: Alisson
• Fair Play Award: Brazil

Team of the Tournament

The Technical Study Group announced the tournament's Best XI squad.

Goalkeepers	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
Alisson	Dani Alves José Giménez Thiago Silva Miguel Trauco	Arthur Leandro Paredes Arturo Vidal	James Rodríguez Paolo Guerrero Everton

Marketing

Mascot

The mascot of the tournament is Zizito, a capybara whose name pays homage to Zizinho, the Brazilian footballer who shares the all-time goal-scoring record in the Copa América (17 goals with Argentine Norberto Doroteo Méndez).

Slogan

The slogan of the 2019 Copa América is "Vibra el Continente/Vibra o Continente" (Rocking the Continent).

Official song

"Vibra Continente" by Brazilian recording artist Léo Santana and Colombian recording artist Karol G will serve as an official song for the tournament.

Broadcasting rights

Participating nations

• Brazil (hosts): Rede Globo, SporTV
• Argentina: Televisión Pública Argentina, TyC Sports, DirecTV Sports
• Bolivia: Bolivia TV, Tigo Sports
• Chile: Canal 13, TVN, CDF, DirecTV Sports
• Colombia: Caracol Televisión, DirecTV Sports
• Ecuador: Teleamazonas, DirecTV Sports
• Japan: DAZN
• Paraguay: Tigo Sports
• Peru: América Televisión, DirecTV Sports
• Qatar: beIN Sports
• Uruguay: Teledoce, Dexary, DirecTV Sports
• Venezuela: DirecTV Sports

Other countries

• United Kingdom: Premier Sports, FreeSports
• United States: ESPN, Telemundo

External links

• Copa América, CONMEBOL.com (Spanish)

2019 Copa América

Stages

Group A · Group B · Group C · Knockout stage · Final

General information

Discipline · Squads