2019 Copa América

2019 Copa América
CONMEBOL Copa América Brasil 2019
	Vibra o Continente; (Vibra el Continente); English: Rocking the Continent
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)
Runners-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(s)	Dani Alves
Best goalkeeper	Alisson
Fair play award	Brazil

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.[1] Argentina took third place by beating Chile 2–1 in the third-place match.[2]

Host country

Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro lifts the Copa América replica trophy.

Originally, the 2019 Copa América was to be hosted by Chile, while Brazil was due to host the 2015 Copa América,[3] because CONMEBOL normally rotates tournament host nations in alphabetical order. However, because Brazil hosted the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, the 2014 FIFA World Cup, and the 2016 Summer Olympics, Brazil decided against also hosting the 2015 Copa América. Brazil's and Chile's football federations agreed to swap their host nation order for the 2015 and 2019 championships,[4] and CONMEBOL approved this agreement in 2012.[5]

Starting in 2021 (originally scheduled for 2020), Copa América will be held in the same years as the UEFA European Championship.[6][7]

Venues

On 14 June 2018, CBF Vice President Fernando Sarney announced that five cities would host the tournament: Salvador, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Belo Horizonte and Porto Alegre. The list of stadia was decided on 17 September 2018.[8] The opening match was held at the Estádio do Morumbi in São Paulo, the semi-finals were held at the Arena do Grêmio in Porto Alegre and Estádio Mineirão in Belo Horizonte, and the final was held at the Estádio do Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro.[9] On 23 November 2018, CONMEBOL announced that the second São Paulo venue would be changed from the Allianz Parque to Arena Corinthians.[10]

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

Teams

Apart from all ten CONMEBOL national teams which were 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.[11][12] On 12 April 2018, it was announced that Qatar, the host of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, accepted the invitation to participate in the tournament.[13] 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.[14] Both teams managed to reach the final of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup held in the UAE, which was won by Qatar.

Qatar made their debut appearance in the Copa América, becoming the first Arab nation to play in the tournament, while Japan made their second appearance, their first since 1999. This was also the first Copa América to not feature any team from CONCACAF since teams had been invited; in particular, Mexico, which competed in all ten editions since 1993 as an invited team, did not participate in this tournament. United States competed in four tournaments, including the 2016 event as host.[15]

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

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.[16][17] The 12 teams were drawn into three groups of four, by selecting one team from each of the 4 ranked pots.

At the CONMEBOL Council meeting held on 23 November 2018, it was decided that FIFA Ranking would be the basis to determine the seeds and the distribution of the rest of teams in the pots of the draw. This decision will also be valid for future editions of the Copa America.[18]

For the draw, the teams were allocated to four pots based on the FIFA World Ranking of December 2018 (shown in brackets).[19] 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.[20]

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)

Match officials

A total of 23 referees and 23 assistant referees were appointed for the tournament on 21 March 2019.[21][22]

Association	Referees	Assistant referees
Argentina	Néstor Pitana Fernando Rapallini Patricio Loustau	Hernán Maidana Juan Pablo Belatti Ezequiel Brailovsky
Bolivia	Gery Vargas	José Antelo Edwar Saavedra
Brazil	Wilton Sampaio Raphael Claus Anderson Daronco	Rodrigo Correa Marcelo Van Gasse Kléber Gil
Chile	Roberto Tobar Julio Bascuñán Piero Maza	Christian Schiemann Claudio Ríos
Colombia	Wilmar Roldán Andrés Rojas Nicolás Gallo	Alexander Guzmán Wilmar Navarro Jhon Alexander León
Ecuador	Roddy Zambrano Carlos Orbe	Christian Lescano Byron Romero
Paraguay	Mario Díaz de Vivar Arnaldo Samaniego	Eduardo Cardozo Darío Gaona
Peru	Diego Haro Víctor Carrillo	Jonny Bossio Víctor Ráez
Uruguay	Esteban Ostojich Leodán González	Nicolás Tarán Richard Trinidad
Venezuela	Alexis Herrera Jesús Valenzuela	Carlos López Luis Murillo

Squads

Each team had to submit a list of 23 players (3 must be goalkeepers).[23]

Group stage

The match schedule was announced on 18 December 2018.[18] The winners and runners-up of each group and the two best third-placed teams among all groups advanced to the quarter-finals.[23]

Schedule
Matchday	Dates	Matches
Matchday 1	14–17 June 2019	1 v 2, 3 v 4
Matchday 2	18–21 June 2019	1 v 3, 2 v 4
Matchday 3	22–24 June 2019	4 v 1, 2 v 3

All times are local, BRT (UTC−3).[24]

Tiebreakers

The ranking of teams in the group stage was determined as follows:[23]

Points obtained in all group matches (three points for a win, one for a draw, none for a defeat);
Goal difference in all group matches;
Number of goals scored in all group matches;
Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question;
Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
Fair play points in all group matches (only one deduction could be applied to a player in a single match):
- Yellow card: −1 points;
- Indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points;
- Direct red card: −4 points;
- Yellow card and direct red card: −5 points;
Drawing of lots.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brazil (H)	3	2	1	0	8	0	+8	7	Advance to knockout stage
2	Venezuela	3	1	2	0	3	1	+2	5
3	Peru	3	1	1	1	3	6	−3	4
4	Bolivia	3	0	0	3	2	9	−7	0

Source: CONMEBOL
(H) Host.

14 June 2019

21:30

Brazil	3–0	Bolivia
Coutinho 50' (pen.), 53' Everton 85'	Report

Estádio do Morumbi, São Paulo

Attendance: 47,260[25]

Referee: Néstor Pitana (Argentina)

15 June 2019