Argentina beats Columbia in Copa America final
Argentina beats Columbia 1-0 in their Copa America final match. Argentine team is the defending Copa America 2021 and World Cup 2022 champions.
Best player of Copa America 2024: James Rodriguez (Six assists and one goal)
Golden Boot (top scorer) of Copa America 2024: Lautaro Martinez (Five goals)
Best goalkeeper of Copa America 2024 – Emiliano Martinez (Five clean sheets)
Fair play Award of Copa America 2024 – Colombia
The 37-year-old Argentina captain Lionel Messi went the full 90 minutes in Argentina’s group stage matches and recorded an assist in their 2-0 win over Canada. His 18 assists at Copa América are the most in the tournament’s history.
COPA HISTORY
The Copa América is the world’s oldest international football tournament. It is a quadrennial South American football (soccer) tournament. The tournament was first played in Argentina in 1916.
Copa America tournament’s field consists of the 10 national teams that are members of CONMEBOL—Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela—plus two additional national teams that are invited to participate in the event.
For 2024, there will be six guest countries with representatives of CONCACAF competing in the form of Canada, Costa Rica, the United States, Jamaica, Mexico and Panama in another special one off edition.
Argentina and Uruguay are the teams that have won the tournament the most times, with 15 winners medals each, although the defending champions have played in 29 finals compared to 21 for the much smaller nation.
WINNERS
- Argentina: 15 titles; 14 runners-up.
- Uruguay: 15 titles; six runners-up.
- Brazil: Nine titles; 12 runners-up.
- Paraguay: Two titles; six runners-up.
- Chile: Two titles; four runners-up.
- Peru: Two titles; one runner-up.
- Colombia: One title; one runner-up.
- Bolivia: One title; one runner-up.
- Year WINNER RUNNER UP
| 1916 | Uruguay | Argentina | ||
| 1917 | Uruguay | Argentina | ||
| 1919 | Brazil | Uruguay | ||
| 1920 | Uruguay | Argentina | ||
| 1921 | Argentina | Brazil | ||
| 1922 | Brazil | Paraguay | ||
| 1923 | Uruguay | Argentina | ||
| 1924 | Uruguay | Argentina | ||
| 1925 | Argentina | Brazil | ||
| 1926 | Uruguay | Argentina | ||
| 1927 | Argentina | Uruguay | ||
| 1929 | Argentina | Paraguay | ||
| 1935 | Uruguay | Argentina | ||
| 1937 | Argentina | Brazil | ||
| 1939 | Peru | Uruguay | ||
| 1941 | Argentina | Uruguay | ||
| 1942 | Uruguay | Argentina | ||
| 1945 | Argentina | Brazil | ||
| 1946 | Argentina | Brazil | ||
| 1947 | Argentina | Paraguay | ||
| 1949 | Brazil | Paraguay | ||
| 1953 | Paraguay | Brazil | ||
| 1955 | Argentina | Chile | ||
| 1956 | Uruguay | Chile | ||
| 1957 | Argentina | Brazil | ||
| 1959 | Argentina | Brazil | ||
| 1963 | Bolivia | Paraguay | ||
| 1967 | Uruguay | Argentina | ||
| 1975 | Peru | Colombia | ||
| 1979 | Paraguay | Chile | ||
| 1983 | Uruguay | Brazil | ||
| 1987 | Uruguay | 1 | Chile | 0 |
| 1989 | Brazil | Uruguay | ||
| 1991 | Argentina | Brazil | ||
| 1993 | Argentina | 2 | Mexico | 1 |
| 1995 | Uruguay** | 1 | Brazil | 1 |
| 1997 | Brazil | 3 | Bolivia | 1 |
| 1999 | Brazil | 3 | Uruguay | 0 |
| 2001 | Colombia | 1 | Mexico | 0 |
| 2004 | Brazil** | 2 | Argentina | 2 |
| 2007 | Brazil | 3 | Argentina | 0 |
| 2011 | Uruguay | 3 | Paraguay | 0 |
| 2015 | Chile** | 0 | Argentina | 0 |
| 2016 | Chile** | 0 | Argentina | 0 |
| 2019 | Brazil | 3 | Peru | 1 |
| 2021 | Argentina | 1 | Brazil | 0 |
*Scores provided for years in which a final match—as opposed to round-robin play or a final championship series—determined the champion.
**Won in penalty shoot-out.
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